"Whaaat!!!, ho...how is that possible?, I don't understand" my mind struggled to accept Anna's words.
"The general asked me to marry him as a condition to bring you back" Anna kept looking at the floor as she spoke.
"ABORT IT!", I said, my expression now replaced by rage.
"What?!" Anna's head shot up, looking at me in disbelief.
"I said, abort it", I repeated, my emotions slowly growing unstable.
"How can you say such a thing!",Anna asked sounding a bit furious, as she continues before I could respond.
"I can't kill an innocent baby just because I was foolishly deceived by the general, and moreover we wouldn't be able to escape the general nor my parents watch, I'm sure you know the general has connections across Asia, and my parents connections are all over Europe, we"
"Miss Anna!, who is there with you?!" A bodyguard interrupted Anna, as he tried opening the door, but failed, because it was locked by Anna.
"No one Michael!!, I'm just on the phone!!",Anna responded, before pushing me to leave quickly.
I looked at Anna's face, one last time, my heart raged emotions with I couldn't put to words.
I wanted to give her passionate kiss before leaving, but I held myself from doing so and left.
I roamed the quiet night streets aimlessly for almost an hour, deep in thoughts, before steeling my resolve and proceeding my plan.
I found an ATM some distance away from Anna's family villa, and tried withdrawing from my secret account.
But got hit with a shocking insufficient funds, I tried a lower amount, but it was the same.
My heart raced, as I hurriedly checked my balance.
$0.00
My knees weakened at the sight, as i repeated the process several times more, but it wasn't an error.
I silently left the area, as I could already notice a few suspicious glance.
As I roamed the empty streets, I swore to every deity to ever exist, that I would kill the general in the most gruesome way possible, I would make him cry for death, but that would be mercy, I would...
"Stop right there!!!", a police officer shouted, bringing me back from my dark thoughts.
"Shit!", I muttered, as I quickly began running.
I ran tirelessly through the dimly lit street, the police were far behind me unable to catch up with my speed, but that wasn't got me worried.
Since I was spotted in this area, the police would try to seal me in, so I wouldn't escape.
'I have to leave here quickly'
"In here!"
A voice called from a dark alley, I couldn't understand the words, as it was a language I couldn't recognise.
I paused and looked at the figure, who was shrouded in darkness by the alley, he continuously gestured for me to come.
I hesitated, and I had every right to do so, but I could hear the police getting closer, so i choose to follow.
I had other options but it was too late now, I had already wasted too much time.
"......."
"Sorry I don't understand you"
"....."
The mysterious person suddenly started pulling me towards a abnormally dark wall.
I was about pulling his hand away, when I saw his left hand go through the wall.
"What the fuck!"
I felt danger and curiosity at the same time.
"Where did he go?!!!" A police officer asked his colleague loudly
"Shit" I muttered as I stopped resisting and was pulled into complete and alter darkness.
"Fuck!!!"
I yelled suddenly jumping awake from a bed.
My sudden outburst seemed to have frightened the figure, who looked like an exact clone of me.
"Wait.... What the fuck!!!"
The... I don't know what to call it, seemed annoyed by my reaction, as he gestured for me to halt.
He pulled out a chair and sat near a desk, muttering something, a cube of light came to life, further brightening the room, that was dimly lit by the moonlight.
He took a book, opened it, brought out a paint brush, and a small bottle of ink.
He deeped the brush into the ink, and began drawing something.
'What's going on?'
A few seconds passed and he was done, as he showed what he drew to me.
"Calm down, you are making too much noise", was clearly written in Korean in the book.
"The fuck?"
He resumed writing again, and soon finished.
"I know you are confused, but it's late, you should rest, everything will be explained soon"
Before I could reply, he had already written again
"Get some sleep, you'll need it"
"Fine" I admitted reluctantly and laid back down on the bed.
He muttered something and the cube of light went off, then he left the room.
