Hellbound With You

Meanwhile, Zeres had finally left the building he had entered a few hours ago. Jude who was waiting for him outside, threw his cigarette to the side as soon as he saw Zeres approaching the car.

Jude surveyed Zeres as he quietly entered and slumped his long body into the seat. His damp hair and that new set of clothes… Jude could already tell what had happened and he could only minutely shake his head.

"So? Did you get the information that you wanted?" Jude asked carefully as he noticed Zeres' grumpy expression.

Zeres shut his eyes tightly together and leaned his head against the head rest, as if he was totally tired out.

"Yes." Was his short reply, before heaving out a heavy sigh.

"What happened in there? Don't tell me… you killed her?"

Zeres fell silent for a while but eventually he opened his mouth again and spoke. "She's a mad woman. There were a number of other humans' remains all over her house. Remains of the men she had toyed with and tortured to death. She had been preying mainly on younger handsome men. And mostly were the humans she was able to put under her spells." Zeres explained that to Jude.

Jude winced. "How did you get the information from her, then?" he was a little afraid of hearing Zeres' answer on this.

Zeres did not deign to answer that question, but blatantly ignored it outright, and just rattled off another address to him instead. Of course, Jude did not push his luck and pestered him anymore on that matter and just drove the car obediently to the place he had wanted them to go to next.

The trip was a long one, so Zeres just kept his eyes closed as if he was trying to get some sleep on the way. When he had entered into that room, hours ago, that woman had tried to dominate him, planning to do exactly the things Jude had told him he had suspected she would try to. Zeres could not even last for a few minutes and eventually had turned the tables around on her. He had easily overpowered her.

The woman was definitely a powerful witch. So it was just a simple task for her to overpower any mortal man she lures into her den. But unfortunately, he was not like those men that she was used to playing with. Zeres was certain that this woman knew who he was and the extent of his power, and yet… she still had daringly invited him over like this. She would not be so naïve to think that she could overpower someone like him. That thought made Zeres realize that this woman must have wanted something else more from him. She had wanted to experience being dominated this time by someone much more powerful than her... by a silver-haired male witch.

Zeres assumed that she was probably sick of her usual boy toys by now and wanted to try out something new. So, Zeres had generously given her what she wanted. He also started doing to her the things that she loved to do to her own prey, and she had loved it. He did his best to pleasure her and did her as rough and as hard as she wanted. And when she was finally so lost in her own haze of pleasure, Zeres took that opportunity to finally take the information that he wanted from her.

He saw the unforgivable things that she had done. She did not even spare young boys. And the sight of her torturing a certain young boy made Zeres' blood boil. He was immediately reminded of his crazy mother.

And when the woman suddenly naively tried to put a controlling spell on him, most probably to stop him from leaving, he had obviously fought back and ended up killing her. Zeres had purposely used all his power when he retaliated, and that tsunami of force had killed her. She had already fallen into madness and he of all people knew what a mad person could do. She will only ruin many more lives if she continued living on. He was doing the rest of humanity a favour by getting rid of her. They were better off not having this scourge live a day longer. He would consider it his good deed to the world in her removal.

"We're here." Jude's voice echoed out suddenly, breaking the stillness of the atmosphere in the car and Zeres opened his eyes and immediately opened the door and got off the car.

"You can leave me here now." he instructed, causing Jude to blink at him, not able to comprehend that for a few moments.

"What?" Jude was still unsure of what he just heard.

"I said you can leave now, or you don't want to?"

"Of course, I want to! I want to take a rest too!" Jude then quickly stepped on the accelerator and the car lurched forward and left the area. He was not going to let this opportunity slip off his hands. He was already called back to work once when he was supposed to be on break. No way is he going to let this go!

Zeres stared at the narrow street ahead of him. He was surprised to know that the house of this so-called Caliste was actually located in a place where average people lived. But somehow, he also realized that a witch can easily blend in and remain unnoticed in a cramped place like this for so long.

He could have decided to do this tomorrow, but Zeres wanted a distraction. Any distraction would be fine. He did not want to end up thinking about Alicia or the things he had just done tonight. He did not want to think at all and just keep himself occupied and busy.

For a few minutes, Zeres quietly walked through the dark and quiet alleys. It was nearly dawn, so not many people were up and about yet.

When Zeres found the address, he quickly entered the door without caution. He was surprised to see it was not a house but an old bookstore in fact.. The strangest thing was that he could not sense any presence of a witch in it at all.