Mixed Blessing System

After taking the previous mission, Lothur left the academy building and went to where Suse had last been seen.

After formally accepting the mission posted by her worried husband, he received some information from the academy.

In the document he received, there were Suse's usual routines and habits, in short, a simplified history of who she was, something to facilitate the start of investigations.

Such a thing had been collected with her husband when he posted the mission at the academy and later expanded upon by students from Sector-1.

Lothur was not the first to pick up this mission, so there was already some information about Suse that went beyond her husband's account.

Among this information was the location where she had last been seen, the address of some of the missing woman's acquaintances, and places she frequented.

It was nothing detailed, just the basics that could direct the start of investigations by other students.

With this, Lothur had part of his work made more accessible by his colleagues, and soon he was already in a more distant part of the center of Peters City, in a street where there were several types of shops.

There were common markets there, with food of various kinds on sale, but also tool stores, bars, restaurants, etc. It was the typical shopping street that could easily be found in any city the size of the one where Lothur lived.

So, Lothur entered one of the markets in that area, next to a night bar that seemed to be closed at the moment.

Upon arriving there, he went up to one of the employees to try to find someone he could talk to about the missing woman.

"Friend, I am seeking information about a person who was supposedly last seen in this place. Can you help me?" He asked a middle-aged man who was stacking oranges.

"A missing woman?" The man asked, curious to know who it was about.

"Hmm, I have her portrait with me. Would you mind looking at it?"

The man took his attention away from his work and picked up the yellowish sheet of paper in Lothur's hands. "This person..."

'This again? That must be the third individual who has come here to ask about this woman...' He felt strange seeing that since other people had spoken about Suse to him or another of his colleagues in the past two months.

However, each time they had told them something about this woman that should have at least kept this place away from such investigation. But still, these people kept coming...

'Maybe they are not from the same organization. It's understandable.'

"Sigh..."

He sighed and said. "Young man, you are not the first to come here seeking information from this woman. She was in our establishment on the day of her disappearance, but as my colleagues told the others investigating this, this was not the last place she had been."

"Oh?" Lothur found this surprising since there was no hint of this in the information left by his predecessors. 'I wonder why they didn't leave that information behind?'

But soon, he heard from that man. "After passing our grocery store that day, this woman entered the bar next door."

"Are you sure? My colleagues who came here before didn't leave me this information..."

"Well, I don't know why your colleagues did that, but I am sure. That day, two other colleagues and I were fixing part of the broken roof of the grocery store when we saw her." He said sincerely.

"I remember it well because one of my colleagues commented on her that day, just when she came into this bar. He, the other colleague, and I found it strange that a woman who looked like a puritanical housewife would enter such a place..."

He approached Lothur and said in a whispering tone. "Others may not know, but that bar next door does not provide only common services."

"What?" Lothur almost choked on hearing this information, starting to create theories about this whole matter.

"There is a special kind of service there if you know what I mean..." He laughed.

'That's not a good sign...' Lothur understood what that man was talking about and asked. "I see... But do you have any other information? Have you seen her after that occasion?"

The man shook his head in denial. "No, that day, after we finished our work, we turned our attention to something inside the grocery store. So, I can't tell you where she went afterward."

"Well, thanks for the information..." Lothur was about to say goodbye but suddenly remembered to ask something. "By the way, I saw that such a place is closed. When does it open? Maybe I can get something if I stop by there later."

The man smiled and said. "This place has two entrances. This first one leads to the common area, where you can access the rest of the special services there, but also just use the standard bar service if you want."

"It is only open at night."

"The other entrance gives you access only to the special service of this place and is in the back street, in a building that looks like a tenement. It's open 24 hours a day."

"So that's it. Well, thanks for the information. I'll see what I can do..."

"Good luck."

...

After walking for a few minutes, Lothur reached the back street, promptly making his way toward the tenement entrance.

Upon arriving there, he had no difficulty entering the building, only having been watched intently by a few nearby men.

He followed the corridors until he reached what looked like a large hall.

There, men were drinking and talking in loud voices around several tables, and women performed at different points in this area.

After seeing those practically naked women, Lothur's eyes sharpened, with him already starting to feel a lot for the poor worried husband. 'Looks like she abandoned him... But was that intentional or not?'

A sensuously dressed woman approached Lothur, smiling at such a handsome young man appearing in this place that generally only had ordinary men.

"Cutie, is this your first time here?" She approached him intimately, quickly directing him to one of the empty tables.

"Yes, this is my first time here..." He said as he smelled her intense perfume containing some stimulant drug.

Unfortunately for this woman, someone with Lothur's resistance to poisons could not be persuaded by something made primarily for mortals. Thus, he kept all his lucidity as he sat there.

"Hehe, how about you let this older sister take care of you? You're so handsome. I'm thinking of not charging you for the first hour... What do you think?" She sat on Lothur's lap and began rubbing herself against him.

"It's a tempting proposition, but today I'm searching for a person... Who knows, maybe if you help me sort this out quickly, we can get on with your plans." He did not refuse, speaking this in a flirtatious tone.

"Oh? You want more than one, cutie?" She laughed as she looked back, feeling that he was not only handsome but also wild.

"Maybe..."

"Anyway, who do you want, cutie? If she's free, we'll find a room right away."

"Well, I have her name, but I don't know if she is part of the girls in this place. I just know that she used to come here in the past." He lied as he still did not know if Suse had done such a thing more than once, nor if she had become one of these women.

But Lothur thought it would be easier to find information about Suse if he did not look like an investigator but rather like a potential client. After all, if his suspicion were confirmed, perhaps the women of this place would try to defend one of their own from an investigator.

"Her name is Suse and..." He then described every detail of this missing woman's appearance.

"Suse, huh? There isn't anyone by that name among us. But there is a new woman who looks like the description of the one you just talked about." She continued to fidget on Lothur's lap as she said this.

"Oh? Is she free? Can you tell me a little about her? A friend of mine said something about her, but I don't know... Maybe he made the story a little bigger." His eyes sharpened.

"Haha, your concern is normal. But, unfortunately, not everyone is like this older sister here..." She licked her lips as she made her way toward Lothur's neck and then provocatively kissed his ear.

She then said in his ear. "She's not here today. That Suse is only here twice a week. So, if you want to see her, come at the same time tomorrow."

"As for what I can say about her, well, I don't know much since, as I said, she's a new woman. But she seems to be an uncontrollable slut." She laughed, but her tone had a trace of envy. "She's one of our leader's favorites, so she rarely gets with the rest of us."

'Interesting...'