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Echoes Of Sin

Detective Edward Benedict James Martin takes the case of an investigation leading to the Lawless Nation where he shall find a truths and lies to his investigation

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Manor Black (1)

Edward stood in front the post office as to send a letter to a close friend and as he gave the letter to the mailman he felt the eyes of a thousand men behind me.

Looking back he saw nothing but civilians doing the same thing as him or asking for letters yet he couldn't shake the stare that he felt at that moment.

Ring! Ring!

His phone vibrated in his pocket as he checked the phone he saw the name of his chief.

"What is it old man?" asked Edward who leaned his back at a wall.

"Supernatural sightings at the Black family's manor, check it out for any Wyrm Howl cult rituals." his chief replied.

1 hour after the call he arrived at a decrepit looking old manor. It oozed out haunted due to the moss, vines, and broken windows but even if it was old and practically broken down the infamous Black family still lived there.

The Black family known for their belief in the power of Abnormalities and how they can harness it and use it for themselves.

"Fucking weirdos." Edward nonchanlantly said.

Having said that, he walked towards the gate and noticed it was already opened.

"Expecting visitors eh?" he thought.

After getting in he walked passed the front yard in which the pathway to the entrance to manor was broken and had grass growing from it signalling that the manor was extremely old.

As soon as he entered the manor he was greeted with the quaint old sound of silence and the scent of rotting flesh. Noticing to his right he realized a young boy who's skin was so pale as if he were dead stood behind a door to the basement which was beside the massive stair case in front of him.

"Kid!" he called out. 

But the boy quickly ran back down into the basement even then Edward still kept a calm look and started walking around the manor checking any signs of warping.

Warping being the phase of how Abnormalities are being born or made. Of course there were small distortions around the air even reality had some rifts in one of the rooms.

Again just like in the post office he felt the stare of a thousand men this Tim much more prominent, but looking back he saw nothing.

The manor was slowly warping itself towards Edward as to break him and soon slowly tore him apart and finally devour him after all as he entered the manor.

The whole area around it and the whole manor itself vanished out of reality into another realm but Edward didn't even realize he's no longer on earth. 

That's what somebody would think or say if they were with Edward, but he already knew he was no longer on earth or in the human realm all he did was kept the same calm and stoic look he had on his face.

His thoughts however wasn't calm but grim and wild all he could think of was his death at any point at any time in this manor. To make it worse he could hear the cursed ravings all around the manor.

This wasn't normal for him because right now at this very moment he felt fear an emotion he hasn't felt in over three decades.

Slowly creeping up behind him was a tall skinny and lanky figure standing at the height of 280 cm with sharp inhuman fingernails and a spin that protruded from his back. It was completely void black in color with razor sharp teeth and it's tongue could reach down to the floor.

Right before the figure could grab Edward it quickly vanished as soon as he looked back. In the shadows of the manor it hid waiting to pounce on Edward like a hungry predator.

"Ahhhhh!" a feminine voice shouted.

In one of the rooms the sound of a woman shouting was heard. It echoed all around the manor with that Edward followed the shout into the kitchen.

Right there he saw the corpse of a little girl and what seemed to be the spirit of the dead girl. Right after he arrived at the corpse got back and started shouting again and a heavy bang sound was heard killing the girl.

"What the hell?" he cursed under his breath.

Soon after the corpse stood up again and shouted and was shot and it did again and again and again. It the same routine it repeated the memory of her death.

Edward deduced down to be a warping because of the manor and its spatial influence combined with the fact that the Black family were allied with the Wyrm Howl cult. The girl that kept dying again and again in front of him was Lilia Black 3rd daughter of Erwin Black and Allison Borne.

Names he wasn't familiar with because he only remembered the 1st generation of the Black family until the 9th generation. At best he knew a bit of the 10th generation of the black family but for 11-14 generations he knew nothing.

Right before he could sit down on one of the sofas in the living room he heard another scream this time a young male's.

Before he could step foot on the staircase in the corner of his eyes to his left was the same lanky dark figure. He quickly turned to face it but soon vanished causing Edward to question his eyesight and sanity.

Only 30 minutes had passed since he entered the manor and he already started to question his own sanity.

Shaking his head he thought of it as his mind playing tricks on him and quickly went up to another set of rooms.

Walking down the hallway he slowly starts seeing more warpings and distortions around reality and the area around him. He stopped in one of the rooms and opened it as he slowly opened the door he is greeted with the sight of a male child dead in the bathtub.

Just like the girl he saw downstairs it got up and started shouting and died but this time not a gunshot but by axe.

Meaning that whoever killed these kids wasn't alone or used two weapons but Edward couldn't arrive at an answer because he turned around he saw the tall lanky figure staring at him as it hanged from the doorframe.