After inspecting the room, Xander found nothing to be out of place. It did look like Gustavo spends most of his ti down here in the bunker.
"Do you have a partner?" Xander asked.
"No, I work alone-"
"Don't lie to ." Xander tightened his grip on Gustavo's head and his tone got colder, making Gustavo shiver in fear.
"I have no partner, I have always been alone from the beginning. No one wants to associate their selves with ."
['And I wonder why that is, freaking weirdo.'] Al mocked.
['Ahh, the pot calling the kettle black, oh the irony.'] Alex uttered playfully.
['Hey at least I don't stalk people, even if I did stalk others, I would stalk beautiful females. Not a handso guy like us, although I have to admit, even I will fall for . That face of ours is Irresistible.']
['An obnoxious prick that you are.']
['Quit it guys,'] Xander interrupted their battering.
"If you don't have any other partner, then is there anyone that you have told about what you saw and what you know about that night?"
"N-no, no. I swear I haven't told anyone anything about that night."
"Good, you do have a little common sense. Tell exactly what you saw on that night." Xander demanded. What concerned him the most, was if Gustavo saw Lex using his spatial ability.
"First let start with this. On that night, I wasn't following you, nor did I know that you were going to be there neither.
If you noticed, that part of the forest is not that far from where the hole to this bunker is located. I heard the loud commotion that your lightning, caused, and then I ca out.
Next thing I know I saw a silhouette covered in rose gold light shoot down from the sky and crashing in the forest, so of course, I had to check it out.
Upon arrival at the sight of the crash, I saw Miss. Hinata pleading with you to put sothing in her mouth. The next thing I know, I saw you, brutalizing her." Gustavo explained.
"After that, I was too scared to do anything or make any sound last night. If you had noticed , then you would have ended my life last night." He added.
"I do wish that I noticed your presence last night, my mind was occupied. And I am regretting it now." Xander ntioned.
['It is a good thing that he didn't see Lex use his ability. Having people know that we can use 3 elents, 2 of which are rare, and amongst the rare, there's one that is even rarer than the other. If a lot of people know, undoubtedly it will bring troubles. The spatial ability should be one of the reasons why Nana forced us to be her student.'] Al uttered.
['Lex's ability has to remain a secret that only a few know of, not even Camron should know about this ability.'] Xander ntioned. That last part was directed at Alex.
['What? I can't use the spatial ability so don't say it like I will be the one to spill the beans, sheesh.'] Alex felt a bit offended.
Gustavo noticed that Xander was in his thoughts now, the idea of trying to escape reached his mind but he decided against it. He was just a rank-9 nascent realm cultivator while Xander is a rank-1 disaster realm cultivator.
The chances of his escape being successful were close to being a negative number.
"Why have you been following around? Who do you work for?" Xander snapped out of his conversation with the personalities in his head and returned to throwing questions at Gustavo.
"Believe , I am not a stalker. I have my reasons for following you around, no one put up to this. I chose to do it on my own." At this point, Gustavo's fear alleviated.
"And why did you decide to start stalking ?" Xander insisted on getting an explanation from him.
"Because I need sothing from you," Gustavo revealed.
"You need sothing from ?" He arched one of his brows. "You need sothing from and yet you follow around, spying on so that you can find so blackmailing materials to use against . If you say anything that contradicts your actions again, I will kill you." Xander threatened.
"N-no, I swear I'm not lying to you, that's the real reason why I started stalkI an watching you. It's the reason why I was praising you so days back, in class. But that Naomi girl ruined everything for with her challenge.
I followed you around that other day because I wanted to ask you for a favor, I was gathering my confidence right until you turned and noticed . The next thing I know, you went missing from my sight." Gustavo insisted on this.
['What do we have that he wants?'] Alex thought.
['Energy crystals, lots of energy crystals.'] Al snarled.
"And what is it that you want from ?" Xander decided to ask.
"I would like to join your team," Gustavo replied truthfully.
Xander wasn't expecting that kind of answer, but he wasn't surprised, after all, his team is one of the most sorted out teams in the academy for now. Many people believe that he is a treasure seeker, and they want to be around him so that they can benefit from his findings.
