Grace does a lip sync to Samuel to wait until "something magnificent" happens. They can do whatever they want, under one condition. And that is not disturbing her Master's work. Samuel nods at Grace and hints to let go of Andrew. She slowly releases her grip from Andrew after she whispers that she will break his bones if he tries storming again. Andrew, still ticked off, can't do much and just mumbles himself.
Back at the feeding ground, the thug leader approaches Aria, who is lying half dead. He puts her against the pole nicely. Aria doesn't have energy left, even breathing is exhausting. She occasionally coughs caused of blood stuck in her throat.
"Y'know, if you just keep your mouth shut, you may see another sunlight," said the thug leader as he pulled Aria's hair up, so he could see her half-dead eyes. "What a shame that beautiful and clever girl like you is going to waste. By my 'pet,' that is."
Rustling bushes from a different direction can slowly draw closer to the feeding ground. A shadow of a man wearing a hat casually emerges from the darkness. That man is none other than Johnathan Brown. The thug leader cues his men to aim at that man.
"Well well well, what do we have here?" said Johnathan as he brushed off all the leaves that stuck to his clothes. "We meet again, young man. Where's your blonde girlfriend who wears very short pants?"
"She's not my friend. She's a hooker, and I just take her home. Now, how do you know that?" said the thug leader as he took out his pistol and aimed it at Johnathan.
"I observed you when one of your friends snatched a parking spot earlier this morning. But it seems the one who snatched it is nowhere to be seen," said Johnathan, casually pointing randomly at the thug leader's group.
Grace looks at Joseph, takes out her stocking, and puts it on Joseph's head. Grace is smiling because she finds out Joseph is the driver who took a parking spot from her. She takes off her stocking from Joseph and pats him on the head.
"But, well, that matters not. That girl, asked me for my help. And by the looks of it, I come a little too late. But most importantly, I believe you will summons the so called 'monster' to eat the girl."
Aria hears that and frantically wants to flee from that place. Alas, she almost has no energy left and just writhing and can't even drag her own body. The thug leader notices it and steps on her reaching hand.
"What 'monster' are you talking about?" the thug leader shrugged.
"The 'monster' that is responsible for killing your money launderer, Jodie Harris and Nina Barbet. You eliminates them as soon as you found out that they're about to report it to the authorities," said Johnathan.
The thug leader chuckles a little for a moment. His face soon becomes tense as he slowly pulls his gun from the holster behind his lower back. Andrew has enough of the awful circumstances and tries to confront and apprehend the thug leader along with all of his men. But Grace quickly pins him to the ground and breaks his right shoulder. Grace skillfully shuts Andrew's mouth even before he starts screaming. Andrew screaming in pain, but his voice is muffled. Grace is trying not to make a scene, but the result is the opposite. Andrew's muffled voice is heard by the thug leader, and the thug leader quickly turns his attention toward the source.
"You two, go check it out, " the thug leader commanded while pointing to two of his men.
Two of his men obey the thug leader's order, and both of them carry pistols. Johnathan sees an opening and tries to close the distance from him to Aria. But he didn't do it with any subtlety and made the thug leader aware.
"What the fuck are you doing?" said the thug leader as he quickly pointed his gun towards Johnathan.
"I'm going to get her." answered Johnathan lightly.
"You are not having her," said the thug leader as he signaled his remaining men to aim at Johnathan.
"Try me."
Johnathan begins casually walks toward Aria. After a couple of steps, the thug leader shoot Johnathan, followed by his men. Hail of bullets showered Johnathan until they emptied their magazine. Johnathan falls down to the ground with all the bullet holes in his body. Grace gently hands over Andrew to Samuel, hoping he can stop Andrew from making another noise. Grace is enraged by what the thug leader and his men did to her Master, but she still manages to hold it by gripping the ground. Because she's aware that she can't break her cover without her Master's order.
With the two thugs looking for where the muffled noise coming from, Grace lowers herself to the ground while Samuel and Andrew hide behind the tree. As for Joseph, he's already hiding in the bushes from the moment Grace broke Andrew's shoulder. The thug leader sees Johnathan's body drown in his pool of blood and believes that he has killed Johnathan. The thug leader signals his men to stand by, and they relax a bit while reloading their guns. Back in the bushes, the thug's scouts are centimeters away from discovering Grace.
"Hey, you two! Find anything?" asked the thug leader to his scouts while reloading his gun.
"Not yet, Boss! But it seems we're about to!" replied one of the scouts.
