"Hey, Tim. Why did he want us not to reveal the underground village to the public? When people already know elves' existence by historical things that they left behind." Acadia whispered.
"I don't know and don't care why Jett wants us to keep it hidden. I wanted it this way. It doesn't endanger my family and friends. I will take this information to my grave."
These two talked to each other after they started walking, and most news reporters didn't follow them because they stayed back to take photographs of the entrance, but the guards didn't let them. Some of them did follow James, Junon, Samuel, and Tim, but at some point, they lost them.
"Goodbye. I'm leaving. See you guys in six months." Tim said and left.
"James and Junon, good luck winning the tournament even though I won't let you!" Samuel said and left.
Only two people left, Ross and Acadia.
Ross then said, "Bye, Junon. See you in the tournament." Ross left.
"Wait, James."
Before he could leave, Acadia held his hand and said, "Can you please let me come with you to your house?"
"Hmmm? Why?"
"I'm scared of going near my home at night because I always see my neighbor's husband's dead body whenever I am near that house.
"If that's the case, then you can come. But you must leave in the morning and don't touch anything." Junon agreed, and they left.
***
Meanwhile, on an island in the Color Kingdom, Ouranós sought information about her missing ten-year-old brother in Ms. Rose's office. She put her straw hat on a table and started searching.
After reading a paragraph, she flipped most of the documentaries with her black fingernail. She looked until she found nothing, stood, and went to the other drawers.
'I hope there is something about my brother here. I didn't want to go to that man's office to look when getting here was hard.' She searched every nook and crannies but couldn't find anything.
Ouranós was about to give up and pick up her straw hat, but she heard a sound outside. She hid under the desk, putting her hat on her head.
"Oooh, my darling Rose left her office open. I hope nobody sees me going in here and smell-?!" Anonymous suddenly stopped when he heard Diamond.
"You pervert, what are you trying to do at Ms. Rose's office?" She yelled from a distance.
"Nothing... Nothing at all; why did you ask?"
"Right, like I believe you! You were trying to go to Ms. Rose's room and smell her underwear, weren't you, you perverted man?!" Diamond was raising her hand to slap Anonymous in the face.
Diamond would have slapped Anon if he hadn't devised an excuse for why he tried going to the office without being a pervert.
"I saw someone suspicious enter there. I wanted to investigate who it was." He was an inch close to getting slapped.
"I don't believe you, but checking doesn't hurt. Follow me and never leave my sight. If I see you doing something perverted, I will make you paralyzed for life, right?"
"G-g-got it!" She didn't believe him completely but went inside the room, and Anonymous followed her.
"You, pervert, go and check."
"Can you stop calling me that, Diamond? And why am I the only one searching here?"
"Stop being a whining bitch! You know why I call you that. I am looking, looking at you, not to do anything gross and weird!"
'Please, whatever god is listening, make my lie come true.'
He searched hiding spots everywhere, and Ouranós held her breath when she heard footsteps coming closer and closer to her every second step.
"Gotcha!" He looked at the closet.
"Never mind, nobody is here."
Diamond was getting impatient with Anonymous, so she said, "I knew it. Nobody was here, and you just made excuses. Get ready to be paralyzed for life!" She was about to clap her hands.
"Wait, wait. I didn't check under the desk."
She looked at Anon and said, "Fine, check if nobody is there."
'Once again, I'm asking whatever god is listening to help me not get murdered today!'
Ouranós could hear Anonymous's footsteps coming closer to her hiding spot, and she was sweating so hard that she could find out. She tried to go somewhere else to hide, but she saw Diamond's feet and legs.
'Shit, what should I do?'
"Whoever is hiding there, come out before I find you. It will be worse if I see you first than if you reveal yourself." Anonymous waited for an answer for a minute.
"Oh, so you want to be like that. Don't cry when I catch you and torment you! You put this on yourself by coming here and not leaving your hiding place."
***
Anonymous was too lazy to look to the other side where Ouranós was hiding, so he touched the desk with his glove—making it float and revealing Ouranós' hiding spot.
