Chapter 11: Broken
Hajime waited for Rica and Reiko to leave so that he could come out of the bedsheet. His eye, that changed its color before in the woods from crimson to burned yellow, did not go back to its normal color, but Hajime and the others did not notice it.
He sat down on the bed properly and looked at the daggers Reiko had left behind for him. He just stared at them for a few moments and did not lay even a finger on them. He stood up from the bed and moved out of the room.
In the corridor, he saw a somewhat strange crystal which was growing different colors at the same time, but little did he know that the crystal placed in the corridor was there for security and should be active when it detects suspicious activity in the house.
Since he didn’t know that.
He moved towards it, and the moment he was at its range of severance, it cast off a bright light that would have blinded dangerous people or creatures who would attempt to come into the house. But lucky for him, he got blinded by the blinding light only in one eye, and that eye was, of course, his normal colored eye and not the one that turned to burned yellow.
Caught by surprise, he fell, and his heart started racing as if he were about to die. He moved backwards while still on the floor and unable to stand up.
He opened his eyes slowly, but it was like both of his eyes had been completely sealed off by the light. then he started seeing something blurry in front of him, which looked like a door because a little amount of light was coming through it.
In a rush, he approached it to maybe get out of the corridor and go back to the room he was staying in, but once he reached it, he realized that the door was not a door but a window. Even so, he climbed it to get to the other side of the house. The house had eight windows, and of the eight windows, two of them were areas where a person, no matter the age, could reach from both sides.
"I need to get out of here."
He uttered while climbing the window; he did not know that the window he was climbing was one of the tallest windows in his house, and the moment he climbed it, he grabbed a broken piece of wood and fell to the other side, producing a loud, crushing sound.
A man who was passing by heard the noise that was made by Hajime the time he was falling down from the window.