New law of Beast Taming

Aqua was half expecting someone to jump out and tell her that this was some kind of prank and that this lab had not been abandoned by the others. But nothing of that sort happened for her.

Yoko seemed quite busy exploring this lab at this moment. Her eyes and hands moved from one device to another.

"Someone took great pains to set up this lab. I can see that a lot of money was spent on this lab in the past few years. Everything is brand new but well-used."

Aqua had no idea what Yoko Tsurugi saw to come to this conclusion, but she was not wrong. This place had been well-used as well as maintained.

However, this place was also out of her control to handle now. Aqua was going to end up torching this place if she did not find her other half's whereabouts here.

"Yoko Tsurugi, stop playing around and be serious. We are here to rescue someone and…"

Aqua heard the brief sound of someone panting. Whosoever it was, they seemed to be in pain and they were heading their way.

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After Aqua had lost her other half, her instincts as well as her senses had gotten dull. So naturally, Amane heard the disturbance before Aqua did but she did not show it on her face.

It was not until the person that was causing this disturbance showed himself that Amane decided to act.

The half-beast lunged toward them and Amane raised her hand to form a barrier between him and the duo. That action caught Aqua off guard.

"What the hell. Wait, I know this person. He is someone who was in the same experimental batch as me. It looks like he has lost his mind recently." 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

The other wild person fought against Amane's hold to try and get himself free. But Amane held the bonds tightly and thought about what she should do with this man.

However, Aqua was faster than Amane had been and she ended up knocking the other out. The wild man groaned before he collapsed on the ground.

"Finally, he went down. Now this shall give us enough time to observe what happened here."

Aqua bent down to observe the person she had knocked out. The unconscious man took small but sharp breaths to suppress his desire to stand up again. It seemed as if he was fighting against himself.

Aqua could not sense anything in the air so it must mean that this person must have been given some kind of drug to act this way.

Amane leaned down beside Aqua as well and decided to look at this man's psyche. Her powers worked through the wild man's body and she found traces of drugs inside him.

"Seems like someone drugged this man almost four to five hours ago. That is the same time they seemed to have abandoned this lab. It seemed as if this was all planned."

Aqua suppressed her gasp of surprise when she heard Yoko's words. She knew that they were true in her heart but she did not want to believe in them.

"We got abandoned? No way. Surely that is not possible. Our boss would not abandon us like this and-"

"And yet, it seems as if you did get abandoned. You need to face the truth and come back to your senses. Now, let me find a way to track down your other half."

Aqua went quiet once she was reprimanded. She could not say anything since Amane had only spoken logically. So Aqua waited for Yoko to make a move first.

"Do you even know how to hack the mainframe to find where the others went?"

Aqua asked a bit too late. By that time, Amane was already setting up herself to investigate. Her powers brushed over everything and picked up all the scents and hints.

"Hack the mainframe? We won't need to do something that tedious. Just give me a minute and I will figure out where the people in this lab went."

Amane started picking up signs soon when she used her powers. Often, Humans thought that they had hidden everything they could hide, but that was their misconception.

There were signals and hints that humans could never pick up on normally. So, it was impossible for them to completely clear a crime scene of hints.

And that was what Amane used to track them down. Within minutes, she had a general location of where the people she was chasing after went.

"Alright, I know where we are going next. But we also need to take care of this place. It is not safe for anyone to venture into accidentally."

Amane opened her phone and made a call. That startled Aqua and she snatched Amane's phone before cutting the call.

"Have you gone mad? There is no way this place can be discovered by anyone. What do you think my boss would do? He would destroy this place and any evidence it holds. I will not risk the safety of my other half like this…"

Aqua gasped at the sudden increase in pressure over her body. She could not help but gasp as the pressure began to hurt more and more until it became unbearable.

But just as it was becoming a lot more to handle, Amane lowered the pressure and Aqua was able to take in big gulps of breaths.

"Aqua, I am not here as your assistant, but as an investigator myself. It would serve you well to remember this small bit of information for the future. Also, I am going to do as I please and you cannot stop me."

Aqua knew that Yoko Tsurugi had made up her mind. It had been foolish of her to try and stop Yoko since the start.

Still, she had somehow hoped that it would not be the case for her and Yoko would somehow listen to her words.

"You are so selfish. Would it kill you to listen to my words for once? I am not asking a lot from you, am I?"

Aqua asked as she gasped and coughed to get more air into her lungs. She looked up into Yoko Tsurugi's eyes and froze.

"No, you are not asking a lot from me. But whatever you are asking is getting quite annoying for me so I need you to stop."

Aqua's words were stuck in her throat. She swallowed everything she was about to say and fell quiet. She watched as Yoko moved around to find more evidence of what happened.

Her energy filled every space of this place as she dug deeper and deeper into the scents left behind. And just when she thought she had what she had been looking for, it all started to fade away.

"Tsk, paranoid bastards. At least they were careless enough to leave crumbs of their energy. I know where we need to go from here."

Hope swelled Aqua's insides and she felt thankful. She still felt annoyed at Yoko but was being overshadowed by her desire but even that was beginning to fade away.

"Hey, if you know where my other half is, then let's hurry up and chase after her. There is no need for us to waste time like this…"

Aqua stopped speaking when she noticed that Yoko looked uninterested in her actions. Instead of standing up, Yoko sat down once more and sighed.

"I would rather not chase after your other half today. I am sure that our opponents know that we have found this place and they would be ready for a counterattack. It will be better for us to take out time."

Amane's words caused Aqua to fume. She did not want to listen to Amane and sit around without doing anything.

She needed to move her body and get rid of the agitation she had been feeling up until now.

"Yoko, what are you saying? We need to attack now before our enemies tighten their security. There is no better time for us to attack than now. Don't you think so as well?"

Aqua tried to persuade Amane into heading out now. Every second she spends away from her other half was annoying and filled with pain. It was not a lot right now, but it would start to get painful soon.

"I know you are eager to meet your other half, Aqua. But you need to be careful. As much as I want to help you out, I have my priorities as well. I have people waiting for me back home."

Amane's words annoyed Aqua a lot, but she knew that this was the only way to get the cooperation she needed from Yoko. She had to bow her head and wait for Yoko to agree with her.

"Fine, you can go back home today. But you must help me out tomorrow for sure. I cannot be away from my other half for too long."

Loneliness and nostalgia were already beginning to settle inside Aqua's heart. She was sure that she would do something stupid if she was not detained now.

Yoko must have known that as well because she did not leave Aqua alone. Instead, she extended her hand toward Aqua and held it toward the elder.

"Come with me tonight. I feel as if I should not leave you alone for now. Desperate people like you are prone to making foolish moves in desperate times."

Aqua wanted to deny Yoko's assistance. She did not want to own Yoko anything.

And yet, she carved that relief Yoko gave her and wanted to lean more into it.