Chapter 41: Teeth (End)
Everly had come to find Rebecca.
Though she was young, Everly believed she had already weathered quite a few storms. But an experience like the recent “teeth incident” was a first for her. Because of hypnosis or some other unknown cause, she had clearly sensed danger—yet even that very sense of foreboding had been erased. As if brainwashed, she had thrown herself wholeheartedly into a morbid obsession with teeth and nearly lost her life in the process.
The experience filled Everly with a powerful sense of crisis.
It turned out that in the world of horror films, danger did not only come from physical threats—it could also strike on a mental level. And quite obviously, the latter was far more insidious and far more dangerous than the former.
After the cockroach incident, Everly had been training under Old John’s guidance. While improving her combat abilities, she had also been studying various survival skills and knowledge, successfully avoiding several crises as a result. That had made her somewhat complacent. After all, given her current condition, she figured she could probably dodge or overcome most physical dangers with enough effort. But only after this incident erupted did she suddenly realize that she had absolutely no resistance to attacks targeting the mind.
This couldn’t continue. She needed to consult someone knowledgeable.
Everly thought that since the dried toad that saved her had been given by Rebecca, there was no need to trouble a second person over the same matter. The most convenient consultant right now was naturally the mysterious fortune teller herself.
Thinking of Rebecca, Everly felt a twinge of regret. Because of Rebecca’s appearance and her school, Everly had looked down on her somewhat at the time. So before they parted, she had insisted on not exchanging contact information. If they had traded phone numbers back then, she wouldn’t now be trudging around the enormous campus with Old John, asking everyone they ran into whether they knew a female fortune teller with a wolf-tail haircut.
After asking around for quite some time, no one seemed to recognize Rebecca when described as “a wolf-tail-haired fortune teller.” But once Everly changed the description to “a Latina with two very prominent canine teeth,” someone quickly reacted and pointed the grandfather and granddaughter in the right direction.