Chapter 26: At the Door of the Suite

Michael resisted the feeling of severe dizziness with all the strength he was given, clinging to the walls of the narrow stall while coughing harshly, until he felt that his stomach had emptied completely and become like a barren, deserted land.

He gathered his full composure until he stood on his trembling feet, and while he was wiping his saliva and his forehead wet with sweat, he caught sight of something suspicious..

Through a small, unnoticed hole in the wooden partition of the stall, a faint blue light crept in from the stall directly adjacent to him. Michael knew this glow very well; it was the distinctive radiance of the spatial portal that Elliot summons!

Meanwhile, and to his bad luck, the two demon guards tasked with monitoring Michael noticed that faint blue beam emanating from the adjacent stall, whose door was partially ajar.

The servants were surprised by this sight; for they had assumed that stall was completely empty with no one inside it. The two guards advanced with heavy steps, and one of them tapped on the door that was ajar, saying in a suspicious tone: "Sir.. what is this blue light coming from your stall? Is there some problem inside?"

On the other side, Elliot had just crept out of the steel locker after the departure of the demon who was next to her, and a surging desire possessed her to pour the suspicious liquid inside the toilet as fast as possible and get rid of it.

However, she found herself in a situation not to be envied at all; for the locker room was located right next to the bathrooms, and if the guards heard her from the gate and at the same time from inside the locker next to the bathroom, and at the same time saw the light from the bathroom, this would have been a certain catastrophe and complete exposure of their affair!

Elliot had no other choices except to take the risk and execute quickly; so she jumped through the portal to land directly inside the bathroom stall adjacent to Michael! And with lightning speed, she pulled the partially ajar door to shut it sharply, then unsummoned the portal immediately, letting the faint blue light dissipate completely as if it had never been!

The servants noticed the sudden closing of the door and the disappearance of the blue light before their astonished eyes.

In those critical moments inside the stall, Elliot activated her special skill for gender transformation, absorbing the hybrid features and regaining her male body completely in a few counted seconds.

Elliot spoke from behind the door in his balanced male voice, directing his words to the demon guards:

"Excuse me, gentlemen.. it’s.. well, I apologize to you; for usually I forget to lock the toilet door on myself. In fact, this blue light results from a bodily response to a rare, chronic illness specific to my demonic lineage, causing it to emit this glow under strain.."

When the servants heard this stern male voice, completely foreign to their ears, they exchanged looks in confusion; for they had never heard this voice in this sector before.

After quick thinking, they assumed he was merely another servant or worker belonging to a different sector who came to relieve himself here, so they ignored the matter and paid it no greater attention.

Meanwhile, Michael was breathing a sigh of relief inside his stall while hearing the voice of his male friend coming out with cleverness and circumventing suspicion. Michael swallowed his saliva, then opened the door of his stall and came out quietly, showing a fake recovery, awakening the guards from their posture:

"..Thank you, gentlemen, for allowing me to use the bathroom.. this is kindness and mercy for which I thank you extremely.. I was extremely sick and feeling extreme pain in my stomach!"

The guards ignored the words of thanks coming from Michael, and widened the path for him by stepping back a pace so as not to touch his body unintentionally, then followed him from behind to escort him and return him to his suite.

Thus, the bathroom was emptied completely of guards, and no one remained in it except Elliot residing behind the closed door.

When Elliot heard Michael’s voice receding while dragging the servants behind him and dismissing them from the place, he breathed with clear relief. He opened the toilet lid, and poured the suspicious yellow liquid into the toilet basin before his eyes.

No sooner had the liquid touched the bottom and made that effervescent sound (Sizzle!...), than Elliot pulled the flush lever immediately.. and water poured abundantly to sweep away the toxic substance, returning the toilet water completely clear and pure just as it was.

Elliot’s body almost collapsed from the severity of exhaustion.. or rather from the psychological weight and depletion he lived through during this entire complex infiltration!

He stood for a moment gathering his breath, and after ensuring completely that there was no movement or sound of footsteps in the adjacent locker room, he summoned his hybrid, androgynous form once again, and pounced to manifest the spatial portal before him.

Elliot jumped through the spectral membrane into the middle of the empty locker room.. if any servant had entered at this exact moment, they would have seen him standing motionless right in the center without any cover whatsoever!

The five waiting seconds [Cooldown] for reactivating the skill passed like an eternity from hell; as his exhausted mind began imagining the sounds of footsteps approaching from every side out of sheer panic!

As soon as the five seconds elapsed, Elliot opened a new portal without hesitation, and jumped inside it to materialize in an area close to the far end of the corridor leading to their suite. From there, he set off running with crazy lightness and speed toward their suite before anyone caught sight of him.

When he finally reached the turn specific to the corridor leading to the door of their private suite, a surging wave of relief and comfort washed over Elliot; for he felt that he had finally succeeded in completing this suicide mission and coming out of it safe..

However.. no sooner had he charged inside the corridor than he froze in his place, his heart struck with horror!

The two demon servants were standing side by side with Michael right in front of the suite door,

Damn it.. absolute damnation!

And the most severe, catastrophic problem.. was that Elliot was currently standing near them in his unmistakably hybrid, androgynous form!

Was this not a complete cooking of the situation from every possible angle?!