Chapter 6: Circumstances

Chapter 6: Circumstances

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"No results yet?"

"Yes, Your Highness. I think we should prepare for the worst."

"No." Eleanor shook her head.

It is the morning of a new day, no one can stay hidden from all this search for that much time.

"We couldn't find him under the bridge nor anywhere near the banks. Things shouldn't be this"

"Devon, what makes you even think that the one you chased after was Leon?" Eleanor asked.

"He looked like Leon, sounded like him too." He said.

"But he used Magic and displayed a skill way beyond a Level 3 Warrior." She replied pushing a piece of paper at Devon.

Devon took the paper of what seemed to be a student Status report and then checked the date.

"That's less than a week ago."

"Precisely! I can understand if he was working hard in the Academy but his class results are just good at the Theory classes. He is the worst student in Combat and Magic classes." Eleanor walked across her office while holding her head, "He hasn't improved a single bit since he was taken by his father six years ago and he even has a [Pain Resistance] skill That's a skill that a kid shouldn't have."

"Then who was the Leon I met yesterday?" Devon asked, "He was fast, nimble even, very decisive and his way at handling a dagger was artistic even."

"That's not Leon."

"So someone saved Leon and switched him with some agent that resembles him?" Devon asked.

"An agent who is highly trained, very deadly. Remember that when you cornered him, he revealed his real skill and started jumping away."

" True." Devon nodded. "Then where is the real Leon?"

"Well, isn't this a mystery?!"

***

The real Leon, this was a strange question to ask the Leon who is still unconscious till the day.

Are you the real Leon?

- No Yes Am I?

The man himself didn't know and kept hallucinating. He wasn't sure if he was even here or how real was the experience he's just been through.

But he's hot.

Too hot to bear it.

Just like that day that moment! The explosion.

- SHADY!

"NO!"

She's dead!

Who's dead? Why is this nightmare so real?

Shady woke up in a dark room shouting and feeling as if his body is screaming not to move anymore. His temperature was spiking high and his balance was amiss.

"You okay? Rest back. Rest your head."

A pair of cold hands touched him which he tried to resist yet his body wasn't even listening from all the pain he's in.

He killed her he killed his friend.

He went to sleep once again and finally calmed down.

"Mis Miss Jessica what should we do with him?" Asked a chubby boy in poor rags.

"You're the one who fished him out. Take responsibility, you idiot." Replied a black hair tall girl wearing less than a common girl should.

"He looks very roughed up. How long will he stay down?" Asked the chubby boy.

"Fuck if I know. We gave him medicine, just give him soup if he wakes up. Don't forget to charge him before he fucks off."

"He doesn't seem to have money on him."

"Your problem otherwise I'll be charging you."

The young man and the young woman kept talking and nagging each other while Leon was barely holding up to his consciousness. He could hear their voices in his sleep but that made his hallucinations get even worse and worse.

He saw things memories which were mostly suppressed long ago all mingled up with weird dreams.

He saw the face of his step-father. The demon-like man which caused him and his mother a great amount of pain.

Long ago when Shady was still young, his mother was married to a man after his father's death just to take care of her son. Things didn't go as planned and the man turned out to be an abusive control-freak who enjoyed beating his wife. Life became dark too dark for Shady to withstand and after being around that sociopath most of the time, he slowly became like him until one day, he snapped.

His step-father was lying dead in their apartment with a bloody kitchen knife being pulled from his neck by the 10 years old Shady.

The man was about to strike his mother so he came from the back and finished him he wasn't sure how to do it but that was what he saw in a movie once. And with that, he ended all those problems.

He was sure he did. He was certain he could live happily with his mother now.

His mother screamed even more she panicked freaked out collapsed and stood back up again so calm yet by no means collected.

She took the knife, called the Police and sent her son on an errand. The next thing Shady knows was his mother taking the fall for him.

She eventually dies too and he kills again and again.

But there were monsters showing up, they were attacking him and he was desperately defending someone. He was afraid and weak and completely overpowered. He did

Wait! These are not his memories this is something else someone else.

Leon, he wasn't as brave as Shady, he was rather more of a mommy's boy. Come to think of it, Shady was just the same as well.

Both lost their mothers both

No!

Leon screamed from within.

And he opened his eyes now for good.

His mother is still alive.

Whose mother again?

And out of nowhere, an acute pain assaulted his head as if a long heated needle was driven in his skull and reached the center of pain. His waist arched up with a feeling of spasm in his right leg and arm driving his back to the moment where he was fighting over the bridge the other night.

A world of a game played by millions is a real world and he happened to be the player that somehow crossover to it? This doesn't make any sense.

What makes less sense is the nightmare he just saw. The heat, the fire he doesn't want to admit it but he died in Fire.

