December 11th, 2019."Will you be willing to give me a little more favor?" Santiago said to Ae in Ae's house at 9 AM (GMT+7)."No, you old freak. I refuse." Ae replied."You rejected me again?" Santiago's eyes widened.Ae was determined to wait for Pete to return in spite of him not returning right now."Well, I'm afraid little Pichaya will be having a new love interest in German land. I overheard that he will move to Great Britain to study abroad aside from Germany. Beware of the other guys who are not in a bad mood in love yet they are infatuated with little Pichaya. Little peach boy is a magnet for men, and he is an attention attractor. You've done really well with keeping him in check." Santiago said."I didn't say that I was a control freak who stalked him time to time. I just feel like I'm his caregiver and love interest." Ae replied."Maybe you should grab some girls and date them. Or maybe you should catch up with some guys. Or you can just get me." Santiago's voice became more perverted."I said, positively no." Ae became more annoyed."Phew, whatever." Santiago became disheartened and left.
At the same time, Tin was brought to the United Kingdom by Edward Shylock. It was already 9 AM (GMT+7) in Thailand, while it was only 2 AM (GMT+0) in the UK. This meant that it was already midnight in Britain.Edward had his own gathering of British Iscariot members who were hiding in human society. Unlike Edward, they hadn't received their powers to go fully undead yet, or it could be they had already taken those and decided to shut down to blend into humanity. They were a quartet of 19th century men who were turned into killers for Iscariot forces in 1891 in London. They were composed of Ruben Saint-Laurent 'Arsenic Laurent' the thief, Jasper Ricketts the artist and also the infamous legendary killer known as Jack the Ripper, William Wilson the photographer with reality-warping abilities and Sterling Hodges the detective who was a partner of William Wilson and who was infected with a curse transforming him into an undead monster version of himself."Hey Tin, you said you have spent a certain amount of time in UK?!" Edward asked Tin."I spent a part of my youth in England as an exchange student when I was a teenager. I went to London, and I knew the legends of Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper and Arsene Lupin during my stay." Tin calmly replied."Can Kirakorn, do you love him? That bromance of yours is fascinating." Edward said."Actually we're in love with each other at least over a year ago from now. We're gay." Tin said with an affirmative tone."Based on the fact that you have been in UK for a certain of time, at least you have met Ruben Saint-Laurent, the Arsenic Gentleman Thief. This dude is the best conman playboy ever during the Victorian era, and a gentleman thief. But don't be fooled by his glamorous appearance. He's a master of card games and an expert escapist. You won't even catch him, unless you're as mysterious as Jack the Ripper. Here are his tell-tale signs to distinguish him: tall slender stature, hands wearing white gloves, always carries a long walking cane with a pointed tip, a long black collared cloak with red underside and a scarlet rose on the left breast, a white waistcoat and shirt, a golden-coated monocle worn over left eye, a black top hat. His human form wears these clothes and has these traits, but when he shifts his face into a phantom thief, he becomes a phantom literally. He still wears the very same clothes and has the very same appearance, but his monocle transforms into a golden mask covering the left half of his face save for the mouth and the right side of his face which turned translucently pale like the skin of a vampire. The mouth turns into a row of sharp fangs for biting, and his hands grew long nails. Aside from his usual walking cane, Saint-Laurent possesses freakish otherworldly powers such as shooting scarlet slimy ropes from his wrist tendons, teleporting in a red mist made of rose petals, flying with his cloak, hearing things from a far distance as far as distances between large oceans. When his mask is uncovered, the face beneath it is horribly disfigured with hideous marks looking like a mashup of deep wounds and peeled flesh. The rose on his breast can spray a red fume that smells very sweet, but it is the sweetness of deadly poison, so never get too close to him at all costs if you fight him in close quarters. Hence, that's why Ruben earns the title of Arsenic Gentleman Thief, or Arsenic Laurent in short." Edward explained to Tin.Tin began to slightly shiver, but he managed to keep his cool: "No, I don't even know this dude, and I haven't met him before."Edward said: "Because your teenage years passed very fast in hours of studying, without ever knowing things around you. Also, I know your tragedy with toxic fake friends in UK, because I'm a master of mind-reading. I'm pretty sure that your older brother Tul had tried to ruin your life in the past, all because he thought he could lash out the pains of his own early life tragedy on you without being caught."Hearing the name 'Tul' was enough for Tin to get angry, but his anger brought sad tears."On a darker note, Tul had underground support from Arsenic Laurent. It was Laurent who provided drugs involvement plan for Tul, and Tul used this to wreck you. But that was the past." Edward told Tin when he was about to cry."As for Jasper Ricketts, also alleged to be the infamous legendary killer Jack the Ripper, is quite a mysterious figure. He wears a green tuxedo with a green top hat and a matching large coat, but he doesn't wear a monocle and instead wore a white sack mask with holes for eyes. His secret identity under the white sack is very handsome and good-looking artist, but when he becomes the Ripper, his weapon is a knife. Even in his human form in both masked and unmasked clothes, Jasper is well-built and can pick up a fight. When he transforms into a monster in the fog, however, his right hand turns into a massive claw with long knives on fingers, his face sack becomes covered in black soot forming a wicked smile while the face underneath it becomes a face with a gaping mouth ridden with beast-like teeth and eyes with glowing red light from it. Jasper's monster form is actually his undead form, and it is in his form that he can manipulate fog and can make himself invisible. The clothes he wore still got intact, albeit that his sleeves were torn due to his mutation." Edward continued.Tin was slightly nervous."The untold story about Arsenic Laurent really involves Jasper Ricketts. The story starts with Jasper being the first one to get transformed by Judas Iscariot the first Antichrist. Jasper