['What!? Another leech!! Wanting to benefit from us. Hell no!!'] Al quickly rejected that notion as soon as he heard it. He still wasn't okay with the nonchalance attitude that Alex has been showing to people that just want to benefit from him.
['There are already 4 leeches in our team, it would have been 5 if Camron didn't co from a wealthy family.'] Al fud.
['It's not leeching if I don't see any problem with it.'] Alex argued.
['Wait, let correct myself. There are already 5 leeches in the team, you being one of them Alex, you are leeching off our hard work!!'] Al stated. He was starting to get pissed at Alex.
['The two of you, stop it.'] Xander interjected.
"Why do you want to join my team? What about your current team?" Xander asked.
"As I stated previously, no one wants to associate themselves with . I'm an outcast, I've been alone for a long ti and I have no team.
When the academy placed in the new rule that we have to be in a team before we can take missions, my life in this academy plunged into the gutter.
No one wanted to accept into their group. Just because I have been in this school for 5 years and I still haven't moved from the ninth rank of the nascent realm. You are deed the treasure seeker, but you do not know what I'm called. Before you ca to this academy, I used to be known as the bearer of bad luck."
['Sothing we have in common then, bad luck. But don't let it tickle you, our bad luck is worse than yours. We have the universe against us.'] Al stated proudly, it sounded like he was trying to boast with it. If he was in control, he really would have said that out loud to Gustavo.
['Everything just has to be a competition to so people.'] Alex muttered.
['The burden of a genius.'] Al stated in response to Alex's comnt.
"So ill-fated people blad their misfortune on . That they were only stuck in the cultivation rank that they were in, all because we hung out a few tis. Since then, no one paid attention to . The little that I had was gone." Gustavo finished.
"Maybe they were right, you are a bearer of bad luck. Why else would you be so foolish enough to let know that you were present when I was killing a staff in the academy?"
"I might have bad luck, but not the one that is transmittable. The only reason I am stuck in this rank is because of the special body constitution that I have. I need a lot of QI and so other special materials to be able to break through a major and minor cultivation realm. Once I have made it into another cultivation realm, breaking through the ranks is as easy as snapping a twig.
From the first rank of the nascent realm to the ninth rank, where I currently am, it only took a week to get here after I broke through. And that was without any energy crystals or pills, no external support.
If I can do that without external help, imagine how I'll do when I join your team." Gustavo revealed why he wanted to be in the seraphim team.
"External help? If your constitution is that special, why don't you go to a power-house organization and let them take care of you?" Xander harbored doubts about his claim.
"Because if I do that, I will be killed. I am only safe if I join this academy I cannot talk about that but I am not lying about my body's special constitution."
"And you think that alone is enough to let you join my team? You know sothing that no one else in my team knows about." Xander snapped him out of his wishy-washy thoughts.
"I don't know yet, but I have a feeling that your team is the only one that can help carry my weight and put back on my feet. Now, I know that nothing in this world is free, and I am ready and willing to earn my keep. That's why I want to make a deal with you.
Although I have a lot of bad luck, the universe helped last night, I witnessed your cri, and I have evidence-"
The sword on Gustavo's throat inched deeper into his neck.
"Ahhh!! Ahh!! Wait, wait, wait, let finish. I might be dumb sotis but I am smart enough to have a back-up plan. If you kill now, in a day, the evidence of your cri will surface and you will be targeted by the authorities of the academy. But if you let join your team, I will stay silent and promise to never use this to threaten you again." Gustavo spoke quickly.
He didn't want his life to end before he could have his chance to do sothing about it.
Xander's hands tensed a bit.
"That is the deal I want to make with you," Gustavo added.
"There are a few things that I like, and a great many things that I dislike. But the one thing that I hate, is being threatened.
-Thud!!
"Arghh!!" Gustavo cried out as he fell to the floor.
Xander had used the hilt of the sword to hit the side of his head, hard
"Never threaten ," Xander uttered coldly.
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