Chapitre 93: Patrolling the Unintended: Chapter 91
Under the night's ray, I could see most of what the school could show me if I stood at its highest tower. Yet today, I could only see a small portion of its beauty from where I was currently standing.
On a bridge that connected the second year building to the first year's, I was there watching and patrolling for any suspicious activity…or so what I was told to do by the student counsel president.
Unfortunately for them, I had another intention for standing on this place in the school.
Having known that in a few day's time, a terrorist attack will commence in this school. And it will particularly start in one area.
Right now, I plan to go to that area and try to see if I could understand the environment of it all.
"Hmm...A place that rarely is visited by the students and guards…a place not known or suspected by many, not even the student counsel president herself."
"...The cleaning storage room."
The cleaning storage room was a place that the cleaners of the academy would visit. A.K.A. the janitors of the school.
Not much is known of these people except for the fact that they clean mostly at midnight where not a single student could be seen wandering. Every single night they would clean the entirety of the school without a speck of dirt to be spared and almost every time they would finish, it was done before any normal student could even suspect that they were even here in the first place.
They were professionals at their job. By night, about sixty employed janitors would begin cleaning the school and by day, only around ten would remain, ready to clean any major mess done by the students.
With the number of janitors in the day, they could easily be taken care of by the terrorist.
The terrorist had already planned a way to get inside the school using the cleaning storage room as their entrance. Having planted a few terrorist to work as a janitor, they would be able to scout the view of the entirety of the school's floor plan as well as make the preparations for the attack.
I won't do any change to their plans…but I will do some preparations to prepare myself to protect the students.
What they plan to do on the coming day is something I have to both allow and fight against. Their existence after all is one of the fueling motivations for Arthur and his growth.
There are risk and major changes that needs to be taken into consideration. One is that Ethea would have died in the original story…but here, I plan to save her. If I plan to save her, a major change will occur in the story…the fueling motivation for Arthur when he would lose Ethea to the terrorist will be erased, with that, I have to replace it with something else.
"...Hmm." Having stood on this bridge while I faced the glowing moon on the sky, my mind began to rumble in tension as decision after decision was being made in my mind.
"...It looks like this is the only choice." I say as I looked away from the moon and off of the bridge.
I made my way to the cleaning storage room while using my skill 'Light's reflection' to walk past any guards that was in that area.
As I got closer and closer, I could already sense the preparations that the terrorist were making in the hallway while they were disguising themselves as janitors. Small unrecognizable traces of magic could be sensed in the corners of the hallway. And because this school was always leaking with magic from the practicing students, the work from the terrorist was barely noticed by the corrupted guards and even by the teachers. But I could sense it. Despite me being a beginner at magic, with my knowledge about the presumed terrorist attack, I took all the free time I had during the day to study on the lessons about 'barriers' in the library.
With that said, I learned that some similar magics like barrier magic have a similar scent within them. It wasn't a fruity or sweet scent, but instead what the barrier holds within its scent was similar to that of what my shield, 'Endit' was releasing. A sort of sturdy scent. So having enhanced my sense of smell with magic, I was able to detect the smallest scent of barrier that the terrorist were making throughout the academy.
I've noticed some of it during the day when I walked across the hallways on my way to my classroom, I've noticed it on the cafeteria when I came to eat with my friends and I've also noticed it making it's way to the student counsel room.
Through all the scent I've noticed in the academy, I know that the terrorist were almost finished with their preparations.
With each day that came to pass, I always get nervous. But still, I have time to prepare.
Having walked into the cleaning storage room at 10 PM, I could see that almost every janitor was already here. Around 40+ people were in this room and among them, a few were probably terrorist.
I had to be careful not to be noticed by them at all cost. After all, the terrorist that were going to invade the school tomorrow were hunters that ranked from B-rank to A-rank, with one member being an S-rank that was there leader.
'...hmm, the scent is coming from five lockers…' I thought to myself while I was standing on to one of the many lockers. The origins of the barrier magic came from the five lockers that were in this room, and with that said, I have to know which of these janitors were terrorist.
A quarter of the janitors working today were women, while the others were mostly men.
As I watch them prepare themselves to clean the academy at midnight, I had already taken note of the terrorist within the male section. Four of them were terrorist. The female section on the other hand was risky at first but after a while, I was able to take note of who was the female terrorist by their presence alone.
'.…It looks like I got the information I need.' I thought to myself as I began exiting the cleaning storage room.
But before I could leave…I felt it…
'!?'
A killing intent that made its way to my back…as if I was being pierced by a knife.
I tried to slowly look back to see if someone was looking my way, when I did, I saw the gaze of three people looking to the door.
