Chapter 118 - Episode 118: The Klagliaad Forest. (4)

The witch starts to fly and lands in the area. Hans is shaking his head and looks at her with a scared expression. The witch looks like an old woman, but one of her hands is gone. The witch starts to chuckling and she chuckles very weakly as if she's out of breath, but it's quite disturbing to listen.

Francesca looks at Ivonna.

"Ivonna... I guess it's time to give us any information you got there with Chessi, Mike, and Leo! If they haven't seen the other rock, we might as well log out from this game now!"

Ivonna is waiting for them to reply. She used party chat but none of them replied, so she sent them a message to each of them. Ivonna shakes her head with disappointment.

"Leo and Mike are with each other and they haven't seen any rock. I also told them to not log out from the game no matter what until the quest is done just to be safe."

Francesca is nervously looking back and forth.

"What about Chessi? Did she find it?"

Ivonna is staring at the screen and waiting nervously. But then she smiles and looks at us.

"Chessi found the stone! She's on her way to retrieve the item."

I look at Ivonna.

"Tell her to not approach it when she thinks that she's close to the item. She won't be able to retrieve it if she's looking for it."

Ivonna is confused but she immediately informs Chelsea of the information she got from me. Chelsea replies that she understands and will do her best.

Ivonna is looking at the guy figure again. She's staring at him uncomfortably, but Francesca and Grisell are holding her hands, and they both nod at her to convince her that she will be fine. Emma is looking around and then she's surprised by the thing that she sees.

Emma is pointing at the woman's figure that has been haunting me and then looks at me with disbelief.

"Trev! That's Jessica?!"

Everyone is looking at the woman and then looks at me. I sigh and nod while staring at Emma. Emma then looks at Jessica and then clenches her fist.

"So she's the reason why you can't move on!?"

I shake my head and sigh.

"Not now Emma. I don't want to talk about it here. We currently need to focus on surviving this. Remember what Francesca said that a player that needs to see a psychiatrist to recover from this? We might be ended up like that player."

William is backing away while looking at those things.

"Guys... I think that everything that we feared is all already in here..."

The ghost is giggling and she's way taller than before.

Francesca is looking at me.

"Trev! What should we do?! We won't be able to make to survive this if we don't have any plan."

I look at them.

"We will face each other's fear. I will handle that ghost thing. Who's up for which one you want to handle?"

William is pointing at the centipedes.

"I will handle them."

Ivonna is pointing at the witch.

"I will handle her."

Emma is pointing at Jessica.

"I will handle her.

Grisell is looking at William.

"I will help him."

Francesca is pointing at the guy.

"I will handle him."

Hans is pointing at William.

"I will help him as well."

We all nod and then go our separate ways to handle the things in front of us.

The ghost is so agile and she took me by a surprise. She almost reaches my face with her long nails, but I dodge it. I swing my sickle at her but it doesn't do anything at all. She keeps chasing me with both of her arms stretching toward me. I never thought that I would be experiencing something like in horror films. So right now, the only thing I can do is just luring her away from the others and just play with her even though I don't want to.

Ivonna is looking at Hans.

"Hans! What am I supposed to do to get rid of her?"

Hans looks at the witch and then looks at Ivonna.

"Uh... try to cut off her hands and burn her."

Ivonna looks around and then looks at Hans.

"Burn her with what? We have nothing in here. Leo is somewhere in the maze with Mike, and I don't think they can enter this place since the path is closed."

Grisell is waving at Ivonna and pointing at something in her hand. It looks like a glowing red rock.

"Hey, I have this. It's a [Firestarter]. If I throw this at something it will start to spark and burn the surrounding. I think this is enough to burn her to ashes if I throw dozen of them at her."

Ivonna smiles and nods.

"That's perfect! Try to throw one at her now."

Grisell throws the [Firestarter] at the witch, and it hits her body. The rock starts to explode and the fragments of the rock start to sparks and creates fire. The with is screaming in pain, but it doesn't weaken her at all, it only makes her angrier. The with looks at Grisell and then starts grimacing at her and flies toward her. Grisell is terrified by her expression and running toward Hans while screaming.

Hans looks at Grisell who's being chased by the witch. Hans unconsciously shakes his body because of how frightening the witch is for him.

Hans is shaking his head and pointing somewhere to Grisell.

"Don't bring her to me! I'm scared of her!"

Grisell immediately takes a sharp turn while screaming.

"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to!"

Grisell is randomly throwing the [Firestarter] to her back and hoping the witch gets hit by those things. The witch keeps chasing her while laughing crazily. Ivonna is just staring at Grisell from the front, and as soon as Grisell walks past Ivonna, Ivonna is just staring at Grisell with a blank expression and do nothing to the witch. The witch flies over Ivonna and keeps chasing Grisell.

Grisell looks at Ivonna with disbelief. Grisell is screaming while running around.

"Hans! Why is she keep chasing me?!"

Hans is busy killing the centipedes.

"I think she's chasing you because you look like a kid..."

Grisell is angry but scared at the same time.

"F*ck you! And your f*cking logic!"

Emma is staring at Jessica.

"Why are you here?"

Jessica is looking at Emma and smiles weakly.

"Oh... Emma... I should have known that you would be around him."

Emma is furrowing her forehead.

"What is that supposed to mean?! You b*tch! You broke his heart and you didn't even feel a bit guilty about it?! You're the reason that he can't move on!"

Jessica is shaking her head and walks toward Emma.

"Don't you realize? I'm not the only one who made him like this, you know? Your existence is burdensome for him as well. Do you even know how exhausted he is when he has to deal with you every day? Do you even notice that he had enough of you? Poor Trevor."

Emma flinches and looks at Jessica with a fake smile.

"What are you talking about?"

Jessica is standing next to Emma and puts her hand on Emma's shoulder. She leans towards Emma's ear and whispers.

"I know that you know. Stop pretending, Emma."

Emma is lowering her sword and looks down. Jessica is wrapping her arms around Emma.

"Do you want to know what was his thought about you, Emma? I have lived inside his head for years. I know every thought that he had about you. Are you interested?"

Jessica put her hand on Emma's chin and lift Emma's face.

"He's just being nice because he pitied you, Emma... He doesn't even really care about you in the first place. He just got dragged into your mess when the first time he saw you dying on the street after the incident. You pulled him into your mess and hoping that he will share your burden with him. Now, after several years, he's about to confess about it to you. He's tired of you, Emma."

The ghost is very annoying and I can't do anything about this. I look at everyone and they're busy handling their own problem, but then I see Emma is on her knees while Jessica is crawling on her back and wraps Emma with her arms. I'm surprised and immediately use [Moonsteps] to approach Emma.

I grab Emma's hands and pull her away from Jessica.

"Emma! Don't listen to her words! She's only speaking the words that are inside your thoughts!"

Emma looks at me with a blank expression.

"I know that... Because I have been thinking about those words she said from the day I met you. But, she's right about one thing. I'm a burden to you."

I look at Emma and slightly smile.

"Well, you already confessed that to me when we went to meet your parents, right? It doesn't change the fact that I'm the only family you have now."

Emma is still looking at me with a blank expression.

"Am I?"

I tilt my head while staring at Emma. But then another voice is calling my name from the other side. I'm surprised there's another Emma and she's looking at me with disbelief. I look at the others and there are two of them, including myself, there's something odd about this as if we all have a twin. I look at Francesca since she's the only person that hasn't shown her fear.

Francesca is gulping and looks at us.

"This is my fear. I have a fear with doppelgangers..."