33194 || The Promised Neverland

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3rd Person's POV

    Isabella turn her body away from the table, thinking deeply about how long has it been since she shipped out a mature child? It's been 12 years already and she's ready for the shipment of Ray tomorrow. She cannot make any mistakes, he's the meal to be offered for the Tifari.

Isabella knows that Ray and Emma hasn't made any moves for the past 2 months, losing Norman made a huge impact on them, plus, Gilda and Don hasn't done anything too. There's nothing for them to fight for, give up.

  She grab the lamp on her table and convinced herself to patrol the house, she needs to make sure that nothing will go wrong, she couldn't risk.

"Ray!" A loud scream was heard inside the dining hall, alerting her.

  The smell of smoke invaded her nose, scream of Ray's name became a chain, chanting it with a shaking but loud voice. Something is burning inside the dining hall! Isabella quickly enter the hall, a crying Emma is beside a shaking figure of another girl, Lorraine. Both of them are crying, looking hopeless and devastated.

"Ray! Ray! Ray!" Emma keeps on screaming his name while Lorraine cried silently beside the girl, almost losing oxygen in her lungs as she cry her heart out.

"Emma! Step back!" Isabella yelled as she pull back the orange haired girl, Lorraine followed them, her red eyes are stinging.

"Mom...Mom! Ray is in there! Help him!" Emma cried as she grab a fist of Isabella's dress.

  Isabella's eyes scanned the fire, is this a trap for her? No, the smell of a burning flesh is entering her nose, the way Emma cry and Lorraine, she never saw this child cry like this, she didn't even see her cry after losing her brother. The tracking device! There's a signal coming in front of them, in the fire!

  I can't believe it! It's not a trap or a plan, Ray is in there, burning his own body!

  The mom of the house is in panic as she underestimate Ray, the way he didn't want to die in the hands of the demons, but how about the Tifari!? The shipment tomorrow!? There has to be no mistakes!

The woman quickly went out the dining hall and grab a fire extinguisher, only to see Gilda with a child behind her.

"Gilda!" Isabella yelled in panic.

"Mom!" Replied the green haired girl.

"Take your siblings outside and also the babies in my room!" Mom yelled to her, Gilda nodded her head before dashing off to go out the house with her siblings.

  Isabella, with a fire extinguisher in her arms, went back to Emma and Lorraine in the dining hall. She told them to step back so she can stop the fire, she tried but she failed, the fire is out of her control.

"Emma! Lorraine! Both of you need to stay out of here or else---"

  She stopped calling them out when she turned her body to them, they're not behind her anymore! She quickly grab her tracking device from her pocket, going in the bathroom to catch her children but she only saw nothing, the signal is still there and as she followed it, her eyes became wide with fear. An ear is laying on the tile, she doesn't know who owns the ear but only one thing came in her mind.