Transcendent Dawn

“Good day, Su Lu!”

Under the street light, a slightly makeup-plastered Dora excitedly waved at Su Lu as soon as she saw him.

Her makeup was obviously overdone, with lipstick, eyebrow pencil… and even heightening shoes to make herself look more mature.

“Hello, Dora!”

Su Lu greeted her as he approached, wearing a simple shirt without much adornment.

However, Dora examined him from head to toe, “Why do I feel like you’ve changed a lot in just a few days?”

“Perhaps it’s because I changed my clothes!”

Su Lu replied casually, quite surprised at Dora’s keen eye, true to her profession as a reporter. “Did you schedule the appointment with Mr. Gales?”

“Of course! The timing is at 9 a.m., and the location is at No. 22, Narcissus

Street; that’s his short-term rental apartment!” Ms. Dora took out a notebook: “This Mr. Gales does not have a wife or children… which is odd. But considering the tragic fate of numerous seafarers, perhaps he’s trying to avoid something.”

‘Oh, reporter lady, your imagination is truly rich!’

Su Lu thought to himself, “Let’s go!”

He hailed a carriage that took them to No. 22, Narcissus Street.

The area was filled with connected apartments, each one having enough space in between to ensure the privacy of every resident.

They arrived in front of a red building, where Ms. Dora voluntarily stepped forward and rang the doorbell.

Ding dong! Ding dong!

The clear bell sound echoed afar, but there was no answer.

“Are you sure you scheduled the appointment for today?”

Su Lu looked skeptically at Dora.

“Of course… how could you question my professionalism?” Dora’s face turned a bit blue as she knocked on the door vigorously: “I suspect that something happened to Mr. Gales because he is all alone and most likely cannot call for help! ”

Thud!

At that moment, the door opened, and a tall figure appeared: “Who are you… looking for?”

Dora almost stumbled into the house. Thankfully, she managed to maintain balance and patted her chest with relief.

If Su Lu saw her in such an unfortunate state, she would be too embarrassed to live.

“Are you Mr. Kira Gales?”

The room seemed to be void of any light with the curtains tightly drawn, making it quite dreary.

Dora looked up for confirmation, “I’m Dora, a reporter from the Nia Merchant Report. We scheduled an appointment.”

“Ah, I remember… Please come in!

Mr. Kira Gales stood aside, opened the door, and invited Su Lu and Dora into the living room. He lit a candle: “I’ve been unable to tolerate bright lights recently… I seem to have developed photophobia.”

“No problem!”

Dora expressed understanding and took a sip of the red tea that Kira had offered: “This is exquisite porcelain… its style is quite rare in the Federation.”

“It’s from the Old Continent. It’s said to be a treasured item from a certain noble family. A friend gave it to me.”

Kira Gales seated himself leisurely, his wine-red eyes glowing with pleasure.

However, Su Lu broke out in cold sweat!

He remembered clearly that the eyes he had seen in the cafe previously were blue in color!

‘Has he worn coloured lenses within such a short time? But no… those don’t exist yet!’

The other possible explanation could only be one.

‘Kira… has been possessed by an evil spirit!’

Only a spirit-possessed [Spirit Medium] would show a change in eye colour and other symptoms!

‘Could it be that he conducted a dangerous spirit communication experiment in these two days?… Currently, this evil spirit is still trying hard to play the role of Kira Gales. It’s best not to unmask him now, or else I don’t know what might happen!’

Su Lu signaled with his eyes for Dora to put down her tea.

“By the way… who is this?”

Kira turned to Su Lu.

His speech was a bit slow, and some of his grammar was rather awkward and strange, but had Su Lu not known, it would never have occurred to him that Kira has been replaced from within!

“This is my friend, a lover of mysticism — Su Lu Pottery!” Dora hastily introduced. “He’s a fan of yours. He heard that I was going to interview you, so he came along.” “Nice to meet you!”

“Su Lu” ‘excitedly’ rose to bow, avoiding a direct handshake with Kira.

This was a suspected ‘evil spirit’!

A second-order elite supernatural entity!

It would be difficult for a simple first-order [Spirit Medium] to handle. “Great! Then we can start right away.”

Dora took out her notebook and shorthand pen: “Mr. Gales, what made you choose this profession?”

She also felt that the atmosphere was a bit off and wanted to end the interview quickly.

Su Lu played the part of a quiet handsome man, listening to everything and found that ‘Kira’ was noticeably becoming more flexible in his interactions, or rather, he was getting better at playing a living person.

‘This doesn’t look good!’

If it weren’t for his excellent control over his body, he would have run away already.

“I see… then, what is the most memorable thing about your adventures…” Dora slowly got into the groove, asking questions when suddenly—Bam! A sound of something heavy hitting the floor came from the attic.

“I apologize… it’s probably the neighbor’s stray cat.”

Kira got up and walked up the stairs.

Meanwhile, Su Lu’s intuition suddenly detected the approach of a spirit!

‘Kira Gales, at least a second-order [Mysterious Scholar], can’t be so easily defeated by an evil spirit… unless, he carelessly got possessed.’

Su Lu pondered quickly: “Did the [Spirit Medium] slip up? Could it be…that he mistakenly chose an evil spirit during the spirit possession ritual?”

A [Spirit Medium] can summon spirits to possess them and respond to the living’s questions.

But the premise for this is that the medium’s own soul must first be removed!

Su Lu quickly figured out why Mr. Gales had bungled. Most likely, during some spirit communication ritual, he mistook a well-disguised evil spirit for a kind spirit, and voluntarily gave up his body.

Once such a situation occurs, and the spirit refuses to leave, it will be troublesome.

So, right now, Mr. Kira Gales’s soul must be around here, inside this house! He just didn’t know why his intuition couldn’t detect it, only sensing it vaguely.

“I can try an experiment!”

After Su Lu figured everything out, he deliberately knocked over the cup of red tea in his hand: “Mr. Kira Gales… please show up!”

“What are you doing?”

Dora looked at Su Lu suspiciously.

All of a sudden, she caught sight of Su Lu’s signal: “Look at the table.”

The spilled red tea on the mahogany table wriggled like it had a life of its own, forming a word—Help me!

“What

Dora gasped.

This sudden supernatural occurrence was somewhat frightening for the young girl.

“Let’s go!”

Su Lu seized Dora’s hand and dashed out of the door.

Now that he knew what he needed to know, there was no need to stay and risk it.

After a while, Kira Gales came down from the attic, his wine-red eyes focusing on the direction of the door: “The guests are gone? Perhaps… they didn’t like the red tea I brewed….”