Devil's Word

Chapter 4: Uncle

"Emma, ​​are you awake? Husband, what Emma said is awake." Emma's mother, seeing her blinking her eyelids slightly, screamed. Missing a little more, she broke the membrane.

After her mother's scream, Emma woke up like a flute, no longer confused.

"Are you awake yet?" Her father hurriedly opened the door and ran in.

"Yes." Emma used all her strength to interrogate.

Mom and Dad were standing around her bed, mother reaching out to smooth the messy strands of hair from her face. Behind her, her grandmother entered, her face as worried as her parents.

"Oh my god, poor Emma. She's beaten Uncle Jack once." Her grandmother seemed to be on the verge of tears, but sat down by the bed and raised her wrinkled hand from time to time to stroke her cheek.

Her uncle was named Jack. He is almost forty this year, but his soul is still like a ten-year-old child. He was so innocent, always taking care of her. Every time there is delicious food or toys, she brings it to her to play with. But today he was very different, he dropped her in the middle of the river. Drop her into the icy cold water.

"So where are you mom?"

"You went back to grandma's house, got beaten up by her and stayed in her room."

Emma fell into contemplation. Were you hit? According to Cam Van, this might not have been intentional. Before she lost consciousness, she vaguely saw two figures, one black and one white yesterday. They were very strange. The black guy kept rushing towards her, the white guy tried to stop all danger coming to her. Uncle Jack seemed to be being controlled, he kept going, the water kept moving with every step, he didn't seem to know that he had dropped her in the middle of the river.

In the end, what was the story that she encountered? Everything has only one link. That is two black and white silhouettes in the water. One gives her a sense of security, the other gives her a sense of fear.

Emma imagined herself being possessed by a ghost, or being transported to a different spiritual world. Either way, Emma didn't want it to happen herself.

Emma thought she was crazy, he was being manipulated like a puppet. Emma really couldn't find the common ground for the bizarre things that kept happening to her. No, that only connection is water, everything is related to water.

Many days later.

Emma's health has now improved, and she has also returned to school after many days of rest because of the day he was dropped into the river. Her health declined for a few days. For some reason, those two days improved rapidly.

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Emma Hatthaway goes to high school, becoming a virgin and pure girl. Many years have passed, but Pulisic still follows her regularly to protect her.

After 10 years, she still sees ghosts often, but those ghosts are gentle. They did not approach her, nor was she threatened by underwater ghosts.

Since going to high school, Emma has to go to school more, at the head teacher organizes a lot of extra lessons and practical experiences.

That day was the same day her school held a carnival, and in previous years the school also held it. Everyone had a lot of fun playing together, everyone dressed up for themselves, or with the help of others. The participants all transformed into different characters, some dressed as princesses, witches, robbers, and countless different characters. From gentle, friendly, cute, to ugly, ugly, evil, every item is available.

Every year, Emma Hatthaway is prepared by her mother for costumes that are not called beautiful but are very meaningful to her. But this year, I seem to have forgotten. Because her mother is too busy, or she is too worried about her health these days, she has not prepared a character for her to dress up for on the masquerade day.

With what had happened to her recently, she didn't have much interest in dressing up either.

That afternoon, at dusk, the school held a ceremony. This ceremony was approved by parents, so the students could play freely without fear of being beaten by their parents. Everyone was dressed and dressed unusually, the atmosphere of the ceremony was very lively.

"Emma, ​​why didn't you dress up this year? Didn't you say you wanted to dress up as Princess Sophia the First?" The class president of her class in the shape of a pumpkin and her friends in Cinderella approached where Emma was sitting.

"First, Sophia today has no beautiful dress to wear, no pretty lipstick to wear. So Sophia is not attending today." Emma joked, the first Sophia she wanted to be is a thing of the past.

"Do you want to play? I still have a rat's tail. You can turn it into a mouse if you bring it in. Not really, but it won't ruin your party." The class president held out in front of her a large one-tailed tail.

"Thank you." Emma smiled lightly and took the rat's tail, which she brought in.

Emma thought, "I'm allowed to go out anyway, it's a waste not to play."

So she entered the game in human form with a fake one-tailed tail, as a charioteer for Cinderella.

While having fun, she kept feeling cold. She turned to look behind and only saw her friends laughing and having fun.

