Demon Lord's Reincarnation

It used to be simply just random underwear lying around, getting jumpscares by bumping into one of them wearing facemasks, or even sometimes, seeing a random person—no, just Tatiana at 3 AM in the fucking morning crouched down on my refrigerator like a goblin and having a late, late~ snack.

\'All those blocks of cheese missing… Always her… Always…\'

But yeah, this time was a little different and the first victim was Rin who barely got in her room and was sleeping next to her or someone else\'s vomit spread on the floor like a Pollock painting.

"Jesus fucking christ—"

"I-I\'ll open the door, she\'s gonna hate it when she wakes up…"

"Y-Yeah… I\'ll carry her—"

I was just about to carry her to the bathroom so she could clean herself up but as Kaley opened the door, Cynthia seemed to be duct taped on the toilet and probably took part in their free-use thing in their own time, but everyone else that was involved probably passed out and forgot to cut her out of the restraints so she had no choice but to fall asleep in her position.

"..."

"..."

Ignoring Cynthia for the moment, I almost jumped out of my skin when I discovered the twins were not actually disemboweled by the shower but just covered with soggy pepperoni pizzas and several servings of spaghetti and meatballs with extra sauce.

All I could do right now was simply wake the twins up by turning the shower to its coldest setting and hearing them scream before I slowly dipped Rin into the half-filled tub which luckily didn\'t claim a single victim.

Doing that also woke up Cynthia whom I eventually freed of her captivity but I almost smacked her in the head when she got pissy that I didn\'t avail of her services before cutting her loose.

However, there were still a lot of players missing but Kaley miraculously found Chloe safe and sound, sleeping on the top of the bunk bed in one of the rooms available but it didn\'t take long before I figured out Quinn had probably gotten ahold of some duct tape because I found Mimi and Nancy duct taped on the FUCKING CEILING OF ALL PLACES before I found Edith sleeping soundly in one of the closets.

I had to take care of these two first and foremost as Kaley started to bathe Rin and keep the twins from getting the food on the bathroom floor even more, but our scavenger hunt of sorts didn\'t end there because we still had the 1st floor, the 3rd floor, the roof, and the basement to look for missing people and that was contingent if everybody else got home before doing whatever the fuck they did while Kaley and I were alone.

But yeah, I found Tatiana in our kitchen with an empty tub of ice cream and Quinn on the roof wearing only a duct tape bikini with an empty bottle of alcohol while Kaley found Megan and Alexa hugging each other in the basement because they thought they locked themselves in and had nowhere else to go.

Then again, after looking all over the house, we eventually found Dr. Nichols talking with Marisha once again by the poolside and it was this weird Groundhog Day of sorts that we almost had to take a double-take on.

I should\'ve been preparing for the trip to Subic with a few groups in mind but we basically wasted a few hours taking care of everyone who definitely drank a little too much yesterday. I was confident that they wouldn\'t go that hard considering the meeting we had but Allan and Jenny\'s wedding put them in this festive mood and went ham on the celebration.

But despite all that, there were a few reliable ones:

Kaley was the first one of course, and even though Jared couldn\'t be seen in the compound, I simply tried to give him a call and he answered in the first ring and told me he just crashed at Alex\'s room. Furthermore, since I basically replaced Ibarra with Jose from our last trip, he was eager to get back in the saddle.

These three were the main members of my scouting group before we went to Batangas, aside from Tatiana and Mikhail who were both incapacitated for very different reasons, but since I successfully convinced Artem and his group off the warpath for the moment, his crew will definitely come with us.

But to my fucking shock, the moment the kids ran off to tell everyone that breakfast was ready, Tatiana was the first one to come in like she didn\'t get fucking wasted the day before:

"What?"

"N-Nothing…"

With that said, more and more of our people came from the gate to have some breakfast and it gave me a general idea of who to take with me considering the circumstances.

We wouldn\'t be going into an unexplored territory per se—since Oscar already touched down over there with a few others—but aside from obviously bringing my Raptor, Tatiana\'s HuNovelBinee, and my good \'ol business truck, I also decided to bring the Raycolt in which some of the cadets would be riding on plus some of the trainees who were suddenly interested to ride with us instead of going into their own missions.

I already asked Rin to bring out the "general" stuff we\'d use to give or trade with other people but as much as I would hate to do this and keep all of them in my domain, I decided to bring over something that Oscar wouldn\'t even think of.

It was one of Zeus\' younger siblings who already looked like a full-grown dog and the look of betrayal Zeus gave me when I put on a dog vest on "Mauser" and thought I was bringing another companion instead of him was fucking priceless.

But yeah, It was one thing to spring a puppy as a gift for the holidays but having a pet in your midst, especially at these times, was always an overlooked security requirement because of the responsibility it required.