“Elfara!” Dev rushes to her sister’s room. The girl looked very frightened.
“Did someone hurt you?” Dev tries to calm Elfara.
“Nania! Nania terrorized me!” Elfara replied after a long moment of silence since Dev’s arrival. Dev’s grip slipped from her sister’s shoulder.
“Calm down! I’ll make sure she doesn’t bother you again.” After Dev leaves Elfara’s room, she decides to leave the hospital building.
“Find out the truth first before you do anything.” Dev’s steps stopped in the front yard of the hospital.
“You heard everything. Don’t you believe in Elfara?” Dev asks with a straight look ahead.
“A smart person would be wise, right?”
“Yes, I’ve been watching Nania for a long time. I hope you don’t mind, Uncle Mehmet!”
“Sure. I’m always on the side of the truth.”
Dev splashes her sticky body under shower. Since being shocked by the change in her physical form, she had not felt the freshness of the touch of water. Under the splashing water, she recalled everything that had happened. Including her feud with the devil who disturbed her family.
“Goddess Lilith? In fact, I don’t even know her. Killing anyone who protects her clients, that means she came on the basis of cooperation. Nania!” Remembering the name, Dev finishes her bath. She walked hastily towards Nania’s residence.
“Nania!”
“Nania!” Dev barges in.
“Who are you? It’s rude to enter someone’s house without permission.” Nania said angrily. Didn’t recognize at all that the person in front of her was Devada.
“No need to know! You just need to prepare for your death!” Dev casts a hateful look.
“What do you mean? Who are you, what’s your problem?” Nania asked aloud, but her eyes remained calm, making Dev instantly stunned.
“No! How could I melt just by looking into her eyes? Nania is a villain.” After Dev’s monologue, she immediately launches an attack.
“Let go! What are you doing?” Nania coughed, feeling Dev’s stranglehold getting tighter and tighter.
After being satisfied with making Nania weak, Dev threw the girl into the corner of the table. The girl winced at the pain in her stomach. Dev doesn’t give Nania a chance to stand up. Dev continues to attack mercilessly.
“Why don’t you fight back?”
“What for?” Nania said weakly.
Not getting a satisfied answer, Dev pulls Nania’s hair. The exotic girl looks resigned when a lot of her hair is left in Dev’s palm. Conditions that make Dev wonder.
“You’re so weak!” taunts Dev. Before long, Nania fainted.
“Fuck!” Dev sighs heavily. A letter scattered on the floor caught her attention. She picked it up.
“End-stage blood cancer?” Dev looks at Nania lying on the floor. She just realized, how pale the girl she hurt. Dev who fell in pity immediately laid the girl in the room.
“I will not kill you. Let the disease kill you slowly.”
***
On the way to the hospital, Dev accidentally sees a man in a silver mask. His clothes were exactly the same as the people who had harassed Mehmet and kidnapped Michele. The man walked down the alley. Dev follows him carefully. An abandoned building lay in front of her. Several people in similar robes were standing on the terrace while the person she was following started to enter the building.
“Who are they?” Dev mumbles, then sneaks in past the truck wrecks.
Dev restrains herself as she reaches the truck head. From there, she could see at a closer distance. A bit of a gasp when one of them suddenly walked towards her hideout truck. The man’s face was exposed as he removed the mask everywhere.
Dev doesn’t recognize the black man. However, that would be the first step to taking action. Dev steps back when the man’s position is in front of the wheel. At the same time, the trash can was accidentally stepped on. The sound provoked the man to check immediately. Dev runs away immediately before being caught.
Dev is pensive in her dimly lit room. The late night did not make her sleepy. All these mysteries always flashed in her head, snatching her body’s right to rest. All the subtleties that were there almost made her lose her sanity.
Tears came out of the slits of the eyes. Dev chews some pills in a huff. After a while, her body staggered.
“Useless!” She walked unsteadily to the first floor. As she was about to cross Elfara’s room, she saw her sister’s room emitting smoke. She muttered, “Who started the fire?” Dev goes around and finds no fire at all.
She pouted and meant to come out. However, fine smoke drifted past her vision. When she turns around, Dev finds the source of the smoke coming from under the bed. Lying down, Dev takes a piece of paper which is partly charred.
“What’s this?” Weak, she was no longer able to maintain her consciousness. Only moments after extinguishing the puff of smoke on the paper, Dev fell asleep without having time to change positions.
