Chapter 64: Chapter 70: Through South Carolina!

Settembre, Haoyu, Noa, Ansel, Ryoh, Rue, Reynard, Amin and Wilel sat outside of the grand yet long standing church on the other side of the street, carefully surveying the area. Haoyu softly grunted as he considered Rue to be yapping to him about her father beside Amin and the others, though he had been focused on the church. "Let's just go in blind." Haoyu spoke softly as gestured for Rue to be quiet. Settembre told him they likely have to wander in blind and take a risk. Rue looked at the church and realized that it was the largest church she had seen. "I worship Nayvhal and attend Vayvhalis teachings at a church back in Florida. Our master told us about this church, the church of the limitless navy. This place is pretty trustworthy assuming our teacher is also so we've just been wasting our time out here. C'mon!" Rue shouted with an excited attitude and giggled before she led the team inside. Settembre thought it was best for only Rue, himself, and his youngest brother to ask around while the others keep an eye out from a nearby vantage point. Wilel covered his face out of frustration with the eldest Jepson daughter. "You've been the reason that we've been wasting our time by filling us in on your daddy issues like a child instead of telling us about this place." Wilel commented with a lowered tone as he followed her and the rest into the grand church gardens. The team took a look around the church gardens before a priest stationed at the church impolitely grabbed their attention before another welcomed them politely. Wilel laughed at the two religious teachers, as hard as he had ever laughed at the religious. "Consistent teachings on conduct, much?" The youngest child of South Carolina's heroic family. The rude priest glared grumpily and stared at the youngest Williams son who mocked him. "An awkward misconception. We have no obligation to be nice to someone, we have a duty to spread kindness to others when needed, very distinct concepts. It makes you look as intelligent as you've successfully deluded yourself into believing if you don't mock or criticize said thing before you learn a few basic facts about it first, godless kid." The rude Nayvhalis religious teacher called him in a derogatory manner before he drank sips of his alcohol. Wilel glowered toward the older rude priest in silence as he had no comeback or response since he wasn't informed on the topic to fire anything back. Wilel crossed his arms as he continued and the elder and youth held looks of daggers toward each other. "Polytheist." Wilel whispered under his breath as he looked away toward the ground. The polite Nayvhalis religious teacher felt it was necessary to change the topic. "What brings you few to our wonderful teaching grounds after hours?" The polite and softer tone Nayvhalis religious teacher confronted the stranger entering his church. Settembre stepped forward to begin and lead their inquiry. "We're here after a four hour drive from North Carolina to ask if you've seen a young man on your doorstep. Caucasian male, stands at five-foot-ten with hair as dark as a black cat's fur and he would be likely wearing a gray zip up jacket with black squares on his shoulders?" The second eldest Williams son of South Carolina's defenders asked with his own polite manner. The priests thought to themselves for a moment as they recollected their memories until the rude priest whispered a strange sound of a revelation. "Yep. We found a shorter fellow slumped on the steps a few nights ago except he was moving strangely. He moved like he had forgotten how to walk properly, kind of like he was drunk himself?" The rude priest informed the team. The polite teacher of the Nayvhalis church realized what his fellow teacher spoke about soon after he informed them about what he knew. "He was dressed just like you said except no mention of his peculiar mask that caught my attention initially, he held onto a bizarre mask in his hand that resembled a Kangaroo's head then mentioned something about iron breaking?" The polite priest filled them further in as he looked distressed. Wilel nodded his head with an expression that he knew Settembre found annoying to him while informing him that it was a clue in his corner. An epiphany whooshed past Settembre as he had been stuck in his thoughts ignoring Wilel's stare and smirk. "Shut up. He's going to pay a visit to that other family, Will." Settembre informed his younger brother as he looked at the priests then back towards Wilel. The youngest Williams son found himself shocked by what his older brother told him which left him thinking in dead silence. Settembre thanked the priests for their time of genuinely answering their questions before he rushed away and with Wilel soon rushing after him to gather more from his brother than what sounded like an idiotic conclusion to him. Rue performed the church's prayer position as she thanked the priests on behalf of Wilel as well before she rushed off intending on catching up with the Williams duo. Wilel, Settembre and Rue returned to the truck that Philip allowed them to take to find the church where the rest of the team, Ryoh, Noa, Ansel, Haoyu and Amin awaited for the three after their questioning. Wilel grabbed his brother's shoulder before he could enter the driver's seat. "The Bandoni crime family is one of our most dangerous enemies, Frank Bandoni has some of the most dangerous mercenaries in his pockets, if this is Derek we're now chasing then he's as good as dead." Wilel asked with an urgency. Settembre told his younger brother to shut up and get into the car or gave him the option of being left behind. Haoyu and Ryoh simultaneously cracked their knuckles together before they dapped each other up as their friend pulled off.

