Chapter 18: Chaos II
"Sir! There is an emergency!!" A person wearing a dark blue suit rushed into Walter's office with rugged breathe
"What happened?"
"Young Master Oliver got in a fight with Charles of Virtuosos group and is seriously injured!!"
"What?! How dare they do this!" Walter yelled and rushed out of his office with his assistant following behind him.
"What are the extent of his injuries?" Walter asked in an irritated tone
"H-His arm is almost cut off"
"!!!!"
Walter's eyes widened so much that it felt like they would pop out and fall down.
Getting into a fight with a rival group isn't an uncommon thing for a young awakened one and winning and losing is just a necessary experience for them.
Sometimes the fight gets out of hand but cutting off an opponent's arm is directly declaring hostility against them. Harming an affiliated awakened one to this extent is a serious matter. It is as good as declaring a war against the group.
"Send the people who were present there to my office. I want to hear everything that happened as soon as I check on my son's condition!" Walter said in an extremely angered tone and made his way to his son.
"Yes Sir."
***
"Owen!"
"What is it Ben?" I turned and asked him as he interrupted my conversation with aunt Sarah.
"Big thing happened. Looks like luck is on our side." Ben said as he had a large smile plastered on his face.
"You referring to how Virtuosos group is going on a war with Starlight group now?"
"How did you know that?"
"Not important. What important is that I am hanging out with her right now so Shoo-ukgh"
I groaned as aunt Sarah elbowed me in the ribs
"Why?!" I cried
"Be respectful to your seniors"
"Tch"
"But still how did you know? This is latest news that I just received and I have only told the Chairman till now."
"I know about it because I am the one who started that war between them." I casually replied hoping to end the conversation sooner but that didn't happen
"What?!"
"!!"
Both of them looked at me with shocked expression. In response I just smirked lightly which cause aunt Sarah to pinch my sides as she said
"Explain yourself!"
"Agh!! Stop it! Stop it already!" I said as she just used much more strength than required.
*sigh* "You know how I asked about if I could create a face mask right?"
"...Yeah?" Ben replied
"Well....." an involuntary smile came on my face which made them irritated but I continued, "I disguised myself as Charles's driver and drove him to Oliver who was having lunch in a restaurant."
"You idiot!" Aunt Sarah smacked my head
"Oww!! Okay I am gonna stand over there now. As I was saying...." I said and moved a few steps away from her
"I knew they would get into a fight as soon as they will see each other considering their past relationship. Charles attacked him but Oliver countered and as they were going their separate ways, an opportunity presented itself to me and used a very small pin coated it in my ability and threw it at Oliver's arm almost severing it and I framed that on Charles."
"You idiot!"
"What if you had been exposed? Do you even realise how much of a risk you took to do that?!"
Ben and aunt Sarah said respectively
"Yeah I do. Which is why I made sure not to mess up."
"Oh really? What do you think will happen when they speak to the real Kevin?"
"Relax the real Kevin will never speak to them again."
"!!"
"Y-You didn't...k-kill him did you?" Ben asked
"Obviously not I am not a maniac!" I yelled at him.
I mean how can he even think that I would just kill someone just to make two strong organisations fight each other till one of them dies.
Does he take me to be that heartless of a person?
I am a righteous man if I say so myself.
"Alright. Alright I am sorry. but then what did you do with him?"
"I kidnapped him"
"....."
"....."
"HOW IS THAT ANY BETTER?!!!"
"BECAUSE HE IS NOT DEAD!!!"
"CALM DOWN YOU TWO!!"
"Fine! Follow meI will show you" I said and started walking away
"Are we really gonna ignore the fact that he kidnapped someone?" Ben asked aunt Sarah as they both followed behind me
"So they can kidnap someone close to me and I can't? Why?" I stopped and asked
Ben just stood there as he couldn't really find any answer.