These three people were the same people who I knew were terrorist.
'.…' staring at them cautiously, I made sure not to make any sort of move that would result in an alert. I tried to see if they really did notice me…but then, they began to look around even more cautiously. It seemed as if they weren't able to fully notice me after all, so I was relieved.
Soon after, I finally was able to escape the room and made my way to a more public place for students to walk around casually.
I'm sure that those three would take note of what happened today and will be alert of a potential threat…but it wouldn't matter, I already know what they look like, so I'll be prepared.
Having walked back to finally finish my patrolling duty, I was told to look over the area of the first year building until 11 PM. By this time,i t would have been curfew for all the students. Not a single student should be found lingering in the school at this hour. From the training center to the clubrooms, or even the library, not a single student should be out by this time.
"...I got thirty minutes left, I can probably look through the whole building if I rush it." I said to myself while looking at the minutes I had left on my phone.
And so with that, I simply looked through the entire building at a decent rate. Starting at the highest floor, I used my enhanced senses to see if there was a presence in each room I came upon. Even with the lights turned off for most of the classrooms, I was able to see well enough because of my experiences in fighting in the dark. For most of the rooms, not a single student was found. It was the same for the rest of the other rooms all down to the lowest level. Not a single student was in the school…so it was likely right to guess that everything was settled for the patrol tonight.
The rest of the other buildings like the training center and library should be closed right about now, so I didn't have to worry about that.
All I had to do for today is to report what I came across the first year's building tonight, which was nothing.
".…" As I made my way back to the student counsel room, I came across a vending machine that had an eye catching item inside it.
"...Coffee milk." I said, engross by the cow mascot that was shown on its cartoon.
Having thought of the coffee, I was reminded of the fact that this was going to be my first time sleeping at the school dorm. And with that privilege, my own personal bath was in range.
"A bath huh…"
I was giddy with the fact that I could take a warm bath tonight and drink warm coffee milk before going back to train inside Gord's domain yet again.
The luxury that this school brings is a dream to someone like me. A person who loves the simple things in life.
So without hesitation, I bought two cartoons of coffee milk from the vending machine and placed it in my storage ring. I then went back to the student counsel to report my patrol and after that, I would simply plan to go back to the dorm.
As I made it to the student counsel room, I encountered the rest of the student counsel members as well but secretary sherry wasn't here.
"Are you done with your patrol?" asked President Ethea.
"I am." I said.
"And how did it go?"
"...I didn't find anything that was suspicious to me and not a single student was out today." I said.
"Hm, Goodwork." she said as a compliment.
"Umm, what should I do now?" I asked.
"You can go home now, you've done your work well and for that, you can rest. But I do want you to come early tomorrow." said Ethea
"I see." To wake up early tomorrow is easy, and the reason for it is probably because of how we have other responsibilities to attend to before class would even start.
So as I made my way back to the school dorm, I made my way across the hallway that was the nearest route to the dorm. With that, I came across the training center. I didn't plan to go to this center at all, but it all change when….
*Boom!*
I suddenly heard a loud explosion that came from the training center.
"!!" to my surprise, I was tempted to go to the center.
I rushed as fast as I could to be there, hoping that nothing bad happened.
But when I arrived at the training center, I was meet with a building that was engulfed in fire.
"W-what!?"
Only two things came to my mind when this event happened.
One, was that it involved a fight between two extreme students who had wither the elemental affinity of fire. But this was highly unlikely. No student could ever create such a fire…even if such a student was a B-rank hunter. If anything, this would be done by a bomb based on how explosive the sound was when it happened.
So it lead me to think about the other possibility which was that it was because of the terrorist group. What if they became cautious of an error in their plan when they came across my presence back when I infiltrated the cleaning storage room, and they decided to do something drastic.
Having these two things rumble in my thoughts, I could only ever make sure to what was the right answer if I approach the burning building myself.
So I ran into the building, but before I could even take a step inside, a body was thrown my way at an excessive force.
"!!"
To my surprise, the person who I held between my two arms was secretary Sherry.
"Hnn~" she unconscious and burned all over.
"S-Secretary Sherry!" I called out to her to see if she would respond…but to no avail, she remained unconscious.
'W-what happened!?' I questioned myself why this happened…and before long, for some reason, a tingling sensation inside of me began to grow.
Fear…
I rarely ever feel it nowadays when I would be involved in a dangerous situation…
But to see someone else be hurt…someone I know…
The fear in me began to grow.
When I faced the building entrance upfront, I was meet with glare from five people who wore black capes and masks.
"!!" it was no doubt that these people were the terrorist.
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