1.21 Poison 45

“I have send you the details, check them out, and remember to complete the job by the end of the next week.” While sitting in his office a well-dressed man with manly fragrance coming from his body talked while drinking a glass of wine, he kept the glass revolving forming a small whirlpool in the glass. His eyes focused on a holographic face project in only his line of sight. The face of the woman was beautiful but devoid of any expression.

“Only want the girl to go mad!! Right…! Not any sick fetish besides that?” Came the sound from the other end of the line, even when her lips moved there was no movement on rest of her face. She was like a mannequin or a doll.

“The client wants her anger diverted against someone, I will send you the details…. I don’t know who this guy wants to punish, this poor girl or the guy she is going to blame for it.” Taking a smooth sip from the wine and feeling the warmth spread throughout his throat, he closed his eyes in ecstasy. His attention was not diverted from the projected woman nor was he trying to show he was not concerned of her, instead this was his nature that the woman was all used to by now.

“Well job aside, what are you doing right now?” The man asked after opening his eyes, he was not in the least bit formal with the woman like he previously was during the talk about the recent job, he showed some familiarity in his tone.

The woman tilted her head, and after thinking for a while.” Shopping!!”

And I had high hopes this time. The man wasn’t much disappointed, instead he straightforwardly asked. ”So you are free tonight? If you are not, just tell me.” Sigh! At least she is free for now.

The woman on the projection only nodded without saying anything. There was a slight change in the woman’s expression, she was getting a bit restless due to the conversation, it was as if she was going to lose something if this conversation didn’t end, but due to the nature of the woman she couldn’t say it aloud.

This slight change in expression was noticed by the man. Knowing full well of his accomplice, he just said. ”Genne and little Lila have asked me to call you for dinner tonight. It’s been months since you last came, Lila wants to meet her sweet aunt Yuna again.”

The woman had a flicker in her eyes, but she nodded with all her might. She was actually happy knowing that her niece was missing her. ”Tell little Lila, Aunty will come.!”

The man felt a bit happy.” Ok! I won’t waste your time anymore… go and do your shopping.” He cut of the call presenting in front of him a well-organized room, there were pillars of papers stacked or put in a sequential manner in shelves, on the wall there were various blueprint of buildings and a architecture diploma with huge letters inscribed on it “Rank 4th Architectural Engineering”.

The man was an architect, on his table was a family picture of he with his wife and daughter. Why this kind of man was in a shady business like this was still unknown.

On the other side of town, while closing the conversation box by blinking her eyes, the woman’s breath grew rapid after seeing the store in front of her. She was the same woman who tortured Casper, this time wearing a hoodie to hide her facial features and a tank top, some vulgar men would look at her from afar but didn’t approach concerning the market they were in was a shopping grounds of both fishes and dragons.

The store in front of woman was something no sane person would want to enter, but for her this shop was a treasure trove.

The shop sold poisons, every kind of poisons even the blood of demonic beast can be purchased in this kind of shop. And the dangers of entering this kind of shop was always high as no one knew when they inhale a poisonous toxin and lose their senses, the shop owners in this district were not kind, and a beautiful woman like her would easily fetch a high price in the slave market of rich folks.

She didn’t bother looking over the contents of her next job, as for now she needed to focus on her shopping.

This was the reason the man was disappointed.

*

“Sir I have already mentioned this for the 5th time… we can’t tell you the exact information that we have unearthed, but know this… Helius Sura is not in leagues with a Demonic Cultivator.” The attendant was fed up due to the man in front of him, even the principal didn’t had the authority to delve in the whereabouts of the kid that has given him so much headache, according to what he knew, even the principal was not given the whole information, the higher-ups only told him the important information that was on everyone’s mind.

Duming knew that what he was doing was being unreasonable, he was not worried that the guy in the video may be in leagues with demonic cultivators, but instead that his daughter and her boyfriend had a beef with this monstrous kid who in just 3 weeks climbed the power ladder of the whole academy and turned the academy head over heels with just one of his fight. Who was to say he will stop advancing at this rapid speed, who was to say he won’t take revenge on his daughter. I don’t care what happens to Tommy, that’s his father’s problem.

Duming turned around and left the building after knowing that worrying over this was totally useless, it’s better to go and just talk to the kid himself. If the kid doesn’t back down, he can threaten him or even give a beating. The police won’t act if it’s just a minor beating. And besides a kid like that who would beat his own classmate to a bloody rag earned himself a good beating himself.

This thought occurred in his mind because his daughter has not told him the whole truth, instead she has changed some of the facts to show it was not much of the pair’s mistake.

He looked at the setting sun which looked bleak, this made him feel that something bad is coming to his family’s way or maybe he was just overthinking things. After entering his wing and taking off back to his home, he didn’t had anything more to do. He will talk to the kid when he comes back to academy, as the academy won’t disclose their student’s home address and he also needed to give this small piece of news to his daughter who was scared for no reason.

“That foolish daughter of mine.”

*

Gerald’s state of mind was in turmoil after seeing what had happened to his friend, though he has surpassed his peers long ago, but he hadn’t broken his contacts with them even now, he always remained in touch with his friends whenever he got time.

And Casper being someone who he always met whenever he came to his home, he had a great bond with him. So knowing what his friend has gone through and even seeing the undisclosed pictures of Casper’s body which made him think if the person responsible was human or demonic beast not caring for the human life. This incident had surely caused him great pain, he didn’t know where to divert his anger towards.

