Chapter 16: (Night of the screams part:4)

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No one's POV...

After 20 people were all caught, the remaining 30 people were again transported outside...

No-one made any noise... They all had heard the bloody screams of people as they were all dragged out by the figure...

"Ahhhh!!!!" Screamed one of the male servent as he saw the bloody body of Yuria...

"Opsie~ I forgot to clean that" Zirnia spoke in a sweet child like manner as she made Yuria's body vanish in air but the dread on the faces of the Rosalie estate servents were growing with ever words she spoke and every movement she made...

" Now there are only 30 people remaining... So let us move on to the next game~"

Once again a blinding light came and engulfed everyone in it... They were all infront of a big maze made of stone wall and grasses...

"For the next game, let us play ' The maze Runner'~!... So the rules are simple, All of you will participate and only 10 people will be the winners of this round.. And for the other...." She just gave a smirk underneath her mask but the people of Rosalie estate understood the meaning behind the words... ' your fate will be the same as that bloody body'

She continues explaining about the game again...

"So the first 10 people who will reach the centre of the maze will be the winner and here's the twist~ " as soon as she said that two shadowy figures started to emerge from the ground... Both of the figure had scythe in their hand...

"These two will be present in the maze and will be hunting everyone of you so..... do your best and pray that you don't encounter them and also they'll stop hunting you if there are only ten people left" as she said that all the people including the two reapers were transported inside the maze...










Amelda's POV...

I ran with two other servents...namely Me, Amelda the one who stole the previous Duchess jewelry, Max, the one who who called her names and curses, and finally Jean who was the personal maid of the cursed lady and the person who harrassed her all day...

'What did I do!? Why should I suffer because of that cursed thing!!'

[[ A/N: as we know Zirnia was a child born with silver hair which was almost white and eyes like red ruby, she was believed to be a cursed child, the Duke had pale blue hair and violet eyes and the Duchess had blonde hair and blue eyes..."not gonna tell anymore or I'll spoil it~"]

I ran as fast as I can...but this damn maze! Which ever direction I ran to I am always met with a dead end.

Suddenly I saw something rise in the air... It stopped mid way and started to form a screen with letter appearing on it saying ' Only ten places left, thirty people alive'...

I knew what that meant... There are only ten places left and there are thirty people...

I looked around me and found both of them thinking... I know they're thinking how to get rid of other people so they can secure a place for themselves...

I walked towards them and said " Hey you both... If we want to survive we have to eliminate others"

"You are right... But how do we do that? We can't even use magic in here!" Jean said almost crying...

"So I have a plan.. how about we lure people here and kill them by choking them?!" Max said triumphantly.. not a bit feeling guilty about taking others life...

" We can do that, Jean you'll lure them here..." I said pointing at her... She trembled

" N-no I-I-I ca-ant! I am scared!" She said crying loudly...

Ting* a sound came from the screen...9 places left, 27 people alive

Someone had already reached the centre of the maze meaning there 1 less chance for me to survive...

I gave a slap to Jean's cheek... as she fell to the ground... her cheeks, It turned red and swollen...I started kicking her

" You are a commoner! Know your place! You should be feeling blessed to recieve an order from me! A noble!" I was burning with angry as I cursed her loudly...[key word " Loudly"]

Although my family had gone bankrupt but I am still a noble how dare a commoner like her disobey me! I even taught that cursed child of Duke her place! So how can she dare to talk back to me!

I heard rustling sounds coming from behind... As I turned back I saw one of the black figure with scythe in there hand staring at us... I swear that it grinned ... It came forward towards us... I was petrified... I was scared... My legs wouldn't move...

I looked down at the ground and saw Jean looking at that thing with horror... I mustered up my strength and pulled Jean towards me as I then pushed her towards that thing... Max was there still staring at that thing... I swear if he wasn't the son of a baron, I would have killed him already...

I ran away from there and Max soon followed me aswell...

"N-no I-I-I, s-sav-save me!! Please!!! Hel-- augh! Kyaaa!!!" I heard Jean screaming from behind but I ignored her...

'if she had listened to me at first she wouldn't have had to die so fast!'

I looked up at the screen again and as I thought there are less places as the time passes by... Only six places were left and 19 people were alive...

We both, Max and me ran through the maze in search of the centre....

Soon there were only two places left and 7 people were still alive... I looked towards Max he was pulling his hair out in frustration... I aswell cursed that figure who suddenly appeared and started kill everyone... Suddenly a voice said...

"Hurry everyone! Only two places are left and seven of you are alive..." As soon as she said that a crystal orb started to rise in the air..

"This crystal ord is placed in the middle of the maze... You better hurry or someone might take this opportunity and you'll be the one to lose!~"

I know knew where the centre of the maze was so now I had no use of Max... Looking at Max, he was thinking that aswell..

I quickly pulled out the silver hair stick from my hair which I took from the previous Duchess's jewelry and launched towards Max and attacked him... Catching him off guard I dug the hair stick in to his neck... He struggled trying to throw me off but he couldn't as I dug deeper in his neck.. and soon he died...

