For the next few hours Sean and Lucy just kept chatting and thinking of plans to set up Rutherford. Though they went back and forth in expressing various ideas both Sean and Lucy could not come up with any feasible plan to set up Rutherford. Soon came the daybreak and Lucy asked Sean to remain in the house while she would go for the next few hours to report to Carmella about yesterday's mission while checking out the current situation. During the hours they spent talking Sean and Lucy grew closer to each other and were now in a more friendly terms.
When Sean saw Lucy preparing to go out he said "Help me send a message to Wendell. Tell him that I am alright and I am with the student council" for which Lucy nodded while saying "Stay inside the house and don't open for anyone apart from me. If any enforcer comes to investigate the house, say that you belong to the mercenary team of Rothschild family and that you are my younger brother if they ask who is the owner of this house. I'll bring some food for you when I return". Sean nodded expressing his understanding as he closed the door and locked it behind.
Sean had other plans for the day. His physique was already used to the previous genetic enhancement and he planned on taking his fourth Strength enhancement serum today. As soon as Lucy went away Sean moved to the room and relaxed himself for a while before exchanging the wealth he stole from the mission. During the entire mission in the VIP suite Sean had never forgotten to take the spacial pouches
from the people he killed and stored it within the inventory of the system.
Sean took the items which head stolen from out of the inventory and started checking its contents. It was filled with Qi stones, medicines, money, clothes and some spare equipments such as armours and swords. In one particular spacial bag apart from regular Qi stones there were milky white crystals and a huge stone in the shape of a rectangle and was black in colour. Sean asked the system to identify these two items.
" Ding, mental energy stones have been identified. The mental energy stone is used by a magician and is useful to replenish his mental energy which he uses to cast spells said the system when he scanned the milky white crystals. "System, give me an estimated value of a mental energy stone" asked Sean for which the system responded "Responding to host's question each mental energy stone has a value of 10 million dollars".
Sean who heard this started laughing while thinking 'Damn the best way to earn is through robbery. I earned way more than what I earned during my 12 years' as he said "System, exchange everything and convert it to currency in my account balance. Also buy a strength level 4 gene enhancement serum".
" Ding, scanning all the items and converting.....
Conversion completed.
Host!! your account balance has been increased to 306 million dollars.
Purchasing Level 4 strength gene enhancement serum.. " as various notifications were inside Sean's mind as he waited till he received the final notification.
Within seconds he obtained a Level 4 strength gene enhancement serum which he used and felt the changes in his body.
Meanwhile Lucy took a long route to escape the investigation of enforcers before making way towards Carmella's mansion. Once she arrived before the mansion, the guards let her in as Lucy went straight towards the study and knocked on the door.
"Who is it" asked Carmella. "It's me" said Lucy for which she heard a reply asking her to come in in a not so happy voice. Once Lucy went inside, she saw Carmella with an unhappy face but chose to ignore it as she reported "We have completed the mission, Carmella. The poison gas has has been purged".
"I have heard. I don't understand something Lucy. Though I gave you the permission to remove any clues of poison gas and death of Bernard, I don't remember giving you the permission to slaughter innocent people. Not only have you killed the guests who stayed in VIP suite, you have also slaughtered the city guards. To be honest, I had known that you killed all the people whom I had spared during our missions. Even though I was conflicted I had never questioned you after all you had killed them because they were either witnesses or had grudge against our mercenary and could be a potential threat to me. But these people did not pose any threat to us or our mercenary team. Why did you kill them?" asked Carmella who was clearly furious of the actions of her childhood friend.
"Carmella, the mission this time is indeed removing clues of poison gas and Bernard's death. However we could not outright try to remove such clues. So long Bernard and lackeys are found dead it will be tied to us. The plan this time was to make it seem like Bernard and his lackeys were amongst other casualties and this would reduce the chances of Bernard's death being investigated. So we came with an idea to make it seem like a group of audacious bandits attacking the Sapphire restaurant for money and killing many in the process. This has made the murder of Bernard be treated as one of the unfortunate victims of the attack. This was an effective strategy which Sen and I came up with. Though it was unfortunate that many people had to die it was necessary for our survival" said Lucy with a tone which neither had happiness or sadness in it.
Carmella did not know what to say as she was shocked by Lucy's reply as well as the coldness with which she treated other's life. 'Was she always like this? or did she change somewhere along the line. Was she acting whenever she was with me and is this her real self' thought Carmella as she felt a chill along her spine and for the first time she felt afraid of her childhood friend. 'Wait a minute, she said that she came up with this plan along with Sean. Did that boy give her this idea? In any case he went along with this plan and probably killed them along with Lucy and he subordinates. I should be on guard against him.
Meanwhile Wendell was not having a great time. This morning when he entered the cafeteria he had heard about Sapphire restaurant being attacked by a group of bandits and in the process the entire restaurant burned down bringing many casualties. Hearing this Wendell became pale with fright as he ran towards the Sapphire restaurant to check on his brother. It didn't take long for him to come to the location and saw a charred building with windows and entrance covered in black soot and several bodies which were charred beyond recognition were placed along the side of the restaurant. There were many people wearing red tight robe along the entire southern area and the entire street where Sapphire restaurant was situated had been cordoned off. Wendell like any other person who had rushed to the area had been stopped by a man in red tight robe while saying "This place is prohibited. Who are you and Why are you here?".
"Sir, I am Wendell Walker and I am a student of Four leaves Academy. My brother Sean is a new student who is joining the Academy and was staying in the restaurant till the Academy year starts. I want to see my brother" said Wendell with a pale face as he looked at even more bodies being brought out of the restaurant. The bodies were in worst condition, some with legs severed, some with arms missing, most bodies were charred beyond recognition.
The guard had a look of pity as he saw Wendell while saying "Many are dead and their bodies are beyond recognition. You can go to the corner where all the bodies are placed to look for your brother. Don't worry there were some guests who had escaped during the start of the attack. If you could not find your brother then don't loose hope. He would have very well escaped". "Thank you sir" said Wendell as he gave five Qi stones to the guard to let him enter the place to look at the bodies.