After arriving back on Earth, Alex made everyone sit down before contacting Kris.
Holding his old keypad phone, Alex scrolled through his phonebook and called Kris.
Ring~ Ring~
Click!
"Hello?"
After it rang for a few seconds, Alex heard Kris' voice on the other end of the call.
"Hey, Kris, this is Alex."
Hearing Alex's voice, Kris went silent for a couple of seconds before she replied.
"Oh, Alex, what made you call me at this time of the night?"
Alex frowned when he heard her question.
He looked back at the group of students sitting not far away, comforting each other after successfully escaping what they thought was hell.
Alex sighed.
For some reason, Alex feels like Kris is the reason why he's being involved in this troublesome thing.
Getting rid of such thoughts in his head, Alex answered, "What else do you think would make me call you? Of course, it's about what we talked about this afternoon!"
"Eh?"
It seems like Alex's answer was a little unexpected for Kris and she involuntarily let out a confused noise.
After a while, it seems like Kris has recovered from her stupor.
Coughing, she asked, "E-ehem, so, what is it about for you to call? Do you have some questions about it?"
"No," Alex looked at the students and said, "I have brought back the missing students, come to my place and take them all in your care."
"Huh?!"
Kris was surprised to hear the words that Alex just said that it even made her stand up from her seat.
Hurriedly, she said, "Wait, Alex, are you serious?"
"Do you think I will call you at this time just to joke around?" Alex asked a little irritatedly.
"Come here and see if I'm telling the truth or not. By the way, bring more cars to take them all."
After saying that, Alex hung up the call without waiting for Kris to respond.
"Now I just have to wait until Kris comes and then I'll go back to Kupido town."
Alex said, putting his phone into his pocket.
Thinking of Kris, Alex remembered that she has an appraisal skill which is the reason how Kris learned of his identity as a 'player'.
Truthfully, Alex doesn't really like the fact that someone is peeping on his information like that.
Even if it's Kris who can be considered as his best friend, Alex still doesn't like it.
"Hmm, is there a skill that can help me avoid skills like appraisal?"
Browsing through the skill tree, Alex searched for his need and found the skill he was looking for.
[Concealment]
[Details: Hide your information from the eyes of other people. Do not let them know who you really are. Become a mystery in the eyes of all.]
…
The skill description sounds a little weird but, since it does the job, Alex didn't hesitate to learn it.
This time, 10 skill points were deducted from him unlike when he learned those magics before that only took 1 point each.
Curious by this, Alex turned his attention on the [Concealment] skill.
[Concealment] is a passive skill that's why it doesn't need any mana for its use.
Also, Alex saw that [Concealment] is actually an A-rank skill which made him realize why it cost a lot of skill points.
When Alex learned it, he felt like nothing changed.
But it's different for those people around him.
When those students that Alex saved look at it before, they can see that Alex was a young man around their age but has incredible strength.
But after he learned [Concealment], they felt like Alex was covered by a hazy mist that makes it hard for them to see through him.
It seems like Alex was covered by countless mysteries of unknown magnitude.
Feeling all this, Alex's identity in their hearts rose by a lot.
Anyway, Alex didn't know the changes that [Concealment] brought him.
He disgruntledly said, "I can't feel any effect from this [Concealment] skill, what the hell is this for?"
Sighing, he continued, "I just hope that it will work out in avoiding peeping eyes like Kris' appraisal skill."
Saying that, Alex stopped thinking about it and sat down on some corner to wait for Kris.
5 minutes later, Kris arrived with 5 other vans for the students.
Getting out of the car, Kris immediately ran towards Alex.
Then with an incredulous look on her face, she said, "Alex, just how the hell did you do it?!"
On her way here, Kris has been wondering whether Alex was telling her the truth earlier in the phone or just pranking her countless times.
But when he saw the line of students sitting near Alex's house, Kris' doubt was immediately replaced by shock and surprise!
To be honest, Kris didn't really expect much from Alex when she talked to him this afternoon.
She only wanted to widen the search as well as somehow involve Alex with her more so that she can help him.
But now, Alex actually brought back the missing students!
Because of that, Kris can't control her curiosity and asked Alex directly, looking at him face to face.
Alex grabbed Kris' face and pushed her away gently, saying, "You're too close, stand over there."
Displeased, Kris slapped Alex hands away from her face, "Don't push my face like that, what if I get wrinkles!"
Alex rolled his eyes at her and stopped paying attention to her.
He turned his eyes at the group of students not far away and said, "Kris, I hope you can take care of these students."
"They just experienced something horrible…"
Thinking back to the bloodied scene of the room when he arrived earlier, Alex can't imagine how shocked were these normal students when they witnessed someone being brutally killed.
Even though he doesn't know what exactly transpired there, from the remains, he can conclude that it was probably a tragic scene.
Sighing, Alex said, "I will leave them all in your hands. I hope you can help them so that they won't get any trauma from this."
After saying that, Alex walked away and entered his house.
Kris watched Alex's back until it disappeared into the house and muttered,
"Don't worry, I will do my best to help them, Alex."
After that, she ordered the people who came with her to help the students get inside the vans before they left.