Chapter 254: Its Our Fault (2/2)
She then stands up before she said excitedly, ”It sprouted in a valley not far from here, the place is filled with mutated bears”
”Mutated bears?”, Rex asks again.
He then glances at Adhara on their back after realizing that the mutated bears must be the Grisly Mist Bear which is one of the things they came here for.
Rex then finally said, ”Don't worry, we'll help to restock the flowers”
After agreeing to help the villagers, the old woman goes back to the village while Rex and Adhara keep looking for Edward.
They find many other villagers that are hiding around the place in fright.
All of them already activate the Vermillion Flowers fearing that Vashag will come after them.
Rex told them to go back to the village knowing that Vashag has already calmed down, he didn't sense any pair of red eyes glaring at him anymore.
Not long after that, Rex and Adhara found Edward hiding on a small crack.
The woman that is brought by him also hiding with him inside, and his expression lit up when he saw Rex and Adhara.
”Woah, What is this?”, Edward asks after looking at the lightning cocoon.
Rex ignore Edward before he said to the woman, ”Vashag already calmed down, you can go back to your village now”
Hearing this, the woman scoffed and wanted to leave.
It is clear that she's angry with Rex and the others because of attracting Vashag and endangering the village, and Rex didn't mind it at all because it's their fault.
But before the woman can leave, ”We're going to help you restock the Vermillion Flowers”
The woman stopped on her track and looks back at Rex with a slight surprise, Rex then added, ”It's our fault for attracting Vashag, so the least we can do is to help you guys to restock the flower”
After hearing what Rex has to say, the woman widened her eyes before turning back again.
But Rex stopped her again, ”Do you know the way to Lountain City? We're a bit lost and don't know which direction to go?”
”After you restock our flowers, then I will tell you the way to Lountain City”, the woman replied coldly before she left.
Edward approach Rex before he asks, ”It's our fault? How come?”
”The light from your car attracts that monster, so it's our fault for not preparing ourselves better and putting their village in danger”, Rex explains while shaking his head.
But then suddenly, ”Rrghh!”, Rex grunted.
[Times Up!], Devo said as the lightning cocoon around Rex crumble.
Instantly after the lightning cocoon dissipates, the mist covers their vision again while the rain follows making their already wet clothes wetter.
Looking at this, Adhara asks in concern, ”Are you okay?”
”Yeah I can't maintain it for long, so we have to make do with this”, Rex replied calmly.
Rex then added, ”Follow me”, he said before he dashes in a direction followed by Edward.
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Meanwhile,
Stuart brings the big bag with the maid's corpse in it out of the room.
Many people gaze at him curiously with such a big bag, but upon noticing that Stuart is the butler from Rex's room the curious students didn't mind him anymore.
The students of Faraday University consider Rex to be their role model and star.
So they expect nothing like doing illegal things, or even killing an Awakened and instructing the butler to dump a corpse.
Because he's carrying a corpse inside the bag, Stuart already put something on the bag.
The smell of a corpse can surely be smelled even only from walking past it, so he did something to cover the corpse's smell.
He then arrived at the elevator,
The elevator is not the elevator used by the student but rather it is a hidden elevator in a small hallway, it's completely hidden because Stuart needs to open a door to access the elevator.
After entering the elevator, Stuart presses the fourth floor.
If what he's doing is supposed to get rid of the corpse, then he should go to the ground floor.
But instead of going down, he went up instead.
The elevator door opened on the fourth floor,
Stuart looks around the place and finds that the floor is almost devoid of students because the day is just starting, and students are currently in class.
He then walks out of the elevator cautiously.
Stuart follows went straight to a door not far from the elevator, he knocked on the door in a pattern lightly before the door opened.
A woman greeted him from the inside,
If Rex was here, then he will instantly recognize the woman, Linda.
Linda opened the door and saw Stuart in front of the room with a big bag on his back, ”Ms. Linda, I brought you something”
Hearing this, Linda steps aside signaling Stuart to come in.
After Stuart comes in, Linda poked her head out to see if anyone is watching before closing the door lightly again.
Inside the room, Stuart takes out the corpse from the big bag.
”Did Rex do this?”, Linda asks with a frown.
Stuart shakes his head before he replied, ”No, it's Kyran that did this”
Linda then go on her knee before inspecting the corpse, her expression changed a bit because of the rotten smell from the corpse but she kept looking.
”I can't identify which family she's from”, Linda said before standing back up.
Stuart then said with a frown, ”Whichever family this woman is from, it's clear that she's trying to do something and Rex caught up to it”
After a moment of thinking, Linda got a thought in her mind.
”How did this girl manage to get inside Rex's room?”, Linda asks.
Stuart recalled the event before he said, ”I think she blackmailed Clarice the maid, that's how she can get inside the room”
”Bring Clarice here”, Linda commanded before sitting on her desk.
Hearing Linda's command, Stuart bowed slightly before heading towards the door.
But when he's about to leave, Linda suddenly stopped him, ”Didn't Rex just make an alliance with the Reed Family?”
”Yes, Ari is guarding the university and his room”, Stuart replied.
Linda then frowns for a moment before her eyes widen in realization, ”Then where is he when there's an infiltrator inside Rex's room?”
Hearing what Linda said, Stuart froze in his spot.
Both of them look at each other and realized that they just found a lead, ”I'll tell Vargas about this”, Linda said before she takes her phone and dialed a number.