Feelings of caution and fear filled Lubrici's heart, the night gets more and more intense, and in this place, where there are no street lights and he has nothing but a campfire to light up the night, everything gets a bit macabre.

Lubrici's mind starts to surge with various thoughts, who could it be, why does this kind of thing happen to him, is it too dangerous?

However, no matter how much he thought about it, things simply wouldn't be resolved until he made a move.

Lubrici continued to move forward, holding a stick in his hand tightly, he slowly makes his way to his rusty metal door, the noises are getting louder and louder, and a slight murmur comes from outside.

The sound is like the last wallowing in the dirt of a dog, or the last moans of a dying man, beating his flesh against his door, and carrying the sound of death.

Apart from that thing, nothing else seems to sound, just Lubrici approaching whatever was causing the noise.

Once he was just about to touch the metal door, swing it open and beat whatever was making the noise to a pulp, Lubrici heard a wail.

-Sir... Please... I have been betrayed...

Then, the noise died down, there was nothing else, not a sound, as if whatever was making the noise disappeared from existence, simply leaving him in nothingness, with a wooden stick in his hand, and sweat pouring down his body, Lubrici waited and waited.

One minute, ten minutes, half an hour and nothing.

Finally, plucking up his courage, swallowing saliva and clenching the stick in his hands, Lubrici opened the door with a sudden movement, almost thinking he could rip the rusty metal door off with his strength just by opening it.

What he saw stunned him, Lubrici would have expected anything, and even, he would have expected whatever was causing the noise to start attacking him, but.

Lubrici never expected that the first thing he would see when he walked out the door of his house would be a little girl, at least eight years old, playing quietly in the dirt near his door.

Although, to describe her as a child would be an understatement.

The infant has purple hair that reaches down to her neck, her purple hair standing out like some sort of high quality shiny wig, almost not looking real, perfect and somewhat giggly strands of hair, she has a childlike face that is not without unparalleled charm and tenderness, purple eyes just like her hair, a snub nose, and purple skin.

However, that was the only thing human about her, for below her neck, although there was a human body similar to that of a girl, with its respective purple colour, her legs end in two tentacles that move in the earth, her two hands as well as her legs, end in tentacles that hold a twig found in the ground, and the skin of her entire body has a strange colour that degrades from purple to blue, with some charm in her purple eyes with black sclerae, and a mouth with teeth too sharp like that of a shark.

Lubrici didn't stay long contemplating the girl, he quickly took a few steps away, full of caution and fear, what the fuck was this?

Lubrici swallowed saliva, his body is shaking like a vibrator, and he is breathing shakily, the stick in his hands fell to the ground with a thud, and he himself does not know what to do.

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The girl, who is wearing tattered clothes and has a confused look on her face, looked at Lubrici with a bow of her head.

The gesture, which must have looked cute but which, coming from a thing like that, is totally terrifying, made Lubrici nearly vomit.

-Daddy!

Suddenly, there came a high-pitched noise, sounding like several children's voices together, in rhythm and harmony like children's singing in church.

Lubrici could stand it no longer and vomited blood, collapsing on the floor, holding herself with both hands and breathing heavily.

The girl, who had a confused look on her face, panicked.

-Daddy, are you all right?

The girl crawled towards Lubrici using her tentacles, she wanted to reach out her right hand that ended in a tentacle to try to touch Lubrici's face.

However, as Lubrici sensed the danger he didn't have to think for too long, he quickly stood up, terrified, but determined, he used his right hand to slap that tentacle full of dirt that was coming towards him.

-Get away from me, you monster!

Lubrici roared in an act of fear and rage, he was giving himself courage not to be played so easily by the thing's words.

The girl, who had a worried face, felt the blow on her right tentacle, although such a low level blow could not harm her because of her physical condition, that one blow made it like a knife tearing her feelings, making her soul hurt as if she was being burned alive.

She doesn't understand, why does her dad reject her like this, why does he shout such hurtful words, and unconsciously she took a few breaths, her pretty and tender face deformed from a face of worry to one of sadness, some red tears were about to come out of her eyes.

She didn't understand, she had followed her instincts since she was born, always on automatic, always a slave to what she was supposed to do, all to get to this moment, she had been born with a purpose written on her soul, and that was to be by her father's side.

She had been searching for her father since she was born, although she had been looking for him aimlessly, because she felt that nothing in this world was important, but, that was only until this morning, she felt a special connection, call it destiny, or just a coincidence, but, she felt that connection that she had never felt before, it filled her body with an unparalleled warmth, filling each of her cells with absolute happiness, and filling her body with hope and joy, that was because, she had finally felt the presence of her father!

So, she followed her instincts, feeling her father's presence, to finally, at this moment, she feels, she can't be wrong, the man in a black robe in front of her who rejected her is her father, her purpose in life, the reason she was born.

Now, simply put, the reason she existed and persevered for all this time rejects her with fury in his eyes, can anyone bear so much pain?

The Infanta tried to tell herself that, this is not what her father means, that he is just scared because, this is the first time he has seen her.

Although, at the thought of this possibility, her heart broke, can she bear that her father thinks she is an ugly girl?

Any girl would want to know that her father loves her, but she simply can't find another way out, so maybe he really is a monster.

Memories of years of pain, being rejected by both animals and humans come to her mind, memories of how she was seen as a disgrace, a harbinger of the devil, or simply a monster, something that shouldn't exist come back together.

Tears fall like rivers down the girl's purple cheeks, her tentacle ending arm came back to her, she used the tip of a tentacle to rub her eyes a little as she sobs like a child who has lost her mother.

-Why... daddy?

The girl whispered between her lips.

At this moment, calmness returned a little to Lubrici's mind, she is swallowing saliva while trying to calm her breathing, it seems that the thing that came is, crying?

Lubrici doesn't understand, but he's not an idiot, he can't let his guard down because that thing that came and that looks like a cute little girl looks helpless, he's a cautious man who has experienced first hand the cruelty of the world, and he won't let himself be carried away by a facade.

Lubrici grabbed the stick, ready to use it to bash the thing over the head and kill it.

Somehow, though, the girl's increasingly loud cry pierced his heart like a sharp little needle, making him feel unprecedented pain and guilt.

Somehow, the girl seemed, Familiar, why?

Lubrici tightened his grip on the wooden stick.

-Daddy, you're a wicked man, why do you reject me, I've come to find you, why?

The girl's words made Lubrici enter into an incredibly suffocating state of guilt, she felt as if she had murdered her whole family along with her children and all her friends, only to realise what she had really done.

Lubrici fell to the ground clutching his head, screaming and breathing heavily.

Why does she feel this?