《Imperfect power》chapter 15

Phillip's POV:

"So, how long will you be out?" I inquired of Eric.

He had called me to let me know he'd be leaving the girls in my care for a day or two since he had some business to attend to.

"It depends on how well they can handle it." Eric replied, revealing something a bit perplexing.

"Should I be worried?" I asked with a smile.

"Nah, it's nothing serious. It's just a slightly intimate matter, and that's why I'm entrusting Ren and Christine to your care."

POP

With that, Eric left me with Ren and Christine.

"Do you have any clue what's going on?" I asked Ren.

"He's been sleeping around more than he should." she hit me with the weird truth.

"But he said it's nothing serious!" I exclaimed.

"It's not like that. He just needs to, most likely, apologize and introduce the sigma girl to Angie and Jade." Ren explained.

"S-sigma girl, that's one way to call a lover."

"Yeah, I just somehow called her that. It appears that she's French, like me." Ren informed me.

"She's French? I didn't know?!" That was indeed a surprise. It must've slipped my attention.

"So, what would you like to do? I mean, I'm left here with you two for a while. You can choose whatever you want to do, as long as it's legal and affordable." I said.

"I was thinking about continuing the hunt for Cassandra." Ren exclaimed enthusiastically.

"Aren't we supposed to wait for her move, according to Mr. Isaac's instructions?" Something about it seemed strange.

"You can tell it as well, don't you? Isaac knows everything, but not the future. He can't possibly know that we'll encounter her unless she's already aiming to confront us soon. Since Eric is gone, we should act." Her idea intrigued me.

"I would love to, but... why won't we leave this case for a professional, like Eric?" I asked. I really don't know if I can handle it.

"Phillip! You are death itself!" she shouted.

"I don't think it's a good idea." I still tried to stay away from trouble.

"And I don't think it's a bad idea. We'll just have to walk around hoping we'll find her since she's aiming for us anyway, and when we get her, then just khhhhssskkkss..." She gestured her finger across her neck.

"I got it, I got it." I didn't... I don't want to do this, I don't want to kill anyone.

How should I tell her that I'm too scared of my own power?

Before I turned around, she was putting her shoes on and was about to leave.

"Wait, Ren! Fine, we'll go, but if we find her, we're calling Eric."

"I can't promise you that." she murmured.

Once we left, we had some time to talk things out.

"I was wondering, what do you feel towards Eric?" I asked, maybe too straightforward.

"PPPFFFFF!! . . . Who, me? Um-... I don't dislike him." her voice trembled a little.

"O-ok, let's change the topic, wanna suggest anything?"

"Thinking about it, what do you usually do in your free time?" she asked.

"My free time... You know, watching videos and stuff..." She must never know.

"Videos, huh? What kind?" No, no, no, no, no, no!

"Try not to..." Yes, made it!

"Aaahh! Challenging ones, I like them too." she said, unaware of my half-lies.

We reached a fast-food restaurant, and I ordered us some food. By 'some food' I mean two kid meals, each containing a hamburger, chicken nuggets, and French fries.

"Did you know that hamburgers do not originate from America but Germany?" She said while chewing food.

"Really? I think lots of Americans would feel offended now." I replied. Surely people usually assume everything is American.

"It's from Hamburg. Also, French fries are not from France; they're from Belgium. Though chicken nuggets are from New York. Nevertheless, I just wanted a toy; food comes as a second priority."

"It's good to know something interesting. What did you get anyway?" I asked her.

"Please Pikachu, please Pikachu, please Pikachu, please Pikachu, pleaaaaseeeee... FUCK! MAGIKARP! What did you get, Philip?" She quickly changed her tone.

"Ah... n-nothing special, just Psyduck..." I tried to hide it.

She jumped on me and took a closer look.

"You dare hide Mewtwo!? This is unfair. Why am I always unlucky?" She started sobbing with a high-pitched voice tone.

"Calm down, it can't be that bad. Please, calm down, people are watching," I tried to halt the scene.

"They always do, no matter where I go. People are always watching, no matter where I go, I'm always unlucky, no matter where I go, people are jealous because they're fucking normies! They live lives so boring they fuck them up for fun! Imagine growing up in a happy, peaceful family with both loving parents always by your side, safety at school where no one would try to hurt you, places where people would believe what you say and protect you. Then reach adulthood as a free person, find a lover that's always faithful to you, live together, make babies, grow old together. What a shitty lifestyle that is, ain't it?! They're all jealous because they live such boring lives unlike me, a murderer of a father, of a rapist whom I also killed! T-then... everything just went down and down... I just wanted to be boring..." Her speech went from shouting to delicate and depressing.

This is really messed up. I didn't know. I'm pretty sure Eric did, and he trusted me enough to take care of her, his patient for a while. And now... where is she...?

"Ren! Where are you going?" She's heading towards the exit.

I take Christine, and we go after her.

We barely went outside to see Ren talk to someone... A woman in a hooded jacket, from under I could see red hair... It can't be...

"Ren! Come back here! Quickly!" I shouted. "LAUREN!!!" But it was too late.

She fell on the ground, hitting it lifeless.