Chapter 104. First Mission

Silva POV

It's Monday, and I am back at Beacon with everyone else. Yang is still not speaking to me unless it's absolutely necessary. While Ruby keeps a good relationship with me, she is poking and prodding me with the occasional question related to what happened to, Summer. Overall, things are not too bad, but right now, I am excited about my first mission.

I knocked on the door to Glynda's office, and she let me in as she did her paperwork. I need to help her get a vacation. The sooner, the better. I took a seat as I waited for her to get done, and after several minutes she finished the last of her paperwork. She leaned back in her chair and stretched, then greeted me.

Glynda: Good morning, Silva.

Silva: Morning.

Glynda got right down to business and started briefing me on my mission.

Glynda: Now, as I said last week, I will be supervising you while you complete the mission I assigned to you. I know enough of your combat abilities to give you a mission centered around investigation to give me a clearer idea of your intelligence. Your mission is straightforward, to catch a panty thief at Lily Academy for Girls.

I looked at her confused and asked.

Silva: Isn't that more of a job for the police than Huntsmen/Huntresses?

Glynda: Ordinarily, you would be correct, but the police have found nothing despite looking into this matter since last semester, so the Headmistress called for Beacon instead.

Silva: Hold on, you're saying this pervert has been stealing underwear from the girls there since last year!?

Glynda nodded, and I was starting to get curious about what was going on, along with a bit of disappointment. Putting that aside, I then ask her.

Silva: Okay, when do we start?

( An hour later)

I am with Glynda at the Preparatory School, and we entered the office of the Headmistress, and she said.

Headmistress: Glynda! Good to see you. It has been too long.

Glynda smiled and returned the greeting.

Glynda: Good to see you as well, Yin.

The headmistress, Yin, is a petite woman with long black hair and dark eyes wearing a black Mistral kimono with a white lined scale pattern. She has a heart-shaped face with snow-white skin and a white flower hairpin on the right side of her face. She looked towards me and asked.

Yin: And this is?

Glynda: The student I am supervising for catching the panty thief, Silva Cloud, an Elite Huntsmen-in-Training.

Yin: I see, but thank you, Glynda, for coming. The police have found nothing despite their best efforts, and this school does not need another incident after Beatrix Browning drove this school in the mud when it was Lady Browning's Preparatory School for Girls. That was a disaster. I mean spying on everyone through pins that the school gave out to the graduates.

Glynda: And yet you still decided to buy up this school to make it your own.

Yin: Oh, come now, Glynda, you know it's been my dream since I was a student at Beacon alongside you, and the idea was good to turn girls into competent women. It's just Beatrix ruined it with her spying.

Everything clicked to me then, and there this was, the school Neo went to when she was Trivia Vanille. I am not sure how to feel about that, but whatever. The Headmistress and Glynda seem to be friends, so this might be why catching a panty thief is my first mission. Who am I kidding? What guy wouldn't look for an excuse to enter an all-girls school? It's a guy's romance.

Putting aside my fantasies, I started asking questions.

Silva: Sorry to interrupt your reunion, but I would like to start investigating to catch the thief.

Yin: Yes, of course, just tell me what you need.

Silva: Excellent; for starters, when did the girls start noticing that their panties had gone missing?

Yin: Hmm, around late August last year was the earliest report, but rumors have been going around that it might have been longer.

Silva: I see. Did these panties go missing at specific times, like during classes or at night?

Yin: It happens at around after the girls change for swim classes or gym, and it's not limited to panties but bras as well.

Silva: Have there been specific girls whose underwear go missing, or has it been indiscriminate?

Yin: From what I have seen so far is that it has been indiscriminate because it has not been the same girls every time but different ones.

I paused to think about everything I learned and then asked

Silva: Can I have a schedule for all of the classes in this school?

Yin: Certainly, here.

She gave me a sheet of paper with the schedules on it out of her desk, and I looked it over. It looks like there is a swim class today in the afternoon, and I took a picture of the schedule with my scroll and gave it back to the headmistress. I gave her a slight bow and said.

