Chapter 33: 24/7 CCTV surveillance

Everyone was shocked. Just after a second of the match, their campus belle and the revered Dagger Queen collapsed, and they had no idea what in the world happened in that one second.

Phwwwwwwwt!!

The referee blew his whistle again, and declared Xin the winner of the match. Though the match came to an end, and the boys team won two matches out of three all of their faces were completely paled.

A newbie defeated the Dagger Queen in less than a second, and the most frustrating thing, they couldn't even see what happened before their eyes. All they saw was Sarena's figure disappearing when she plunged towards Xin, then falling onto the ground after reaching near Xin.

The training hall was quiet. Not the boys nor the girls. No one was uttering a word. Amidst of this silence someone came from outside and broke the silence of the training room.

"Hey you newbie, come here if you are done. You ordered food is getting cold."

Xin turned around towards the entrance of the training room and found it was the sweet café lady who was preparing his order in the meantime.

"Yes, yes, coming," Xin replied and jumped off from the fighting platform and went towards the café lady. Till then no one, literally no one, had recovered from the shock, and they wouldn't even have recovered but the timely appearance of JSDF Head Yamamoto dragged them back to reality.

Just after a minute of Xin disappearing with the café lady Yamamoto entered the training room and observed the crowd in the training room. Seeing no one was talking nor were they moving, he made his way up to the fighting platform to see what was actually going on there.

On top of the stage, only two people were there. One was standing straight like an army cadet, the referee. And another was lying unconscious on the stage, Sarena.

Although Sarena was known as the Dagger Queen and one of the campus belles, she wasn't popular enough to be remembered by JSDF Head, Yamamoto.

He only remembered that the girl was somewhat good at using daggers. But that was not the thing which was troubling him at that time. The thing that was bugging him was the weird behavior of all the cadets, and that too after seeing him, head of the JSDF.

Without contemplating too much about the situation, he turned around and commanded, "Cadets, attention!!"

Everyone present there heard the loud hoarse voice of Yamamoto and snapped out of their shocks. Aisen and the referee were the ones who first snapped out of it first and became aware of their surroundings.

Standing before them was the JSDF Head, Yamamoto. And they had no idea when and how they came there and climbed onto the fighting platform.

But before anything else, Aisen did the thing which was most needed at that time. And that was to greet back the officer, in an army way.

"Sir, yes sir!! Cadet Sunada Aisen, reporting, sir."

"At ease!!" Yamamoto shouted again.

Till then everyone had already come to their senses, but no one was uttering a word before Yamamoto.

After scanning through the entire area, Yamamoto's eyes fell upon the only cadet who had replied to him. After pondering something, he made a hand gesture and ordered Aisen to come near.

Without any delay he climbed onto the stage and made a salute to pay his respect to Yamamoto.

"Hmm… What was your name again, Aisen right?"

"Sir, yes sir!!"

"So, care to tell what happened here? And why were you spacing out before I came?"

Initially, Aisen didn't reply to his question. But when he saw Yamamoto knitting his eyebrows, he broke the ice and narrated the entire incident that happened there sometimes ago.

After having a basic knowledge of the situation, Yamamoto looked around and asked, "Where is that newbie? Who defeated the so-called the Dagger Queen of the campus?"

"Gone."

"Gone."

"Gone."

Three people replied, one after another. The first was Aisen, the second was the referee standing near Yamamoto, and the third was a boy in round spectacles.

"Hmm…" Yamamoto frowned over and asked, "What's the name of this boy you were talking about?"

But unlike the first time, no one answered his question this time. It was not like they didn't want to answer, but before giving him a reply they must know the answer themselves, and they had no idea who was that person, and what was his name.

All they knew that he was a junior brought by Aisen from the cafeteria. Aisen too nodded his head and replied that he didn't know the name of that newbie. He was in a hurry so he kind of forgot to ask him his name.

Yamamoto deeply exhaled and ordered the girls to take Sarena to the pharmacy, and dispersed the rest of the cadets. But before dispersing he stopped Aisen, the boy in spectacles, and the referee.

"You three, follow me to the recording room."

Since the room was fitted with numerous CCTV cameras Yamamoto decided not to waste any time with the clueless cadets and went to the recording room to have a look at the footage recorded there.

The three of them were following Yamamoto to the recording room, but on their way, the cadet with glasses remembered something and sneaked out to check something in the training hall.

Japanese Self Defence Force Head Quarters or in short JSDF HQ was one of the places in the nation having the highest tier of security in the country. Its purpose, to train the specially selected individuals for top level missions and make them work under the secret organisations, that work directly under the President and the Prime Minister.

Apart from working as a training place, it also directs and gives commands to the other sub-branches throughout the nation. Since it was a place of utmost importance, the entire JSDF HQ was placed under 24/7 CCTV surveillance.