"Wow! You do have an awesome Update, huh? So tell me, what will I do first?"
[HOST DOESN'T NEED TO CHOOSE, THE QUEST POPPED UP ON THE SCREEN, AND IT WILL AUTOMATICALLY UNDERGO PROCESS. A NOTIFICATION WILL INSTANTLY BE SENT IT THE QUEST HAS BEEN FINISHED. REWARDS WILL BE CREDITED AUTOMATICALLY.]
"Oh, that's great. I need to level up as fast as I could to open the items and skills you have. But for now, I am thinking about how to help them. Tell me, do you have anything that I can use?"
[SYSTEM SCANNING IN STORAGE...]
Frey was focused on her driving getting back to the construction site where they first find Eduardo. Her senses are telling her that she will be heading there first. But a sudden change of mind turned her to pull the gear and head East. She forgot that she should be dealing with Eduardo's family, she need to calm down the soul's client before anything else.
"System, locate the bereaved family of Eduardo. We need to get them first." Frey announced, activating her camera lenses.".
[CAN THE COMMAND BE ISSUED ONE BY ONE, HOST?]
Freys brows curled to systems response. She smirked a little before doing another conversation. "Are you complaining? Can you just follow me? You are the one who can do what I want. So go! Look for it."
[I DO NOT WANT! THE HOST DOES NOT EXHIBIT BETTER DEALING WITH THE SYSTEM.]
"Tsk. What are you doing? Don't tell me your update cause to break your respect for me? I am still your Host." Frey's suddenly got temperamental from what the system was complaining about. She's already stuck her mind thinking on how to help her colleagues, and now a demand from the system is adding up the heat on her head.
[TO BECOME A RANK ONE GRIM REAPER, PURE STRENGTH, AND POWER ARE NOT ENOUGH. THE HOST'S ABILITY AND BEHAVIOR MUST BE BALANCED.]
Frey just rolled her eyes, her hair being blown away by the car aircon adds up to her unpretty gesture. "Okay fine, I'm sorry. Can you show me the details I need?"
At that time, Frey became calmer. She zipped her mouth shut and keep repeating to herself not to argue with System anymore.
[I DEMAND THE MAGIC WORD.]
'Magic word?' she thought.
Another puff of air on her face and Frey completely obeyed the system as it wished. "Please? Okay, help me with this one. We're running out of time, we need to bring Eduardo back to IRISH before sunset, otherwise, his chance to reincarnate will be forever forfeited."
There was no need to explain more, but she did it so that the System could understand better.
[DISPLAYING LOCATION . . .]
Frey's eyes followed the blinking triangle sign the System was showing her. From her place, she has more than 30 minutes to reach the target.
[SAINT JUAN HOSPITAL, 80KM FROM HOST LOCATION.]
"Thanks, now let's go. We should not waste any time." Frey stepped on the gas harder causing the car to speed up not at the normal speed it should be.
[I SUGGEST TAKING THE NEAREST ROUTE, TURNING RIGHT, AND FOLLOWING THE DIRECTION SIGNAL.]
"Gotcha!"
Without another word, Frey headed straight to the Hospital.
Saint Juan Hospital has three floors and is just the right height and width. It was clean and organized inside, there were few people by the time Frey got to the place.
Wearing a student uniform with a short knee-length skirt, a top with sleeves, and a bowtie at the collar. Frey looked like a teenager in that arrangement. Her long hair was tied up and she had thick glasses on her eyes.
"I never had an idea that I am beautiful like this, more beautiful than before." Frey was in front of the glass wall of the Hospital. Observing her persona as a student of an unknown university. She turned around a few more times and looked at herself proudly.
[HOST WAS TOO HIGH OF HERSELF.]
The static and screeching voice of the System responded to Frey's fantasies.
"You know, your being to hard at me does that make you beautiful?"
Frey twitched her skirt and make a puppy smile at herself in front of the wide mirror.
She daydreamed of being a little sixteen-year-old girl popstar.
"Come on before my temper risen up to hundred percent. If that happened I'll gonna erase you from my life " Frey continued the interrupted walk earlier and went straight to Eduardo's parent's room.
But in her thought, erasing the system will be a hard idea as she was leaning on her powers.
A moment later, Frey was now standing beside an old woman sleeping on a white Hospital mattress. Good thing that she took a glance at a family picture displayed on Eduardo's house. She recognize the patient as the mother of the Vengeful Soul they were after.
"What happened to her?"
The System buzzed and started to communicate with her Host.
[ACCORDING TO HER VITALS AND MEDICAL RECORDS, SHE UNDERGOES SEVERE FATIGUE AND STRESS THAT CAUSES HER TO HAVE A BREAKDOWN. SHE WAS BEING HOSPITALIZED FOR ALMOST A MONTH NOW.]
"A month?" Frey was dumbfounded by what she had learned. "How that had happened?"
But her sudden conversation with the System had been cut off when the old woman sniffs and becomes conscious. She slightly blink and opened her eyes, trying to recognize who was standing beside her Hospital bed.
Frey greeted her and started to be polite and attended to the woman. She offered anything that she might be needing. A simple chi-chat will not be bad before she tells her the whole story that she should know.
***
At the Construction site while then Sun is setting down. . .
"Captain, I can't find him." Andreus, breathing heavily, reported to Cartnage that he had not seen Eduardo anywhere. A while ago, they were just chasing him in the mid-air, and now they are playing hide and seek with the soul in the said building.
"There are still workers, he must be on his perpetrators."
Andreus looked up at the tall building that was just about to be completed. "Was that person killed? Why didn't that appear on his record immediately? Only a heart attack was the cause of his death."
"He died of a heart attack. But that wouldn't have happened if he was taken to the hospital right away. They all thought that he was dead when they accidentally poked him with the shovel." Carnage started explaining the true scenario to the Security Specialist he was with.
The first time he received the red card and scanned the soul's identification, Cartnage already knew that there was peculiar in this case.
"The soul was half conscious when they buried him alive, dumped him, and covered him with cement. Then that leads him to a heart attack." Andreus also gave the information he knew. Their Team Captain Farvati is already having a move about it. When she talked to her a while ago, a plan was made but he doesn't know if it was working. He doesn't have any call from Captain Farvati as of now.
Carnage with his eyes on the scene, examining, changed the topic and pointed out the missing Captain that should be dealing with this matter. "So where is Farvati, she's again missing in action. The IRISH should not have handed to VET this case if she was at work."
A chilled feeling aroused from Andreus' spine to the neck. He knew the Captain would ask about their own Captain.
"Hmm. She is dealing with something. And I think she's already here."
Cartnage threw a serious look at Andreus. Thinking of what he was talking about.
"And?" He's waiting for another detail Andreus would spill out.
"Hmm. She's digging."