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ลำดับตอนที่ #9 : Chapter Nine - The Cursed
August 1936
"The victim is patient number 1076, dead caused report drowned." A nurse make report. "Inside the well..."
"What's happened?"
"I saw him talked to patient 0602 near the pool..."
"Did 0602 do something suspicious?"
"No, he left the place before the accident occured."
"Do you saw him says something to the victim before left?"
"I don't think so, he never talked to anyone before..." a junior nurse report. "Accident always occurs since he came to asylum, I'm afraid we will also be the next victim, should we just sent him back to his family?"
"We can't do that! How we're going to explain to his family? They are the main donator in this hospital!"
A nurse took out a piece of hand drawing, a man figure without face.
"Ah, I found this in the room. He makes a lot of this drawing in his room."
"From the clothing it seems like century ago..." the head nurse make an analyzed. "Let's keep it first and ask it to his family later."
September 1956
"Look, if you going to accept him back to this house, we all will leave this place!" said Sangpotirat 2nd son.
"But het is our brother, isn't he? He's one of us!" said youngest son.
"He is, but you know that he is cursed! Everyone died if stay close to him, mom is the best example for it" 1st daughter speak.
"Mom death is an accident, we can't put the blame on him?"
"He also got an accident, yet he survived...alone..."
"Do you wish him died in accident?
"He's cursed...."
"We going to move out, we don't want to stay in this place and wait for die..."
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Singto came to the office in early morning as usual, he cleans the desk, tidy up the documents, watering the flowers, open the curtain, prepare the drink, etc. He finished all of his general job in half hour and check his watch, he guessed Kevin will arrive in few minutes. Then he hear the footstep is approaching.
"Morning!" Wan come in and greet him.
"Morning N'Wan! You came alone?" Singto glances at outside.
"Of course not, I came with P'Kevin! He goes to toilet as we speaking."
"I've prepared everything on his desk, you may check it yourself." Singto report.
"Ah, about the schedule for today, I've made some arrangement and changed some points..." said Wan. "And...I wish next time you're not touch anything on the desk, because that will be my responsibility!"
"But, that's been my job all this time..."
"Not anymore!" Wan cut him. "Your job is to make sure everything in this room are in the right place and clean, for example clean up the windows, floor, make drinks, and...watering the plants."
"I understand!" reply Singto casual.
Wan looks surprised when saw Kevin is stood in front of the door without making any sounds.
"P'Kevin, you're back? Please have a sit!" she shortly rushed toward Kevin, even purposely nudge Singto's shoulder when walks pass him to welcome the boss come in.
Kevin walk in and stop in front of Singto then smiled. "How are you today? I wish you have enough rest and don't make yourself tired so much! Next time if you fall sick again, I will take care of you in my room instead of bring you to hospital!"
Wan widen her eyes in surprise toward Kevin's word, and immediately turned at Singto. As well as Singto, he shortly glared at Kevin in suspicious. However the guy ignore him and walks to the desk, followed by Wan. The woman took out the schedule from his bag and show it to Kevin.
She wear a very minim shirt today that purposely show of her breast part to Kevin while explaining. The guy take a chance to peek on it then glance at Singto for second, Singto also happen pay attention on what he's doing.
However Singto don't care and smirked to see how so unnatural Kevin's act is, he then excuse himself to leave the office afterward. After Singto left, Kevin don't seems to pay attention to Wan's explanation anymore, yet he seems unhappy.
Since he has nothing to do, so he took the chance to see Krist and offer to help. Hearing of that Krist so happy to offer him bunches of job. With the help of Singto, Krist finished his task early.
When return to office, they passed the small temple is right beside the factory's building. Usually Krist never bother to pay attention at the temple, but today he feels curious out of sudden and turns his head to scans what is inside the temple from a far, and saw a vision.
He saw a fire inside, and he also could hear the horribly screaming and crying voice come from there. Krist shocked and freeze for seconds, tries to focus on it.
"Krist? Krist?!" Singto called him from aside. "Hey!"
After a while, he jumped in startled and blinks for few times to bring his conscious back to present.
"What do you saw?" Singto feels curious.
"I..." Krist can't explained it, so he walk toward the temple followed by Singto.
They carefully step inside and scans around, that place looks so clean, and there is a huge stone tablet in the middle, besides the other thing like altar table, Buddha statue, incense burner, candle, flower, bell, etc.
Krist walk in front of the stone tablet and read the names that written on it.
"Who is these peoples?" Singto asked.
