Chapter 357: Sinister Plans
Raul took in a deep breath as he did his best to compose himself. He was on his way to meet with the Hades Coven again, and he had to make sure that he didn’t look as suspicious as possible. While he has maintained contact with them for a while now, he still had nowhere near enough evidence to try and arrest them all. For one, he still had no idea who they all were underneath their masks, and second, he couldn’t exactly prepare a raid when their meeting place always changed every time they actually met.
"This is such a pain..."
He shook his head as he stared at the mask he currently held in his hands. He couldn’t recall when he started wearing one of these hideous animal masks, but he did recall it being important enough that he accepted it after he was offered one by Fox.
"I can’t believe I’m still willingly wearing this thing," Raul sighed to himself as he put on the mask. "Couldn’t Fox pick a better mask that had actual holes in them?"
Speaking of Fox, the man still remained a mystery to him despite everything he tried to uncover his identity. From simply casual conversations to trying to pick up the man’s habits, nothing seemed to work as the man just remained too secretive for him to crack. It also didn’t help that whenever he tried to get close to him, Fox simply brushed him aside and deftly swept away any and all questions he tried to ask him. It was as if he was talking to a brick wall sometimes, and he couldn’t tell which was worse: that, or just punching the man and pulling off his mask just to get it over with.
Letting out another sigh, Raul stared up at the door to yet another meeting place that the coven decided on. This time, it was located in some remote barn well outside the capital, and it took him almost his entire morning just to make sure he got the right place. It almost made him regret taking such a roundabout method of uncovering this secret conspiracy group, but he supposed that he was in too deep now to give up. Besides, he was pretty sure he was finally being accepted into the coven’s inner circle based on how Fox and some of the more prominent members were talking to him more often. Surely, if he just kept at it, he’d finally have concrete evidence to arrest them all in the name of the crown.
Raul nodded to himself before he finally stepped inside the barn. With his mask partly obscuring his vision, he almost thought he was in the wrong place again until he saw a small hatch by the corner of the building. Kneeling down, he unlocked it, revealing a set of stairs leading to what was probably a basement of some kind.
Seeing where to go, he descended the rickety stairs that would lead him to the Hades Coven’s newest meeting place. He didn’t know what to expect, but he at least knew that he was going to try something in today’s meeting just for the heck of it.
Yes, he was going to outright demand to see Fox’s face again.