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Chapter 8 - VIII - The Contract

The young man had just lived and open his eyes, his eyes were shallow but deeply he is relieved. Beside him was the lady who brought him back to life. She is holding a towel and shoved the mans arm to get rid of the dirty mud. 

"You.. Saved me! Gratias" The man had unexpectedly said a word he never knew before. Was this comes from his unconsiousness, he thought while looking away from the old lady.

"Wait, the bell.. the sound.. what.. happened?" The man had gone conscious and demanding for an answer. He thinks slowly that he is seeeing a miracle but doesn't know where the miracle came from.

"You haven't sleep enough yet. There was thou days where you are asleep and shout at this poor lady. Libenter, young lad." The lady murmurs. With a smile on her cheek, she put his hand on the boy's shoulder, calming and soothing his state of consciousness. The lady then puts a finger on his brow and close his two eye. "I will show you, who saved you."

The man then close his two eyes and see a scenary of plain ground. It was green and broad. There was a girl standing next to a giant rock. She is 50 meters away from the man, a far distance but the man can see her, raising her eyebrow and look at him merciless.

She have a long blonde hair, short nose, and pointed ear. She was tall enough to be seen by him while being short. The man was tall while the girl is short. She have a bell in her right hand and a flute in her left hand. She then getting closer to the man as she walks she plays the instrument she was holding, while the bell she had thrown away to his distance.

The man was petrified by what he was seeing but contemplate of what's happening. The sound of her song is melodical welcoming him to the part of the rhytm her leg walks to. He showed respect to the girl and starts to walk to her way. It was a weird goosebump he had but he carries it while keeping a frown on his face. He then become close enough to her and give her a hand.

"Who are you?" The man questioned the girl. The girl then put the flute in her bag and 

"I am Eir, the bell of sorrow." The girl replied with a smile. She was giving him a goosebump once again. 

"The bell of sorrow?" With no fear attached, the man's curiosity spoke as if someone had climbed the tallest mountain far from below the surface. It sparks the thrive inside of his heart to learn about what world he had gone into.

"A bell that twists the fate of dying hollow. Hollow will die but though their hope remains, yet, it clings their wish to this bell. It nurses them like an angel, granting a miracle to the sorrowful before the end.". As soon what she said was true, the world's sky turns into red blood. Her gaze is starting to change and the atmosphere is getting cranked to his spine.

"Then, my wish?" The man replied.

"Its not a wish, its a contract. You are now my occupation" said the girl. Yet her smile have given him epilepsy and he started to faint into her arms.

Yes, your wish. To still be alive and thou, well. The bell had finds you, but you have to pay the price as your wish had been granted."

"Then, that bell saved every last bits of me."

"You not understand, a curse that belong to you."

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