Zosia: Quick Transmigration System
Chapter 111 - 109- Lord of Strings.

Zosia laid on her bed. Her eyes stared blankly at the ceiling. Her eyes flashed with various memories.

"Can my Spiritual consciousness act like InfoLink?" She asked herself inwardly, feeling that everything was suspicious.

She was also starting to feel paranoid. From the memories, despite how voluminous it was, she was only able to gleam a few things. Like how they looked, how nice and peaceful their interactions had been, and how they had died, though they had died in inexplicably ways.

From one of the memories, she watched as one of them was controlled like strings attached to a stiff body to kill his friends and even his lover.

The cycle had been like that until recently. The most current memory was of one of the victims dying in his sleep.

She also noticed that Sister Marionette looked much younger.

Thinking of how Sister Marionette looked like currently and how she looked like in the last memory, the difference was huge. It's like comparing a lady in her thirties to a woman in her sixties to seventies.

Zosia stood up from the bed and walked towards the box that contained the figurines. She remembered the letter they had seen that night, she wondered if it was still inside.

Opening the box, she glanced at the figurines. A thought popped up in her mind, why were there figurines of their victims?

As an assassin, she knew some liked to keep souvenirs of their grand feats or their murder. She still didn't think it was worth the time of calming down to carve such elaborate pieces and paint them.

She brought them out, one by one and from the memories, she recognized them but at the same time, she felt that something was off.

Zosia was about to place the figurines back into the box when she noticed a writing on the box. "I didn't see this yesterday." She muttered, her eyes flashing with a cautious glint.

The writing read; "The Lord of Strings, We hail Thee."

She didn't read it out aloud, as she doesn't know the consequence of what would happen if she read it aloud.

She was neither ready for a new defect nor ready to have a match with a god or deity.

Thinking about what the letter at the back of the box had said, warning them about the Eternal Lord of Strings.

"Seems like this diety is a Lord of puppets." She muttered to herself, closing back the box and placing it back at the top of the cup board.

Opening the cupboard that they hadn't searched yesterday, she suddenly heard a Knock, causing her to pause in what she was doing.

Zosia gently closed the cupboard and walked to the door. Opening the door, it happened to be Lucian standing outside the door. She shifted to allow him come in and he entered the room.

Closing the door, she turned to Lucian. She didn't know if to tell him her findings, because among all of them, he was and is the strongest.

She didn't think she could do much. Remembering the intense smell of death she had perceived when she entered the hallway and the strong premonition, that made her not dare to continue going forward.

"Here." Lucian said as he held out some snacks.

Zosia glanced at the snacks, she wasn't really feeling hungry. With what was happening and with how tense she was becoming, she didn't think her stomach could accept any meal, but still, she knew she had to put something into her stomach.

"Thank you!"

Was Zosia afraid? Yes, she was getting scared but since there is a big shot to carry her along, the fear in her reduced.

Someone, might say, as an assassin why was she afraid, but don't forget, this is a supernatural world with a cut off section of the world that is set to reset every seven days. It means that once they fail, they become integrated into this world.

Even if she manages to escape, where could she escape to?

Lucian sat down, his glance at Zosia a little sharp.

Sensing Lucian's gaze, she couldn't help but roll her eyes Inwardly. She wondered what Tanya saw and thought that Lucian likes her.

"I asked you not to use your spiritual consciousness on them, now you got what you asked for."

Zosia flinched slightly at Lucian's words. He was right, of course, but the way he said it made her feel like she was being scolded.

She had acted impulsively, letting her curiosity get the better of her, and now she was paying the price.

"I didn't mean to," she murmured, avoiding his gaze. "I just… I needed to know."

Lucian sighed, leaning at the headboard of the bed. He hates it when people can't follow a simple Instruction. He wasn't stupid when he asked her not to do it.

"Zosia, you need to understand that this place isn't like the outside world. Everything here is designed to mess with your mind. The more you try to dig into the past, the more it latches onto you." He said, his tone was a little cold. In fact, it has always been cold but this time around it was directed at someone, who happens to be Zosia.

The door to the room was swung open by Tanya and behind her were the guys. Tanya gaze moved between Zosia and Lucian, seeing the distance between them and that nothing has happened, she regained her calm.