He also remembers holding a detonator. The only one he's aware of is the one in the depot warehouse in New York. If it was this then the operation was compromised and there was it Nadia his friend she was screaming his name.

"Oh God! What have I done?"

In conclusion, they pulled off the Horus Ring heist, escaped, got tracked down and cornered then he had to detonate himself with the enemy.

It sounded glorious for the moment but Nadia was caught up in the explosion too He never felt so bitter.

But there is no way they could be tracked down. The ring didn't emit signals, it was even cased in a container made of lead to prevent it from giving off its location. Even the escape route and the locations were all perfectly planned.

This is a true shame.

But now what?

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He is to his nose with problems in this world as well. The Prince wants him dead and he is by no means going down without a fight. Yet there is the other him, the one screaming inside, the one panicking from fear.

Yes, he had to kill a shit ton of people last night to escape. Yes, he doesn't feel bad about it, not one bit. Yes, he will do it again if he has to.

Killing is easy. It is what he was trained to do.

Actually, he might as well enjoy it just like how he did last night. Those dead people contributed to his growth, it would be a shame to get cold feet at the moment.

If this world follows video game rules then video game rules it is. Power is all that matters and he won't shy from striving for it now that his potential guarantees such growth.

But still he has no plan whatsoever after the escape. Should he leave the Capital to stay away from his enemies? Or should he stay?

For the first time in his two lives, Leon was finally free to decide which direction to take.

***

"Your Highness, the results of the investigation have arrived." Devon handed a document to Eleanor.

She took the paper and put on her glasses right off only to frown right away.

"The blood and vomit in Leon's room are his?" Eleanor asked.

"That's what the Alchemist said." Devon replied.

"And there was poison in the vomit?"

"Indeed."

The look on Eleanor's face turned grim.

"This is bad."

"I know, your Highness, but this can be used against whoever was plotting against Lord Leon, right?"

"What are you saying, Devon?"

"With all due respect, I know it is not my position to suggest such a thing but this can be a card to make the Royal Family back off." Devon said.

"Be careful of your words next time, Devon. If you want justice for Leon, it is all that we ever wanted for the past six years. But the only justice that exists is that of the Crown and the Crown is not siding with Leon."

"I apologize for speaking out of my position."

Eleanor looked away and tore off the report before throwing it into the fireplace.

"If only I managed to speak with him that past month" Eleanor said while clenching her teeth in frustration.

"Why Why didn't you, Your Highness?" Devon asked.

"I tried. The thing is Leon didn't want to see me. Each time I walk to him, he'd turn and walk away. He didn't want to even look at me in the eye." Eleanor said.

"He was scared."

"Disappointed is the word I would use." Eleanor faced the window behind her desk and watched the students come and go and play in the academy.

"I just hoped that when Alice returns, she surely would have succeeded to get to him."

"Young love?" Devon smiled.

"Yes, it does miracles. They were betrothed at the age of 10 for a reason." Eleanor said and remembered the old days.

"Still" Devon wanted to say something but took it back.

"Say it, Devon."

"I wanted to say that Miss Alice is basically the most illustrious member of the Aristocratic younger generation. Even the family elders are against the marriage between her and Young Lord Leon."

"You're saying?"

"Miss Alice has undergone 3 Scholarships. An Honorary Knighthood, an Honorary Membership in the Merlin Tower, and her last trip to the Leetan Kingdom where she was praised by the High Librarians of Logalim. She's also" Devon wanted to say something but Eleanor cut him.

"She's also a silver-haired beauty, inherited her mother's looks, tall, moody, cunning, hard to figure out?"

Eleanor described her daughter which was a spitting image of her. A beautiful lady in a Magician Suit, silver-haired, green-eyed with sharp brows giving the look of a woman who can't appeal to anyone without taking his breath away and more to it, she is covered in this mysterious aura of magic and knowledge.

Devon sighed in his heart and nodded.

"Others may deem Leon unworthy but he is just right for my daughter. She even loves him which is all good to me." Eleanor said.

"But they are a terrible match." Devon said.

"Oh, that they are." Eleanor agreed completely, "But for my daughter, Leon has a role to play. He is the only one who can play it. I gave my daughter everything I have but she still lacks the same things I lack. Leon is the only one that can provide that."

"Oh! I see." Devon nodded.

"But a missing boy won't find himself, would he?" Eleanor then started at Devon.

"Oh!" He panicked, "I'll oversee the city sweep. Excuse me."

"Excused!"

Eleanor watched as Devon ran off and led a number of Knights to retrace where Leon left. Rather than just hope, Eleanor kept thinking of many steps ahead on how to get Leon and Alice out of this messy capital and returned to her schemes for the enemies shall continue scheming day and night as well.

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