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Once the dam had broken, there was no going back. Tears continued to fall from Aqua’s eyes and she sobbed her heart out.

Both Amane and Sakura decided to give her some space this time and do their own thing. But there was only so much they could do on their own without proper holding and equipment.

They also needed to make an official report about this place and get it sealed up before someone else tried to enter and take advantage of this place. There was too much important stuff in here to pretend otherwise.

"Aqua, I will make a call and have the divine guild oversee the cleaning of this place. You need to wake up and get out of here now. I do not want you to get caught in the crossfire."

Amane placed a hand on Aqua’s shoulder and this time, Aqua did not flinch. She did not do much of anything but stay down there and cry her heart out.

It did not seem as if Aqua had enough brain consciousness left to do anything but what she was being made to do.

Aqua stood up when she was physically made to and she walked around when Sakura placed her hand on Aqua’s shoulder. Other than that, Aqua showed no signs of even being alive.

This would have been concerning for Amane if she did not have other priorities to take care of. And she had a lot of things to look after so she could not add Aqua to that list as well. Enjoy new stories from empire

"I will take Aqua home for now. I don’t think Aqua should be in a place filled with memories right now so I will take her to a back-house of ours for now. I am sure that place is secure from any outside threats."

Sakura assured Amane as she helped Aqua up. Aqua did not even put up a fight against her when she did so. She quietly stopped up and did as she was told to do. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

"Alright, I understand. Then, you should head out now. I will wait here for the officers to arrive and give them my report. I’m sure they would want to ask me a lot of questions as well."

As expected, the divine guild did not disappoint with their quick actions and they surrounded this place in record time. Amane waited for them inside the main room and she watched as Sean walked out of the car.

Frankly, Amane was surprised to see Charlie not accompany Sean. But Sean’s appearance also made sense in Amane’s mind. He was a commander for the Divine Guild and was also in charge of these security cases.

"Mother wanted to come as well, but she was held back her some…. urgent business she is taking care of right now. I hurried over here as soon as I got your message."

Sean looked intimidating as he stood straight. He was a whole head taller than Amane and his green eyes looked intimidating when framed by his red hair.

He commanded his unit well and he had complete control over them. Sean was a very competent person to have on one’s side.

"Hmm, I am glad that you managed to respond to me so soon. Most of the evidence inside this place will expire soon. I want you to do a thorough check of this place for me. I need to head back now since I have been gone for a while now. Some rats keep on trying to get what is mine and I do not want to allow them to do so."

Amane quickly explained her situation to Sean and he looked amused at her words. He knew that the ’rat’ in question was Elios Tsurugi.

"I know how tough your life can be. Mother has a lot of enemies looking to take her seat as well and I have seen the struggle my whole life. So be assured and leave this place to me. I will take care of it."

Sean assured Amane before he waved her off. Now there was no one here with more authority than him left.

"Alright everyone, gather as much evidence as you can and bring me everything. The special squad and I will go through it to ensure that everything is in order."

Sean commanded and everyone ran around to follow his words.

On the surface, Sean looked like a calm and caring leader. He was even willing to take the risk himself to spare everyone else the trouble and danger of dealing with dangerous equipment.

But that was only a front Sean put up to show people his devotion. He had a b much bigger scene brewing behind the scene.

"Bring me the recordings for this place as well. Each available one. I need to see them all through."

Sean spent his night looking through the recordings to take note of all the evidence Yoko Tsurugi had seen up until now. He was going to have to sort all the evidence out and take out the critical ones.

Even then, he needed to leave just enough evidence behind to not make Yoko Tsurugi suspicious.

"Tsk, that stupid Professor Ross. The research on gods is supposed to be top secret and not to be done in the open. How dare he blow this secret out already? He should feel lucky that he is already dead."

Sean was unhappy with the result of his research and he was sure that the others in The HIVE would be even more unhappy with these results than him.

Years’ worth of research was about to be lost and fall into the hands of the wrong people. It would have been a disaster for them all.

It was lucky for The HIVE that Sean was in his current position and he could observe everything that was happening around the place.

"Let’s leave the research about gods behind and a little more evidence as well. Now, I would need to deal with that female subject called Aqua. Thankfully, it will not be so so difficult. She is already unstable right now."

That night, Sean had used incense to make Aqua’s unstable mind hallucinate. It was easy to sneak the incense into the residence because of an already existing spy.

No one knew how and when the incense was swapped out and the smell of the incense was long gone by the time the morning came around.

But one thing was for sure - Aqua had died that night.

No.

She had taken her own life as she no longer wished to live. It was a sad but expected outcome for all those who knew her.

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"She was an idiot. If she was going to die, then why did she drag all of us into this situation at all? Yoko, there is no need to pay attention to Aqua’s death and…"

Sakura trailed off as she spoke. Tears lined her voice and her throat clogged over with emotions.

She might be complaining right now, but even Sakura was heartbroken after what happened. She had spent a few nights with Aqua and that had made her feel a small bond of kinship.

It was nothing deep yet but it had been there nonetheless.

"People are born and then they die. This is a cycle no one can escape from, child. The sooner you learn to deal with someone’s death, the better. Who knows? Maybe the next person to die is the one closest to you."

Elios Tsurugi hinted at Amane’s death in the middle of the mourning ceremony. Most people who did not know the circumstances of their house politics would have considered her words as advice and not looked any further into it.

But those who did know her understood her subtle threat. That made them even more interested to know what was going on inside the Tsurugi household.

"Old people should rest and not think much. Who knows when they might collapse due to their muscle fatigue? Aunty, I heard that you went to the doctor recently. Your body must be in a lot worse shape due to your age."

Elios flinched at the accusation.

She did not want to confirm whether she had gone to a doctor or not. No matter what she said, people would take her words and twist them.

The reason Elios had gone to a doctor was because she had missed her monthly cycle and that had concerned her. She wanted to know if she was pregnant or not.

But apparently, it was just her body acting up and nothing else. There had been no reason for her to be concerned or to feel happy.

Once it was silence once more, people concentrated on the ceremony taking place in front of them. Most of these people did not even know who Aqua was, but they came to the ceremony anyway because the Tsurugis were handling this ceremony.

Even Amane’s classmates were here but that was a given. Aqua had been a classmate to them all as well.

"She was a good person. She was weird and eccentric at times, but Aqua had a good heart."

Faridha spoke up as she approached the burned coffin Aqua had been kept in. Her body was all but a pile of ash now and soon it would be scattered into the river.

No one else commented or contradicted Farisha’s words and soon the ceremony ended.

Amane moved around the room and heard the conversations taking place. And then Sean made his appearance with his reports. He was the one Amane had been waiting around for and he was finally here.