[VRMMO] Dead One

Chapter 799: Chapter 800 – Top Hat – Part 15.

<<Elizabeth.>>

<<The head nurse of the hospital that I was staying at.>>

<<Albert.>>

<<Elizabeth husband and the ones who owns runs the hospital.>>

<<And their son, Jack.>>

<<Honestly.... This was stupid.>>

<<I mean... I get the fact that I was their patient once and that I’ve saved their city... But still... I don’t want them to get in trouble.>>

<<I’m a monster.>>

<<Especially that brat Jack.>>

<<He ain’t letting me be myself.>>

<<He is just... Hanging around?>>

<<...>>

<<Ever since I came back to "life" after that incident... That I was no longer just staring into the empty space each day, he had been hanging around me nonstop, asking me questions and what not.>>

<<No matter what I did, he would just keep coming back.>>

<<...>>

<<Honestly, I got bit curios about him too.>>

<<I mean, what the hell is the deal with that top hat of his?>>

<<No matter what, he is always wearing it. The only time I saw him without it was when I first woke up.>>

"Oh? That? It is my birthday present!" – said Jack with bright smile.

"...A top hat? Isn’t this... Well... Too big for you? That is an adult sized hat." – said confused Lucy as she picked up an apple and a knife.

"Why hat in the first place?"

"Well... I just liked it." – replied Jack.

"My father had one, and I thought it looked cool, so I wanted the same one as him."

"..."

"Em.... Okay? But why adult sized one?" – asked still confused Lucy.

"Well... I don’t really want have a new one, like a replacement later on. So, I think big one will do and I will just grow up to it."

"...Uh-huh...." – said Lucy with confused look.

"Well, whatever suit yourself... Although, you could had just taken things... I don’t know. Don’t your mother and father run the hospital? I don’t think you should have any problem with money, from what I saw far."

"You only wanted this hat because you didn’t wanted to change it later on?"

"Yeb." – replied the child.

"..."

"This is bit stupid." – said Lucy.

"WELP! It’s my decision!" – replied Jack with smile.

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"I don’t get it.... Why the hell are you keep coming back to me?" – asked Lucy as she peeling an apple.

"I saw you playing with other kids sometimes, so it is not like you don’t have friends."

"If anything, everybody is friendly to you."

"So why the hell are with me? The monster?"

"But you are not a monster, aren’t you, Lucy?" – asked Jack.

"And how do you know that?" – asked visible angry Lucy.

"I’m monster that kills other monsters."

"That is the only reason why this town hasn’t kicked me out yet."

"Forget those who call me hero."

’They are also scared of me."

"I can tell."

"But I’m not." – replied Jack.

"..."

"Are you sure?" – asked Lucy as before the boy could even react, the knife which she used to peel the apple was right next to the boy’s throat.

"Do you really think I’m safe?"

"..."

"Yes." – replied the child with innocent smile, not showing any hit of fear.

"..."

"The hell is wrong with you kiddo?" – asked Lucy as she removed her blade and threw the peeled apple to Jack.

"Are you just stupid or what?"

"I mean, you were never aiming to harm in the first place, weren’t you?" – asked Jack as he started eating the apple.

"You are a good person."

"..."

"A good person... Huh?" – said Lucy as she grabbed another apple... A red apple.... Which reminded her of the dying human experiment she killed.

(I’m just nothing more than murder at the end of the day.) – thought Lucy.

*Knock* *Knock*

"..."

"Come on in." – said Lucy as a person knocking on the door entered the room.

"Excuse me." – said the knight captain as he took off his hat, revealing himself to be a vampire.

"..."

"If it is about those Red monsters, I’m not sensing them. Issac." – said Lucy.

"No... It is not about the other thing we talked about yesterday." – replied the town’s guard captain named Issac.

"...’

*Sigh*

"Jack. Go back home." – said Lucy.

"I got probably some work."

"Oh.... Okay." – said the sad child as he quickly left the house, leaving behind Lucy who quickly dressed up, putting on the coat with a hood in order to somewhat hide her bandage covered body.

"..."

"He is good kid." – said Issac as the pair left Lucy’s house.

"..."

"I know." – replied Lucy.

"But I really wish that he would stay away, for his own safety."

"Anyway, lead the way." – said Lucy as she alongside Issac made their way towards the town hall, where the meeting was already taking place amongst the town’s leaders.

