chapter 69
--3rdperson POV--
"Hy I'm looking for… Melissa McCall. I'm Ann Evans, the new forensic" said a young woman who just entered the hospital.
She was wearing a sheer, white, tied, button-up shirt and navy-blue shorts, that accentuated her long and soft thighs.
More than a doctor she looked like a tourist, especially because of the sunglasses she was wearing.
"That would be me" said Melissa.
"I was told to look for you for introduction" said Ann, as she took off her sunglasses and revealed an attractive face of Asiatic descendance.
"Certainly, where do you want to start?" Asked Melissa with a smile.
"The morgue. I would also like to have a look at the information of all the bodies that were held here in the last year"
"You'll have a lot of work to do, recently there have been many deaths" commented Melissa.
"I came here exactly for that, there have been two mass murders made by serial killers in the span of a year, so I think that my competence will be more needed here. I like working in a hospital quite a lot, I always knew that my place was near those who suffers." Said Ann.
"It is admirable for someone as young as you to have such a passion for your job"
"In reality I look a little younger than my actual age" she replied as they reached the morgue.
--Ann Evans POV--
The most recent case of mass murder, is clearly a sacrifice and I believe it originate from the druid culture.
Druid used to have a peculiar connection with the Nemeton so this would explain how the Nogitsune got freed.
They must have tried to use the Nemeton for some rituals. Moreover when I went there to look at it, I could see sign of an earthquake, which probably gave the Nogitsune the occasion to escape his prison.
Why the hell did the old hag seal him there, and then went away.
It even surprises me that the seal lasted all this time, the Nemeton who was once an enormous tree is now just a stump, and its power was barely enough to suppress the Nogitsune.
Well, for now let's go out and have a nice talk with my baby sister, I want to know in how many ways Ken abused her in front of the class.
I can already feel the sweet taste of her desperation.
"Ok, I'm finished here. I'm going now." I said to Melissa, who for some reason had stayed with me during these hours while I checked the files she gave me.
"So did you find anything strange?" she asked me, clearly agitated.
"Strange?" Little Melissa seems to know about the supernatural.
"Well, yes these cases were peculiar" she said, while trying to find an excuse.
"I've seen stranger things. You would be surprised of how inventive and original serial killers can be" I stated.
And she seemed to calm down when I mentioned that I suspected this to be the doing of a serial killer, how ironic.
Once you know the supernatural, serial killers sound like kids compared to true monsters who hide among people.
Wendigos literally survive by eating humans.
I'm no exception either.
"Would you like to go eat with me?" she asked.
"I would like too, but I'm going to pick up from school my niece from school".
"She studies here?" asked Melissa.
"Yes, the whole family transferred, she is in her third year of high school now".
"Oh then she has the same age of my son, maybe they are in the same class" she said.
"Oh, is he cute? We could play matchmaking, I fear my niece isn't good when it comes to relationships, her father passed a little of the lack of common sense he has to her" I said, thinking of the time when she passed one whole month doing the homework of the boy she liked.
When I found out I made him piss himself in front of the class by putting him under a hallucination, I would have done worse if it wasn't for mother who keeps a tight watch on me.
I'll be Sixty-nine years old next year and she still keep trying to control me.
I know that void kitsunes are not well seen, that she had a bad experience with one, that I find pleasure in chaos and pain and that I indeed was planning to torture the kid, but this doesn't mean that… no she is probably right, it's better that she make sure I don't do something I would regret and that is considering my standards.
"Mine is not better, his ex broke up with him seven or eight months ago, but he still can't forget her" lamented Melissa.
"Then let's speak of this tomorrow, even if matching them together won't work, it would still be worth it if we were able to tease them a little. No drama is more enjoyable than true teenagers' love problems" I said.
"That's dark. I like you." cool, I made a friend at work on my first day, if only mother allowed me to teach Kira how to have a great social life.
Even if she happened to get some of my kinks too, together with these notions wouldn't it have worked out greatly in the long term?
"Well, now I'm really have to go".
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"Hey stop working with your laptop I even picked you up myself from school" I told Kira, who was avoiding speaking any further with me.
"You just want to laugh of my social life that is being destroyed by my father" she said, without stopping typing.
"Luckily there was not a lot to destroy" I said, and the amount of frustration that came from her was satisfying.
"Do you find joy in bulling me?" you have no idea; it is to the point that you could call it incest.
"So, what are you doing?" I asked giving her a break. I can't take all the juice in one hit, she needs a little pause to refill, so that she doesn't break from exhaustion.
She is still my beloved sister after all, I can't ruin her.
"I'm doing a research for a fri… fuck" She stopped realizing what she was saying.
"A fri…?" I asked with a frown on my face.
"For the freedom of all people from… homework… yeah homework… we are in the twenty-first century, there is no reason to keep an archaic and obsolete tradition like giving homework at school" is she really a kitsune? Although she still doesn't know what she is, shouldn't she have the ability to lie even a little? Well, at least her bullshit is funny.
"Are you doing the homework of another friend? I was sure you didn't have one yet. You shouldn't go around helping others unilaterally just because you want them to be your friends" I said.
"He didn't ask me and it is something that interest me too either way" said Kira.
"Really what is the topic?" I asked, as I found it difficult that she shared the same interest with other people. Her father transformed her in a history maniac.
"Bardo, it's a Buddhist word, it is the name of the state between life and death, a kind of border land between the two" She said proudly.
"And why would that interest these friends of yours".
"Well I heard them say that they were having nightmares, hallucinations and seeing dead people, which are all thing that happens in Bardo" Interesting, could it be that the Nogitsune has already started feeding off negative emotions, but it shouldn't have the power to cause nightmares and hallucinations yet. Maybe I'll need to check later.
"And how did you hear them?" I asked, while smirking as her face became red.
"There is a guy you like, and you were trying to stalk him, right? Who is he?" I asked.
"As if I'm going to tell you".
"Okay, then I'll just ask your father to find out" I stated.
"Okay, you win. Not like you can do anything about it. Luckily you are not in my school too, father is already enough. He is called Scott McCall. Happy?" McCall… like in Melissa McCall. Seems like today is my lucky day.
"Yes, I'm happy that you are going out with my co-worker's son, she is quite nice, I'll ask her if she can help you conquer him." I said and an astonished expression appeared on Kira's face.
"You are joking".
"I'm not" I replied with a smirk.
"No aunt, please don't." Her desperation got such a nice taste.
(For those who haven't understood, Ann Evans is an OC and a void kitsune, as for her aunt/sister relationship I'll explain it later, but I'm sure you can come up with it by yourself. Also, I'm curious if you'll be able to guess who I'm using as reference for her character, I dropped some hints in this chapter.)