Chapter 498 - Video (7) - A Ordinary Fraction Member POV

Luke de Impalia Roselia. He was the only one in our fraction that had never brought his partner with him. Although we worked hard to cover for all the messes his partner created, he was adamant on hiding her appearance. Since he possessed a mass amount of power inside our fraction, nobody had the courage to usher a complaint about his partner. We all knew what happened when we brought her up in the discussion without his family initiating it with his cousins being the leaders.

"We have to cover for Rika again?" A fraction member complained.​​

"Is there a problem with that?" Alex crossed his arms.

"She should come here to help fix her own messes!" Another member added.

"We thank you for all that you've done for our fraction till now. Please sign this contract according to our rules before you start your new ventures," Luke kicked both of them out of our fraction.

He immediately made anyone who complained about his partner leave our fraction. Luke mercilessly waited for them to sign the contract with his family members supporting him. Under his intimidating stare, the former members stiffened with fear. Nobody wanted to leave our fraction, wanting to maintain good relations with the top-ranking families. Everyone especially wanted to get closer to Luke, who came from the prestige Roselia family with his relatives coming from equally strong backgrounds

There was an undisputable agreement among all the people in our fraction that Luke possessed the most power. He was a part of three other influential fractions, including our rival fraction that should've been impossible for him to join. This made us have more meetings with his other fractions that possessed one common goal, covering for Rika. Although the other fractions have seen her face before, we didn't know how she looked.

Until my partner gasped one day when Luke held a sleeping girl in his arms, covered by a thin blanket. She was so small, curling up in a circle to get more warmth. Luke and his family were protective of her, trying to block her from our line of sight once he sat down on a chair. While he couldn't hide her tumbling silver hair, a trademark from the Roselia family, her face couldn't be seen. Looking away from the girl with Alex warning us that the meeting had started, we decided to pretend she wasn't here.

But when we heard an unfamiliar voice, it couldn't be anyone but Luke's partner. She sounded very young, around a child in elementary school, her bright voice containing some hints of annoyance, "What's the problem?"

"Go back to sleep Rika," Alex tried to block her from us again.

The next time we heard her voice was when she refused to be a candidate to become the next fraction leader. However, most of us planned on electing Luke as the next fraction leader, agreeing that there was no better person to take the role. He could bring more connections while making sure our status remained as the most powerful fraction. With his confession that he was already the next leader of our rival fraction, we wondered how he managed to convince them as a new member.

The rest of us decided to vote for him, finding no other perfect leader to carry us forward. Making all the votes slide to his side of the screen, our current fraction leaders were surprised. They suddenly decided to implement the creation of co-leaders, which none of us refuted since Luke remained as the future leader. Admiring Luke's beautiful eyes glimmering under the moonlight, we wondered if he was anxious that he may have not been picked as the leader.

He hugged his partner tighter, displaying his affections for her in the open. Watching their close relationship together, we became more curious about her. Whenever his partner showed signs she was about to wake from our chattering, Luke glared at us to lower our voices. He would pat her back while ushering her back to sleep until she stopped moving again. Seeing her in person, it was different from hearing about her to clean her messes.

During my break time, my friend sent me a message to watch a video that everyone has been talking about in the school lately. Tapping on the screen, I watched a dazzling girl pretending to bring justice to the world. She was so innocent and pure, the way she talked and posed with her bright smile. My heart was filled with warmth as she reminded me of my younger sibling. The girl couldn't be older than eleven, leading me to ȧssume she was an elementary school student.

Her gorgeous visuals attracted a lot of attention, making people unable to stop replaying the video. From her large eyes twinkling like gemstones, and perfectly aligned features, she appeared as if she was the most delicately crafted doll. I closed my screen after playing the video several times. I needed to attend a fraction meeting with the sudden notice sent out this morning, meaning that Rika had caused more trouble again.

"We need to take as many measures as we can from the video spreading while deleting its existence at the same time," Yulee announced.

"Who is the girl in the video?" My fellow fraction member wondered.

"My partner," Luke appeared exhausted.

All of us were stunned. The sleeping girl inside his arms, the person who caused us so much trouble all the time, couldn't be predicted to be so childlike. It explained why Luke and his family were extremely protective of her. If her appearance leaked out, things could quickly turn dangerous. Some people in the comments appeared to be obsessed with wanting her for themselves. The meeting place went silent, all staring at the girl who wanted to save the world by sending hearts to the people watching the video.