Settembre, Haoyu, Ansel, Noa, Reynard, Amin, Ryoh and Wilel rushed urgently into the Bandoni family's mansion estate as they witnessed it on fire. Entering through their gates after Haoyu effortlessly knocked away, the team walked through what resembled a former yard of the richest crime family in South Carolina burning with dead bodies of the family's enforcers, soldiers and possibly a few associates that Wilel recognized as those covering the wealthy family's front yard. There were a few dead soldiers on the rooftops of the estate, bloodied and limbs hanging. The team panicked, refusing to believe the suspect responsible of the slaughter had been whom they were chasing, that the suspect is truly their best friend since youth. Haoyu, Noa, Ansel, Ryoh and Settembre strongly consider having a brotherly relationship with the young missing Wiley lad which made their conclusion of the crime scene a tough one to figure out. Settembre exploded his raw power into a vast field covering the entire yard and swiftly swayed the numerous raconteurs to reenact the events they've arrived too late to know about before he realized that he exhausted himself, he was ragdolled to the ground as a consequence of his decision, that he was too physically and mentally weakened to move, to stand up. Noa sprinted to his aid as the others saw a mysterious one-armed figure near the busted entrance of the Bandoni family's gate. The figure briefly vanished before suddenly appearing next to a guard and removing his arm with what the friends concluded to be a blade that appeared out of the blue before the mysterious violent figure continued to vanish in and out of their sight slaughtering the other numerous unaware figures who eventually found themselves when they did spectacularly overwhelmed by the vicious, might, speed and violence of the sieging turquoise figure. Noa, Amin and Reynard stayed near Settembre who eventually fell into unconsciousness while Ryoh, Ansel, Haoyu and Rue followed the violent figure into the home, they only assumed he broke into the home with this mysterious ability he held that allowed him to teleport. The violent figure slaughtered so swiftly that they were forced to split up to possibly hold a chance of keeping up with it and when it appeared slaughtering a soldier near of the countless who appeared thanks to the raconteurs and their unconscious brother as well, they shouted to get the others' attention. The heroic oath children witnessed limbs soaring and dismembered such as heads and arms with blood replaced by the raconteurs turquoise replacing the red. It lasted 20 minutes and Wilel counted near forty soldiers personally during his area in the mansion dead at the hands of this ultra-violent figure who made him begin to question many conclusions that he had been previously strongly leaning towards. Ryoh's eyes lit up with supreme excitement imagining facing this figure as he witnessed the slaughtering down his end of the Bandoni family's corridors, yet ultimately hoping that it wasn't their brother in the heroic oath. Noa saw the one-armed figure stabbed through his abdomen then the raconteurs vanished before her. When she saw it end as violently as it did, she let out quiet gasp. The rain began to pour down the southern Carolina area as Wilel walked outside and suggested that the three who he deemed more intelligent to participate in the questioning of a witness miraculously left alive but unwilling to speak. Noa gave him a distrustful look as Reynard and Amin listened. Wilel spoke to Noa with a sincere tone, the only she had ever heard such as one from him. "I'll bring Settembre in from the rain myself, I just want to have a heart to heart with him for a sec." Noa's best friend's younger brother promised. She continued the look and he could tell that she was thoroughly pondering until she decided that he was his brother as well and deserved it even if it's one sided, she threatened him before leaving and catching up with Reynard and Amin. Wilel took over and rested his older brother on his lap as he sat in the rain with him yet covered him from the rain. "I believe in possibilities and I try my best not to disregard the concept though I also strongly believe humans are more consistent with their actions. Probability. That family, the Wiley line. They love to chronicle their favorite adventures as that old man once told me and even in modern times they seem to somehow seemingly inherit the habit— I discovered and read the goon's very personal diary. I found myself in disbelief, of each story, at first but I had no clue that you were capable and so crucial to him. Maybe you have grown and you definitely deserve more credit? Maybe my initial inference holds the possibility that he participated in the killing that I see as necessary to overcome Enotocin's cult but now I have to question the probability." Wilel tattled on himself to his unconscious brother. Wilel held true to the word that he gave his brother's friend despite wanting to leave him in the rain personally. The brothers caught up with the others, the team heard him enter and Noa turned around to check that he kept his word to her, he entered carrying his brother on his shoulders. Noa acknowledged his growth within her thoughts as she gave him a thumbs. Wilel shook his head. "He's only one-hundred and thirty six pounds. I'd be as much of a sloth as him if I left him out there." Wilel reasoned as he rejected her thumbs up. Noa nodded her head slowly yet Wilel felt as though she wasn't buying what he was selling. Rue slightly scowled out of frustration. "He won't look our way, he refuses to utter a single word, he won't stop shaking and shivering out of fear. You'd think someone part of the Sheet of Iron crime organization would consider this slaughter fest absolutely child's play?" filled Wilel in on the troubling situation they were facing. Wilel's eyes widened as a metaphorical light bulb lit up above his head, he had an idea, he spread his lemon chiffon energy around the entirety of the room with a gesture from his hand from behind. "There's a hierarchy to crime families. Fortunately, except for him, this guy's boss survived too." Wilel replied as he knelt in front of the Bandino family's consigliere. Wilel's plan caught his attention, he begged to see him, anyone familiar. Wilel left the room then returned with his boss that he held tightly in his arms begging the hero for him to let him go. Wilel's illusion convinced the Bandino family's advisor to spill the answers to the questions they had without further hesitation or struggles. The Bandino family's consigliere cowered and shook as he covered his eyes when Wilel's illusion vanished from everyone's sight. "Demonically deep voice shouting something called a Proxtere enraged!" He squealed in fear then mentioned a name that Noa vaguely remembers hearing from Settembre, she was confident it was a villain that gave her friend nightmares from a past case.