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"How?" I could swear he was in the opposite end of the crowd a minute ago.

"Let's go to our dorm room together," Luke silently dragged me as Cillian ran to follow him.

Meanwhile the rest of the people in the crowd continued to look for the person who had suddenly disappeared from them. Finding Alex already inside my old dorm room, I sighed as Luke locked the door behind him. Cillian sat down on the couch as Luke urged me to sit down beside him. I reluctantly took a seat as I waited for him to start his lecture.

"What happened?" Luke turned to Cillian first, knowing I wouldn't give the full story.

"I took Rika with me to the new Monete family hotel. Before we could go to the zoo, she was kidnapped," Cillian trembled as he confessed.

"What happened afterwards?" Luke wanted to know how I met up with Ben.

"The place I was kidnapped was where Ben and Alice were placed on a mission. We used the hover car to escape to the school, jumping down from our car exploding," I skipped the tiny details in between, feeling lazy to explain everything.

"We saw the jumping down part," Alex joined us at the couches.

"What happened in between?" Luke wanted the details.

"They had to abandon the mission to get more support. So we tried to escape from them together," I summarized everything.

"Abandon the mission?" Cillian shivered from knowing how dangerous it had to be to abort it.

"Yea something about how we got discovered when using the underground passageway created by the criminals to escape from them. They also made sure we couldn't teleport our way out by messing with the path," I shrugged.

"They had no choice but to abandon their mission. They were in the most dangerous section of the first district," Alex mumbled.

"And this is why you should never let Rika out of the school," Luke raised his voice at Cillian.

"You know just drugging my food and whatnot and using a spell to extract my mana from me," I calmly went through my memories, finding it not that serious.

Everyone froze as both Luke and Alex slowly turned to Cillian again. Personally, I thought it was better than dealing with s-class monsters while Ailes was still alive. Although they couldn't be reasoned with, the escaping part wasn't as hard as what I went through in other dangerous events in the past. As long as you knew the blind spots in the cameras, you were mostly safe.

"When they figured out about the spell, we decided to escape together since the danger was escalating," I didn't think much about it.

I was mostly sleeping during the time Ben was carrying me in the underground passage anyways. Maybe I was recovering from my sore back from the day before. I still couldn't touch my back, feeling the throbbing pain that remained. This was why I hated those tight dresses I wanted to change out of.

"We should return back to our dorm room," I turned to Cillian.

"Stay Rika," Luke warned me.

"There's a reason why I don't take Rika with me outside the school unless the location is extremely safe. I told you that she has been kidnapped before and I find she has been inside a criminal syndicate?" He couldn't believe his own words towards the end of the sentence.

"I'm extremely sorry. I don't know how I can apologize to you," Cillian couldn't directly face Luke.

"How much mana did they extort from you?" Luke faced me.

"Maybe about the amount they would kill a normal person within a few days?" I recalled, grateful my mana supply recovered fast.

"They're still working on where to dispose of the bodies of the past victims!" I showed how they didn't burn other people's bodies like the fifth district.

"She doesn't even know how much danger she was in," Alex grumbled.

"We're going to the infirmary again after I sort the rest of the situation with Cillian," Luke pulled out a contract.

I stiffened, not predicting Luke would make him sign something. Cillian didn't know how carefully he would have to read the terms. He looked like he was willing to do anything to get Luke to forgive him. And if I interfered, it would become likely that I would become a goner too. I groaned when he signed the contract, not reading any of the pages.

"Wait, can I change first?" I pointed out my flashy clothes before he could drag me to the infirmary.

Luke passed me one of my simple nightgowns as I went into my old bedroom to change. I wondered where Delia was since she was supposed to be paired with Luke this week. I flopped onto my bed to stall some time since I didn't want to go to the infirmary again. Of course, Luke dragged me out of the bedroom all the way to the infirmary. I looked at Cillian in disappointment, following Luke like his loyal pet.

"It really wasn't that bad," I had Ben suffer in my place.

"They drugged your food and drained your mana out of you," Luke started to look at the results from the machines.

"Thankfully, you won't have to stay at the infirmary for the night," he sighed in relief.

"I told you it wasn't much," I found them overexaggerating things.

"Are you serious Rika?" Luke almost yelled.