Guide to tamming vilanesses-Chapter 57: We need to do something.

Lilel slipped easily into the underground "base" The Cartel had built in the building’s basement. Just like in the game, they were bringing in multiple girls and drugging them.

"They really don’t give a crap about staying hidden..." Lilel murmured as she floated quietly through the dim corridors.

The Cartel had managed to keep the operation secret by paying large bribes to the police, but it wouldn’t last long.

Even at a glance, it was obvious they hadn’t planned to stay here for long. The base was a mess. There were no permanent installations; everything there was temporary.

That was the chaotic way they liked to operate. Commit crimes without any worry, and after getting caught, run away, leave a few behind as a sacrifice, and restart the cycle in a new place.

Still, it would take at least an hour or two to pack everything up and disappear. That was more than enough time.

HEAVEN would be able to seize a lot.

’Hey, user, there are at least 20 men down here, and...’ Lilel reported telepathically everything she saw.

She even found a small room filled with fake documents and transport schedules. They were already preparing to run.

Then Lilel froze.

At the far end of a hallway stood a man in a dark suit. He was drinking while doing no work. And everyone seemed afraid of him.

Lilel’s eyes widened. And even if she was invisible, she preferred to run away just in case.

’User... I think I saw someone important.’

Shin’s tone sharpened. ’Who?’

’Black hair. Early thirties. Drinking like crazy. A scar near his left ear. I’m almost certain it’s Sakuraba.’

There was a brief silence. The man was one of the main figures of The Cartel in Japan. He was too powerful for Shin to face, and he definitely shouldn’t be there.

Shin didn’t expect his actions could, somehow, have such a side effect. He hadn’t done anything that should prompt The Carthel to send him, but the butterfly effect could be a bitch.

Anyway, Shin immediately reported it to HEAVEN. With the information Lilel had given him, they should have enough to prepare for the invasion.

Sakuraba was strong, but once the forces arrived, he would be no problem. However, until then, Shin couldn’t under any circumstances enter into conflict.

’Lilel, be careful. Do not go near him. We already have enough, but continue gathering information if possible. We don’t know what safeguards he might have.’

’Understood. Maintaining distance. Recon in progress. I’ll report anything useful.’ Lilel’s little wings wiggled anxiously, but she kept moving. Information was key in warfare.

She floated onward, keeping to the ceiling where the dim bulbs barely reached. Then she reached the chamber.

It was a poorly maintained, windowless room, barely lit by a single fluorescent tube. There, several young women lay sprawled across stained mattresses and cheap sleeping bags.

Their eyes were distant, as if their minds were elsewhere. The fairy also spotted several members of the Cathel cartel testing out their ’product’.

They moved mechanically, ramming cocks inside the girls that could only beg for it. Their bodies were unable to react in any way other than aroused.

Lilel’s stomach twisted.

And at that moment, she heard a door opening. It came from the chamber to her right. And since that one was already full, they would put the next batch of girls in there.

The fairy immediately moved to check the situation.

They were small and thin. None of them could be older than fourteen. Two of them looked even younger.

Three of them were probably already lost, their eyes empty. But the fourth girl still had enough consciousness to fight.

When one of the handlers reached for her, she twisted violently, kicked at his shin, and bolted toward the open door. For a heartbeat, she almost made it.

A third man, grinning like a hyena, lunged and clamped his meaty hand around her slender wrist. He yanked hard enough to make her shoulder pop audibly. She cried out, feet skidding across the filthy concrete.

"Oi, little bitch thinks she can run?" he snarled. "I think someone needs to teach you a lesson, hahaha!"

The cruel man raised his free hand, fingers curled into a fist the size of a ham, clearly intending to smash her face in just for the entertainment.

Lilel’s vision tunneled.

She didn’t think. She acted.

Her body moved with a speed she didn’t know she had. The fairy quickly grabbed a full bottle of wine. She flew as high as she could, then dropped it.

Since the tests with Shin, Lilel had trained her "dropping-things" attack a lot, so her aim with it was excellent.

