The Messenger of Death

Chapter 175: right dosage

Al followed Rayne into the changing room. As Rayne got changed he did the same too.

['It would have been better if we could just kill him here and get it done with.'] Alex thought.

['Oh, we could. That is if you really want to challenge the punishments that Xiao En told us about.'] Al said.

['Can't you ignore me as I do to you sometimes? You know that you don't have to give a response every time I say something that I don't mean.'] Alex pointed out.

['You mean every time that you say something stupid.'] Al chuckled. He was enjoying making Alex feel stupid.

He and Rayne finished changing back to their uniforms at the same time. Rayne is a rank-7 disaster realm cultivator, hence the color of his uniform was red.

['We need to get us a blue uniform by tomorrow.'] Al reminded.

Rayne left for the door of the changing room and Al followed beside him. Al pushed him out of the way and stepped out of the changing room first. They locked gaze for a second and Al smiled at him.

"Drunk f*ck," Rayne cursed at him and went away.

The smile on Al's face was stuck. ['He'll be back here in 2 days, and so will I. I need to get substantial information on how this Bull's Coven is run and who runs it before I decide if I should kill him and his bastard friends here.'] Al informed the rest.

['And who do you think will have information like that?'] Xander questioned.

['Well, there is someone that invited virgin Alex over for dinner. Why don't I use this chance to meet with her and ask her questions about this place?'] Al suggested.

['That's a good idea.'] Lex chipped in.

['I know right?'] Al licked his lips.

['Oh, f*ck me,'] Alex sighed.

Al began making his way to the exit of the Bull's Coven. "Fret not rabbit, I won't do anything detrimental to my reputation." Al whispered.

['Your reputation is different from mine, mutt.']

['And I wonder whose fault it is.'] Al began whistling as he neared the exit. When he left the place and had gone far enough, he changed his face back to his original one before he left for the guest inn

Not long after, Alex arrived in this suite. He found his teammates messing around with food on his dining table.

"You're back," Camron announced when he saw Al.

"Yeah," Al answered.

His teammates were having steak and fighting for who was going to have the last piece. Al smirked at them and walked towards the table.

Emma was the lucky person that got the last piece of meat as she was the strongest amongst them, and she had just taken a bite from the meat when Al snatched her fork and took her meat away.

This was something that she hadn't expected. Emma hasn't known Alex for a long time, but she knew that this wasn't what he would do on a normal day.

"Hahahaha," Drake burst into laughter. He was laughing at Emma's expression.

Al took a bite off her steak and dropped it back on her plate. A bit of the sauce was on his lips.

['Can't you just act like me? Be me!!'] Alex bellowed at Al.

['Why would I want to do that? You are already tagged as the most boring one amongst us. I won't attempt to compete for that position, even if it is just an act.']

"Camron, contact your sister and set the dinner for tomorrow night." Al directed.

"Really? That's great. What made you change your mind, did something good happen this night while you were out?" Camron asked.

"I don't remember me giving you an absolute answer in the past." Al grinned

"Can I join you at that dinner?" Katherine forced a smile as she asked.

"Maybe another time, honey."

Al's use of an endearing title came as a shock to them. They all opened their eyes wide and looked like Al strangely.

['Get stung to death by bees, you dickhead.'] Alex cursed.

He shrugged his shoulders at Alex's curse and used his thumb to clean the sauce that was on the side of his lips. He then used that same thumb to touch Emma's lips and cleaned the sauce on top of her lips and left for his room.

Emma who was already in shock from the endearing title that he used on Katherine, was thrown further into confusion after he cleaned the sauce on top of her lips.

Before any of them, there, could properly process what Al had done, he had already reached his room.

Kathrine who was sitting beside Emma looked at her lips. "Let me help you clean that," She offered to help, but before her finger could touch Emma's lips, Emma licked it off.

"How could you?!" Katherine felt like she had just been wronged.

"Let's be honest, Alex is a tempting catch. Money, looks, potential, you name it. Not that I plan on crushing or falling for him, but it's nice to see that he can look at me that way. Besides the sauce is pretty good." Emma teased Katherine.

