Chapter 565 - Secret Room (2)

"How did it go?" I whispered into Charles' ear.

"It's impossible to find. There's too many documents," Charles noticed Luke trying to listen to our conversation.

"How long will it take you?" I wondered.

"I can't do this alone. It'll take me at least a week," Charles lowered his voice.

A week was too long. I couldn't break into the office last night since I spent the entire time distracting Luke with choosing my outfits for social week. When Luke left my room, he locked the door with him. I didn't have many chances to talk to Charles other than pretending to ask him more questions from the workbooks during the study session. Luke knew we weren't close to each other.

However, Luke was the busiest after dinner since that was when a new inflow of documents arrived from the fractions that we were in. The time we chose as our daily meeting. I sighed as I loudly asked Charles another question about calculus. Luke couldn't do anything if I was actually studying. But I knew he was starting to get suspicious alongside Alex.

"When did you guys get close?" Alex narrowed his eyes.

"We watch movies together sometimes," I elbowed Charles.

"Where did you get those movies?" Luke made sure there was no entertainment inside the mansion.

"Documentaries," Charles pointed out the only other videos available.

"You don't give me the chance to do anything. There's nothing but boring documentaries to watch," I knew it was one of Charles' hobbies.

Charles was frustrated with nothing to do except for studying and working. The school forum wasn't active when everyone was busy with classes. All his swords were broken, and he couldn't leave the mansion. The school was still handling the videos and pictures taken of us. This was when he turned to documentaries with all his requests denied by Luke. He was helpless under Luke and Alex as much as I was. We didn't need any words to exchange pity between each other.

"We should get rid of the documentaries," Alex muttered to Luke.

Both Charles and I stiffened, wondering what harm documentaries could do. I didn't have access to the documentaries anyways since I was banned from the library. The only other way to spend our time was to call other people using our marbles. Alex whispered something to Luke, soft enough that both of us couldn't hear. When I took a peek at Charles, his face hardened, regretting that he used the documentary excuse.

"You're not letting her watch even documentaries?" Charles knew it was mostly because of me.

"Documentaries are biased. You know Rika will believe everything inside them instead of using them for research purposes," Luke explained.

"They're for entertainment purposes!" I wondered how stupid they believed me to be.

"I'm done! You're taking away everything you can right now," I rose from my seat.

"If you leave this room then our exchange is gone," Luke waited for me to sit down.

I slumped back into my seat, feeling frustrated I couldn't do anything. It was better to quickly get this through this schedule and find the document. After I suffered through the rest of the day, I flopped onto my bed. It was time to make some calls while Charles was busy with searching for the document. Thankfully, I still had around five cages of bugs inside my inventory. I called Ethan, hoping he had more space to hide my stuff.

"Three cages for hiding my stuff from the storage temporarily into your room," I offered.

"Five and I'll take a quarter of the things in that room," Ethan smiled.

"Four and you'll help Oili after you move the quarter out," I started to negotiate.

"If Luke figures out, then we're all dead," I warned him.

"Deal," Ethan ended the call.

I smiled when I received a message from Oili. Everyone else from the club room had offered to hide my stuff, taking around half the room in total. I only had a quarter left to hide. Unfortunately, the dorm room Charles shared with Miliana would fit around half a quarter, being a bit smaller than mine. I really didn't want to do this, but I called Jules next. Another person who was equally doomed. Unexpectedly, he picked up the call right away.

"I need you to hide my stuff for me," I sighed.

"Why would I do that?" Jules wasn't friendly with me anymore.

"The karaoke machine. What do you think will happen if Luke figures out?" I pointed out.

"Where is the storage room?" Jules instantly changed.

"Contact Oili, he's leading the entire plan with me," I gestured to our other club member.

"I only have enough space to hide half of the things from the former club room. I have to hide them from Yulee," Jules wondered how I would handle the rest.

"Everything else is taken care of," I secretly cheered in my heart.

I ended the call, able to focus entirely on the document since I was able to find enough people to hide all my things. I had to distract Luke from working to help Charles. I walked to the office they used, knocking on the door. Thankfully, Luke opened the door, wondering why I would come here. He knew I avoided him as much as possible.

"Kristie says Rika is bored.. She wants you to play with her," I held the doll in my arms.