As Carlo thought about that Johnson turned around slightly smile at him, seeing this Carlo felt eerie as he about tell Johnson to fuck off. He saw him still standing with his back facing him and it seemed he was just hallucinating after having such a hard time after such a long time and lack of oxygen in this hall might have affected his brain.
Yui and James look at the circle made on the floor of the hall, James had his forehead covered in sweat and blood stains from the small injuries, "Do you think the same as me? This might be the summoning circle that brought such nightmarish monsters to our world from hell?"
"Once again I'm telling you for the last time, it's not this nightmare creature that came to our world but instead it's us who were summoned to their world." Yui said with a frown on her face as she carefully looked around the hall searching for something that might lead them to find the return crystal. As start to walk downstairs she thought of something and paused on the last step on the stairs.
"I think… no, I believe this place is just as dangerous as outside, if not then it's far more worse than that, it would be better if you all just stand at the stairs here and at any given moment ready to run as fast as you can out of this hidden room or this building if you find an exit door." Yui said as she looked at the faces of all the remaining girls. She really hoped all of them would survive to see the sunlight of their world but she can't help them here when even she can't make it alive.
They strongly believed in Yui words as everything they saw and experienced they were only able to survive thanks to her, if she said standing on the staircase is the best for them then it should be true. As Yui walks towards the wooden self with strange objects, her eyes fall upon the strange jewellery made from dried wooden pieces and stone that doesn't particularly look special. While Jaxon is holding a wooden box with no keyhole, it just looks like a log if it was for the sound of objects being inside can be heard.
"What kind of artistic fuck made this shit there's no fucking way someone would put damn thing inside without opening." Jaxon is getting frustrated being here and ordering around like a damn slave and ain't getting shit done and running and hiding around like a coward. As he could take it anymore, he hit the box with all his strength on the floor.
Thud!!!
Everyone looked at the origin of the sound as the box rolled up on the centre of floor, Carlo aimed his torch at the box but it didn't look worth shit as it was just stupid log. But for Hillary it wasn't she felt deep connection with the something sealed inside the box, she can hear whatever is inside this box is whispering her name. Slowly Hillary takes her steps forward and walks towards the centre of hall, as she picks up the box she can feel a desperate urge to tear this box apart to and realise what's sealed inside but she has no idea how she can free the spirit from the inside. Hillary bit her lips frustration as nothing good has ever happened to her, even now her situation is just as bad as it was before. There's no place for her to call home and now living like trapped mice in this hell hole, Its better if she dies instead.
Negative thoughts and emotions start to take deep roots inside her heart and soul as think of all the bad things that happened to her, tears of all the pain she went through falls from her eyes. As she bit her lips with growing hatred, her teeth sank into her lips and blood started coming out of the wound as her lips turned red with her blood. The blood began to flow down from her lips to chin and formed a droplet as it dropped on the wooden log, but instead of staining the surface her blood got absorbed inside.
Everyone felt the sudden drop in room temperature but they didn't know the reason behind the drop in temperature. Slowly a crack started to form on the log surface where her blood dropped and cracked started to spread around and opened the box. Due to silence in the room everyone heard the sound of log cracking, Carlo saw Hillary holding the opened box. He runs towards her and snatches the box from her hands to take a look at what treasure is being hidden inside.
"Back off bitch, get the fuck out of here."
But to his disappointment it's just newly carved out human skull with weird bulge like horn on right side of the skull, he turned the skull around to see if there's anything worth selling or increased the price of this skull but it just looked like another junk if it was old skull that have been caught someone attention as it would be linked to some historic figure but but skull seems to be new and white as it look neat and clean, probably someone made this skull recently and left it here. He will sell skull along with everything to increase the price of overall things in the collection.
Carlo dropped the skull on the floor to look for the other objects but just as he took a few steps the torch light in his hand started flickering as if it's about to run out of the battery, Carlo hit the torch a few times in hands to make the torch stop flickering. While Hillary gets on her knees as she carefully holds the skull with both hands covered in her blood as she raises the skull to her face and brings the skull to her face and she gently kiss the skull.
As her lips touch the skull teeth, the old skull starts to appear vibrant with life as it slowly starts to seep inside Hillary skull. Within a few seconds the whole skull disappears inside her face, Hillary looks at her empty hands covered in her blood. Blood on her left hand starts to gather around in her palm as it slowly starts to take shape of scarlet rose petals and make a whole bloody and beautiful enchanting rose flower as it sinks inside her palm and appears like a real full of life rose.
While on her right hand blood gathered around her right hand palm and starts rotting as red blood cells started to die and then turned dark red and lost all the signs of life and starts decaying. Turning into a layer of dead blood cells but soon the layer starts to shake as something about to come out of her dead blood layers like something is about to be born again and breaking through the egg shell to regain its freedom. But a few seconds later it stops moving completely as if it died from lack of nourishment the little life is supposed to get from its mother.
"No…no…no…no…" Hillary slowly started to murmur under her breath as she stared at right palm looking lifeless. Slowly others start to notice her odd behaviour as they can hear the low humming like sound. James turned his head around to look at Hillary sitting alone in the centre of the hall, he looked around to see if anyone else was also paying attention to her or not but most of them already noticed. As his gaze fell upon Yui, she also looked back at him and they both understood each other's worries. As they witness such odd behaviour in darkness before in underground. Both Yui and James looked at the stairs where the rest of the girls were but they were nowhere to be found.
As soon as the temperature dropped inside the hall they slowly and softly ran out of the stairs and they started running up where they first came from. Even if that turned out to be a dead end it would still be better than what is about to come as they still vividly remember the bubble eye monster. As they leave the hidden room quickly in a desperate struggle for life, they fail to notice a shadowy figure standing beside the painting.
Hillary starts crying out loud in pain as her whole head hurts as the skull from the log starts to merge with her own skull. Everyone had their eyes fixed on her as they watched her clutching her head and pain, blood started seeping out from her orifice. Most of them have no clue what's happening to her, even if they do they couldn't stop it. Hillary slowly gets up on her feet even though she's in the hellish pain, she slowly walks towards Carlo just standing a few feet away from her arms reach.
"Stay where you are bitch, if you move even more one step forwards I'll fucking making make hole in your god damn empty brain." Carlo curses out loud as he threatens to kill her with the bullet but to Hillary the whole world has turned silent only burning pain remains the only thing that she can feel. It won't let die or won't let her live, she must find the solution to end this miserable state of her body.
Bang!!!
Carlo didn't hesitate as he took out his gun and shot Hillary in the face, she fell to the ground drop dead. Carlo looked at the face of Hillary, he aimed for her forehead but he missed it for a few inches and shot her in the eye. Her right eye looks like a burst cherry smashed together in one hole, as he looks at her face and spit on her face as disgust and loathing emotions took over his heart.
"The fuck you are all looking at better to do what you are all been told. Your fate would be the same as this little bitch, if you don't listen to my words better drop your cookie hero attitude out of your mind." Carlo said as he pointed his gun at Hillary's corpse and meant these words to everyone but his main focus was on James, as he stared him dead in the eyes.