Chapter 3

I just felt his fangs on my skin, but before he finally put me in, he released me.

When I looked at what was happening to him, he seemed to be having trouble breathing. He was holding his chest and his veins were coming out, and his face was already red.

I ran away from that monster, I didn't care what happened to him, but it would be better for him to die!

Inside I am thankful for the above because even in this situation he still helps me.

I ran as fast as I could, I could no longer feel tired because of the determination to leave this place.

You don't get tired, Celia! Needed you to leave this place!

In the middle of my run the wind suddenly picked up, but I no longer focused on that attention, I ran and ran as far as I could.

I was suddenly weak, I could hardly move. I feel like the wind is too strong, which is why can't I move properly!

Celia! Do not give up!

I was on my knees on the ground because the wind was so heavy, it prevented me from moving. I tried to stand up, but my body only got heavier. It was as if there were energy enveloping the air.

My eyelids get heavier until it closes.

"Go to sleep first."

According to the last term I heard before I lost consciousness.

My spirit woke up because it was as if someone were staring at me. I got up, and I looked around, and I just saw the lady yesterday looking at me with concern.

I immediately rushed away my sight from her.

M-Maybe she's one too monsters. She was about to touch me, but it didn't go away when I immediately stopped her.

"Don't touch me! You're a monster too, aren't you? Admit it!" I shouted at her. She made a line on her lip and lowered her hand.

She averted her eyes to me. "Y-Yes. You're right, I'm one of them too. But my children and I are different. We-We're not like those who crave your strange blood because we can stop it."

Because of what she said, I became even more frightened and lost all hope of surviving. What if they can't hold back, and they just suck my blood?

"Stay away from me! You're a monster! You're all monsters!" I shouted at her again.

I felt like a stone when the color of her eyes suddenly became brighter.

C-Color green. It's very bright. Aren't they vampires? How did her eyes turn green?

She sighed and blinked emphatically. When she opened her eyes again, return it to a normal color.

"Miss, I apologize if I scared you. We don't drink any other blood or eat it all. It's just the blood and flesh of one animal is our food. We are not like other people of our kind, who are eager for strange blood." She explained in length.

But my nervousness and fear still did not subside. What if people like her hate me? It's still not safe here.

Drowned me in my thoughts and fear. What if I can't really go back?

She looked at my neck, so I was caught. Maybe she'll bite me. However, when I was caught there, I found something hanging around my neck. I looked there, and it had a round shaped pendant. It is a fragile.

I looked at her when she spoke, "I put that necklace around your neck so that my bloodline wouldn't smell you. The energy of that necklace covering the smell of your blood." she said it seriously.

I grabbed a pendant. "How do I make sure your bloodline doesn't really smell me? What if all of a sudden they just suck my blood?" I asked her if she was confused. She sighed again.

"Do you think you'd still be alive today if I smelled your blood? I don't think so, it's because your blood smells so good, young lady. It smells so enticing." she said while staring at me intently.

I no longer know what else I should feel in my situation. Should my chest loosen, or should I be scared too much because of what she said?

"But I warn you not to break your necklace because it will lose its validity." she said it again.

"How can I trust you if you're also a monster?"" I asked.

I don't trust her, I have no ally now. Everyone is my opponent!

There was a sad smile on her lips.

"What can it be called a monster, a creature? When does it look different from other normally? Or when you kill people?" She said deeply.

"I repeat young lady, yes I am one of them, and my children, but I don't kill people." she said before getting up from a seat and I turned away.

My fear was mixed with conscience, what if she truly wanted to help? What if her children were really kind? I have to trust and believe what that lady says.

But I need to be more brainy with this situation. I shouldn't be trusting, especially if I am in this state! I shouldn't believe what she said.

I was cut off in thoughts when she spoke, "I won't force you if you don't believe me, young lady. My only concern is that I want you to survive this world and come back to your world." She finally walked away.

I close my eyes emphatically. You shouldn't trust her, Celia! You are the only one who should trust now. Don't fall for what she says. Because maybe when you fall you will die.

My heart and emotions were fighting over what I should believe. If bad, is she or an ally? Yes, But in my situation now I shouldn't be who I should send, what she says.

