"But in this Era? We are all employees...or agents under one organisation, THE MONSTER MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION"
"Or MMA for short". Cassie said with a confident smile, tucking her card back into her pocket but Seed wasn't amused or impressed.
"you guys haven't been sued?" Seed asked.
"oh yeah, for sure. Multiple times" cassie replied. "We just always wipe their memories clean before they get a chance to further it in court"
"Wooowww!!! What a great use of your powers" seed said sarcastically but Cassie shrugged him off and continued with her lecture.
"So, what's your name and ability if you know what it is already. No need to try to lie, only somebody would supernatural Abilities would've been able to resist MY memory wipe spells" Cassie warned as she stared at Seed with a stern look.
But Seed still thought about lying to her, something in him made him so sure that revealing the truth about the book of death would be more harm than good for him so he did what he was best at, lying.
"Alright alright, you got me. My name's Wallace, Seed Wallace. And My ability is uhhh—" his eyes darted around the trees and park, while his thoughts ran endlessly looking for a lie in his head.
"Well?, come on, seed!, out with it already " Cassie retorted!
And then it came to Seed, the perfect lie.
"It's my hair! Yeah! That's right. My hair!" he blurted, standing and brushing dirt off his trench coat. "I can control it. Some weird power I got a while back." It was a half-truth, safe enough to dodge her suspicion.
"Alright then, show me"
Seed closed his eyes, drawing on the lesson from the Book of Death's guidance in Chapter Four. He felt for the Death Energy within him, a cold, heavy current flowing through his chest as if it was air he was breathing.
Due to his [perception] hitting [31] points, his control over the energy had increased alot, so he channeled the energy up his spine, into his scalp, where the long, dark strands of his hair started rising slowly.
"Watch this," he said as He willed the energy outward, and his hair snapped free of its broken ponytail, rising like tentacles in the air. The strands stiffened, sparking like there was an electric current within them. then lashed out, coiling around a nearby branch with a whip-like snap, snapping it clean off it's tree.
Seed's eyes flicked to Cassie, hoping his display was convincing enough to mask the Book of Death's true power. The tattoo on his hand warming up slightly. "See? Just a freaky hair trick. Nothing special," he said, forcing a shrug, though his heart pounded at the effort to lie.
Cassie's smile widened, She clapped slowly, each smack echoing in the quiet park, her sunglasses reflecting the trees around them. "Oh, bravo, champ," she said, her voice dripping with mockery. "Hair powers? That's your big secret? Gotta say, I've seen all sorts of psychics and exorcists, even a guy who talks to rats, but hair guy? That's a new one."
She stepped closer, pulling out a paper talisman from her pocket, as if readying herself to smack it onto his face. "You resisted my spell with that? Bullshit. You're hiding something, and I'm not buying the shampoo-commercial act."
Seed's stomach twisted, the Book of Death's pulsed within his vein urging him to run, but he held his ground, his hair settling limply as his focus wavered.
"Hahahahaha, Gotcha! Relax man, I'm just kidding" Cassie said, tucking the paper talisman back into her pockets."Everybody's power is unique in their own way, and one thing I've learned while being in the MMA for five years is that what truly matters is your prana energy control"
"Prana energy...control?" Seed asked with a brow raised.
"Yeah, prana energy control, it's what enables you to move your hair like that, some call it mana, some call it chi, some called it magic. But they are all the same yet different in their own way. For me, I can borrow the power of divine beings through my talismen"
"Divine beings? What? You mean like Gods?. Zeus, Thor and all that shit?"
"Hahaha, Omg seed. You have so much to learn, you remind me of myself ten years ago. You and I, are gonna have ALOTTT of fun together " cassied said smiling so widely that it felt like she was gonna tear her cheeks.
"Wait what? You and I? What fun? What do you mean?" Seed asked as a chill went up his spine.
"Yeah man, It's a bit early but, Welcome to The MMA!"