After Dante handed his dark crystals to the teenagers, Zac gave the idea of going to the arcade together.
The Oga Team needed to stay close to the kids to protect them against any demon that targeted them, but if they could simply hang out, then their job would be easier.
The teenagers accepted the invitation and made their way to a popular arcade that was a few minutes away by subway.
When they arrived, Dante's interest was instantly piqued by all the different machines, lighting up the place with different-colored lights and sounds.
"Hey, big bro. Wanna go against !?" Jake asked the warlock, who had his attention on a fighting ga.
*Pfft* Zac scoffed with a smile and turned to the side, thinking that it was hilarious that soone else had called Dante "big bro."
The redhead thought that Dante would be bothered by it the sa way he was when Asher and Amara called him that. However, the warlock seed totally unbothered by it this ti.
'I guess he doesn't like it when demons call him that…' Zac thought.
"Sheesh, big bro is actually pretty good!" Jake exclaid, quickly smashing the buttons on his side.
Zac spotted Tommy approaching a different machine with a rhythm ga where two people could play as the guitarist and drumr.
"Need a partner?" Zac asked the kid, who shared his sa hair color.
"S-sure," said Tommy.
anwhile, gan and Lina watched them play gas for a few minutes with unamused expressions, not feeling particularly attracted to any of the machines.
Nonetheless, when Lina's eyes gazed at the ice cream stand in the back of the arcade, her eyes lit up just enough for gan to notice, guiding the girl over so she could get her a snack.
Dante turned montarily, seeing gan stoically eat her ice cream while Lina had a smile on her face.
Not even her perpetual cold expression could hide the clear positive energy that Dante saw flowing from the woman's body, making him smile a bit.
'She is always so thoughtful…' Dante thought, getting distracted for too long and realizing that he had lost the match against Jake.
"Hehe, if you snooze—you lose," Jake said as the victory screen appeared.
Dante chuckled and spamd the rematch button, thinking that he needed to make a few adjustnts to the soul shards he had given to the teenagers.
Later that night, the group happily left the arcade, feeling a bit more comfortable around Team Oga's company.
While on the subway ride back, the warlock borrowed the soul shards he gave to Lina and Tommy, believing that they should have been attuned to gan and Zac, respectively.
When Dante looked at the kids, he could see that only Jake felt comfortable around him. However, he easily deduced the reason why that happened.
Out of the three teenagers, Jake was the only one who witnessed Dante killing a demon with ease without breaking a sweat.
On the other hand, Tommy only caught a glimpse of Zac after he saved him inside the sewers, so it was natural for him to feel more attached to the redhead.
"Can you guys put a drop of your blood on these shards?" Dante asked his friends.
"Huh!?" Zac humd in disbelief.
"Not a lot—It only needs one drop…" the warlock clarified.
With a little pin, gan poked the tip of her finger and stained the shard with her blood, making the crystal glow for a mont as it absorbed it.
Zac gulped sowhat nervously as he repeated the process on Tommy's shard, prompting Dante to hand it back to the teenagers when they were finished.
"By the way… Why did you guys go to the sewers that night?" gan asked the kids.
Lina explained that the story about the monster in the sewers had beco quite popular with high school kids, and it was a challenge that was appearing all over social dia.
A few weeks before, an older kid from their school had gone missing, and the rumors said that he had disappeared inside the sewers.
"I guess we were just dumb and naive…" Lina comnted, looking down with a hint of sadness.
gan knew that it was common for teenagers to do stupid things without thinking about the consequences, so she didn't hold it against them for being curious.
"I understand. I mostly asked to see if soone was coercing you guys into going in there," the brunette replied.
The teenagers denied being influenced by soone in their decision, which gave the Oga Team a relieved feeling.
After the group arrived at their station, they accompanied each of the kids to their hos, which were quite close to each other.
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Late at night, in the police headquarters, Alice and June were going through a large deck of files stacked on their desks.
"Are these all of them…?" June asked her superior with perplexion.
"Yep. These are all the 'missing person' reports," Alice said, her expression cold and focused.
The detectives had gone and taken out all the reports that were ignored by the police, realizing that many of them had gone missing inside the sewers.
"How co nobody noticed this?" June pondered aloud.
Alice kept reading through the different docunts, noticing that most of them had supernatural causes listed as the cause of disappearance. While this made it easier for police to ignore the report, they still should have acted after receiving it nurous tis.
As the senior detective flicked through the docunts, she found a report of a missing 17-year-old kid who was last seen entering the sewers.
"Oh, I went to that school!" June comnted.
"Hmm, that could work…" Alice replied, leaning back on her chair with a tired expression.
"We'll go check it out tomorrow. Maybe so of the kids there have so information that's missing from this report…" the senior detective muttered.
"Got it… Still, I can't believe these were all ignored," June said, slightly frustrated.
"Mhmm… We might need help in sniffing out the mole in here," Alice continued, closing her eyes to take a nap on her desk.
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