I stared at the dark ceiling, my tiredness was slowly catching up to me, as the bed felt offly comforting.
I struggled to stay awake, but failed. I was human afterall.
I slept like a baby, and that was because I haven't gotten a good sleep since the incident, and this bed felt great.
~Haaaa~
I stretched my hands, yawning.
I looked around the room, analysing my environment.
The room was about 200 sq ft in size, with a desk occupied by some books near the widely open window, a large wardrobe stood by the opposite side, with it's elegant wooden design, another passage stood at the opposite end of the room from where the bed was, where it led was unknown to me as it covered by a curtain.
A bright white light coming from the widow illuminated the room, shining on the polished wooden floor.
Wind continuously blew the window curtain, carrying with it an aroma.
'Someone is cooking something good'
At that thought my stomach rumbled, reminding me of how hungry I was.
I was about getting up from the bed when the door shot open.
My clone walked in accompanied by a delicious aroma.
He went towards the desk, opened the book from the previous night, brought out his ink and brush, and began writing, and few seconds later, he was done.
"Hey, it's bright now, you should go freshen up, the bathroom is the last room down the hall"
"Okay I will, but you said you will explain what's going on this morning"
At my response, he started writing again, and seconds late, he was done.
"I will explain over breakfast, but I'm not done cooking, so you should wash up before I finish"
"Ah, I see, alright!"
He dropped the book and began leaving the room, I got up from bed and followed behind.
We went separate ways, he went downstairs, and I went to the bathroom.
On my way towards the bathroom I couldn't help but notice that, everything here was made of wood, from polished wooden walls, to polished floorboards.
"It's like I'm in a cabin"
"Damn that was quite lot of to take in" I replied nonchalantly as I add "so what are we doing now?",
"Hmm well I certainly can't leave you here cause once the divines notices an error they might erase you, and I will die, and if it erases me, you are still going to die because you can never survive here as a human, but there something that can help, something I have been working on my entire life but I will need some time to set things up, So go get your self cleaned up and meet me down stairs" pale me explains with a little worry on his face as he murmurs to himself "so this is what I ended up using it for" before leaving the room.
I went down stairs after taking the coldest bath I had ever taken in my life."Good just in time for breakfast" pale me said while setting up the dining table for both of us,"thanks" I replied as I took my seat at the table " hmmm you quite well off, what do you do for a living?" I asked "yeah you could say so don't worry you will find out soon" pale me replied with a smirk on his face, he seemed proud of his occupation.
"What's for breakfast" i asked " in your realm it's called Kabocha pumpkin and if you want to ask how it grew here don't cause all I know is that if you infuse shadow energy into some certain plants it grows." Pale me replied almost immediately " alright so you made Kabocha no himono, that's great I always liked it" I said with a growling stomach cause I haven't eaten a proper meal in a while now. "What are you waiting for dig in" pale me said as he took the first bite.
Few minutes later we had finished eating and I assisted in taking care of the dishes, now am standing with pale me in the living room as he began drawing a circle filled with unknown symbols as he yaps about being a scholar and how this will merge both of us, he seemed kind of happy giving that crazy scientist vibe.
He just completed it after making three circles in total after which he points the one I should lay on as he lies on the other to my left.
We both were completely naked on the circles as pale me starts to chant some weird set of words making the circles light up immediately I felt my consciousness no my entire being, being pulled out of my body causing agonizing pain as I let out a loud scream, but it seemed like I wasn't the only one in pain as pale me also screamed in pain.
Few minutes later the third circle lights up as the circles which I and pale me were on connects to it causing it to merging our entire beings together.
"Uhh" I said as I struggled to get up, managing to do so I stood there looking at circles and my bodies fade away. Not understanding what was happening, I slowly walked towards the room to check myself in the mirror.
Managing to accomplish that I stepped up to the drawer and pulled it open and brought out a mirror to check my face, just to see a total stranger, I fell to the floor asking myself "WHO IS THAT".