A few moments later…
Rivan slowly opened his eyes. In front of him was a dark, empty room with only a small bulb hanging from the ceiling.
As soon as his vision cleared a little, he quickly looked around. He was tied to a chair.
He started shaking the chair violently, trying to break free, when a voice suddenly came from right behind him.
“Hey, idiot… don’t start an earthquake the moment you wake up!”
Rivan slightly tilted his head back, and his head bumped into someone else's.
“Hey… I told you to sit straight!” Milo said irritably. He was tied to another chair that was connected to Rivan’s chair.
The two chairs were built together, attached to each other.
Rivan immediately said, “Babydoll… I mean… Ira… where is she?!”
Milo replied, “I don’t know. My eyes opened only a little while ago too, and all I saw was this empty room.”
Hearing that, Rivan started struggling again, shaking his hands and legs, trying to break the ropes.
“We need to get out of here as soon as possible and find Babydoll and Anamika!”
“Hey! You brainless human! I told you not to move the chair. Why do you keep shaking it again and again?!” Milo snapped.
Rivan replied angrily, “We have to get out of here! Do you want to stay here or what?!”
Milo took a deep breath and said calmly, “I have no intention of staying here and turning my living body into a corpse. But no matter how much we try, we can’t escape from here.”
“Why?!” Rivan asked.
“Because I can smell it… Mr. Lucifer’s perfume. Mr. Lucifer is standing right outside this room right now. We won’t be able to fool him. And…” Milo looked around the room, “…I don’t see any other way out except the main door.”
Rivan said in frustration, “So you’re saying we shouldn’t even try?!”
“You’re very impatient. I’m not saying we should give up… I’m just stopping you from rushing blindly. We need to calm down and think of a strategy.”
Rivan was extremely annoyed, but he had no choice except to listen to him.
In the room right next to them
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Because the rooms were soundproof, neither of them had any idea that they were in rooms right next to each other.
Ira and Anamika weren’t tied up.
Ira kept banging loudly on the door and shouting, “Open it! Hey… open it! I said open the door!”
Outside the room, everything seemed completely quiet to Mr. Lucifer, because Ira’s small fists weren’t even able to shake the heavy metal door.
Meanwhile, Anamika was sitting quietly in a corner.
Her eyes were lowered, and she was curled into herself.
In a soft voice, she said, “I’m… sorry. I’m sorry for coming into your lives.”
Ira’s hands stopped.
Without even looking at Anamika, she puffed her cheeks and said, “Yes, it is your fault… but not because you came into our lives… it’s because you tried to leave our lives!”
After a moment of silence, Ira suddenly shouted like an upset child, “Why are you like this?! Why are you so delicate?! Why?! I want to yell at you so much for leaving us… but now that I see you in front of me, all I want to do is hug you! Ahhh!”
Anamika slowly lifted her gaze.
By then, Ira had already walked up to her like an innocent child. She held Anamika’s hand and rested her head on her shoulder.
“Don’t leave us again, delicate flower. I still have to defeat you in our game… and I still have to read your manga. It’s still incomplete. My brother has been keeping it very carefully…”
Anamika lowered her gaze again sadly. “You shouldn’t have come here… You should have never tried to find me.”
After hearing that, Ira stood up after a few seconds of silence and walked back to the door.
But this time, instead of kicking it, she started pushing it hard while shouting, “You bastard! Open the door! What nonsense have you filled into my delicate flower’s head?! Open the door, you dog!”
Anamika was shocked seeing her like that.
Suddenly, the door opened.
The moment it opened, Anamika quickly stood up and pulled Ira behind her.
Mr. Lucifer took a deep breath and said, “What was going on here? Don’t push the door. It’s made of iron. It won’t break… but your bones might. And if that happens, Mr. Grin Reaper will be very angry. Please stay calm for a while.”
Hearing that, Ira stepped out from behind Anamika and said, “To hell with your calm!”
Anamika quickly covered Ira’s mouth and pulled her behind again, signaling her to stay quiet. Then she turned toward Mr. Lucifer and said, “Please… tell me where the other two boys are.”
“I cannot tell you,” Mr. Lucifer replied coldly.
Anamika said desperately, “I… I’ll talk to Koyo! Please… I’ll accept everything this time. Just tell him to let them go…”
Mr. Lucifer was about to close the door when Anamika suddenly shouted, “Why won’t you help us?! You can help us, can’t you?! Why are you ignoring us like this?! If someone close to you was trapped like this… would you still ignore them?!”
Hearing this, Mr. Lucifer looked at her and said calmly, “One of those two boys… perhaps you don’t know him, Miss Anamika… but that child has been chosen as the successor of Mr. Grin Reaper. And he is my grandson.”
He continued, “I am loyal to my duty. And for that duty… I can ignore anyone.”
Anamika fell silent.
Meanwhile, Ira slowly peeked out from behind her as the door was closing.
Her mouth hung open as she said, “So Milo is his grandson?! What the hell… what kind of grandfather is he?!”
Anamika looked extremely worried.
She grabbed Ira’s hand tightly and said, “At least this time… while I’m still alive… I don’t want anything to happen to you all. But… how…?”
Her hands were trembling.
Seeing that, Ira hugged her and said, “Don’t worry. My brother will fix everything.”
MeanwhileThe room was dark.
As soon as they stepped inside, a voice echoed through the darkness. “So… you finally came. I should be happy to meet you… but strangely, I’m not.”
“Come out!” Aditya’s voice echoed through the room.
In the faint light, something white glimmered.
As it stepped closer, they could clearly see a man standing there wearing a white smiling mask.
The mask had a large crack on it.
Removing the mask, Koyo said, “Finally… I’m standing in front of you… Aditya. I am the Grin Reaper… or you can simply call me Koyo.”
Aditya clenched his fists.
Aniket quickly held his arm, signaling him to stay calm.
Koyo noticed it immediately and chuckled quietly.“Oh? Already angry?” he said.
“That’s disappointing. I was hoping for something more… entertaining.”
His eyes shifted between Aditya and Aniket.
“You came here for them, didn’t you?” he continued. “The little spies who thought they could sneak into my home.”
He paused for a moment. “Ah… but that’s not all.”
A slow smile spread across his face. “You want Anamika too.”
The room fell .
Koyo leaned slightly forward. “But tell me something… (His voice dropped lower.) If I simply handed them back to you… just like that…” He smiled again. “…wouldn’t that be terribly unfair?”
Then he spread his hands slightly.
“Tonight… I feel like playing a game. (His eyes darkened.) “A death game.”
He looked straight at Aditya.
“So tell me… Are you willing to gamble their lives?”
