CHAPTER 4

"Did you see that?"

"Yes, and it's him, I have confirmed it by scanning his eyes and it matched on the eyes of the guy in the camera.." Armin said so I made my steps quicker so that I could catch up to Ma'am Celine.

When we got in the cafeteria, we immediately bought food, we sat in the middle row, the last column of the cafeteria. I can see that Ma'am Celine, even though she's a principal, she still eats at a cafeteria. We're in the middle of our lunch when someone occupied the seat at the table at our right side and left, I turned my gaze to the right to see who it was and I saw Mr. Vandel at Ms. Narsiso, the both winked at me, I turned my gaze to my left and I saw the man we encountered earlier, Maybe Armin must've told them about what I saw earlier that I could feel the tension raised between us three. I raised my guard mich more, I won't let my mother get hurt...

After we finished our lunch, we went out of the cafeteria and so did Mr. Vandel at Ms. Narsiso, their position is on my side while we are at the back of Ma'am Celine.

"He's 10 meters away from you," Armin said to us.

"Copy." We all said in a whisper. If the three of us is in one place or accompanying each of, Armin will turn on the audio of the three of us in the earpiece, but if not, he will just pick one to whom he wants to speak, so that there will be no confusion and distraction, and it depends on the situation, that's why Armin can tell or annoy Ms. Narsiso without us knowing.

"Let's go to the restroom Lany." Ma'am.

"Yes, Ma'am," I answered.

The two left us and split ways.

When we are about to arrive at the restroom, I excused myself.

"Ah, Ma'am Celine, I'm just going to grab a book from the library," I said and she just nodded. She went inside

I hid at the side of the restroom for it's an outdoor restroom, and waited for Armin's signal.

"He's here, 0n 3. 1, 2, 3!" He instructed. "Go!" And 8 immediately went out from my hiding place, I saw his distracted face."I think you lost, mister, this is the ladies room, right?" I sarcastically said. After I said it, he immediately attacks me with the knife he was holding in his.

I changed the directory of his hand, using my left hand, and swiftly bumped his side specifically his ribs, using my free left hand, for my other arm is still holding his. I slid my left hand from his back to the side of his neck and made my arm as a lever to push him to the ground, before he could fall to the ground my right hand which is still holding his right arms, quickly slides to his hands and grab the knife he was holding. I threw the knife away. I turned my gaze to him, and I saw that he's unconscious, oh, yeah, he bumped his head hard, I bent down to cuff him, and I was shocked when he kicked, good thing that I dodged it though, but I didn't realize that it has a backup kick, because he started to kick like a kid who lost his candy. He managed to hit me very hard on the chest, I got out of balance and fell to the ground, I started to feel the 0ain on my chest as I inhale, but despite that, I still managed to stand up. I saw him running away from me. While he is running, he suddenly fell to the ground, I saw Mr. Vandel swiftly pin the suspect to the ground by sitting on top of him. Mr. Vandel handcuff the suspect and stood him up. I coughed and blood was spat out from my mouth, I guess he hit me hard, what a horse.

"Lany, what happens to you?" Ma'am Celine asked me worriedly.

"Someone was planning to kill you, ma'am, I caught him but he kicked me hard on my chest," I answered. "There he is!" I pointed to the guy who is being held by Mr. Vandel.

"Good thing that Mr. Vandel is here." She said. "Let's go to the clinic." She offered and I just nodded. I hope, Ma'am Celine would be like this to me, when I'm me, not someone else.

"Oh my God! Ms. Lany! What happened to you?!" Ms. Narsiso worriedly asked. "Are you okay Cap.?" She whispered while she 2 meters away from us, though I heard it because of the earpiece. I secretly nodded as a response, I can't manage to because of the pain of my chest, even breathing is hard, because of pain.

"Ms. Narsiso, please call the police okay? Someone wanted to kill me, please report it okay? I need to bring her to the clinic." Ma'am Celine said. I f I knew, I would always change my face to be with her without the coldness, and then I will put myself in danger so I could feel her worrying about me.

"Yes, Ma'am!" Ms. Narsiso said.

We arrived at the clinic and the nurse made me sit down.

"Ma'am Celine, the 0atient needs to go to the hospital." The nurse said. Oh, no, 8 can't go to the hospital, we have a case to solve.