To one of the scout's surprise, right after he shifts the bush, he finds Grace is hiding behind it. Before the scout can shout, Grace silently gouges both scouts' vocal cords. Grace is standing tall in front of them, smiling, while showing off the scouts' vocal cords in both hands. In desperation, both scouts tried to shoot Grace, but it ended gruesomely. Grace swiftly grabs and crushes the scouts' hands along with their guns. From the perspective of Andrew, Samuel, and Joseph, they are witnessing a gruesome horror in progress. While both scouts are writhing in agony on the ground, Grace stands tall with her widest grin. It feels like her mouth opens from ear to ear.
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Grace's creepy grin soon returns to a usual smile. At the same time, both of her hands turn into grotesque tentacle shapes and wiggle around. Both of the scouts are terrified and try to crawl their way out. Alas, Grace won't let it happens and stabs them right at their spinal cord with her tentacle-like hands. Both scouts twitch, jerking in pain as Grace invades their bodies with her tentacles. Both scouts stop fiddling a moment later, indicating that Grace has fully conquered their body. With the preparation ready, she lifts the scouts at the exact height when they stand up. Just like a hand puppet, Grace can easily control both of them and begin strolling toward the thug leader.
"How's going back there?" shouted the thug leader to his scouts.
Slowly, a silhouette of his scout is visible to the thug leader and his remaining men.
"Did you find anything?" asked the thug leader, but there was no response. "Why are you guys walking in a weird way? Stop right there, dumbasses," the thug leader immediately pointed his gun toward his scouts, followed by his other member shortly after.
Feeling found out, Grace pulls out her hand from the scout's body and reveals her as soon as the scouts fall down to the ground. The thug leader and his men are shocked and shoot Grace. Grace turns her hands back to normal and easily fends off the bullet storming her. Grace deflects all the bullets almost effortlessly to the point she's yawning while doing it. Remarkably, the deflected bullets aren't hitting anyone, not in front or behind Grace.
On the other side, the pool of blood that Johnathan made slowly flowed back to its owner. As the flow picks up the speed, so does the noise it makes. The unwanted things such as gravel, small pebbles, and dry leaves are sprouting from Johnathan's body. One of the thugs felt unsettling and turned his attention toward Johnathan's dead body. He is terrified as he sees Johnathan rising in unnatural ways while showing his dreadful smile. The thug, frightened, shoots his gun toward Johnathan and makes the few other members join in. Unlike Grace, who deflects the bullets, Johnathan "eats" the bullets. The thug leader and his men are in panic mode and desperately shots Johnathan and Grace.
"You leave the leader to me. Others, is all yours Grace," said Johnathan in a raspy disturbing voice as if his vocal cord hadn't recovered yet.
"Understood. Master," answered Grace bowing at her Master.
Grace dashes towards the group of thugs. The ground where Grace was standing violently cracked. And in an instant, all of them are pulverized gruesomely. Suddenly, a heavy gust of wind blew all around them. All caused by Grace's speed, which far exceeded the speed of sound. When the dust is settled, the thug leader sees his men become minced meat, scattered all around the "feeding ground". The feeling of awe and dread strikes those who witness it.
"Grace, I've told you not to go overboard," said Johnathan as he approached Grace, with his body returned to normal.
"Ehehe... I'm sor-"
Johnathan, standing in front of her, gently grabs her head with one hand. Grace thought that her Master is forgiven her, but it was the opposite. Johnathan's grip slowly becomes tighter and tighter. As soon as Grace felt pain, she quickly grabbed Johnathan's arm and tried to forcefully remove his hand from her head. But even with her full power, she can't move Johnathan's hand even an inch.
"ARG! STOP! MASTER! PLEASE, IT... HURTS!!" Grace begging for forgiveness. "STOOPPP! MASTER'S FINGER!!! IT SINKS IN!! AAAAARRGGH!".
"I've told you not to go overboard. Oh, where's my manner. Sorry for the mess caused by my servant. It seems I need to give her another lesson." said Johnathan as he turned his attention to the dumbfounded thug leader.
Johnathan releases his grip from Grace's head. Grace falls down to the ground while holding her head. She's just whimpering because somehow, her wound is healing slower than earlier. Watching Johnathan wipes Grace's blood on his hand makes the thug leader furious.
"Just because you have killed all my men doesn't mean you have won! I still have my 'pet'!" shouted the thug leader as he roughly lifted up Aria by the chest. "Once it eats you and your 'lovely' servant, he will eat this young lady who tried to ruin my business, just like the others!"
"Become desperate, I presume?" Johnathan mocked.
Even though Andrew's shoulder is dislocated, he still decides to come out from hiding and aims the gun toward the thug leader.