Now it's only five people...and two places were left... I hurriedly ran towards the crystal orb and soon reached there but what I saw horrified me...

More then a dozen of the dead corpses were lying there on the ground but that was not what horrified me but the person sitting on top of the corpses...

That silvery white hair and those ruby red eyes...it was no dought the cursed lady...

"Lady Zirnia......" I mumbled under my breath...

"Hmm~ oh my, if it isn't Amelda... Go ahead and entre the gate and you'll win the game." She said with her eyes turned Cresent as she smiled so beautiful that you would not believe that she was the same person as the one who was sitting on top of the corpses of people...

"Hm? Are you not going to entre the gate? If you don't someone else will enter...~" as soon as she said that I noticed three people approaching.. behind them were the black figure with scythe in their hand killing two people as they chased the other three...

After seeing that I ran towards the gate but then something grabbed my foot... It was a wet and something warm flowed down from that... I hesitantly looked behind horrified... It was a hand... I looked towards the body whom this hand belonged to and saw Jean looking at me with her bloody body... She was mumbling something...

" ... Won....t ...let....go.. d...ie..." I screamed as I started to try to break free from her... But it was pointless...then suddenly one person passed through me and ran towards the gate...

Ting* now only one place was left and two people were alive... It was me and Michael...

I started to dug into her arm using the hair stick trying to break free... Michael was approaching and he was closer and closer as each second went by... My heart beating loudly as I was terrified... My hands were starting to shake now... I cried.. tears drooping slowly..

' nononono please I don't want to die, I want to live, I'll confess everything... I won't treat anyone like that again.. so please let go!!!' I thought to myself...

And surprisingly I broke free from Jean's hand... I turned back and got up to run but then Michael ran past me and entered the gate...

Everything ended there... My life.. it would end here.. if I had killed Jean earlier then this wouldn't have had happened...

"Aww... You were so close to winning... Too bad karma got you at the final moment" she said smiling...

"Why..why...why..WHY!!!!" Why did this happened! Why do I have to die! What did I do!

"Well~ you should ask that to yourself" she shrugged her shoulders with a mockery in lifeless eyes...

"It's you... It was because of you!! Why did you do this! Why are you killing us!!? What did we do to you!" I said as I glared at her with tears flowing through my eyes...

"Excuse me... You said it was because of me?" She said her voice now lost her previous tone and now was cold and monotonous... Her eyes still lifeless but I can feel that it was amusing her... Deaths of the people amused her... I now know it was not the previous Lady Zirnia that is front of me but someone else because I may be one of the people who tormented her but I was also one of the people who knew her the most.... And by no mean is this person in front of me that same timid and scared person...

I mustered up my courage and asked her...

"Who are you? You are not the lady Zirnia! She wasn't like this!" I screamed at her... Her lifeless eyes became more colder....

" Well... You are right... I am not Zirnia Rosalie.... But to disappoint you I myself don't know what I am .." she said as she stared down at me...

" I was sometimes called by this name and sometimes by other name... Well I guess I was called Su Han in my previous life" she said scratching her head...

"Well why bother telling you about me when you are about to die anyway..." She said with a crazed look in her eyes..

"S-so you a-are going to k-kil-l me!?" I said petrified at her words.... I knew I was going to die.. but I did not wanted to believe that... I fell on my knees on the ground... I did not want to die... I began to plead to her.. unknowingly to me that it was only adding to fun watching me crawl and plead to her...

"No-no you are wrong dear~ I won't kill you~" she said again with her previous sweet voice... I sighed of relief after hearing that she would not kill me... It was wrong of me to believe her words so easily as the next words that came out of her mouth drained my life out of me...

" I won't kill you but they will kill~" she said...

I looked up at her but I couldn't not see her as my sight was blocked by the two bodies in front of me... It was Jean and Max...

"W..hy...did..y..ou... Kill....m...e?" Jean said as blood guessed out of her stomach and eyes...

"....I...wi...ll..ki..ll....you" Max said as blood guessed from his mouth and the neck where I stabbed him before....

I fell backwards, terrified at the thought what would happen now..

" I...am sorry..I a-am s-orry!!" I began to plead them! But they slowly pulled me back towards them and began tearing my skin... I screamed at the horrible pain max bit my neck biting of my neck as blood flowed out from my neck...

I was now slowly loosing my consciousness...I knew I was about to die.... Just before I blanked out I saw her again the person who possesd the body of the young lady Zirnia... I called that child a cursed child while she never did anything, just because of my petty selfishness and jealously towards the previous Duchess for her loving nature and beauty I tormented her child... Calling her a demon while now I can see the real demon in front of me... Thinking...that, now that child seems liked a pitiful and scared child.. who was longing for affection.... But was met with hatred and disgust from others.... I broke her... We broke her till she could not be fixed anymore....

Amelda's POV ended...

That's how Amelda died...full of regrets and sadness...


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