The Art of Death Vol I

Chapter 42 (Naomi)

I woke up the next day to the sound of Autumn's lovely voice. I got up looking around to see the other people that slept here getting up. I had no plan yet. I wish I did. I needed to plot it out carefully. I had to see Autumn's weaknesses. I had no idea what being part of this group meant. Well, I guess I was bound to figure it out. I looked at Autumn, and she eyed me back, with an evil grin. I didn't know what her problem was with me. Surely I would figure that out too, later on. I went up to her, I had to ask what we were doing.

"Autumn?" I questioned. She just looked up at me and stared me down for a second, like I was committing a sin by talking to her.

"What Naomi?" She replied. 

"What are we doing today?" I asked. 

"We are going to have a group go in town, led by Rain," She explained. Led by rain? Was she sure about that? Was she really sure we had to go there? We were completely defenseless, thanks to her.

"Why?" I questioned. She looked at me and scowled at me, then sighed.

"We are missing a member, his names Kevin, he is 53 years old. He has a small white bears, blue eyes," She articulated. Then I realized... That man I saw yesterday... Was the one that got torn apart by the Beasts. I was sure of it. The description matched. I wished I saved the man; but there were too many of them. Compared to Rain, there wasn't and I easily picked them off. What bothered me most though, and I thought of this last night. Why wasn't Rain bothered by me killing the Beasts? Did she realize that we needed to fight? Was she thankful enough with me saving her that it didn't matter at the time that I killed them right in front of her innocent eyes? I had no choice. I had a conscience. I couldn't let a fellow human die, or possibly become one of those things. I didn't know for sure, but it didn't bother me at all, since no one even mentioned it. 

"Oh..." I replied. That's the only thing I could say. I didn't want to tell her he had gotten picked apart by Beasts. If I told her, what would she do to me? I really didn't want to get on her bad side today. In fact, I didn't want to at all. I don't think Rain knew either. I couldn't tell them, not  now. Rain was so innocent, she didn't need to be upset over it.

"You want to go?" She asked me. What? Me go with them out there while being completely and utterly defenseless? Was she fucking crazy? I couldn't. I didn't want to be eaten alive today, or at all for that matter.

"I don't know if I should," I replied, trying to be as nice as possible with declining her offer. She looked at me and gave me another weird scowl. Truth was, I hated this bitch. I really did. I didn't know what Rain saw in her. Rain could've done so much better. Then again, I wasn't into girls so I didn't know, nor did it matter that much to me. 

"Well either that or... You clean the entire prison," She told me. Well with that, I could find ways out that would be undetectable to her, then again, if I still rejected it, I would be on Autumn's bad side. So I had to decide. 

"Well.. I guess I will clean the prison then, sorry, I'm not ready yet," I told her. 

"Well, follow me to my office," She instructed me, and I did so. 

I followed her to the office under the long dark hall. While passing by the familiar jail Oliver was in. Good, so he wasn't that far from me like I thought. She gave me supplies to clean with and I was on my way. I really despised cleaning. I wasn't anyone's made. Especially Autumn's. Thing is, what is the point of it? Especially in today's world? We had more things to worry about than cleaning. Maybe the reason why I hated it so much was because of my dad. Always telling me to do this, do that, and I didn't understand why. In Japan, it is still custom to clean for guests, which I didn't also understand because we never had guests. We had to go to school, which was fair. We only ever learned the necessities. Like how to patch a wound up, or how to use a gun, or melee weapons. They did offer one class, that I took that wasn't needed. It was a type of Parkour Training Class. Which I was actually good at. I wasn't as good at cleaning, but my dad never punished me. 

Autumn instructed me to mop the entire building, which was fair I guess. Gave me time to figure out the entire layout. I started mopping towards the way Oliver is. She told me the entire building, right? So I figured I had to mop up inside there, too.