I didn't beco an intern in my own company.
It would have been easier if I had... but instead, the prince registered in a small unit directly under the royalty.
It wasn't... much of a problem, I guess. At least he could still make look like I was still within the borders of Cevilian. And since he was directly involved in my plan, I didn't have to drag in soone like Ronald or Jonathan.
I wanted to do it without any outside help except Lucas.
So I didn't push too hard, even though I had a slightly different start than I had planned.
Like that, preparations began again.
I could have used the gates to get directly to Piarlin. Or a jet could have done the job.
But my preferred thod of transportation this ti, for obvious reasons, was by land. Piarlin was a neighboring kingdom located just below Cevilian. So land transportation was not too troubleso, it was just going to take longer than usual.
About... twenty-eight hours.
As I said, there was not much I could do about it, as it was necessary.
After I started the preparations for the trip, I wrote a ssage to the study group. Which... is actually no longer a 'study' group, although that's what we used to call it, saying that I might be unavailable for two months.
Well, I'm not exactly sure what I was expecting. But when I saw the ssages…
I did nothing but look at the screen.
It was like... they were sure sothing was going to happen again this ti, but they were holding back.
It was especially complicated when Adrian said sothing similar to mine.
Celine was already aware that I was going to be busy until August. So I didn't expect to see her in the group, but after a while, she joined the duo interrogating Adrian.
And that's when I realized a detail.
These guys... they didn't interrogate or anything.
They just reacted like, 'Again?'.
But when Adrian said the sa thing, they were all over him.
'I wonder why...'
I frowned the mont I heard Sith's voice.
"What? Are you implying sothing?"
But he simply sighed inside my mind.
'I don't know, am I? What do you think?'
I clicked my tongue. I was about to close the ssaging app when a recent one caught my eye.
...
Okay.
Just a little bit.
Not much, I may have misunderstood just a tiny bit.
I closed the app.
It seems I didn't need to worry about them, for now.
After all, the things I had planned for them were around August. I had other things to focus on until that ti.
For the mont... I could give my all to Piarlin and Old Gundam.
And that's exactly what I was going to do.
*******
For "From the mont you step foot in Piarlin, Aiden, you will be alone."
The final talks were taking place.
"I'm aware."
Or rather... Lucas was giving his final warnings.
"I will have no influence in that land. Likewise, no one you know will have any influence."
"I know."
He knew the plan inside out.
He was aware of everything.
Furthermore, I had assured him that Cevilian would not be hard in any way.
So there was no reason for him to refuse my plan. That's also why he agreed to help .
But, for so reason, now that the ti had co, he couldn't help looking worried.
Am I more valuable to him than I thought?
I looked at his eyes for a mont.
He seed quite worried.
...
Ah.
I'm not really... valuable to him.
Well, I'd be lying to say I wasn't at all.
But what I am more valuable to is...
Cevilian.
What I've done so far, my sister being a seer, my potential future...
I'm one of the people this kingdom needs to pay the most attention to.
And he is the prince of this kingdom.
Right... now it makes sense.
"I hope you succeed in whatever you're planning..."
That was the last thing he said before I got on the bus that had been specially arranged for .
And I stopped questioning it anymore, focusing on other things.
For example, the bus.
It was... more luxurious than I had expected.
It was one prepared just for .
But the most important thing was that it could sneak into Piarlin. From the outside, it was no different from a normal bus traveling between cities. At the border crossing, the prince would take care of it for the last ti and make sure we crossed smoothly.
Once we were inside Piarlin and then at our destination... the second stage would kick in.
So, for the next thirty hours, all I had to do was sit back and rest.
But...
"I had no idea our next journey from our dungeon adventure would be so different."
I turned my eyes toward where the voice was coming from, toward the seat on my right diagonal.
What I saw were two brown eyes that weren't even looking in my direction, but rather examining the bus they were on.
"Did you even think we'd have another trip after the dungeon?"
Alex paused for a mont.
"I guess not."
He tore his eyes away from the bus he was going to spend a day on and turned them toward .
"I was pretty sure I'd be working mostly in the background with Professor Ulka."
I shrugged my shoulders slightly.
"I can't waste your skill and you there, even though you're quite capable of that too. Besides... we're going to your kind of place."
"I don't know why you thought old Gundam would be my thing... but okay."
I opened my mouth and closed it. I thought about what he'd said for a brief mont.
Actually, he's not that wrong...
Why did I think it was going to be just right?
Is it because we would literally be infiltrating the mafia and Alex reminded of an assassin?
When I think about it, Alex is exactly the type to be the right-hand man of a mafia leader. His personality, his composure...
...
Perhaps.
"Either way, I'm sure you'll be a great help to . Both with your own skills and with that one."
Alex didn't say anything, he just looked away from , then opened a screen in front of him and started flipping through it.
At first, I took my focus away from him because I thought he was just opening sothing to pass the ti. It was most likely that he had a TV show, so video, news, or sothing.
But then...
"Franz Martin Inferesse, huh."
I realized that what he was looking at was not so random thing, but the plan we were going to execute in Piarlin.
"Where did you find this guy?"
"After months of research and a bit of digging in my own... special way, it wasn't hard."
Alex glanced at briefly, then turned back to his front without saying anything.
"He doesn't seem to have a lot of influence within the Black Blood."
"Because he does not. He just has a small connection to one of the leaders."
I leaned back and looked out.
The bus was moving quite fast, which was sohow... nice to look out of the window on a trip.
"So, first we're going to get his na out there as a person of influence. Aside from the extra stuff that might be nice but not essential, we just need to be able to get into the main center in ti for us to succeed."
The plan was simple. Leaving aside the details, the things to be done could be summarized quite simply.
Get into the headquarters, cause trouble at the headquarters while the leaders are eting in the eting room, then kill them.
That was the most basic gist of the plan.
Alex narrowed his eyes slightly.
"I don't know why, but I have a bad feeling."
"What kind of bad feeling?"
"Just a bad feeling, I guess. I can see how much you've been thinking about this as I look over the schematic you've prepared, and when I try to find sothing missing... I don't really succeed. But it still feels like sothing's wrong. Looking at this plan, I an."
...
"We have a long way to go, Alex. We can go over the plan together, and I don't think it's a problem to ask for your opinion."
"It would be good... I don't think I will be able to sleep well today otherwise."
Having said that, he stood up, dragged the screen in front of him with him, pulled up a small table, and sat down in front of .
"Now... let's start from the beginning."
I just focused on what he started reading with a sigh.
His senses are pretty sharp, huh...
Or is it a side effect of his skill?
Who knows...
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