Chapter 19
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Lucia's point of view
The story says Hanako-san is a young Japanese girl who according to legend, is the spirit of a girl who haunts the school bathroom. She had been killed in the toilet of the third cubicle, had been stabbed multiple times, got her eyes removed, and did not have any justice after the incident.
"So what's it gotta do with the gun incident?" Angelique confusedly asked us both as we reached the entrance of our campus.
"I don't know either" Phoenix answered while unbuckling her seat belt.
"It's not making any sense," I said. "A spirit? Gunshot? Young girl? Not even connected"
"Let's just go try to summon Hanako, if it's really true then that's settled that it's a ghost" Angelique.
We are living in a modern world so everything can be explained through science, it's not like if there's something weird s**t happened means ghosts and supernatural things exist already. More or less, it's probably a hundred percent our imaginations.
"Then, how 'bout we'll just let the police handle the case?" I suggested as I parked the car.
"But nothing's gonna lose right, Phoenix?"
We looked at Phoenix who's staring blankly on her phone. What's up with her lately?
"Ugh, I don't know! let's just hope this is all a hoax"
Angelique stamps her foot outside the vehicle and left the two of us alone inside.
I just shook my head, is she acting like this because the victim is her ex-boyfriend? Forget it.
It was said, to summon Hanako-san, get on the third floor of the building's bathroom. Get inside alone, knock on the third cubicle 3 times and ask if she's there. And so we did come into the building's third floor, and no one was there for the moment.
The three of us stared at the front door of the bathroom and opened it.
"I'm gonna do it" I volunteered since I know all of this isn't true.
"Okay, we'll just stay here outside" Phoenix said before I close the door in front of them.
I nodded as a response, then I faced the 8 cubicles behind me. I looked at the third one, though it seems a little off, I just let it all go and head in that direction.
I took a deep breath before knocking three times into it, but nothing happened. I swallowed the lump on my throat as I tried to open my mouth.
"Hanako-san, are you there?"
A minute of silence filled the 4 corners of the school bathroom, but not even a single response was heard. I waited for a few minutes but still, nothing happened, so I decided to turn my way around and open the door to tell Phoenix and Angelique about it. But a hand grabs me in the wrist and stopped me from stepping forward.
"I'm here" a voice suddenly lingered through my ears.
And as I turn my head, I saw a young girl dressed in a red skirt and blooded white shirt. I know she's looking at me despite having no eyes, and it creeps me out. Blood started to spill out like tears on her cheeks as she smiled at me. Her grip tightened as I tried to step away, Hanako lift her other hand and reached my pale face.
"What's your wish?" she asked while grinning.
It hundred percent creeps me out. I felt shivers down through my spine and did not realize that I'm starting to cry out of nervousness.
"I-im n-"
"Why are you crying?"
"I d-d-don't"
"Sshh" Hanako hugged me on my waist causing me to flinch.
Her cold presence makes me want to scream for help but I can't.
"I won't hurt you" she stated. "But if you make a wish, I'll take your soul after you die as a human" she continued.
Come on, it's not like I want my soul to be taken by a ghost when I die.
"It's not like I want what I'm doing, it's my job to take souls after all... I'm trapped here forever, and there's nothing I can do about that"
My trembling body became stiff as I heard her statement, it was like, she's just a child who wants to be free from her situation. Also makes me think, that she's once a human and just became something like this for vengeance.
"C-can I a-ask you something h-hanako?" I stuttered.
Hanako, let go of me and smiled.
"What is it?"
I swallowed the lump on my throat and get down to level our faces. I took a deep breath and asked...
"Are you taking people's life by shooting them with a gun?"
Hanako grinned.
"Yup" she answered. "I have a gun under my skirt, why? Want me to take your life?"
I gulped and shook my head.
"T-that's not what I mean" I said. "W-why.. why are you doing that?"
It took her minutes to answer my question.
"I am the first trumpet" she grinned. "The angels in heaven sounded the first trumpet, and I will be the one to take action. To kill the beginning of the end, and that's Genesis. The son of Cain"
As far as I know, Cain killed his brother for some sort of reason. And I really don't know, why would Genesis become his son?!
But wait. First trumpet? Angels in heaven? What?! I don't understand this.
"The revelation will come soon" the young girl said. "It may be the end of man-kinds"
She stepped forward in front of me and held my cheeks making me flinch.
"Can I call you mom?" she smiled. "I see something in you"
What?
"I want to have a longer conversation with you mom, but I guess it's time for me to say goodbye now. Your questions will be answered soon, I see something in you that makes you different among us all. But take my advice seriously... you can't stop the revelation"
She said and bid a farewell before disappearing.
I exhaled in confusion and quickly ran out of that place, I hugged Phoenix and Angelique as I saw them outside waiting for me.
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"She's the first trumpet?" Phoenix asked.
"That's what she said" I answered while I'm driving the car to reach our destination, which is our apartment.
"And Genesis? The son of Cain? The beginning of the end?" Angelique massaged her temples. "Isn't it Enoch?"
"We're not inside the bible Angelique" I hissed. "So don't compare it to us right now"
"Cain is the first one to kill someone, and worst is it's his brother" Phoenix stated. "Genesis' father might do the same thing, and his son will suffer because of that"
"What are you saying?!"
"I'm saying, he's the beginning of sins and the first trumpet will kill him no matter what" Phoenix inhaled and exhaled afterward.
"You're hiding something from us are you?" I asked.
To my surprise, she did not deny it.
"Everything that's written on that book that Angelique handed was all true, though it really did not happened," she said. "I am an Archangel, and my job's to kill the bride. But now that I knew it was you, I couldn't do such a thing"
"So you're an angel?" Angelique asked. "Do you have wings? Can you fly us into the sky right now?!"
"I do, but it's not for that purposes Angelique"
"Now that I think about it" I inserted. "If the characters of that book happen to be us, why did not I feel deja vu or something?"
"Yeah, and I'm fcking dying here to meet that Igneous bastard and beat the s**t out of him" Angelique hissed.
I glared at Angelique so she pouted.
"Who wrote that book?" I asked Phoenix.
She stared at me for a moment and exhaled. Like she's hesitant to tell me, what's going on.
"It was written in a code but I happen to understand it"
"What's the code?"
She made me look into her phone for a moment and I saw the text written into...
(7"8,@,a
"What does that mean?"
"I tried to incode it with letters using the alphabets here on my keyboard, and this name happens to appear"
She once again made me see it and I was surprised.
"Luciana?" Angelique asked. "Isn't that.."
My grandmother.
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