It’s already night right now,
The hard-working men and women are already home asleep, it’s the time for them to rest and prepare their bodies for the next day.
Many stores and offices are closed, it’s currently 11 in the night.
Kyran is wearing an all-black suit he got from Edward, it’s Edward’s uniform during the USR that is made with light materials and will not hinder Kyran’s movement.
After Rex told him to scout three places, he immediately went out.
He’s confident in his skill because he can already clear the obstacle course made by Edward easily, in fact, he didn’t feel it challenges him anymore.
Kyran is currently near the first place nearest to Rex’s house.
Although it’s already night, there are still many people walking around and talking doing their night shift.
The first place is an alley just beside a wine store.
Rex told him before the departure that to enter the market he needs to have the password, and Rex didn’t know the password to this market.
He has the password for the market but he doubts that it’s a universal market, so he didn’t tell Kyran.
Because of this, Rex instructed Kyran to keep an eye on it.
Follow anything that looks suspicious and try to find information about how they transfer their goods, this is a crucial part of Kyran’s mission.
Rex also said that the customer should be wearing masks to enter it.
Kyran looks around and found two guys smoking in front of a door that he assumed is the guards guarding the market entrance.
He’s on the rooftop of the opposite building, he can see the place clearly this way.
The first rule given by Edward that he must follow is that to find a spot for the observation, it’s preferably a higher ground because it’s more secure.
The second one is to find routes that he will be using as an escape route.
It sounds simple but Edward told Kyran that the second rules are where many fails, he needs to have at least three plan of escape in case he met with a problem.
The third and last one is to secure the places using traps, it’s better to be a non-lethal trap.
Edward explains during their training that a scout’s objective is to gather information and direct contact has to be avoided.
So rather than using a lethal trap that will alert the enemies, it’s better to use non-lethal traps that will notify you if someone enters the building or infiltrate the place he’s using as a secure spot.
Because of how much Edward stresses these rules, Kyran does it all with caution.
He puts many strings attached to bells on places that will direct into the rooftop where he’s staying, he also calculates every way that a person can go to his place.
Kyran even locked the windows that potentially be used to go to his spot by pinning it with nails he got from the decoration inside the building.
The building he’s on is a hotel, so there’re many nails he can find.
His objective in nailing these windows is to at least force someone to create noise if they’re trying to open it, this will notify him instantly.
With the senses he got and also the enhancement from becoming a Werewolf, his senses are very sharp.
It’s not even an exaggeration if he says that nobody can sneak onto him.
This is his first time doing a mission like this alone,
He likes these kinds of missions because Kyran doesn’t like to kill humans, it makes him feel guilty and disgusted with himself.
“That must be a customer”, Kyran mumbles as he saw a guy wearing a mask approaching the alley.
The guy talks to the guards.
Kyran can hear their conversation but the guy’s mask muffled their voice, it’s hard for him to catch their conversation clearly.
After exchanging few words,
Instead of the guards letting the guy in, the guy walks out of the alley as if nothing happened.
The guy walks back to where he came from, but Kyran frowns when he senses something is amiss with the guy that is walking away.
His senses caught something when suddenly he realizes, ‘I can’t feel the guy’s presence anymore’
With his enhanced senses, he should be able to sense the guy’s presence just like when the guy came to the alley before.
But now, that presence is gone.
Kyran follows the guy by leaping through building silently,
The guy walks to a T-junction, he turns left and enters another alley.
Seeing this, Kyran thought that the entrance turns out to be in this alley but when he looks at the entrance he found the guy’s body started to disintegrate.
Kyran had never seen something like this before, ‘Is that an illusion?’, he thought.
He then went back to the alley before and found that nothing changes, the guards are still smoking but Kyran can feel their presence.
‘Where did that guy go?’, He thought in confusion.
After looking at a couple of customers that did the same thing, Kyran finally manages to find their patterns.
Turns out that the ground beneath the guy suddenly opened and sucked the customer in it.
The customers that can be seen walking back to where they came from before disintegrating turn out to be an illusion.
Somewhere around here, there’s an illusionist.
Kyran doesn’t know this, he just assumes that an Awakened can do something like this.
“So the entrance is just a decoration, that’s the real entrance”, Kyran mumbles as he pays close attention to the ground.
He didn’t see how the guards did that, they didn’t even move from their spots.
Kyran then waits for a few hours,
In these past hours, he saw many customers that manage to get inside the market.
He also notices that the guards use some kind of an earpiece,
Kyran deduces that to enter the market the guard will have to notify the person on the other side and told them to open the entrance on the ground.
He also saw one of the customers said the wrong password,
The customer that said the wrong password was instantly killed, he got a bullet enhanced with mana shot straight into his head.
It makes Kyran frown at how nonchalant the guards do it.
They make it looks like an everyday thing as they killed another human being, they then opened the door beside them and tossed the corpse inside.
