The boy that they hadn't seen after the introduction, stood there, all smiles and even with a hint of naivety and innocence.
"My mother said you should co and eat." He announced and turned to leave.
Tanya and Zosia exchanged glances. Zosia stood up and Tanya followed behind him, with Zosia at the back.
"Hi, how was your night?" Tanya asked in an attempt to start a conversation but was completely ignored.
Zosia watched as Tanya's face twisted, but she quickly cald down and attempted communicating with the kid, but the result was the sa.
Tanya balled her fist in anger and disbelief. She felt that since she joined the group, she had been ignored so many tis. It was starting to get on her nerves.
Zosia felt tempted to use analyse on him, she decided to act on her thoughts. Zosia suddenly felt her ears ring.
[𝙒𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜!!! 𝙒𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜!!! 𝙒𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜!!!]
[𝙍𝙪𝙡𝙚 𝙑𝙤𝙞𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙. 𝙋𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩: 𝘿𝙤𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙨.]
"Fuck!!" She cursed under her breath as she felt her balance tilting. She grabbed the nearest thing besides her which happened to be Tanya.
Tanya stared at Zosia with a frown in her face. "What exactly could be wrong with her now?" She thought Inwardly.
"What is it?" Her tone wasn't good, especially after being ignored many tis.
Zosia closed her eyes and tried to find her bearings. After a while, she recovered but she was still experiencing the defect and this ti around with a loss of taste.
Opening her eyes, her vision was in 160° angle, so to her, Tanya and the boy looked like so blurry to her, more like warped and distorted.
She closed her eyes and opened it again, "I am fine. Just you know....what happened to you, so it's my turn." Zosia muttered.
Tanya frowned, raising her eyebrows with skepticism on her face. Not that she didn't believe Zosia, but, she had heard a voice. She wasn't able to pick up what the voice was saying as it seed so distant in her ears.
She decided to accept Zosia's explanation.
The boy, oblivious to the tension between the two won, continued walking down the corridor, humming a cheerful tune.
The walls of the narrow passageway seed to close in on Zosia, making her feel claustrophobic. She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself.
"Yeah, let's just get this over with," Zosia muttered, trying to focus on putting one foot in front of the other.
She noticed that she now had a broader vision of her surrounding. "So the loss of balance has to do with vision?" She thought Inwardly.
Since, she couldn't use her spiritual consciousness, it made her more aware of potential dangers.
Walking behind Tanya, lost in thought, she noticed that having a broader vision made her have headache due to the influx of new information, so her steps began to slow down but still steady.
Tanya turned to look at Zosia when she noticed that she had slowed down. Seeing that Zosia didn't ask for her help or anything, she couldn't help but scoff inwardly.
She didn't think a Newbie like her would have a much more stronger ntal fortitude than her. Believing that Zosia would still ask for her help, she ignored Zosia slowing down and continued walking, not waiting for her.
As they were about to pass through the door leading to the Parlor, Zosia noticed sothing different. Despite the headache, her mory had beco clearer and possibly more acute without Chip's help.
She noticed that unlike normal wood, the wall had a wood wallpaper. Zosia's eyes flashed with a hint of contemplation, when the parlor door opened revealing the guys and Mina, who all had snow flakes on them except for Lucien.
"You arrived just in ti for breakfast." Tanya said with a wide and genuine smile as she walked up to Lucien.
Zosia noticed that Lucien's face was a little frigid. "What did he find out about?" She thought Inwardly. Among all of them, Lucien is the calst, so what could have possibly made him to have such a face? Despite being a little curious, she didn't say much, only greeting them and entering the dining area that had a large beautiful hand woven rug that covered the floor.
She was about to step on the rug when she noticed sothing. It was just a flash and she felt like she was wrong.
"What is it?" Xen who had appeared behind her asked.
"The..." She was about to say sothing when she was interrupted by sister Marionette.
"You don't seem to like the al?" Sister Marionette asked.
