CHAPTER 20: Necklace in the Jar of Eyes

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This place is giving me chills. People are either looking at us like we are raw food and some kids we passed by are playing splashes in a pool of blood coming from butchered animals, namely pigs. Seriously, are this people cannibals?

"Can you please stop looking like you are about to puke, it's contagious.." Fabian murmured beside me. I can't stop feeling like I'm about to puke though, it's disgusting here.

"I can't, it's disgusting here.." I replied to him while covering my mouth and nose with a handkerchief.

"Then don't be so obvious about it. " he whispered back while rolling his eyes.

"I'll try. " I answered weakly. I feel like my stomach is doing flip flops, in a bad way, right now.

"These people are eating us alive by the way their eyes look at us.." Sergio murmured in my back. I agree, one hundred percent.

After half an hour of walking, someone approached us.

"Are you all new here?" A man asked while smiling maniacally. His teeth are all golden yellow and coated with what seems like cavities. I slightly grimaced for I am disgusted by his appearance. What part of the kingdom are we, exactly?

I looked at Fabian who is not wearing his typical pirate suit, instead, he is wearing a plain black shirt and a black denim jacket on top and a faded black jeans. If you haven't guessed, we disguised ourselves as ordinary people so that everyone will not suspect us.

"Yes.." is Fabian's only answer to the disgusting man.

"Do you need help for anything?" The disgusting man yet again asked. He looked at me with his predatory gaze and I hid myself behind Fabian's back. I looked at Fabian's crew who are looking at the disgusting man with narrowed eyes and sighed.

"No, we are fine by ourselves.." Fabian answered to the disgusting man whose smile faltered, his expression completely changed. Fabian and the rest of the crew payed no attention to it and made our way pass the disgusting man.

We didn't glance back at the disgusting man as we pass over him. We continued walking around the kingdom until noon. When we felt the tiredness of our limbs and muscles from walking, we decided to stay in an old cabin we come to cross, near the forest entrance.

Upon entering the old cabin, we saw jars that contains some weird things and artifacts, one of which is a jar that contains eye balls but what caught my attention about the jar is the one necklace I need to have, sitting beneath the slimy, disgusting eye balls. I don't know why I always find the necklaces without exact directions but, I'm probably lucky these necklaces are not so hard to find.

I went to the direction of the jar but was immediately stopped when I heard a feminine yet eerie voice.

"What are you doing here in my cabin?" the woman asked. I looked at her and my eyes immediately widened. This woman is a witch, how did I not notice it from the time we entered this place?

Fabian and I looked at each other, both of us have the same expression. Fabian's crew made way for the witch who immediately approached me with narrowed and suspecting gaze.

When she finally was in front of me, she was so near me that the space between us is almost zero, she sniffed me and examined me for a second.

"There's something about you that makes my blood boil, but I can't point it exactly.." she said with her eerie voice. Well, she is also making my blood boil right now even without her doing anything that can trigger my irritation.

Must be that the enemy instinct is kicking.

"What are you doing here?" She asked me while still looking at me suspiciousy.

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