Kyran saw this happened right in front of his eyes, “So that’s what the fake entrance is used for”
He started to become disgusted with these people that think that a human’s life is cheap, a spark of hatred to the one orchestrating this emerges.
Kyran started to hate the Platchi’s too.
Just after another hour, Kyran saw two black cars stopped by the end of the alley.
The two black cars stopped right in front of the alley.
One guy came out of the driver seat of the car in front, he then walks to the corner before he pisses on it.
It looks normal but Kyran is not convinced.
Just as he’s observing from the top, he saw the guy peeing makes eye contact with the guards guarding the entrance.
The guards nodded their heads before the driver went back to the car.
After their small exchanges that will be missed by normal people, the car shook left and right for a while before they drove off.
Seeing this, Kyran instantly knew what they’re doing.
Just like how they put customers into the market, they also did the same thing to the supply transfer to re-stock their products.
The guards will tell the people on the other side to open the entrance before the products inside the black cars before got transferred through it.
Kyran assumes that there’s a hole in the car to slide through the products into the entrance they opened underneath the cars without anyone noticing.
‘The entrance to the market is in front of the guards for the customer, and the end of the alley for the transfers’, Kyran thought.
He grasped their mechanic instantly thanks to his heightened senses.
While he’s on his way to this place, Kyran heard some people tell stories about this place.
They said that the place is haunted with a person wearing masks that can disappear in a whim, it is said that those masked people is a victim of a killer named ‘The Night Butcher’ in this part of Ratmawati City.
Kyran shrugs this off knowing that it’s just stories.
But who would’ve thought that story turns out to be a made-up story by the Platchi’s for their business, Kyran can’t help but praise their plan.
‘So that’s why this part is deserted’, Kyran thought.
Just when he’s about to leave this place and resume another day, police suddenly came to this place stopping right beside the alley.
The guards saw this before they approach the police.
“I got a report of masked people wandering in this place, have you seen any of them around here?”, the police questioned.
The police is an organization under the FAA, they’re the law keeper for normal people.
Although the FAA is mainly discussing Awakened, they are also tasked to keep peace in their tasked territory.
That’s why they also need the police, they’re still needed for this purpose.
The two guards look at each other weirdly before they said, “I didn’t see anyone here sir, they say that this place is haunted and maybe that’s what the person who reports this saw”
“Just a ghost, nothing more”, they added.
Hearing this, the police looks at both of the guards with weird expressions, “Well I heard of that story, then why are you two here knowing that story?”
One of the guards chuckles, he taps the police’s shoulder and said, “We also have to eat, don’t we? Of course, we’re working here”
The police are skeptical, but finally, he lets them through.
Just when the police was about to go, one of the guard ask, “If you don’t mind me asking officer, who is the person reporting this?”
The police were confused, “Why do you guys have to know?”
“I’m just wondering, they must be new to be reporting this. All of the residents around here know of this, I just found it weird for someone that lived around here to report this”, one of the guards explained.
Both guard’s expression is friendly, they look like they’re genuinely asking.
The police then turn on his car and said, “It’s the resident in Newton Residence, he’s probably scared of ghosts then”
After saying that, the police leave the guards.
Just after the police left, One of the guards signal to the other before the other guard leave the place.
Unknown to both of them, a shadowy figure enters the door on their backs.
When the two guards are busy dealing with the police, Kyran takes this opportunity to go to the fake entrance that they use to throw corpses in it.
It’s a risky decision because he doesn’t know what lies behind the door.
Entering the door, Kyran was instantly greeted by the stench of rotten corpses that quickly penetrated his nose.
His enhanced senses become a burden as he instantly throws up.
Kyran never worked on this before, he never knew that the stench of the corpse will be this unbearing making him instantly throws up.
After trying to not make a sound, he finally calms down.
He’s currently in a hall with three doors at the end of the hall, it’s a wooden door and they’re all identical.
The corpse that got thrown inside disappear, there’s no trace of it.
Even the floor that should be bloodied because of the corpse is clean, it looks weird because it’s too clean for a place that is filled with corpse stench.
Crunch!
From the end of the hall, Kyran saw noises coming from the left door.
The hall is dim-lit so Kyran can blend in the shadow of the hall, he’s not scared to get caught.
Kyran then opened the left door slowly,
His movement is silent, there’s no sound of his footsteps or even his breath that can alert the enemies inside this place.
Right in front of him, he saw a fat man eating something on a table.
From the looks of it, Kyran already knows what he’s eating and his stomach started to wobble in displeasure.
Kyran then takes out a cloth and puts it inside his mask, his black mask that covers his mouth and nose needs an extra layer to block out the corpse stench.
He then takes out a dagger and appears like a shadow just behind the fat man, “Don’t move or you’ll die”, he whispers slowly.