Chapter 52

Moments passed silently in which Taron raised an eyebrow, as if the little boy had done something wrong.
Ace walked toward Taron hesitantly and stood opposite him, looking at him silently.
Taron is bored and looks back at the newspaper: "It seems you haven't found a job yet."
Ace nodded hesitantly, then said, "But I got some money before going to school this morning, as a shoe cleaner."
He took the money out of his pocket and stretched it towards Tarun: "Look!"
Taron looked at Led Ace and then took the money from him.
Ace put his bag down as he went to make the coffee obediently, it didn't take long to come back and hand the coffee to Taron who, while taking the cup, poured a little on Ace's hand on purpose while the other moaned in pain..
Tarun: "This is your punishment for the money you brought..."
Anger appeared on Taron's face, red with anger: "Don't call me my brother! How many times do I have to explain this to you! Get off my face right now and start doing your homework and clean the house!"
Ace sprinted before something bad happened.
This is how Ace's life is after his parents' departure, he started solving his homework quickly and then started cleaning the house with all mastery and speed..
Then he stood upright in front of Taron as if waiting for the next step.
Taron: "Bring me the wand"
Ace swallowed his saliva, tried to review what he had done if he had done something wrong? But he did not utter a word and brought himself the instrument with which he would be beaten.
He received five strong blows from his brother on the back, in which he groaned in pain.
"I'm sorry I won't repeat it!" Ace said while holding his head.
Taron actually stopped and threw the stick aside and made a shopping list with some money for him..
Taron: "Don't be late"
Ace grabbed the menu and left quickly, and while he saw his belongings someone called him..
: "Oh, it's the transfer student."
Three students from his class came towards him, but he just ignored them while they seemed surprised, one of them ignored him, the other cursed him and walked away, while the third ran towards Ace and pulled the list from him, so Ace was surprised.
Ace: "Hey I don't have time for you! Take it back!!"
The other tore it in half while Ace swallowed his saliva imagining the punishment to come..
Ace smiled brightly and hurried to buy, perhaps this time his brother would reward him for example because he was fast! The other helped him without complaining.
Ace ran out of the store and then stopped and turned to his fellow brown-haired and blue-eyed: "What's your name!"
Ace: "Thank you!"
Then he ran into the house excitedly and lifted the bags: "I'm back!"
Taron looked at him and raised an eyebrow: "Oh you were quick today."
Ace smiled wide, waiting for a compliment, and Taron understood his brother's stance.
Taron: "Since you're back early, I have a bonus for you."
Ace got excited but closed his lips to hide his feelings as he waited for what he would say to him..
Taron gestured to him to come closer and sit on the chair near him, Taron ran out while waiting for what the reward stipulated..
Taron took out a camera and hung it on Ace's neck, and before the little boy expressed his joy, he was disappointed by Taron's cold, serious look and what he said now..
Taron: "There is a competition to enter the forbidden palace in which rumors circulate of the last vampire to live, one of the conditions of which is that you film the entire scenes while you are inside."
Ace tensed up and swallowed: "A.. you don't believe in vampires anyway."
He turned his eyes around the corners of the room, trying to escape from this competition.
Taron: "But the prize is tempting...so you will participate in it and you will win against your will, get ready in the evening I will take you to the gathering point of the contestants"
Taron stood up while Ace turned to him nervously: "But going to that palace is forbidden by law."
Taron shrugged his shoulders, carelessly: "Just get ready, the contest's duration is to stay in the palace for a whole month."
The little one gasped: "And the school!?"
Taron: "You will go from there, stop the questions, you will understand when you go, and if you know that you missed the competition, ran away, or lost in it, you will not receive what makes you happy."
The look of anger and anger directed towards him made him feel that going to the palace was easier for him than seeing his brother, He convinced himself that there really weren't vampires and nothing would happen to him, so he nodded in agreement and ran to his room, ready to move to an abandoned mansion about which the rumors were circulating...!
Sometimes you can do nothing but obey your guardian.
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hat can you do if you are threatened by him?? What can you do if your residence is with him, your property is with him, and everything that belongs to you is in his hands.. your food, drink and accommodation.. and you cannot find a substitute for it...
Your parents have already passed away, You do not have uncles or grandparents or any relative other than him.. and you are under him legally..
Ace was wetting his lips with a lot of tension, and he grabbed a backpack and was clutching at it.. it's all he's going to have for the month..
He moved his feet, raising them sometimes and lowering them. And the upper half sometimes approaches and sometimes retreats..
