Chapter
Twenty-Nine: Running Black Blood:
This whole place
was going to collapse. Cracks started to appear in the sky too. Anna held her
breath as she looked up. The cracks above began to slowly spread. Not good. They
had to end this fast. That’s when Anna remembered that she didn’t have her phone
on her.
Shit!
Anna turned back
to the castle trap. She wasn’t thinking about her phone when she escaped. Anna
clenched her teeth. It was too risky to back track and get her phone back. But
that phone was her lifeline in th place. Plus, Haruka could be using it to trap
her husband.
Speaking of
which, that was another thing that bothered her about this maze. How were the
phones working? Was that really Tsuzuki reaching out to her before? It could’ve
been a trap then too.
There would have
to be one way to see.
Anna’s face went
grim. She would have to go back and risk it.
She whipped
around when she heard footsteps running behind her. Anna gritted her teeth.
“You know
something?” she asked. “This is getting old. Come out already!” The footsteps
stopped. Anna threw back her head and groaned.
“Seriously?” she
asked. The woman puffed her cheeks. Maybe find Tsuzuki first and then find the
phone. Anna rubbed her forehead.
“So annoying,”
she muttered.
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How long had it
been? Tsuzuki looked around again. It all looked the same to him. Tsuzuki sat on
the ground. This was going nowhere. Suddenly, he heard a crack overhead. The
shinigami lifted his head.
“Huh?” he asked.
Tsuzuki looked up at the sky. Small cracks began to form. Already, he knew this
was bad. Tsuzuki took out his phone. A confused look came across his face.
“Huh? What is
this?” he asked. His screen was all black except for the top. Even that didn’t
look right. The time kept jumping back and forth. The last digit couldn’t decide
what it wanted to be. Same with the date and temperature. The battery didn’t
look right either. Tsuzuki smacked the side of his phone.
“What the hell
is going on?” he asked. Suddenly, the shinigami looked up.
“What was that?”
Tsuzuki asked. Low-sounding sirens filled the air. His eyes shifted back and
forth. The siren noise rubbed through the sky again. Right away, Tsuzuki knew it
was time to go. He stood up and looked for which direction to go in next.
“Left!” the
shinigami shouted. He took off in the direction. Siren wails grew louder.
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Anna puffed up
her cheeks.
“Looks like I
don’t have a choice,” she said to herself. She turned and continued down the
pain away from the castle.
Meanwhile a soft buzzing filled Airi’s ears.