it is twelve fourth seven right now . I had only five minutes before I had to release all the information which was something I did not want to do. the information my father had would completely destabilise the world order .
my father had dirt on most of the top brass of x ( even the president of x ) . so releasing all that information could cause a civil war in x right now. x was a ceremonial monarchy . it had a king who controlled the armies , but everything in the government was handled by the president . which would make it really chaotic should a civil war break out here . the same would happen to y (which is a total monarchy ) and six other nations , including the country I was on .
oh yeah , I did not tell you about my park did I . the castle of dreams was one of the more popular theme parks in this country . I am sure most of you don't know what larping is . it is actually a pretty fun concept if you get to know about it . how do I tell this , yeah . you must have had that one character from your favourite movie whose place you must have wanted to take . you could do that in my park for a pretty low price .
it was naturally a cover for my , let's say , more shady business and no I was not talking about being a information merchant (it was bit to political for my tastes . ),I was Sherlock ( I didn't pick the name, though it was pretty apt . ) . my job was to investigate murders , kidnapping and other such messy jobs for the rich and powerful .
I am the police for the rich and the powerful . after all some stuff couldn't just be revealed to the public .
when I was not investigating into stuff then I am babysitting. after all the children of the rich and powerful needed a safe place to relax and enjoy . naturally that place was my castle of dreams which is a pretty decent place to relax and as for safety , I have assembled one of the best security force in this entire world ( with some help from my father . )
you know the quiet before the storm , where time seemed to be stretched from one moment to another .I was experiencing that right now . I was stuck somewhere between carelessness and extreme worry .
I had faced worser situation in this puny life of mine , but then I had to magic to support . right now I was as close to a normal human I could ever be . if situation was not in my favour then I could die without being able to anything , not even protect myself from my enemies if it came down to it .
there were thirty seconds left and I was getting anxious . anymore and I would have to do something that I really want to do .
fortunately for me exactly at that moment my phone rang .
half a minute later and I would release to the world a file that would screw with it completely .
regardless , I opened my phone to find a message from a unknown number .
the message read as follow
(Mr jack , the organisation is willing to hold further talks with you . but before that you must prove yourself to us . the organisation has decided on three tests . after that we will tell you everything we know about your father . threaten us again in a manner like that and the private army you amassed won't protect you from our rage .message y to this phone number if you want the first test .)
that's it the message ended that way . the were pretty dramatic if you wanted me to be honest . that much was not necessary they ju....
( after a few minutes . )
I apologise for stopping like that . but my ability deactivates Everytime I am shocked(as in surprised ) , that is let's say knocks on your door suddenly when you are reading the message from an organisation that is threatening to kill me . I would naturally be shocked don't you think .
it's like hearing strange footsteps when you are alone in your room watching a ghost movie . ( nearest analogy I could think of . )
unluckily for me it was not an assassin gunning for my life , but Mr Anthony daughter , a disaster altogether.
she was actually a pretty good person . decent , well behaved and respectful . but to me she was a disaster . let's just say we have unresolved matters between us .
you see Anthony was the best friends with my father . so naturally me and Anna were good friends since our childhood . we were pretty good friends with some pretty good chances of going further ( a guy has to have some hopes doesn't he ), in a way until a couple of years ago . what happen a few years ago is my own personal matter which I have no need to discuss .( I will someday though )
( right now she was drinking tea , in excruciatingly slow manner . she knew I didn't like that. I didn't like people doing anything longer than necessary . that's the reason she did It .)
me- do you really need to annoy me like this
miss Anna , you know it screws with me .
miss anna - I know very well why I do it and what would make me stop .
me - do you really need to explain it you another time. it is not my secret to tell . when he wants to tell , he will tell you .
miss Anna - leave it be , jack. I came here to relax and enjoy . not to start another fight .
me - so you will have the usual I guess
miss Anna - it's my first time here , jack .
me - what you like is kind of obvious , miss . you are pretty predictable . I don't know why you even like Sherlock Holmes so much . I even had to put my codename as Sherlock due to you
miss Anna - well it did make you popular didn't it .
me - that was my own hardwork . anyways , you will have to wait till tommorow , there is group that will be performing the Sherlock larp tommorow . you can join them tomorrow .
miss Anna - okay , what should I do till then
me -we do have excellent resort services . I have already reserved a vip suite for you .
