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Synopsis

Once dedicated to God and the sword, culling dark creatures and corrupted humans that threatened society, Thomas is an ancient soul that has forced his way back into the realm of the living from the afterlife. With his faith lost, and without any purpose behind his new life, he is a free spirit that pursues anything he develops an interest in.

Senna is a nature fae, captured for her magical properties and tormented until her innocent nature is stripped, replaced by an unquenchable anger towards everyone and everything. With her innocence gone and straying from the correct path, her connection with nature is severed and she is forced to consume blood in order to survive.

Despite the differences in the two, Thomas saves Senna from her prison and takes her under his protection, even if she is destined to turn into the very thing he once hunted to protect humanity.

Thomas now runs a supernatural private investigator office with the help of Senna, selling charms and trinkets on the side, but the world seems to be getting increasingly dangerous with a rise of monster attacks and foreign realms encroaching on Earth.

Book I: Purgatory
Prologue I – Departure
Prologue II – Return
Prologue III – Rejection
Prologue IV – Time
Chapter 1 – Thomas’ Private Investigator Office for the Supernatural and Mundane
Chapter 2 – Lightning Striking Twice
Chapter 3 – Government Involvement?
Chapter 4 – Spiritualist
Chapter 5 – Break In
Chapter 6 – Do You Play Age of Heroes
Chapter 7 – Justice and the Thief
Chapter 8 – In the End, It’s All About Sucking Blood
Chapter 9 – I’ll Give You Cash to Get In My Car
Chapter 10 – Completing the Ritual
Chapter 11 – Who Cares About Demons, You Just Need More Queens
Chapter 12 – No Returns
Chapter 13 – After Dark Shenanigans at the School
Chapter 14 – Mastermind
Chapter 15 – A Ghost Ghost Town
Chapter 16 – Irreparable Broken Seal
Chapter 17 – Jack Fell Down the Well
Chapter 18 – Jack Returned From the Well
Chapter 19 – Chatterbox Gorgon
Chapter 20 – Not Another Tale of Cliche
Chapter 21 – Once a Monster, Always a Monster
Chapter 22 – Flaunting Pedigree
Chapter 23 – A Strong Body Equals a Strong Mind
Chapter 24 – The Devil’s Temptation
Chapter 25 – Never Mess with an Enraged Fae
Chapter 26 – A Hall Packed with the Elite
Chapter 27 – Supercharged Astaroth
Chapter 28 – I Somehow Became the Leader of a Cult
Chapter 29 – You Just Need to Kill
Chapter 30 – Undeserving
Chapter 31 – Past
Chapter 32 – Laurence Academy of the Dirty Secrets
Chapter 33 – Still Waiting At Death’s Door
Chapter 34 – Even Villains Need To Work
Chapter 35 – The Teacher That Didn’t Just Do Math
Chapter 36 – Bullying The New Night Noblesse Guild Leader
Chapter 37 – The Esoteric Inverse World
Chapter 38 – Shadowloper
Chapter 39 – Laurie
Chapter 40 – Pitiful Fate
Epilogue