157 Questioning

It was late in the afternoon, but the sun was still shining outside. However, soon it would be dinner time for most of the students. While some were outside having dinner with their friends, others chose to have a meal at the school canteen. In this very place was where Vorden was at the moment.

He had already done what he needed to do to complete his plan, after gathering some information from the other students, it had led him to the canteen. And now all he needed to do was head back to Peter.

Although Quinn said it was unlikely he would get hungry after one day of feeding, there was still the possibility that something could happen today. Which meant Vorden would have to make sure his backup plan was ready each day.

After grabbing a snack to eat himself from the canteen, he headed back up to the dorm room to check on the others. As he opened the door though he was surprised to see Layla standing in the corner of the room while having her bow pointed at Peter.

Peter himself had both of his hands up and was quite a distance away.

"Whoa, what is going on?" Vorden asked.

But before either of the two could say anything, a message was received on Vorden's watch.

"Vorden Blade you are head to Nathan's office immediately. Judging by your location, you should be able to reach us in five minutes. If you are not here, then prepare to face the consequences."

"What is this!" Vorden said." You heard the message I got to go. And you two, stop fighting and make up, we have enough problems as it is."

"No, wait!" Layla cried, but the door had already shut, and Vorden was rushing off to the office.

"I'm sorry, Peter," Layla said. "Let's just keep it like this for now. I'll stay by the door, and if anything happens, I'll leave first."

"Well, why don't you let me head over to the fridge and see if I can try to make the hunger go away," Peter asked.

Layla took a deep breath before replying.

"Fine." Using her own ability, she opened the fridge door and pulled out the piece of meat for Peter. Making sure she did everything while Peter kept his hands up. After seeing what he was cable of and what happened to Earl. She wasn't taking any chances.

When Peter was asked to eat, Layla allowed him to use his hands while she kept her arrow slightly drawn facing Peter.

'Quinn, where the hell are you?' Layla thought

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Inside the office, Quinn did as asked and sat down in the seat, opposite the lady. He was still unsure exactly why they had called him here.

"Now Quinn, I'm sure you're thinking why we called you here, Right?" Nathan said. "Well, as you may know, there was a death yesterday, and we're trying to find out who's responsible."

"Wait you're saying it wasn't a beast?" Quinn said, trying to act surprised.

"Well, it might be, who knows, all we do know is there have been quite a few cases like this before, do you remember how we called you into questioning a while ago. Well back then we didn't ask you many questions because a level one couldn't possibly be able to kill higher levels. So after asking whether you did it or not, we let you go.

"However, death seems to be following you around lately, and we need to know if its bad luck or maybe just someone with bad luck is following you around. So please if you could touch the pretty ladies hand."

Quinn did as asked, and the two touched hands, at first, there was no reaction as the woman had yet to activate her ability.

All Quinn could hope for now was that they would ask him simple questions like last time. If they just asked him was he the one responsible for Earl's death, then he could answer truthfully. It seemed like he had gotten away with this last time due to him only being a level one. They never really considered him a suspect in the first place.

But this time was different. It was the second time he was being interrogated so they must have found some type of link, linking him to the others, but the truth was he really did have no clue about what happened to Brandon. He only knew about Loop.

"Now Quinn, do you know the truth of what happened to Earl Hampton yesterday?" the lady asked.

This was it Quinn thought. They had asked a question, and in an instant, she knew if he would be lying or not. Her hands started to glow, and energy started to enter through Quinn, then a message from the system appeared.

[An ability has been detected]

[Users mental strength and charm is strong enough to block the ability]

[Would you like to block the ability?]

To his surprise, a new message had appeared compared to last time. It was an unexpected result. When the ability was used on him last time, it had completely gone through. The only difference between now and before was he had evolved into a full vampire, and obtained the Charm stat.

It seemed like the Charm stat these days was becoming handier and handier than ever. The problem now was if he was to block the ability would she be able to tell it was blocked, or would it feel like he was telling the truth?

In the end, it depended on how her ability reacted, and Quinn was unsure of that as well.

Still, he decided right now his best option was to block the ability and see how she would react. After confirming with the system he wished to block her ability, Quinn answered no, and she let go of Quinn's hands.

"He's telling the truth." She said. The reason why she believed this was because of how her ability worked. It couldn't tell if someone was telling the truth or lying, the only thing her ability was able to determine was if someone was lying. If they were lying while she held their hands, then she would feel a reaction.

If no reaction was felt, then that meant the person was lying. What she didn't know though was Quinn was able to block her ability, ultimately causing no reaction to happen whats so ever.

The integration went on, asking Quinn questions about the missing students before and eventually even lead to the bitemarks. Quinn answered the questions he could truthfully, while whatever he wanted to hide, he would use the system to block them.

"Alright, the interrogation is over Quinn," Nathan said. "It seems like you were innocent, just like we thought."

"Oh, then why did you try to question me?" Quinn asked.

"Just to be sure," Nathan replied. "This time, we have decided to be thorough since there has now been more than one case that seems to have followed a pattern. Still, you are not the culprit just like we thought."

Quinn was then asked to stand to the side of the interrogation room, next to Fay and Hayley. They stood there for a while as they stared at the door waiting for who they honestly thought was the culprit.

Then a few moments later, a knock at the door was heard.

"Come in!" Nathan shouted.

Vorden had walked through the door, and to his surprise, Quinn was there with them.

"Please, Vorden is it? if you could sit in this chair, we would like to ask you a few questions."

This was bad, Quinn thought. Although he had gotten through the integration due to his system's ability, the same couldn't be said for Vorden. If they asked him the same questions they had asked Quinn, then he, or even all of them would be caught.

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