"Emmaaaaaa ah ah." A savage voice resounded from behind her.

Emma was startled, momentarily unable to control her own movements. She fell to the ground. But she found herself lying in Pulisic's arms.

"Oh, Emma. Are you okay, I'm not in love." A friend named Jack was the one who used that barbaric voice to scare her about having a heart attack. He panicked and ran over to help Emma, ​​who still couldn't swallow, lying on the ground in shock.

Some eyes around her looked at her lying on the ground, people ran over to ask her.

As the questions were asked, Emma was temporarily unstable mentally. All the words around now are just noises dominating her thoughts.

It took a while for her to regain her composure.

But people didn't mention Pulisic, it was clear that he helped her. Emma felt no pain. But can't people see Pulisic? Emma starts to panic. Is Pulisic really a ghost? How could she feel about him? See him?

"Aren't you going to stand up?" Pulisic jokes.

Emma came to her senses, only to realize that she had been lying on Pulisic for a little while.

"I'm fine. I'm just too scared to fall." Emma's voice was still a little shaky.

"Sorry Emma, ​​I was just trying to scare you a little for fun. Didn't expect to scare you like that." Jack's eyes were very apologetic, his son's eyes seemed to think he had just done something very wrong. As he was reviewing himself, his eyes were already sparkling with tears.

"It's okay, don't do that in the future."

The masquerade ceremony that also came here that day had just ended. The school asked students to leave the sky at night. It would be very dangerous. Because the school is only full of students from close proximity, the school is also assured to let students go home on their own.

It was already pitch black, and Emma returned with a group of friends from the village. But in the middle of the village, everyone gradually dispersed, each with a lane. As for Pulisic, still following her, he kept appearing and hiding, making her tremble with fear. Pulisic followed her a long way, but none of her friends noticed. Now she was sure she was used to a ghost. A gentle ghost and knows how to protect her. Emma knew but Emma didn't say, she just quietly walked away, regardless of what the person was trying to do.

But Emma's alley is the furthest road, and there were a few houses.

Emma was walking alone in fear, now all the haunting stories she had ever experienced ran through her head little by little. And then Jack's voice just now, her body had goosebumps all over, the hair on the back of her neck was also indifferent.

Suddenly, behind Emma, ​​it sounded like a tree had fallen to the ground, but when she turned around, she couldn't see anything. Emma's heart now seemed to be in a tumult with no end. She was afraid that something would happen, so she tried to walk as fast as possible without looking back.

It was getting darker and darker, the birds were humming each time, Emma began to feel very afraid, a fear that cannot be described in words.. Emma thought that if she had known that, stay, come back in the afternoon, everything would be different. Everything around us now is black.

Then Emma heard something rustling like someone was walking on dry leaves. Emma's mind was full of all the things she'd been through, her small shoulders trembled, the pace of her steps was accelerated. stamping over time.

"Emma, ​​don't look behind. I can't get close to you, so you have to go straight." Pulisic's voice echoed in her head.

Raised Emma's fear to the extreme.

Then she felt the back of her neck as if something was cold touching it, it felt cold down her spine, really shivering... Then there was a strange sound like someone's footsteps. It was passing by behind her.. She mustered up the courage to look back, but saw nothing. Emma ended up choosing to do the opposite of Pulisic's request.

Emma's footsteps were getting faster and faster, but she dared not run, she was afraid, she was afraid. If she ran, things would get worse.

Then there were some rocks that were thrown out as if someone had thrown them and deliberately threw them at her. She felt like the stone was flying towards her head. She was so scared she ran, but Emma felt like someone holding her cold hand, not letting her go.

"Emma, calm down, take it slow. You have to listen to me." Pulisic's voice rang out once more.

Pulisic was stuck in a tree. His subordinates stopped him because they did not know how strong the ghost that followed Emma was. Pulisic is a powerful person in the demon world, considered the king of ghosts. So the ghosts that obeyed him didn't want him in danger.

The more she was afraid, the more she tried to run in the sky, but at night she couldn't see the road but kept trying to run.. Her head began to spread to a pain like lightning, pain like each strand of hair gradually leaving the scalp. Looks like someone is grabbing her hair, not letting her go. Emma's steps followed, but also slowed down.