Rebel of the Blue

Chapter 3

Rebel of the Blue

The next day after the incident, Lucas became a criminal and all of everything last night became his guilty. To be honest, he didn't care too much about it, he had no family or any close friends, so it was not different between staying here or running to other planets, however, the interesting thing was the guy who rescued him.

Ivan was his name, no second name, and like Lucas used to suspect, he wasn't a normal guy.

"How can you become a rebel," Lucas asked when they counterfeited and walked around the town without any noticeable. Ivan could change his eyes colour, that was the power of Esper.

Ivan told him that Lucas also could do it himself. Esper could change their physical body, only changing eyes colour was rubbish, but until now, Lucas still couldn't use his power freely. He tried, but it didn't work. Maybe, he still had to learn some more techniques from Ivan.

Or maybe, that incident was a coincidence, he may not be Esper. How could he become Esper, when he spent his twenty-four years like a normal guy? That was ridiculous.

But, when he told Ivan about his idea, Ivan had laughed, he said that whether Lucas could use his power freely or not, he was actually Esper. And for the reason why no one could check his ESP before, they still had to find the reason.

"It's my job, that's all," Ivan answered back Lucas's question and walked following the yellow signal from his watch.

"Not everyone got that job," Lucas said and sighed. For him speaking with this guy wasn't easy. He may answer all of your questions, but they were all useless. This guy knew how to deal with people.

Twenty-four hours of their meeting, Lucas knew only Ivan's job and his appearance. He had beautiful blue eyes that were so bright as a sapphire. His face was an oval shape. With those magnificent eyes, he was looked like an angel in ancient paintings in the church. But, this angel wasn't kind anymore. He was the one who should be called a real criminal.

In fact, he was one of a rebellion group, and he came to Rigel for his mission. One of the men who had died in the office yesterday was his companion in the group, it seemed he was the spy, and he had just gotten a top-secret of the emperor's family. Before he could send it to Ivan, he was killed.

Someone must know his identity and get rid of him.

"You said that information was very important, why do you think he sent it to the other before he died," Lucas asked, now he had no choice, he had to help Ivan find the information before they could run away from this planet.

"My leader has told me, he was the reliable guy, he could suspect that he may be killed," said he.

"Did you have any chance to meet him before?"

"No, but for someone who became a spy, he or she always noticed his or her ending, no one underestimated the enemy," he explained and walked into the public square. He talked, but he only saw his watch, not Lucas.

Lucas was surely annoyed by Ivan's personality, but he still had to follow this guy, he had no choice!

"Who's your enemy?" Lucas asked and still followed him. But, suddenly, Ivan stopped walking and turned to him with his habitual evil smile.

"You already know, don't try to make me speak, my dear Lucas," he said with his wicked grin.

And for Lucas, he wanted to shout back angrily!

Yes, he knew! He had just wanted to make it clear! Why did Ivan have to make everything more confused!?

There were a lot of clues to understand. Why did the royal army come? Why did the spy have taken a risk for the emperor's top-secret? The straightforward answer was the rebel had already made the emperor's annoyed!

When someone felt annoyed, it meant he felt unsafe and hungered for killing.

Suddenly, Lucas realized where he was, and what he had forgotten. Now, he saw the chaotic situation at the public square of the city, many people were gathering. They were surrounded by the police.

Yes, he had promised to come with them today, but he couldn't.

"I'm sorry everyone," murmured Lucas.

The guy who was standing in front of the group of people was the one he called yesterday. In fact, he should be one of the protesters right now. He always participated in demonstrations against the local government.

"What's going on?" Ivan asked and pointed to the people.

Ivan could feel that Lucas wanted to say something.

"They came to protest the government, last week, one of us was arrested and sent to mother earth," Lucas felt upset when he saw what was going on. "The government hate when we try to speak the truth, and they want to shut us up. There were many people who were put in jail, and some were sent to the capital for the execution," he explained.

Under the emperor's government, there were very strict rules. People had to live under the rules, there was no criticize, no inspection, no freedom of speech. If someone talked about the negative ideas against the emperor's family or his government, only jail or electric chair was his place.

"How about the police?" Ivan asked curiously.

"They always said that they had to follow orders of their masters," Lucas smiled sadly because no one wanted to be punished by the cruel emperor, so they decided to ignore the meaning of human rights. "also, both attorneys and judges, filed a lawsuit against the innocent and made a judgement under the name of the emperor."

That was a vicious circle of the judicial process. Starting with the police, filing with the attorney and ending with the judge.

During the explanation, they could see the tension between them.

Suddenly, the beam was shot at the people!

Lucas almost ran into the group, but Ivan quickly caught his wrist.

"You're going to take a risk again. Are you really want to be sent to the capital?"

"But!, I can't only watch it! I should be one of them!" he said.

"Wow, again," Ivan said again because Lucas had already made him surprised again.

Some people had power but not going to use it for anyone. Someone had no power, but still want to sacrifice himself for the others.

Ivan felt that Lucas was above all his expectations.

Beep!

That moment, Ivan's watch showed some signal, the yellow light was so bright, and it seemed the data that he was finding was somewhere around here. In this square, maybe in the group of protestors or the police, someone had their important data!

"Watch out!" Ivan warned and jumped to Lucas before some bomb exploded in the middle of the protestors, and bumped people around there.

No time to hesitation, immediately, the police ran into people. Not only the protestors but all people around there. In their arms, that were real bullet rifles, and hand grenades!

"They use real weapons with people!" Lucas shouted but Ivan already opened his invisible barrier to protect themselves. He wanted to find the signal but also caught Lucas in his hands. He couldn't let him go.

It seemed that Lucas always liked to find some risks for his life.

"Don't you see that! Can you help them?!" Lucas asked with frightening, but Ivan sighed.

"I'm an Esper, not a god, don't you remember my mission," said he.

"But your mission also confronted the emperor's army!"

Yes! The enemy of the rebel was the emperor!

"But I can't do it alone, you neither," that moment Ivan reached his hands to Lucas's wrist, "You can do what you want when you have enough power, but you've not now!" and suddenly he teleported again.

During that time, Lucas only listened to the sound of exploration and the scream of people, innocent people who do nothing wrong, only wanting to inspect the emperor's government.

What was the singularity like this!?

What did their ancestors hope for the future to create this kind of thing!

Now, they teleported to somewhere not far from the square. Lucas still felt upset.

"Why you have said that the rebel wants to uncover the evil of the government, but you don't seem to help anyone," asked Lucas.

"What do you mean?" Ivan asked back. He only stared at his watch and the yellow signal. He walked forward, but still answered Lucas.

"When I first met you, you didn't seem upset when people had died, and now you also don't care!"

"Because it's not my mission," said he.

"Your mission? Do you care only about your mission? See people die in front of you!" That moment, although Lucas felt sorry for his words, he couldn't stop. He didn't understand, this guy helped him but he abandoned many people.

What did he really feel?

"Of course, I came because of that reason, for the precious data, I helped you because I had only wanted to," Ivan said coldly, now Lucas could see his real side, his eyes, they weren't sapphire, but ice.

The cold ice in the lonely dark frozen planet!

"You're cold-blooded, aren't you," said he.

"Everyone had said like you said, my dear Lucas," he smiled. "But, I can finish my mission, that's my good, am I right the yellow signal."

And that moment, a young woman suddenly appeared from the corner of the building.