Hellbents
Chapter 75: The Past
Ava looked at the blood-soaked body that was not moving in front of her. The little girl's chest trembled painfully, beating the pain in her sliced hand.
The director of the orphanage did a bad thing to Lexa. He grabbed and tore off her friend's clothes even though Lexa yelled no.
And Alex comes to protect her twin sister, aided by Ava.
Now the man is drowning in his own pool of blood, with a hole in his throat.
There's something wrong with what Ava did.
But no one ever told him what it was.
He wanted to cry, but it didn't feel right to grieve the passing of the bad guy.
What he reads from books is not always true.
An adult will not protect or guide a child like him.
On the contrary, what is explained about the forest system applies to humans as well.
Jungle law.
Who is strong will win.
The weak will be the victims.
After understanding, his heart became calmer.
"Let's take a shower" Lexa said at last after wiping their fingerprints with a tissue. Her green sweatshirt was stained with blood and torn, she was the most messy among them.
Although his legs were still shaking, Alex got up, his hands clasped Ava and Lexa's arms, leading them to the only bathroom on the third floor, the director's private bathroom right next to his office.
"We have to leave immediately" Alex muttered. The three of them stared at each other, letting the water flow from the shower remove the red stains that littered them. "The ashes will only make the police suspicious," Lexa replied grimly.
Alex looked down uneasily, "Then ... how?"
Ava said, "The adults will believe that I did it myself."
True, he is always the culprit of problems due to uncontrolled behavior. Ava also already has a trace of violent cases from her former orphanage.
Alex clutched Ava's palm. "No, it seems like this time the adults won't let you off just by moving to another orphanage."
"Failure, we don't want to part with you anyway!" Lexa menukas hard.
Shower turned off. Clothes, hair, until their entire body was wet, Lexa had even shivered and her skin was wrinkled.
Murder should not be included in the table of contents that five-year-olds like them should worry about.
Out of the bathroom booth, the height of the three boys was not even up to look at the sink mirror. "Then we change the case." Lexa searches every drawer in the room, until she finds what she's looking for, bleach.
"Not murder, but robbery by a stranger."
"Oh, great idea!"
Alex and Lexa are solid, absolute. Ava puckered while biting her lips, unsure. But then he followed the twins' will, because he also did not want to part with them. This time he made a friend.
Wrapping their tiny hands and feet in crackles, the three rubbed clean iron rods that managed to take the fat man's life with bleach, fearing that there were still traces that would show the real culprit. The reason Lexa has read that hydrogen peroxide, in bleach, can remove blood spots if luminol is used in police investigations later. Do not forget to also wipe the floor where their red stained steps when going to the bathroom.
After that, using a new crackle, the three rummaged through the office quietly, not wanting to attract the attention of others with their activities when there was a corpse in the middle of the room.
Last touch, false hint. The window is wide open. Wearing boots that were twice as wide as their feet, a dirty trail was created on the floor, surrounding the room as if eyeing something.
And that way, the CPI changed.
The dark orange sky signifies that dusk is almost finished, it is near the time for dinner.
They had not even changed clothes, their wet clothes had already dried up as time went on.
"We go to the woods first, so if the nannies ask us where we've been, that's why." Alibis.
Ava and Alex nodded in understanding.
***
The night went on a scene.
One of the workers who called the director over for dinner, as the prayer leader who had become their tradition, cried out in fear at the sight he found.
A stiff corpse and a messy room.
Police were immediately called.
The nannies were busy calming the frightened little ones with the presence of strangers. "Should we cry too?" Alex whispered softly to the two girls who were approaching him on both sides.
"No need, they'll feel weird if we cry" Lexa chimed in. "If the police are going to interrogate us, just remember that we play in the woods from morning until dusk."
"Calm down, I'm good at lying, too" Ava said.
Only Alex frowned, feeling troubled. Fortunately, the twin calms the boy down, "Even if we're stammering or nervous, they'll assume we're afraid of strangers, like everyone else." Alex took a deep breath.
He's poised.
***
The incident was widely reported in the local newspaper. Slightly deviated from what they had planned, the police categorized the case into a premeditated killer, not a robbery. Because no items are lost, so the glass is considered a mere diversion. But fortunately the only clues found were muddy footprints from the shoes they had thrown in the forest, meaning the fingerprints of the three boys did not exist.
After questioning the children at the orphanage, the police focused more on the adult workers as well as the people associated with the director. So the investigation is still heading in the wrong direction. They're secure.
That was their first case.
The three boys are determined to stay together.
And this incident is still their initial obstacle.
***
"Alex?" Ava doesn't believe her eyes. How could he exist in this fantasy dimension?
Wasn't he ....
"I can't believe you're going to pronounce the name of the other man in front of me, Princess," the man in front of her denied growling. The wide smile on his handsome pale face did not fade.
Ava must have been delusional, so she won her heart that almost jumped in shock. He looked at the man again. The sky-blue eyes Ava still remembered, only that she knew that Alex's hair was dark brown, not as pure white as snow as the man. Another solution, he used his observation skill.
Name: Ellijah Tristan Frost
Race: Human (devil contractor)
Level 235
Coin: 872816284963415
Power :55
Speed: 42
Duration: 38
Day :101
The man's name is not Alex. At least Ava will see an asterisk if her name is also censored.
Frost, huh?
Duke Frost meant that? Eve's fiancee?
In addition, his level was 235, a record higher than Ava had ever seen, even a ranker, Ib, only slightly exceeded 100. Especially with a face that young.
Yet there was something more to his attention, on the part of the race, the demon contractor?
Isn't this a sign of troublesome things ahead of him?