Chapter 25: Esserine's Free Day

Recently, Everado has been going out without a reason, and he always wears a black coat and sunglasses. Looks exactly like a bad guy. So Esserine has decided to use one of her free days to follow her brother to figure out what he's been up to. 

"Russell, prepare breakfast for me, I'll be downstairs in 20 minutes". Esserine commanded her butler. 

"Yes ma'am". The young man replied docilely. 

"Good". Esserine walked back to her room and continued getting dressed. 

Last week, Esserine randomly read one of her brother's letters. It said that the 'merchandise' will be in the Tiamat Square, an area in the middle class downtown. 

So today, Esserine will dress like a normal city girl, that would help her blend in with the people. She wears a flowery elegant dress, it's gray and black, a really casual outfit. No one would notice her.

"Mother, I'm going to investigate our Everado today". Esserine held her starry necklace in her palm. 

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Somewhere at the Tiamat Square, Esserine is hiding in a dark corner of the marked place. Everado and the unknown men should be around here by now. 

After 5 minutes of waiting, finally someone appears. A group of black coated men in a big truck and a tall guy is going toward them from the other side. 

"Zoom in". Esserine channeled her magical one eye glass. "What's my brother doing here?".

The one eye glass, Esserine called it 'Specula'. It is used to stalk someone from a far distance or to increase the reading speed of the wearer. You can use it like a binocular. 

"I can't hear them, I need to do something". Esserine thought for a minute. 

"Night Creature emerges from Shadow". Esserine decided to use her ability. "Come Shadow Rat!".

A big mouse rises from the dark corner. Esserine orders it to approach her brother. Seems like they are talking about illegal goods, imports from other countries to be correct. 

"Dryad's hearts and potion of revival?". Esserine was confused. "What are they talking about?".

This is not the first time Esserine becomes a spy. She usually goes undercover to serve for her dad, the Henderson family, sometimes even the royal family. However, this is the first time in her life hearing about a revival potion. Everyone knows that only the Saintess of the Lumina Temple and Necromancers can resurrect someone or something. And now black coated people are selling revival potions.

"Let's go". The man in black said. "Come to my place, I promise to show you our exquisite products". 

"Alright, lead the way". Everado nodded politely. 

These black coated men start chanting an incantation. Next minute, an illusional sanctuary appears, they're all teleported to somewhere else. Esserine quickly uses 'Shadow Cloak' to move into the circle before it's gone. Esserine gets teleported to the same area as these people. Thankfully, they cannot recognize her because she still has not jumped out of the shadow yet. 

"This place is so dark, I can barely see". Esserine thought while she was looking around. 

After walking a while in the gloomy corridor, the black coated people have come to a wide room, it looks like a ruined lobby of some source of haunted hotels. A big chest is placed in the middle.

"So where is the product?". Everado questioned. 

"Vy. Open the chest!". The black coated man shouted. 

"Yes sir". The unknown girl slowly went to the chest. It must be Vy. And the shouted man must be the leader of this mafia group. 

As Vy opens the thing, a gleaming greenish light glows. 

"These are revival potions?". Everado tried to trigger them a little bit. "Prove it".

"Vy". The one that seems like the leader turned his head toward the girl.

"Boom" 

The gunning sound bounces around the room. The mafia group kills their own man!

Vy grabbed a glass bottle of potion and poured out the liquid on the dead guy: "Live". Just within a minute, all the wounds were healed and the man stood up like nothing had happened. 

"Unbelievable". Everado didn't even believe in what he just saw. 

"Well then Ricky, will you pay the other half?". The leader spoke up. 

"For sure". Everado pulled out a sack of gold. 

Seems like that's his fake name.

The leader scrutinized for a while, then he shouted: "VY, KILL HIM, IT'S THE HENDERSON FAMILY". 

"Hands up boy". Vy pointed her gun at Everado. 

"Chill, that's not nice of y'all". Everado calmly said. 

Vy brutally shot out the bullet, nevertheless, somehow the bullet had turned to dust before it could hit the target: "What the f?".

"Hello everyone, my name is Everado Henderson". Everado backed off a little bit then introduced himself. 

"Shut up" - Vy bawled angrily. 

"No you shut up!". Esserine jumped out of the shadow, she knew that it's time to assist her brother. "Sable". 

Sable is Esserine's weapon, it's also one of the gifts from her mother. 

Sable is a utility gun, its normal form is a pistol. But it would become any type of guns that Esserine wants just by chanting. Esserine is best at taking on many opponents at a time. 

"My little one, you were following me all this time?". Everado looked at his sister softly. "It's almost tea time, now let's finish them soon". 

"Don't be so arrogant!". Vy touched into her inner power, she had transformed. 

Vy's outfit is white as clear quartz. Her weapon is an umbrella, every step that she walks, there will be a circle of light appearing below. How delicate she is.

"Petal Dance". Vy released waves of white floral petals to her surroundings. Even some of the other men got hurt by her. 

"Ah" - Everado was trying to dodge the area attack, but somehow it still hit him a little bit.

"Brother!". Esserine glared at Vy. "You bitch". She shot several shadow bullets toward Vy, even though Vy received the damage, however, it wasn't enough to make her surrender. Not letting Vy recover, Esserine threw out 'Shadow Sphere'. 

"Purity Blast" - Vy harnessed her power and then shot out an energetic wave of light magic. Her attack pushed Everado away, he literally hit the wall of the lobby and fainted. 

Everado's ability is Time, nonetheless, the transformed one is still way much more powerful than usual people. Not everyone can transform, some people even have to spend the rest of their lives being a normal one. 

"Not only you can transform!!". Esserine manipulated the shadow cover around her. "Shadow becomes one with me!".

Esserine's transformed form is urbane yet truly swag. She wears a maiden black dress with a silvery bow tie on her chest. Her hair is tied back with black ribbons. She wears a pair of stygian gloves and dim ballet flats. Her hands hold an SMG-Machine Gun. 

Now is the real battle!