Reincarnated as an Energy with a System - Chapter 1840: Seven Shadows

Chapter 1840: Seven Shadows

The way in which Keira spoke was already making Ning feel a bit uncomfortable, so her words could only be the cherry on top.

Larissa pulled on Keira’s arm quickly, lowering it, but Keira’s arm snapped back into place as if frozen, pointing directly at Ning.

“Keira, what are you saying?” Larissa asked. “Why would they want to kill him?”

“Truth. Fate. Future,” the woman said. “They have one. They have me.”

“They have you?” Larissa asked.

“No, just like me. He sees things. The stars speak to him. Stupid stars. They talk to him more than they talk to me. Fine, I’ll stick to my birds.”

Ning fell into thought. “So this vampire woman is here to kill me because she thinks I’ll kill her.”

“The new thing will kill them. They know. They’re scared,” Keira said.

“So the vampire has a fortune teller of her own?” Larissa asked. “This may complicate things. And you said they? How many are there?”

“Seven. Seven shadows. Seven hidden from light. But the star shines on them. Many stars. Together. They glow so brightly,” Keira said.

“Many stars together?” Ning asked. “Would that be Tritus?”

Larissa’s head snapped toward Ning in a look of stunned surprise. “Tritus? How does he come into this?”

“Stars,” Ning said, pointing toward the sky. “The Tritus constellation.”

Larissa frowned. “How does that connect to him?”

“I just had a thought,” Ning explained. “Beyond that, I can’t tell. Can you tell us more about the seven?”

“Too far away,” Keira said. “My birds don’t fly that far.”

At this point, Ning wasn’t sure if the woman actually did use birds for her clairvoyance or not, or if she was using them just as a metaphor.

“What about the vampire? She should be close. Can you give us anything else about her?”

Keira thought for a bit and pointed at Ning again. “Birds want seeds. Rats want cheese. What does a vampire want?”

“Blood?” Larissa asked.

“No, not this one,” Ning said. “Me. Since she would be wanting me dead, I need to be the bait.”

Keira grinned with a beautiful smile. “So smart,” she said. “For someone who has nothing in there.”

“Keira, that’s rude,” Larissa said.

“Really? I’m sorry,” Keira said with a look of genuine sadness. “I didn’t mean to.”

“That’s fine,” Ning said, turning toward Larissa. “Do we need anything else?”

Larissa shrugged. “That’s all. We should be leaving now.”

Ning nodded and was surprised to see Larissa walking away immediately. “Hey!” he called out. “What about the pay?”

“What pay?”

“For her work,” Ning said. “You have to pay her, right?”

“No, Keira does this sort of work for free. She earns plenty from her customers anyway,” Larissa said.

“Come on. You have to pay her something,” Ning said, bringing out his wallet. There were a couple of 20s in there, which he brought out and handed to Keira. “I don’t know what a good rate is, and I’m kinda low on money, so please make do with this.”

Keira beamed with a wide smile and grabbed the money. As she did, she also clutched onto Ning’s hand that held the money, her two palms covering his. Her head tilted as if in confusion.

“Why don’t you have a soul?” she asked in a whisper.

Ning was taken aback for a moment, but then he smiled slightly and whispered back, “Because I’m an alien.”

Keira’s expression was unreadable, and he let her stay with her thoughts. Whether she believed him or not would be her own decision to make.

“What did she say?” Larissa asked, missing the final bit of their conversation.

“That I have good fortunes ahead of me,” Ning said. “She knew about the money I was going to make today.”

Larissa didn’t question it. They left Keira’s shop, heading toward the station. Along the way, they both silently contemplated what they had been told.

Ning wondered if Tritus perhaps knew who he was and why he was there, and if he should just end the farce right away and go capture him.

And Larissa wondered how she was going to use Ning to lure out a vampire. At the very least, she surely couldn’t do that while the sun was still up.

“Why did she call you ’the new thing’?” Larissa asked.

Ning thought for a moment, immediately coming to the understanding that Keira knew he was new to this world. But that was certainly not something he would explain so openly.

“I believe she knew my powers were new. Newly awakened, you see,” Ning said. “I must have become a threat to the seven after I got my new powers. That’s what she meant.”

Larissa accepted it easily, as there was no other explanation that would make sense to her.

“Hmm. If they have people with powers to see beyond space and time, how come they only came now to stop you? What were they doing all this time?”

Ning knew the answer to this one without even having to ask the System. Abilities that manipulated time required a tremendous amount of energy, the cost of which was usually allocated within the planet they were in.

So, until Ning had actually arrived at the planet, not a single one who could see into the future had any way of foretelling his arrival.

Of course, that was not what he said to Larissa.

“My awakened powers must have caught them off guard,” Ning said. “Maybe there was a very small chance of me being awakened at this stage, and they couldn’t take that into account.”

There wasn’t much Larissa could do in that moment except nod along. She thought for a bit longer and asked, “How do we use you as bait?”

“I don’t know,” Ning said. “I guess the question is, how was she planning on finding me? I’m a nameless face in a sea of millions of people.”

Larissa’s eyes narrowed. “Unless… you’re not nameless.”

Ning narrowed his eyes. “Do you think the vampire knows who I am?”