Chapter 470 - Again? (11)

"I already told the teachers you would be taking the entire week off," Luke passed me a tray of food.

It made sense how he was here, it was break time. Feeling hungry from missing almost a week's worth of meals, I picked up a spoon to start eating. Why did I feel like I was at Ben's apartment again, unable to spot any of the food I liked to eat on the tray? How could he exclude all the extra sugar in each of the dishes? Maybe I wasn't so hungry after all, seeing how I took a few bites at most from each plate.

Pulling the blankets away from me, I realized I was wearing a new night gown. It was lighter than what I usually wore, making me shiver from the difference in temperature. Luke adjusted the temperature inside the room again, not missing a single detail about me. Dizzily laying down on the bed once it was warm again, the next time I opened my eyes, I found him gone from the room to attend class. Wasn't this the perfect time to escape from this room?

I smiled when I was able to open the window in his room, not running into this amount of luck in the past few months. Not hesitating to jump onto the ground, I almost cheered when I was finally out of that room. I took a deep breath of the outside air, enjoying my newfound freedom before I decided to contact Henry. From seeing how Sienna was still using my room, I guessed I was still partnered with him.

[Are you feeling a bit better now?] Henry messaged to reply during class.

[I'm already in front of the school gates] I let him know I wanted to leave the school.

[What?]

Walking in front of the gates, its tall bars towered over me. My eyebrows went up when I found Henry running towards me, not thinking he was the type to run out of class. He grabbed both of my shoulders, trying to see if I was still sane. I wasn't wearing any shoes, still in my nightgown, not bothering to change into my uniform. Trying to hide my upcoming smile when I found the identification tags hung around his neck, I pulled one of them from him.

Waving the identification tag, the gates opened, giving me a chance to sprint outside the school before Henry knew what was happening. But what I didn't expect was a new set of kidnappers standing a close distance from the gates. Holding a dagger around my neck, they warned Henry not to come any closer. Henry froze, bewildered as my kidnappers started to drag me into their hover car. Covering my eyes with another blindfold, my mouth was covered by their hand.

"Where are we going?" I was able to speak once the hover car floated into the air.

"I'm sure you're already familiar with the underground passageways," one of them removed the blindfold.

"We're already there?" I gasped from finding myself in front of a parking spot.

They had to have used a teleportation gate to get to this place so soon. I wondered if they were watching the gates to open this entire time. Being forced to walk in between them, I was able to get a better view of how everything was illusioned to make it seem we were in broad daylight. Sunlight drowned the building from outside, putting all the artificial lights off. More than solid walls, I was surrounded by thick glass, allowing me to see many people from a far distance away.

My feet were cold from walking on cold stone tiles, rubbing my arms. Opening a door to one of the rooms, I found myself being confined again. One of them locked the door behind them, checking on the hundreds of cameras in the room. Focusing on any hidden spells, my eyes went round when I noticed they were using the same mana s.u.c.k.i.n.g spell on the cameras. Inside this tiny room was a small bed and table. I hung my head down, finding Luke's bedroom to be much better than this place.

"You're not keeping here forever, right?" I stared at my two captors.

"Why is she not afraid of us?" One of them whispered into another person's ear.

"She seems too calm to be a child coming from that prestige school," she agreed.

Were these people dumb? I wondered why they weren't lowering their voices since I could hear everything they were saying. Listening attentively to their conversation, I discovered they planned to leave me inside this room until I died from them draining all my mana out of me. Didn't they know that I could easily escape from this room after doing a powerful explosion spell? The glass walls didn't have fortified barriers to protect them in this section of the passage. Once they left the room, I planned on blowing up this entire organization with my newly learnt disintegration spell.

"She looks so pretty," a person admired my inhuman appearance.

"Children coming from powerful families are different," she joined in.

"I'm hungry," I needed them to leave the room.

Both of them turned to me, stopping their conversation. I guessed they forgot they needed to give their hostage some food to keep me alive. One of them ran out the room, not locking the door behind her. I tried to hold back my smile from how careless they were being, wondering if I could convince them to let me out of the room instead of escaping. It wasn't my first time getting kidnapped.