Chapter 9

In the corner of my heart, I have a feeling that I will make it there without any damage because the monster is not real, but my mind yelling me that someone is watching my every move. For a second I wanted to stop in my track and look back but I have no guts for that. I wanted to live. I don't want to get killed by the monster if it is real. And for god sake, I can see the cottage from here which is encouraging me to run even faster because I almost reached. "That's it. I reached... I reached... I reached..." Even before my hand contact the metal gate, a sharp nail dug my flesh and I fell down with my face. Thankfully, the gate was not locked and I crawled inside. Officially, I'm not in the land anymore and the monster has a rule like it eats people whoever is wandering around its land after 6. I was saved until the monster changes its rule. My back would be bleeding right now. That was hell kinda true. I can feel it. Gathering all my remaining energy, I turned around and looked