Red Demise couldn’t handle the thrust by it and collided on the wall. But it had brought them some time along with bruises near to bleed.

On foot, both of them reached to end of passage and locked the door before Grief could get out. They heard reaper hitting the door but felt safe for a while.

"Will this hold him?" Boone panted.

"For few minutes? Yes." Red Demise said from his fractured beak.

Red Demise sighed. He pushed Boone out of the way and fired in the air. Boone knew it had hit something invisible.

Red Demise's laughter after the shooting made it obvious.

"What did you hit?" Boone asked from the floor.

"I killed Woman in Blue." Red Demise said, "Ah, I forgot you can't see her. Her corpse is there." he pointed at clean floor.

With the constant pounding on the door, Boone had not time to celebrate her death.

"How can we defeat Grief? There is plenty of time left in this hour." Boone glanced at the clock.

"Put his name in the revival machine." Red Demise uttered and took out pen and paper from his pocket.

GRIEF, he wrote then handed it over to Boone.

"You go." assured Red Demise.

"Why didn’t you do this to him before if it is this easy to get rid of him?" Boone couldn’t help but question.

"Because he had not intervened in our process before this." Red Demise gave him the key which he had with him, "Now, go and put this letter in the machine. Replace one letter and out it in its place. Machine accepts thirty letters at once."

I knew this. "Aren't you coming?"

"You think you can fight this monster when it comes out, do you?"

Boone had heard enough. He stormed out of the place.

He was aware he had got far enough when he struggled to hear violent hits on the door. Boone ran from a turn just to see a locked door in his way.

Crowman had put an additional door in the way to Revival Machine. Boone tried to use the key which he had but it was not the right one. Kicking or punching it didn’t help him either.

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When his feet hurt he had realization he had to go back to Red Demise in order to get the key for that door. He ran away faster than he had arrived.

The first thing he saw after reaching there was the broken door. And in front of its rubble, there was Red Demise who neither breathed nor stirred.

Grief must be searching for me. Boone was sure so he started to seek for the key of outer door inside Red Demise's clothes. He felt a key in his pant pocket. Boone was not sure if it was the right one or not but he was ready to take chance. While searching for the key, Boone saw Red Demise open his eyes abruptly.

Shit! Boone was about to jump on his feet but Red Demise's claw caught him by his neck. Red Demise's eyes were glowing like Grief's eyes. The grip tightened, making it harder for him to0 breathe.

"Red Demise thought he could defeat me." Grief said.

Boone caught his beak and broke it but Grief didn’t flinch. Grief, who was now in Red Demise's body, stretched his other arm and the reaper appeared in his hand.

He is in a solid body. He can be out-powered. Boone reckoned because he had broken his beak. He stomped on Red Demise's thin leg, breaking it like a twig.

Red Demise loosened his grip in order to maintain balance but Boone was out already.

He broke his hand and took over the reaper. Then chopped Red Demise's head with it. Still he did not fall. A new head came out from the cut. But this time it was Grief's own head.

Boone cleaved his body from waist.

Meanwhile Grief's legs were re-growing. Boone took out the key from Red Demise's lower body. Boone cut the growing body again and rushed to the outer door with the reaper.

To his fortune, it swung open with ease. Then he was about to unlock the final door. He could not control shaking so he dropped the heavy axe before getting inside Revival Room.

Boone soon reached in front of the machine and started it with the key which Crowman had given him. The monitor lit which said, ONE MINUTE FOR INITIALIZATION…