Chapter 103
Carlo got ho with a few minutes to spare, he went to Alex’s room without delay . Once he entered he saw Alex doing his usual gun maintenance .
"You ca back a bit earlier than I anticipated, as expected of my dad . " Alex continued doing his regular maintenance of his guns while talking to Carlo .
"Alex I already know that Seiji Amamami is in this room, so are you going to give up now?" Carlo was looking around Alex’s room, while Simon the head butler was outside the room, guarding the exit . A maid was also directly below the window of Alex’s room, just in case, one of them decides in that route .
"Why should I give up? The bet was if you could capture the two Amamamis, before the ti limit . So as long as you haven’t captured Seiji Amamami, I can still win . Seeing as you have only a few minutes left, victory seems to be in my favor . Don’t you think so dad?" Alex calmly replied to his dad, without even looking at him .
Carlo smiled at Alex’s actions, he wasn’t looking at him, in fear of giving away the position of Seiji Amamami . How co he ca to this conclusion, simple because this was the first ti, Alex didn’t look him eye to eye, as he was talking to him .
Carlo hadn’t much ti, and it seems like Alex wont willingly give up .
"Hey Alex can you stop doing that for a mont, and look at . " Alex ignored Carlo .
"That’s an order . " Carlo didn’t want to do this, but victory and defeat depended on this . Alex who heard Carlo say it was an order, placed his gun down . He set aside his things and looked at Carlo eye to eye .
"So Alex, where did you hide Seiji Amamami . I already know his in this house alongside your friend right? Sayaka Mutsu was her na correct?" Carlo looked at Alex’s eyes which shifted for a bit when Sayaka was ntioned .
"Are you trying to interrogate dad? You do know that wont work . The only possible way to get the information out of , is if you ordered to do it . But seeing as this is part of the annual bet, you wouldn’t do that would you?" Alex as per usual calmly replied .
"I know that . . . Do you know a funny thing I learned when I heard the last na of Sayaka, which is Mutsu . The Mutsu’s were very famous craftsn in the past, yet their abilities are best rembered when making masks . I’m sure you friend Sayaka is part of this bloodline, seeing as Mutsu is a very rare last na to have . " Carlo noticed every ti he ntioned Sayaka, Alex’s eyes would shift .
"Why are you telling this?" Alex asked Carlo while looking at the ti .
"Nothing much, I just wanted you to know I finally understood how you got Seiji Amamami here inside the mansion . The Alex I talked to awhile ago, told he was a different person, and was simply wearing a mask of your face . At first I thought that was a delaying tactic, or you simply said it to confuse , but in truth what he said was true . He truly wasn’t Alex my son he was Seiji Amamami wearing a mask of your face, you told him to tell those things to confuse . What happened afterwards were all simple delaying tactics, weren’t they? And I fell for it hook line, and sinker . I got to hand it to you Alex, you have improved in the art of deception . Well I guess you owe that to the various social interactions you currently have . "
While talking Carlo headed towards the place where Alex kept on looking at, upon ntioning Sayaka Mutsu’s na .
"So Alex you most probably stealthily entered the mansion, while your friend Sayaka and Seiji hid in your room . That’s why the last tracker I placed which was attached to Seiji’s back was always blinking in this room . You had two trackers on you, one you gave to that friend of yours Kei, and the other to Sir Lyner . Of course the tracker on Kenzo was still on him, since you hadn’t enough ti to disarm the explosives I placed inside the tracker . So the final tracker which was on Seiji is here, aning his here correct?"
When Carlo said those words, he opened the closet Alex kept on looking at . Once he opened the closet he saw another Alex sitting in it .
"Here you are Seiji Amamami, I caught you aning I won correct?" Carlo held the fake Alex, and announced his victory . No one responded and after a few seconds the alarm Alex and Carlo set when the ga was over rang .
"No dad I won . " The Alex, Carlo caught responded, and he stood up . His height was exactly the sa height as his real son Alex, which was impossible . How did this happen? If this was the real Alex who was the one sitting over there?
"It can’t be you’re Seiji Amamami? How is that possible, the motions you used as you did gun maintenance was exactly the sa as Alex’s"
"No dad that’s not him . " After Alex said those lines, the Alex on the bed, grabbed a portion of his skin by the neck and pulled it revealing a smiling girl . The girl was Sayaka Mutsu .
"How was my impression of Alex? Perfect right?" When Saya said perfect right she was imitating Alex’s tone of voice which was truly shocking cause it really sounded like him .
"Then where is Seiji?" Carlo was bewildered at everything that was happening .
"He’s under my bed . Co on out Seiji . " Once Alex spoke, a boy ca crawling out from under the bed .
"Heh, impressive my son, you really did improve a lot . You actually tricked all through out the bet . Who knew you could plan sothing like this . Simple yet at the sa ti, complex . " Carlo who was stunned monts ago, was now smiling .
"Actually this plan was inspired by Oliver . I wasn’t sure how I could beat you, since I knew you would be using my surveillance team, and with that you would be able to monitor my every movent . So because I promised Lilitth, I couldn’t lose this bet, so I called my friends for advise . "
Carlo seeing Alex, say friends with that stoic expression made him wanna laugh .
