As Adonai is walking down the hall he takes the medication prescribed to him by Ryker due to the arm transfer. He dry swallows the pills and causes the Pink ranger to grimace at the act.
”Seriously? No water? What is wrong with you?”
"Huh? What’s wrong with that? I obviously don’t have a cup of water on hand.”
”Ehhh, I gotta agree with Pink on this one, your Majesty. That is weird.”
Adonai stops and looks at the Rangers collectively.
”So none of you do it? Not even Blue?!”
They all shake their heads which leaves Adonai rather distraught at the thought that he might be the weird one.
"I’ve done it this way for decades!! Someone would have told me its weird by now!!”
”Just because you do something for decades doesn’t mean you’ve been doing it right… Plus maybe no one has ever bothered to speak up to you about it before.”
”I’m not going to stand by and just act like you just didn’t do that.”
Adonai is cut off as his cross alerts him to a communications message. The message relayed to him changes his mood instantly. The Rangers feel the shift immediately and straighten themselves up as if awaiting orders. Adonai is told that a Quincy was found dead in a Naruki alleyway. He looks at the Rangers and nudges his head to quietly tell them to continue following him.
"What other information can you glean from the site, oh and connect the Rangers to this call as well.”
”Yes, your Majesty, they are now connected. The Soldat on site were able to see minimal effort of combat and resistance as if utterly taken by surprise. No Reiatsu in the area and black globules rising from the ground, something we have never observed before.”
The woman was going to continue speaking only to be cut off by Adonai’s next question.
"Any surveillance we can pull from the area? Our surveillance specifically, no human cameras.”
”That information may take a bit of time to collect, the Soldat that did arrive scanned the area so we’ll at least have that when it is ready. But there is-”
"Was it a civilian class Quincy that was killed?”
”No it was a Soldat which is why we assume they were taken by surprise. But your Majesty there is-”
"So someone was stealthy enough and quick enough to take out a Soldat without causing much of a fuss and we only caught it when they died? And no Reiatsu in the area, not even from the Soldat themselves? This isn’t making any-”
”Your Majesty!! A moment to speak!”
There is silence over the line, the Quincy on the other end feeling as if they stepped out of line especially given the current conversation.
"Well? You requested a moment to speak. Speak.”
”Ah! Sorry, I just- I didn’t mean to yell and- Yeah okay, what I’ve been trying to say is that there was something written on the wall in the blood of the Soldat. It reads ‘THEY'RE LYING TO YOU.’ We don’t know who could have written that. If a Shinigami did it then who could they be referring to?”
The Rangers look to one another then back down the hall they came from where Valiosa and Cordelia still are. Adonai stopped walking as well and glanced in that direction as well, narrowing his eyes.
”Contact me when new information is ready along with those scans. Until then, have all combat class Quincy in the living world at the ready.”
The call ends and all stationed Quincy in the World of the Living are alerted to what had happened and are told to keep their wits about them.
”No one else outside of the Quincy should know about Cordelia and Valiosa. So they couldn’t be pointing fingers at them.”
”Another batch of rogue Shinigami? But then again they would only have painted a target on themselves by killing that Soldat.”
”A distraction more than likely, some arbitrary sentence used to turn our attention away from something else. I’m more interested in the black globules that were mentioned. We won't know more until the report comes in. What do you think, your Majesty?”
Adonai is quiet, opening and closing his hand. He frowns looking confused about something as he looks over to the Rangers.
”Whenever a Quincy dies, their souls return to me. Furthermore, the body was still intact meaning Ryker’s contingency did not trigger as well. Whatever killed that Soldat did it in a way that circumvented both Ryker’s plans and the very nature of Quincy death itself. We do not mention this to the Shinigami, whatever just happened may happen again and whatever it is has a power to bypass my own.”
The Rangers did not like hearing that, in truth none of the Quincy would have enjoyed hearing the last part of that sentence. For there to be something out there that could circumvent itself around Adoani’s power is a scary thought. Once more information is revealed the Quincy will know how to move forward, until then they are shackled by this mystery.
