A Psychic's Scarlet Dream

On the opposite side, a normal life in a normal family without any supernatural occurrences is something I always wanted, something I never got. When you look at me from this angle, there"s nothing really special about me, is there? I am just another person who doesn"t appreciate the natural abilities he has and desires what he doesn"t have. I am a pretty normal human being in that regard.

Ethan: "Done talking philosophy with yourself?"

Ethan asks with a deadpan look.

Kais: "Do you have a problem with that, good sir?"

I say sarcastically but,

Ethan: "Yeah actually, we need your help right now."

Because he says "we", not just I but Sona, Sneha and Ro also turn to look towards him.

Ethan: "Someone is keeping an eye on us."

He reveals the reason he said "they" needed my help and as he does so, both I and Sneha start reading auras in order to find out what he is talking about. But, before we can do anything,

Sona: "2 o"clock, 240 meters, one man in a Vermillion uniform."

She says with an uninterested face. Well, I guess it means she doesn"t consider whoever this guy is to be a threat. That"s good to know.

Ethan: "I don"t really appreciate how bored you look, Sona."

Sona only frowns in response to his sudden remark.

Ethan: "The guy who is keeping an eye on us might not be that amazing but he could be working for someone who is. You did say he has a Vermillion uniform after all."

That"s a good point, though I don"t know how good of a decision it is to try to pick a fight with Sona.

Sona: "Tsk! Fine, you might as well interrogate him and find out!"

She says with irritation clear on her face as she raises a hand toward the direction that man is in. While the rest of us interpret that as a signal to go there and start preparing ourselves for a fight (just in case), we see a large number of sparrows fly toward us with a man attached to their small legs.

Sneha: "Ha?"

Sona: "My new spirit, Les, can control any flying object, be it a living object or a non-living object."

So that means that the sparrow she just made a contract with, who was also our pilot in this whole trip, is the one doing this. That spirit is actually pretty cool then.

THUMP!

And there comes the sound of a heavy object, living object, being dropped on ground from a height of 10 meters. While Ro does his best to decrease the impact of the fall, it still would have hurt a lot. Which is why, it is pretty cruel to interrogate him right now. So,

Kais: "There"s no reason to interrogate him."

I say something that is a fact, whether those around me realize it or not. In reply to that, the first answer I get is in a sarcastic voice.

Ethan: "Why? You have a crush on him or something?"

Kais: "Shut up! I just mean that I can read his mind directly and there"ll be no need to interrogate him."

I crouch down to my knees and touch his forehead as Ro holds his hands behind him so he can"t move much.

Ethan: "Nice. Why didn"t you ever use mind-reading on the island in all this time?"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!"

The poor man who is getting his memories read yells in pain and as he does so, I look at Ethan and he shuts himself up because of the "loud and clear" response he has been given.

Back to the topic though, I find the memories in this guy"s head to be something pretty troubling. As I remove my fingers, I tell them.

Kais: "Vermillion is looking for us."

This was going to happen one day or another but it is a bit troubling because it"s happening just as we have come back. But even seeing the troubled expression that comes on Sona"s, Sneha"s and on Ro"s faces, Ethan still asks with a smile.

Ethan: "Who exactly in Vermillion told this guy to keep an eye on us?"

Kais: "A guy I like to call "loser", but he goes by the name Gabriel Was.h.i.+ngton."

I say quite frantically, and an equally frantic reply comes back,

Ethan: "Oh, that loser? Well, then it"s probably an order from the Phoenix himself or he wouldn"t do anything like this."

Kais: "While I do think he is the type of loser who wouldn"t do anything by himself, you seem to bee more confident in it than me. Any particular reason for that?"

I know Ethan enough to not be expecting any reply, but I do get one.

Ethan: "Well, he got engaged recently. He"s probably more worried about getting to know his fiancée than dealing with Vermillion"s problems."

So if he wasn"t given an order by the Phoenix, he would probably not be doing this. Yeah, that makes sense.

Sona: "Hah!"

Sona sighs as she hears all of our conversation and replies in an irritated tone,

Sona: "What are we going to do?"

She is quite scary when she wants to be, enough to give me, Sneha and Ro a s.h.i.+ver. Well, if there"s anyone who can – not get intimidated – by her, even occasionally, it"s probably Ethan.

Ethan: "We-well, we are going to meet-up with that loser and get to the Phoenix."

Okay, after seeing him lose composure just now, I have to take that back.

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Gabriel: "Tsk!"

He clicks his tongue in annoyance.

Gabriel: "He got taken down that easily!? These Embers and Flares really are useless."

Embers and Flares, the two lowest-ranking positions in Vermillion, are obviously no match for people like Kais or Sneha. However, the fact that his proxy was taken down by just one spirit that Sona was controlling irritates him a lot.

Gabriel: "I should probably get to them myself."

He says in irritation. The sight he saw in his fiancée"s house hasn"t left his mind at all. In fact, it continues to anger him more and more. Therefore,

Gabriel: "Sorry Rosevelt, but the first thing I am going to do when I have these four with me is going to destroy every Vampire Kingdom sc.u.m I can find and especially kill that a.s.shole of a strategist they have!"

He mutters to himself as he bashes a hand on the wall near him. Right now, he is standing just outside the hangar Kais and others are on.

Gabriel: "That man, Bronzer, is going to pay for what he has done!"

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Reid: "Now that you have gone and done something like that to Gabriel Was.h.i.+ngton of all people, you do know that you have a target on your back, don"t you?"

Reid says as he sits on rubble left after Julius Rome"s house was destroyed.

Bronzer: "I know that all too well."

Bronzer just shrugs as he says that and seeing that,

Darcy: "Before Gabriel Was.h.i.+ngton does anything, we are going to kill him."

Reid sighs as he hears that. He looks at the woman of 5"7 height with a round face and round-brown eyes, red hair and a pair of D-Cups. He thinks she is quite suitable for a woman of East Asian origin. However,

Reid: "Your att.i.tude is so different from the vibe your appearance gives."

He says plainly and in return,

Darcy: "Good to know. At least every single one of my personality traits can"t be discerned just from my appearance."

Reid: "It"s good to have loyalty on your face."

He says with a proud smile.

Bronzer: "Are you two fighting or flirting?"

He asks rather curiously but gets two sharp glares in response.

Reid: "We"re fighting of course. I think it"s pretty obvious she is all over YOU anyway."

He says the second part in a sarcastic manner which causes Darcy to go red and try to start denying it. However, Reid stops listening and turns back to look at the vampires working to clear the debris.

Reid: "Why isn"t any human showing up here?"

He asks Bronzer with a serious voice.

Bronzer: "That would have caused problems for us so I decided I"d ask the four generals to use their illusion abilities on this place and make it seem like there"s nothing here."

Reid: "So that is why those annoying a.s.sholes aren"t here. Good to know!"

Reid stands up and looks back at the working vampires.

Reid: "How long?"

He asks with a yell and the answer comes with another yell,

"5 more minutes!"

On hearing that, Reid looks at Bronzer and Darcy,

Reid: "Looks like the deed is about to be over. Where"s the queen?"

Bronzer sighs exasperatedly and replies,

Bronzer: "Taking care of some … personal business."

Bronzer just simply repeats what Valdis told him as an answer. Reid immediately understands that that is all he knows. And so he moves on to the next topic as he turns around,

Reid: "Hate is increasing in the aura around here."

Bronzer and Darcy understand immediately what that could mean, yet Reid spells it out just in case.

Reid: "You might have a visitor."

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