INTOXICATED | Illumi Zoldyck

04

DOLL

...

My thoughts wandered as I heard the sounds of water dripping down from the shower in the bathroom.

Illumi was right.

Jack wasn't the first patient that I killed.

It's just that this was the very first time that I got caught red-handed.

There was a witness and the one who my parents are trying to silence by giving her a huge sum of money. They can't just go around killing the witness, because that would just raise suspicion even more.

It was a normal, sunny day... I was tasked to check the patient's IV Flow and things escalated quickly. Jack grabbed me by the wrist and cupped my womanhood, which had me taken aback, and immediately killed him on the spot. My body already reacted before my mind could catch up with what has just happened before I could even think of anything like my action's consequences and everything.

It was the time that my mind just went blank, and my body acted on its own... and just when my brain finally registered the images of what I have done, someone has already walked in, letting out a very loud scream as a higanbana bloomed at Jack's hands, which I already had cut off.

That someone was one of my student interns.

The witness.

I sighed.

"It's not like it's my fault he was a perverted animal," I whispered, convincing myself that anything that happened on that day wasn't my fault.

He just got what he deserved.

I lay on the bed and buried myself deep under the comforter as I closed my eyes, forcing the voices inside my head to go away as I drifted to a deep slumber.

Tomorrow, I'll forget about this... as always.

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I jolted up when my alarm rang.

"Jesus Christ. I thought it was a code blue!" I palmed my forehead, wiping away the sweat that was about to form.

"Code blue in the morning? It's 6 AM, doll," I heard Illumi's voice next to me.

"You don't know how it is to work at a hospital. Many people die because of you," I uttered, turning off the alarm as I crawled back to bed. Only then did I notice that this giant slept next to me!

"Tch,"

"What?"

"Nothing," I brushed it off. "... just stop calling me a doll,"

"No,"

"Alright then. I'll call you giant," I puffed up the pillow and turned my head so I can face him.

He was leaning against his arms, his biceps visible and his muscles are saying hello to my view.

Illumi cocks an eyebrow in an amusing manner as he scoffs, "Do I look like a giant to you?"

I nodded.

"Doll, you're just 10cm shorter than me. How does that make me a giant?" he asked again, but I just gave him an I-don't-know-either look as a response.