Hitman x Wives

Chapter 244 244- Trials Of Death (Part 2)

Kai read through the text before he sighed and turned around to Kaya. "We were wrong about what we knew about this man." He said.

"What? What do you mean by that?" Kaya asked as she blinked confusedly.

"The Progenitor isn't from our world," Kai explained as he touched the wall, tracing the carved words.

"He isn't?"

"No, not at least from what these texts are saying. They said that he arrived on earth 3000 years ago after it was discovered."

Kai was as confused as Kaya if not more since he had read thoroughly about the Progenitor before. He knew that the stories written about him were mostly myths, but he still believed that he was at least a human. Yet, from what he can see now, he was very wrong.

However, that wasn't what made him so surprised. It was the last part that truly caught his attention.

'Discovered? So the other realm existed before Earth did?' Kai frowned slightly when he realized the meaning of those words.

"There are humans in that other world?" Kaya asked as she stared at the Progenitor's image with more interest than ever.

"Considering the fact the spider queen was a sane creature that can speak, that means that there should exist creatures similar to humans there if not outright humans." He replied.

"That explains why he did all of that… Because he didn't technically discover it and simply brought here what the people of the other world already knew!" Kaya continued as she fisted the palm of her hand with realization. "So, it was all just a huge lie?!"

"Possibly… We still don't know for certainty yet so we can't go to conclusions quickly."

Although Kai said that, he also believed what Kaya said was most likely the case. The Progenitor simply brought along with him all the discoveries of the other world. Perhaps he wanted to rule the world for himself or perhaps he just wanted to be looked at as a god or a divine being.

He could've also had completely different intentions than these simple desires. After all, they knew nothing about his previous world nor why he even came there alone instead of bringing his people with him.

"Mmm, Kai?" Kaya suddenly tapped his shoulder, waking him up from his thoughts.

"Hm?"

"Is it just me… or did the room shrink in size?" She asked as she pointed to the other side of the hall."

"What do you mean?"

Turning around to look at the place she pointed at, Kai couldn't see any difference. The hall was still the same size and the distance between the pillars and the wall didn't change so that meant that it didn't move.

"I can't see it."

"Hmm… Weird, I almost thought it shrank in size for a second there." Kaya murmured with even more confusion before she shrugged and didn't focus on it anymore. Kai, however, didn't simply shrug it off and instead focused even harder on the entire hall.

Seconds passed in silence as he waited but nothing changed. So, Kai simply turned around and started reading the texts again as if he didn't bother anymore. At that moment, something weird happened and Kai felt the walls behind him move ever-so-slightly.

"It's moving." Kai immediately turned around and alerted Kaya.

"What?"

"The walls are moving as you said." He said as he channeled his origin before he spread his senses as far as he could.

The whole place was now under his senses and he tried to look for anything suspicious.

"Now that I think about it, where is Aria?" Kaya asked.

"She's far away from here in that direction. We can't stay here any longer, we need to move." Kai said.

When he uttered those words, the unmoving walls suddenly started moving again. However, this time, it wasn't in a sneaky way as before and instead was fast and shockingly scary.

"Shit!"

"We need to move!" Kai exclaimed before he quickly dashed in the direction Aria came from.

Kaya quickly followed suit and the two quickly moved through the hall at top speed. However, the walls were equally as fast as they were sandwiching them tighter and tighter.

"Tsk!" Kai cursed as he quickly created multiple long ice poles before he pinned them horizontally between the moving walls to try and stop them.

 The poles were immediately wedged between the walls as the crushing pressure increased.

"Faster, Kaya!" Kai quickly grabbed Kaya's hand as the two increased their speed.

At the same time, Kai looked beneath him. The marble floor they were running on was also magically moving on its own as if it had a mind of its own. The boy didn't know where all the space that existed before was going as he couldn't see a point where it got swallowed beneath them.

'What the hell is happening?' Kaya was starting to panic. "Kai, the poles won't hold for long!"

As they ran, the ice objects had already started cracking and twisting because of the enormous pressure. The sheer force that moved the walls was just unstoppable.

Eventually, they succumbed to the pressure and were destroyed with a loud bang. At the same time, sadly Kai and Kaya couldn't see the end of the hall at all no matter how much they ran. Kai started to believe that this place wasn't a normal hall but instead a trap. A trap to capture them. 

'But, why?' He asked himself but ended up with no answer. This place seemed like a hall of fame that glorified the people of the Progenitor's era and their achievements and yet somehow it turned into a mess really quickly.

As seconds passed Kai and Kaya found themselves running in smaller and smaller paths as they tried to reach the end of this cursed place. However, their luck wasn't that good as they eventually found themselves about to be completely crushed by the walls around them.

Kai was completely clueless as to what to do. He tried to use reverse momentum to push the walls back but he knew that would only buy him a few seconds at most before they were threatened to get crushed again by the walls.

As he was like that, suddenly, the wall to his life made a sudden change. It's marble polis shifted and shockingly, a door-like entrance appeared in it. Before Kai could even do anything, he found himself pushed into the entrance before the marble closed as if it were made out of clay.

"What?! Kai!!" Kaya screamed as she tried to grab him, only to find herself grabbing thin air. At the same time, another entrance opened in the wall and she was swallowed by it before the two walls completely closed on the entire hall before it was completely submerged in eerie silence again.

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"Hmm…"

Kai's eyelashes fluttered as he opened them slowly. A faint light entered his irises and made him squint slightly before he rose from his sleeping position.

'Did I lose consciousness?' He asked himself.

Looking around him, Kai found himself in what seemed to be a small, stone room of some kind akin to a medieval prison cell. There was a small bed that he was sleeping on, a toilet, a mirror, and a sink with an old faucet.

Apart from that, there was nothing else inside the room. It lacked any decorations or noticeable details. It was a basic chamber through and through.

"Where am I?" He asked himself as he shook the drowsiness away and stood up on his feet. The place was very dim with only a small torch in the corner.

Approaching the sink, Kai opened the faucet. However apart from a weird gurgling sound, no water came out of it. So, instead, he looked at the broken mirror where he saw a distorted picture of his handsome face.

"Kaya? Where is she?" When he realized that Kaya wasn't anywhere near him, he frowned. "I lost her during that trap!"

When he tried to spread his senses to find her, Kai was shocked to realize that he couldn't feel anything beyond this room.

"... Weird." Trying again, his senses were blocked completely by the stone walls as if they knew what he was trying to do and stopped him from doing it.

Kai curiously then approached the walls and touched them. He couldn't sense any Origin coming from them and yet they somehow had that kind of effect on him.

"They look like ordinary stone…"

However, if Kai had to pinpoint a single difference between these stones what he considered to be normal stones was the fact that they were heavier and more durable. Even though he was certain he could break them with a punch, they would require more strength.

'Maybe this is a part of the isolation they create?' He murmured to himself thoughtfully.

Then, his eyes turned to look at the metal door on the other side of the room. It wasn't completely closed as he thought and instead was partially open.

He immediately knew what he needed to do since there was nothing else inside that room to look at.