Jacqueline grabbed my left wrist and checked the clock, commenting:
"19 hours, Fierna!"
We had already rested for around an hour when Fierna got up. What's up with the 19 hours?
"Okay! We have over 12 hours before entering the town where she is. As soon as we come closer, I will change for the worse, so both of you need to keep your distance if you do not want an early death."
I looked at Jacqueline as I was a little worried that getting killed on a rescue mission because we were entering a town sounded awkward.
"Why is the clock so important? I thought we had around 5 days to save the baby."
Both of them looked at me like I was some idiot.
"Just tell him the truth, Jacqueline!"
I looked at Jacqueline, confused.
"Well, you have a lot of scars on your body."
"Why? Have you seen me naked?" I responded.
"Eh, I won't say anything. If you want me to be honest, many of the scars on your body got healed by someone else."
I was slightly surprised by what she said, but at the same time, it was the first time my body felt a little bit lighter than before.
"Continue!" I commented.
"You had a spirit-like from Hell in a shadow creature called Krat in your body that healed you many times when you had near-death experiences."
She sounded crazy. What had that anything to do with the timer on the clock?
"Okay! Listen spirit! What you are telling me sounds wild; let's say I would believe you. What does it have to do with the clock counting the hours?"
"That is the estimated time until you die of blood loss from your scars, and the injuries will go back to the stage before the Krat healed them."
Wait a minute! I have a lot of scars. God damn it, I can not be this unlucky.
"Okay! So what exactly do we have to do?" I asked them.
Jacqueline started to whistle and turned her back towards me.
"This is why I am here. There is a doctor who can maybe heal your scars, and we will try to save your life. This specific Doctor only gets drawn to battlefields. So a big battle will occur in the town, so we can draw the Doctor into the battlefield and try to heal you. It is a long shot, but we do not have any choice because this is the only chance to save your life." Fierna explained.
W...WHAT! They will start a battle to try and lure it out.
"That was a joke, wasn't it?" I asked.
Fierna shook her head, and I didn't know how to react. A battle has to occur to get a damn doctor in the field. To get treatment at a specific time frame, or I would die. Why did I even come here? Wait a minute! I don't remember if I even accepted this mission.
"Don't look at me like I am the one responsible for this. I got released from prison to start the battle and ensure you return alive to Victoria. We need to keep moving forward." Fierna commented.
She walked past me and opened the door, and I just tried to gather my thoughts on the word Krat and if I had met one before. Nothing came to my mind, though.
Fierna opened the door, and we walked inside. It was a normal office space, except that nobody was in this office space. However, This area had no windows and was not as long as the earlier Office.
"There is nobody here!" I told them but noticed that Fierna and Jacqueline were focused and looking towards the other end of the walking path.
Fierna suddenly leapt forward, Jacqueline following right behind her, and I was the slowpoke who reacted late when suddenly the ground started moving like waves, and I lost my balance. Something like a long tongue grabbed my waist, and I looked up to see a big mouth with weird-looking teeth that didn't even look sharp. Closing its mouth, it slowly pulled me upwards towards the ceiling. I tried to get loose from the tongue and noticed that both of them were dragged to the right and left. Why did I get the damn ceiling? Bjorna was on the ground and didn't say a word or even try to help as I got closer to the mouth with it more intensely and bit faster, hoping I would be very close to its mouth soon. I pulled myself up with the help of the long tongue, and as I approached it closely, I put both my feet around the mouth and pushed back to not end up as a meal. My right hand got caught in black fire, and the chain swirled around on my hand, catching on fire. I used my left hand to keep trying to push away. My suit got covered with some liquid that smelled bad from all the drooling, and I punched above the mouth in the meaty area, but it didn't let go of me. I kept punching, hoping it would let go as it was pointless. It refused to loosen the grip and kept trying to push me closer. I looked to the left to check the others, seeing both of them beating the wall monsters, when suddenly cubicles jumped up towards them, screeching out a monstrous sound.
I continued to punch the meaty area as it tried to pull me in, and after a couple of seconds, I raised my right leg and kept kicking the meaty area as the pink-coloured liquid was pouring down on my suit. The grip on my waist suddenly released, and I fell, hitting the floor, which affected my breathing, and I tried to get up as fast as possible. It was hard to breathe, and the chair tiptoed beside me as I leaned my arm towards it. All the furniture around me started to move. I got up in the end, trying to get focused and breathe properly, when something big hit me from behind, and when I was going to lean on a cubicle, a big mouth with sharp teeth suddenly showed itself in the middle of the cubicle trying to bite me. I hastily took two steps back as it jumped up in the air, and I rolled to the side as it tried to slam down on me. I grabbed Bjorna and moved closer to the entry door as several pieces of furniture started moving by themselves, and disgusting arms popped out from some of them as if they had transformed. One cubicle had massive red arms that popped from the sides but no mouth. What is the function? Are there several demons that are furniture at a black Friday price or what?
They kept their distance, and even though they had no eyes, I felt like they were looking at me. Suddenly, the walking path opened up, and I could see vaguely that green and red lightning was showing at the other end of the Office. That means the girls are still alive. Well, I am not in a good spot right now. A brown table hopped forward, and a muffled sound came out. What was strange, though, was that it didn't look to have inherited any functionalities except moving like a table.
"Mfm, mfem, mfm!"
Table tried telling me something, but I didn't understand table language.
"No table Diablo Sprache!" I tried mixing Spanish and German to see if it would react. Maybe the made of origin was from Spain or Germany, but it didn't look like it understood what I was saying.
"MFM!" It made a higher-pitched sound, which surprised me, but I suppose it said attack when all the different furniture started to move towards me again.