Lakis thought about how to deal with this woman.
The voice he heard earlier was familiar and it was easy for him to guess that she was the next-door lady who brought Yuri snacks. But even if that was the case, there was actually no reason to think about it. The cleanest way would be to kill her and get rid of all evidence.
—Just get it over with, Lakis.
The bug in his head seed to think the sa.
The next mont, Lakis’ hand stretched towards Anne-Marie. However, his hand didn’t go for her slender neck.
The last thing Anne-Marie saw before his hand covered her eyes, were his brilliant, cold eyes.
“Forget everything you just saw.”
And a chilling, emotionless voice pierced her ears.
“Otherwise, you’re dead the next ti I see you.”
Up in the sky, the moon shone brightly into the night.
* * *
Lakis left an unconscious Anne-Marie in front of her house next door, then he entered Yuri’s house through the window at the back of the building.
He initially stretched out his hand to kill but right then, Yuri’s face flashed in his mind for so reason and he changed his mind. He quickly reached for the locked door to find sothing to cover his face.
Flap!
“Arachne…!”
That very mont, sothing black flew in through the window that Lakis had just used. Lakis’ hand instantly seized it.
“Squawk!”
With a hand that flew out like lightning, Odin was caught before he even know soone was there. He instinctively tried to force his feathers to materialize but Lakis’ grip did not loosen at all.
Instead, the blood flowing from his hand moved like it was alive and bound Odin’s body completely.
‘W-What is this!’
Odin was shocked.
He didn’t know what had happened, but he wasn’t able to humanize since he was bound. Even if he left his crows sowhere else and wasn’t in perfect condition right now, he shouldn’t be overco so powerlessly!
anwhile, a light flashed in Lakis’ eyes as he watched the black crow tied up in his hand. The crow was definitely speaking when it flew in earlier. On top of that, it had said ‘Arachne’.
Like ‘Odin’, that was also a na Lakis had heard of before.
“You must be the crow, Odin.”
Similarly, Odin was looking at Lakis’ face and sucked in a breath.
“L-Lakis Avalon?”
Odin’s eyes were bulging at the fact that the man he had seen in Carnot only a few hours ago, was now in front of him. He didn’t how the heck that had happened. Feeling completely astonished, Odin made a choice…
“Caw!”
Which was to pretend to be a normal crow albeit, it was already too late. Of course, such an act wouldn’t work with Lakis.
“What the hell is this stupid act now?”
“Caw! Caw!”
Nevertheless, Odin continued to act like a crow and finally, a terrifying smile erged on Lakis’ face.
“Okay. You’re going to keep acting like a bird. I get it.”
Odin trembled at the chill that instantly fell over his body.
Lakis stared at the crow with an icy gaze. He wanted to deal with this arrogant twat of a bird right now but….for now, there was sothing more urgent than Odin’s informal visit.
Lakis clicked his tongue and tied the crow up even more. A while later, he left Yuri’s house after hanging up Odin, who was cawing out pitifully.
* * *
(Change in pov)
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The bird flew around a certain building a few tis then it flew off into the distance. I realized the bird had stopped being controlled so I took back my thread.
I guess this is the building.
The security looked pretty tight. After looking around for a while, I noticed sothing akin to a large wagon with a lock on it.
“rchandise is coming in!”
When the man at the front yelled, the door behind the building opened. While that happened, the man opened the lock on the wagon. The locks on the wagon were doubled over and there was even an iron gate with dense iron bars on the outer door.
After opening it up, the man went inside and dragged out a chain.
“Will you hurry it up? These little—!”
“Oi, don’t hurt the goods!”
A row of people began to co out of the wagon. Their hands and feet were connected by shackles and chains. So tried to escape after getting down from the wagon and were beaten as an example, while others were crying.
It wasn’t a strange scene to .
This was a slave trading ring, where people were bought and sold. But unlike Carnot, slavery was illegal in the east. In other words, this was an illegal black market, or I suppose, an illegal slave trade.
I frowned and examined the situation below then I moved.
~La La La…
There was a very faint song coming from the inside of the building. This voice was similar to a miniscule wave so it was inaudible to normal ears, but as expected, it was a familiar sound to .
Is she trying to guide ?
To be honest, I was a little dissatisfied with Siren for cutting off connection to the bird. If you’re going to send a bird to guide soone, why not do it to the end? Wasn’t it irresponsible to invite soone up to this point, then suddenly cut off on the way and leave them on their own?
However, I was now certain of one thing.
This was not a formal invitation. But then, why did she have to call secretly?
I decided to follow the sound of music for now. Although the security was quite thorough, it wasn’t hard to infiltrate the building quietly on my own. Above all, I’d been to this slave trading ring before for a request.
It wasn’t much, just an average request to look for soone about a year ago. So I had a rough idea of the internal structure of this slavery ring.
Using the darkness as cover, I shot a thread at the small door next to the building. There was only one guard there, and fortunately, the man for the next watch had just opened the door and was coming out.
Killing was the easiest and simplest thod but…I still didn’t know Siren’s purpose.
“Hey, it’s ti to switch.”
“Ohh, you ca at the right ti; my bladder is about to explode.”
Fwip!
My thread coiled around the man’s wrists and ankles. Then I twitched my finger.
“Eh, eh?”
Thunk!
One of the guards moved according to my will like a puppet on string, grabbed the other man and fell down together.
“F***, what the hell?”
“N-No, I couldn’t control my hands and feet all of a sudden…”
“Bloody hell, if you trip over yourself, fall on your own, why’d you grab ?”
I grasped the opening and went into the open door. It only took a mont, so the n didn’t notice I had moved above them.
~Lalala…
Once I entered the building, the faint song beca a little clearer. Honestly, I was wondering if I should follow the song first or search for Leo’s whereabouts instead. But I let my instincts chose and decided to follow Siren’s song first.
Siren’s singing was just as beautiful as I rembered; at the lab, I listened to it till I was sick of it.
However…
As I drew nearer to the singing voice, I couldn’t help but frown more. Why did her voice sound so weak and spiritless? It was so weak that in a way, it was almost like the eerie sound of the winter wind on dry branches.
The voice was coming from the center of the building. The deeper I got into the structure, the fewer people I found moving in the halls. None of them seed to be able to hear Siren’s singing.
I remained hidden and arrived at the room where the song stopped without being seen. The door to the room was shut tight.
Let’s see…there’s two locks, three, four…
There were as many as seven layers of locks.
Haa, I sighed a little. Geez. If soone was in there, they were 100% locked up.
What, so she called here to help her.
Then why take Leo in the first place? There was still so mysteries yet to be solved but apparently, I had to get in there first.
Depending on what kind of locks these were, doing the wrong thing could trigger an alarm or even traps. Which explains why there was no one else guarding the door. If an unauthorized person ca here, it wouldn’t be easy to reach their goal.
Of course, although opening this door might be difficult for , it wasn’t impossible. But honestly, it was a bit annoying.
I ca all this way because Selena called but do I just ignore this and go look for Leo?
Only
*BOOM!*
Right then, a thunderous explosion blared into my ears. I turned to where the sound ca from.
*clangclangclangclang!*
The sound of alarms began to fill the building.
There’s another intruder?
Boom!
The explosion didn’t stop at one and continued to go on. People were screaming at the top of their lungs and you could hear them rushing around.
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