Records Of Barton's Fantastical Events Chapter 91 – Circle

Translator: Doggotranslation 

“We've been played.” The one who spoke was still the woman in the Gale family, Spell, and Coord just sat on one side in silence, frowning.

Zach looked at Spell who still didn't look at his eyes. He was very sure that the “we” that the other party said did not include him.

But the fact? Zach could also say the same thing.

“Where is Revenge?” Zach asked, but he already had an answer.

Spell finally looked at Zach with a complicated hatred in her eyes, but the target was not the vampire, “Officially, it will be cremated tomorrow, but…”

Zach sighed, then continued after Spell: “You saw the body, it wasn't him, he was gone.”

Many things can happen in the afternoon.

Revenge died on the spot. For a criminal who had already been sentenced to death and still wanted to hurt others, no one wanted to spend more time on him. But procedurally, the Gale couple would still have one last look at him. Before this glance, something happened. The person lying on the waiting list for cremation was no longer Revenge. Ordinary people would be confused by witchcraft, but Spell would not.

“From the beginning, all he (Papa Midnight) wanted was my blood.” Spell said gloomily, with hatred.

Zach's eyes had a helpless smile, “Also mine.”

Wells has always been a bait, but he is not Zach's bait, but Papa Midnight's, in order to catch the descendants of 'Toreador'! Investigator of funeral records? How convenient. Apart from the dead old Grande and Hank, only that old record has someone's burial location!

When the investigation was about to end, and after the normal method failed, the 'mummy' bound by the chain was still a 'mummy', so he forced Zach to revive him!

Spell's face revealed a surprised expression, but it disappeared immediately, and then her face because colder: “You awakened Ian Anthony.”

Zach nodded. He was not surprised that Spell knew about the existence of Ian. The Gale couple lived in Barton for far longer than Zach and the others. He did not remember teaching Ian any methods to make a vampire sleep forever when he was living on the battlefield with the Anthony brothers. After all, the most important quality of a vampire is immortality, not eternal sleep.

Hank, Gale, and Ian, unexpectedly, before the vampire and the werewolf came to Barton, these people were all connected!

But this is not their story, it is Zach's story.

“I must wake him up.” Zach shook his head, “Your son, he used the blood of the deceased to kill me.”

Spell's face showed signs of thinking, normal people would not take the initiative to move closer after hearing the gunshots. Except for their identities as a shaman and a former hunter, the Gale couple could be considered to be normal people. So they didn't know what happened. When they received the notice, all they knew was the vague rhetoric that “Revenge tried to hurt innocent people, was stopped by the guards, and died on the spot”.

This Inan woman could think of Papa Midnight approaching Revenge and offering an 'invitation'. At first, Spell thought Revenge did it just for survival, but now, if Papa Midnight used the term of taking revenge against the vampire as the beginning of the contract, it was very easy to understand Revenge's acceptance. But there was still something missing from this incident.

“Why are you here?” Zach asked.

“Protect Ryan.” Spell replied directly, the light and shadow in the corner of the office were distorted for an instant, but someone's figure never appeared.

Zach nodded, “Well, now I also have someone who needs protection, we can work together.”

The bell on the desk rang, and Alice opened the side door, waiting for Zach's instructions.

“Alice, tidy up the vacant rooms on the second floor. Our important guests will stay here for a few days.”

“Mhm.” Alice glanced at the Gale couple, with a trace of complicated sadness in her eyes, nodded, and then left. Alice was found by the vampire and the werewolf on Barton street, everyone should remember this.

When sending the couple to rest on the second floor, James had already woke up from the fainting and was very surprised to see the three together. He didn't feel much about Zach's recovery, because Anthony had told him a long time ago the importance of Alice in the Grande Funeral Home, and the vampire needs to rely on her to maintain that eternal life.

James was surprised by the arrival of the Gale couple. Although he could not face them yet, he still ignored the pain under the bandages on his shoulders and forced the vampire into Gale's room. The four people stood under the same roof again, but the location had changed from the rich bachelor's loft to a small room of only 20 square meters in the Grande Funeral Home.

“You!” James pointed at the vampire. His movements were a bit big, affecting the wound, making the corner of his eyes twitched in pain: “I will talk to you later!”

Zach curled his lips. His body had just recovered, so he didn't plan to donate his blood to James to heal his injuries. He needed to regain a three or four-hundred-year-old vampire's power as soon as possible after the 'exchange of blood' to prepare possible battles.

