The guard panicked as soon as it realized that these beasts did not affect either Yoko or Sakura Tsurugi. His confidence slowly started to fall and he decided to make a call to Professor Ross.
"H-Hello professor! Our intruders have gotten quite far into our base. W-What should I do about them? Do I try to kill them? Or do I try to capture them alive?"
The guard asked while desperately praying for an easy answer. Even now, Yoko Tsurugi seed to be looking at the cara in front of her. The guard was sure that she knew his location as well as the fact that he had been looking at her.
'T-This is nerve-wracking. I want to get out of here.'
That was what the guard wanted but the professor had different plans for him currently.
"You remain there and keep an eye out on things. Don't let those two escapes from your clutches and wait for . I will be there to assist you soon."
The guard sighed as soon as he received his orders. It was going to be another day filled with bullshit for him.
Thankfully, he had a lot of tricks stored under his sleeves and he was going to use them. These people, would not know what hit them once he was through with them.
......….
Amane walked a little deeper into the lab and looked around. There seed to be nothing of importance here.
Heck, this place could not even be called a lab since it had no equipnt or ingredient inside. It was just another one of the abandoned rooms one could find in this building.
So, the first thing Amane needed to do was to find the right path. And she allowed her senses to look around.
Her aura touched sothing solid around her that made Amane pull back in alarm. She had not realized this, but she had been inside a space bubble all this ti. Her aura and her magic were being fed upon by beasts.
'How the hell did I not notice this until now? But oh well, ti for to give my capture the shock of their lives.'
Amane raised her aura until it was up to a lethal level and then released it all in a single burst. The beasts feeding on her were not able to keep up and they ended up exploding.
The space around Amane fell apart and she found herself in the sa corridor she had exited from.
"Tsk, it was all a mirage. Now, where did Sakura and Aqua disappear to? Do I need to go out and find them as well?"
Amane looked around but the corridor looked abandoned. Even her senses could not find the other two so she gave up for the ti being and decided to look around. It did not take her long to find the guard's location with the help of her powers.
The guar realized what Amane was doing as soon as she started to walk in her direction. But he could not escape his guard post.
There was a spell keeping him inside his room and it would not be lifted until it was ti to change guards. It was one of the worst parts about this job but this lock made the guard position secure.
'It will be alright. Just like I cannot go out of this door, other people cannot enter this door as well. The other guard will co to change positions with once it's ti and then it will be his problem. Everything will be alright.'
That was what the guard prayed as he clutched his seat. He had already sent a ssage to Professor Ross about what was happening here. From here on, it was out of the guard's hand.
Suddenly, soone knocked on his door but the guard did not open the door. He did not want to risk facing Yoko Tsurugi's anger.
"Hey man, it's . It's ti for the shift change."
Those words were the saving grace of the guard. He quickly opened the door and looked at the other guard outside the door.
"O-Of course. Hurry up and go in there."
The guard gestured for his replacent to go in so that he could go out. It was a weird exchange they had to make every ti to change shifts but the guard was sure that it would be his last.
'As soon as I am out of here, I will resign and then he would find a new job. It should not be that difficult…
The guard never finished his thought process because he was stabbed. The guard died in a matter of seconds.
"Tsk, if only you had not seen enough and thought of quitting. Then you might have been able to live past today. I bet you did know even know that we were all cursed as soon as we sighed this contract."
The replacent guard sighed as he looked at the unconscious body in front of him. He felt sorry for the guard who just died, but he also decided not to think too much about it.
The first thing the replacent guard needed to do was to disable the security lock so that he could escape. There was a fail-safe that had been left in place and he needed to find it.
Only, that was sothing that did not happen. Before he could find the lock, Yoko Tsurugi walked into the corridor and stood in front of the door.
"Oh my! What kind of situation is this? It seems like I arrived at quite the wrong ti for you. So, do you need my help with anything? Perhaps, to lighten your burden by spilling out a few secrets."
Yoko Tsurugi's heels made a clicking noise as they collided with the ground. Her presence unnerved the guard but he needed to pretend like he did not know anything about what was happening here.
"I don't know what you an. I just arrived here, only to find my colleague dead on the ground. Were you the one who did this? I will press charges against you if you do not back away now."
The guard quickly walked back and pushed the body of the dead guard out of the door. Since there was only one person inside the room with a special permit, the door was locked and the guard was safe once more.
Or, that was what he thought. But he could not be more wrong.
Amane knocked on the door once but it did not open. She felt the curse on the door interact with her magic, sparking her in the process. And that was not going to do.
Amane's magic overloaded the curse which caused the door to open. The guard, who had been chilling on the chair until now, suddenly looked terrified of her.
"Y-You! How did you do this? Were you, not a beast tar? No one said that you could open locked doors as well."
The guard looked baffled by Amane's talent. He had never seen soone like her in his life before and she terrified him.
He wanted to run away and cursed his foolishness. He had no idea why he thought that this place would keep him safe.
"Tsk I show you just one of my talents and you people begin to fall apart like a card house. Now, I don't have much patience so I need you to answer so questions for . And if you lie, I will know."
Amane held her hand out and sparks lightened her palm. It was not a power that she liked to use often but it was good for intimidating purposes.
The guard was terrified of her and her powers. He did not want to beco beast snack next so he decided to tell Yoko what she wanted to know.
"W-What do you want to know from ? I am just a henchman so I do not know a lot. But whatever you want to know, I will try to tell you truthfully."
The man was terrified for his life. But he still stood his ground and refused to look up into Yoko Tsurugi's eyes. Experience new stories on empire
Amane was not surprised to see this man fall apart this quickly in front of her. Most people tended to do the sa once they realized that there was no way out for them.
"Tsk took you long enough to co around. Now, hurry up and spill the beans to . Where is Sakura and Aqua? And where is your leader? I want serious answers only so you better not hold your words back."
His guards gulped as he was pushed down. Amane had one of her feet lay on top of the guard's arm and she put pressure behind it to show that she was not afraid to break a few bones to get her way.
That made the guard flinch and he quickly decided to follow Yoko Tsurugi's orders.
"I-I know where your cousin and friend are. They are in chamber 315 of the experint line, the jungle. The probability of them getting out of there alive is slim so you should hurry up…."
The guard tried to distract Yoko and make her panic. Maybe if she knew that her friends were in danger, then she would run over to them and leave the guard alone.
But that turned out not to be the case at all. Instead of looking scared or worried, Yoko looked bored. It was almost as if she had nothing to do with her cousin and her friend anyway.
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