Triiffic-Soul: Can I Be In Control?-Chapter 94 – Aged

Chapter 94 – Aged

It hadn’t even been twenty-four hours since Anlesa made that promise to Ethan, and the situation had already worsened.

“Huuuu….” Anlesa held back a painful deep heave.

[Her….] A violent anger emerged from Luna. It was a storm of emotion was pulling on Eva and Syrus.

[Calm down or leave the body!] Syrus exclaimed.

[Luna……] Eva cried, worried.

After Anlesa and Ethan split, they continued with Luna’s mission of scoping out the area for church activity. They weren’t stopping early today either; they planned to keep going until at least partially late at night.

In the beginning, they didn’t learn anything new, but a few tidbits of information were confirmed.

The house they initially found the church gathered in was a rental property, and there was currently no one in the building. The owner owned five buildings in town–the max he was allowed to own–and rented them out to businesses and people who only wanted to set up shop in the city for a temporary amount of time–usually a month to six months.

Anlesa couldn’t learn the exact details of that deal as there was no way to get ahold of that information, and the original owner was out of town visiting relatives and wasn’t going to be around for another two months. So before he left, he organised some deals to ensure all the houses were supposed to be full from what they were able to learn.

The man in question was relatively popular, a greedy–which most people here were–but kind-hearted folk. His popularity and well-known status were what allowed Anlesa to learn about the housing arrangement of that building.

Now Syrus was able to learn no one was in the building by basically breaking in. There was a window on the side street, which she happily chose to dislodge it and enter after spending a few minutes not hearing a single sound from within the building. This occurred during the later parts of the night of the same day Syrus trained Ethan.

Upon entering, she found nothing besides basic furniture. The place was empty. Which could seem like good news, but it was truly nothing but bad. It meant they wanted to keep their presence quiet and minimal to the point of absurdity.

Besides that, there was some good news. None of the church grunts had been seen investigating Ethan’s area. Ethan lived in a relatively poorer part of town, and there wasn’t much besides housing. That didn’t mean he was safe, but it was a moment of relief for Anlesa to know there was no target on the boy’s back.

After all that and when their investigation was seemingly not picking up any more traction.

During the night, the caravan they saw pick up the fellows from the church came back. It was a bog standard caravan with nothing seemingly special about it; however, everything in this world gains its own marks and scratches over time, even if ever so tiny.

The cart appeared familiar enough, and added to the fact that not many people arrive late, it was worth the peek.

Arriving into the city late wasn’t a cause for suspicion by any means. People can be delayed from entering the city for many reasons, from a delayed journey start to not wanting to stop at a midpoint to the time required to repair a damaged wheel.

So, they followed the caravan to see where it would stop. Syrus was out in simple disguise. Wearing different clothes than normal and a new coat, they had to deal with the cold weather that was rapidly cooling. However, with Syrus’ Fire attribute, she could use it to keep herself warm, so the coat’s actual purpose was to cover their body and face during the night without being suspicious, if needed. For weapons, Syrus only brought knives; her sword was an obvious no-go, and while she did wear the bracelets with wire, she didn’t want Eva to use them. Eva was doing her part for the disguise by using Morph for a more drastic change. She made them as short as she could, which was about 10% smaller, dyed their eyes and hair brown, removed their horn, and adjusted their skin tone to be more tanned.

This was a lot for Eva to maintain, and she could only keep up all these changes for a short period of time. To compromise, the hair and eyes were left under the hood, and she only switched colours when people got close, some logic for the skin, and even the horn as she shrunk it just a little bit to hide under the hood. Being out in the dark helped make these barely maintainable physical changes work, along with Syrus’ quick commands on when to cause the changes to happen if a person got close.

They watched as the cart started to slow down, and Syrus moved around to be able to see people leaving the cart before they exited it.

The driver of the cart looked ready to move at a moment's notice, and five individuals exited the caravan and walked to a nearby building where the first large male figure unlocked the door.

The first man entered, followed by a female, then another taller man.

And then Luna got her wish.

She saw the aged woman's face clearly and her sickening golden eyes.

It brought nothing but anger.

[Mor-ri-son.] Luna's vision dyed red.

Syrus immediately walked away and moved into an alleyway. [I’m going to guess she was more than just a bitch?] Spoken as half a joke and a serious question.

[No, she was just a bitch.] Luna bit her lip.

[People don’t want to murder someone just because they are a bitch.] (Syrus)

Luna returned to her facade of calmness. [I want to murder every single one of them, Syrus. They stole Mum and Dad from us.]

[An impossible and unfruitful task, Luna.] Syrus replied. What Luna was saying was a little too unhinged for Luna, so Syrus was trying to douse it with reality.

[I know, but I don’t want to hear that from you.] (Luna)

[Guys…] They worried Eva's trembling voice was able to douse the situation unintentionally. [What are we going to do now..?]

Syrus took a moment to think and asked a useless question to waste time. [How much longer can you keep up this Morph?]

[Not much longer…] Parts of fully Morph were already fading back due to Eva’s loosening control. [I’m reaching my limit.] She had already passed her limit and was only holding on by focusing on Luna and Syrus' determination felt through their connection...

[Disable it; we are going home.] (Syrus)

Eva sighed in relief, and her mind faded to nearly the point of unconsciousness, which ended up affecting Luna and Syrus by supplying them with a massive headache.

[Syrus, we can at least continue to spy for a little longer.] (Luna)

[No, they are moving over to us so we are going to walk through the pubs for a bit, then go home.] (Syrus)

[You and your hearing.] Luna could also hear the footsteps this time considering it was late at night and no one was around, but a nagging voice in the back of her mind said that could’ve just been someone walking around to the back of the cart. But her logic was able to push through and her desire to keep themselves safe made sure she didn’t fight Syrus on this.

Eventually, they returned home safe and sound.