I would like you to leave now . i am a very busy man .
miss Anna - sure
the cheerfulness with which she speaks is pretty scary (you are lucky that you can't hear it . ). the nearest thing that I can think of the way a child speaks when he knows he is about to do something bad . with her you can't tell if she is pissed of with you or happy with you or that she is about to stuff a knife through your back .
( well that's to be expected she had a tough upbringing . she had to manage parts of her father's business from a pretty young age , some very bloody parts. so naturally she had to toughen up at a very young age . she scared me sometimes and I was almost reaching twenty ( physically , spiritually I was touching my fourties . )
( after a while after miss Anna left , I opened my phone to organisations number . )
I pressed y and sent it without any delay . let's see what these three tasks of mine would be.
they replied almost immediately . which made me wonder about the poor guy that had state at computer screen for so long before getting a reply . then maybe it was computerised .
anyways ,leaving that matter aside . what I got was two messages . one was a picture and the other a message. .
I read the message first . it read.
( to Mr jack, given below is the picture of one of our members. a traitor of our organisation if you will . find him and and bring him to the location given below after which you will be briefed on the next task. ).
after this I opened the image
me ( with just a really minor hint of fear ) - who in hell is he.
you can't blame the person in front of me was that scary . he seemed to have been attacked by a really strong acid . half of his face seemed to have melted of giving the impression of a melting icecream ( flesh flavoured .)( now I hope none of you were eating an ice cream while reading that after all I would have ruined ice cream for you for a long time ) over all rather than scary he seemed more disgusting . ( okay maybe a bit scary .)
anyways , right now I had no strength to deal with the situation . today has been a pretty exhausting day for me . I had do deal with the strongest organisation ( more accurately getting threatened by them , but details . )
and miss Anna in the same day . that type stuff tend to leave you completely exhausted . since the organisation did not leave me any time limit to deal with the first task , I will take care of it later , when i am more rested .
well then, good night .
( the next day , approximately eleven .)
I have staring at the stupid old photo from morning . I was getting used to his face . but that was not the reason the photo was stupid . whoever took this photo was very careful , he made sure that there was not a hint of his location and any other kind of clues . I got a location , but that was because it was encoded with the location where the photo was taken.
the place where it was taken was a city in the country x , at steel factory a few miles from the city .
I had nothing to do so naturally , I kept staring at the photo for no reason . who knows maybe I would find something of value .
that was a sign of how bored I was. by the way this was not the first time that I have seen this kind of injuries . this injuries were caused due to flow of excess Mana . you would be surprised , just how many of the mages I have met in my life have shown me that kind of face melting injuries .
but I never expected to find such injuries in a world like this ( which held no Mana . ). naturally , there are other possibilities . it will most likely be the other possibilities which would be correct .
but it still made me wonder who the man in the picture was . the person wasn't a traitor , I can tell that much .
because the organisation would have given me much more information about him if they hoped to use me to catch him . even they must know that , so that the man was either a trap or a test .
other than those possibilities , I could think of only one other possibility , that the organisation did send everything they had on the person , but then the person wouldn't be a traitor . he would be something else . I am not sure who or what he was ,but he would be a mystery . and a mystery is always scary.
it would be especially scary if the injuries he got were due to excess of Mana , because right now I had to stay as far away from mana as physically possible for me . as for the reason why , I will tell in the next log . I had to spar ( or more accurately beat up ) with somebody . there should be somebody coming up with the good news .
( there was a knock on the door just as I was thinking this . )
me - come in
some random assistant - the head of the security team has completed the assignment that sir have given him . he has sent me to inform sir he is willing to spar with you
and is waiting in the sparring zone for sir
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