"What is going on tonight? Everyone is acting out of character, Alex was being nice and a flirt, and now Emma is not shy to say something like that?" Adrian voiced his thoughts.

"If you guys haven't noticed, Alex has bi-polar tendencies. At times like this, it good to not take his words seriously." Camron pointed out. "Speaking from experience."

"Meaning that you are not going to take his wish to have dinner with your sister seriously, right?" Katherine tried to act cute in front of Camron, giving him her best puppy eyes.

"That part I took seriously," Camron responded.

"Ewww, she looks like she's constipated." Drake stared into the wine that was in his front as he thought out loud. He froze when he realized his mistake.

When he looked at Katherine, she was already glaring at him. "I was talking about the wine." He said in his defense

In Alex's room, Al could hear the commotion that Drake and Katherine were causing.

['What next?'] Lex asked.

['For me and Al to switch back.'] Alex answered.

['One more thing before that, I'll need to know how potent and corrosive this poison that Nana gave to us, is. I need to know the amount that I'm going to use on the targets and how much time I will have to evacuate the scene without raising any suspicions.'] Al disclosed what was in his mind.

['Why do you keep saying I?' Don't tell me that you want to kill the 4 of them on the same day by yourself?'] Alex thought.

['That is exactly what I want to do. This task is perfect for me, the 3 of you can take turns in killing that Tuna guy.'] Al revealed.

['It's Duna not Tuna. Wouldn't be that risky?'] Alex asked.

['See, I don't even care to remember his name.'] Al walked to the table that was in his room, then pulled the chair there to sit down. Al brought out the little chest that the poison and its antidote were stored in.

['Yeah it is risky, but that's why I want to know how potent the poison is. If I can find out the right amount of dose to use and how long it will take before it takes effect, then killing the 4 of them on the same day will not be an issue.'] Al finished.

['And how exactly do you plan on doing that? Who do you want to test the poison on?'] Alex inquired.

Al used the piece of torn cloth that he tore off Nana's bed sheet, to wrap one of the poisonous pills that he picked up.

-Crrgghh!

He wrapped the pill and crushed it with his hands. Al poured the poison on to the table, gently. The pill that he crushed was now in powder form.

"How about Adrian? Or Emma? I mean, we did help them and they pledge their loyalty to us. Shouldn't we test that so-called loyalty of theirs?" Al muttered.

['You must be kidding,'] Alex exclaimed.

"If you think so then so be it."

['We are not using my teammates as test subjects.'] Alex rejected his suggestion.

"Why not, rabbit? Don't tell me that you've gone soft? There's nothing to be afraid of, we have the antidote. I will make sure to give it to them." Al picked the antidote and crushed it the same way that he did the poison.

['No! Were are not using them. This is not about me being soft. If we mistakenly kill the two of them then we have already failed the mission.'] Alex argued.

Al poured the powdered form of the antidote on another side of the table.

"Indeed. Let me just warn you, do not get attached to them. This part of the universe is even more brutal than the part that we came from, the story of Hassan and Hussein should be an example to you.

Getting attached will get you killed, no doubt about that."

['Alex, Al is not wrong. Don't get attached to them, remember, we are just passing by. Once we are strong enough, we will be leaving here.'] Xander concurred with Al's statement.

['I stand with them on this.'] Lex joined in.

At this moment, Alex understood why it was very hard for people to get close to him back on Mars. Apart from Sheila and himself, his alternate personalities rejected every other person that made an attempt to befriend him. And back on Mars, they could affect most of his decisions.

He realized that they were only friendly to his teammates because of him.

['Still, don't use them as test subjects.'] Alex stood his grounds.

Al sighed. "I thought so. Well, there is plan B."

['And who is plan B?'] Alex questioned.

Al used his index finger to scoop up a little of the poison and brought closer to his eyes, he then looked at the time interface on the skin crawler. What Al did next was quite unexpected, he licked the poison off his finger.

"Who else, if not me?" He replied Alex