No More

Chapter 56: Consequences Part 1

One month later

Lisa sat in her office at the Templar headquarters as she reread the report for the tenth time. "Four hundred funerals, over a thousand injured, and a dozen Templars are missing... all of it happening within a day."

She let out a sigh. It was that very same day that Jess revealed herself to everyone, even though there was no evidence, people put two and two together and knows it was her.

People wanted blood. The grieving families wanted Jess hunted, and brought to justice... but there simply wasn't any proof to arrest her for what she did. Jess is simply that clever.

Except for Lukas, may he rest in peace, as Jess brutally killing him in broad daylight, with multiple witnesses watching, but his body is still missing.

One thing that confuses her, and her husband who explained to Axel, Olivia, and Petra, even Aiden and Gill, is what Jess told her brother.

"...Shut it!" he screamed. "You just killed Lukas in cold blood...!"

"...No... Lukas died a long time ago." Jess replied cryptically, shaking her head, making her brother confused...

"Lukas died a long time ago..." Lisa quietly repeated out loud. What did Jess mean?

Then there is that girl, Bailey, who proudly claimed she healed Lukas. But she can't remember why she woke up on the ground, with a bruise on her face as Lukas' corpse was missing.

But since Lukas' body was the only evidence of Jess actually committing a crime, Bailey was sent to prison for tampering evidence as she was the last one near Lukas' corpse.

Maybe she actually did heal Lukas. But it's very hard to imagine that she healed him with a simple Potion of Healing since Jess stabbed him through the chest, and then jerking the blade downward as she sliced his organs into slush.

Bailey claimed that her potion was simply that good. So Lisa had skilled alchemists, even Gill, verify the quality of her potion-making skills.

The result was that her skills are advanced, but not enough to bring back someone who is dead. The news was shocking at first to Bailey, but then she added a possibility of Lukas not being dead in the first place, but simply injured.

Everyone looked at her like if she was an idiot. Well, she is desperate to prove that she's not a bad person who tampered with evidence of a murder, but what she just said was sad.

Lisa remembered, sarcastically, asking Bailey. "How do you simply become injured after being stabbed through the heart, getting sliced open, and having your organs ooze out of your wounds?!"

Even Gill imputed his opinion about her potions, simply because he has seen Jess' skills to compare it too. And Bailey's work looks like it was created by an overconfident noob in comparison.

How does he know this? Simply because he tried using Baily's potions on someone sick like his sister, Ana, but none of Bailey's potions even had the slightest potency of Jess's potions.

Ah, Ana. Who doesn't know about Gill's, ill sister?

Lisa remembers how devastated the man was after running home, reading the message Aiden delivered to him from Jess, and then seeing his sister gone from her room.

It didn't take long to figure out who abducted her, if the paper Aiden delivered to Gill was any indication.

You've seen what I could do, and yet you still tried to undercut me. Lets just hope your sister wiser than you when I pay her a visit.