After the end of my speech, which was much longer than I had originally planned. Everybody was a little bit confused, nobody really knew what to do or where to go.
Most of them were together with their partner and were taking advantage of these moments of calm to get to know each other better, or simply to know each other for some. And everyone else was waiting, watching the groups, but not doing anything else.
Personally, I don't know how to change this kind of situation, because the attention is now scattered everywhere, and if I would try to take it back when they are not attentive anymore, some of them could already start to take it badly and could quickly get fed up with me.
But unfortunately, I have certainly finished my speech, however, my day is not totally over. First of all, I have to explain to all my family what I did with the house and where this money comes from, both problems are linked together so it shouldn't take too long.
But then I have to meet Sonia at 9 pm in the hotel at the eastern exit, to explain the reason for the refusal. And for that, although my plan is already well developed, I still lack a lot of main information, hence the reason of her intervention in the castle of Terco, the residence of our dear King, Poros Varma.
So my first thing to do is to warn them before they all leave.
Me - "Kana? Can you please come?"
Kana - "Yes? What's up?"
Me - "I need you, you can go get Angelo and wait for me in my room, while I go get Shiro and Nomiko."
Nomiko - "Oh, are you looking for me Yùichi?"
Me - "Oh great, you're here. Well then, both of you go and look for Angelo and wait for me in my room, I still have something to explain to you."
Nomiko - "It works, shall we go?"
Kana - "Yes, let's go."
Well normally, if I'm not talking nonsense, Shiro should be at Chauk's side, talking to her about everything she did since the war started.
Me - "Chauk, Shiro, can I bother you for two seconds?"
Chauk - "Yeah sure don't worry, we weren't too busy, we were just talking."
Me - "Well that's cool, you guys are getting to know each other. And what were you talking about?"
Shiro - "The war."
Me - "The War?"
Shiro - "Yes, I was explaining to him how we were going to win with your plans and strength."
Me - "Ahah, you are really optimistic, that's great. Anyway, Chauk I'm borrowing Shiro for ten short minutes, you can stay there during that time if you want."
Chauk - "No problem, do as you like Yùichi."
After this brief interaction with Chauk, I am sure I made the right choice when I decided to put him with Shiro. Because I have to admit that this was the black spot of the whole thing. I was originally going to put her with Sonia, but when I was thinking about the final plan, I totally forgot that I was going to put them both together, so I had to change a couple of groups right then and there, but so far each group seems to be getting along pretty well. Normally, disagreements, if any, will start to appear tomorrow when the base is chosen. Because each person in each pair will have a place that is important to them. But above all because the leadership of this binomial will be played on this one and only choice. The one who will win will be the leader. And the other will be the second. For some groups, like Lysis, Kana will not mind at all to be second, it's even what she hopes.
Anyway, we'll see all that in due time.
Kana - "It's good, did you find her?"
Me - "Yeah yeah it's good."
Angelo - "Do you have anything else to tell us so that we can all be together again?"
Me - "Yes, but it's something I couldn't talk about with the others."
Angelo - "What is it, a new rule?"
Me - "Unfortunately no, I would have liked to, but it's not that."
Angelo - "Well then, what is it?"
Me - "It's about our house and the money."
Kana: "I think I've already figured it out. All the money you gave us came from our house that you sold, right?"
Me - "Exactly."
Angelo - "And you sold it for how much?"
Me - "200,000€."
Angelo - "200,000? But who would agree to pay such an amount for a house in bad condition and not renovated?"
Nomiko - "It's Alia, isn't it?"
Me - "Good answer again. Before she even saw the house, she already wanted to buy it."
Nomiko - "But that's great, right?"
Me - "Well, personally, I think it's a little too weird."
Nomiko - "Why? She was very nice to buy it for you, you should thank her instead of saying that.
Me - "I understand your reaction, but I have to explain one more thing."
Kana - "So it has to do with Alia."
Me - "Yeah, I don't think she's a spy, but I think she's hiding something."
Nomiko - "Go ahead and develop it."
So I told them more or less what I knew about Alia's past, trying to forget as few details as possible and not changing what I remember.
Nomiko - "Well, her story is far from being a fairy tale, but I don't understand why you think she is hiding something from us."
Me - "A little recap, normally you should understand. Her whole family is dead except for her older brother. She was educated until she was 10 years old and then she had to fend for herself. She decided to travel the world in search of her brother. Finally, she learns that he should be in the state of Karroé, but once there, she does not hear his name at any time in two years, she wants to end her life, but the announcement gives her a last chance, she meets me two days later and follows me and a day later she pays me a house with 200 000 € in cash. Isn't there something that shocks you?"
Nomiko - "The fact that she can't find her brother?"
Me - "Sometimes I honestly think you're being silly on purpose. No, what's shocking is that she decides to buy a house when there's a war coming and she's able to get 200,000€ out of me at once without any problem."
Kana - "So what do you think she would do to get all that money?"
Me - "My first option was that she would totally lie about her background and that she actually comes from a wealthy family; second option, she stole that money from someone just before the war started and third option, she has another accomplice who is supplying her with that money."
Kana - "And which option do you think it is?"
Me - "Right now I don't know, but that's why I put myself in the group with her. That way I'll have the next six months to come to terms with whether or not she lied to me or if she plans to betray us later."