He turns left and right while standing still, Tension had set in, and fear had almost killed him.
Everyone around him is reckless men, either from gangs or poor people who want money, he tried to search with his eyes for anyone close to his age, but he did not find..
The contestant finally appeared and was surrounded by three guards, Wearing blue and white striped formal clothes, he looked rich, raised his papers and looked at them coldly..
He started by explaining the main points of the competition..
They will go to the palace from a hidden and short path underground so that the government will not reveal them.
Everyone has their own room, Until the rooms are full it will become a double and priority for the little ones.
Every movement with the intention of searching for the vampire must be photographed and documented.
Rumors say that the vampire is inside a coffin, their mission is to get it and open it and prove the rumor or deny it!
They can go out as they like from the palace during the day, but all evening and sleep inside the palace..
Some may think that a month is a long time to search for a coffin, but the palace is full of traps in addition to its size and the presence of secret passages and roads inside it.
Whoever escapes from the competition will be killed!!
The little one's hand trembled and he grabbed the bag, the contest owner finished his speech and this means the beginning of their walk towards the palace..
They started walking and the little boy turned towards the trees as they ran into the forest in fear. He wished for a moment to tell him that you are young and not accepted in this competition, but unfortunately age is open!
The rich man opened a door in the ground in the middle of the forest: "From here I leave you, at the end of the corridor you will find a gate that will lead you directly into the palace.
He entered the corridor, and it was very dark. Each of them grabbed his flashlight, and our little one did not forget to bring one with him, One of them lifted him from his clothes from behind, so that his feet dangled, and he turned directly to the man with a large build.
: "What is a kid like you doing between us huh?! This isn't a place for kids or you can get out of it alive!" Then he threw it laughing loudly.
Without further ado, something appeared that they had not seen, and it entered the ear of the giant and came out of his second ear, and drops of blood scattered on Ace, whose eyes widened in astonishment...
The cries rose and this and that ran, But the little one is still on the ground, His hands were trembling violently.. He lifted them to his head and lowered it down..
He wanted to scream at the top of his voice, but he felt and realized that their screaming and talking in their corridor was the cause of their death! It is as if the wall is waiting for you to hear a sound until you kill it with an arrow.
He couldn't calm himself as he felt all that movement, screams and blood dripping around him..
At last the situation calmed down, and he raised his lamp to see that there were still men who had not died, He tried to control himself and stand up, but his feet were unable to lift him.
And when he saw them complete their walk in silence, he forced himself so that he wouldn't stay here alone..
When he came near them, he grabbed the hem of someone's shirt and tried not to make him feel it, He just wants to feel someone close to him.. How will he sleep in the palace if traps have started before entering it!! How will he get out of here alive!
He had a severe headache and dizzy from the pressure he was feeling.
The vision began to become blurry and stagger before falling to the ground, panting with exhaustion.
Someone turned when he heard the sound of his fall and put the light towards him for him to see...
He remained for a moment, contemplating him, panting, then walked towards him and silently carried him on his back and continued his walk.
They came to the end of the corridor and found a red door, Someone opened it quietly, and in front of them was a staircase that would take them up to the palace at last.
They reached inside and were shocked to enter the middle of a very large courtyard decorated with ornaments and antiques at its edges.
They began to enter their rooms and that man came in to put Ace on a bed, seeing that his temperature had risen.
Ace looked at him tiredly and moved his lips, his thanking voice sounded away..
While the other one stood outside silently and weis watched him until he left as if he wanted to keep his shape, he might take cover behind him in the coming days..
The palace was very spacious and impressive in the way of its architecture, the decorations and artifacts that filled it, and the paintings that filled it, It seems that the owner was very wealthy.
After a few hours had passed, Ace suddenly sat in his place, terrified as if he had seen a nightmare.
He slowly opened the curtain of his bed and looked around.
Far from the atmosphere that surrounds the little one, in a huge mansion a young man in his twenties sits behind his desk, legs raised in his chair and stretching his hands forward, mergingly fiddling with his laptop, his blond hair raised with his glasses.
A boy with messy brown hair walked in quickly: "Alford, there's a meeting."
Triss cheerfully entered and stood before Alford: "Everyone is already in the boardroom and Simon is outside so no one has seen me!"
Alford stood up and put in his hand a sum of money: "This is your salary for this month."
Tris jumped up: "Hey! Can I go shopping!?"
Alford sighed and nodded disapprovingly as he walked out: "Make the coffee and bring it to the conference room."
Alford came in to receive a collective response..