"I am sorry ma, unfortunately yes. Thank you, I will just eat the food I have with ." Zosia apologized with a bow.
Zosia shifted out of the way to let the others pass. She glanced back at the rug, noticing the flicker again.
She glanced at the wall not far from her and noted them down. Every other person entered the dining room to eat.
"I will go drop the bags in the room." She didn't know where they got the bag from but it was enough for them to use it as a disguise.
Zosia glanced at the wall again before she left.
Lucien glanced at Zosia as she left and noticed when she looked at the wall. He was still angry at what she did as he had heard the announcent.
It ans that she didn't take his warning to mind. He glanced at the wall after she had left and noticed that the wall looked normal. What could she possibly have seen?
Tanya who had been looking at Lucien noticed that he was watching Zosia. A frown appeared on her face and she felt a little Jealous.
"Are you worried about Zosia's defect?" She said with a smile as she stared at Lucien. Her voice was a little higher, so others heard her clearly.
Xen who was scrutinizing his al, raised his head to look at Tanya, his eyes flickering with so thought.
He noticed that Tanya had stars in her eyes as she stared at Lucien. "Sigh!" Apart from when he is in a task world, the only people he had received such looks from were weak ladies who wanted to latch on him for the resources he could help them with.
Even Zosia who is a newbie ignores him and what fascinates him, is the fact that she is just a newbie, yet, she has such capabilities, even to the extent if being able to escape the Soul Bureau Police Forces and even help them, making them recognize her.
He was even surprised to see her among Lucien group and for her system space to be used as a eting place, it could only an, they considered her as one of their own.
"You don't need to worry about her, I don't think her defect is anything much, since she could still walk and hear properly. Probably loss of thirst." Tanya continued.
The others didn't care and calmly continued with their scrutiny on the food.
"Ah! How is the al? It doesn't seem to you people's taste, since the food doesn't seem to have been touched." Sister Marionette said as she entered the room with water in a tray.
"Thank you, Sister Marionette. The al looks delicious, but I think everyone is still adjusting," Percival replied smoothly, forcing a smile. He glanced at the others, silently urging them to eat.
Lucien didn't say anything, but began eating.
Mina silently admired Lucien's etiquette as he ate. She noticed that Lucien wasn't really bothered by what was going on or how crazy things were. The more reason she fought to be among the people that joined for this mission.
She suddenly rembered what her sister asked her to do and she groaned inwardly.
Her stupid sister had ssed up and now to clear her ss, she had to make sure Zosia doesn't leave this mission alive, if possible, incriminate her with sothing.
She had thought about how to do it cleanly without being suspected, since it seems like Zosia is a mber of Lucien's group and even Xen seems to know her.
Her eyes inadvertently t Tanya and an idea began forming in her head.
Smiling, she lowered her head and started eating, though it was a little hard to suppress her psychological barrier.
Zosia who they were thinking about unaware of their deceptive thoughts, was walking through the hallway.
Her steps were slow but steady as she took in everything in her mind. Zosia ford a map in her head as she walked. She placed the objects in her mind the way she had seen them when coming and noticed that sothing was off.
Zosia suddenly paused. Her gaze glued to the vase then to the wall. She didn't know if she was being watched.
"Wow, I didn't think I would see this piece here." She exclaid, gently touching the vase. She shifted the vase a little, seeing that there was no effect, she continued her act not letting her surprise show on her face.
"Sigh! Unfortunately, I don't have enough money. I wonder if I could exchange it." She said, biting her lips in contemplation.
Zosia sighed, her eyes held longing as she left the vase and walked forward when she suddenly ca to a stop. She noticed that the hallway was longer than before.
A frown appeared on her face. "Seems like I am right. There was definitely sothing wrong with that vase."
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Sorry guys, I was unable to post for the past two days and the chapter is also not long as I should have made it be.
I couldn't post yesterday due to tests and today it is also shorter due to ti.
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