Modern World Warlock-Chapter 60: New Roommate

After Zac and his group were interrupted by Detective Alice and June, the redhead believed that he would be going to jail.

However, he recognized the detectives since they were the ones who asked Dante a few questions at their campus.

’Didn’t Camille say that this woman was her friend?’ The redhead pondered.

As Alice spotted the deformed corpse on the ground behind the group, she gazed back at Maya without keeping her aim away from her.

"Seems like something crazy happened here. Let us take the corpse, and I’ll let you walk away…" Alice negotiated.

"I don’t think I’m allowed to do that…" Maya replied, her cold demeanor irking the rookie detective.

"I can see why you would say that, but we can’t just let you take that body now that we’ve seen it. You understand my position, right?" Alice said calmly.

Before Maya could respond, her phone started ringing, prompting the agent to gaze at Alice, who nodded to give her permission to answer.

"Mhmm… All right," Maya said before hanging up, not even taking thirty seconds of their time.

"You can take the corpse," said the agent right after hanging up.

"Huh?" June hummed, confused at her sudden change of heart.

"I see. Camille doesn’t need it…" Alice muttered, lowering her gun and approaching the group.

"You guys look a bit roughed up. Get out of here quick," The detective urged the group, pointing at the back alley she used to get there.

After Alice explained that the only patrol car on that side would be hers, the group thanked the detective and left the scene, walking to an adjacent street where a large SUV picked them up.

While the group was inside the vehicle that was taking them to their house, Victoria kept shivering from the traumatic experience.

Zac, wanting to console her, raised one hand and felt a sharp pain in his bones that stopped him.

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"Are you okay!? I’m so sorry, Zac…" Victoria muttered, clasping the redhead’s hand as he gritted his teeth.

"It’s not your fault, Tori," he replied with a slight smile that clearly showed he was in pain.

When the group arrived at their shared home, they met with Camille, who was sitting on the couch waiting for them.

As soon as the handler saw Zac’s wounds, she gently tossed a healthstone she had in her pocket at him.

Victoria was astounded to see the man’s wounds heal in mere seconds, but it wasn’t the craziest thing she had seen that night.

"It’s been an eventful evening…" Camille said, greeting the group.

Victoria, who had been good friends with Sophia, knew that Camille was her guardian, but the woman wasn’t aware of her true identity as the Winter handler.

"I’m glad to see everyone is okay. We need to talk to Victoria…" Camille continued.

Now that the brunette had seen monsters and magic, the handler believed that it would be better to tell her the truth and ask her to keep quiet about it later.

Fortunately, the fact that the group was already friends with Victoria played in their favor, knowing that the woman wouldn’t divulge their secrets.

"It’s going to be a long explanation, so get comfortable…" Camille said, making the entire group, who already knew the story, sit down with Victoria to listen to it.

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Moments later, Dante and Megan arrived at the house, with Megan’s clothes slightly shredded in her back area after being flung through different windows.

"We are back," they said in unison as they entered the home, finding Camille talking with Zac and his group.

"Ah, perfect. So, anyways, I think Victoria should move in here for the time being…" The handler said, and while Zac and Tori were surprised at her words, Megan and Dante didn’t react.

With everyone present, the handler gave them a status report of their mission that night.

Joseph was called a "general" of the Scarlett Bullets, which meant that he had contact with the people who were higher ranked than him.

From what Dante and Megan discovered, the gang was using the demon blood pills to give their members more power in exchange for their sanity.

After the pair left the mansion, Camille’s men entered and took the corpses of the two drugged thugs for testing in the lab, although one of them was a single severed arm since Dante erased him with a "Destro" spell.

Moreover, they had taken Lawrence, the butler, as a peaceful hostage since the man said that he would do everything to collaborate with Camille as long as he and his daughter were spared.

"Shouldn’t we have taken the son’s body, too?" Maya asked as she was the one who had to relinquish the corpse to the cops.

"It’s fine. We already have two test subjects…" Camille replied.

"Besides, I owe those two. It’s good to throw ’em a bone from time to time," she continued.

The handler also got her hands on a computer inside Joseph’s home, which she had sent to her hacker team to decipher as everything was encrypted.

"Let’s rest for a few days while we gather more information. Don’t be too lax, though. Remember, this home is still bait," Camille explained.

Since their house only had four bedrooms, Sophia excitedly said that she would share Megan’s room so Victoria could take hers.

Still, the amount of information that Victoria had received that night was overwhelming, leading her to believe that she wouldn’t be able to sleep after all those events.

Ten minutes later, the woman fell asleep on the couch, prompting Zac to pick her up and take her to her bed.

"How was it?" Dante asked the redhead right as he exited the woman’s room.

"H-how was what?" Zac replied with another question.

"Your skills, man. I heard you and Maya got pretty beat up," the warlock clarified.

"Oh, right…" the redhead muttered, looking down.

"I don’t know. I just acted on instinct… Whatever Turner did to his body made him dangerously strong," he continued, clenching his fists.

"Do you feel bad for him?" Dante asked.

"No… In a way, I feel like he could have been a normal guy if his father wasn’t such a piece of shit—But I don’t regret protecting Tori," Zac said.

Their conversation was taking place right outside Victoria’s new room, and the woman had listened to their words carefully while pretending to be asleep, making her feel a mix of emotions between sadness and relief.