"We came to the conclusion that we should abandon the Vigor town." – said the elderly vampire.

"!?"

"Wait! We are abandoning the town?!" – asked confused town’s guard captain who was visible confused by the news.

"But so far-"

"So far there were only 2 attacks! And afterwords, there was only peace for days." – said the female human.

"However, the fact remains that these Red monsters are still on the loose.... And there is also that Red Dragon as well."

"Our town is located quiet far away from the Old London and it is able to self-sustain itself, even without the outside help.... But as you saw already, we are still in the danger zone. We are nowhere near safe area as of right now."

"It is truly annoying matter.... But no matter how you look at it, we have no choice."

<<They were bickering and what not for days, wondering what the town should do in order to survive.>>

<<Staying in this place WAS a good idea.>>

<<The location was perfect and what not.... But the fact remains that this place was already attacked TWICE!>>

<<Even though for the couple of days it was still peaceful, who knew what things would turn out?>>

<<...>>

<<And there was also another reason why the leaders of this town were panicking.>>

<<New London.>>

<<By now they must had heard about the Old London destruction.>>

<<And it was the only city that was strong enough to oppose them.... With it gone, those corrupted nobles will once again rage the war.>>

<<And if THOSE bastards that did those fucking experiments were right.... Then the war will really happened.>>

<<However, what will happened now?>>

<<Will this nation be reborn into something new?>>

<<Those bastards....>>

<<No.>>

<<The Britain is lost.>>

<<This nation is already dead and gone.>>

<<Even though there won’t be war between Old London and New London anymore, this nation is already ruined, with these corrupted bastards running amok alongside these Red monsters on the loose.... Especially the Red Dragon.>>

"But where do we go?" – asked the elderly vampire.

"That is the main problem.... With those Red monsters on the loose, and the New London probably already preparing their schemes."

"We cannot remain in Britain no longer... But where else do we go?"

"Honestly.... I would like to go through our options.... But do we even have time for anything right now?" – asked dog beastman.

"No.... We don’t have time." – replied the elderly vampire.

"If we don’t start moving now, either those Red monsters will get us, or the New Britina will come here."

"We need to run, now."

<<It was foolish.... But at the same time, it was the only choice that could had been taken.>>

<<Run away.>>

<<But again, where?>>

<<South.>>

<<If we want to avoid both New London and Old London, then this direction was the only possible direction we could had taken.>>

<<....They said that we would need to traverse via sea to get to the safety... But getting a hold of ship or ships that will be enough to carry all of us may be a problem.... Still, again, we had no time to think.>>

<<However, as we started our evacuation... We were attacked by the Red monsters once again.>>

<<Obviously I stepped in and gotten rid of them myself.... But something wasn’t right.>>

<<Their attack force... It was weaker?>>

<<Like, it was even weaker than the first attack force that came before.>>

<<...>>

<<Something was off.>>

<<The first two attacks were like this as well, the first attack wave was weaker, but the second one was stronger... Does that mean they are doing the same thing again?>>

<<I’ve told the town that something extremely weird was going on and told them to hurry up with the evacuation.>>

<<But, we already encountered problem.>>

<<This town had cars, trunks and horse drawn carriages.... But there was not enough.>>

<<There was nowhere near enough for the people.>>

<<Not only that.... There was also the problem with food and other supplies, since we don’t know how much of it, we will need before we could possible stop somewhere and replenish our reserves.>>

<<...So... We filled our cars, trucks and carriages with supplies... And we started our travel on the foot, while our transport vehicles were storing all of our goods.>>

<<We knew it would be a somewhat hard journey.... But again, no choice left.>>

<<Still, maybe the area ahead is still safe? Maybe the Red monsters still haven’t reached the areas past us? Maybe it will be long, but at the same time, maybe it will be safe since we decided to move now and not later?>>

<<...>>

<<That what we had thought, until we reached our first village on the journey.>>

<<It was completely devasted.>>

<<These "feral" damage... It could had been only done by the Red monsters.>>

<<Instantly, people began crying in panic, asking if we should just go back and barricade themselves in the city.>>

<<But no.>>

<<They knew that sooner or later the disaster would come their way... And they may end up suffering fate far worse than this village.>>

<<And so, we marched forward.>>