In another second, I have stood beside King who is staring at blocks of LED that are assembled into a big screen on the wall.
"Plan 1.2.1.1.2.2.1.3.1, right ?" She asks me as if she still needs to confirm it is what exactly happened. Her smile gets wider when I nod to answer her.
King is the best strategist the organization has up until now. Her strength is not just about how fool-proof her strategies are, but how she can map any possibility that may occur. Thus, she has always prepared many plans for evey mission Royal Knights has.
For this mission, for instance. Based on her suspicions on Miss Lee's reason to take part on the Galliluere Auction, she started mapping plans with question about whether or not Miss Lee wanted the Diamond Blood. If she did, whether or not she asked me, as Seo Jong So of course, to win the blood for her. If not, whether or not she asked me to win the next item for her, whether or not she insisted to go to the Transaction Room, whether or not one who bought the blood also bought the Nuclear Core, whether or not the buyer had golden token, whether or not she went back to the room before me, whether she stole the Nuclear Core, and whether or not she willed to coorporate.
If only, Miss Lee didn't steal the Nuclear Core, I would simply knock her to sleep and put her beside the real Seo Jong So. Or if the buyer had Silver token then his assassination would take place in the aisle of the Transaction Room then I would need to knock all the bodyguards in front of the room, including Miss Lee before disappeared
But of course, none of them happened. Instead, plan 1.2.1.1.2.2.1.3.1, plan that has highest probability rate to be happened, is one that happened. And the probability rate is once again is predicted by King, based on all information gathered before.
If she is that well-planned and well-prepared in every mission, why the mission to get me back three and a hlf years ago was so "failed". Maybe that question crosses your mind. Well, it was crossed my mind for sure. I finally got the answer three and a half years ago. King confessed to me a night before I went to the mission.
They called the mission to get me back to the organisation as The Return of The Lost Lamb. When planning that mission, King actually expected I could find and rescued Jennifer from the kidnapping at the airport. She let it happened so I could ran away with the car. The car had GPS, so they knew my position back then. She did planned and put the truck to obstruct my trip. She deliberately told the driver to make a sudden stop so Bruno could teleport to the location and stole Jennifer again, right in front of me. That way, I would obviously knew who was behind the kidnapping. She even predicted that I would go to Mr. Rauss' house and kidnap Madam. So Madam was actually knew and prepared to be kidnapped by me. That ws why my action back then was so smooth. She let it happened and told Master Derrick to hold back.
What King didn't predict was Viper's betrayal and how she hijacked King's plan. Somehow, Viper could broke the iron cable thus made all the piles its held striking my car and eventually hurt Jennifer. King didn't predict that Viper with the help of Black bending memories of all people who had interaction with me and Jennifer, made Jennifer vanished from their memories.
So, yes. that was the first and only, up until now, King's mission that went off from her prediction. Despite being betrayed, King didn't angry toward Viper. King blamed herself for ignoring Viper's feeling toward me as an important factor.
"She's a great actress," King's comment over Miss Lee's act that is captured by CCTVs in the corridor brings me back from my reverie.
From the block of LEDs we both watch how Miss Lee walks along the corridor with worry face. She then seems so naturally surprised and panic to find Seo Jong So is lying unconsciously on the floor. She shakes his body hard to wake him up to fail, then she runs down the stairs to find help. About five minutes later, Miss Lee comes back with six men following her.
"She wants this blood so much," Bruno comments with a wide grin all over his face as his hand wiggling the tube of blood.
"Hey, be careful with that. We need to give it to her as a reward," King reminds him, makes Bruno put the tube back to its place.
"I want to have the necklace," I say to King.
"What is it for ?" She asks.
I shrug. "A gift," I shortly answer her.
King stares at me for a whole ten seconds before replying, "Sure." She then turns to Fire. "Please transfer from Death's account to Seo's account the price of the necklace. And don't forget to take from Seo's account the amount of money of the blood," King orders Fire that is busy with his computer as always.
"You two, prepare for the las scene," King then says to Black and me before stepping out from the meeting room.
"Last scene ?" I ask her for more clarification. But instead of being answered, Black and Bruno just giggling while King already goes out of the room.
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In a luxurious room of a five stars hotel, a beautiful young woman sits on the edge of a king size bed that covered by soft silk sheet. Nervousness and worry are vividly shown on her face even only under a night lamp that has merely few watts of light.
Maybe wants to redeem her weariness, the young woman stands up andapproaches the clear glass wall that shows a beautiful view of the city at night. Still, the beautiful view can not erase the previous expression from her face.
"Good evening, Miss Lee," I greet her right after I turn my speed into human mode.
Miss Lee obviously jolts and screams in surprise to hear my sudden greeting. She is even more surprised to see my 'no-face' hologram mask that I wear.
"Who are..."
I press the hologram button to change my mask into Seo Jong So's face. A couple of more presses change my 'face' into couple random faces. My act makes Miss Lee's face loses its color. Miss Lee steps back until her back sticks onto the glass wall behind her.
"Don't you remember me ?" I ask her with a wide grin.
It takes Miss Lee a couple of minutes to finally get herself together again. Especially when she saw me wiggle the tube of blood with my hand. Miss Lee rushes her feet toward me. When she is in front of me, she directly tries to grab the tube. I teasingly move my hand to dodge her grabbing.
"Give me my thing back!!" She groans in anger, still trying to take it from me.
I laugh heartily to see how furious she is.
"Let;s just finish this, will you..." A cold and lazy tone speaks to me from my behind. The sudden appearance of another person inside her room is finally gets into Miss Lee's limit.
"You scare her," I say to Black as if blaming her to make the beautiful young woman finally lose her consciousness and just drops on the floor. Black just respinds me by rolling her eyes.
I carry the unconscious Miss Lee on my arm an lies her on her bed. I then out the tube of blood on her night table.
After I step aside, Black sits on the edge of the bed right next to Miss Lee. she then places her hand on top of Miss Lee's forehead and closes her eyes to gain some concentration.
"Done," Black says a half minute after.
"And Seo ?" I ask for confirmation.
"Of course I have bent him, too," Black answers.
"Nice.."
We both turn our speed into eight times sound speed then goes out from the room.
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The five of us are in a private jet on our way back to the head quarter. The four of us are sitting facing each other, sipping champagne and eating caviar while Fire is in the sleeping cabin. Well, he has turned himself into bat who is sleeping at daytime.
"Do you believe that Lee will fall in love to Seo knowing Seo bought her the blood ?" Black asks King who is pouring herself another glass of champagne.
That curly hair lady shrugs. "I don't know about fall in love. But if the blood is so important for her, even if she didn't love Seo, she would be indebted over his generosity to safe her family. Thus she would accept if he asked her to marry him," King says then claps her hand excitedly. "I love a happy ending drama."
Bruno and I roll our eyes in the same time. King and her K-drama addiction. Even a mission is treated and directed like a K-drama by King.
=====@AUTHOR'S THOUGHT=====
What do you think of this cute ending of "episode" to start the second season ? Hehe ^_^