So to release his anger his butler suggested him something. “Master Gerald…Why not just find the perpetrator and beat him to death?” It was a simple and honest suggestion, and for someone whose mind was muddled beyond comprehension due to this incident, it was enough to clear his head a bit and instead of using his time to feel powerless or useless and spend his time drown in anger, he uses his time to hunt down the monster who did this.

So today he stood beside a fountain of a tourist spot very famous among couples, various couples with hands at each other backs walked while smiling and acting all coy and cute to each other. The love is in the air, it was so much love that made Gerald nauseating. And unknown to Gerald by the fountain that he stood was said to contain magic that will make true lovers kiss each other every time they get here.

What was he doing in a place like this?

He was waiting for someone while wearing a t-shirt and a jacket with a cute demonic beast drawn on the back, need to say this but both the brothers had an odd sense of fashion and besides this jacket complemented his dark jeans. The people who looked at him his expressionless face from afar would think of him as if someone who was bored after waiting for his lover for a long time, there were even some single women who were thinking it as a chance to score a handsome man like Gerald.

But for people who walked close to him can feel the surrounding air heat up, he was giving off a huge amount of warm air from his body.

“Control yourself! You are in a public place.” Suggested a woman who looked to be in her 20’s with dark complexion, she was a beauty on her own accord, small hair and sleek muscles just like Titus. Wearing a beautiful yellow dress with orange frilly decorated at the end of it

Someone has said, that “Beauty hold in the eye of beholder.” And so for Gerald the woman in front of him who was an old friend of his and also someone who he has gone on a dozen of dates with, she was the most beautiful woman in the world.

“Mariah!” The heat in his surrounding decreased, the hidden anger in his eyes were somewhat suppressed after noticing the arrival of the woman. “Do you have any leads?”

The woman in a seductive manner stood while taking the support of the fountain, she held a little disappointment knowing that her old boyfriend had come straight to topic without even asking what she had done for the last 6 years till they last met.

“Hey why didn’t you bring your old time gir…*cough* friend a gift! We are meeting after 6 years.” Flirted Mariah, which was not liked by Gerald whose mind was in chaos due to his friends demise.

“Mariah! I came today because you said you had some lead, we can go on a date another day. For now just give me the information I need concerning the perpetrator.” Gerald was not in a good mood, he wanted to rush towards his hunt and kill him while he was in the town. As killer of high level as the ones responsible for Casper are always on the run and will change their home city often looking for some new work after the work in their city has dried up.

“Don’t be so mean! I was just teasing you!” She knew that it was not the right time, but she couldn’t help but flirt seeing the serious expression of Gerald, she was trying to ease his tension, which of course didn’t do any good.

Mariah has only occasionally heard about Casper during her dates with Gerald, as Mariah met Gerald during their police training, she did not knew Casper who was Gerald’s friend from school. So she instantly got back to the point.

“The perpetrator is a famous one…. code named Poison45, he has changed his home city 4 times during the first time he has been active and is very well versed in poison and needle work, we were even able to identify that it was him due to the stitches on the victim’s body and the poison found in his body along with some life preserving drugs. He has killed 15 people, and tortured or crippled 37 people, he is very famous among the Hitman circle, but no one knows his real face, as he always uses a mixture of nerve poisons to distort the memories of his victims, and the closest we have come to catch him was the time when we lost 2 police officers. And crippled remaining 3, whose body was rendered useless by a small amount of poison which was responsible for the death of other 2 officers.”

Gerald listened to each detail carefully, he didn’t miss any information that he was spoon fed, he remembered every single point that Mariah mentioned. “From the surviving officers, we were able to assess that Poison was at most Hunter rank 3 at the time of their meeting which was 2 years ago.”

“Anything else?” Gerald didn’t wanted to waste any more time, he has received the fundamental information he needed to get the gears working. He now had the idea who the perpetrator was and also the whole information the police had on Poison. Now all he needed was to catch and kill that bastard.

“The rest is in the chip!” handing over the crystal chip to Gerald, Mariah had a longing appear in her eyes. I know he won’t waste any more time with me now… but it was good to meet him after so long. I feel rejuvenated again.

“Thank you!” without saying anything any further, he turned around and left the fountain.

As I thought! With a sad expression on her face, Mariah also turned around to get back to her work, she had especially asked for holiday from her superior just to meet with Gerald. And though their meeting was short lived, it was enough for her.

As she was walking slowly back to her wing, she felt a hand fell on her shoulder.

“Mariah!” Called out Gerald whilst standing behind Mariah.

When did he come? She turned around and was going to face Gerald again but before she can see the face of Gerald, her lips was touch with a warm and wet sensation that Mariah was all used to by now, time slowed down for a moment, this was what she wanted from the time she came here she closed her eyes to feel the best of the moment and imprint the memory in her mind. This was also the thing that she so much coveted that she came in full girlfriend mode when meeting Gerald.

The kiss lasted for a few seconds, and as their lips departed and the warm sensation left her mouth, Mariah wanted to look up and face Gerald, but found nothing in front of her, Gerald has disappeared out of her sight.

Still shy as ever.

This simple kiss has given her energy that she required from a long time, and with a joyous feeling in her heart, she left the couple meeting spot.

“This fountain really have some magic in it.”