"So I called Oliver, and told everyone the current situation . We then started to brainstorm, and Oliver said that this reminded him of a mission he had back in the day . He needed to hide from enemy soldiers, so he picked the best hiding spot . Do you know where that best hiding spot was located? It was inside the enemy’s HQ . The mont I heard that, it gave an idea, which was to hide one of the Amamamis in the mansion . "
"So what I planned next was all delaying tactics, I just needed you out of the mansion going on a wild goose chase . But how do I fool you into thinking not to look inside the mansion yourself? The answer was to go back willingly, and the front entrance without hesitation . Still how could I sneak one of the Amamamis into the mansion was also a problem, which Saya gave a solution to . " Alex gestured at Saya who waved her hand rrily .
"Saya then told about her family’s business which was making masks . "
"Well obviously we improved as ti went by, and I already made a bunch of masks of my friends back when we made the club official . " Saya responded with her usual cheerful tone .
"I also got my clubmate Emily to hack into so of the caras I placed all over the city . Knowing the ins and outs of the system, I was able to easily support Emily into hacking . So once we t under the tunnel, everyone was grouped into teams of three, well except for Sir Lyner, since he doesn’t really need a team . I drove ho, with Saya and Seiji, Saya then proceeded to wear the mask and coat . Now looking exactly like , she went and talked to you . "
"She distracted you long enough for to be able to sneak Seiji into the mansion . Of course even with my skill that would be hard knowing the mansions defense system, if I was alone I could probably get in and out with no one noticing, but I had so baggage that needed to be carried . So I asked for help, there was one maid I knew who would side with , instead of you . She helped bypass the security system . "
"After that everything was pretty easy . I knew after what Saya said, you would think she was simply delaying you, which was partly true, but at the sa ti she made you overthink things . Knowing you, the next course of action you would take was to double check things . So you ordered the sweep of the mansion, which I anticipated . The maid who helped get in was also the one who was assigned to check my room, since the head butler thought it would be less awkward if he sent soone I know . So every ti she checked the room, she would simply report nothing to the head butler . She didn’t even really check the room, she simply ca in and reported to about your current status . "
"I was also hoping that once you got to Sir Lyner, he would take up all your ti, because as he told , he would want to play with you . I knew Sir Lyner’s play involved a physical confrontation, but there was a chance that once he saw your prosthetic leg, he might not want to fight you . So of course I planned for that as well . The next people you would go after was either Oliver’s group or Kei’s group . Kei was headed to the very limit of the city, which would most probably eat most of your ti . Then once you got to Oliver, I told him to have an extensive talk with you . He was also accompanied by Niel, who would distract your n, while you talk with Oliver . "
"Then just in case, you figure out the ruse, faster than anticipated I had one final trap laid, which you fell into . " After hearing Alex’s very long explanation on how he tricked him, Carlo clapped his hands .
"Well done, really well done . You finally won one . As we agreed upon, the Amamamis can leave this mansion . We will forget that the events of today ever happened . "
Carlo accepted his lose whole heartedly, as he heard Alex’s whole plan, it made him feel better . The plan that he made wasn’t a plan were he would do all the work, he actually planned with other people . He cooperated with others that weren’t his Aunts and Uncles in the rcenary squad .
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After the events of the bet, Kenzo and his son Seiji were sent ho safely . All the rcenary club mbers also returned ho .
Alex was lying down his bed, a bit tired by the whole shenanigans that transpired . It was at this mont, for so reason as he rembered how he and the rcenary Club cooperated with each other, the face of one person flashed in his mind .
He couldn’t understand why he thought of her . . . It might be because he actually missed her, or it could be because they did sothing as a club, and she wasn’t there, he really couldn’t tell . So instead of just thinking of an answer to a question that has no answer, Alex called Rachel .
"Hey, this is the first ti you ever called , what’s up?" Rachel answered imdiately . Her voice was a tiny bit flustered .
"Nothing much, I just kinda want to talk to you . " As usual Alex’s tone was indifferent one, but to Rachel it sounded like so sweet mutterings .
"Why do you always do that?" ’Why do you always say such things, while my guard is down . ’ Rachel of course didn’t say that out loud, and simply thought about it .
"Do what?" Alex oblivious of what was happening with Rachel asked .
"Nothing? So how’s school? Did you call cause you missed ?" Rachel tried to fire back at Alex with a bit of teasing of her own . Yet this plan of hers imdiately backfired .
"Yah . . . I guess I do miss you?"
When Rachel heard what Alex said, she almost dropped her phone .
"W-w-w-what did you just say?" Rachel started to stutter a bit .
"I miss you . . . It feels a bit weird walking to school without you there . "
"Oh that’s what you an . . . Well I too missed walking to school with you, beats being with my crappy father . " Once Rachel talked about her father, the awkwardness, and embarrassnt she was feeling disappeared .
Alex listened to Rachel’s stories about the events in her so called family vacation, and sohow felt comforted hearing Rachel’s voice .
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