6 Saving the Sisters

After finishing his cooked deer, he summoned his coffin and went to sleep. He quickly went into deep sleep. After 12 hours to relaxing, dreamless sleep, he awakens as the sun's rays touch his black coffin. After quickly opening the lid, standing up and storing his black coffin, he searched for a nearby river to see how he looks like. The system said that he de-aged, so he wants to know how he looks like after de-ageing. For once, he activated his advanced combat domain and discovered a nearby river's location. According to his combat domain, he is on an uninhabited island so he doesn't need to conceal his abilities.

With a speed greater than sound, he ran to the river's direction, arriving in less than a second with a gust of wind following not too far behind. He looked for a calm pool in the river to serve as his mirror. Being a progenitor meant that he had no weaknesses like most non-progenitor vampires and that he could see himself in reflective surfaces unlike most other vampires. Once he found and saw his reflection in he water, he looked much less mature. Most of his predator and seductive charm has been replaced by a less mature and more innocent charm. He noticed that his height dropped by 15cm which is over half a head.

After looking at his less mature appearance, he felt a little weird that he found it no less attractive than his usual self, but he chose to ignore it. With the mission's time limit being 2 months, he would need to act quickly. Since he's in a new world, currency from Elbenon would be useless but he decided to keep it in case he'd return. So, his first order of business would be to start a business. Thanks to reading a bunch of books in his spare time, his knowledge on many subjects are easily equal to those who have masters degree in them. With rapid processing, photographic memory and high IQ, he could learn things that would take 10 years in just a matter of 2 hours given that he did not need to get other books at the time and only read a massive book with thousands of pages.

As for starting his own company, he needed money first so he thought of selling some of the bars of gold that he had. He planned on selling only several bars of gold because it'll reduce the average market cost to a noticeable amount and that it'll raise suspicion about him. Although he had the power of hypnosis and could do a mass memory wipe, he'd rather be perceived as a normal person until the events of Asia's capture. He quickly ran into the mainland with speeds that would make most people incapable of perceiving him. He also made minimal contact with the surface of the sea so that the ripples from his steps are not noticeable.

He used the combat domain to probe for landmasses with many buildings as he attempts to make landfall at Tokyo. Once he made landfall at Tokyo, he went into a corner and looked for concealment skills in the system store. When he looked at their prices, he felt like vomiting blood. Even a rare ranked concealment skill costed 1,000 points. What more of gold ranks or even epic ranks. However, he could only grit his teeth as he purchased an epic ranked concealment skill for 200,000 merits which is over 70% of his current savings.

Void Form

Rarity: Epic

Type: Concealment

Effect: User can cause any target to be incapable of perceiving or fully perceiving user by flooding too much information to be processed by target's mind, forcing their mind to ignore user. If target has high intelligence or rapid processing, users can be seen as a blur or is partially perceived but will require the target to consume much mental stamina and will usually be quickly exhausted. Applies to any amount of targets.

'Even though it's expensive, at least it'll be useful for combat, infiltration and escape.' Using his Void Form on everyone, he walked down the street. Everybody walked by, minding their own business not noticing a handsome youth in clothes similar to the stereotypical vampire including the black cape walking amongst them. He looked around for a place to exchange his gold bars for money but took off his cape and stored it to appear more normal when he deactivated his void form. Upon finding the place, he took out his dozen gold bars, deactivated his void form and used hypnosis to make sure that the exchange is fair and that he's not cheated.

Thanks to his hypnosis, the employees did not react much to the gold bars and caused a commotion and quickly paid him the money. He had earned a total of almost 32,000,000 yen which is around $300,000. Looking at the bag of money in front of him he commented, "This should be enough." He took the money and undid the hypnosis after using void form and leaving. After a few seconds, the employees are dazed and shocked at finding 7 bars of gold at the counter. To maintain their integrity, they waited for its owner to come but even after a week, no one ever came and so they took it, storing it. After leaving, he directly went to the first bank he encountered to store his newly earned money, create an account and get a credit card.

