Present...
"And so, Lucifer and that man destroyed the place." The man sighed. He clenched his fists with a hidden anger, regret and mostly, shame.
He continued, "This happened while I was rampaging around without any reason."
"Master, it's not your fault. After all, the enemies knew your weakness. Looking at the situation, someone inside must have been a traitor."
"A security check was done on everyone inside these grounds. No one was found guilty. I have suspicion on some people here. I'm doing my investigation."
"Oh, I hope you find the culprit and solve it."
"But, you don't need to worry yourself about it. Now, let's go."
They went to the grounds. The grounds were as evergreen as ever. The artificial greenery seemed as natural as ever. No one could think that it was artificial.
Morgan was still out cold. Charles kept Morgan on the ground. The master said, "He should have been awake by now. I didn't knock him out this hard."
"Sir, he has a soul ability."
"That explains he being an Interpol officer without training."
"Sir, how did you know that he didn't join the training?"
"It's simple. A trained person won't go down so easily. I won't tell you more of my reasons. Think of it as your master's secret of teaching students."
"I see. You haven't changed even a little, sir."
"Now, tell me. What were you saying?"
"Whenever he gets unconscious, his soul comes out of his body. As much we have Intel on him, he must be roaming around."
"Okay. I'll just have to bring him back."
The master pushed his palm on the chest of Morgan's chest. Straight blue rays flashed from Morgan.
Some minutes ago...
Morgan went out cold. His soul came out. Before the master and Charles could notice him, he snuck outside the mountain. He thought, "I've never been out of Eternal City. This place is wonderful. I gotta explore this place."
He flew his way around the hills, enjoying the view as he explored the snowy mountains. Everything he could see was white. It was snowing faintly. Small snowflakes lightly fell as he covered as many mountains as he could.
His soul form allowed him to fly like a aeroplane, yet enjoy the view with ease. He had no sense of touch, smell and taste but his sense of vision and hearing were heightened in this form.
After a lot of exploration, he crashed into an invisible wall in the middle of the air.
"Now that came out of nowhere."
He looked down. His left hand was melting. Half of his hand was gone.
"I wonder how they can even touch a soul let alone get my arm melting. Not that I should be giving a damn about that. My power's not invincible anymore."
His thoughts paused for a moment. His left hand was completely gone. The melting stopped.
"Oh fuck! My arm! Damn it! Why isn't it healing? How am I gonna live without a hand?"
Morgan's soul flew back towards the base. It was pulled by an unknown force. It took 5 seconds for him to return inside his body.
The moment he entered, he shot his eyes open. At the same moment, Charles jumped on the master and punched him so hard that the master crashed a few yards away.
The master stood up and wiped the blood coming out of his gums by the punch just now.
"Charles, what're you thinking, beating your ex-master like that? You'll get a real wrath of mine."
"You're not my master. You're Lucifer. What did you think? I would never be fooled by that. You can fool a normal person. But you see, I'm beyond normal. I won't call myself a genius. But, I can at least recognise my master."
"You punched me and are also defying me. What do you think of me?"
"Don't pretend anymore. It won't help. I'll beat the shit out of you anyways. So, be real."
The master grinned as he said, "Well, how did you know that I'm Lucifer?"
"What you said just confirmed the last bit of my uncertainty."
"Is it?"
The old man's face melted. As the drops of the melted face fell, a young face was revealed. It was Lucifer. He looked the same as 2 years ago.
Lucifer continued, "This is a lot better. You should have just kept your mouth shut and waited for me to kill this kid. I would've let you live."
Charles looked at Morgan, who was playing dead and said, "Everyone here knows you're alive. Now, get up."
Morgan answered, "Am I that bad in acting? Anyways, what is the situation here?"
"It's not about acting. Forget that shit. About the situation, long story short, we need to arrest this guy without killing him."
"Understood. I just have to knock him out. Now, this is getting interesting."
Lucifer said, "What chance do you have against me? It's not like you can do any good against me."
"Morgan's my name. Remember it and spread the word of my name across the hell. I can take you out without my soul form."
"You sure are confident for a brat who got wasted in one punch."
Charles was taking the time of their conversation to take out a chain. From his wrist. He braced a chain on each of his wrists as bracelets. After he took out one and was about to go for the other, Lucifer noticed him.
Charles shouted, "Give me 10 seconds, Morgan!"
"You've got it!"
Lucifer reached behind Charles and pointed a pistol at his head, saying, "No time to fool around, is there, Charles?"
"Unfortunately for you, there's some time for me."
5 seconds left.
Just before Lucifer could shoot, Morgan pulled him down from behind, taking advantage of the tall height of Lucifer. He mistakenly shot. The bullet went up and crashed on the ceiling.
Lucifer was stunned by the loud sound and so was Morgan.
2 seconds left.
Morgan got back to his senses and the moment he did, he took no hesitation and kicked Lucifer's balls.
To be Continued...