"See, Diamond. I told you the truth; now, do you believe me?"
'Thank you, gods, for letting me avoid getting killed by this crazy woman.' He started to believe in every deity from every religion in the past and present after this.
'I can't believe he was right all this time, and I hate it!'
"Ahem, now why on Armora are you here, Ouranós?! Please give me a good answer before I paralyze you for life."
Before answering, Rose entered her office and said, "What in the commotion happening in my room?"
"Oh, da-?!" Ms. Rose summoned vines from her hand and covered Anonymous's mouth after he spoke.
"Shut up, Anonymous. I don't want to hear about you!"
"Lady Rose, our Ouranós is acting very-?!"
The woman with a straw hat stood up and punched Diamond in the face. Everyone was surprised.
"Tell Mr. White he promised to bring my brother back when I joined the White Clan."
Diamond stands up angrily. She clapped her hands after seeing her face and yelled, "Thunderclap!" Making Ouranós not move, she fell to the ground.
"You fucking bitch... bitch die!" Diamond was so mad that she kicked Ouranós' sides and was about to clap thrice.
"Stop, Diamond. Do not kill her."
She replied, "No, I'm not letting this slide!"
Rose sighed and said, "I guess I have no choice." The rose vines got wrapped around Diamond, not letting her move.
"Why are you stopping me, lady Rose?! She betrayed us by attacking me, so she needs to die!"
Rose calmly said, "Did you forget what the boss said when you joined the Clan? If you did, here is it, he said, 'When you find any rats in White Clan, let me handle it; don't let your hands dirty with these traitors.'"
"Now, Anonymous, watch Diamond; she doesn't do anything to the rat until I get the order from Mr. White."
She was about to leave until suddenly Steel came in with tied-up Commander White, and he said, "Sorry to bother you, ma'am. But this man arrived from underground without the orb and let our boss's projects go to waste."
When she saw that, she took a heavy breath, 'First, Anonymous being a pervert, then Ouranós being a traitor, and now Commander White being an idiot. I can't take any more idiotic things.'
"Steel, watch them, and I will return with an order from the boss." She left and released vines covering Anon's mouth. Now he can speak.
"Say, Steel, weren't you supposed to be at Saint Nicholas?" Anonymous said that after he got his speech privilege back,
"I'm going there tomorrow."
Anonymous replied, "You should go sooner. I don't want to see your ugly face." Steel knew what he was doing, so he stayed calm and didn't get angry.
"Are you scared to fight me and lose like last time you were in a fight with that teen?"
Steel calmly replied, "At least I fought that teenager, but you lost your life by being mean to a kid. That's pathetic for an elite member of the White Clan, Jeff Spot!"
When Anonymous heard his former name come from Steel, he went for a punch and yelled, "Don't call me that, Sagte Malvalekker!"
"Oh? You know my former name, impressive. But, not impressive of attacking." He dodged the attack by moving left and punched Anon's leg.
"Jeffrey, you know you can't beat me in close range. Give-?!"
Suddenly, Anonymous stood up and touched Steel's shoulder, making him float. Steel didn't notice this was coming.
"When did you?"
Anonymous smiled and said, "I told you don't call me that name. Now die!"
He puts down a suitcase and takes the sniper out of the case. He went far away from Steel and prepared his gun.
"Anonymous, you're trying to kill me; then be prepared for me to kill you in a blink."
Commander White watched these two fighting each other; his mouth was closed by tape, and Diamond was still kicking Ouranós' paralyzed body.
"Dozen In..."
"Stop it, you two." Before Steel and Anonymous tried to kill each other, they got cut off by Rose and White coming into the room.
"Anonymous release Steel at this instance." Mr. White said with scary eyes.
Anon swallowed his saliva and said, "Yes!" He touches other big objects, giving them low gravity and making them float. He hopped on to the ones close to him and tapped on others where he was not on it anymore—dropping them on the ground.
Ms. Rose grabbed the falling items with the vines and slowly returned them. Anonymous reached Steel, and he touched him with the glove.
He sits on the ground and says, "Now. Tell me, why are you betraying me."
To be continued: