Chapter 16: Daichi and Drake
"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"
-William Shakespeare
Drake twirled his pen as Rainier and Erin collated the information shared by the two groups – Motoki and Touya, Yuri and Jeremy. Erin sighed as she wrote continuously on a notebook –
"I miss my laptop... and my tablet."
Touya sighed, "you're lucky hime sama... during our time, Motohiko and I did this all by paper. It was all parchment, and the ink was not as stable as it is now."
"Let me guess... the reason the Erin now is complaining is because who she was before did not help out with these?"
Erin threw a pillow over at Drake which he caught one hand, Rainier wordlessly stood and took the pillow from Drake and hit him once on the head, "you two don't start. We're up to neck now and short on time."
Drake nodded amusingly at Rainier and the glaring Erin which made him sigh, "you two always fight at the weirdest times"
The phone rang and Touya answered, "Hello?"
"Brother?"
Touya's face brightened, "Yuri! Are you safe? Did anything happen to you? Did you find the culprit?"
Yuri chuckled, "calm down brother... Jeremy and I working out here to find him or her."
Drake took the phone from Touya, "Update?"
"Junko... I mean Jeremy managed to pinpoint the location of a man with a few others. It might be culprit and the hostages. Asking permission to check the area out, my lord"
Drake's forehead wrinkled, "Yukinori, I'll send Motohiko and Takehiko – you cannot take care of Junko while taking them down."
Motoki and Rainier looked at each other and at Drake whose eyes now have a tinge of gold, Rainier whispered to Touya- "let me guess... he's in touch with his previous self?"
"Judging by the tone of his voice, yes.... that's lord Daichi himself."
Drake placed the receiver down and faced his advisers, "Motoki and Touya – Yuri and Jeremy found the possible location of the culprit. I want you both to be there as support. Rainier, stay here with Erin and myself...you'll be coordinating between them and me. Report consolidated information to me real time."
Motoki and Touya bowed politely to Drake and Rainier nodded – the three men moved to do as assigned. Erin walked closer to Drake and tugged on his shirt sleeve, "what happened?"
Drake patted Erin's head, "did you hear what I told them?"
Erin nodded, her eyes shaking, "are they going to confront him? Do you know who did this?"
Drake pulled the younger girl and hugged her tight, "it will be all right sis. You know I'll do everything I can to protect you and Ran."
Rainier smiled and put an arm around Drake while rubbing Erin's back, "Drake's right and we have very strong individuals with us too."
Erin sighed, "but as we all know... this happened before and we weren't able to stop it. What's different now?"
Drake squeezed the girl in his arms and looked at Rainier, "the difference... you little skeptic is that we have technology on our side plus the knowledge of our past lives. I also have complete faith in the people around us and I hope you do too. We'll get him this time"
Erin finally nodded making both Rainier and Drake smile in relief, Rainier clapped his hands and grinned at his friend, "and now that you have calmed down... how about some cheesecake and tea?"
The girl nodded and released herself from Drake's embrace, the pull of cheesecake was too strong to resist.
Meanwhile, Yuri was sitting on a couch with Jeremy's head on her lap waiting for Touya and Motoki. She was reading through the notes she had written and checking if there was anything she had forgotten.
"Sis..."
Yuri waved at her older brother and Motoki who immediately checked on Jeremy, "he's just sleeping. Jeremy tried tapping on Junko's miko capabilities and it took the energy out of him."
Motoki nodded and Touya rubbed Yuri's head, "sure you're, okay?"
She laughed and smiled at the older Shinobu, "yes brother I'm good. I'm lucky that this body is limber so I can fight better than as a man"
Motoki tapped Jeremy's shoulder, "Cousin... wake up."
Jeremy woke and rubbed his eyes, "brother Motoki? Why are you here?"
"Drake sent us here to help you and Yuri investigate...."
Yuri smiled at Jeremy making him blush, "right uh..."
He stood and stretched, "I still vaguely remember what I saw earlier so it should not be that difficult"
Yuri stood as well and stretched," shall we?"
Touya smirked and cracked his knuckles, "time for Shinobu chaos..."
Motoki laughed and patted Jeremy sighed, "I bet senpai was waiting to say that"
"Shut up"
Yuri was grateful for the light atmosphere as she knew how serious the next step was going to be, "this way. Follow me but be as discreet as possible."
Yuri took Jeremy's hand and led men inside stealthily, taking mental note of things she'll look into after.
Soon enough, they reached the room Jeremy saw in his vision earlier. All four nodded at each other and Yuri slowly opened the door – inside were the unconscious Grandma Tania, Karen and old Kawaguchi.
Yuri halted the men and listened for any other sign of movement, nodding once everything is clear. On the floor close to grandma Tania, was a peony and a small card – "you're not as smart as you think"
Touya gritted his teeth and was clenching his hand tightly when he felt Yuri's smaller hand covered his, shaking her head, she patted the cold hand –
"Brother... don't give in. He's taunting us."
Motoki and Jeremy checked on the unconscious people, sighing Motoki declared, "they're just unconscious. No wounds visible as of this time"
"There's something fishy about this..."
Jeremy nodded at Touya's observation, "I agree senpai. I saw five people earlier, but Karen wasn't there"
"So why is she here?"
Motoki pulled another card from behind Karen's tightly bound arms, the card said – "Daichi, I hope you have been liking my presents so far. This is a declaration of how much I loathe you."
Jeremy helped his cousin put the card in an evidence bag and Touya moved to find the closest intercom, calling the library.
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From a room close to the library, a hooded person was sitting on a table, licking blood off a knife, "hmmm... this is good... so fucking good..."
The person laughed to himself as he watched the terrified faces of the remaining hostages he had, "aw don't look at me like that. You knew I was going to do this one way or another, right?"
The person's expression and voice changed, "no no no no... you knew right? Hahaha you're an idiot. They can't find us here... because they're stuuuuupid. Very very stupid."
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