Chapter 330: Major Clue (Part 2)

Chapter 330: Major Clue (Part 2)

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Everyone's eyes widened with shock as they couldn't believe it. It had only been their first day in military school and they had just found a major piece of the puzzle.

"There were no transfers during the night, so that means..." Leon said what everyone was thinking out loud.

"It wasn't just some military personnel but special class cadets that teleported to the military school in that footage," Nathan completed Leon's sentence.

Haruto was now more confused than ever. Natasha had told him to get ready because since they were special class cadets, they would be getting transported to the school early so that they could settle in.

Haruto voiced out his thoughts to the group trying to make them understand that they were on the wrong track, not knowing that Natasha was playing him from the very start.

"Haruto, how many people were in the teleportation room that night?" Mako asked.

"Um... since we were the last out of out of the special class cadets to get teleported, there weren't many in the room... There were only 4 cadets and a supervisor who operated the teleporter." Haruto replied honestly still believing his perspective to be true.

"That makes 5, but the footage only showed 4 figures..." Erin said as she recalled Commander Sable's recording.

"No, the camera angle was only able to capture the main teleportation stage, not the control panels. If it was an operator, controlling the teleporter from the panel, then we wouldn't have been able to see him," Mako stated after some quick thinking.

"Recording...? What are you guys talking about?" Haruto asked, his confusion and curiosity getting the better of him.

Mako silently looked around at his friends who all gave him a small nod. Going in, Mako already had a strong inclination that Haruto was innocent and it seemed that now his friends also agreed with him as they all also believed in his innocence.

After Mako received a small nod of approval from everyone in the group, he turned back toward Haruto who was admittedly a little scared as he didn't know what the nod was supposed to represent.

He approached Haruto but instead of doing anything to him, just used a small blade to cut his hands free.

Haruto was surprised to see Mako doing that as he wasn't sure he was off the hook so quickly. Mako then placed a hand on Haruto's shoulder as he began to explain to Haruto the entire situation and the brand new mission that was assigned to them by Commander Sable. After a few minutes, Haruto was left completely speechless after he learned about all the things that had happened since the time they parted ways back in the military base. Even though he previously knew of Natasha's manipulative nature, he was completely surprised to learn just how much she had manipulated him such that even though she was working with the imposter from the military base, he had absolutely no clue about it.

The rest nodded as they completely agreed with Mako's logic; his intelligence points finally did him well.

"What did Natasha do after you guys came to the school that night?" Mako asked.

"After we teleported to the school, a person was waiting for us and welcomed us to military school, making it seem totally legit to me that the special class was getting teleported at night," Haruto began to explain.

"We followed him out of the teleportation room and the guy said they were short-staffed at the moment and that other helpers would be there shortly to escort all of them to their room to rest up for the night. It was then that Natasha said to me that I should be the first one to go with him to my room and that she and the other two would wait for the helpers to arrive." Haruto continued.

"I was just so exhausted that I didn't even question anything and just followed the guy who showed me to my room and I instantly fell asleep after lying on the bed," Haruto added as he finished recalling what happened.

"Damn it... so we have no idea what these guys were up to in the night," Bill stated with frustration in his voice.

"Calm down... It's not his fault. I mean, you saw my condition after fighting her, I could only imagine how bad he must've had it." Mako said to calm Bill down.

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After hearing Haruto's entire story, Mako and the group were definitely satisfied as they now had a solid lead and a decent amount of information to formulate a new plan on how to uncover the other 2 special class cadets.

They also had to find out how they were going to steal the Pyronite as they still had no leads

on that front.

Now all that was left was for Mako to hold up his end of the deal and help Haruto escape

Natasha for good.

"Alright, Haruto. As the leader of this group, with the agreeance of others, I accept you into our group. You are now a part of this mission and will help us take Natasha and her friends down." Mako said as he extended his arm toward Haruto who was still on the ground. Haruto grabbed Mako's and raised himself back on his feet. He looked around to see small nods from the group even Erin. Now that they realized that Haruto was just a victim in all of this and was forced to play the devil's advocate, they accepted him by forgiving his past sins; a gesture that Haruto thought he would never see in his life.

"Now, here's what we're going to do..." Mako said as he began explaining his plan to Haruto about how he was going to keep his end of the deal to Haruto.