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Chapter 30 - Chapter 30 Flashback

Sean layer on the bed exhausted from the day's activities as he thought back to his deal with the President of student council 'Carmella Rothschild'.

Flashback - Yesterday evening

After the announcer made the announcement that Knock out matches would take place tomorrow the crowd started to dilute and the new students made their way towards the Academy gate. Just as Sean was about to reach the gate, he saw a student approaching him and giving him a note. After giving the note the student went away without talking to him. Seeing the back of the student who gave the note, Sean opened it to find that there was an instruction given in it asking him to go towards the Academy Main hall. Sean thought for a second whether to go or not, but decided to follow the instruction and went towards the Main hall. As soon as he reached the main hall he saw a girl whom he recognised. It was Lucy, the woman who was with the Student council President. Sean saw her gesture asking him to follow her without approaching her. Sean was a bit shocked for the necessity for maintaining such secrecy while feeling himself getting embroiled in a conspiracy, but he still followed her silently.

Soon Lucy led Sean to a private room which looked more like luxury room and it was clearly different from other rooms in the Academy. Inside the room he saw the student council President seated behind her desk while giving a welcoming nod and asking Sean to sit in the couch which was in the corner of the room. Lucy moved to another corner where there were lots of tea cups along with a jar containing tea which she poured in three different cups and placed them in a tray before bringing them to the table which was in front of the couch. Lucy sat down on the couch in the opposite side of Sean and took a sip on her tea in silence waiting for the president to join.

The president joined the couch within five minutes and took a sip from the cup before asking "Sean, have you decided to take upon my offer?". "If Ms.President is asking about joining the student council, then I will be happy to join once I join the Academy" said Sean with a smile. "Though I asked you to join the Student council, that was before watching your combat efficiency. Now I would like to extend the offer" said Carmella as she waited to watch Sean's reaction before continuing "I have a mercenary team formed with talented individuals around the city and I want you to consider joining it". Sean did not change his expression while listening to Carmella and said "But why the secrecy. You used a student to inform me to arrive near the main hall when I was near the gate and when I arrived at the main hall Ms.Vice President here had asked me to follow her from a distance. You even chose to meet me at a time where there were no students around. What is Ms.President afraid of?".

Both President and Lucy who heard this were shocked but soon recovered their expressions and President said "You are really perceptive, but you are wrong about something. I am not scared of anyone. It's just an annoying pest who has been flooding the student council with spies".

"Oh, is it that guy called Rutherford? But why does he do it? What is his motive?" asked Sean.

"Rutherford comes from a medium level clan and is most probably going to become the next clan head. He has been pursuing Carmella for quite sometime without much success. Well his motive is also not pure. Since Carmella is from Rothschild family also another medium level family Rutherford has been trying to gain complete access of Rothschild family and Mercenary team through Carmella as she is the heiress of the family as well as the leader of Mercenary team" said Lucy while Carmella continued to sip her tea.

"Didn't you guys do anything to retaliate?" asked Sean while doubting the theory of Lucy as he felt that there was more to it especially when he looks at Carmella.

"There was no need to expose my hand especially when I had not suffered any loss. The people he turned as spies were only meant for student council and was never recruited into my faction and all the information they pass on to Rutherford were either fake or useless. The people whom I truly recruited are already in my mercenary team and I still keep a watch on them for any possible leakage" said Carmella.

"This is where you are wrong Ms. Carmella. It is alright to keep a few hidden cards up your sleave, but if the people you recruited into the student council betray you and you show no response to it, the people will start taking things for granted. In a competition between equals retaliation is also important. You need to choose someone who betrayed you to make an example out of him/her in order for the other students to know that you are aware of them being spies. This will act as a deterrent against anyone who is a spy or has plans to act as a spy. This will also deter the members who are already in your faction to not have any funny ideas" said Sean while Carmella and Lucy remained silent.

"He is correct Carmella. Rutherford had been getting more and more open and he does not try to hide his true self. Even while placing a spy he does not even try to hide and when nowadays he is not even trying to put up the gentleman act. We need to deter him and make him take a step back" said Lucy accepting the advice given by Sean.

"I had long wanted to do that but there is a chance that he would retaliate even more violently. Rutherford is an obsessive person and he would react more violently if things does not go in his way. He would stoop down to any level to achieve his goals and that's why I have held myself back" said Carmella.

"That's exactly what we want Ms. President, a reason to make a move against him openly. Why not use his strategy against him. If he wants to absorb your family, then you can also do the same against him" said Sean which caused both Lucy and Carmella to be shocked. Lucy who has been praised for her intelligence felt that the 12 year old boy in front of her more adept in schemes and strategies.

"But there is a chance that Rutherford would not act as such. Afterall he has a competent strategist with him as well" said Lucy for which Sean said "In that case eliminate him. If your enemy has a weak point, but it has been covered by his men, then all you would have to do is kill the men who is covering up his weak point. If Rutherford's think tank is eliminated his actions will become more predictable".

Hearing Sean's words made Carmella and Lucy to nod while Carmella was extremely satisfied with Sean's performance and so was Lucy. Carmella wanted to groom Sean as her trusted aid like Lucy and asked " Sean, you still haven't given the answer. Are you willing to join our Mercenary squad ".

Sean who heard this smiled "If I was not going to join I wouldn't have given those advice Ms. President" as he took a sip of the tea before him and continued "I joined the Academy with the aim of becoming a Mercenary. However I want the contract prepared for the next five years. We can extend the contract based on the situation after five years. If that's alright with you then I can start my services from now".

Lucy looked at Carmella and saw her nod. Lucy then proceeded to prepare a contract which was a sheet prepared by magicians which binded the soul of the parties to the contract making them unable to betray from the terms of contract. Though there are methods available which could destroy this binding, the resources to break such binding is only with large clans, magicians and the Royal Family. So most would not accept to bind themselves in such a contract but Sean never planned on betraying her as he chose Carmella after doing surveillance on her while evading both her guard and the person who spied on him as well.

End of Flashback

Sean continued to lie on his bed and soon drifted of to sleep. Meanwhile the person who was asked to keep an eye on Sean saw the entire scene of Sean killing Bernard and his two lackeys through the window and proceeded to inform everything he saw to the head guard of shadows who was currently guarding Carmella. The head guard was shocked by what he heard and sent him to continue to spy on Sean while went towards Carmella and informed of Sean's actions.