The four who were assigned to the mission plus Whiz are now gathered in the hangar. Adrian is impressed by the futuristic ship that is inside of the hangar. The design of the plane inside the hangar looked like an arrow tip and it could even refract the light rays to camouflage itself in the skies.
The sleek black metal that is the outer shell of the plane looked like a metal that is foreign to earth. Adrian thought that this metal could be an alloy or metal that came from meteorites. He entered the ship and saw the interior being reminiscent of those advance spaceships from those superhero movies.
Adrian did not bother striking up a conversation with the others at this point since he is not a social person. Even in his past incarnations, he is not the type to be a socialite. People would think that empaths would be social butterflies, but reality is different.
Empaths tend to only keep a small group of friends as regulating emotions from lots of people is taxing. Empaths tend to be by themselves or only with people they can trust. The ability to feel what the other person is feeling is not exactly a good thing when it comes to socializing.
When it comes to socializing, people tend to make a first impression. Some first impressions are fake rather than genuine especially if you want that person to like or notice you. People tend to weak masks in order to hide their true feeling, but empaths can see behind those masks. It becomes difficult to trust in people if you can always see their true intentions.
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The group is now above the skies of Japan. They are hovering above Kyoto since the file they were given stated that there is an informant in that area.
"Are you not coming with us Whiz?" Adrian asked as he knew this was Whiz' home country.
"Uhm…I still have to send Esme and Jihan to Egypt. Plus, I am not really the combative type." Whiz stated but Adrian could feel a hint of angst from the former.
"Is that so? If that is the case, then be safe in you journey." Adrian stated as he the situation became awkward. It seems that something happened to him in his home country to not agree on guiding them.
"Thanks. Remember to always keep your earpieces with you. It also acts as a translator so that you know what the locals are saying." Whiz stated as he handed them two small earpieces.
"Thanks." Both Adrian and Dustan stated as the hatched opened.
Dustan then took out a flat metal that is the size of a coin. He then pressed this object and it lit up. The coin sized object suddenly became one meter in diameter. He then placed the object on the ground as he stepped on top of it.
"Are you not coming? Unless you can fly then I suggest that you hop on." Dustan asked Adrian.
Adrian did not utter any words and just hopped on the flat circular metal. Dustan then used his powers to make their platform levitate. They cannot use parachutes since that would be too eye catching even at night.
"Neat. With this you can even survive falling as long as you have metal in your surroundings." Adrian commented but Dustan did not bother replying.
They soon reached the ground and Dustan started issuing commands. Adrian listened attentively as he does not know protocol or this job. He did become part of the secret service in his past incarnations, but he was mostly the one doing interrogations and not actual field work.
"The first thing that we need to do is secure a place to stay. That would be our home base in this country." Dustan stated as he started to contact Whiz about inns in Kyoto.
"Whiz, can you hear me?" Dustan asked and he immediately got a reply.
"I can hear you loud and clear. I already have booked a place for you two stay at. I sent the data to your phone. Good luck with the mission." Whiz replied.
Dustan looked at his phone and it already has a message about the place that they booked. The two of them immediately headed to that place since the person they needed to contact is only active during the night.
As the two were walking towards the location, crowds of people have already gathered as the night life is bustling. Adrian suddenly experienced a headache as waves of emotions of numerous people suddenly started assaulting his brain.
He did not have difficulty filtering emotions at the compound because there were only a few people there. The numerous emotions have started to mix in his head until he could not take it anymore. Adrian fainted from the shock of processing too many emotions at once.
The people started to create a commotion because someone suddenly fainted. Dustan looked back and he saw that his partner for this mission suddenly fainted. Adrian might not have a problem like this before but that was when he had total mastery of his powers.
Adrian might be able to read people's minds but controlling one's powers is much different to using it haphazardly. He read the memories of the evil spirit because he did not care of the repercussions but if he failed to control his powers now then the people around him might have an outburst of emotion.
If that happened, then someone in the crowd might start killing other people. This outburst of emotion happened once in the past and the results were catastrophic as people in crowd started killing each other. Adrian had no choice but to shut his body down which is why he fainted.
Dustan came to Adrian's aid even though he did not like the guy. He told the crown that he is his friend using broken Nihongo and proceeded to carry Adrian via piggyback. Some folks in the crowd offered to call an ambulance for them but Dustan refused and told them Adrian is just exhausted.