Chapter 292.2
Thas took a cracker from the plate, but he did not eat it. He just held it and stared at it, his mind buzzing. Unlike everyone else in the mansion, it wasn’t Rahan that Thas worried about. Rahan’s cold was fake, he had probably planned everything with the doctor and they just spent the doctor’s visits chatting.
The original plan had changed. They were supposed to pretend that Rahan’s illness was something serious and Thas was going to meet the owner of Scan while people were busy taking care of him. Meanwhile, Mitchell was going to have an appointment with Anika Jin on the same day they were planning on meeting.
But when they were finally supposed to execute the plan, Sang-je’s delivery man came by. Sang-je occasionally sent someone with a list of ingredients needed for incantation and Alber received those ingredients to activate or maintain an incantation.
The reason Sang-je was ignoring the rise of the Muen family was so that he could use them as Alber’s weakness and have a way to activate the incantation himself. If the Muen family didn’t exist, Sang-je would have to search for the ingredients on his own.
The last time they sent ingredients wasn’t even a year ago when, usually, they lasted five years. This meant that Alber must have been activating a new incantation.
Alber’s incantation was complicated, so it was difficult to find the ingredients and, when they did have them, they were expensive. Alber didn’t try to decrease the time between activating the incantation in case it ended up being too much for the next generation to handle.
Sang-je’s deliveryman visiting signaled Albert starting the plans he had told Hitasya about. For Albert to contact Anika Jin through a dream, she needed the blood of Jin. Rahan understood it as sending her Jin’s blood and pretending that it was just an ingredient for incantation.
The problem was that Sang-je’s attention was always on them when they were seeking out ingredients. He was suspicious that they might send some random items, so he checked everything. He even kept track of who the Muen family were in contact with at all times to ensure the purity of his ingredients.
If Thas met the owner of Scan on the same day that Anika Jin was there, there was no way Sang-je wouldn’t know. Sang-je would find it strange. He wouldn’t overlook even the smallest possibility of danger.