Chapter 28

"Mr. Valdez or may I say, Lord Valdez, I thought you know this language? It appears like you didn't check it twice before going here?" Trance crossed her arms and raised a brow, "I mean nothing to you and I also don't know anything about you. We can handle ourselves here. You see we're not infants to take care of."

"How can you prove that if they caught you in the first place?" Felix sarcastically asked, attempting on caught the girl off guard. Trance scanned him from head to toe before using her hand to hide her mouth in sophistication, "My, my, I admit that foolishness but..." She glanced at the two secret agents standing in the doorway. Demeter give her a meaningful look and Trance averted her gaze back at the man.

"I'm too lazy to fight." Trance marched towards the door as she vents out a burst of despicable laughter, "Maybe you have some of them under your wing but let me just remind you, they won't follow any of your orders." Felix emotionlessly stared at Trance, making her smirk.

"That's your reason right? Break a leg on threatening those motherfuckers, ciao!"

"Headmistress, we got the response from Trance Miyazaki," Hera announced to her headmistress about the girl joining their organization.

"I and Artemis asked her earlier and we didn't expect her sudden answers, Madame." She added while Artemis agreed. Their headmistress stood up and walked towards them. Her black dress with a slit swayed as she walks and her killer heels tapped against the floor. Headmistress Victoria sits on another sofa that is placed on the front where Cath and Ash were seated into.

"She agreed to join," Artemis said and smirked proudly, and leaned her back against the cushion. The medium-sized red snake wrapped itself around her hand and hissed.

"Art, where did you get that snake again?"

"Hera, this one is not just a snake, it's an emerald tree boa and she has a name. She's Medusa." Artemis replied to her friend who was eyeing the serpent. "I saved her too when we went into a mission on Brazil. We almost made our targets as a portion of food for Piranhas that time." She added before petting the head of the red serpent.

"Are you serious about keeping that one?" Hera grimaced while Amidalah sneers as she watched both of them.

"Tell that to the Peacock that you got from India, Hera." Ash did roll her eyes skywards with the maximized level of sass. They both stop arguing and become serious in just a second when Victoria cleared her throat.

"About the Miyazaki, are you believing that she can be suitable for this?" Artemis nod. "She's surprisingly smart yet we don't have any evidence to prove that she's part of Valdez's gamble to show to, Madame. She doesn't have any more basic information about her aside from her studies at Priam Videlle, her original name, and age. We're confused why the school doesn't have her birth certificate too. We can't gather any of it because it seems like our hackers got prevented from taking it. We have her name and age because of Kaizer." Hera explained before she's about to caress her counterpart's red serpent. The headmistress smiled before she snapped her fingers and the tea set and three slices of different flavors of cakes appeared on the top of the coffee table.

"Also, her brother." Artemis and Hers both exchanged looks before they faced the woman in front of them. "You won't believe what Kaizer told us."

"Beyond the impossibility, I believe that Kai won't fabricate a story," Victoria said.

"That boy is not Hiro, he's the twin brother. Based on the details that I've noticed in his character. Let's set aside that and move forward to his sister when we based on Trance's abilities, she can help the captain in terms of strategies. We also noticed that she got similarities with Nine." Speaking of which, the missing members made their way inside together with Trance and Haru behind them.

"Strategist?" Kai looked at her in confusion. "Yep. You heard it right, Apollo."

"Then why do you need to recruit her brother?" The brunette asks her for the second time.

"I'll get straight to the point. Because this one can be a good assassin of the unit." This time, Vitoria is the one who answered his question. She glances at the three. "Have a sit first." Nine and Demeter take the vacant chair on the left side of the coffee table while Trance and Haru remained to stand.

"Are you accepting it, Mister Miyazaki?" Haru walks slowly and hummed in an eerie way, which sends a shiver to some of them. He touched Kai's hair while the male almost becomes a statue and Haru looked at the headmistress maliciously.

