"Why are we investigating an abandoned warehouse simply because a few paranoid passerby's said they saw or heard a ghost?"
"Stop grumbling and hand me the crowbar."
As the doors opened sunlight poured inside the where a young man looking to be about sixteen was chained. It looked as though he had been dragged there, his hands cuffed and hoisted up to where his hips barely brushed the ground. His head hung low with long snow white hair barely distinguishable from his pale skin.
Realizing he had visitors Sugei looked up to see two police men instead of his captor. Hurriedly the younger officer came over noticing the key lying on the ground directly in front of the boy.
"Is this seriously the correct key?"
'Leaving right in front him, now that's just cruel!'
The officer was internally fuming (as the key was indeed the right one), 'how could one kidnap a person lock them up and then proceed to leave the key directly under their nose!!!'
Sugei silently braced himself as the last cuff was released. The light from outside made his eyes sore but with it he could see his surroundings, standing here the door was the other officer who was seemingly on the phone with a superior explaining the situation.
"Here let me help you up. Can you stand?"
He didn't have time to react as he was lifted to his feet and a familiar stabbing pain shot through him. He could hear people calling to him as he faded out of consciousness.
At the hospital the police captain waited for the patient to awake, blaming himself for not investigating the reports earlier.
" how is he?" he asked as the nurse entered.
"Physically his condition is stable, but I wold like to know his mental state. did he speak to you or respond in any manner?"
"He did look up at us but that was all"
"At this point that is good enough, it's better than nothing anyway." when she glanced over she was met with gentle gem-like violet eyes, Sugei had already sat up and was pulling the hair out of his face.
"Sorry, it would seem as though I have inconvenienced you"
"N-no not at all!"
'How could he say something like that and with such a serious expression on his face? Wait, more importantly WHY AM I BLUSHING!!!' she felt like running home and screaming into her pillow right at that moment but was pulled back into reality by a gentle voice.
"Did you happen to an obsidian hairpin with a silver tassel? it's very important to me."
"I believe I did, I'll look into it for you"
Half a day later Sugei was returned his hairpin. After that he spent two days drawing spell sheets and layering them in order covering the bed table with seventy three spell circles. Finally done he imbued them with energy draining himself completely dry and as he just began to cough up blood the rift activated pulling him in.
With a splash he was thrown into a dark cold and seemingly unwelcoming sea.
'I'm glad it worked but… why am I in the middle of the ocean?'