With nothing else to do, Medusa just roamed around the whole island with her bicycle while stopping here and there for food and a good reading spot.
It's already 3 PM and she still didn't want to return home as she might disturb the love birds activity. With nothing else to do, Medusa left her bicycle locked in a certain place before going off to enjoy the summer breeze in the streets of Aegina.
Walking slowly, she just let the crowd around her to lead her anywhere without thinking of anything in particular. This is one of the rare chances that she could let go of everything and have a peaceful mind.
Although it didn't take too long for this peace to be broken when she suddenly noticed that members of the Perseus Clan are gathered in the park while giving out flyers to everyone who passes by.
She wanted to turn back and return home after seeing this, but the paper they are giving out gave Medusa a very bad feeling. Without much choice, to satisfy her curiosity, she waited outside of the park to look for a discarded flyer that they are distributing. It's a lot better than walking up to them to receive one.
After a minute, she found one in a relatively clean bin and fished it, ignoring the reactions from her surroundings.
But as she looked at what's printed on it, her face visibly paled and her body started shaking due to nervousness and bad premonition.
On the flyer is a very familiar face for her. She a young girl with braided brown hair and a caucasian face with freckles on the bridge of her nose giving an initial of a country girl. The young girl who took care and gave kindness to her just like what Kisuke and company did a few years ago, 'What's going on!? Why do they have a photo of her!?'
Medusa started panicking and went through the entire flyer. Other than the photo a place and time are also written, 'Temple of Aphaia? 6:00 PM? Could it be...!?'
A certain possibility went through her mind and she exploded into rage. She wanted to immediately behead all the members of the Perseus Clan who are distributing her photo but stopped herself as she would just be playing in their hands if she were to reveal herself now.
Medusa first intended to go back home to inform Kisuke of what's happening but she stopped her steps when she noticed how ridiculous her thoughts are, 'What the hell am I doing!? I almost dragged my benefactor to danger...'
Deciding against it, she looked at the clock and it's now half past 3 in the afternoon. Recalling the path to the temple, Medusa went back to the place where she locked her bicycle and rode it to the place which is obviously a big trap designed for her without hesitation, 'How dare they! Before I die, I have to make sure that she's safe and if I can't survive past tonight, I have to bring as many of them with me to the afterlife... Though I won't be able to accompany them to hell.'
It only took her around 30 minutes to arrive at the northeastern part of Aegina Island from her previous location. She could have arrived earlier, but doing so would attract the lookouts' attention.
Several hundred meters away from the Temple of Aphaia, she disembarked from her bike and hid it in a random corner. She then looked around to search for some tour group. She finds one that is heading for the Temple. Medusa approached the group and pretended to be a tourist herself that got separated from her group but didn't want to go back without going to the Temple. She proposed to pay the tourist guide to include her in the group and the guide happily accepted her for some easy cash.
It's already around 4:30 PM when the group reached their final destination before going to a restaurant, the Temple of Aphaia.
Medusa appears to be appreciating the surroundings while discussion her thoughts with other tourist but in fact, she's meticulously gathering information. There are a lot more people than normal but that's probably due to curiosity because of the group of people distributing a flyer regarding this place. Members of the Perseus Clan are dime a dozen but she couldn't see any high ranking member, 'So that's it... The real thing is on the separate space and the entrance is at the center of the temple.'
After another 30 minutes. She left with the tour group and separated from them when got 1 kilometer away from the temple.
"I still have an hour... I should prepare." Medusa muttered and started hunting for the hateful clan's member with known criminal records, 'I hate to do this... But I don't have any other choice anymore... As long as I keep my sanity in check, I shouldn't descend to that form.'
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After Yoruichi dragged Kisuke to do their 'nightly' activity, they only finished the afternoon. While Yoruichi is breathing hard and her face flushed with satisfaction, Kisuke, who is lying beside her, almost didn't break a sweat.
