Chapter 62: Homecoming (Part 2)

For what it's worth, Vampire Kingdom owns a hotel in the city Julius lived in. Therefore, it is not very big of a challenge to isolate oneself if one wants to. All they have to do is go in any vacant room and lock it up. That, or go in a different isolated part of the hotel, something like the underground parking area. Bronzer's choice is this area. He stands here, all alone, waiting for the one who wants to talk to him, waiting for the ghost who has come to pay him a visit. And then,

Bronzer: "Show yourself, Ozyllus!"

He says in an agitated voice that only grows louder as it echoes through the parking area.

Ozyllus: "There's no need to shout."

Ozyllus says, calmly and softly, as he appears in front of Bronzer.

Ozyllus: "…"

Bronzer: "…"

They both stare at each other in silence for a while and,

Bronzer: "Why are you here again?"

He shakes in anger as he asks that.

Ozyllus: "Well, it's the last chance you can have; I thought I might as well give it to you."

Ozyllus, however, replies in a calm voice.

Bronzer: "There's no need to give me any chances."

Ozyllus doesn't response, just keeps looking at Bronzer. To that, Bronzer replies,

Bronzer: "I am going to turn the tide of this war, and there's nothing you can do about that."

He says with a firm resolve, a resolve he wouldn't have had if he hadn't come across Abgere, a man who goes on to kill his enemies without hesitation.

Ozyllus: "You do realize I won't let you do whatever you want, especially if my plans can be harmed because of it."

With a click of his tongue, Bronzer replies,

Bronzer: "And you do realize as well that I won't back away, not now! Not when I have already come this far!"

Ozyllus merely closes his eyes and does not respond.

Bronzer: "Your Empire has already fallen; you just don't seem to realize it."

Bronzer says with cold disgust and, for the first time, is able to get an irritated reaction from Ozyllus.

Bronzer: "Through my actions,"

He says with a smile,

Bronzer: "I'll make you realize that."

Ozyllus: "Tsk!"

Ozyllus clicks his tongue and,

Ozyllus: "You'll die trying."

He turns away, walks away and disappears away, leaving Bronzer alone in the basement.

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Gabriel sees two people leaving. These two are Ethan and Sneha. Kais and Sona are not with them. As he sees this, he only furrows his brows and keeps looking from afar without revealing his position.

Gabriel: "If this is a trap, it's too damn obvious."

He mutters to himself as he starts following them. They soon start talking to a taxi driver.

Gabriel: "Where are they planning to go anyway? I only know that I have to bring them to Rosevelt. I have no idea where they originally plan to go."

He keeps muttering to himself as he uses psychokinesis to stop a car, puts the driver to sleep with hypnosis and gets in – ready to follow. Ethan and Sneha soon depart from the hangar in a taxi and Gabriel follows them. He is anxious over where the other two might be but he has to keep an eye on these two if at all possible.

Gabriel: "Tsk! It's hard to believe but I am relying on Ethan for this."

He has reasoned with himself that Ethan can locate both of them even if they have separated for good. Therefore, by capturing Ethan, he can get to all of them.

However, even though this reasoning is sound enough, Gabriel can't help but feel anxious over the possibilities of his plan failing.

Gabriel: "Tsk!"

He can do nothing but rely on Ethan, his target, for something like this. Worse than the fact that Ethan is a target though, is the fact that he is Ethan. He is someone who can throw people for loops when they least expect it and cause everything to fall apart no matter how much one tries to keep it together. He is the man who goes up against monsters with a smug face and to face such a man … is a pain in the ass, if not worse.

The car Ethan and Sneha are in takes a right and so does Gabriel. Then, they keep going straight.

Gabriel: "What's with them? I would expect at least Sneha to do things that are logical and not that hard to grasp."

However, as the situation stands now, there is nothing Gabriel can take this as but a load of BS.

Gabriel: "They are heading towards the residential areas. There's no way they have any business there, of all places."

He reasons. However, as he is bound to, he keeps following them. He keeps following them for over 20 minutes. But, they keep going straight. Then, they take a right. Gabriel had almost started thinking they would never change directions or something like that. Somehow, he still manages to take a right in time.

