"So, maaari mo bang sabihin kung ano'ng nararamdaman mo sa painting na ‘yan?" tanong niya, still looking at the weird painting. Hindi ko na pinansin ang tanong na bumabagabag sa utak ko."Danger, oppressed, monster, and—""Fear,” singit niya. How did he know that I was going to say 'Fear'? God! This man is weird! Quite mysterious. "You're quite an impressive analyst, Ms. Osaka. Are you into arts?" Sa hindi malaman na dahilan ay biglang uminit ang pisngi ko after hearing his praise about my analysis towards the painting. Napaiwas ako ng tingin para hindi niya makita ang namumula kong mukha.Natahimik kami nang ilang segundo pero agad din ‘yong natapos when he cleared his throat. He walked away from me at saka tinungo ang mesa niya.

"As you can see, Kuya Alex. All of the victims are females and Incubus only attacks females. Using that superstition's claim, we believed na Incubus ang may gawa nito. And not just that. All of them showed symptoms of PTSD. It means, that they really went through a terrifying and traumatic experience,” paliwanag ni Calli which has a point. But the PTSD was not concrete support for their claims. Normal lang naman sa mga tao na ma-trauma once they experienced such traumatic moments."Aside from that, we also found this,” dagdag ni Dao at tila may pinindot na naman sa keyboard. The middle computer showed a line graph na parehas sa ipinakita nila noong unang punta namin dito. "This energy shift happened on the same night and time na na-experience nila ang sleep paralysis,” paliwanag ni Dao habang nakatingin pa rin sa computer screen.

***AlexBeing comforted by someone who wasn't related to you by blood was too pleasing. I know it's not my first time but every time Tita comforted me as if I'm having it for the first time."Sorry to disturb you, Tita, pero may itatanong lang sana ako,” biglang sabi ni Trisha dahilan para mapunta sa kanya ang aming mga mata."What is it, Trisha?" tanong ni Tita."Nakakatulog ka ba nang maayos?” Trisha asked that made all of us confused. Nagtaka kami kung bakit ‘yon ang naging tanong niya."Well, after having the sleep paralysis…" Hearing the word "sleep paralysis" ca

Here I am again, stuck between two choices. Picked one, and the worst was yet to come. This was not what I expected. "Alex? Are you listening?" "I am." "So, ano? Gagawin mo ba?" Actually... I didn't know. I didn't want those monsters to be here in our world, but I also didn't want Tita to die! They said that everyone would have to sacrifice one day, but if I were to be asked, I'd rather sacrifice myself than the life of others. "Alex?! Time is running out!" my alter shouted diverting me from my thoughts. I had to do this. "Ano'ng gagawin ko?" "Think of the sheet that you saw a day ago, along with the happiest memories you have," he instructed but instead of the sheet, I visualize my body, full o

"According to what I've gathered, six person are still missing right now. Some of them was declared dead even though they didn't found the body,” patuloy ni Justin habang nilalabas sa bag niya ang isang folder. Iniabot niya ito kay Sky na agad naman niyang kinuha.After a few scans, Sky handed me the folder. Kinuha ko ito at saka binuksa. It was a profile of each person being declared as missing. Justin was right about the six victims: four males and two females. All of them were in their twenties. Wala namang mali sa mga biktima. They all looked fine before they went missing."So, who's behind it?" I asked matapos isara ang folder na may laman ng mga impormasyon ng mga biktima."No one knows who's behind it. Pero sa tingin ko may hula na si Dao,” paratang ni Justin dahilan