Welcome To The Nightmare (Book 2)

Chapter 38: Ground Zero

Dreamcatcher stood in silence, looking at each other. What Calintz said to them just now really got them hard. He was right after all; for what they've done to those three men, they were no better than them. They thought they had won the battle, but in reality, they were losing the war. They were losing their identities, their codes, and their humanity in the process.

"What have we done?" Yoohyeon's voice cracked in disappointment, disappointed at herself. She grabbed onto Siyeon's hand tight, only to be returned in the same manner by Siyeon. The question broke the deafening silence in the room, snapping all the others back to reality.

SuA walked towards JiU and hugged her tightly, keeping on apologizing to her. JiU's sobbing grew wilder, which made SuA's tears fell heavy on top of JiU's head. All of them understood the meaning behind JiU's tears.

It was not the tears of sadness, but of frustration and confusion. They were all feeling it too. When they looked at themselves in the mirrors, they couldn't recognize the faces at the other side of the mirrors. They were the faces of monsters, bloodthirsty monsters.

"Just kill us.... End this... I beg... you.... Please... No.... more..." Eins cried to them, begging for his hell to end.

"You won, you got what you want. Please, kill us!!" Now it was Zwei's turn to beg. Drei nodded slowly, for all of their life forces were already drained by all the non-stop torturing that they had to endure for the past days.

"If you had even a shred of humanity behind that monstrous entity of yours, please grant us death. We're sorry... Sorry... For whatever we've done. Please..." Eins begged, crying like a child.

Oh, how the mighty has fallen! The notorious trio. The so-called Devil's Right Hands. The ones that were terrorizing the world, begging and crying on their knees. Begging for their suffering to end.

JiU became irritated by their begging and sobbing, raised her hand and shot lightning bolts at them. Her action startled all of her teammates as the trio were shocked, screaming as the current circulating their bodies and ending their pathetic lives.

"Like I fucking care...." JiU cursed under her breath, glaring at the burning bodies in front of her.

They watched in silence, looking as the men shocked to their deaths. Smokes came up from the burning bodies, blackened like charcoal. JiU got what she wanted; revenge. But at the price of her soul. Along with her? The souls of her sisters.

"Sorry...." JiU whispered, just enough that all of them heard it.

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JiU, SuA, and Dami were in the woods, burying the bodies while the rest of them worked on cleaning the safehouse. When they exited the room, everyone has already left, leaving only Gahyeon sitting on the floor.

"Where is everyone?" Siyeon asked Gahyeon.

"They left." Gahyeon answered short.

"Did they say anything?" SuA asked again. They must be so disappointed with the Dreamcatcher for what they had done, leaving them behind upon arriving.

"No. But the silver haired ahjumma asked me to give unnie this." Gahyeon replied, giving JiU a letter.

JiU reached for the letter and opened it. Upon reading the content she burst into tears again, fell on the floor and clutching the letter close to her chest. Startled, SuA held JiU tight, gently pulling the letter from her hand.

"Whenever you're stumbled, lost in the dark, go back to the origin. Hope, is never lost. See you at Christmas.

Love, Appa."