Inside the computer cafe, the printer produced a beeping sound causing lux and others nearby to yawn out of boredom.
Clicking... Beep...
"Here..." said the person as he gave the printed paper after printing the documents.
Lux took it and paid before leaving.
"Now, what to do? For some reason, coming here too early is a waste of time" Said Gallahan in disappointment.
Takeshi had an awkward expression upon hearing what he said after what happened earlier.
"Well, being excited is not that bad," said lux knowing the reason for him to say this.
"How about we play in an arcade?" Said Tommy.
Everyone agreed as nothing comes to mind on what to do since it's boring as hell.
With that said, They immediately went to a nearby place where most people hang out and start playing games inside the arcade.
After that, they went to various types of places like arenas, movie theaters, bowling, convenience store, and lastly, to the beach.
The beach is the best place to hang out with friends when it's noon as everyone can speak about some unimportant, some personal things, and funny moments that happened to their life.
After some more stories and laughing, everyone returned to their respective homes as the sun went down and was shortly replaced by the moon when the nightfall began.
Lux walked down the stairs at 1 am after feeling the hunger from his stomach and noticed Mei reading a message from a letter.
"What is that?" I asked out of curiosity.
Hearing the familiar tone, Mei stood up and gave the letter to him and said: "This is the information regarding your duty tomorrow.
Lux reads the letter for a while with a thoughtful expression.
The contents of the letter are addresses, the date of his duty and some important things.
Lux sighed before saying: " I guess I will be busy for a few days, and I don't even know when it ends"
"Don't worry about the school, I already told hayato to send an excuse letter for you" said Mei.
Lux immediately replied: "no need for an excuse letter I can just send my clones there."
Mei nodded and said: "you better be awake later"
Having said that, Mei immediately left leaving lux behind.
Seeing her leaving, lux sighed and proceeds to do what he came for.
The next day...
Lux opened the car door and said: "I will be on my way now"
"Yeah, sure, don't forget to protect her with all your strength..." Mei paused and continued. " If something were to happen to my junior, you know the consequence right?" She said with an intimidating look.
"Yeah..." lux awkwardly answered.
Having heard that, Mei immediately left the scene using the car at full speed.
Lux sighed and muttered: "I bet she's going to take a vacation somewhere, seeing the expensive clothes she wears."
Currently, it's 7 in the morning, because of lack of sleep it cause lux to yawn. "*yawned* what a disaster day" he stretches his body.
After that, lux in a suit walks towards a huge luxury house full of security guards in front of the gate with a mask covering his entire face and a katana on his back.
arriving in front of the gate, the guards immediately stopped him from coming.
"Stop there!" Said the guards with their weapons aiming for his neck.
"What's your purpose for coming here with a weapon on your back?" One of the guards that looks like the captain starts questioning him.
Lux immediately surrendered by raising both hands as a sign that he didn't come here to harm anyone before explaining his purpose.
"I came here as one of Miss Aria's bodyguards," he said calmly.
Having said that, every single guard immediately attacks him.
Swish... Swish... Swish...
Lux instantly disappeared from his position without any traces causing the guard to panic.
"Everyone, immediately find him and send a message to our boss," said the captain in charge.
"Shit, that was too fast for us to react. So this is the level of challenger rank" he muttered in fear.
Lux who appeared on top of the tree nearby sighed.
"What the actual fuck was that? What's the point of asking me if they won't believe anyway?" He muttered silently.
Inside of the most secured room of the house. More than 20 A-rank hunters are guarding one of the rooms.
One of the guards who was running as if his life depended on it passed the message to one of the guards.
After passing the message, every single sensor type mage immediately used sensory magic to detect the enemies nearby.
The combat guards prepared themselves on the possible attacks of the enemies but...
Aria who came out of the room immediately ordered her bodyguards to stop.
"What are you guys doing? Stop this immediately!" She said, but the guards didn't listen to her request.
"Madam, this is for your safety please go back to your room," said the guy next to him.
Aria sighed. Earlier, she received a message from mei that lux arrived this morning with full details, and after hearing the full information about the culprit who has a mask, Aria immediately knew it was lux as it stated from the message that he's wearing a mask and after seeing the video from the guards with a person having the same mask from the CCTV.
With no other choice, Aria was forced to use her sound attribute to command them. "Stop! The person you are looking for is an ally"
Since it's a command, everyone I'mmediately stopped finding him. But just in case, they still put their guards up.
Lux hiding from a tree muttered after hearing the sound. "Did it finally stop?"
"But madam, this is a serious matter, we can't just let that person go, what if he's an enemy" the guy next to him tried to argue.
Annoyed by this, Aria responded with killing intent. "Hey... do you think you have the right to command me?"
The bodyguard immediately denied after feeling the killing intent and said.
"But, please let us gather our guards first just for your safety.
Aria nodded in agreement. Once everyone gathered at the same place outside the house, Aria immediately starts calling lux.
" Please come out, it's safe now, the guards won't attack you like earlier." She said using magic and sound attribute to enhance her voice.
Hearing that, lux immediately came out from the tree and appeared in front of them.
Lux glanced at the people from her sides. There... 4 people standing beside her are S-Rank and the others are just fillers from B - A rank.
Seeing lux in front, the guards used a barrier around Aria cautiously.
Seeing the same person from the image sent by the person she respect the most, Aria immediately asked him just for confirmation.
"Light?" She said calmly.
lux immediately responded: "1!"
Their conversation just now is a secret code for lux to identify himself. This code was created when she asked for help the other day. If the person said 1, then it's confirmed that it's the real lux and if it said the wrong answer or stayed silent then it's not the real one.
Now that lux confirmed himself, Aria immediately invites him to come inside the house.
Lux disappeared from his spot and appeared next to Aria without making the guards nearby notice him.
Aria was startled when lux appeared next to her side. Even the S-rank hunters next to her couldn't mutter a word.
"Let's go back inside now," said Lux.
Aria has so many questions on her mind but staying outside for quite a long time is a bad idea.
Aria nodded reluctantly before returning inside with lux.
"....."
The guards were speechless upon seeing this, no one could even mutter a single word.
'Who the heck is that person? He easily broke an S-rank barrier we created like it was just an eggshell.' Thought one of the S-rank hunters in confused.
After a few seconds, they regained the reasons why they came here as they started running back inside and starts activating some barrier around the house.
When lux infiltrated earlier, they noticed that the security is lacking because they didn't put a barrier around.
If lux didn't remind them, then the house would have been destroyed and infiltrated by the enemies easily.
When they arrived inside, Both Aria and lux starts discussing their enemy plans and tried to counter them.
after finishing their discussion, Lux decided to stay with her.
'Now that we finished talking, let's see how they're trying to defend this place.'
Lux starts examining if the house can withstand the attacks only to find many things are lacking inside the house.
'They should have put some barriers here and some traps' thought lux while scanning.
the situation inside the house caused Lux to make a disappointed look: "don't tell me they plan to defend her with this weak barrier against an enemy who can destroy a city easily.
Knock... Knock...
" excuse me" a boy at the age of 20 entered the room along with his other teammates.
At this time, another person that looks came in that seemed to be Aria's husband judging by her reactions when seeing his face.
When he entered, his attention immediately goes towards her and hug her.
Lux had an awkward look seeing the couple hugging next to him.
"For some reason, it kinda makes me want to quit this job
(I feel like a drunk person after rereading this.)