DEADLY SEVEN

DEADLY SEVEN - .TWELVE.

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.TWELVE.

JUST BEFORE THE RAIN STARTS, Galileo picked up the small pup, who whimpered in response, and calmly walked down the steps from the rooftop to their dormitory room while the pup rests on his chest.

As the corgi looked up from his master, he couldn't help but shiver from seeing his owner's eyes. They were purely white; no sign from the usual green-grass color or any life, and definetly shows no passion; nothing like his usual self.

The walking boy's head was staring intensly straight in front. Galileo creeped the pup when he looked down at him without emotion. The corgi whimpered in fear even more.

Once inside their dorm, it was obvious that nobody was home since Benedict's cheerful voice wasn't present. Like a robot, Galileo gently lay down the pup and he went up stairs to his room.

For the first time, the little red-furball was so glad that he was away from him. The white-eyed Galileo scared him.

As soon as he was alone in his room, Galileo started for his study table and sat down on a chair. He shrugged off his running bag, opened it before turning it upside down, spilling the contents on the table until a pencil and the sketchbook made a thud on the wooden desk.

He immediately took the pencil and opened the sketchbook; his white eyes are making his face form an emotionless expression. He started sketching a scene he was seeing. His face was so focused and determined to finish his art that even his hands were starting to tremble in excitement and rush as if the teacher had announced, "Finish or not, pass your papers."

As the soft scribbling sound continues, a sketch started to finally appear: he had drawn a dark and wet cavern with two people talking inside it; both were sitting on a rock, but only one was talking as the other listens intently. Galileo added some broken lines outside the cave as if it was raining.

After finishing some details, he started to shade the areas that needed some emphasizing without even making a mistake each stroke.

Once done, he paused for a while before flipping the paper to the next page and started to draw another sketch of a different scene he was seeing in the other world.

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Henryk told his story as short and as fast-paced as possible, despite his efforts to convince his guest to stay since he was expecting that he might end up explaining a longer story, but it turns out that Galileo was a fast learner. Besides, it was not for him to tell everything.

As much as possible, Galileo was fighting the urge to ask questions because it might ruin Henryk's flow of storytelling. So with all his might, he stayed quiet and patiently waited for the story to end; trying hard to put the jigsaw pieces all together.

Following his tale from Lucifer's eternal imprisonment, Henryk then told Galileo of the tales of his late father, Dorion, and other Redeemers before proceeding with the rings. He also told him about the box full of orbs given by the Archangel-his father's first task is to make those orbs into rings and then trap the demons inside them; completely locking them up from mortals before they cause turmoil.

"My father succeeded." He said. "He had trapped all the six spawns of Lucifer into the rings, except for the seventh; who was a hard one-the Devil. The brothers of Lucifer had volunteered to do the final task, and they did successfully. It was my father who kept the chest with the rings in it. The rings were an even worse banishment for the demons than the Inferno itself.

"My father was very careful about the chest, because it was literally a Pandora's Box: once opened, all the evilness in the world will unleash. Yes, the Redeemer had stopped them from causing more destruction, but that didn't mean they couldn't spread temptation.