Psycho X Psychic

Six remained; Nick, his brother Nathan, Uncle Jo, his old fat friend Dennis, Hanon, and his old boss Derman.

Receiving Teren's orders, they have no choice but to comply.

The first and the last one to move was Old Derman. With a thought, he used his second Spirit. All those trying to run away felt their movement come to a halt before they felt an invisible force pulling them back towards where they came from.

Including Sik, who escaped all of them were forced to kneel down while they groan in resistance but failed.

Except for Hanon and Teren, the others were surprised by Old Derman's power. They realized that they have underestimated the leader of the Spectre Gang.

"That's enough. Don't use your lifeforce any longer."

Teren said which incited an abnormal reaction from the old man.

"What!? How did you-!?"

But stopped himself immediately. Old Derman was old even though he has the Spirit of Longevity. It's because the price for his second Spirit, Spirit of Force is lifeforce. Something that he thought he had a lot of in the past. However, as time passed, he grew scared of using his powers, thus, hiding behind the group he created for himself, the Spectre Gang.

That was one of his biggest secrets that even Hanon was unaware of because it was also his weakness. But then, the monster in front of him knew this. 

Originally, he wanted to use his power right now to cover for his weakness. To use his power to blatantly almost says that he had a lot of it. But the truth was, he had not.

Fortunately for him, none was able to discern this just from Teren's few words. In fact, they were more focused on what will happen to those who escaped.

Uncle Jo looked at his friends who tried to escape and just silently shook his head.

"Eron, can you take all of these people in your house?"

Teren spoke and soon afterwards, the third-party showed themselves. A bit far to Teren's left, Eron removed his hood and the camouflaging effect was removed. Then dozens of similar men and women in black followed and revealed themselves behind him.

"Haha... so you know I'm here."

Eron dryly laughed. Earlier, when he saw Daikan dropped from the sky, he almost retreated along with Hanson and Kenavie. But realizing that the Devil Himself don't lose out to the Titan Lord, he chose to just watch so that he wouldn't somehow breech their agreement.

"So can you?"

"Hm... the more people the better... I think. But, I'll report this to the leader first since I don't make the decisions here. If only there's just a two or three people, there's no problem but..."

"I understand, you can go now. The others are already gone."

With that said, Eron nodded and disappeared again. He's aware of who Teren meant by 'others' It was the other spies and people from other houses hiding earlier.

For example, Eron wasn't alone when he went there. This is the same for Hanson from the Lunari House and Kenavie from the Serpen House.

"Wait!"

Teren raised his hand, stopping Eron.

"I forgot that I want to ask something."

"What is it, Sir Teren?" Eron slightly gulped. He hopes that it's not something about them intentionally arriving late.

"Do you know what's the Solari doing?"

"Ah...! The Solari House, I didn't see any of their people here either."

"So, do you have any clue as to what they're planning?"

"Unlike the Serpen House, we don't know much about the Solari House. However..." Eron moved his head towards the audience who were silent and were listening to them.

Teren nodded and walked away before being followed by Eron to have some privacy. Once they created some distance from the group, Eron continued.

"The Solari House has great influence in the entertainment industry which they go by the name Brightsky Corp. They are the most open among all the Houses since their every move is released onto the media. The celebrities produced by them are actually Elites of the House. You may have heard of Yumera, the multi-talented celebrity, or seen her on tv or posters, right?"

"Yeah... I know her..."

Teren suspiciously looked away as he replied but Eron failed to notice this nuance and continued.

"The more support they got from the public, the stronger the people of the Solari House is. That's their main trait, therefore, most famous people on every platform there is should be produced by them."

"Yeah, they people even call them the Illuminati." Teren lightly laughed from this.

"Y-yeah, so their main forces are famous people. That's why they can't send out just anyone until Spirit War has begun. But, I think you should read it yourself."

Eron took out his smartphone. He looked like your average gangster with an intimidating face and sunglasses so seeing him show his phone that has anime characters on it felt surreal for Teren.

"Here, look, there had been a mass hiatus among famous people including Yumera. She even had her last concert last month after she just finished acting a film adaptation of the famous light novel The Seventh Heartbreaker."

Teren silently listened to Eron as he became enthusiastic about sharing these things.

'So he didn't want privacy because he'll disclose confidential information?'

"Man, Yumera's so cute. There's nothing she's not good at...! I-I mean, ehem, since we know that she's an Elite from the Solari House, we can assume that along with her, her colleagues are preparing for something."

"I see. I don't think it has anything to do with me."

"Hm? How can you tell?"

"It was just recently since I was found again since I heard Daikan saying that I only got my information leak because of a person I didn't kill. I exactly know who it was and it had not been a month since then... I think. But these hiatuses of famous people including that girl should be planned before that."

"That girl? But yeah, you're correct. The announcement for Yumera's last concert for the year before her break was about a few months ago. Unless they have someone that can predict the future, I don't think those hiatuses are for you."

"It's for the upcoming Spirit War." Teren replied.