African Child

The fight between Kailuo and his attackers was intensifying. He struck six of the attackers dead, including his youngest wife with his specially made magical bow and arrows. Then lightning struck him and destroyed three of his beast heads. He was weakened when he saw his youngest wife’s body in the pool of blood. Kailuo tried to escape the fight as he appeared multiplied in the eyes of his attackers. His real self was about to quit, but the attackers made a fake appearance of his only daughter, Martha. They asked Kailuo to surrender his power and submit to captivity or else his daughter would be killed along with him. Upon seeing his daughter, he surrendered to his enemies who disabled him of all telepathic abilities, had him tied to the teeth, and dragged him to the merger of streams that flowed into the Sanquin River. There they tortured him to death and buried him underneath one of the streams.

As tension brewed in Kailuo’s village and the entire clan worried about his well-being, his youngest wife fell off and dropped dead, a mysterious death that Kailuo’s other wives and old folks believed was tied to Kailuo’s disappearance. The news of Kailuo’s mysterious disappearance traveled like a wildfire throughout the country. The clan chief had made a formal report to the county’s officials about the development. The superintendent unleashed a batch of soldiers and police to the clan to help find the missing man. A county witch doctor was also sent to investigate and find out if the disappearance was the work of witchcraft or what might have caused the mystery.

After the burial of Kailuo’s youngest wife, the town chief evacuated everyone in Kailuo’s household to a sanitary and evil-free location pending the search for Kailuo. The agony of Kailuo as he lay dead underneath the stream ravaged the clan with tempests and lightning, amid heavy downpours of rain that lasted for one day and one night. All the rivers were extremely full and villages were flooded. The search was delayed due to uneasy weather conditions. Before the search, the county’s witch doctor had confirmed Kailuo’s death and pointed out that his deceased youngest wife had a hand in his death. The witch doctor told the clan and county officials Kailuo was attacked by twelve persons, including his youngest wife and another woman; six of them were killed by Kailuo before he was subdued and tortured to death, but she failed to give a specific place where he was buried. The search for Kailuo incriminated others who were not involved in his murder due to the witch doctor’s discrepancies in her soothsaying. Innocent people were taken to the county’s prison on murder charges while all the main evildoers were still at large. A number of other witch doctors were called in from all over the county to help locate Kailuo’s burial.