I was drowning in thought. My heart and emotions are fighting. I just came back to myself again when someone spoke behind me.

"Miss?" a girl's voice. I immediately wondered where to make that voice.

"You're okay and you're awake. Mom was worried about you when you weren't there." she said. My lip made a line.

Should I trust this monster?

"Miss? Are you alright? Why can't you speak? You can tell me how you feel so that I can help you." She pouts her lip. Merciful and I read sadness in her eyes.

"I-I'm confused." I answered her weekly and she stuttered.

Her lips pursed even more, and she looked at me intently.

"I don't understand young lady, but where are you confused? Maybe I'll help you choose." And she smiled big at me. Her blushing cheeks were burning.

Her dirty skin was no hindrance so that I don't know how smooth her skin is. I looked away from it.

I have not read any lies in her eyes. It was pure and full of fun while looking at me.

I wore my lip. "I-I'm confused, I'm confused whether I'm going to trust you or not. You can't blame me, can you?" And I looked at it again.

I saw her eyes now full of sadness could be read. "I-Is that so, young lady? Do you want to be my friend? Or at least with your sister? I want to be your baby sister. I'm too long for you, young lady." Her eyes were watering. She was about to cry.

"N-Not like that," I interrupted when the lady came out of the kitchen and cut me off.

"Kenza, go to your room first, and we'll just talk." she said to her daughter.

Kenza's tears did not continue, and she looked at her mother.

She smiled at it nicely and nodded.

"All right mom. I'm just going to take Lucas to my room." she said before she runs to a bedroom.

When Kenza entered the room, the lady confronted me. Her two hands and she laid on her back and looked at me seriously.

"Young lady, I wish you wouldn't show my kids how much you dislike us because you're afraid of us, please respect my request. In fact, you are the strangest one among us, aren't you?

We are all a gumiho, and you are the only person here. Not because we are weird in your eyes, we are monsters.

Especially for us when my children are young. We just want to help you and I hope you accept our help because we are the only ones you can trust right now." she said it seriously but calmly.

I looked away from her eyes. It was serious, and I could read the pity in her eyes. I don't want you to feel sorry for me at all. But this time it was pitiful.

"I'll get you something to eat first, and I'm sure you're a hungry young lady." she says, so my eyes are returned to her eyes.

She smiled at me and turned it away.

When she disappeared from my sight, I could only sigh.

Should it be that I trust them? I grabbed a pendant of the necklace I was wearing and looked at it.

It's a stone, it's white, but I'm sure it will glow when the sun hits. Is it true that it will cover the smell of my blood? When I wear it, will it be safe?

My lip made a line. If this is my shield so that those monsters can't smell my blood, I will always wear it. I will do anything to get out of this place.

Wait? Gumiho?

My forehead frowned at the thought. I thought they were vampires? The color of the monster's eye last night was the color of the blood. And the color of the lady's eye earlier are green.

W-Wait?

Could it be because of the book i read? Because it's in that book? But no. It can't be because it's just a book! But why am I there now? And strangely, I floated in the air with those butterflies!

It is impossible for that to happen! The butterflies cannot float me, and my body will not be reduced to ashes.

Maybe I'm going crazy!

Is it because you read the book? It's just the brain's work, so I have it, But no! Celia! Everything is correct. That's all true.

And you don't know how to get out of this world. You know nothing of the gumiho, you don't know their weaknesses, you don't know their strengths do, how they live.

I was not familiar with this strange creature, I thought they were just a vampire already drinking blood, absorbing. But I was wrong.

They can be weaker than the vampire. They can also be stronger than the vampire. I don't know.

I have to be with them until I know the answer to how to get along, to leave here. I need to know the truth of why I came to this place.

I need to know how I can get back to the city.

Could the book I read be related to what was happening to me? She may have wrapped magic in that book, so I'm here now, Or could it be related to the full moon?

As it entered my mind, what the librarian told me. . .

"Be careful, dear. The moon is round later and it's so beautiful."

I was suddenly taken aback by my recollection. Does she know anything about it? If I went to this place by the moon circle, can also afford to get out by the full moon?