Chapter 7:The Shadow Man

While Adryan was leaving his home in an unknown direction, officer Watson Ulib was still working ...

The night before in North Borough-Saint Samuel Cathedral.

In the church basement was the man with a large team looking at a large blackboard.

On it was marked the location of Dutch Willson's mansion where the Demoness Set attack occurred and there was a large search area marked.

There were also pasted on another board various photographs of different people, some of them were the Nighthawks who were killed that night, and others were those of some nobles who attended.

Among the photos there were also other quite remarkable ones such as those of the punishers who participated and those of Adryan and Grievius.

And now Watson was putting up the drawing of the man Adryan had seen.

Seeing the man's action, several of the members who were there looked at each other uncomfortable and one raised his hand and said with an uncertain voice.

"Captain, wouldn't that be the masked man who was in the Red Band case a few weeks ago?"

"Yes it is him and now he has reappeared at the party fighting against the witches"

Everyone there except Watson gasped slightly as one of them stood up with a frown.

"But Captain, how is it possible that he appeared since in none of the divinations was revealed his participation?"

Faced with this question, Watson only marked Adryan's photo with a red brush while he was answering.

"When I questioned Adryan Kenway he revealed a lot of information regarding the case and also the appearance of this man..

"It's very possible that the masked man intervened with the divination, that's why we can't see him anywhere, it's even possible that he used hypnosis on the people at the party so that they confuse his appearance with Grievius's"

While saying that, Watson took the photo of Grievius off the board and threw it in the trash, completely ruling out his participation in the fight at the party.

Before anyone could protest Watson's action, he raised his voice while hitting the drawing of the masked man.

"I made various divinations and all of them failed due to external interventions, it is very likely that the fact that only Adryan Kenway managed to see and remember this man indicates that the masked man was very careful to cover his tracks but only one managed to escape him. "

"Now Adryan Kenway will go into witness protection for the next 2 weeks I want 2 people to be protecting him in those days plus make sure you don't get caught by him, it's very likely he's a beyonder but we don't have enough evidence so be careful. "

"But Captain then why are we cutting Grievius out of the equation?"

At this Watson coughed slightly while looking away causing everyone in the room to have the same thought.

'He forgot again'

"Thank you for reminding me, the elimination of Grievius in the participation of this case is due to the fact that all the divinations always pointed to him as if he were the one who controlled the fire but when one puts the participation of the masked man into the equation, all this is it gets complicated."

"As I said before According to Adryan Kenway's testimony the one who fought against the witches was this masked man not Grievius."

"The divinations to verify this all failed so we are dealing with a high mid-sequence beyonder who has the ability to anti-divine, modify people's visions and memories, is also able to move in the shadows and can also control fire."

Every time he said an ability, Watson would hit the table with some force, causing the other Nighthawks to flip slightly.

"It is not necessary for me to say that he is someone very dangerous so avoid confrontation at all costs if you run into him"

"Now everyone out, Alicia and Kevin will be in charge of protecting Adryan Kenway tomorrow"

The Nighthawks nodded to the Captain's words while Alicia and Kevin cursed under their breath about various things.

Alicia about how this would ruin her beauty sleep and Kevin about him having a date tomorrow.

When everyone left the room Watson sat on the chair while rubbing his brow hard, there was another reason why Grievius was completely ruled out of the investigation and this was the main reason but it was not appropriate to tell his team members.

Unlike the punishers, nighthawks and witches who died there, Grievius was the one who never released his caracteristics.

One could say it was because the witches took it but this was ruled out by a simple question.

So why didn't they take the others', when they did take one, why not all?

Due to lack of time it was a possibility, but another much greater one would be that someone did not allow them to do it...

Watson got up from his chair and walked over to the drawing of the masked man and wrote something on it with a black pencil before leaving the room.

He still had a lot of paperwork to do...

Looking at the drawing of the masked man one could see how a name was written under it...

-The Shadow Man-

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Returning to the present, Adryan, who had no idea that his lie had worked so spectacularly and brilliantly ,was walking through the streets of Backlund.

Adryan right now had one hand in his pocket where he kept the Burnt Band as he walked.

Since he left his house, he felt like he was being followed by someone, so this made him have to take another route.

'Following a hunter is a horrible idea, little mice,' Adryan thought as he kept a calm expression and while he move between people, he took the opportunity to take a quick look to see who was following him.

Seeing two people who were suspicious, Adryan slightly raised the corners of his mouth as he continued to walk calmly.