« Even your lives? »
The couple looked at each other for a moment before turning back to Yumiel. « Yes, even our lives. »
« Deal. »
Yumiel jumped straight up to the floor above, breaking the window and entering the room. In the middle of the room, a teenager was barricading his door with his bed, his desk and lots of other objects.
« Tell me, Yumiel, isn't this teenager stupid? He thinks he can stop the fire by barricading his door, ahahahah it's hilarious. »
The teenager turned around to see Yumiel and a head in her hand that was speaking.
« You… who are you? Am I dead? Or maybe… » Yumiel tried to speak but Jack cut her off.
« Nah, kid, you're not dead. But we did just trade your life for your parents' lives, so if you don't mind, come with us. »
The teenager started crying and curling up on the floor: « What? No, that's not possible, why, why! »
Still crying, swearing he was in some kind of nightmare. Yumiel approached, lifted him up with one hand: « I don't have time to watch a crybaby. »
Yumiel knew she had to hurry, the sun was almost there. She even hesitated to accept their request, thinking she could just kill them to save time.
Jumping back through the window she had entered through, crashing to the ground, holding Jack's head in one hand and the teenager in the other. The two parents rushed to their son and hugged him.
« Thank you, thank you a thousand times. »
Yumiel looked up, seeing the night slowly giving way to the sunrise.
« You'll have to excuse me, but I must cut your reunion short. »
The teenager stepped between Yumiel and his parents. « NO YOU WON'T KILL THEM YOU MONSTER! » Yumiel was really out of time.
« If you don't move, you'll die with them », Yumiel opened her flask, creating a dagger of crystallized blood. She couldn't do much more given how little blood she had left.
The teenager hesitated, seeing Yumiel confident. His parents eventually pushed him back, and Yumiel used that opportunity to cut off both their heads in a single move.
Their bodies fell to the ground, Yumiel placed Jack's head on the man's body, who now had no head, before drinking the woman's blood, leaving about 1 liter. She merged it with a drop of her own blood, so it became her blood, and used it to fill her flask.
« YOU MONSTERS », the teenager was hitting Yumiel, but it did absolutely nothing to her.
« How long, Jack? We have to leave quickly. » Jack's head was beginning to fuse with the man's body.
« About a minute. »
The teenager kept hitting Yumiel. In reality, a human could hurt Yumiel, even kill her. However, this teenager was so weak, hitting with so little force, so clumsily, that she felt nothing except pity for him.
After about thirty seconds, it started to annoy her, so she grabbed the teenager by the collar and lifted him into the air.
« Listen carefully, you brainless idiot. Your parents gave their lives to save you without hesitation. Know that nothing comes for free, I could have killed all of you without any problem, so show some respect to your parents and honor them! »
The teenager kept crying but now with his head lowered, weakly hitting the ground as if he had no fight left in him. This scene made Yumiel regret having saved him.
« I'm done, we can go. » Jack was standing in his new body, holding both heads in his hand.
« Let's hurry », they left, leaving the teenager crying on the ground. It was unlike Yumiel to do things so quickly, but the threat of the sun was too great.
Running toward Yumiel's house, Jack questioned her.
« You were a bit harsh back there. »
« Humpf, I know a ten-year-old girl who's ten times braver. »
« I understand… I won't judge you, you did what was right. Actually, even if you'd killed them all, it wouldn't have bothered me. »
Yumiel wanted to continue the conversation, but they were arriving on her street. « We'll finish this conversation later too, we're here. »
Jack looked around, seeing very fancy houses, though most had probably been robbed.
« Before we go in, eat the two brains you have. »
Jack swallowed the brains before looking at Yumiel, signaling he was done. The sun was starting to light up the houses, Yumiel and Jack were right in front of the door.
Opening the door, she found herself face-to-face with Marie, weapon pointed at the door. She lowered her weapon when she saw Yumiel, then raised it again when she saw Jack.
« He's a friend, you can lower your weapon », Yumiel closed the door behind her, and then Marie rushed into her arms.
« You didn't tell me you had a little sister. »
« It's complicated, I'll explain later, let me make her something to eat, knowing her she probably stayed by the door all night. »
Yumiel took ground meat, pasta, a container and cheese, then cooked everything before finishing it in the oven. Meanwhile, Jack spoke to Marie, who didn't say anything except nod from time to time.
Taking the pasta and minced meat gratin out of the oven, she prepared three plates that she set in a circle around the table. Serving a big portion in one plate and smaller ones in the other two.
« It's ready, you can come », Marie and Jack sat down at the table, the biggest plate was obviously for Marie who started eating immediately.
« I made you a plate but I don't know if you need to eat or not, or if you still have the sense of taste. »
« That's nice, thanks. I don't really need it but I appreciate food, though for that I need a body in good condition. By the way, tell me, the little one is weird, doesn't she speak? »
Yumiel blew slightly on her food before replying to Jack: « Ah that… let's just say that since I killed her father in front of her, she hasn't spoken much. »
Jack dropped his fork: « You did what? » Yumiel sighed and pointed at Marie, Jack understood and didn't ask more.
Once their plates were finished, Yumiel took a bath with Marie while undressing. Yumiel noticed her outfit was completely ruined, pierced almost everywhere, she had already patched it the first night she went out, but now it was impossible to do anything with it.
Once the bath was over, Yumiel put Marie to bed, who asked for her presence to sleep. Falling asleep in just a few minutes, Yumiel laid her in the bed before joining Jack in the living room, sitting down with him on the couch.
« Alright, let's finish all our pending discussions. »