The Combat Baker and the Automaton Waitress, Volume 1 by SOW

Author:SOW [SOW]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2019-04-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4: Monster

Meanwhile, Lud had left to search for Sven, and thinking she had probably barged into the church in her rage, he headed there first. Sven got carried away when she was angry, so it was likely she was causing trouble for Marlene. The thought of Sven rampaging through the church made Lud’s face pale.

He rushed to his truck and turned the key, but the engine responded with a faint, rumbling sound and wouldn’t start. With one final pop, it went silent.

Why at a time like this? Lud wanted to hurl abuse at the truck. Instead he got out and began to run. Lud took a back road that wasn’t in use. It was pitch black outside, but compared to the night marches back in the military, this was easy. The ten-minute drive up the beaten road took about thirty minutes on foot.

Then he stopped. A familiar feeling ran down Lud’s spine. He sensed the presence of someone, and felt a mixture of fear and hostility. The intuition he had forged in the military informed him of this presence, even after two years of civilian life. He crouched down to keep out of sight and used all his senses.

There was someone there! Some men... carrying weapons. There were three... no, five of them. They weren’t moving away but they were fidgeting as if they couldn’t settle down.

Looks like guard duty... What are they guarding?

He envisioned a map of the neighborhood and concluded it could only be Marlene’s church.

Why are they surrounding the church?

Lud suspected that these men were not soldiers but knew how to fight. They were possibly armed punks but definitely just amateurs without formal military training. Or thieves? No, Lud didn’t think so. Those types were more cunning. They would know that the church had nothing worth stealing.

But Lud felt uneasy. It was precisely because of this precognitive ability to sense what was ahead of him that allowed Lud to survive as he had up to this point.

Without making a sound, almost without disturbing the air itself, Lud cautiously advanced, reaching the church. There was no one around, but Lud took precautions and waited until the moon disappeared behind the clouds before he climbed through the window and inside the church.

“..................”

The chapel looked the same as always. It was completely dark, but otherwise nothing was out of the ordinary. Lud crept silently across the floor like a cat. There were no signs of a struggle.

“What’s this... tea?”

On one of the pews sat a mug of unfinished tea that had long gone cold. Lud tried to silently pick up the mug, but it tipped and the tea poured onto the floor, leaving a pool of brown liquid.

Lud decided to find Marlene and tell her about the men outside the church. But he also needed to apologize to her for sneaking in and dirtying her floor. Just then, the moon peeked out between a break in the clouds, and bathed the chapel in a pale blue light. Lud felt as if he was at the bottom of a deep ocean, and unthinkingly looked down at the spilt tea.

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