Secret Room (10)

Jules instantly placed the sound barrier down, shouting, "is there anything you need?"

"I'm looking for Rika. I couldn't find her anywhere else inside the mansion. I need to place some packs on her since it's around the time she goes to sleep," Luke explained.

I shoulders slumped, regretting I made Luke massage my legs earlier today. Maybe I would leave the massaging to others next time. I turned to Jules for help since I didn't know what to do. There was an option of hiding inside his bedroom. My hiding skills have improved from playing hide-and-seek so often. Although I was sick of these games, they were useful sometimes.

'Quickly teleport to your room,' Jules mouthed to me.

I nodded my head, silently chanting to return to my bedroom. Once I found myself in my room, I stiffened when I noticed Alex was already inside. Luke already had someone waiting for me on the other side. Alex immediately sent a message to Luke, letting him know where I was. I flopped onto my bed as I wondered if I really needed those packs today. My marble faintly vibrated as I got a message on the conclusion of the meeting.

"What?" I muttered when Luke entered my room.

"You were playing hide-and-seek with Jules?" Luke bought Jules' excuse.

"There's no rule to only play it with you," I was glad Jules was used to dealing with Luke.

"He agreed to join us for two hours next weekend in exchange to stop the hide-and-seek other than its allocated time," Luke had added another member to our group.

I rose from the bed, forgetting the possibility that I would have to continue spending more time with them after this whole issue was resolved. I really didn't want to continue this whole thing for another week. I planned to abandon it after coming up with a decent excuse. But it was obvious Luke would become suspicious if I stopped spending time with them out of nowhere. My mind went blank as I dropped onto my bed again.

"Is Charles joining us?" I didn't want another member.

"Do you want him to join us?" Luke didn't add him yet.

"It's fine. We already hang out together lately," I excluded all the meetings we had together.

"I'll make sure he joins us," Alex evilly smiled.

I knew Alex was thinking it was unfair only Charles was off the hook while he suffered. However, I had to make sure Charles wouldn't join us in case we wouldn't be able to find the document today. I opened my mouth to repeat the same excuses, "Charles is busy. He doesn't have time to play with us. If you really want him to join us, choose the weekends."

"And we're not busy?" Alex was pointing out he had more work than Charles.

"Charles is slow in everything. It takes him more time to help Luke. Someone needs to be working to decrease the pile," I indirectly complimented them.

"Charles is working really hard lately in getting rid of the bugs. Do you want the bugs to increase?" I added.

The room went silent as I defended Charles. I had to change my line of games if Jules was joining us next weekend. I didn't want to torture him like I did to Luke and Alex. Both of them left the room after placing the packs on me. Unfortunately, it was hard to move around in them, the weight slowing me down. I decided to sleep after reading the message to join them in the middle of the night.

When my marble vibrated in my hand, I quickly rose from my bed. I silently closed the door and teleported to the office once I was a far distance from Luke's bedroom. The lights were dim as both Jules and Charles were already searching for the document. My eyes widened as the piles had gotten worse, touching the ceilings. It was no wonder they had a hard time to search for a single page.

"I'll search this pile," I offered.

"We already went over that pile. Take the one beside it," Jules pointed.

I sighed as my hands became busy with scanning the entire pile. You couldn't use mana to search for the document, it would leave a trace. Everything had to be done manually due to the confidentiality. I was glad I got some sleep earlier today. Although a few hours passed, there were no signs of the page. Haruka was going to die once we returned to school. He earned many of our grudges from searching for the document.

"I found it!" Charles brightly smiled.

"Isn't that the same page you destroyed but a different month?" Jules noticed.

"You mean there are multiple documents?" I gasped.

"Message Haruka to destroy all the other months and the copies," I shook Charles' shoulders.

Charles was paralyzed, filled with despair as we needed to find more pages. I quickly messaged Oili to get rid of the rest on his end. My knees collapsed onto the floor from his message, "Oili said he just discovered it today. He already threatened Haruka to get rid of everything. We just have to destroy eleven more documents on our end."

"Haruka isn't going to be alive tomorrow," Jules slightly trembled.

"You shouldn't be merciful to him," I agreed.

"We should kick him out of our fraction," Charles began to go crazy.