Chapter 443 - Show Business (5)

"Pretend that you don't see me," Alice whispered.

I nodded my head as it made sense Alice would go on mission together with Ben. I didn't think one of them would hide themselves while the other would be in the open. Before stepping down all the stairs, I started to scan my surroundings from another point of view. The top of the fake tower was an excellent place to find anything suspicious.

While Alice stayed inside the tower, I found Ben waiting for me near the edge of the stage. Since it was already late after the rehearsal had ended, I wondered if they were about to take me to their apartments. Everybody began to pack their things with them and chatter about going to a decent diner together.

"Rika is staying the night with me," Ben explained as I walked towards him.

"Wait," the person who brought me here stopped him.

"How can we trust you that you won't do anything with her?" He blocked me from Ben.

"We have known each other for a long time. She's one of my relatives," Ben flawlessly lied.

I nodded my head to agree with Ben. I didn't want to follow the rest of them since Ben could use this chance to return me back to the Monete hotel. Although I couldn't find anything dangerous about this place, the whole thing was strange from how they had kidnapped me here. I would also lose my chance to explore the rest of the attractions at the hotel if this dragged to Sunday.

"You'll have to bring her back tomorrow," he warned Ben.

"I will," Ben didn't lose against his studying gaze.

Oddly, it seemed like the people here had some trust in Ben. I was soon escorted into a hover car with Ben to leave this place. I wondered how long he was inside this theatre group, seeing him familiar with most of the members.

"Can you bring me to the new Monete hotel?" I didn't want to go back to school.

"Is that where they took you from?" He studied my expression.

"Maybe," I looked away from him.

"My partner for the next two weeks is Cillian. You can't tell Luke. He doesn't know," I explained the situation to him.

"I'll send the message to him then," Ben decided before our car shook.

Tightly hanging onto its handles on the door, my body began to slip back and forth on the car seats even with a belt. I peeked to see what was happening outside to find a hover car behind us. I gasped as some people were attacking our car with some light wind spells. Ben noticed the same thing, immediately placing a barrier around us.

"We'll have to go to my apartment. They're following us while being undercover," he punched some buttons to switch the location.

"I think you'll have to go to that rehearsal tomorrow until I can sneak you back into the school," he went over his plan.

"But why did they choose me?" I wondered.

"Your appearance stands out," Ben sighed.

"You would've been less of a target if you wore your usual clothes. They wouldn't have messed with someone from the Roselia family," he pointed out.

"Was this why they left Shelly and Ellen alone?" I went through my memories.

"Even they know not to mess with certain people," he nodded his head.

Once the hover car landed near the balcony of his apartment floor, I jumped down. The other car that followed us has disappeared, finding nothing suspicious about us anymore. I slid his door open to find an ordinary flat that resembled Elise's place. This was better than my club room since I could eat all the junk food I wanted.

"Your place has everything," I liked how there were some headgears here.

I sank into a bean chair, grabbing onto his tablet to determine what to order. I smiled as it has been a while since I ate some fatty noodles. There was also pizza, fries, and chicken wings on the menu. I dashed to the table once the robot finished making the food. Washing my hands with a water spell, I opened my mouth to take a big bite of the lovely pizza slice.

"Is this how you got sick at your previous kidnapper's house?" Ben recalled what happened during summer vacation.

"I didn't get sick from the food!" I started to eat quicker.

"She'll have to spit everything back out or she'll start to get a fever," Alice revealed herself in the apartment.

"Do you have some medication with you?" Ben turned to her.

"I don't," Alice shook her head.

"I think we'll have to do this the manual way," she looked at me in a new light.

The manual way was to hit someone on their back until they threw everything up. Luke had done this before, making me unable to walk for the entire day from my sore back. How was I going to escape if they went with this method?

"You're not going to hit me, are you?" I became frightened by their eyes.