Isekai: The Eight Soul Fragments

Wesley and his group had went to the country of Omnidaxius to investigate some occurrences regarding the appearance of Begona's group. Their investigation had began as all of them separated to look for hints. They temporarily resided in the town and intended to head towards the rock formation once dusk hits. "So far, it's going unfavorably..." Wesley sat on top of the bell tower in town as a vantage point. With the tools they're given by Draxus, he took out the binoculars to view the surrounding areas. "Oh well, being up here has its own disadvantages as well." While muttering something, Wesley continued to observe the movements of people in the town. He then located Keith in the eastern side of the town. He was seemingly walking around with Viceroy as they began working together after bumping into each other. Both of them collected information through the obscure way of listening in to strangers as they entered a bar. "Pretty sure Keith isn't allowed to drink alcohol... But oh well..." Keith himself was in a religion that strictly forbids alcohol. Although the bar itself isn't a good place for Keith to hang around, it is the best possible place to gather information. Wesley himself doesn't have to worry regarding getting drunk as he has complete poison tolerance from Draxus's trainings. "Let's see, where's Audrey and Mitch this time..." Wesley began to scout for the location of Audrey and Mitch. After looking around for some time, he located both of them on the northern part stalking some person. He brought out his smartphone just in case of a contact as he left it on silent. Before long, he sent out a shadow as the person Audrey and Mitch were tailing began to move suspiciously. In the meantime, he contacted Keith and Viceroy to rendezvous outside the town. After turning his gaze to the east, he saw the two leave the bar with his binoculars. "Alright, time for me to make a move." Wesley swapped with his shadow that was on some rooftop on the northern side of the town. He then jumped down to some dark alley to prevent anyone from noticing. After leaving the alleyway, he checked his items if he had left anything back. Wesley then brought out a small fifty centimeter stick that can discharge paralyzing bolts to temporarily paralyze enemies. He stood still and looked left as the suspicious individual began moving oddly. "Hello there, are you okay?" Wesley tried to ask the suspicious approaching man with short hair. His body shape was somewhat thin but lightly developed. With staggering steps, he tried to avoid Wesley who asked him a question. "Magic...?" Wesley muttered something after sensing some magic that was released from the suspicious person's pocket. Wesley approached the man and lightly struck him with the Paravolt Rod, he then pressed a button on the handle which conducted a swift paralyzing shock that struck the brain of the person. "Whoa!" The man almost fell as Wesley began to support him. "I'll carry you to a good place to rest man, hang in there." The onlookers began gathering their attention to Wesley who was trying to help out the suspicious paralyzed man. Just in time before some people could help, Audrey and Mitch showed up on the scene and asked Wesley if he needs some assistance. "Oh! Wesley, do you need help there?" Wesley changed his posture to support the man properly while responding to Audrey's question. "Yeah, let's put him in this alley for a while, the inns are quite far from here." Mitch moved in and supported the paralyzed man on the other side of Wesley to ensure balance on him. They then entered the dark alley as Wesley swapped once more with the cousins and the suspicious man outside the town on the rendezvous. There, he was greeted with Keith and Viceroy who had collected a bit of information. "Yo guys. There was a blue-haired guy in the bar earlier. I was listening in to his conversation with the bartender who was a somewhat hot onee-san. However, she's hella sus." Wesley laughed a little as they forcefully made the paralyzed person look up to the sky with the blazing sun directly above. With the open eyes, it was a painful feeling for the person to constantly stare at the sun. "Audrey, can you remove the paralysis stat?" Audrey took out a small wand which was imbued with a crystal mineral that amplifies magic while smiling. "Of course." She then used the wand to send soothing mana into the paralyzed person. The person immediately stood up and shouted. "Who are you?! Are you here to threaten me?!" Wesley, who didn't want to cause a commotion slapped him hard on his left cheek and gripped his right shoulder tightly. In terms of height, they are the same level if the suspicious person is kneeling down while having a straight posture. He was forced to kneel like that by Keith and made to become unable to move. "We apologize, but we don't want to start a commotion here. I would like to know your identity as you have been clearly seen moving suspiciously. So can you kindly tell me your identity?" While Wesley was kindly asking the suspicious person, Viceroy took the chance to bring out the [Keeler Polygraph Mk. XXIV] which was made and improved by Draxus and Jaquinn. After attacking the necessary parts of the Keeler Polygraph to the man, his expression changed to a color of despair and fear as he recognized the machine held by Viceroy. Wesley didn't waste that chance and showed a dark smile as he immediately asked another question. "You seem to recognize the machine, then you are surely part of the [People from Earth] organization right~?" The suspicious man refused to answer but his heartbeat was recorded in the Keeler Polygraph which allows detection of emotions after countless improvements. "Seems like we hit the mark. Since you don't want to answer my first two questions, allow me to make it much more simple for you." With a small signal, Wesley told Keith to take out the wallet which most likely contains the guild card and then the IDs that are likely from the other world. "Oh! He has money from our world, his name is... Eric Jefferson, younger brother with one of the three convicts that escaped. We hit the jackpot~" After Keith brought out the rest of the identification items from the wallet, Wesley summoned multiple shadows to forcefully change the posture of Eric who was forced to stare at the sky after getting paralyzed while having his eyes wide open from the fear. "Alright, since you made us go through the trouble of forcing the identity out of you, you will have to die, in style." Each part of Eric's body was suppressed skillfully and made it impossible to move even if the paralysis was cured down. He was then given prescribed glasses which was borrowed from Draxus. Keith looked smug as he prepared his phone to play a certain tune from [Jojo's]. "We're really gonna do this huh?" Wesley sighed as he got in position while sending Keith a signal to start the music. "Vocal percussion on a whole 'nother level, coming through my mind~!" As the phone began playing the song [Canzoni Preferite], Wesley began to follow the dance steps of [Torture Dance] from JJBA part 5. After some time, Keith himself and Viceroy joined in for the fun. After letting the full OST finish while dancing, they turned their gaze back at Eric who had his eyes turned completely red. "Well, there goes your eyes forever. Let's end this swiftly aight?" One of the shadows cleanly cut off Eric's head and ended his life completely. Keith took that chance to take the picture as a proof of hunting down a potential target. "Unfortunately, we couldn't take the information regarding the hideout from the enemies. However! We have ourselves some clues that came from Keith's bar eavesdropping. So we have free time until midnight, let's get some sleep early as the enemies will begin to regroup together around 0200 at the southwest of this town. Unconfirmed as it is, we have to keep an eye out just in case it is an ambush set up for us. Let's bring these IDs so we can sneak into the base." After making a short briefing plan, they returned to the inn right after Keith sent the photo of Eric to some group chat for the [Crystallized Sentinels].

Wesley sat down on the bed in a shared room with Mitch. "Great work today, the mission will be quite rough since we're gonna be stealthily moving around at night." Mitch was performing maintenance on his rifle that was improved by Draxus to be allowed to detect heat signatures in smoke, night vision, and scoping distance adjustments with the multiple lenses that are placed over the scope. "Well, we have night vision goggles and clothes that are perfect for night travel. This way, it'll be hard to detect us normally." Wesley polished his two daggers before taking out his phone to write down some small logs. "So in today's order, we got an investigation trip, temporary lodgings, torture dance, a corpse, and some IDs." Wesley smiled a little after finishing up the written logs that are typed down on his memo on the phone. "Quite a bizarre day... Things will be much more fun tomorrow." Wesley let out a mutter as he went to sleep around 1600, while Mitch read some manga on his phone before going to sleep.