Cre-eak—
Abiloch returns home.
Not seeing his mother's figure in the living room, he shouts towards upstairs by the stairs: "Mom, give me some money!"
No sound came down the stairs. Abiloch thought maybe his mother was not at home, so he stepped onto the stairs to the second floor.
Circled around without finding that familiar figure, Abiloch had to return to his room and took out the hidden shilling from under the bed to go out.
Just as he was going downstairs, Abiloch suddenly felt something clutching his neck, waves of suffocation surged.
His throat made a "cluck cluck" sound, his face flushed red. He reached out to grab his neck, but apart from leaving bloody marks on his neck, he grabbed nothing.
Thud—
A few seconds later, Abiloch fell to the ground. Whatever was clutching his neck still didn't let go. Before losing consciousness, he felt his body being dragged, pulled up the stairs section by section.
...
Abiloch slowly woke up.
