May Be Foul...But yet to be passionate.

Chapter Eight

Espresso traveled his way back to the two pathways he came from earlier, he was glad to know Seaweed was alright. He then looked at the other pathway, which seemed like...Darkness Grand Duke wasn't at the Choco Mud Town pathway. But he was definitely watching...somehow. Espresso then sighed, looks like he'll have to take the other pathway. Oh well, he bets the other places of the lower city had been covered in dark theme decorations. Espresso then begins to walk to the other pathway.

As he walked, the feeling of being watched...was now gone. So Darkness Grand Duke wasn't watching him anymore, or should he say stalking. Espresso then sighed, Darkness Grand Duke, somehow...the name was now more intimidating than it was before. Espresso then begins to think about the mysterious cookie,  maybe it was Darkness Grand Duke who killed all those cookies...Espresso then remembered the dragon head that was attached to the tether and the holes the corpse had in their bodies as if they were eaten alive. Maybe that was the cause...Those dragon heads...could have something to do with it.

Espresso then took a look at his surroundings, "As expected, even these places changed.." Espresso thought and saw how there were more dark followers in this area, "Though, there are a lot more dark followers than I thought there were..." He continued walking through the pathway until he stopped at two alleyways.

That's when he blinked confused, "I don't remember there being TWO alleyways here..." Espresso frowned as he looked at the pathway that he thought was new, "...Maybe I forgot...after all, I do have a bad memory... it's been long since I've been here..." Espresso sighed. Espresso decided to take the alleyway he knew instead of the other one that he didn't know. As he left, two dark followers watched him.

"He's taking the wrong way..." One of the dark followers spoke.

"Darkness Grand Duke will get impatient..." The other dark follower responded, " I don't want to die..."

"Darkness Grand Duke commanded us to help him if he's getting lost." the first dark follower reminded.

"You do that" The second dark follower spoke, "I'll be telling him..." They then left their teammate all alone.

The dark follower sighed, they didn't care. Because they rather felt better when not being in presence of the dark lord, had Darkness Grand Duke be so terrifying. That other dark follower does not know what they're putting themselves into when going to speak with the lord. The dark follower then began to follow Espresso to catch up to him.

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Espresso walked around the pathway as he stared at the old apartments that were still standing, the town also went through a dramatic change, along with the dark followers being added on. He then noticed some orphanage kids sitting on the floor playing with sticks, then a small smile crept on his face. He remembered how he used to play around here with Latte and Seaweed...Had those days been the best... Espresso then continued walking, the dark followers around here were not doing anything that caused harm down here.

 Suddenly a tap was felt on his shoulder making him immediately jolt and turn around to glare at the one who dared to scare him like that. It was one of those dark followers, "Pst..." The cookie whispered, "Follow me..." 

Espresso scoffed, the audacity of this cookie! They can't just go around scaring the sh*t out of people and then ask them to follow them! "...And why should I ?" Espresso asked as he continued glaring at the cookie and summoned a coffee bean in case of an attack.