“Let's talk about the important things first!” James was a little agitated and said to the other three people. He hoped that his accented tone would make the Gale couple put aside the fact that it was he who sent Revenge to death.

Important? Probably only the son of the general would think that what he was going to say was important.

“Papa Midnight's recruiter! I can already confirm the person, who had an accident last month around the full moon, but is still alive or unable to confirm the death.”

The list of names had already been given to the Gale couple, but with Spell's sixth sense alone, the progress of the investigation was very slow.

“Plus the access to [Barton Mercy Hospital]'s medical record system for those who have died!” James carried on. Apparently, before Zach refused to help and Revenge's trial court began, the responsible detective made another reasoning and came to a conclusion.

“There is only one person who fits the description! That's…”

“Enough James.” The Gale couple kept frowning and did not speak, so the 'bad guy' who interrupted James could only be the vampire Zach, “We don't care who it is. If this is the important thing you want to say, we have more important things to do.”

Zach turned around and left when he finished speaking, and the Gale couple also turned around, took off their coats and cloaks, they needed to rest.

Only James stood in a room of only 20 square meters, staring, and he seemed unable to accept such a turn for a while.

“Wait!” James grabbed Zach's shoulders and pulled the vampire who was about to open the door and leave. The muscles on his shoulders bulged. Because of his force, the bright red blood soaked the white gauze and slowly spread.

“What did you say? Why don't you care? !” James' face was twitching, not knowing whether it was pain or excitement.

The actions of the Gale couple also paused, and the thing that was missing from this incident will be answered here.

“You want to know?” Zach looked back at James with an ambiguous smile.

The eyes of the general's son appeared confused for an instant. He didn't care about the reason why those people didn't care, he was just angry about the fact that they didn't care about it.

Zach faced James, looked into his eyes and didn't wait for him to speak, and spoke first: “Revenge became a Dead Apostle recruited by Papa Midnight personally.”

James was shocked, his head quickly turned to look at the Gale couple. Facing the gloomy couple, James understood that this was not what they wanted. His face turned to Zach again, and just as he was about to speak, the vampire took the lead again.

“The thing that Revenge attacked me was the deadly 'poison' to vampires.”

James wasn't surprised at this, and he didn't care how Revenge got the 'poison'. Fortunately, Zach didn't need him to ask.

“Those things belonged to Wells, whom Benjamin asked you to bring back. It was him who delivered those things to Revenge.”

James was a little surprised at this time. Although the conversation with the vampire was always like this – he was forcibly led by the nose, but it was undeniable that the son of the general has begun to get used to this feeling of being suppressed at all times. He began to think about the connection.

“Wells is a pawn I used. It is to help you, detective Rance, a pawn used to draw out the Death Contrator's recruiter. ” With a self-mocking smile, Zach looked at James, who was thinking with a shocked expression, waiting for the human detective's mind to connect it all.

“And it turns out that it was not my pawn, but the bait that Papa Midnight used to draw me to Revenge.” Zach kept smiling, giving the detective time to think for himself.

“Revenge, you.” James lowered his head, his thoughts turned sharply, and he looked at the Gale couple again, frowning, and then looked back at Zach: “Why?”

“Good question.” Zach nodded with satisfaction, “But unfortunately, we don't know, so this is the more important thing for us.” Zach's words were very vague, but James only needed to know this.

The Gale couple realized that the missing part of the incident had been filled. Wells, the person used by both sides was the node connecting the vampire and Revenge.

Zach was leaving again, and James once again stopped the vampire: “Wait!” The recruiter! We must catch him!”

Zach raised his eyebrows impatiently, “Are you serious? James Rance. He is nothing, just a lucky and unfortunate guy. Papa Midnight didn't care about him, everything was just a huge circle, in order to get the circle Gale and me in.”

James opened his mouth, unable to say anything to refute.

From the moment Papa Midnight was summoned by Spell to Barton City because of her vulnerability, this huge arc began to grow. Those Dead Apostles, who had committed suicide, and those corpses in the warehouse called walking dead by the vampire were just the filler to prop up this arc!

Revenge became a Dead Apostles, perhaps was the end of the arc, or maybe it was just any point on the arc!

“Sorry, James. If you want to catch him, please rely on your own strength, human strength. In terms of us? We are not your tools, we have our own destiny to control.”

Zach walked out the door and walked down the corridor to the stairwell. In the room behind him, Spell's cold voice sounded: “You can leave now, we need to rest.”

Chapter end