"Damn you! Your stamina is getting even more ridiculous these days!" Yoruichi wrapped her arm around him as she calms her breathing.
"I can utilize Hollowfication now, and it needs large amounts stamina to keep it activated. I at least need it to last until forever~." Kisuke chuckled and pinched her butt under the blanket.
Yoruichi slapped his hand away not because she didn't like it, it's because they still have something to do after this and once they get started again, they wouldn't stop until a few hours more, "At least? That's the longest possible time you can activate it. Do you plan to live forever?"
"Hmmm... That actually isn't impossible. If there are always interesting things, I guess living forever isn't such a bad idea." Kisuke then looked straight at Yoruichi's eyes.
"What!? You already solve the problem with senescence!?" Yoruichi grabbed his head and asked him intensely.
"Well... sort of, but I'm still far from it. It isn't impossible, though. Give me a few decades and I can probably do it~."
"...Really... You've exceeded my expectations again... What are you going to do with such a long life anyway?"
"Search for interesting things? There should be many to keep me entertained for a while. And if only there would someone who could accompany me is such a long life..."
"Hmmm... Let me think about it..." Yoruichi then pretended to contemplate her condition, "I'll accompany you if you behave yourself." Yoruichi inserted as many meanings as she womanly can.
Too bad though, Kisuke isn't exactly a woman and even more so, he isn't entirely aware that his antics are a fatal attraction to some people. He thought that she was just referring to his usual attitude, "No can do~. Messing with other people is one of my 'few' joys in life~."
"Well... Figures... Fine then. I'm just too kind, I'll accompany you until you're tired of living." Yoruichi sighed and said while looking at him seriously.
"Hahaha~. Then let's die together~!"
"That's the worst proposal I've ever heard... But sure, if both of us are already tired, let's die together~!"
The unconventional couple has there own unconventional way of expressing their love with each other.
"Let's talk about this later. What about Ana? We're pretty much sure that they are going to make their move today." Yoruichi sat up and the white blanket slid on her smooth skin. She then used magic to clean Kisuke and herself.
"Oh... Let's see..." Kisuke opened a holographic map in front of him depicting the whole Aegina Island. The most noticeable thing is the red dot on the Aegina Town moving slowly with no particular direction, "It looks like they haven't contacted her yet. I'm going to prepare and check a few things first." Beside the map, a bunch of live feed appeared featuring Medusa in many different angles as they follow her every step, "So please watch her for now."
"You stalker..."
"...It's observation."
No chapter for a few day~!
Reason?
Cuz I'm busy! That's all!
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Probably another chapter tomorrow since I just released two chps on my pat reon today.
Kisuke did the final test on his 'trump card' to make sure that it would work as expected.
While busy, Yoruichi suddenly called out from behind him, "Kisuke, looks like they made their move and Ana was hooked in immediately."
"Oh?" Kisuke stopped what he's doing and peeked at the screens. He saw Ana reading a flyer that one of the Perseus is distributing, "Yoruichi, do you have any information on the woman on the photo?"
Yoruichi shook her head in response, "Teach me how to control these cameras."
Kisuke taught her the basic controls of the camera and after a minute, Yoruichi mastered its use. She then controlled everything except for one to go around the whole island. The one left kept its focus on Ana who is now shaking in rage while the rest tried to capture the faces of the people who are distributing the flyers.
"How is it?" Kisuke asks while he prepares some tea for both of them.
"These guys are Petter Perseus' men..." Yoruichi furrowed her brows as she recalled the information she gathered these past few days, "But he supposedly not interested in the seat of Clan Head..."
"Maybe it's all just a ruse to throw-off other candidates?" Kisuke tried to guess but even he knew how unlikely this is.
"If that's the case, then he would have used this move long ago. I can't think of any reason why he would want to postpone this." After getting the faces of those distributing the flyers, Yoruichi then gathered half of the cameras towards the location written on the flyer, the Temple of Aphaia.