"Because it is the right way." aunt Sarah answered in his stead, "These underhanded tricks of kidnapping do not go with our group's way of doing things. I understand that it is not uncommon in our world but even for us, those who kidnap and torture others are branded as criminals."
"How much should we suffer just to do things the right way and by showing others our weakness?"
"You mean kindness."
"It's the same thing. Well we are here." I said as I held the handle to the door and opened it.
It was a dark room with only a mirror on one of it's wall through which we could see the two captives inside.
"What th-Why are there two people here?"
"Who is the other one?"
"The other one is named Steve. He is a member of 'Monster' group."
"!!"
"!!"
Monster group is by far the strongest group in the surrounding states. It doesn't only have the strongest leader but also the highest amount of awakened ones compared to any other group in the area.
"Why did you kidnap him? Are you nuts!!"
"Calm down and listen first." I said and explained the entire plan that I had devised. They went into huge detail with their questions but they became more and more convinced by the end at how good my plan is but there was just one problem.
Although these two were still alive, that won't be the case for very long.
***
Meanwhile in the Virtuosos group's Head Quarters
"Are you out of your mind!! You pompous ingrate!!"
"D-Dad I-I am s-sorry!"
"SORRY? YOU ARE SORRY?!" Michael slapped Charles across his face
"YOU THINK A SORRY MAKES ANY DIFFERENCE AT ALL YOU BASTARD!!"
"IT WASN'T ME!! I DID NOT ATTACK HIM!"
"THEN WHO WAS IT?! HUH?!"
"I DON'T KNOW IT JUST SUDDENLY HAPPENED! ASK THE PEOPLE PRESENT THERE!!" Charles pleaded to his father who was fuming at the situation.
Just a few minutes ago Michael received a very angry call from Walter Roshfield filled with curses and threats. Michael who did not know what was happening was flustered at the sudden call and cursing but maintained his pride and talked back at him with just as much as vigour.
During the call however, Michael's assistant came inside the room and explained to him what had happened while Michael was covering the mic of his phone.
"Prepare for a war. You bastard!!"
*Beep*
That were Walter's final words to him.
And that brings us to here when he was beating the shit out of his son in a fit of rage.
"BRING EVERYONE WHO WITNESSED THEIR FIGHTS TO MY OFFICE!" Michael yelled at the intercom after pressing a button.
"S-Sir. About that.....we have a problem."
"What is it now?"
"Kevin...the young master's driver has disappeared."
"What?!" Michael yelled
Kevin was one of his trusted subordinate and an able fighter considering that it had only been a few years since he realised he was an awakened one. Since he did not have much superiority or strength, he was assigned the job of being his son's driver/bodyguard.
Suddenly a thought flashed in Michael's head which he did not want to believe.
'Did Kevin betrayed me?'
Kevin was one of the people present at the scene and the fact that he disappeared completely without a trace as soon as he got the news meant that he had planned his escape in advance and had plotted this thing very carefully.
He enticed a fight between two strong groups and then ran away.
He didn't leave him with any option but to engage in a full fledged fight with the Starlight group which he just could not afford.
The timing could not have been worse for him.
Not only did he just gained a good amount of territory from the Light Cavalry group but the Virtuosos group was planning an expansion as well.
The aftermath of this fight will put his group several years back. Not to mention, the Light Cavalry as well as other groups would definitely take advantage of his weakened state after the fight if he won.
Meaning that the worst case scenario is that his entire group will be destroyed.
The timing was too inconvenient for him just when he pulled a victory against the Light Cavalry group, this happened.
The timing....
The timing...
"!!!"
He suddenly turned his head to look at the contract between him and Light Cavalry group. As an ominous though came to his mind.
Did they plan this?
.....No.
But this idea was discarded as fast as it came to him.
The Light Cavalry wasn't a group that would use underhanded methods to win.
They had even suffered because of this in the past as they refused to break any rules at all.
Still.....to clear the lingering doubts in his head, Michael began to investigate what had truly transpired.
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