He stored over 90% of his money while he kept the rest. When offered membership, he immediately accepted to gain extra benefits that came with it. After going to the bank, he went to a nearby mall to buy two black wallets to store his money in else than the crystal and to find an apartment to live in. Since he got used to living in a castle, he wanted to find an apartment that didn't look too simple or shabby. Something that the upper levels of the middle class would live in. To gain information, he would use hypnosis while in void form to avoid confrontation. Although his act of sneaking around with this skill made him sound anti-social, you'll never know if any of the three factions are spying on you.

Especially if they have green or grey intentions. Upon meeting the apartment rental agent, he quickly requested him to find apartments that are ready within today or tomorrow with rental prices being at least $1,000 which is equal to 108,275 yen per month. Lucky for him, there was one available with $2,000 rent a month. He only needed to pay twice that amount up front to purchase it. Using his credit card, he pays the agent 433,100 yen and gets the apartment's keys. The reason why the agent did not request his identification is because of hypnosis which allowed him to gain the keys.

Since he's not 17 years old yet, he couldn't gain an citizen's ID yet and that would be a problem in obtaining residence & starting a company. But first, he needed to feed as it is just past sundown before getting a good night's rest at his apartment. For feeding, that is but a simple matter. He could easily find brothels and strip clubs in certain areas in Tokyo. After paying the appropriate price, he would unbutton his shirt and undress the prostitute's before going with light kisses and licks around her cleavage. He would then grope her boobs and finger her pussy before finding the softest spot on her neck. Quickly biting and slowly sucked her blood as to savor the taste.

After rebuttoning his shirt, putting on his jacket and vest, he left the brothel. Unbeknownst to him, a beautiful girl with long black hair looked down at his walking figure from atop a nearby skyscraper. She had 6 pairs of white wings with blue accents and wore a plain white dress. Even while he activated void form, she could see him walk down the sidewalk. Sebastian felt like he was being watched and looked around but the girl was one step ahead and vanished into thin air a second before. Ignoring what just happened, he headed towards the apartment while thinking of what business he would start.

As for saving the sisters, he planned to complete it a month later so that he could easily provide for them instead of using mass hypnosis all the time. Although that won't use too much of his stamina, he felt that it's unnecessary to use it at every occasion. After all, he already uses it to make certain people to perceive him as his 18 year old self. His apartment room is located on the 31st floor in the building. The apartment building is connected to the mall where he purchased it from the agent. Since he knew where his apartment room is located and already had the keys with him, he didn't bother turning off his void form except for when he opens his apartment door so it doesn't look weird in the security camera.

After entering the room, he immediately closes it and locks it. His apartment is well lit, the door leads to the living room where a white couch that can fit three people and a white sofa chair surround a short glass table with metal lining. To his left is a kitchen counter with a metal fridge, stove and wooden cupboards already added. His living room is spacious with an area of 70 sq.m while his kitchen measures 5m long and 2.5m wide. To his right is a corridor that leads to two bedrooms and a toilet. A few feet behind the sofa is a wooden dining table with six wooden chairs ready. While two yards behind it is the balcony overlooking the lit city of Tokyo.

Walking to his room and calling out his coffin, he goes to sleep. For the next month, he had started and begun developing his business. He spent a week in many libraries throughout Tokyo and with his rapid processing and high intelligence, he managed to read 90% of the books including those from restricted areas such as hidden military installments and government research facilities. Thanks to this, he is very knowledgeable about modern science, business and even politics. By selling another six bars of gold, he bought a few floors of an office building to be the headquarters of his company.

In that month, he started Cain industries which started out as a small marketing company. The recruitment of employees went well because of his bewitching looks and also through hypnosis. He managed to start with one hundred employees which he directly supervises. Under his leadership, this startup company has turned from an unknown presence to a pseudo 3rd rate company with over one thousand employees. He has expanded to purchase two floors in Kyoto and two floors in Osaka while expanding the headquarters by two more floors. The reason why his company developed quickly is because of certain things he gave his employees.

He would put some cultivation materials into the food when they had a celebration which caused his employees to be Iron-1 or Iron-2 cultivators without noticing. This made them stronger, faster and more durable which causes them to work like they have infinite stamina. Lucky for him, the changes were quite subtle because he would add more work to people with recent breakthroughs to mask their sudden spike in abilities. Now is the time for him to rescue Kuroka and Shirone. As for locating the underworld, the world crystal had an ability to allow him entry to non protected worlds which he had just noticed recently. After getting a good meal and finishing any remaining work, he activated the world crystal's world gate and entered the underworld.

