Dark Alice in a Dark Wonderland

Hisayo

Halo Twenty-Seven: Hisayo:

She can see that city is changing. A new darkness is on its way. Hisayo has no feelings about it. But she will be an instrument in the game. For now, she watches everything in her current body.

The world has seemed to have forgotten about Molly Dylan. She hasn't been out of her apartment in months. Poor Molly. She looks like a witch of nightmares now. Her clothes were soiled. In fact, she only wore a sheet wrapped around her body. She looked like she had been crying with bag under her eyes. When was the last time she combed her hair? Molly looked so gaunt and thin. It didn't look like she had eaten in months. She could barely stand up anymore. The light would probably hurt her eyes.

Scott's body still lay there in the kitchen. Come to think of it, there was something wrong with the apartment itself. (Okay, there was always something wrong with the apartment since 1987. But this is different.) The whole apartment felt like an icy tomb.

Why hasn't anyone gone to check on the couple? The rent was put on autopay. Scott's business ran itself now. What about friends and family? Surely, someone must have been asking questions by now. They must have.

Well, there might be an explanation for that. We will visit it at a later date.

-Kitano-

I don't kill people when it is not necessary. I did come close one time.

Kubo and I still kept in touch after I quit my job at the hospital. I'm giving I was the only friend he had left. I wasn't sure why. The two of us couldn't have been more different. Still, he didn't annoy me. Our daughters were also friends. Despite the age gap, they made it work. Kubo and I were close but not close at the same time. Still, it was nice to have someone to talk to. Though, I had another motive to stay by him.

Around 2011, Kubo got himself mixed up in a... situation. On a hunch, I called him the summer that Chisa was in grad school.

"Hello?" Kubo asked.

"Hey, Kubo," I said. "How have you been?" There was a pause on the other line. Kubo quietly chuckled to himself.

"Not so good..." he mumbled. I frowned to myself.

"What did you do?" I asked. It took a while but I managed to get the story out of Kubo. I'm going to give you the abridged version. Basically, his brother-in-law got mixed up with some bad people and now owes money. I can already see where this was heading. I could too.

"Kubo!" I said.

"Sorry," he said. I rubbed my forehead. I already knew where this was heading. Might as well cut to the chase.

"Do you need my help?" I asked.

"What?" Kubo asked. "Kitano! I couldn't!" I put up my hand as if he could see me.

"No," I said. "I am going to get you out of this. I told you not to get involved with him."

"What else could I do? It was a huge debt."

"I know, I know." I sighed and rubbed my forehead. I thought he grew out of that habit. I thought that I was going to fix this mess and I would be on my merry way.

This didn't happen this time. No, it would even get worse.

Hisayo and her sister are watching everything. They will be looking for blood soon. That's just how their nature is. However, that isn't the only thing they can see.

They are watching ties being broken.

Kanacchi and Kyo-nee just got through telling Non and Sienna how they helped kill a witch. The honeys not in the cult stared in stunned silence.