200 Chapter 192 - Aftermath and Seito's past.

"Ah... That was a family photo? I thought it's a random picture of some sort of landscape picture with... Ah... With a family." said Maria, he does notice that photo after all.

"Ah... My deepest apologies, I should have investigated that hidden room." said Jason who is about to kneel down but stopped by Maria.

"Don't apologize, it's not your fault, it's Maria the one who is careless." said Sky, Chris nodded in agreement.

"I'm sorry..." said Maria with a rather low volume.

"It's alright, since everything had been solved and no big damage had been caused. We will discuss about this matter again after we get back to the secret base two days later." said Chris.

"Eh? We are going back?" Sky asked, a bit surprised.

"Mhm, as soon as Dominic gives us all the information we wanted, we will go back and get ready to depart for the next destination." said Chris.

"Ah... I see." said Sky. "Does that mean I can join you all in the next operation?" Maria asked.

"Nope, we still need someone to take care of the secret base." said Chris.

"Aww... It's not like there is anyone taking care of it when we are not in Kapis Dimension..." Maria mumbled.

"Well, you are wrong, there was a stone man that had been in charge of the secret base when we are not there, just that I had retracted it since the first day we came to Kapis. And I don't feel like summoning it for now, since it could be quite ruthless and aggressive sometimes." said Chris.

"Ah... He heard me." said Maria...

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Later, Quill Town, homestay, Sky's room.

"Hey Chris, actually you don't need to be that harsh to Maria. You know he is always so careless." said Sky while playing games with Chris's portable console.

"That's not the issue. From all the clues we have here, I do believe things will get harder as we are getting nearer to our target. You surely remember how weak his body use to be, right? I'm worried that this whole trip we will be gone through would revert his body to that former state, I have a strong feeling about that you know?" said Chris, a bit emotional.

"Ah... Indeed, and the backfire of his magic is getting more frequent recently, even the smallest usage of magic could cause a backfire." said Sky.

"So why would you think that I will allow him to join us after all those things we had gone through these few days, I believe Ben thinks the same as me." said Chris, and Ben nodded in agreement.

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"Hey, Brother Kenji, don't you feel anything weird about what happened just now?" Itsuki asked.

"No, anything wrong?" said Seito.

"That priest actually helped us, don't you think it's weird, especially when he drugged us before." said Itsuki.

"Well, as long as they trusted him, it's no big deal." said Seito.

"Hmm... You seem to be trusting Sky-san and Chris-san a lot. I have to admit that they are indeed trustworthy but I always wonder, how did you actually meet them in the first place that makes you trust them so much?" Itsuki asked.

"Well... They prevented the situation that I will regret for the rest of my life." said Seito... And so, let's have a short past story... Again.

Two years ago, it was a chaotic year for the boy Seito Kenji, this is the third year he ran away from his father and founded his own online advertisement company that gives him a rather prosperous life, that year is also the year when he realized there is a hidden 'beast' inside of him

At the age of fifteen, Seito Kenji found out that he has an ability that should not belong to any human... Well, at least not for a fifteen years old teenage boy. He was able to hear and see things other people can't, and that ability grows at a rapid rate, within a few days, he already able to properly communicate with them which makes him found out about a beast that was in him and trying to take over his body.

That beast is a really intelligent existence, it has a thousand different personalities and a thousand different abilities that it gets by consuming souls of a thousand different types of creatures, which Seito named it as Thousand Monster, yes, a surprisingly boring name.

That day, he was on a field trip with a girl named Miyamae Yuki, his childhood friend, who is also his fiancee. Everything was good until a random gang of hooligans starts messing with Yuki who was totally defenseless that day. Seito who was enraged by that unpleasant sight, temporarily lost himself to the beast inside of him, when he finally partially regained his sanity, the girl is already lifelessly lying in a pool of blood, she was trying to stop Seito from brutally killing one of the hooligans, and so she stopped him with her tiny and delicate body...

Even so, the beast inside of him refuses to stop, or rather, it wouldn't stop unless it destroyed everything...

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*Something out of the story

Sky: "Dear readers."

Chris: "Hmm?"

Sky: "As what Chris said. Right now, this story is free on the authorized platform, so please read it from authorized platforms as mental support for the writer."

Chris: "Mhm... There are two authorized platforms. One is webnovel.com. And another one is that messy and half-dead Weebly site that she uses for draft and backup... But not recommended."

Sky: "Ah... Haha. Yes, as Chris said."

Chris: "But look out, those scums might change this note to their own website link. So, be cautious.

Sky : "By the way, if the cover page is the old cover page that shows  two stickmen, stop reading it, it's cursed and might caused the writer to stop writing."

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