Kisuke took note of Medusa's movement and got interested in what she's doing, "Let's watch for now... It seems that Ana-san got some plans."
"And that plan doesn't include us," Yoruichi commented.
Kisuke chuckled in response, "I guess she too kind... I wonder what her connection with that girl?"
"Whatever it is... it's not a shallow one." Yoruichi nodded at his words, 'She important enough that she could risk her life... But why did she only appeared now?'
"Right." Kisuke has the same question in his mind but knew nobody from both of them knows the answer so they didn't voice it out.
They watch how Medusa pretended to be a lost tourist to join one group to get near the temple until she went away from it. Yoruichi nodded in satisfaction on the way she moves, "Though there are some things that she can improve on, she did a great job at that one."
"What do you think of her as your helper?" Kisuke suddenly asks.
"Hmm... If I can teach her a few things, then she would become a huge help when there is too much going on. And the greatest thing about her is she's an outcast. As long as we rout this Clan and make sure that the Olympians wouldn't touch her, she can do a lot of things. But you asking this... You decided to take her in?"
"No better choice, right? Especially now that we need manpower that isn't related to the Three Factions."
Yoruichi sighed. She didn't refute him as he's right about them needing more manpower, but they have too many secrets and can't recruit just about anyone. They can only do so by chance, such as this, "I also think that she the type of person that wouldn't stop until her 'debt' is paid after everything is over."
After discussing taking Medusa in, Kisuke and Yoruichi heard a beep from the screens which are showing the temple, "What's that?" Yoruichi asks.
"Oh... Those are additional sensors that I attached to those things. Those sensors are for scanning the surroundings' Mana levels, composition, and flow. And just one, it's done analyzing the environment on the temple." Kisuke then approached the terminal and strike some keys. The screens then changed its display to a bunch of numbers. Only Kisuke can understand these numbers as he deliberately didn't put any labels on it, "Hooh... I see..."
"What's up?"
"They are hiding on a separate space." Kisuke rubbed his chin in contemplation.
"Can you check inside?"
"They'll probably detect these things if we do that. We should only do it if I'm about to enter."
"So you'll be announcing your entrance?"
"They know that someone will enter anyway so I'll do it as flashy as possible."
"Why though?"
"I've just thought of a way to make things easier~."
"Hmmm... Well, whatever. Do what you want."
"That's settled then. Yoruichi, gather everything except the one on Ana. I'll do some modifications now."
"Roger that~. Oh, and modify one so that it wouldn't be detected so that I can watch the fun too."
"Sure thing..." Kisuke wanted to say more but he noticed something peculiar at the way Ana is moving after separating from the tourist group.
Yoruichi also noticed this and put back her attention to the screen, "What is she doing?"
Medusa is currently stalking one group from the Perseus Clan who's patrolling the area. Kisuke and Yoruichi are watching her movement closely because she currently emitting a hint of blood lust.
When the group entered an alley where there are no other people, Medusa immediately pounced on them and knocked them all out, 'This is completely unnecessary. Those are just minions of the real deal...'
Just as both Kisuke and Yoruichi tried to guess the reasons behind her unseemingly useless effort, both of them furrowed their brows when they saw her next actions.
Medusa walked towards one of the knocked down men and after a minute or two of hesitation, she took out her dagger and slit his throat. The man's blood spurted out like a fountain and died in his sleep. What made Kisuke and Yoruichi took a serious expression is when the blood from the man floated up and gathered on Medusa's hand like an orb. After getting everything, a tendril emerges out of the blood orb and went to Medusa's mouth for her to drink it. The orb of blood slowly loses its volume until Medusa consumed everything. Once she was done, she burned the corpse with simple fire magic and left the scene where she stalked another group from Perseus Clan.
"What was that?" Yoruichi voiced out her concerns.
Kisuke didn't speak and just kept looking at the screen featuring Medusa, 'What's going on?'