My Soul card is a Reaper

Conference room, 73rd floor;

As the members of the team trident, including Azzy, sat down together at the table, Captain Rudra started briefing their mission on a whiteboard.

"Guys, let's gather what we have so far… Mr. Richard…" He pointed the marker at a middle-aged fellow who dressed like a fisherman.

The rank-5 Arcana Master spoke as he took out a traditional notebook children use in their schools, "At around half past six in the evening, Mavis had gone out of the house in his own vehicle. A team of 6 followed him as security.

At around seven, he entered the Avenue mall, where he met a group of five. Three of them were his friends and the other two were acquaintances of those friends.

At around quarter to nine, all of them were done with the shopping. They directly went to the gaming zone to play bowling.

Mavis was with everyone until half-past nine and left the gaming zone. According to the statements from his friends, he appeared to have dropped his car keys somewhere.

But, strangely, according to the security guards, he was found on the fourth floor instead and was seen going toward the club when he didn't visit earlier.

His security guards waited outside until two at midnight before they marched inside only to find that Mavis is missing."

Captain Rudra wrote the timings on the whiteboard as he was listening to his subordinate. Once Richard was done, the three-eyed captain pointed at the beauty, who was dressed too fancy for her profession and busy chatting with someone, "Risa, your turn…"

Continuing to chat in the messenger app with an online friend, the lady spoke nonchalantly, "according to my investigation, Mavis was completely a womanizer, a drug addict, and bullied several bystanders just because it is fun. Since there wasn't any call of ransom during the past three days, clearly, this is an act of revenge in my opinion."

Captain Rudra didn't give any feedback on her report either and just nodded before pointing at the lady, who was wearing black robes and a mask. "Lenore, how is it on your end?"

She has been hiding her face with a mask even when she was wearing swimwear and Azzy had yet to see her face.

However, from the Reaper, he managed to figure out that this masked girl is only in her early 20s but still was in the Upper Elite realm (rank-6). Not only that, it appeared that her aura levels are also far higher than others, although can't be compared to someone like Azzy.

Of these temporary teammates who actually belonged to the Dragon Corps and were only teaming up with Rudra in a joint investigation in this mission, he was quite curious about this girl. And her reply to the captain's question only increased his curiosity further.

Looking straight at her captain, the girl coldly reported the status of her mission, "Suspect 1: mildly injured.

Suspect 2: received heavy cuts all over his body and was resting in the hospital.

Suspect 3: Coincidentally attempted to sexually assault a woman on the street and lost his hand as a result.

Suspect 4: Still missing.

Suspect 5: innocent.

And suspect 6: had his fingers cut off and recovered a number of times during an interrogation. It might have left quite an impact on his mental state but then again, he is a con artist who is out on bail anyways. Not an undeserving convict to be punished. So, big deal."

Captain Rudra furrowed his brows as he looked at her disapprovingly and said, "We don't do judgments, Lieutenant Lenore. And call them by their names. How the heck do we know who you are talking about?"

"Exactly, we follow the orders and I fulfilled the orders given to me, Captain Rudra. As for the names, all of them are nothing more than person-A and person-B," countered the mysterious girl right away, making Rudra speechless for a second as he knew that he was the one who ordered her to use any means to fish out the truth.

Knowing how troublesome she was, clearing his throat, Rudra then ignored her and went on pointing at his next subordinate, "Vayner, did you do a background check on those friends?"

The seemingly ordinary-looking middle-aged fellow replied, "Their backgrounds were clean. However, there was one thing that is not right.

The young man named Daniel Wenger (one of the five companions of the victim) has been friends with Nia (Mavis' friend) for only a couple of days. It appeared that they have met coincidentally at a café and he approached her. Nia also mentioned that he was also the one who requested her whether he could tag along to the mall."

"Hmm… do you think that he approached her on purpose?" asked Rudra, feeling that he might be an accomplice in crime.

As Vayner firmly nodded, Rudra then went to the next person on the team, "Mr. Edwin, how it went with the local police?"

The eldest guy in the team let out a deep sigh as he shook his head, "they didn't have additional information that we weren't aware of."

"What about you then?" Rudra then asked the young man with nerdy looks, despite the fact that he has perfect eyesight. "Zak, give me good news…"

Unfortunately for Rudra, the team's computer genius didn't have any piece of good news. "No signs of the victim. I bet they have used a jail card to transport him."

"Well, I guess I can only put my hopes on that missing suspect," mumbled Rudra in a bit of depression before taking a deep breath to calm down his emotions and looking at the last remaining individual on the team, "Azrael, what's your take on this? You heard of the story and how we progressed so far. Did you find out anything that we missed by any chance?"

"What's there to miss, Cap? We have covered everything that we ought to have," opinioned Vayner in a bit of a confident tone.

Azzy then opened his mouth, giving his insight on the mission, "The heir to a multi-billion dollar company had disappeared, there was no ransom call or demands from the kidnappers, and there was no news of his dead body either.

Strangely, even the public has no idea about this abduction as the news didn't appear anywhere in any channel or article despite the fact that the case is registered with the local police.

It only means that your granduncle, the chairman wanted to keep it under wraps. But why so much secrecy? After all, the company is privately owned by your family. So, there was no panic about stock value dropping or worry about investors.

Maybe, the chairman doesn't want to alert the kidnappers and quietly proceed with the investigation, or maybe, he just wants no fuss on this matter. Whatever the case, this thought made me search for past articles about the company on the way. 𝑓re𝘦𝔀𝗲𝘣𝘯𝘰νℯ𝒍.c𝗼ｍ

What I found is that 66% of the company's share was actually owned by Mavis' grandfather and the remaining was owned by the current chairman. Obviously, the boy will inherit the company once he turns 18 and he was abducted only 6 months away from his birthday. Strange isn't it?"

For a couple of seconds, the conference room went quiet and the other team members turned their heads to look at Rudra, whose facial expression turned dark, "Azrael, are you suspecting my grandfather?"