Chapter 4: Laundry day

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November 27th, 2019. 6 AM (GMT+7 time zone, Southeast Asia).

"Phew! Too heavy~~~!!! It must have weighted a ton

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"Phew! Too heavy~~~!!! It must have weighted a ton." Can carried a basket full of his own smelly clothes to the washing machine.

The weight of the basket was only 5 kilograms of laundry: soccer shorts and T-shirts, shirts, trousers, undergarments, towels, socks...

"Tin..." Can slightly pouted, his mind flashed with images of Tin touching his lips with his own.

Had it not been for Tin kissing him, Can's face would had been whiny the whole morning before. Yet he was still whiny this morning because of hunger.

"Time to cook some instant noodles then." Can thought.

After putting his laundry in the washer along with pouring softener and liquid detergent into the specialized hatch, Can turned the machine on and walked away from it.

"Vroom, vroom, v-v-v-vroom~~~!!!" The machine went on with a great deal of noise like a whirlpool.

As Can went to the kitchen, he reached the fridge and took out some eggs to make omelette. His omelette was mixed with cheese, Korean kimchi and Japanese miso paste. It was indeed a weird food combination, yet it was tasty.

"Hungry... ooh..." Can whined again, like a little puppy.

When Tin arrived to the dining table, he saw Can sitting on it with the strange omelette.

"Just let me try some." Tin dashed towards the table and hugged Can tight.

Can was very puzzled, and got even more puzzled with Tin kissing his cheek.

"Goodness, I can't breathe." Can thought.

At somewhere in Zon's house, Zon's little sister, whose name was Sol, wrote cryptic phrases on the internet. Below were those strange phrases:

"From a washing machine and two corrupted Judas Coins, Alexander Iscariot created a Super Iscariot Monster called Scylla-Charybdis. It was a monster with a washing machine on its upper torso, from whose hatch a powerful blast of whirlpool came out and knocked down anything it met on its path. This washing machine could swallow up almost every inanimate thing thrown at it like a vacuum cleaner, even bullets and grenades, before vomiting them out with a destructive burp from the hatch of the same machine. Scylla-Charybdis' head was actually a big sea anemone, and its arms and legs were covered in smooth black skin. There were coral polyps and sea anemones on parts of its shoulder, and small slimy tentacles were sticking out from the hatch of the washing machine on its body. Aside from its washing machine, the monster could spew foam at its opponents, which came from the sea anemone mouth on its head. The foams varied from corrosive, incendiary, explosive, bleaching and sticky."

"The man handed his red fountain pen to Alexander, who looked at it thoroughly without moving his eye out from it. Without speaking, Alexander took out a corrupted Judas Coin from his trouser pocket and infused into the man's fountain pen. In no time, the pen transformed into a female monster with long black hair covering her pale face clad in a red blouse and a red skirt. She had long red fingernails with sharp pen points on them, and her black staring eyes were cold."

"A Judas Coin fused with a long black wig on a mannequin at a hairdresser's and turned it into an Iscariot Monster named Medusa, a female snake monster clad in a businesswoman outfit. She had venomous snakes for hair, which could be removed and thrown like a wig. She had an ability to turn anything she looked at into stone, though she very rarely used it. Her most well-known special ability, however, was hypnotism. If she wanted to take control of someone, she would read the person's mind and give him a Faustian Bargain, a contract in which she would do to benefit the person who signed the contract, while the person would trade his soul to her and submit to her hypnotism. In that way, Medusa could manipulate her victims with dark magic and slowly drain their life force. Shortly after her creation, Medusa had 666 people signed her Faustian Bargains to keep them under her influence. Most of her victims were young students wishing to pass their upcoming exams and overcome their personal problems, bankrupt people wishing to be more prosperous in their businesses, depressed and desperate people needing assistance in their lives. All of them received support from Medusa one day after signing Faustian Bargains with her and had their wishes fulfilled. But about a week or so, they were enchanted with the spell inside the Bargains, making them act in an irrational way. The victim would hear noises and see images that were not there, and suffered from delusions and mental disorders, until they were completely demented and eventually died of madness."

"Before the young people could run out from the graveyard, the earth under their feet shook violently and the grave with a red 666 mark burst open. A black vortex came out from the grave and tossed numerous black coin-like objects covered in some sort of dark aura to the four winds. The coins flew as they dropped dark aura onto the ground, from which spawned green-skinned brutish creatures clad in armor with bows and arrows, hatchets and short swords in their hands. The creatures were named Iscariorcs, lesser demons serving under the Iscariot Army Corps since its establishment in 36 AD. Each of the Iscariorcs' bows was black with outer design like a bat's wing and had blades mounted outside the bows for close-ranged combats, and they shot energy arrows capable of explosion and piercing flesh. Each of the Iscariorcs' axes had a black handle with a single sharp axe blade on it, and was lightweight in design that they could be held in pairs or thrown as a missile weapon. Each of the Iscariorcs' swords was composed of two sharp edges on the sides of a thick straight blade with a curved point and a black cross-shaped hand guard on a black grip. The black coins were called Judas Coins, and they had one side printed with an image of a bat, the other with the face of Judas Iscariot. A Judas Coin descended onto a chainsaw left by a lumberjack outside his truck, and turned it into an Iscariot Monster named Gremlin, a slender green reptilian monster with large pointed ears, a mouth with sharp teeth forming a sinister grin and gauntlets shaped like chainsaws."

"A corrupted Judas Coin fused with a fire extinguisher and turned it into an Iscariot Monster named Nessie, a long-necked navy blue plesiosaur monster dressed in a fireman uniform with extinguisher hoses dangling from below his back, a red fire extinguisher from his back that could act like an artillery firing out freezing shells and a tough helmet. It could breathe out ice and blast ice from its palms, and was an aquatic monster with immense strength."

While Zon's sister was writing, the sky suddenly erupted with a loud bang. It could be she mishearing the closing of the door with a thunderstorm, or it could be her imagination running wild. She didn't know if she had recently taken a change of taste in composing Y-novels or she was just ran out of ideas and just typed randomly like a brainless robot. Zon had a passion of sci-fi novels and was keen with writing such those. However, his novels had less views than his sister's. Perhaps Zon's writing style was dull and uninteresting, or perhaps Zon's novels were not earning much interest among readers.

"Phew, this was close." Sol sighed.

Zon was correct to know that Sol's Y-novels were attracting BL fans. He himself wouldn't imagine her sudden change of taste. Perhaps she took a more extreme taste in which the top boy and the bottom boy who were in love with each other would be facing otherworldly entities acting as the antagonists. So when Sol left her room to have breakfast, Zon sneaked into her room and looked at her computer screen. He noticed that she was writing something very strange and unusual. But he didn't make a fuss with that.

At 10 AM (GMT+7 time zone, Southeast Asia), everything was still peaceful. There was no sign of turbulence.

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