No wonder they thought he must be part of the Scar organization, or at least he must know sothing about them because they seed to be targeting him.
Head Instructor Darius said as well, repeating the question, "Are you part of Scar?"
Ace answered calmly as he had all the previous questions. "I am not."
Darius confird that he was speaking the truth and asked another question. "Why are they targeting you? The dead body and the disappearance of your House mber point at you being targeted by them."
Ace finally raised his brows. "The culprit is from Scar?"
Darius, the old fox, had thrown the question at him to know what was going on in Ace’s head. There was a tight smile in his voice as he replied, "We are leaning towards that at the mont. They are the likely ones."
With a snap of his fingers, the room returned to normal and the bright light that was shining on Ace disappeared, gone entirely from his face.
It took so seconds, but his eyes stabilized and he stared at the Head Instructor staring at him.
They stared at each other, and for a mont it seed as if there was an invisible wave of charged lightning that passed between them.
Ace looked away first. "Am I going to be detained?"
"Not likely. Everything checks out. All your movents yesterday had been tracked and you weren’t there when the body was placed in your room."
Silence again.
"About Celia..."
Darius shook his head. "We have found nothing about her location. As you know, just like the others, the system couldn’t reach her. It seems it’s been jamd around her."
Ace’s gut tightened.
He was angry; he hadn’t felt that much anger in a long ti.
Not just because Celia was taken, but because the pawn that he so carefully selected was just snatched away like that with no warning.
It was as if he was thrown into a ga without warning, a ga where he went in blind.
But there is one curious thing about gas: it’s not the one that starts it who must finish it.
Even with all the anger he was feeling, he still kept a level head and his face was calm.
"Then I will be leaving." Ace stood but then paused; he already knew that his freedom was a ruse so that he could act as bait. "I do not trust my House mbers. Please, can you get them arrested and confined?"
Head Instructor Darius Faulkner stared at him in pure surprise. His single eye narrowed, and his head quickly calculated what he was asking for and why.
"No." His voice was firm.
But Ace only shrugged.
The reason he said what he said was because the only way he could think of at that mont to protect his remaining pawns was to have them locked up.
It was worth a try.
He would just have to beat the ga before they got to him.
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"Do you trust him?"
It was the commander of the Academy security who asked, the captain. She suddenly appeared around Darius.
He raised his brows without turning. "Trust? Hell no. I don’t trust any word he says even though the formation deed everything as the truth. But I’m glad of my decision to keep him alive. We will finally get one of those Scar bastards."
It was sothing that was frustrating the Academy. They were powerful, their strength undeniable, and yet they weren’t able to deal with so pesky criminal organization for months now.
Darius growled, "That’s why I hate cockroaches. They have the uncanny ability to hide."
"Aren’t you curious why they’re after him?" the Commander asked.
"We will know that soon enough when we get one of them."
She nodded. "A sha though, the boy is likely going to die with his House mbers. It was fun watching his pathetic struggle with that House."
"A necessary sacrifice. Put your best on him and all his mbers. The culprit will show soon enough to claim his or their lives."
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Ace headed to the House building where the remaining House mbers and those working for it were waiting.
Ethan stood up imdiately. "What the fuck is happening? I heard you were wounded by the kidnapper!"
"That wasn’t what I said," Julius snapped, adjusting his glasses.
Ace had fired a quick ssage to him about what was happening imdiately he confird that Celia was missing.
"Is it true? She’s gone?" Derrick asked.
Even the new mber, Serena, was there, looking at them anxiously.
Ace sat down on his chair and then nodded firmly. "Celia is missing."
The word was short but seed like a punch to the gut. They knew already, but it was another thing for Ace to say it like that.
"The kidnapping that was happening, that’s the only likely culprit at the mont. I will tell you what happened."
And he did, telling them what happened since he left the training center.
"...I believe their target is and they will do anything to get at , including targeting you guys."
Everyone shifted in their seat. A kidnapper who took second-year students without any trouble might now be after them? It was unthinkable what would happen to them, who were only first-year.
An uncomfortable silence filled the air.
"But the security should be tight around us, right? They should want to protect us now that they know," Serena said, looking at Ace.
Julius shook his head. "Indeed, they should, but they won’t because they don’t care about us. They only want to catch the culprit, and currently we are the only bait."
More silence followed. Even Derrick’s face was sour.
It wasn’t a joke. Soone had died, and they could be next.
Their House mber, Celia, might already be dead.
A tense silence followed.
Finally, Julius turned to Ace. "House leader, what are we going to do?"
Ace smiled. His head had returned to its blank state, his thinking done as he rembered what he was missing from the book. "We will hunt the hunter."
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