"How do I know?"
Suddenly an old man around 70 years old walk in and startled them.
"Sorry, we came in without permission..." Singto tried to explain.
"I know you guys, don't need to apology, my job is take care and to clean this place, I'm not the owner." he doing an Anjali to the Buddha Statue before continue to serve the two guys there.
"So, do you guys also wish to pray for these peoples soul?" he asked.
"No, we're not their family and we don't know any of them as well." answer Krist to the point.
"I know, they have no family, and probably no one ever known their names or how they looks like when they're still alive." The old man said. "They just bunches of crazy peoples who died by fire accident, no one care for them or remember them."
Krist shortly widen his eyes in surprised.
"Fire accident?!" he exclaimed.
"So, you know it?"
"No, I-I don't know...I just..." Krist stammered. "Do you know, what happened?" he returns the question.
The old man silence for a while, before began to speak.
"It's been a long time ago, probably more than 50 years ago..." he tries to remember. "This incident never been reported in newspaper, or anywhere...that's why no one ever know about what happened." he smirked. "The power of money I guessed...I'm the only live witnessed and I never told anyone..."
"You saw what happened?" Singto throw the question. "Who are you?"
"I am one of the patient...who survived..."
"Patient?!" the two guys exclaimed together and exchanged the looks. "Are you talking about hospital?"
"Asylum, precisely."
"Huh?! Asylum?" Krist exclaimed in shocked and Singto seems remember of something.
He look at the both for second and continue. "This place used to be an asylum, where the crazy peoples or mental illness peoples be imprison for life..."
"But, I think you wasn't seems like one." Krist commented.
"I was." He convinced. "I was 12 years old at the time, when witnessed of this place burned to ground in front of my eyes." He sighed again. "Not every child or person who has this called mental illness condition to be sent to here, but also a child who has unnatural behave..."
"I never been crazy, I was born with Cerebral palsy syndrome, I got movement problems and slowing growth, yet my family thought that I got the mental illness so they throw me to this place and never have come back to visit me again."
"Sorry." Singto shows sympathy.
"I spent 2 years in the asylum, I was scared, alone and confused."
"I'm glad you make it till today, you're strong." Singto comments.
"Well, I just lucky."
"So, what happened that day?" Krist seems impatience.
"It was midnight, I'm about to go to toilet then I met a patient with a scary look on his face, I can't clearly remember anymore but I never forget those eyes, he look at me sharply like he wants pounce me alive, so I ran and hiding...in the garden"
The old man held his breath for a second before continue. "I was so scared...and not long after, I saw a fire from the back door where I came, and got bigger and bigger, until finally burned down everything and everyone alive inside."
"So, where's the fire came?" Krist shortly got the answer in his head.
"I-I don't know...." He stammered.
The guy is trying to hold his emotion, and glared at the old man. "Let me tell you! You must be accidentally nudge the candle or oil lamp while running, weren't you?!"
"No, I...I don't know anything...I'm swear, I was so scared that time, I-I don't know what to do but hiding..."
"Well, can't blamed him though, it's an accident...he didn't mean it to happen." Singto tries to make things right and calmed Krist.
"You're the lucky bastard! You're who killed all those peoples!" Krist shouted emotionally.
"No, I don't...that patient, that monster....who killed them...yeah...if only he's not scared me..."
"How can you blamed other over your own carelessness?!" Krist very upset.
"Krist, enough! You can't bring those peoples come back to life by shout at him! He'd spent his whole life to pray for those unfortunate soul and clean their resting place, I think it's enough." Singto trying to explained while holding Krist's arm.
The old guy suddenly kneel down on the floor and crying sadly.
"I'm sorry, so sorry, please forgive me...." His body's shivering as he speak. "I deserve to die...I should had died along with them....I'm so sorry..."
Looking at that, krist immediately realized that he carried away by emotion.
"I'm sorry..." he feels regret. "Please, excuse me..." he bid a goodbye then shortly leave that place, followed by Singto.
"Krist, stop! Hey!"
But the man kept walking and ignored Singto's call. He was carried away by emotion and shouted at the man without clues, maybe he misjudged people, maybe the accident was not caused by him, nobody knew.
A few days later, the old man reportedly had an accident at the temple, he fell asleep leaning on the foot of the table after cleaning the altar and accidentally nudging the side of the table making it vibrate, so that the oil on the table fell and spilled over his head. His body was burned, he died on the road when was taken to hospital.
to be continue....
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