Calvin tried to stand up but he found himself strapped on the chair with chains.
The look on his face made it obvious that he was still unsure if he was in a dream or not.
"Calm down, you're not in a dream anymore..."
"Let introduce myself first."
"I'm Ron Samuel, The Captain of the Joselian Kingdom's Secret Intelligence Service, the Cavaliers. I'm sorry for the rude awakening." The man standing in front of Calvin looked to be a middle-aged man with a sturdy built.
He has a ssy black hair, a straight nose, and brown eyes that seed to be more like black than brown for one could feel as if they were looking into the abyss itself when they stared right at the man's eyes.
Rembering what the man had said earlier, Calvin exclaid, "You can enter my dreams? Was that a dream earlier?"
The Captain of the Cavaliers, Ron Samuel slowly shook his head and said, "Nope, that wasn't a dream. It was a scene constructed from your most recent mories related to what happened earlier in the day..."
"I'm sure that you may not rember about it anymore, but a tragedy happened earlier..."
"A man was killed and it turns out that you're the killer."
"What?! How am I the killer? I literally did nothing other than sleep for the entire day!"
"Yes, it appears that you've done nothing other than sleep."
"But your mories say otherwise."
Ron Samuel let out a slight smile.
The other Cavaliers glanced at each other and realized that their Captain was lying.
Indeed, soone had died early in the day, but it wasn't a man at all.
But a monster, a mber of the demi-human species doppelganger.
Was there really a need to lie?
Yes...
Spiritualistic Magic pertaining to the mind was quite difficult to pull off.
Ron Samuel's lie of branding Calvin as the murderer would definitely disturb his mind enough for his erased mories to surface so that the master and Ron Samuel himself could peruse it. This tactic may be unethical and distasteful, but it was quite effective.
But usually, this tactic wouldn't be used.
This incident was just a special exception.
But why?
It was because of the words left by that mysterious leaver of clues...
"The trail ends here, Red Cloud."
The Red Cloud was a secret organization that the Church of All-Encompassing Light had to pay attention to. Wherever their mbers were present, murder and riot would follow. Realizing that they were here in this city ant bad news.
To be honest, the Cavaliers already forgot about the case of the elusive thief, but they didn't realize until now that the thief that they had ignored was actually connected to the Red Cloud!
After so investigations on the carcass of the doppelganger, Jas Branzuela and Ron Samuel discovered traces of the unique mana signatures that mbers of the Red Cloud gave off! It was now certain that the doppelganger was a mber of the Red Cloud!
This was also the reason why they beca angry at the mysterious leaver of clues.
The puzzle had been solved and the results could be found if one connected the first words of the places where the mystery man left his clues. After solving the puzzle, the Cavalier looked for further clues and they discovered the scene at the dark alleyway.
Calvin had lost his consciousness and after checking, they had discovered that soone affected his consciousness. It was most likely to be a case of possession.
A mber of Red Cloud must've possessed Calvin's spirit and turned him into their puppet in order to distract the Cavaliers and derail the investigation away from the elusive thief which was one of their assets here in the city of Ashlion.
Knowing that the Cavaliers prioritized cases involving rogue Predators, they beca confident that they could successfully distract the Cavaliers from what was really happening. They acted smart, but there was still sothing that didn't make sense for the Cavaliers.
If Calvin was indeed possessed, why did he write such a note?
Why did he write the words, "The trail ends here, Red Cloud?"
If he was a mber of the Red Cloud, then he would try his best to hide their existence until it was ti for them to reveal themselves.
Ron Samuel also had his own doubts and that was the reason why he used Spiritual Guidance through the use of Spiritualistic Magic to create a dream based on Calvin's mories.
Interacting with Calvin inside the dream, he discovered nothing strange until a man visited Calvin's residence and talked with him for a few monts.
But the results of his Spiritual Guidance turned out to be inconclusive.
They still couldn't find out whether the note was written by Calvin himself or the one who possessed him.
Every mber of the Cavaliers wasn't stupid. They deduced this much after extrapolating from missing data, then afterwards.
They turned to look at Ron Samuel and nodded.
Ron Samuel also nodded in return before he turned to look at Calvin.
"Can you rember anything prior that night?"
"Prior that night? You an that night when you visited ?"
"Yes..." Ron Samuel nodded his head.
Calvin fell into deep contemplation.
Vague images appeared in his head as he tried his best to recall his mories after that night.
In his mind, the silhouette of a man could be seen standing beyond the doors.
Calvin closed the doors and Charlotte's voice rang from above the bunk beds.
"Who was that?" She asked.
"Oh, you woke up? Sorry about that. So weird guy that doesn't know about the basics of etiquette! Knocking so loudly on the doors in the middle of the night. Does he really expect that he won't rudely awaken anyone?" Calvin muttered a complaint.
"What does he look like?" Charlotte asked in a weird tone of voice.
"Huh? What do you an?" Calvin stared warily at Charlotte and realized that Charlotte had already raised her upper body. Her face was blocked by her waist-length hair but in the very next mont...
A mysterious force parted her hair, revealing her face!
"Does he look like ?"
The face revealed underneath the hair was the vague silhouette of the man's face!
"Ah!"
Calvin suddenly scread.
He struggled and then collapsed on the ground.
"Shit..."
"Calm him down!"
Calvin seed to have gone crazy.
It was only until after a Spiritualistic Ritual did he calm down. Staring at Ron Samuel, the fear in his eyes could still be seen. "No, I don't... I don't want to rember... I don't rember anything. Please don't make rember!" The traumatized look on his face made every Cavalier frown.
Jas also had a frown on his face.
Obviously, it was no longer appropriate for them to keep on pressing Calvin for the details of what happened that night.
But they needed to draw out more information from the deep recesses of Calvin's mind.
To do that without further terrorizing Calvin's mind and causing it to shatter and turn him into a retard.
They needed the help of the one and only Master of Spiritualistic Magic in the city of Ashlion.
They needed the help of the Wise One.
"Let's bring him to the residence of the Wise One, now!"
"Yes, sir!"
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