Modern World Warlock-Chapter 91: The Detectives’ Trail

The following day, after the Omega Team bonded with the teenagers, they went back to the high school at their request, saying that they wanted to go to the arcade again.

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Dante and his group arrived an hour before their lessons were finished, but the trio didn’t mind waiting outside the school gates.

The rest of the teams working for the Jade Dragons had been busy clearing out the remaining members of the Scarlett Bullets.

Paige was hard at work with her research, accompanied by Zac’s mother, Clara, while Camille and Trinity were working together to decrypt more information on Joseph’s PC.

The Omega Team was supposed to be on standby, but knowing that the teenagers could be in danger, they decided it was better to stay close to them for some time.

As they were peacefully waiting, they spotted two figures walking towards them, and the trio recognized the detectives, Alice and June.

Dante remembered the woman as the one who asked him a few questions on campus with Zac. However, the redhead had also met her after the incident at Firewater nightclub, when she took Turner’s corpse with her.

On the other hand, Megan knew the woman from the days before she was even a cop—back when she lived with Camille.

"Megan?" Alice pondered aloud as she approached the group with her companion beside her.

"Huh, Alice? What are you doing here?" the brunette replied with another question.

"Probably the same thing as you. Cami told us about the sewer incident…" Alice said, turning her gaze towards Dante and Zac.

"How are you boys doing?" she asked.

As the warlock and his friend politely greeted the detectives, Dante detailed the aura flowing from them, seeing that the senior detective had no ill intentions, while June didn’t have a sliver of trust for any of them.

"So, Cami told you about the demon…" Megan commented, prompting the detective to nod affirmatively.

"We are more worried about the ignored cases at this moment, but it ties to the supposed demon," Alice replied, explaining that they were investigating the disappearance of a kid from that high school.

"If the report said he was lost in the sewers, then I’m afraid he is dead…" Dante said with a serious tone.

"I thought so... I wasn’t expecting to find the kid, but maybe some information on why they decided to go in there," the detective explained.

"If you are not here for that reason, then what are you all doing here?" June interjected, her voice hinting at great suspicions.

"Uhh…" Zac hummed, thinking of a lie to say to the cops.

"Big bro!" their conversation was interrupted by Jake’s shout, coming from the other side of the school’s gate.

’What? Big bro?’ June pondered, turning her gaze and seeing the three teenagers quickly approaching the Omega Team.

"Ready for the arcade?" the teenager asked.

"Yeah, I’m good to go," the warlock said with a soft smile.

When the teenagers noticed the detectives, they quickly greeted them and introduced themselves, saying they were first-year students.

"It’s nice to meet you all. We won’t hold you back from your plans," Alice said, allowing the group to walk away.

Right as the group turned a corner, June took out a tablet from her bag and looked up the names of each of the teenagers.

"Hmm, nothing about an older brother…" the rookie detective muttered as she scrolled through the page.

"So, it was more of an endearing nickname… Interesting," Alice said, placing a hand on her chin.

The senior detective believed that Dante was somewhat cold and intimidating. However, any time she spoke to him, the man was polite and soft-spoken.

’If I hadn’t met others like him, I would probably be suspicious of him, too…’ she thought.

Even so, the detective’s hunch was telling her that the group of teenagers was key to their case, as she knew that Cami wouldn’t have assigned Megan and the others there for no reason.

When Dante and his group arrived at the arcade, he sensed the presence of the two detectives nearby, so he knew that they were being followed.

However, since their aura didn’t show a hint of bloodlust or ill intent, Dante ignored their presence entirely.

After spending a lovely evening at the arcade once again, the Omega Team escorted the teenagers home while the detectives followed them from a distance. Still, their lack of ill intent had the warlock completely unbothered by their trailing.

"Well, their addresses match the ones on the registry," June commented as they watched Lina enter her home.

"Let’s stay around here for a bit…" Alice muttered, ordering June to stay close to Lina’s home while she checked on the other two’s houses.

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A few hours after returning home, Lina was lying down in her bed, texting in a group chat with both Tommy and Jake.

Camille ordered the teenagers not to speak about any of the events they witnessed on their phones, so they used code words to refer to different things when texting each other.

After reminiscing about their fun time with the Omega Team, Lina shut her eyes and fell into slumber.

Suddenly, a dark and eerie shadow appeared beside her window, seeping through the cracks like smoke inside the girl’s room and materializing a tall, burly monster.

A few seconds later, the demon with obsidian skin and strong bodybuild stood in the center of the pink-decorated room, staring at the slumbering Lina, who was wholly unaware of the danger lurking beside her.

At that moment, Lina felt her breathing cut off, making her abruptly open her eyes and sending her mind into an instant state of shock when she spotted the demon asphyxiating her.

No words or screams could come out of her mouth, gazing to the side and seeing the soul shard too far away for her to grab.

’I’m… going to die!’ The girl thought, closing her eyes and succumbing to her fate as the demon placed his other hand on her head.