CHAPTER 1: ORDERS

(PLEASE READ THE PROLOUGE IF YOU HAVEN'T YET)

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As if answering all of my confusions, a small paper came right in from the window onto my lap.

My instincts told me I had to read it right now, so my hand reached for it and opened it. As crazy as it sounds, when I looked back to the person who was with me earlier, she wasn't moving.

As if time stopped.

“Hello?” I snapped at him. She did not respond. “Are you really not moving?”

I felt a cold figure force my head to move and look at the paper. Just as I had thought, I was being controlled right now. Someone is trying to make this unknown by the people in this world.

I read the paper, and it had given me a lot of insights. Just as I have initially thought, this world is not heaven nor hell. This is a fantasy world that my soul had been wrongly sent on.

I, Yoon–Sae is the pre–psycho killer that I was back then. It means this was the sane version of me. My other part, is in the wild right now. Of course, that other part of me is the post–psycho killer. She's the insane version of me that is now in the wild and is murdering a lot of people.

The setting of this world is in the Sila Empire. I am a detective captured by the Duke of the South, and has been forcibly given poison that will kill me in three years.

For me to survive, I have to obey whatever my master orders me, or the poison kills me off.

According to what the paper said, my soul who was wrongly sent to this world instead of the underworld was split into two. The sane me, and the insane me.

Due to the mistake of the underworld's god, “Hades” who is according to the Greek mythology, is the son of Cronus and Rhea, He had bestowed upon us the ability.

I received the ability to be able to see a vision of where my other part is, or what the other part of me is seeing for ten minutes albeit, my other part can counterpart it by manipulating her own mind.

Her ability was to manipulate anyone's mind, or memory. So once she knows of my existence, or my ability, my power wouldn't work on her as she can manipulate the ten minutes that I saw into something else.

Meaning every vision that I will get from her are going to be forged.

“Well, that's complicated,”

“What is?”

I jumped as I heard the ominous voice from behind me. The man who was with me from earlier stood behind me, and was ready to throw another punch.

Fortunately, we heard an announcement from the maid who was inside our quarters.

“Ms. Detective, the Duke has requested to see you. Please hurry and prepare.”

I looked at the man behind me. I thought he was the Duke, but he might have been just a knight that was guarding me in case I flee.

Not that I have a choice. There's a freaking poison inside me.

The knight looked at me and briefly just said, “Follow me. I'll show you the way”

We walked through a dark hallway. Instead of looking like a Duke castle, it felt like a torture basement.

The screams I heard from walking was insanely brutal. As a killer from my past life, I know what they're going through. As shameful as it is, I loved to torture people, however their screams were not as brutal as this.

The knight soon stopped as he looked at me. His expression became dark as he opened the door for me. I gulped, not in excitement, but in fear as I stepped inside the dark room.

Surprisingly, the Duke was nowhere to be seen.

“Duke...?” I asked as I invited myself in his room. He was not on his table, and the last place I could look at was the bed.

“Is that you, detective?” I heard his voice. Contrary to the handsome deep voice I had expected, he sounded old and weak. His voice was fragile as if he was in deep illness.

I walked closer to him. “Yes, it's me,” I answered. I could hear his delight from knowing that I was there. The original detective might have been very close to the Duke.

He ordered me to come inside his chambers and I went even closer and saw his pale skin. He was lying on the bed, and he looked as fragile as glass.

“Duke...?!”

“I'm fine, don't worry about me. This old man was fated to die soon anyway.” He said, as if it was a light thing to say.

Though indeed, I have taken lives for granted back then as well. Life was a light thing for me, as if it is as fragile as the Duke is right now.

“What are your orders?” I only asked him, as I knelt on one knee.

I heard his laugh and he finally opened his eyes. His blue eyes that resembled the sea, so calm and gentle. He looked at me and said, “This would be your last mission. Find the serial killer who killed my daughter, and along the way, seek for Count Mattheus,” He started. He coughed every sentence he said, showing how severe his state is right now.

“The knight that showed you the way earlier would give you the details...” He said. His smile soon slowly faded, as his eyes grew weak.

“Please... do this last thing for me...”

Is he dead?

I couldn't hear him breathe anymore. His hand and body was lifeless. He could've died, but I didn't really care much about him.

All I care about right now is my goddamn life that could end any second right now.

Damn it, they could have just sent me straight to the underworld!

“Haha...”

I felt the poison grow stronger. Why? Damn it, really.

The last thing I saw was the knight hurriedly call for help, as the blood dripped down from my mouth. Ah, so this is how you faint.

I started to think that the Duke really had deserved that death.

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