A few seconds later, Sunny found himself outside her office, somewhat lost. He had not expected that getting the stone-faced shrink to give him the clean bill of health would be so easy.
'It turned out great, though?'
Shaking his head, he went to the pharmacy situated on the lower floor of the hospital to get his prescription.
…It was when he was waiting for the pharmacist to fill it, listening to the rain pattering against the window, that there was a loud sound of something heavy falling nearby.
Then, a piercing scream shattered the silence.
As Sunny turned around, he saw several tall, muscular orderlies running to the source of the noise with troubled faces.
"Hurry!"
"She got out again!"
"How the hell is she…"
He lingered for a while, watching the disappear behind a heavy door, then separated himself from the wall he had been leaning on and followed.
Behind the door was one of the areas of the hospital where casual visitors weren't allowed. The dimly lit corridor was a complete mess, with several people struggling to get someone whom Sunny could not see behind them to the floor.
Just in front of him, he saw an overturned wheelchair, its wheel still spinning…
And a pool of red, vivid, glistening blood slowly spreading across the floor.
At the heart of the pool was a kneeling nurse who was crying loudly while clutching at her face, red streaks running between her fingers and painting her white uniform into a striking shade of vermilion.
At that moment, one of the brawny orderlies was tossed back, colliding with the wall with enough force to make the floor shake.
"D—damn it! How is she… so strong!"
"Hold her down, shit!"
"Don't hurt her, you idiots! We're all done for if she gets hurt!"
Sunny could finally see the cause of the mayhem.
The person whom four muscular orderlies had been struggling to contain… was a slender woman with wavy black hair and a pretty, but cold and sharp face. She was wearing a shredded straitjacket and resisting the orderlies with an amount of strength unexpected from someone of her build and constitution, clearly unhinged.
Strangest of all, though…
Was the fact that her eyes were of bright, vibrant red color.
Just like the blood on the floor.
Humans were not supposed to have vividly red eyes, but no one seemed to notice or pay it any attention.
By then, the orderlies finally managed to push the woman to the ground and were in the process of tying the sleeves of her straitjacket back up. She had been resisting them, still… until her gaze fell on Sunny.
He froze.
'Why… why does she look so familiar?'
The woman's eerie red eyes widened a little when she saw him.
And then, she suddenly laughed.
Her laughter resounded across the corridor, growing louder and louder until it drowned out the pitiful whimpers of the injured nurse.
The insane woman seemed to be incredibly amused all of a sudden. She seemed to be having the time of her life.
Taking a step back, Sunny pursed his lips and turned around.
'Just another psycho.'
There were too many of those around, these days.
As he was walking back to the door, however, her laughing voice washed over him:
"Kill him! You can actually kill him here! Find… Athena!"
Shaking his head, Sunny shut the door behind him and tried to calm his wildly beating heart.
The stench of blood was still stuck in his nose, making his hands tremble.
The sight of it…
'Damn it.'
Although Sunny knew that mixing sleeping pills with alcohol was a terrible idea, he suddenly really craved a drink.