After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 109

Aberdeen City, 20 years prior

The nine year old Garan looked bitterly at the locked door of the isolation room, heart filled with anger and indignance.

Unfair!

Ptooey!

He spit out the remaining blood of that hag out, spitting out again as he tasted the disgusting rusty taste. It tasted as dirty as she was.

It landed on the isolation room’s dusty cement flooring, just next to the dirty cot he would be sleeping in the next couple of days.

It was his third time here this year, and it was only the second month of the year.

He just couldn’t stop himself. Those women were disgusting. They always watched him with dirty eyes and wanted to touch him.

First he just threw a vase at a visiting rich woman, the second time he punched the volunteer in the face, and now he bit off the flesh of the vice principal.

The vice principal angered him the most. She was supposed to be their mother! How could she think of him that way, and try to sell him off to others! It was too disgusting!

He didn’t even feel the hurting stomach due to the kick and neither could he feel the bruise on his shoulder. He just needed them in pain. He didn’t care about his hunger and thirst either. He had no regrets. They deserved it.

He was just a little worried that Althea would cry again while looking for him. But he had already told his friend to take good care of her and reassure her.

Recalling Althea’s cute face filled with bean shaped tears looking so heartbreakingly pitiful… he…. he started to regret his impulse a little, after all.

But what could he do? He could only hope that his friend would be able to keep her from trouble.

He suffered like this in the isolation room for a few more days, receiving just enough food and water not to rot there and die. However, when he finally came out, he ignored his weakened self from hunger and he immediately ran to the dormitories to check on his angel.

On his way there, he encountered Beanie, a good friend of theirs, and the person he asked to take care of his angel.

But without speaking the flabby brat ran to him and shook his shoulders. Annoyed, he pushed him off. "What?"

But when he saw the rare seriousness in Beany’s eyes, he felt his stomach drop.

"What happened?" He asked, looking around, praying it wasn’t as he thought. "Where’s my Althea?"

Beanie looked at him and gritted his teeth, flushed from shame. "I’m sorry, I… I swore I looked away for just a few seconds—"

"JUST GET TO THE POINT!" He yelled, the last thread of patience snapping.

"Althea’s gone!!" Beanie yelled back in fear, crying in guilt. "It’s been half a day!"

It felt like he fell from a building and splattered all over the ground.

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Present.