After confirming that the Manifest skill was no longer available for him to click on it, he decided that Enzo must be resting somewhere and he wouldn't be able to contact him for a while.
"I have to figure out how to contact him later." He said to his wolf and then he looked around for the keys to the police car. His attention returned to Tony's body.
He let out a sigh. "I'm sorry Enzo, I don't have time anymore to bury him. I have to catch the Revenant before he goes rogue." He removed the keys from Tony's pocket and climbed into the police car.
He hesitated. Sigh. But he couldn't just leave him either. What if he suddenly rose up too and Enzo and Tony ended up having to fight each other? Or what if someone came accross him and Retsu needed to be better at laying low. No evidence would be best.
He walked over and scanned Tony. Still, no options appeared except the one where he ate the evidence. He shouldn't rise up, but just in case, he knelt down and took a bite.
+25hp
[Your HP is full, converting excess HP into Mana] a second bar showed up in a different color, he assumed it was for mana, whatever that was for. Wasn't he doing an awful lot of magic already without having mana? And his fire ability was just that, a skill, so it didn't use mana. Nothing he did so far used mana. He shrugged. "I'll worry about it later." His body was pulling him to finish his meal. His teeth were sharp and saliva was building in his mouth after that first bite.
[Your hunger grows] the system stated the obvious. His vision began to tunnel. It was taking all of his strength to stay conscious of what he was doing. He couldn't afford to wake up hours later after running rampant.
He backed away.
"No, I've got to stay awake when I eat. Rori told me to!" Besides, he had a lot to do in 7 hours. He waited for his body to calm down before returning for another bite. Then his tunnel vision came back. He let out an exasperated demonic shriek. He didn't have time for this. He couldn't just keep taking a break and eat slowly, he didn't like the feeling of eating a person. Deep down he couldn't get the image of Enzo worrying about Tony, and trying cpr on him out of his head. Afteralll, he used to be human too, he shook his head.
His insatiable appetite was causing him a buttload of problems. "Gaaaa!!!! I'll worry about it later!" He got up to leave. "I'll come back."
Then he left the body there and drove back to town. It was definitely going to kick him in the butt later like all of his choices today, but he couldn't bring himself to eat him.
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Rori checked into her room and lay on the bed, getting a small taste of luxury, thanks to her parent's savings fund.
She had never stayed in a hotel before. She had fallen asleep for a few hours when suddenly a loud, frantic pounding at the door forced her to open her eyes.
Bang bang bang bang bang! The fist of someone on the door.
"AAAhhhh!!!!" She groaned. "What is it now?"
The banging kept insisting and she put on her jacket before looking through the peep hole. This was the second time she was interrupted, the first time was the waitress lady coming to tell her that Retsu left her with the bill and was arrested for escaping. She planned to let him rot in jail for the night. Pun intended. So he would think about causing less trouble next time. And a bit of it was for some spite.
But somehow he was now banging on the door. Her second interruption. She unlocked the door and removed the latch, rolling her eyes, "what took you so long?" She asked, pretending that she didn't know he was in jail. Then she faked dispair, "I thought you left me! They told me to pay for the food!" She said. "I'm only a teenager! I thought I was going to have to fend for myself!"
Retsu didn't have time to talk about it. He ignored her crocodile tears, "We have a problem, and we don't have that much time."
"Oh, you probably need to borrow my powers again huh?" She asked, "you don't look so good."
"Huh?" He put his hands to his face and remembered he looked half dead right now. "No, no not right now, Rori, did you bite someone?"
"What? Me?"
"Yes, I got a notification that someone has been turned and I have six hours left to dominate him or he's going to go rogue!"
Rori looked at him like he had a second head. "What?"
"Yes! Now quit playing games, who is it?"
Rori scowled, "I've been here all afternoon."
Retsu's eyes got greener with anger and his pupils became slits. He opened his mouth to say that "well I didn't bite anyone…"but then he froze. "Oh…."
Rori folded her arms in anger. She had also gotten so angry at the accusation that she had turned someone, when the idea was ridiculous and super illegal in the society of werewolves, she was so angry that her teeth had become fangs and her ears, which had become wolf ears, were back against her head in anger.
The fur on the back of her neck was standing straight up, making her look bigger. That and her hands and feet had transformed to look like claws, which made her taller than him by nearly a foot. Her eyes narrowed as he made the clear realization. She watched the realization wash over his ugly face, "yeah I bet it was you who bit someone, huh? You're what they call a gaslighter." She growled.
She figured it was only a matter of time that he do it again, he hadn't even thought it through much before he turned her. She didn't have to be an undead to be his beta, he could have probably just gone home to have the Luna organize a beta ceremony and…made her a beta. Surely, the Luna could replace the man she grew up with…highly unlikely, but then again, maybe she'd have to explain to the Luna why he made her a beta and the Luna was likely to say that having your property destroyed didn't institute the job of beta being rewarded to a person.
Even if her parents had died. She retracted her claws. She still needed this brute to help her achieve her goals. She sighed.
"Don't worry, I'll help you find him. I bet you know who it was?"
"C'mon, we have to ask the waitress how to find him." He grabbed her hand and turned to leave, but she pulled her hand away. "Aren't you forgetting something?"
"What?"
She transformed her claws and did a circle around her face to indicate that his face was still not a human face.
"Oh." Then he gave her the creepiest boyish face, which she knew was him being embarrassed, but she could see his molars through his left cheek.
Yuck!
"Well go on then." She said, holding out her arm and bracing herself to feel him bite down.
-250hp the arm disappeared in one greedy bite.
As soon as he did it, the system filled her with adrenaline instead of pain. Energy ran through her and her arm instantly grew back before she could even register it. She blinked.
[Leveling up pain resistance, congratulations! Your pain resistance has increased to level 8.
You have now reached level 6, your HP limit has risen to 600.
Current HP 250/600]
As soon as her arm had regrown, she clenched her fist and felt the power surging through her. A smile crossed her face. The adrenaline it gave her was addictive. Was she turning into a mascochist?
Retsu smiled mockingly at her as his face transformed to look human again. His hair turning black again, his wounds closing up. He also saw her leveling up. He knew the smile she was making. She liked the power.
She returned to scowling at him. "What?" She said annoyed. She wasn't starting to enjoy the system of his! Not even a little bit. She was just in it for the future benefits.