9 New Evil (Chapter 9)

Urite grounds-Village in the West region population-4000

"Hediki!... woohoo! hey Hediki! Slow down brother…" – Aiko

The dead of the night struck Urite's streets. The moon howling through the houses of the citizens. Two drunken sailors far away from home… so far away from being sober strolled across the streets of Urite bellowing with laughter.

"Aiko where are we off too!" Hediki shouted across the streets.

"Hard to say. Maybe we might find some beautiful Urite women!" Aiko burped out.

"Hahaha of course brother!" - Hediki

They jumped around in joy through the narrow alleyways dancing in the dark.

Hediki's blurry vision guided him to a tight narrow alleyway he scratched his head in confusion of why his hand could fit through such a narrow alleyway, yet his body could not. His hand felt heavy and wet as he pulled it out, it was covered tightly in what seemed to be turquoise webbing.

"Brother Aiko why… come a look at this strange alleyway". Hideki spurted out with a funny drunk smile on his face brushing off the strangely coloured webbing on his hand.

"Ohhh brother! Hurry up why won't you" Hediki listened for his reply his smile wide.

There was silence as the voice of the wind sang through the empty streets.

"Aiko where are you frog face haha Ohhh hide and seek I see" Hediki moved away from the tight alley running through the streets to look for Aiko.

"Ohhh Aikoooo I give up where are you brother".

The atmosphere around Aiko changed to become tight and heavy.

"Do your eyes set cast on pure beauty sailor?". An angelic voice whispered in Hediki's ear.

"…Who is that?" Hediki's eyes widened while the sense of chills trickled down his neck.

".. I could not tell just from a beautiful maidens voice" Hediki hesitated to say it "reveal your face to me..."

"Hekekeke hekeke" the voice giggled.

Hediki stood still, frozen to the ground for what was about to come. Suddenly the setting changed, the moon clouded by darkness with a tinge of the colour turquoise. Hediki couldn't see anything but heard everything.

A lit repetitive tapping sound echoed this now light turquoise void Hediki was standing in. The sound of heavy breathing mixing with that.

"Are your eyes ready to set sail to this beauty Hekekeke" the voice whispered.

Hediki wiped the sweat from brow and swallowed the thick salvia in his throat. He stopped and turned around slowly to be caught with the sight of an old wrinkly skinned hag with little strands of turquoise hair left on her bald head smiling with no teeth.

Hediki's face struggled to comprehend the emotion he felt when looking at such a disgusting appearance his entire body and heart tried to activate his brain into saying how ugly she was. However, his brain wouldn't budge.

He smiled and bowed in respect "What a beautiful women you are I which I could have seen you before". Swallowing his pride.

She zoomed in towards him and smiled, looking deeply in his eyes "LIARRRRRRRRRRRR!!"

He closed his eyes in fear and shock of her being so close to him "I am not lying I truly believe you have the beauty of an angel" Hediki slowly whispered, putting emphasis on his words to cover up his lies.

She took a moment to take that in, and her expression changed to be in aww by his compassionate words while moving away from Hediki. "AWWWW YOU'RE A CUTEY!!!" she bellowed.

He grimly smiled, easing away the stress he had just built up.

"Ohhh! How silly of me I'm Sayomi and as you probably could tell I'm a Yokai specifically a Jorogumo {Spider type Yokai}" She smiled with innocence in her eyes.

He was shocked the mere bones in his body bent at the word Yokai it was a term used by the tongue of the ancestors of regions. Evil twisted spirits and creatures who were once humans cursed by the Demon king of the underworld. They say that The Golden boy Kintaro banished all evil over a thousand years ago.

It was a shock to hear such a word come up, even at a time like this.

"I'm Hediki… Fujimori" he hesitated to even say his full name to the creature that was standing before him.

"Nice to meet you Hediki... hmmm you seem famished, don't you worry Hediki sugar puff Fujimori I will make you some food" she tumbled along towards a darker space in the turquoise void her back turned to Hediki. – Sayomi

She was right, he was hungry so Hediki didn't hesitate to keep quiet and accept the meal she was preparing. His fear of angering her also hadn't left him.

Although, in the back of his mind all he could think about was three concerning things how he would get out of here? , where his brother was? and where the hell he was?

"Nearly ready honey I'm cooking some nicccee stew". Sayomi shouted gently.

Hediki held his head high to the sweet smell of the stew maybe it wouldn't be that bad he thought.

"Your one of a kind you know not many men are like you Hekekeke". -Sayomi

She turned around with a huge wrinkly smile on her face and two bowls of hot stew. Hediki smiled normally accepting the chance to eat the stew the situation he's in is bad but not as bad as dying he thought... he's been in much worse cases, he thought to himself.

He took the bowl not looking at it but looking at Sayomi and saying thank you while smiling. The smell was amazing, he couldn't wait to taste it.

He looked at the bowl it took him a moment to realize what was floating about in the bowl… his eyes widened in shock and his jaw clenched in fear... bits of hair and human body parts like half an eye and some fingers were swimming around in the browny red liquid stew.

"You'll love it! I used this random idiot walking around about the time I saw you. I think he was so clueless, and he even had the audacity to call me an UGLYYYY HORE! I mean, can you believe it." Sayomi gossiped loudly.

Hediki gasped for words to come out of his mouth and scream at her but nothing voiced out he directed his eyes towards the dark area where she prepared the food and tried hard to point something out…

There it was he so desperately wanted it not to be true but there it was laying there the body of his older brother Aiko chilled and a massive hole deep within his head dry blood splat everywhere.

Tears streamed down his face as seemless as rain, his eyes still widened in shock and realization of the horror that was just pointed out. He aggressively moved the bowl onto the ground. "I've umm I've losttt my appetite" he coughed out will crying.

She smiled with a sinister look "It wasn't an option EATTT ITTT!" The shriek of her voice echoed through the void.

She picked up the bowl and handed it to him still crying silently he took it he took the spoon… hesitated while looking at Sayomi who was still smiling.

"CRCHH" That was the sound of Hediki eating his brother's finger crying so loudly tears falling into the bowl.

"Don't worry Hediki honey ill take care of you now" she smiled "you are mine after all" she moved closer to him and put his head on her lap.