Chapter 8
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He had been taken to Zexal’s manor. It was large and well kept. “Crow” simply stood and stared at it.
Zexal spoke, “Before I give you a tour, you need to clean yourself off. I doubt you noticed but you reek.”
“Crow” looked in his direction in silence before speaking, “if only I knew where I could go and wash myself.”
Zexal simply sighed, “Okay, I will show you and you will wash yourself.”
“Crow” nodded.
He was escorted directly to a bathroom.
“Now go wash off.” Zexal spoke.
“Alright, but I don’t have a change of clothes.” “Crow” replied with a little smirk on his face.
“I’ll get you some, just go.”
“Oh, and I don’t really know how to operate your shower. I hope a Rubix cube doesn’t just fall to the floor of the tub as I try to figure that out.”
“Will you just go and look at the shower!” Zexal was losing his patience with the youngster.
Teenagers these days!
“Crow” walked into the shower and took a look around. He was expecting some ancient looking dials to operate the water temperature, but to his surprise, he found it to be quite simple to use. He turned the water on and set it to the showerhead, set the temperature, and let it run.
Zexal came back with a change of clothes, walked in and simply put them on the counter. He looked at “Crow” in irritation, “Are you seriously just letting the water run?”
“Are you seriously trying to look at some underage boy naked?” “Crow” shot back, “What if I had taken my pants off?”
“Okay, you need to stop that. Get in the damn shower already.” Zexal turned to leave and closed the door behind him.
“Crow” touched the water shooting out of the silver showerhead. It doesn’t seem to be too hot. Hopefully this won’t burn.
He began to take off his shoes, then the socks, then his pants, leaving him in just his undergarments. He had scars from blades, arrows, even bullets, but the ones that stood out the most were the ones that looked like burns from a hot iron. They were in the shape of swirls, and covered much of his body. He didn’t know what caused them, only that they appeared after killing some demon hunters. When they appeared, they hurt like Hell. The first several times they appeared, he had been rendered immobile, lying on the floor in agony.
He took off the final piece of clothing and stepped into the shower.
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