When she opens her eyes, Dev feels pain in head. She got up to sit down and found the paper still in her hand. Clingy, she observed, then said, “It’s a drawing sigil, but it’s not the same as the Asmodeus sigil I have. Why is this thing in Elfara’s room?” Suddenly, her heart rate tightened. Without thinking, Dev searches the room. Not finding what she was looking for, she rushed to the hospital.
“I found this in Elfara’s room.” Dev hands the sigil to Mehmet.
“Do you know anything about that?”
“I don’t know what this symbol is. Do you have a cell phone with you?” asked Mehmet. Dev nods as she hands the phone to Mehmet. They immediately found the answer after taking a picture of the sigil and entering it into a search engine.
“Sigil Lilith?” murmured Mehmet.
“Lilith? I think I’ve heard that name before.” Dev looks thoughtful. After that, she remembered something. The devil who drowned Jess called it. However, it is impossible for Dev to tell Mehmet.
“Uncle, who is Lilith?”
“There are all sorts of different opinions about Lilith.”
“It means?”
“She is a figure in Jewish mythology, developed earliest in the Babylonian Talmud. It is generally thought to be partly descended from some kind of female demon in the more ancient tales (līlīṯu) of Mesopotamian religion as found in cuneiform texts from Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, and Babylon. According to Hindu belief her real name is just Lil which means devil like an angel a mother of the Prophet Adam. Some say that Lilith is a night goddess from Babylonian legend known to the Jews who was exiled to Babylon. Whoever she is, she is considered a mysterious figure who very dangerous.” Mehmet explained.
“You have to find out who the sigil is! Did you find anything else in Elfara’s room?”
“No!”
“I hope all this ugliness will end soon. Dev, be especially careful with your own emotions.” Mehmet gives a message before Dev leaves his ward.
“Doctor, how is my mother?” Dev asked as she saw the doctor coming out of the room where Jess was being treated.
“There hasn’t been any progress. I hope you have mercy on me. Pray.”
“Okay thank you.” That’s all that can come out of Dev’s mouth.
Now, she walked confusedly to her sister’s bedroom. The doctor said that Elfara could do a recovery period at home. Dev sighed. Even though everything seemed so complicated, at least she was relieved that Elfara’s condition wasn’t so worrisome.
“Are you feeling any better?” Elfara didn’t respond to her question. The girl was busy preparing for her return.
“I brought clean clothes for you. Put them on, I’ll take care of everything.” Dev manages to make her sister look away and drop the dirty clothes she was about to put in a paper bag. Elfara approaches Dev, but only to take her clean clothes, then leaves without a word.
“I know it won’t be easy for you, but trust me, I will return everything that was taken from you. Your face will be fine. The doctor said your wound wasn’t that bad.” Dev says after Elfara finished changing her clothes.
“Can you really do it? Don’t you realize that whatever you do will only bring bad luck to other people. In fact, bad luck has existed since you were born into this world. Look! I don’t need your sympathy or empathy at all. So , stop pretending to care about me. I can take care of myself without you.” Elfara replied coldly.
“After daddy’s death, I take full responsibility for your life as well as Mommy!”
“Responsibility? What do you know about responsibility? You should never dream of replacing daddy in my life. To me, you are just a parasite.” Elfara smiled crookedly.
“Why do you hate me so much, Elfara? In fact, for a mistake I never did. I’ve listened to you enough all this time. Now, you have to listen to me! I never asked to be born. I’ve never been involved in our parents’ problems in the past. You’ve been jealous of me all this time. Jealous of something that isn’t clear. When mommy gave me meat and you were only allowed to eat a few types of vegetables in small portions, did you think about what meat mommy gave me and why mommy limited your nutritional intake? Imagine if the meat I eat every day is not edible meat?” Dev’s face heats up. Elfara’s words hurt her deeply. However, Dev tries to control her emotions.
“What do you mean?”
“Have you ever checked your health? Did you know about the pills that Mommy gave me every day? You always thought they were supplements, right? Won’t you find out, what pill I’m taking? Don’t you ask what meat I eat? You have extraordinary intelligence, right? I should be the one who has feelings of jealousy like that because what you imagine is very far from reality.” Elfara was silent. The look in her eyes seemed to say that her sister’s words made a lot of sense.
Silence, Dev looked at Elfara who was getting more and more astonished and took a step back. Dev knows the direction of her sister’s eyes. As she followed her, she realized that Elfara was not thinking about her words, but was watching her shirt pocket emit smoke. Dev reaches into her pocket and finds the strange smoke coming from Lilith’s sigil.
“Is this yours?” asked Dev suddenly.