In a forest within the underworld, two girls are running away from pursuing devils. These girls had cat tails and ears, although their body is covered with some bruises and cuts, it didn't hide their beauty. One of these girls held the smaller other in her arms. They are nekoshous, a rare species of nekomata and possibly the last of their kind as the older one had to kill her master who intended to experiment on her younger sister. They had been running for days, hunted down by devils of the house of Naberius. The elder nekoshou Kuroka, felt that she was at her limit. She could collapse but still had a sister to take care of. Shirone had been injured during their escape and has been mostly unconscious.

Jumping over a river, she entered the forest and hid inside of a bush, hoping to be overlooked by her pursuers. Several mid ranked devils and a few high ranked devils entered the forest. "Come out you stray bitch!" A high ranked devil shouted. They wanted to experiment on her too and possibly execute her afterwards for disobedience. Kuroka had used most of her powers to escape and take down her near ultimate level devil master. She shivered in fear under the bush and tears started to stream down from her eyes. In a quiet voice she cried, "Shirone-chan, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have dragged you into this. You could've avoided all of this trouble, I, I, please forgive me Shirone-chan."

The sound of footsteps grew louder and louder, she felt her heart beat faster. She hugged Shirone harder as more tears flowed from her eyes. 'This is the end. Goodbye, Shirone-chan.' After waiting for a few seconds, the end she readied herself for didn't come. Instead, she turned her head to see a handsome black haired youth extend a hand forward to help her. Noticing his red eyes, she immediately went on guard and looked for a moment to escape. After glancing at him once more, she hesitated to escape. She felt herself to be drawn to this mysterious youth. Shaking her head she thought, 'Stop hesitating, Kuroka. Run! Run!'

But before she could muster enough strength to run, the man quickly took her left hand and dragged them into the large bush. Footsteps are heard coming around the bush, although she still had her suspicions, her guard lowered around him. Sebastian order the system to purchase a quick healing spell method. Quickly learning it, he used the spell to heal most of their wounds. As he whispered a few words, a small ring of green light bathes the sisters. Their bruises and cuts stared to disappear alongside all of the filth. Kuroka felt less drained as the pain from her wounds vanished completely. Shirone's gold eyes started blinking, she slowly woke up to see her crying sister and a mysterious youth beside her.

"Onesan, who's that beside you?" Hearing her sister talk, Kuroka immediately lunged and hugged her tight. "Shirone-chan!" Shirone, being constricted by her sister softly replied, "Onesan. I I can't breathe." "Sorry Shirone-chan." After loosening her hug, she turned to Sebastian and thanked him. The footsteps have started to die down and they remained quiet until they heard some devil shout, "Perimeter clear!". A high ranked devil then commanded, "Scour the rest of the forest!" After the sound of footsteps have completely faded, Kuroka sighed in relief and once again thanked him. But before they could leave, he held Kuroka's hand and offered, "Kuroka, don't stay in the underworld. Come with me, I have a place back on Earth where you two are safe from the devils."

Kuroka felt like she saw this coming. She was suspicious of him but even more so after his offer. 'What if he's going to trick us just like those devils from the house of Naberius.' Kuroka is struggling whether to decline or not. On one hand, he could be equal to or worse than the devils from the house of Naberius while on the other, he could protect her and Shirone from the devils. To help her make her decision, she used her senjutsu to read the flow of his spirit and looked into his red eyes. Sebastian did not hide any of his intentions towards her. As the seconds passed looking at his eyes, Kuroka's gaze softened and a peaceful smile started to form.

Finally she spoke, "Thank you. Please take care of us, nya!" Sebastian activated the world gate and a black rectangular portal appeared between the trees in front. Before they left, Kuroka asked, "You never told us your name, nya." Sebastian looked back and smiled, "My name is Sebastian Adrian Cain. Nice to meet you Kuroka, Shirone." Then, the three entered the black portal. Kuroka with Shirone beside her and Sebastian holding the rainbow colored World Crystal. At the other side, the trio entered the lit living room with food ready at the table and a woman waiting for them. "Welcome back master!"