"A-ah, Mrs. Grandeurel, you have a lot of work to do I'll be going alone." I excused.

"Are you sure? But your hurt because you saved me, so I insist." I didn't know that Ma'am Celine is so nosy.

"No, Ma'am, you're at school and this is not an emergency, I'm okay." I forced my self to make my voice not stressful to make my words believable.

"Sigh! Okay! But don't go to work tomorrow okay? !" She said. I just smiled at her and left the clinic with her.

She accompanied me to the gate and bid her goodbye to me. When I ride the taxi, which is driven by hiding, he stopped the taxi at our van.

"Change, you're going to the hospital." Hide coldly said.

I stared at him and shook my head.

"See? You can't even talk." He nonchalantly said. I just glared at him. Armin and Rize are back from the back of the van. Then suddenly I coughed blood and I held my painful chest.

"Shit! I'll bring you the hospital Captain." Rize worriedly said. 8 shook my head again and stood up.

I went to the dressing room and changed my clothes.

"Captain!" Rize said annoyingly. I didn't mind her and just grabbed two syringes and two memory manipulator and gave to Hide and Rize.

"Vice Capt.?" Rize said to Hide.

Hide looked at me in the eyes, I don't want to lose so I also looked at him in his eyes, I don't know how long we're having a staring competition but he gave up, which means I win. Ha! Every time we argue on something or someone, mostly about me being hard-headed about getting rest and hospitals, we will have a staring competition. And, he never wins against me, haha!

"Just let her be, we all know her," Armin said while giggling. I smiled at Armin and tapped his shoulders.

Hide and Rize went to the back of the van to wake up the sleeping Mr. Vandel and Ms. Narsiso, after a minute or two, they went back. Armin drove the car to the house of mother's P.A.

When we arrived, Hide and Armin put her on the bench and made her sit on the bench, which was at the front of her house. I injected the 'Wake Serum' to wake her up, as she woke up, I immediately flashed the 'MExploit' or memory manipulator to her.

"You saved Mrs. Celine Grandeurel from a man who tried to kill her, you split blood after he kicked your chest, you didn't want to go to the hospital 'cause it's not painful anymore, so you just went home to rest, you won't go to school tomorrow." Even though I don't want to, I was the one who spoke, despite the pain in my chest, I just don't want to go to the hospital.

We went back to the van and drove to the Villaruby Residence. The 'Death Tranquilizer' is a kind of tranquilizer that works infinitely, one could die if it is injected, the only cure to wake up is the 'Wake Serum'. To avoid suspicion on the ones that we copy, we need to use our memory manipulator which we call 'MExploit', anyone who could see the flash of MExploit can be manipulated or lost its memory, though just for that day, then you can manipulate one's memory by telling what should they remember. We, the SDO's are not affected by the MExploit because of our contact lenses, it has a light repeller so the flash of the MExploit would just bounce away.

We went back to the residence of Villaruby's, we can't interrogate the suspect at the police station because of the secrecy of SDO. When we arrived, Hide and Armin brought the suspect in, we also injected the Deth Tranquilizer to him after Hide brought him to the van earlier, we tied him to the chair and injected the Wake Serum. After a while, he woke up.

"Let me out of here!" He shouted when he realized what was happening.

"Stop." Hide said coldly, he immediately went quiet and bowed, maybe he got scared of Hide. Hide is terrifying when he's serious, well, he's always serious so he's always scary, haha!

"What is your motive, why you want to kill Mrs. Grandeurel?" Hide asked.

"Why would I tell you?" He said mockingly. Oh, I love to punch him.

"Just answer it!"Armin butted in.

"Don't shout at me, I'm not deaf." He answered.

"WT-!" Armin didn't have the chance to finish because Rize stopped him and calm him down.

"What's your motive in killing Mrs. Villaruby?" Hide asked. Tss, he always gives questions he knows what's the answer is, sigh! He's Always lazy to speak.

"What's your proof that I was the one who killed her? I didn't even know her." He answered. Sigh! Guess I'll be handling this.

"Is it because she's a widow? And so is Mrs. Grandeurel, is that why you want to kill her too?" His face went serious and the angry is now visible in his eyes, if only I'm not injured, I would attack him while giving that question.