"So you're admitting that you have killed Jodie Harris and Nina Barbet?!" asked Andrew even though he couldn't aim properly with his left hand.
"Those two young lady are smart enough to do the job but not smart enough to keep their mouth shut! And they pay the price. Just like what happens to this girl after I'm done with you all!" the thug leader said as he kept switching his aim at Johnathan and Andrew. "COME OUT! DINNER IS HERE!!"
Slowly, a black, disorganized bubble-like lump of meat came out from the thug leader's back. He seems unaffected by it and laughs manically as the strange shape steadily grows bigger. Andrew tries to shoot the 'thing,' but it doesn't do any damage. Andrew tries to shoot the thug leader instead, but the black figure easily blocks it, protecting its owner. After a while, the disorganized lump of meat finally took its shape and fully detached from the thug leader's back.
Like the rumor spreading around the city, the 'thing' has long, thin limbs and a fat body. And by the looks of it, Johnathan measures its height as about 4-5 meters. Andrew fires a few more shots at the monster until his gun is empty. Samuel, still hiding, assesses the situation and quickly notices the monster's arm trying to kill Andrew from behind. Andrew didn't see the monster's arm because he was too focused on shooting it. Samuel comes out from the bushes toward Andrew to save him. In the nick of time, Samuel manages to save Andrew but gets hurt in return. When the monster's arm missed its attack on Andrew, it quickly flung its arm, smacked Samuel, and sent him flying backward, rendering him unconscious.
The monster says something to the thug leader in unintelligent language, but he can understand it perfectly. He nods, and the monster immediately runs toward where Andrew and Samuel came out. Every step it takes, the ground trembles. Not only big and fast, but the monster also wreaks havoc easily on big trees in its front. Not long after, Joseph's scream can be heard, and apparently, he got caught by the monster. The speculation is quickly confirmed as the monster shows up with Joseph at its right hand. The monster raises Joseph up as if it's showing Joseph to the thug leader.
"So, you're the one who lead the cops here, Joseph? Well, you know what happens to traitor, right?" said the thug leader, and he nodded to the monster shortly after.
"No. NO! NO, WAIT! BOS! I'M SORRY! NOOO--"
The monster puts Joseph in its mouth and almost bites him whole, and left is just Joseph's leg below the knee. The monster chewed his food as if it hadn't eaten for days. After the monster swallows its food, it giggles while looking at Andrew and Johnathan.
"Now, it's time to finish you off, " said the thug leader, pointing at Johnathan.
The monster dashes toward Johnathan and tries to crush him with both hands. But before it manages to do it, Grace, with her wound mostly healed, jumps towards it and delivers a heavy uppercut. Grace sends the monster flying a couple meters away and crashes to the ground. Her attack only staggered the monster for a short while and made it more ferocious, as it acknowledged Grace as its opponent. The battle between the monster and Grace becomes inevitable. While Grace and the monster exchange blows, Andrew takes the chance and tries to get unconscious Samuel. Andrew carries Samuel into the woods, even though he has a broken shoulder.
Andrew sees that the thug leader goes inside the forest while dragging Aria. He wants to chase him, but he prioritizes his own and his partner to safety first. After he got inside the forest, a hundred meters from the feeding ground, Andrew lay Samuel against a tree. Andrew checks out Samuel, relieving that Samuel doesn't receive life-threatening injuries. Andrew taps at Samuel's face several times to wake him up. After a few tries, Samuel finally opens his eyes. He holds his stomach in reflexes, indicating where it hurts the most.
"It seems that you two gentlemen having it rough," said Johnathan, who was already behind Andrew.
Startled by his voice, Andrew pulls his gun out while he turns around and shoots him right in the face. Johnathan didn't evade nor block it, and a few seconds after he got shot, the bullets came out from the wound, and the wound quickly closed.
"You have a trigger finger, Inspector. Not that matters to me, but you make me harder to help you," said Johnathan while searching for something inside his suit jacket. "Ah, found it." Johnathan pulls out two little cylindrical bottles. "Drink these to heal any injuries you have. I give you these as a way to say I apologize for what Grace did to you guys."
Andrew reluctantly takes the bottles from Johnathan, hinting he still doesn't trust him. Johnathan just smiles in return.
"Also, this is a final warning. Do not interfere until I say it's done. What you see is already beyond human capability. Be a hard-headed one, and you may soon meet your doom. As for right now, Grace is battling one-on-one with the monster. I believe she'll come out on top. And for me, I will get the 'criminal' who making all these mess." Johnathan leaves them and quickly vanishes into the trees.