Chapter 27

"Hey, Ari," Lyna ran up to her, "did something happen?"

"No," Ari's voice was firm while they entered the elevator. But away from her friend's eyes, she held her mouth with her pretty little fingers, trying to hold off her embarrassment.

Lyna just nodded and stood in the corner.

After a few minutes of walking, they made it to a convenience store.

Ari already had her mind off what happened in her office. Faced with so many snacks and drinks her mind started wondering. "Maybe movie night tonight?" She murmured to herself.

Lyna then spoke from behind an aisle, "Are you done choosing?"

She quickly took a few, 'I will get the rest after finishing work,' she thought.

They were making their way toward the registers, when suddenly a tall man wearing a black hoodie, mask and hat walked, slowly pulling something shiny from his hand.

"Cash, right now! Don't waste time!" He spoke in a quiet voice but it was intimidating.

Lyna and Ari, with a couple behind them, froze in place.

Lyna hurriedly stood in front.

The man turned to look at them, "There is nothing here. Fuck off!" He pulled out a gun.

Lyna's eyes widened. Aren't this country strict with guns in its territory? She asked herself.

She raised her hands while standing in front of everyone. "No worries. Do your thing."

"Good. Then run your pockets and your bags too." He started waving the gun at them while the cashier was trembling at the register.

"Hey now..." Lyna took a step forward, her pupils suddenly turned like that of a cat.

The man suddenly focused the gun on her. His voice was still calm. He raised his other hand, showing off a dragon tattoo. "I don't think you are from here." His hand holding the gun suddenly fidgeted, and the tattoos on it started glowing making the gun glow. "I said, run them pockets. One other move and you're dead."

She stopped in her tracks. She couldn't grasp the function of the gun or the unknown power of the man. "Okay, okay." She took a step back and her eyes turned normal.

She looked over at Ari. They both threw their purses on the ground, and the couple behind them did the same, throwing everything they had.

Ari's heart was beating fast, but she kept a composed appearance, slowly trying to assess the situation.

The man waved with his empty hands and everything on the ground flew to his backpack.

"I-I-I never knew the black dragons were in this area," said the cashier to the man as he gave him the money.

"I am just bored. See ya." The man waved a peace sign as he was leaving not caring about the police or anything.

Suddenly someone opened the door as he was about to hold its handle.

Kale walked in looking around.

"The fuck, move man!" The man growled as he tried to walk out but he was grabbed by his hoodie's hood. "UGH!" He was thrown to the ground all the way to where he was standing before.

"What the fuck!" He quickly stood up and pulled out his gun. "Ey man, you better chill the fuck out!"

Kale was still not looking at him, he inclined his head as he walked closer to look for Ari.

"I SAID!"

ZZZZ- The gun loaded up with his tattoo.

Lyna's instincts screamed at the amount of magic gathered in the gun.

That could cause her serious injury if she had faced it head-on.

"STAND THE FUCK BACK!"

BOOM! The couple behind screamed and turned their heads away.

Ting! A light sound as Kale's finger flicked the energy bullet into nothingness.

He walked two more steps.

The man was stupefied, but he quickly switched his gun toward Lyna and the others.

"One more step and I will blow them to bits!" He roared, just as he turned his head to look at the four of them, to show Kale who he was talking about his eyes widened.

The woman behind Ari and Lyna had fallen to the ground, scared, unable to stand straight, while her man held her tightly, not daring to look, waiting for it to end.

"You will what?"

The black hat man could feel the voice behind his left ear.

But, wasn't he standing on his right side? A few meters?

The man was breathing heavily through his mask.

Kale's cold eyes were staring directly at Ari while standing behind him.

The man slowly put the gown down, you could hear his breathing resounding in the convenience store.

"What, are, you?" He managed to squeeze out.

"Bored."

Suddenly, the man's eyes lit up, noticing he had no chance of getting away he quickly turned the gun to face his other hand, facing the dragon's tattoo. "Then die with me, fucker. HMPH!"

He tried his best to pull the trigger, but his finger didn't budge. His body didn't move to his commands.

Ari was immersed in Kale's eyes, which had the usual coldness, but once again something was wrong.

His eyes looked away from her, finally falling down on the man in front of him.

The man's eyes widened.

His face turned pale.

He could hear it.

The breath of a monster behind him.

It was huge.

So huge as if the breath alone could push him away from where he stood.

He could feel the gaze of such a monster on him, quietly.

The man's eyes suddenly turned red, trembling unable to focus, suddenly they rolled back so aggressively making his pupils disappear. His ears started bleeding, but the blood was disappearing before it hit the ground, gushing out of every hole on his face.

Lyna and Ari watched this scene in total horror, especially Lyna. From his mere eyes, from the mere fact that Kale thought about hurting him such a thing happened.

She couldn't imagine what level Kale's killing intent has reached.

Suddenly it stopped, when Kale's eyes looked at Ari again.

She saw it, he was actually mad about something.

This time she could clearly see the blood. She didn't understand why she didn't even feel repulsed by it this time. Nor, why Kale looked this mad.

The man started speaking in an unknown language, screaming hysterically as he lost his mind, falling to his knees and fidgeting around like a little kid.

Kale, was gruesomely terrifying, in their eyes.

He held the backpack in his hand, and threw it to Lyna while taking Ari's purse with him.

He looked at her, who was trying to shy from his gaze.

"Let's talk outside," he said coldly as he left.

Lyna helped the couple and the cashier, while also giving a look to Ari, who didn't know what to do. She shrugged her shoulder to her as if their eyes were talking to each other.

Ari took a deep breath before going out, walking past the man on the ground.

No one here even felt a little bit of remorse for what happened to him. But they had to say, with the fearful expressions they had watching him, his situation, was scary.