was already a notorious mass murderer in 1891, and Judas had interacted with him in his human disguise. After a two-person small talk with wine in Jasper's home, Judas invited Jasper to join his cause and received his agreement. After drinking a glass of wine laced with a magic potion, Jasper turned into a monstrous version of his killer identity. Jasper was instructed by Judas to kill the gentleman thief Ruben Saint-Laurent before the police could personally arrest the thief, and Jasper went out to stop Ruben when Ruben was about to make a heist on a certain treasure from a rich lady. Ruben and Jasper fought each other, a gentleman thief with a cane and a mass murderer with a knife. The fight was recorded by William Wilson the photographer and journalist, who was in a partnership with police detective Sterling Hodges. As William and Sterling went out to record the battle between two famed criminals, they too were drawn into the fight. At the end of a long fight with three opposing sides fighting one another, the game ended with Jasper transforming into a fog monster and seriously scarring Ruben's left face before Ruben was violently murdered under Jasper's own hands as William and Sterling became shocked upon witnessing such a frightening act." Edward said."What happened afterwards?" Tin asked."The ending was very horrific. In his undead form, Jasper passed his curse to a dying Ruben and turned him into a monster exactly like him. Ruben was turned into an undead by Jasper, and he became Jasper's henchman after being brainwashed. Ruben used his newfound powers to cripple William's leg and injured Sterling. The night happening such a tragedy was 1891, October 13th. On the very next month, which is November 13th 1891, William encountered Ruben and Jasper again, only to be viciously killed at the very same street in London where they fought each other before. Jasper cursed William's camera and photographed his dying moments before using it to turn William into an undead just like him. Sterling too was reported missing after the same night." Edward replied."William Wilson and Sterling Hodges... They're all in the police force, and they died so tragically." Tin said with a saddened tone."But more than that, they were cursed by the very same people who took their lives away from them in a brutal manner, and their vengeance was passed onto unfortunate victims in a vain way to relief their own sufferings. That's how your past is correlated." Edward said. "And do you even know about William Wilson?" Tin asked."William Wilson, the photojournalist working for London police department, is actually a skilled swordsman. He is armed with a sword as a part of his policeman career, aside from a revolver. He had a thick maustache, white skin and brown curly hair. His costume is consisted of a black bowler hat, a grey tuxedo suit worn over by a brown coat, a checkered scarf around the neck. His powers of reality warping came from the supernatural camera he carries, a snap of it can create a static photograph world in which any damages done to the images of his victims would reflect a half of damage to them in the real world. Also, he can freely move from camera world to real world, and can time jump into the locations he once moved before in order to prevent his preys from returning back for escape. But be noted that, William Wilson's appearance in the real world is a black-and-white phantom version of himself with black cracks all over his body, although he can also change into his more colorful human form in the camera world and the real world. Also, beware that Wilson can create a duplicate of himself with a self-photographing image with the opposite colors of his own and attack simultaneously with the mirror image. Anyone caught in Wilson's area of reflection will have their mirror images manifested, thus any attack on the mirror images will reflect back to the original. In other hands, William Wilson is invincible." Edward answered."Haven't you told me about Sterling Hodges?" Tin asked again."Sterling Hodges, he has various ways that he can physically take on a criminal. He's a master with both a weapon and hands, and is quite able to disable an attacker. In life, he's physically a strong man although he does not exercise for exercise sake; bodily exertion being a waste of energy. However, he does possess strong fingers and is an exceptional runner. He has a very powerful strength capable of bending a steel bar and straightening it again with ease. Hodges is a powerful boxer who can beat seven muscular men into submission, meaning that even notorious criminals like Jack the Ripper, Arsene Lupin and Doctor James Moriarty will just pull their pants off and flee like cowards. His weapons are a military revolver, a riding crop and a cane sword. What should be notable about Hodges that he can even fight against powerful Iscariot members on his own. Once in a while, he beats even the most powerful Iscariot executives ever in Europe like Santiago Garcia and Luis Torres in Spain, forcing them to cover their heads running like headless chickens. When Sterling Hodges's fighting skills are combined with his powers of deduction and observation, it is easy to see why he is a formidable opponent to the criminal mind." Edward replied.Tin: "So, what does Sterling Hodges look like?"Edward said: "He wears a light brown deerstalker hat, a light brown coat covering a dark brown waistcoat and a shirt inside. Hodges is immensely powerful to take down even supernatural entities. The fact that Mr. Hodges went missing after William Wilson was converted into an undead could be concluded that he was taken by Judas Iscariot in 1891 to become the newest killer among the ranks of that time. You know the results? Upon his return, Hodges still retained his youthful face but when he took out a special card and flipped it over, his face became like that of a rotting corpse and he possessed supernatural powers such as rapid regeneration even after being blown into bits unless one could destroy his card. Be noted that he could attack with tentacles sprouting from his body and even his arms, but he only used his tentacles as a last resort for battles. In short, Hodges is always the most human-looking of the four in spite of being secretly the most non-human after using ultimate skills while in transformation. From all the dramas, a mass murderer, a gentleman thief, a photojournalist and a police detective all joined together in the same home and work under the same agenda."Tin: "I heard that Hodges and his gang is still here."Edward: "That's why I take you to UK to meet them. Don't worry, they're always friendly to each other and to visitors."