Concert

The fans roared when Lilika Yuri appeared on the stage. When she sang the first verse of the opening song, the crowd cheered, hypnotized by her charm. Few people fainted when she winked in a certain direction or pointed her fingers shaped as hearts.

"To the people who control us from behind the scenes, separating us from loving each other freely. What can we do but rebel?" She danced nimbly like a fairy.

The crowd chanted, "Rebel, we should rebel" with their lightsticks that stuck with the rhythm. I followed the flow and yelled with them, recalling all my memories alongside it.

To me who had my actions supervised by Alex standing beside me or Luke who created this situation in the first place with the necklace. Even Jules who brought me these concert tickets didn't seem surprised of the existence of a rebel headquarters under FiveBlack's modest cabin. How much of my life was controlled like an ignorant puppet as the fiancée of Luke?

Lilika Yuri wasn't just a pop star. She was the hope of dreams where a district would finally be freed from the influences of the powerful first district. When I got back to the first district, I planned to ask Shelly and Ellen more questions. There was no way everyone in the first district had the same beliefs as Jules, Alex and Luke.

After a series of songs that spun around ideas of rebelling, the names of her main producers filled the screens. FiveBlack and the person beside him was MysteriJ, the owner of the phone we stole. They came out to reveal themselves to the public like they were never planning to keep it a secret.

"Thank you for supporting Lilika Yuri and making this concert possible. Lilika Yuri is not only the outlet of our creative souls, but like our own child at this point." FiveBlack passed the microphone to MysteriJ.

"The Lilika Yuri project shows how many people in the second district can be united as one. We believe this massive force can push the other side to the limits where we can stand up for what we believe." MysteriJ started his speech.

MysteriJ was interrupted by the screens high up near the roof that crashed down onto the floor. The roof started to rumble as long poles that made up the infrastructure started to fall down. The speakers fizzled, displaying crackling blue bits of electricity waiting to blow up the stage. Meanwhile the entire venue shuddered like an upcoming earthquake waiting to split the land into two.

The crowd who were enthusiastic in showing their support, started to scream and trample on top of one another to escape the venue. Everyone was busy fending for their own lives that they couldn't notice the whole thing was an illusion.

After the concert hall was almost empty, the dimensional barrier shattered to reveal the perfectly normal venue as MysteriJ threw the microphone on the ground. People with a certain amount of mana weren't fooled by the illusion as they stood there confused of what had just happened.

"Another failure," Fiveblack tried to console MysteriJ by rubbing his back.

"How did they know again?" MysteriJ gritted his teeth in frustration.

Jules smiled while hiding our presence with a faint barrier. He offered his hand to me to escort me out of his place, clearly in a good mood. It was like he was the one who created the whole illusion and even the previous concert.

I ignored his hand as I walked out of the place on my own. Jules opened his marble and started a video call once we were in the empty park near the mall. The screen displayed a stunning teenage girl who appeared to be bored out of her mind.

'Wasn't the communications between the first district blocked?' I immediately questioned the Lilika Yuri project.

"What took you so long?" She played with her long black hair.

"We took some detours after getting access to the files," Jules tried to apologize while showing both Alex and I on the screen this time.

She perked up when she noticed us with Jules. Her eyes glimmered with excitement inside her wide room where she resided. The camera zoomed out to show the simplistic design prominent in the second district. She appeared to be inside a large villa in the suburbs rather the city as sparks of wildlife grew by her window.

She got up from lazily laid down on a white couch, to get a better view of the screen. "Oh my, the fiancée of the heir of the Roselia house and the heir to the Monete house."

She pretended to look surprised while covering her mouth with her hand before sitting down elegantly like the scene before had never happened. "Thank you for helping us with this mission."

"Julian and I decided to split up to efficiently search for their headquarters after failing to hack into their system." She tried to explain the situation.

So the first district already knew about the true purpose of Lilika Yuri in the first place. I wondered why Jules even brought me here in the first place. Did the rebel group know that their actions were being tracked this entire time by a pair of high schoolers?

I started to feel sorry for the rebel group in the second district who had worked so hard to become independent.