"Why are you guys here?" Lucian asked, even though he already knew why, he still asked. As for how he knew, just looking at Tanya's anxiousness and the gaze she used when she looked at Zosia or the gaze she always used to look at him, already says it all.

"Boss, we followed you since you gave us a signal not to continue eating." Kevin said.

He glanced at Zosia and seeing that she was okay, he couldn't help but ask, "What exactly are your defects?"

Zosia glanced at him, "Tell me yours and I will tell you mine." Zosia sat on her bed and turned to look at them.

Tanya eyes shone seeing Lucian sitting in her bed. Seeing that Zosia had already sat down and the rest were all sitting down, she walked up to her bed and sat beside Lucian.

Lucian only glanced at her then at the bed and sighed inwardly.

"Alright, let's all say what we found and along with the defects." Percival said. "I will go first."

"There is actually a god or diety that they worship. I saw a statue in the kitchen this morning and linked it to the letter, the god is called The Eternal Lord of Strings.

Also, the boy seems deaf but at the same time, he is not, I feel it's a pretense. My defect today are Loss of hearing and Loss of touch."

Xen raised his hand, intercepting Kevin that is about to speak. "Let me go second."

Kevin nodded, allowing Xen to speak. "Have you guys noticed that the food is too healthy. The more healthier the food, when something, maybe a drug or something has a counteracting effect with the food, it becomes a deadly poison and currently we are in a flesh state, so technically we could die. And I feel... No, I am sure, the counteracting agent is Sister Marionette's perfume."

Tanya felt some chills. Her missions since she entered the soul world hadn't been difficult and could be described as smooth sailing.

"As for my defects today, Extreme Hunger and Lameness. I am still experiencing the Extreme Hunger, so, don't mind what I am eating ."

Zosia glanced at him and shook her head, she had noticed the series of snacks that Xen had been munching on since he entered the room.

"I would just confirm Percival's suspicion. Indeed, The blind and deaf girl are neither blind nor deaf and I believe that they are much older than they look. I came across a picture Album in the neighbors houses and they were all grown up and even the old man we saw yesterday, is actually the husband to the girl." Kevin said, "We still don't know her name."

"Her name is Jasmine." Zosia said, making them turn to look at her.

"How did you know?" Mina asked.

"I intruded somewhere and saw an exchange array which is what they plan to do with us. They use us to exchange things with their god. She met me and led me out, even saying we should be friends."

"Did you agree?" Lucian asked.

"No... I just didn't say anything."

"Apart from the Extreme fatigue... I didn't have another defect and I didn't notice much." Tanya interjected. She didn't like seeing Lucian respond to Zosia, so she said something, but towards the end, she had nothing else to add, so she could only sulk.

Mina who had been quiet for a while raised her head to glance at Tanya. Well, she had been with the guys, so she allowed herself to be carried along, not really putting any effort.

"What about you guys?" Zosia asked, her gaze landing on Asgar.

Asgar summarized what they had discovered and everyone kept silent. Zosia felt the bed to completely search the room and just like before, she acted on her thoughts.

Lucian glanced at Zosia, a flicker of thought passed through his mind. He has decided to use this opportunity to train Zosia, she had the potential to join his group but, he wasn't sure if she is willing.

Unlike when they first met, he noticed that she is much calmer. What could she have possibly experienced in the last task world?

Tanya who had been watching Lucian, became annoyed. Zosia had been shining more than her, even despite the defect, she was still able to compose herself, but it wasn't the same with her. She couldn't do it. To sum it all, Lucian has been watching her. Feeling jealous, she bit her lips.

Mina who had been concocting a plan on how to deal with Zosia and as Tanya as a tool, smiled seeing the jealousy in Tanya's eyes. It would be more easy to lead Tanya.

Xen watched as Zosia ransacked the cupboard and brought out things in it. It took a while to ransack the room, but still, they found nothing.

Afyer a while, seeing that they couldn't get anything, everyone started leaving. Zosia didn't mind and only sat down, lost in thought.

Mina left. If she wants her plan to succeed, then she had to make use of those weird house owners.

She decided to contact them when others are either busy or not around but they must not know.

While others had their own plans, Zosia felt that things wouldn't be the same tonight.

And her guess was right.

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