I was sitting on a plastic chair right beside Erick; our team was gathered outside the under-operation zone. Overseers did not have to gather around since we demolishers were going to assemble around them, but Erick still took all the overseers with him and went near the zone to reduce the workload on Emma. Niall was standing on the rubble of destroyed building; Hoover was standing beneath the debris. He sensed that Niall was still being cautious in regards of Hoover.
The active behavior of people around Hoover was obviously dismayed by him but he could not have done anything about it except for being patient since he was now living the life of the guy all these people used to hate.
I still was not aware what this guy did that made him the target of everyone's loathing even when he wants to become friends now! But considering the behavior of Gil and Rich, I think it is safe to assume that he did something quite horrendous and that terrible thing was most likely done to Seth Locke, the real owner of this identity.
......
I was sitting on the chair with stooping downwards and resting my chin on my hand when I noticed Andre coming towards me with Brock right beside him, both of them had smirks spread on their faces. Their jumpsuits were stained with black blood of deathodds. Well, not that it was like only their clothes were stained with blood, almost everybody who was active in the duty had bloodied clothes.
They stood in front of me and started to chuckle. I looked at them with narrowed eyes, I was about to say something to them when Erick elbowed me and gestured me to not say anything, through shaking his head.
"Yeah, yeah, listen to your dear daddy and be a bitch! Never try to face a man!!"
Brock put his hand on my shoulder and grinned mockingly.
"Huh!" I grunted silently with scrunched eyes and coarse voice. I was about to stand up when Andre took Brock with him, holding him by his arm.
Erick patted me on my shoulder and thinned his lips, saying to not take it too seriously.
"Hey... are you uh... you are not happy that he called you my dad right!" I said with widely opened eyes.
Erick just raised the corner of his lips with closed eyes.
"Hey!" I shrieked.
"I am kidding! I will not go that far, to make jokes about your deceased father." Erick stood and left with a straight face.
"Oh!" I pondered silently. I almost forgot that we are orphans in this world. I hope that my real family is alright in my world.
I simply glanced at the leaving Erick with lifting my head upwards, and sighed. Erick started to talk with still Albert. Albert was in some deep thought when Erick started to converse with him.
I laid on the back of chair and crossed my arms, seeing all around, looking at the showoff Hoover, scared Niall and busy Emma and the one who was helping the busy Emma, Ellie!
Melora and I were the only one from our group doing nothing but looking at everyone. Emma was busy because there were still three people from our division who had not arrived here, Erick told us that they will be here by the evening.
"Tch! Is there really nothing interesting for me to do?" I grunted.
I started to remember all the things that happened on the night while training with Emma.
'Hmm, she was able to produce that striking force by...! Why didn't I think of that!? Well, it is all good, because if I just combine their effects together, I will be able to strike with twice force. Now that I am thinking about it, just how much petty is that girl? I mean seriously, she didn't tell me how she was doing that and at the end, I had to find it out by myself.'
'But how is she able to do that? What is her caliber, at training in Heinsberg she never showed any characteristic of some special type of caliber. All she did during that training regime was moving around with grace! And now she is able to create fire, what is her holy arm's ability?'
I was thinking about lots of things, but at the end I should be glad that because of the training with her, I was able to think about some new moves as well!
This place is a lot less crowded than I thought. There are only three divisions in this side, I wonder if other side has a greater number of people than here.
"Don't put too much stress on your head, you will turn bald!" I remember this voice and that face very well. His way of mocking and sitting right beside me without any hesitation.
"How are you!?" I asked Gilberg smilingly. My face was without any doubt shining with excitement.
"Better than you, of course! When did you arrive here?"
"It has been almost an hour now, you see our group leader was very eager to gather every group member of our division as soon as possible."
"At least somebody is worried about you!" Gil ridiculed.
"Yeah!" I raised my eyebrows to answer Gil's ridiculing. He was not stained with blood like everybody in our team, but overseers were given the work in which there was almost zero chance of getting stained. He had a big mocking smirk on his face.
"Everything went well on your side?" I frowned.
"Aside from some deathodds found in the debris nothing went wrong."
I scowled and widened my eyes. There were those vicious creatures in the cleared area?
"What? But how? I mean wasn't that area cleared from deathodds."
"Hahaha, I was just joking, man why are you so serious?" Gil tapped me on my back.
"..."
I remained silent for a moment then asked him again, "What happened to Rich? Where is he, I am not seeing him anywhere!"
"Where is who?" Gil started to ponder on whom I was talking about, is he again joking.
"..." This time I remained silent and chose not to answer his teasing.
"Oh, I just remembered, you are asking about Richard! Well, he was in the demolishers group so I don't know, you should have known about him." Gil said.
"Hmm."
We were talking when I noticed that the remaining members of our group has arrived. Emma slowly approached me, glanced at Gil and passed him a smile. Then she gestured me to go with her.
I simply stood up from my chair and followed her after tapping Gil's back. Our team was finally gathered and now we just had to go to the control tower from where we were given last instructions about this mission.
'It is all over now, huh!' I presumed in relief.
Emma did a wonderful job in leading the demolishers, I hoped that Erick also did the same with overseers.
Our division was all gathered when Emma's expression suddenly tensed. She tapped on her earpiece with grim expression, Erick's expression also became sullied, he looked at Emma to confirm that the message he received was the same message Emma had heard.
"What the hell? What's wrong, why are both of you so uneasy?"
Melora wondered angrily.
"Hm, uh... it's because..." Emma could not complete her sentence because she was still listening to the message.
"Sudden explosions have occurred all around the Emerald land!! All the two citi-"
BOOM!!
Erick was in between telling us about what happened when an explosion was seen and heard by everyone gathered around.
My eyes were wide opened due to the immense shock, and I hesitatingly looked at everybody's faces who also had the same expression as me.