Gabriel: "Tsk! That was close!"

He gets more and more annoyed just by saying so.

Gabriel: "Tsk!"

He keeps giving annoyed remarks as the stalking continues. Soon enough, they take a left, and then an immediate right. Gabriel follows them with the same turns and the same annoyed expressions. He does not even realize that he has just went past the area where Julius Rome is supposed to live, an area that has an illusion put over it to make everything seem normal.

Gabriel: "Where are they even going!?"

His mind is only filled with just one, really annoying question. And soon enough, it seems like he'll finally get an answer.

Their taxi once again takes a left and enters a forbidden area. As it does so, the taxi starts slowing down as if the driver intends to stop. Gabriel decreases his speed as well. Soon enough, the taxi stops. And so does Gabriel.

Gabriel is yet to realize that this area they have entered is the place where Kais used to live till 4-5 days ago.

He sees Ethan and Sneha get out of the car. And he comes out of his car as well. He has had enough of following them and intends to go confront them but,

Ethan: "HEY LOSER, HOW IS IT GOING?!"

Ethan yells the question at him while waving his hands.

Gabriel: "What the-"

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Sona: "Ha!"

She chuckles with an awkward smile as she says,

Sona: "This is the place you lived in."

Kais: "Well, it's not really bad, is it?"

I say calmly.

Sona: "No, but it's kinda small, or really small, or …"

Kais: "Okay, okay, I get it."

It's not like I have any particular attachments to the apartment I lived in so her saying this doesn't really make me angry or anything but, the fact that hearing her say this may end up reminding me of my house with Barry – is a concern.

Sona: "You can't run away, remember?"

Having picked up on my thoughts, she says with a calm tone.

Kais: "I know. I am not trying to run away. It's just …"

I can't really put it into words but,

Sona: "It's fine. I know."

She says before I could.

Sona: "You just don't want to go back to the town of your childhood memories, right?"

She says with a smile.

Maybe she's right. Maybe that's the reason I don't want to go back there. Maybe.

Sona: ""Hah!"

She sighs and stretches as she looks below from the railing of my balcony. Just now, standing in the balcony of my house, we were waiting for some people to arrive. I say 'were' because it seems like they have arrived now.

Sona: "Teleporting here wasn't a bad idea, was it?"

Kais: "No, especially because your aura isn't in the memory of any Vermillion member and mine can be easily hidden by me."

And so, knowing that Gabriel will end up looking for Ethan and Sneha no matter how less or more information about our auras he has, we decided to let them be followed here as the two of us returned through teleportation.

I remembered that this place was going to be evacuated and so there wasn't going to be anyone here. And so, it'd be pretty good of a place to use for any 'business' we have.

Sona: "Well, they are all here."

She says as she sees Gabriel coming out of a car and then Ethan waving at him and saying something. That bastard is probably enjoying this! Well, can't let Ethan have all the fun though.

I think that as I jump off the balcony and land on the floor with a big impacting sound. I now realize that was a bad idea as the floor that I have broken will be a mark that someone had been here while the authorities were not present.

That is a concern for a different time though as we have to deal with Gabriel right now. I look back at him as I think that. At present, Ethan and Sneha on one side and I on the other side have surrounded Gabriel. It's not like we think there's any reason he would try to escape but well, better safe than sorry.

Gabriel: "Where's the spirit-user?"

He asks as he looks at me. Instead of replying, I just look above with a smile. I smile because I knew what I would see there – the beautiful figure of a blonde spirit-user slowly descending down to the ground.

Gabriel: "How is she able to float like that?"

Kais: "It's because of a thing that I learned recently. Psychic and Spiritual energies repel each other."

Gabriel: "Hmm, so?"

Kais: "You and I have so much psychic energy around us that she, while being pulled with gravity, is also being pushed by our forces, and so has become able to dance in the air like that."

This was something we wanted to try for future purposes, and it seems to have worked. I think that as Sona's feet finally touch the ground, looking like an Angel who has descended from heaven. And that, finally makes up the four of us, the four left after Ro went his way to find out more about whoever his this friend of his that might go psycho (as he said) is.

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