Chapter 11 - Phases of Plans
A couple of days passed since, Prince Steel escaped from Pheia's home and then, was brought back. And for these passing days, all they did was to plan for Prince Steel's escape towards House Minders.
Every night since that day when Pheia found the Prince wounded inside the forest, guards of House Edame's are patrolling around the area. And was asking people for any peculiar movements.
Thankfully, people around the area are all close-mouthed about the fact that the Calibers did bring someone wounded but were now gone out of their Kingdom. That--- is what they know. They do not know that the wounded man was still inside Pheia's house. But nonetheless, those people are thoughtful enough to not drag them to the issue between royalties.
Now, guards heavily guarded the vicinity and the borders, that is why it took them days to plan and put things properly. Although Pheia and her mom will just send him to the border, it will still be very difficult considering the person's identity.
Once Prince Steel's missing character will spread to House Minder, definitely they will not mind starting a war with the other kingdoms that's why they need to truly iron out the plan. They also need to be as secretive as ever. Because once House Edame's knew that they helped the Prince to escape, they could be imprisoned or worse, be killed.
So far, their plan has at least an 80% chance of escaping successfully. And they decided that the day after tomorrow will be the first day of their plan.
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Today is the day that they have run through their plan for Prince Steel's escape.
The plan consisted of three phases. First phase is how to get any information about the border to House Minders. If there can be anyone going in and out of the border or not.
Yesterday, Pheia's mom has successfully got the information, and what she gathered was only people with a very critical condition that needs the assistance of the legendary doctor of House Minders can easily get through the gates or borders. Although these 4 kingdoms are warring, the health of the citizens was actually one of their said priorities. So this is what they need to do. Make Prince Steel a very sick man.
The second phase is how to exactly act out of the border. They need passes to enter and exit the border. When it was before, it could be so easy smuggling people, but because of the high-end alert ordered by House Edame's these past few days, it will be very tricky. Passes for entrance and exits are given only to those people who are rich, powerful, and of course, royalties. Including those people who register to the Ministry of Immigration for medical purposes, can have it.
They can try filling up for the registry but it would take days to have it. They will also investigate the applicants first before they issue the passes. And because they are doing these discreetly, they can't afford to leave any traces or records for the enemy to track. So the only thing that can be done is to snatch the passes from wealthy people who usually indulge themselves in the green light district.
These wealthy people are from different parts of the continent or kingdoms. They often went to House Edame's green light district because of the famous star Claveria, a beautiful lady with pure innocence, well not that innocent of course, but that is how people at green light district used to call her.
Gladly, Claveria is one of the supporting characters that Pheia's mom created to be a reliable and loyal friend to Alani. Yes, Alani, Pheia's best friend. But the problem here is Alani's parents are working in the mansion of the Edames. They are one of the loyal dogs of the house. But, as far as Pheia's memory can remember, although, Alani's parents are loyal, she is not. She is against the cruelness of the Edames so Pheia guessed that they can asked Alani's help for this.
The third phase is how to make Prince Steel a very sick man. This took them more than a day to distinguish until Pheia's mom pulls her to their room and discussed to her the possible things that can help them from their former world's knowledge. And that is to make Prince Steel a crippled old man with heart disease. Yes, pretty simple. According to her mom, this world lacks physicians who are adept in treating chronic illness and only the legendary doctor per se is capable of curing people with heart disease. But the main problem is how can they change Prince Steel into an old man without prosthetics. However, since they came from another world, there will be ways how to improvise and used alternatives for prosthetics.
When everything was settled and was arranged accordingly, Pheia harmoniously laid down herself into her bed. She was so exhausted by just even planning alone. If it was in the modern world. It couldn't be as meticulous as the way they are planning now.
Before she can just lazily execute her plan since there are a lot of corrupt people in the modern world and of course, she has the money, power, and the ability, unlike now. She lived as a peasant, a mere worker.
Besides, here in this world, she was not alone anymore. She can't just do her things like she doesn't care about the results. There are people around her that she needs to protect. So she needs to plan everything according to their advantage.
A while later, Pheia heard a knock on the door. It was an unusual knock. Not the way she and her mom usually do. She immediately became alert to her surroundings. She grabs her dagger and placed it under her long sleeve shirt. She slowly walks to the door and grabs the rusted knob and abruptly pulls it open. She was about to swing her arms with the knife when she saw that it was the Prince.
Pheia widened her eye while the Prince stared at her like she was crazy.
"And why on earth are you going to stab me?" Prince Steel asked while raising his brow.
"Well, I.. ahmm I thought you're an enemy.. Because the knocks were inconsistent and lack the proper...." she babbled as a child caught stealing into her mom's pocket. The prince just stared at her and a small twitch of his lips can be seen in a millisecond. He was quite confused about this girl's nature. Sometimes, she's that arrogant girl that never talks to him, normally. And just banters at him whenever they cross paths. Or sometimes acting dominant as if she's the leader and the foremost person in the group. Or sometimes, like this, a child who talks random stuff. Prince Steel sighed inwardly and thought, "an extraordinary girl!"
"wait... wait... why, in the first place, are you knocking on my door this late at night, huh?" Pheia, as if done with her talks suddenly remembers one thing. She looked at the Prince inquisitively, while assessing him from head to toe.
Prince Steel rolled his eyes at her and said, "I am here to teach you how to elevate your allex. These past few days, I have recovered most of my allexes, even though, there are still some cracks. And by that, I have sensed that you are quite a different one from the commoners. And I think you knew it, too." Pheia just look at him and said nothing.
She ponders, while she was doing her usual routine every morning, to jogging, combat practice, and relaxing her nerves. She has indeed felt something different. But because her reincarnation here in the Otome World is kind of strange in the first place, she hadn't paid much attention to it. But thinking of it now, something is forming within her that she couldn't quite grasp. Maybe this is what the elemental wielder has, the allex.
After some thought, she finally said, "Yes, these days I feel something growing inside me. It feels like it covers my whole being but I wasn't sure where it came from. Is this the feeling you have with the so-called allex?"
While she was talking, they were actually heading out from their house through the backdoor. Pheia's backdoor then directly brought them into one of the edges of the dense forest. They walked for about 5 minutes and stopped. "Yes, it is. Maybe it seems strange to you at first but when you learn how to even your allex, you will not feel strange anymore but will be more relaxed as time passes by. And after that, you can wield elements that your allex wants to have. " Pheia nodded. She knew what Prince Steel is saying. It was absolutely not the wielder's choice whether what kind of elements are you going to wield. It was their allexes. Their allexes may have some kind of mind of their own that allows them to choose the suitable element for the wielders.