Smiling Killing |Inspired By KILLING STALKING|

|Nineteen|

"Is he still bleeding?" Ah Rin asked me as I ripped off the medical tape with my teeth, before I tied it around his arm.

"It's clotted now" I told her as I unraveled the bandage and tied it around Do-Yoon's arm. "The bullet is still inside, but I'll be able to dig it out when we get back. He should be fine for the time being."

The hum of the car was soothing almost, but other than that, and Do-Yoon's whimpers, we were silent.

"Min-Hyo" Death then said as he was the one driving, his face hardened with a seriousness which he never usually had. "Don't stress."

"Why would I be stressing?" I snapped.

"You just proved his point by your tone" Ah Rin said as she cradled Eu in her lap.

"How about him? How is he?" I then asked her, gesturing to him with my head.

She sat beside me, close to the window with her shoulders hunched. She was covered in blood from him, smudged onto her vest and shirt. She had ditched her mask - as had I and Do-Yoon - and now stared down at Eu with a slight look of anger, and a slight look of worry.

I had taken off my shirt and vest, giving the shirt to the unconscious Eu as he was naked and had nothing to wear. I tried not to think about what happened to him, but I couldn't not think about what it could of been.

"What do you think happened...?" I finally asked softly, Do-Yoon groaning as he shifted beside me.

"I can guess" Death said as we drove along the empty, thin road, lush forest and woods flashing past us in a blur of green and brown. "Some of those bruises being in the places that they are..." he was silent for a moment before he murmured softly. "I think Gluttony r--"

"Don't say it" she growled. "Just don't Aeshi..."

I bristled as she called him by his name - his alias name. But I ignored it and rolled my shoulders. "Don't try to wade around this, Rini."

"I'm not" she then said calmly. "But..." she held Eu tighter. "Look at him...just look..."

Cat ears sown onto his head, then merged together with the skin by burning. A tail that curled up, laying on his lap, his mouth hanging open as his head laid back against Ah Rin, his breathing shallow and soft. But what really caught my eye was the teeth that had been carved and sharpened into sharp looking fangs. He was covered in bruises, some around his neck, his ankles and wrists, and some thick ones on his thighs and such. Dried blood stains on his lips, chin, and lathering his hands. Already starting to crust and flake.

"I don't care who it is" she said softly, her shoulders stiffening. "I won't allow someone to be...raped...-" her breathing shuddered "-like that. I won't. I would of killed Gluttienhiv if Eu hadn't..." her words fell dead, and she leaned her head against the window and was still.

"This isn't good, you know" Death then said with a slight sigh. "Gluttienhiv is dead, and Jong-Eun basically kicked you out. Everyone will be talking about that. And you already had some eyes on you."

Death had been hired to spy on Ah Rin. Usually, I would worry that he was double crossing us, but Ah Rin wholeheartedly trusted him, and it seemed that he cared more for Ah Rin then I once thought. I knew they had been childhood friends, but to muster such trust...? Something must of happened between them, something that I, of course, didn't know.

"Akumu..." Do-Yoon then murmured, sitting up more. He gritted his teeth, gripping his arm where the bandage was wrapped. Blood already had started to leak through, but that was normal. He looked around, blinking before he gulped. "A-Akumu...I-is he okay...?"