The bottle fell almost twenty feet straight down and exploded against the back of the man’s skull with a wet, satisfying crack. Wine and glass sprayed in a crimson fan.

The handler’s eyes rolled up; his grip loosened instantly. He dropped like a felled tree, face-first into the concrete with a meaty thud.

The girl stumbled free, clutching her wrist. For one precious second, no one moved.

Then the other two handlers shouted, scrambling toward her. But they were too distracted by the surreal situation, and that hesitation let her escape.

The small child disappeared into the chaos of the place, hiding as best she could. Still, her whole body ached, and she knew it wouldn’t take long before they found her.

Her breathing was ragged and uneven. She couldn’t calm down, and tears streamed down her cheeks.

〇〇〇

Meanwhile, Shin was on the group date.

"Hey! Why are you looking at your cellphone all the time?" Aiko asked, pouting cutely as she pressed her body against him.

"Maybe it’s because of what I sent him," Hinami said jokingly.

"Wait, what did you do?" Yuki asked, surprised.

That said, Shin hadn’t even seen the latest naughty picture Hinami had sent him. He was constantly looking at his phone to give HEAVEN extra reports.

Apparently, it would take half an hour before they arrived. But they could come a bit sooner, or later.

Shin could just hope he would have no problem in the meantime.

"Sorry, it’s just that some work-related things keep popping up." He commented. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

"Oh! How much money is each message you are sending worth?" Hinami asked.

"What do you mean?" Ange asked, confused. "Do people pay for messages?"

"No. I think she means to ask how important the matter is," Shin explained. "I’d guess... a few million," he added.

The girls were shocked by his answer, especially because of how serious his tone was. That being said, the others didn’t even seem to hear him.

Shin definitely wasn’t the center of that group date. He had too many things to focus on, and honestly, he would’ve preferred being left alone.

He needed to constantly check whether John, or one of his goons, had slipped something into the drinks. At the same time, he had to pass information to HEAVEN, listen for anything Lilel might say telepathically, and still interact like a normal person.

It was way too much.

"You really are something..." Hinami commented, still stunned by the amount of money.

"I’m not that special..." Shin brushed it off, but at that moment, his eyes caught something.

A waiter was approaching with new drinks. And Shin saw it clearly: the way John reacted, his faint smile that lasted less than a second.

All the other men were also reacting, swiftly getting into position. The drinks were very likely drugged. Shin’s mind raced. He had antidotes. He could let it slide, pretend to drink, keep the date going, and heal all the girls later.

But he had no way of knowing how long it would take for the effects to show in each girl. Normally, it would take about twenty minutes, but it could be less. And anyway, he needed to gain more time than that.

Ideally, he should make them take the antidote right after the drug. That way, he could buy a lot of time. John would be waiting for the effects to kick in, completely unaware they’d already been neutralized.

This might be the only way to avoid a conflict, he thought. But in that moment, a voice hit his mind like a bullet.

’Shin, it’s urgent!’ She basically screamed inside his mind.

The fairy quickly explained everything she had seen, the situation, what they were doing, and how she had reacted. Avoiding conflict became even harder after that, because she had already started one.

Shin wanted to just wait and ignore it. He really did.

But Lilel pleaded:

’Please, we need to do something! I can’t just stay put!’

Shin clenched his fists. He didn’t want to ignore it either. Still, he needed a plan.

His mind raced, analyzing the situation as he watched the waiter set the drinks down.

Yuki, Ange, Hinami, and Aiko seemed to notice something strange about him, asking if he was okay. But Yumemi already had a drink in her hands, raising it to her lips.

"Fuck. I have no choice..." he murmured.

’Lilel, get here immediately. We’re fighting!’ Shin barked telepathically.

And before the situation could get bad, he moved like a bullet, kicking the drink out of Yumemi’s hand in a spectacular motion.

He immediately saw another girl about to drink, and shouted a warning:

"If I were you, I wouldn’t drink that. The drinks have been poisoned."

His eyes snapped to the waiter.