Aether Harem

CHAPTER 7

Aether grunts as he felt a sharp pain in his head.

"Where am I now?" he pondered. The room was dark with the only light source being moonlight seeping in through the small window.

"They didn't tie me up this time... are they that confident in their security" Aether chuckled but that chuckle turned into a contorted facial expression when he suddenly smelt something...

Something rotten, Aether winced at the new smell that made its way through his nose. He instinctively looked around and was sick to the bone at what he saw.

"B-blood and is that a- oh my" he gasped placing a hand on his mouth with pure shock. The faint moonlight allowed aether to identify the source of the smell.

A gruesome sight behold in front of the stunned boy. A human body was massacred and dumped into the room he was kept in.

Aether understood his situation. There were two possibilities:

They killed that man and now they were going to kill him for incurring the wrath of The MoraxThey wanted to frame him for the murder of the man that was butchered

Aether quickly ruled out the first option, there was just simply no way for someone like the Morax to get rid of him so easily, after all that old man showed such keen interest in Aether. Aether put trust in his two years of studying criminal psychology online and decided to go with his second theory.

'This simply wont do' Aether smirked.

Despite the boy's innocent appearance, he was smart. Perhaps it was due to the fact he and his twin sister liked to watch true crime and horror films that he adapted so quickly to this situation.

He deduced that the only way to escape this situation was to be the victim himself. With that he gathered a rope that was conveniently place in the room and grabbed a piece of cloth to gag himself.

'This is not enough, I need to be more convincing'

He laid his eyes on a table with a particularly sharp edge and walked closer.

BANG he smashed his head on the table, letting the blood drip down from his forehead. He winced at the pain he inflicted upon him self, 'come on Aether it is a necessary sacrifice, you've gone through worse' Aether encouraged himself while he quickly used the rope to bind his legs and hands. He laid by the mutilated corpse, ignoring the smell, and waited for his plans to commence.

Sirens soon filled the whole building. The law enforcements personnel aggressively banging on the door in which aether was in, determined to deliver justice.

The door opened abruptly and the lights opened. The detectives looked around and saw the small pitiful doctor laying on the floor all tied up. Aether let out muffled noises to attract attention to himself.

The cops approached him and freed the boy, removing the gag and the ropes.

"Hey its alright now, you're safe" The cop assured aether who was now trembling.

One of the detective called the medic to examine aether and escort him out of the room.

"Need medical attention, victim has experienced slight head trauma" The medic shouted

A stretcher shortly came in after, the medics hoisted aether on it. He was then taken to the ambulance to get first aid.

A man with black hair and green highlights wearing hospital scrubs approached Aether, while he sat in the ambulance.

"Hello Dr. Aether" he spoke with a hint of urgency and annoyance in his voice.

"Dr. Tighnari? is that you?" Aether was surprised at the the sudden reunion.

"So you left the hospital for this to happen? you really are a big lummox" Tighnari sighed, annoyed that Aether left the hospital, his co-workers, and... him.

Aether laughed, "You really haven't changed Tighnari, still throwing the word lummox at me every time you get the chance" Tighnari blushed at Aethers bright smile.

"You idiot, I was worried" Tighnari pouted at the smaller males carefreeness. Tighnari had fallen in love with Aethers beauty and bright personality when they worked together as colleagues as the hospital.

Aether just smiled "I'm sorry for leaving you, I-i just needed to do something that was pending"

"Is it about your sister" Tighnari questioned. Aether was about to speak again when a detective approached them.

"Hello, My name is Cyno and I'm a detective" he pulled out his badge to show support his claim "I would like to ask you some questions about todays events, so if you would excuse us doctor" Cyno looked at Tighnari who just nodded and left the two of them alone.

"Do you have any recollection on maybe how you got in that situation?" The detective asked, he was very serious in his question, it almost felt like an interrogation.

"Umm I remember running away and I was almost about to escape but then someone put a rag over my mouth and then I was there" Cyno just hummed and jot down some quick notes.

"Thank you, you are doing great. Do you recall anyone else in the room in with you were held captive in?"

A few minutes passed while the detective questioned Aether.

"Oh and one last question"

"Go ahead" aether smiled

"Are you aware of the death of Mr. Zhongli Quan"