Brief Encounter

"Go throw it away, don't bring the bucket back," said Beatrice before pointing at a weird bucket with a lid placed on it.

After saying that, Beatrice walked out of the experiment room before hurrying to take a shower.

"This smells way too bad," mumbled Beatrice as she was taking a shower, but at the same time, the horrifying speed at which that body had been transformed into a pure liquid very much impressed her.

Suddenly, Beatrice let out a slightly exhausted sigh as another rock floated out of the shower and into a now pretty large rock pile.

After a few moments, a surprised expression appeared on Beatrice's face as she turned her head to look behind her.

'I knew things wouldn't be so simple,' thought Beatrice as she watched the rock approach her at a much higher speed than the previous ones.

After dodging the rock, Beatrice spent another few minutes inside of the shower before walking out of the room.

As she thought about how poor she was, Beatrice let out a sigh before slowly walking over to the mission hall, just to take a look.

'Elemental stones really are much more common in this place than back home,' thought Beatrice as a certain mission popped into her eyes

'Fifty elemental stones, Investigate cause of disappearances, location, Ester City Dyon Kingdom'

Looking at this mission, a greedy glint suddenly appeared in Beatrice's eyes, and after a few moments, she picked up the sheet of paper on which the mission was shown to take a closer look.

'In the past three years, over five hundred people have mysteriously disappeared in Ester City, with young children being the ones mostly targeted, as long as the cause is discovered fifty elemental stones will be provided'

As she read this, a map couldn't help but appear in Beatrice's mind.

"If I hurry it's three days there and three days back," mumbled Beatrice as she couldn't help but clench her fist.

Suddenly, Beatrice walked up to the counter with the sheet of paper.

"I'm taking this mission," said Beatrice as she took out a token from her robe.

Picking up the token, the female apprentice on the opposite side of the counter placed it on the counter before taking out a small crystal.

"Record the cause of the disappearances with this," said the female apprentice as she handed Beatrice both the token and a small crystal.

Hearing that, Beatrice no longer said anything, merely nodding before walking away.

...

Three days later, Ester City,

A small child was standing was mindlessly walking through the streets, without any worry in the world and completely unprotected.

After a few minutes of walking a completely normal middle-aged man leisurely began walking in the same direction as him, slowly getting closer and closer.

"William why did you go out," shouted an angry female voice as a woman suddenly ran after the small child named William.

Hearing that, a confused expression appeared on William's face.

'Why did I even go out?' thought William as thoughts swirled in his mind, but after a few moments, the woman held William's hand, but even then, William could not figure out why he had left home, as he usually listened to his mother's words.

"Just wait until we get home," said the woman as anger could be heard just fom her voice, causing young William to shiver.

Without saying any words the middle-aged man completely ignored the scene and continued going on his way.

'I should go back,' thought the man as he looked at the sun that was setting.

After walking for a few minutes, the man arrived at a normal house, and after getting undressed, he went into his bedroom to sleep.

Several minutes later,

The door to the bedroom suddenly creaked open, as Christian walked in and began looking through the now-empty room before finding a small hatch after a few minutes.

Just as he was about to open the hatch, Christian suddenly felt a chill in his heart, he then took out a small crystal from his pocket, and used it to record the room, this, alongside photos of the middle-aged man stalking children should be enough, thought Beatrice as she now controlled Christian's body from another location.

After thinking about it for a few seconds, Beatrice tied the crystal to a string before turning it on and throwing it down the hatch, rotating it a few times, and then bringing it back up.

...

As he walked to the end of the dark tunnel underneath the earth, the middle-aged man suddenly reached a door to a room.

Inside of the room stood a hundred of different monsters, but they all had one thing in common, although not human, they seemed to have an uncanny resemblance to one.

Just as the middle-aged man walked in the room, a voice suddenly sounded in his ear.

"Dark Hint huh," mumbled a black-haired woman dressed in a black cloak before suddenly clapping once.

The moment the middle-aged man heard that clap, he snapped out of his trance, causing sweat to fill his forehead.

'I was controlled by someone,' thought the middle-aged man as he felt sweat fill his forehead.

Suddenly, the black-haired woman looked towards the door of the room as a smile appeared on her face.

Meanwhile in the house,

As soon as he got the recording crystal back, Christian immediately walked out of the room and then the house before walking towards the outskirts of the city.

Looking at Christian, who was walking towards her, Beatrice couldn't help but smile, but as Christian was getting closer to her, he suddenly stopped.

Knowing that the bomb near Christian's heart successfully exploded, Beatrice breathed a sigh of relief before walking closer to his corpse and looking at what she had seen.

"Too dangerous," mumbled Beatrice as she looked at the blood-red hickey on Christian's neck, after that, Beatrice took out the crystal from his pocket, before taking a photo of the hickey and fleeing.

...

"It looks like the school got some good students since I left," mumbled the black-haired woman as she felt her new puppet suddenly die.

Suddenly, the middle-aged man next to her fell to the ground, dead.

After that, all of the monsters inside of the basement suddenly fell to the ground, dead, well, all except for one.

Immediately after, the body of the still-alive monster was smashed to pieces, causing it to die, and after a few moments, the black-haired woman turned into smoke before disappearing.