In Ehrenar Slum...

Clack...clack..clack...*

In one of the isolated part of the Slum, a sound of steps is reverberating around, making this place eerier than it should be. The place is strangely quiet, making the steps sound become the only thing you can heard.

In this deserted place, this very step is actually coming from a real living person, additionaly, not just any person in any street out there, but

But suddenly, his step is halted as he raised his head upwards.

???: "Damn! its already dark now" he cursed after he sees dark sky up there. His exclamation of surprise is really out of place here, where all the thing available is strange and odd. But he instead chose to curse the freaking dark sky?

???: "whatever, I only have to hurry up then..." He mumble to himself as he quicken his pace.

This is Yoro, who is still wearing his typical disguise of black cloak and a white mask he painted himself with blue paint that streaked here and there.

As soon after he got to the news about the location for the recent victims, he immidiately raised his ass to the location of the scene. But as he walking, he realize that there is something off here.

Yoro: "this is...too calm to be normal..." he said in confusion. He doesn't know from when or where, but his surrounding is certainly become lesser and lesser of people.

Until that is now too quiet for him to be an idiot if he didn't realize it now. In fact, there is actually no sound around to be heard of at all... He would've thought he is deaf by the second if he didn't heard the sound of his mumbling before.

This is definitely a bad sign.

But just when he want to turn his heel around and take a detour because of this creepy details, a person come into his view.

Wearing a red cloak, his hood is covering his facial features while his robe cover his body. He is tall guy with a height around Chad, who is actually taller than Arnold. And within this darkness as additional factor, his face cannot be seen at all.

Yoro didn't lower his guard there, not when this person is litteraly screaming 'I am suspicious!' to his face. So he put his hand on the sword handle under his cloak as he activate his clairvoyance. He only can exhale a relieved breath when that person go off from his vision, before he continue walking to his destination.

He is already close, so it is not too long for him to arrived.

In front of him is a fresh body that still dripping blood from the hole at its chest. There is no one around, nor even insect to watch this bloody scenery.

Yoro: "they fled off..." From what he can see there, it seems the very first person who see this scenery js fled away, which is then followed by the others, making this place have lesser people than usual.

Pulling out the map from his cloak, he put that thing on the ground before spreading it open. "Alright, so for this one is here..." He said as he marked the spot.

He examine it one more time, just to become more assured about his assumption before. "So I was right, the killer is somehow-"

Clink*

Yoro's body jump away in reflex as he unsheated his sword and point it upward. His body unintentionaly got on a stance with his blood flow become faster out whe he look right and left for any sign of living person, or even...a thing.

Yoro: "I know you there, just come out" he said while activating his clairvoyance. But sadly, the result is quite disappointing.

Yoro: "tsk, just a wind" when he activated his clairvoyance and move his body. What he see there is no one, or even a thing. All except an empty can lying behind those bend on the road.

Yoro: "sigh...there is still no clue except that what Chad was said before" sighing helplessly, he then sheated his sword up before walk away once more.

But instead of walking on the usual route, he take a detour in hope something interesting will come out. And that route is excatly the one he used with Chad and Cecilia yesterday.

But in the mid-way there, he unexpectedly sees a glimpse of a familiar figure taking turn on the road in front of him. Yoro remeber that guy. 'Don't tell me that is the red cloaked guy from before?' that flash of thought passed his mind for a while, before he decided to followed him

But is it the right choice?...

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In Ehren Mansion...

At one of the bedroom in there, one of them all is clearly more fancier, more elegant, and more decorated than the other. Yes, this is the most extravavagant bedroom in this mansion, the head bedroom.

After the dinner has passed, there are two people who immidiately goes into the bedroom, doing god knows what, and deepen their bond between each other.

These two are Ehren couple of course.

Arnold: "honey, is there something wrong?" Covered in blanket, he asked her worriedly. As they doing it just now, Diana seems can't get into it no matter what. She often become dazed and didn't respond to what Arnold said. It's like...her mind is in another place currently.

Diana: "no, I just thinking about our son" hearing concern in her husband voice, she reassured him with a smile that she is okay. "I just...a little worried about him..." She said in low voice.

And Arnold, seeing her like this, is trying to find another topic of conversation to make her mood improved. And as he trying to delve into his memories, he exclaim: "Ah! Right, talking about our son Yoro, it seems he become obsessed to find someone in our private library recently" remembering the memories of somedays ago, he said that to divert the topic for now.

Arnold: "if I remember correctly, he is trying to find the one with a name Shiro, the accomplice of black" holding his chin, he close his eyes in thought.

Diana: "hmm...is that so..." And again, Diana's mind wander to another place before she finnaly come out of stuppor. "Wait...did you just say Shiro?!" She couldn't hold herself back and shout at him.

Arnold: "y-yes, is there something wrong?" Arnold stuttered in his word as he sees her reaction. Is there something wrong with what he said before? Nah, he doesn't think so.

Diana: "did you seriously forget about that name? The name that whole kingdom and empire feared of!? The name that is taboo to say!?" She completely lost her composure as she said this. She hurriedly get up and wear her attire that is thrown away before.

Arnold: "Shiro, Shiro...wait... Is this what I think it is?!" Seeing her reaction now, Arnold know she is not joking around. So he search his memories just to find one name that meet the criteria of what she said just now.

Diana: "Yes, I think its the Shiro that one" as she said this, she trying to open the locked clipboard in the corner of the room. "I think its...Shiro the annihilator"

Arnold: "F*CK! Why didn't I realize it sooner!?" He too then get up and wears his own clothes. "Why the hell Yoro knows that name in the first place!" After he done wear his clothes, he approach his wife to help her open the locked lid.

Diana: "I don't know! But I know it's definitely something up to no good! Something that involving that mad organization!" She shout in panic as she oening the lid.

And lie in there, is a staff.

Right, a real magic staff with yellow orb embedded on it.

Diana: "You grab this" she then shove the staff to Arnold's hand as she grab the scroll lying around there. "We must tell the other, this is urgent!" Done grabbing all the useful thing they can take, they went off to notice the other.

They don't know whats in the end, but they know for sure, tonight will definitely become a busy night for Ehren mansion along with everyone who living inside of it.