"Useless widows! They are all snakes, they are all traitors! Just because they have no husbands anymore, they would flirt with the men who have wives and families? Low dignified people! A widow is a reason why my mother died! Because of a widow she died! Because of a widow, my family's life is ruined! It's all because of those sh!ty widow!" His words are full of hatred.

"Didn't it came to your mind that your father is also at fault for letting that widow flirt with him? didn't you realize that if it wasn't for your father's flirty act, your mother would still be alive? Angled all of this won't be happening to you now? Mistakes are not only done by one person, not only one will be responsible for making a mistake! Because mistakes cannot be done by only one person, but that in your mind." Despite the difficulty of speaking, I need to make him know how stupid he is for only hating the widow.

Rize stood up and called the police to arrest this suspect, we gave the police a copy of the evidence that proves that this man is the one who murdered Mrs. Villaruby and the other widows that were murdered in the previous cases.

***

We went back to Atom, and this time Hide will be the one to report to our Head Guide. When we finished changing clothes, we went out of our room to wait for Hide, and after a while He came and gave us for payment.

"Captain Azumi, I've heard what happened, are you okay?" Captain Sota said as he came closer to us. I just nodded and smiled at him as an answer.

"Do you need a lift home? I will drive you." He offered, I was about to speak when someone spoke for me.

"We can take care of our Captain. Take care of your team Captain Sota." Hide said, again, coldly.

I don't know if it's just me or they have a staring competition for a while. Why is that?

***

Blake brought me and Shauntel home using my car, while Lance convoyed us to wait for Blake.

Shauntel and I went out of the car after Blake parked the car at our garage and I gave him a thumbs up and a genuine smile to say thanks. He just nods.

"I'll take care of her, Blake, thanks," Shauntel said and accompanied me to the house.

"Is it obvious that I'm injured?" I asked Shauntel.

"Actually, no, it looks like nothing to you." She said. Maybe because it's just on the chest, and I done think I broke a bone. I coughed again and blood spit out like they are synchronized, and my chest becomes more painful. Bad timing! Ugh!

"Ma'am Xyryl! What happens to you? Ma'am Celine!!" Said our maid while panicking.

"Are you okay?" Shauntel asked, and I just nodded.

"Xyryl, what happened to you?" Mom said.

"Baby girl are you okay?" Bro and sis asked. I smiled at them and nod.

"Uhm, we were playing volleyball, boys versus girls, the guys have great strength compared to us, when the other guy spiked the ball so hard that it went so fast, we can't see it and the next thing we know is that it hit Xyryl's chest, then she started to cough blood." I raised a brow at Shauntel giving her 'are-you-serious-look', but she just smiled at me.

"Oh-kay? Thanks, Shauntel for bringing her here." Sister said...

"Hehe! You're welcome! Uhm, I'll be going then." She bid and left. Sigh! How will I explain this tomorrow?

"Let's have dinner." Mom said and went straight to the dining room, I checked the time on my watch at its already 7 p.m.

After eating, I went up to my room, I was taking a half bath when I coughed blood again, I think I lost too much blood now. I change to my PJ's and lay down on the bed. My phone buzzed and Blake chatted with me.

'Don't go to school tomorrow or else.' the texted and I just smiled.

'Or else what?' I teasingly said.

' Nevermind just don't. Good night Xyryl.'

'Hahaha! Good night too Blake." And or conversation ended. Even in messages, he's cold, he doesn't even put some exclamation mark.

The door of my room suddenly open, I turned my gaze to the door to be shocked to see mom.

"Yes, Mom?" I asked, forcing myself to sound normal.

"You need someone to watch you, no one can take care of you if you'll cough blood again." She answered. I smiled, and I could feel my tears come, but I choked it back.

I laid down again and she went to my bed and lay down too. Maybe Mom loves. I hope, I just hope. Because what if she's just like this because it's her obligation. I coughed again and mom went up, she went to the refrigerator in my room and made me drink. I think every after two hours I coughed and mom is so attentive, I hope she'll be always like this.

***

I woke up, still dark, I checked the time on my watch and it's just 2 am. I turned my gaze to the side of my bed. I lay down again and embrace her. I can't bring myself to sleep back, I want to savor the moment, mom suddenly moved so I pretend to be asleep, she slowly put my hands away from her she went back to bed and still turned her back at me, my tears fell as I thought of something, I will just think that she doesn't want anyone hugging her when asleep. I closed my eyes and I tried to sleep again.