Enigma of Darkness ✨

Save Merlyn

It is not like Wolford is a place of crime. There are happy days most of the year but in a diverse place with a big population there are times when crime happens and none can do anything about it. In recent years, these incidents have escalated, the reason being the connections with the higher-ups, the perpetrators are not afraid of being caught, and they could be saved by the ministry.

Araki is aware of it and therefore wants to set an example that none is above law. He doesn't like the methods of Umbra but can also not deny that this hideous organization has caused terror in the criminals. Like today, Umbra challenged the Pillars to find the Girl and the aggressors or it will take the task into its own hands to unveil the truth.

This may seem like a threat to the pillars as if Umbra has eyes on their every move and progress. Araki hated people who work without showing their faces. He has always been in front whether it is his merits or faults. He has accepted everything facing both disapproval and praise from the public.

So when this message flashes on the mobile he is angry at himself for letting this organization mock him. They are at fault as they were unable to trace the girl's whereabouts and it seemed like she just disappeared in thin air.

Araki watches the footage of the place where the kidnapping happened, playing it again and again to find any clues. He was quiet. It was like a challenge to his experience. What is it that Umbra has found which makes them so sure that they will find the Girl if he cannot? Either way, they are at advantage, if he succeeds it will be to the advantage of Umbra for inciting him, and if he fails then to they will have the upper hand.

This matter was serious she was a young girl and vulnerable. Araki was not here to compete, he has a family ad values people, he knows how it feels like to lose someone and how it feels like when you have no news of your loved one. As time passes, they are pushing her more toward death.

He played the video once again when his eyes catch something, he stares at the vehicle that was used to kidnap the girl and later was seen in one of the videos to have met an accident and fallen from a cliff. Araki was not sure whether this is a clue but he could take the risk. The vehicle looked clean before but later had soiled up near the tires. He looks up at the map and checks the places which can potentially be the places for it to get dirty.

The girl Merlyn was kidnapped while going out to her school by the same route that she usually takes, taking a walk through a road of about two kilometers and then waiting for the bus at the bus stand. She has done this for a long but that day was her bad luck as she became the victim of the crime of some alphas, dragged into their car, and taken away. Later the car was seen to have run down the cliff, and the car was pulled up one died in it but they still don't know the whereabouts of the other. It seems like they ran away from Wolford.

The three alphas involved in crime are all the goons of Mr. Will who took financial help from Araki to step up his business and provides security services to small businesses. This case made Araki look down in shame. He got scolded by his father for trusting someone as low as Will and thinking he could keep checking on them.

The odd thing is that this matter first became an issue when the college article on exposing the truth of these security services was revealed by the editing committee of Lucian's friend. They wrote about this not-so-trustworthy person and said this is a wrong move by the pillar. Now it seems these college students were right.

It is not the first time these pillars did anything wrong, Wests also made some bad decisions and apologized in public when their AI caused a breach of privacy of people and hacked their systems. Humans make mistakes but their mistakes affect a vast majority of people.