"What if I don't join?" Haru asked while his hand is trailing down to the brunette's neck, enough to make the headmistress' brows crease, and leaned her back nonchalantly. Victoria tapped her long nails against her lap. She saw him as a deadly hostage-taker while his hostage is the brunette who didn't even move a muscle.

"Miyazaki, don't charge against any person to this room." Hera and Artemis saw before how the headmistress loses her cool and gets mad. Trance looked at them in worry.

"Tell her my name." Haru whisper to Kai who almost jumps. The doctor clenched his hand and tried to conceal his panic when he feels the man's finger brush on his collar bone.

"H-His name is...Haru. Hiro is the one who left at Priam Videlle," Kai explained. Hera's eyes widened as she suddenly remembered everything back at the University. Two agents and their headmistress stood up immediately when Kai tried to defend himself from the demon behind him. Trance watched them in their commotion, she didn't bother to stop his brother who's now holding Kaizer's cold hand behind his back.

'It's impossible for them that an innocent-looking guy that people think can't even hurt a fly named Haru Miyazaki can kill skilled agents, skilled guards, and make them panic. Now even one of the most skilled agents is can't fight him.' Trance whistled and scanned the chandelier in awe.

"Trance Miyazaki, take a hold on your brother." Trance rubbed both of her ears, "Pardon me, come again?"

"Trance Miyazaki!"

"Why me? I'm not him to stop." Haru just smirked while still holding Kaizer. Hera and Artemis glared at her and didn't step back while the headmistress remains to point the gun at the male.

"What do you want?" Victoria asked him while pointing her pistol at him. "I want?" Haru asked her back maliciously and looked down at Kaizer. "Your nephew is an obedient one." He caresses his brunette locks and tugged him closer to him.

'I can't deny that Haru can be this good at hostage taking' Trance covered her mouth then turned away.

"I want the rest of you to leave this room before I'll show you how this little one dies," Haru announced emotionlessly and Kai's eyes widened. Victoria motioned Trance and the others to leave for the sake of his nephew. Hera and Artemis are creating a backup plan on their heads when they leave together; dragging Trance by her arm towards outside.

"Why didn't stop him?"

"Why would I make an effort on stopping him? He's big enough to take care of his ass."

"Miyazaki, we need--"

"Trust me, he won't kill him."

"Miyazaki!

"Fuck it stop yelling! I know something that can make him weakened temporarily." They both looked at Trance who was waiting for their response.

"Use big amount sedatives to him. Haru won't lose his consciousness if you give him a normal dose."

"I have a riddle," Haru said.

"Why you're doing this?" The Headmistress asked him while eyeing her nephew who's in distress. Yet she can't see any possibilities that her nephew will survive at the hands of the dead guy.

"I just want to say 'hello' to the eliminator. I just want to say 'hello' to you. Nice on using the name that doesn't even belong to you, Victoria." The headmistress was stunned while her hand loosened the grip on the way she was holding. His words made Victoria hesitate and intimidated.

"Now, my riddle is: I die, I turned into ashes and from the ashes, I come back to life. What am I?"

Victoria knows the answer and the whole story. The memory she tried to forget about.

"Phoenix," Haru smirked. After that, Victoria went speechless. But then, It's another story to tell. A story that anyone is forbidden to know. The story and also a memory that still haunts anyone to their sleep.

"After sending me agents and guards, now you send me this deer?" The big bad wolf asked her as he let go of Kai. Victoria saw the hole appear she keep her focus on Haru and Nine is the one who pointed a gun with a silencer on Haru's back.

The happenings are very past. The sharp sound of the gun can be heard and the bullet pierced the dominant male's shoulder. Without a second he got knocked off but Kai is the one who catches him so he won't hit his head on the floor.

Hera and the others stepped out then surround the three of them. "Oh no." Trance sarcastically says and rushed to her unconscious brother, "What have you done to my brother?"

"Bring him back to his room. That one doesn't have any plans on joining us. He'll be under surveillance for months. That one loses his screw. Bring Izanami to her new dorm."