Silva: Thank you for your cooperation, Headmistress Yin. I will get started immediately.

Yin: Glynda, he is certainly a polite young man, is he taken? Because I would like to introduce him to my daughter.

Glynda sighed and told her while I had a mischievous smile on my face.

Glynda: He is taken... By multiple girls.

The Headmistress looked at her friend in surprise and asked for confirmation.

Yin: As in more than one girl!?

She turned to me and lectured.

Yin: Young man, you should not play with a girl's feelings like that, never.

Silva: I am not playing with their feelings. They all know that I have several women in my life and accept it.

Yin looked flabbergasted at my retort and looked towards Glynda for confirmation, and she nodded. Well, better get started.

( Hours later)

I am currently on the rooftop using my sonar to keep track of everyone and identify the thief. Glynda finally asked me what I was up to; she ran out of patience.

Glynda: Silva, I fail to understand what you are doing here, so will you enlighten me?

Silva: It's not complicated; I am waiting for today's swim class to take place so that I can catch the thief in the act. Plus, I am monitoring the entire school by using my semblance to find any suspicious activity. Any other questions?

Glynda: No, not currently.

I made myself comfortable as I waited, and the bell rang for the next set of classes to start. I focused on my sonar in the swim class as the girls changed, and not long after, they left the locker room. After the swim class started, someone literally popped up out of thin air and started rummaging through the lockers.

Silva: Uh oh.

Glynda: What is it, Silva?

Silva: The thief showed up out of nowhere, and I don't know how he got into the locker room. This means that she has a semblance that allows her to teleport, so we can't catch her immediately because she will just teleport away.

Glynda: This has turned into something more troublesome than I thought.

I used magic to give me a visual of the thief, and I told Glynda.

Silva: I am using my semblance to look through walls. Can you take notes on her description as I describe her?

Glynda: Certainly.

Silva: Okay, she looks like she is between 14 to 15 years old with long black hair and large pale blue eyes. Her skin is ashen, almost to the point of being translucent and not in a good way. She has a child-like body with barely any curves or endowments and is at most a little over 5 feet tall.

She is wearing an oversized black hoody and a black skirt with pantyhose. This girl really likes wearing black. I think that covers it. Can we see if someone can sketch our thief?

Glynda: Yin should be able to help in that regard.

Silva: Okay, let's talk to her.

Me and Glynda head to the Headmistress's office, and Glynda notifies her of what I saw. I gave her the thief's description, and she got it perfectly.

Silva: Great, now we just need to find her and contain her so she can't escape.

Glynda: I will get some Aura restraining cuffs from the police department and drop off a copy of her description to them so that they can check to see if she is in their database.

Yin: I should have hired you in the first place, Glynda; you did far more than those so-called detectives.

Glynda: Actually, Silva deserves the credit here; he saw her and acted appropriately instead of jumping right into it like I expect most students and some Huntsmen/Huntresses.

I stopped the back-patting session and pointed out.

Silva: We are not done yet until the thief is caught, and even then, I find it doubtful that she can be apprehended if she is capable of teleportation like I think she is.

Glynda: True, her semblance does sound troublesome, but for now, we have a face to go with the perpetrator, unlike before.

I shrugged and started to wonder what to do next.

( A day later)

I am wandering around Vale to see if the thief lives near the school because long-range teleportation is extremely rare; so far, Raven is the only one I know of that can travel vast distances, almost instantly with her semblance despite its restrictions. Huntsmen/Huntresses generally let their semblance be known to some degree to get missions that work with their semblance. Even then, unlocking one's Semblance can be a rare thing because unlocking it is different for everyone.

And found her. The thief resides in an apartment near Lily Academy; this is a bit too easy better heir on the side of caution. I didn't want her to get away; I texted Glynda about what I found, and I started to peek at the thief through magic. She is humping a life-size doll in underwear, okay, so that is what she is doing with her stolen goods.

Those girls might not want their underwear back if they found out what she was doing with it. I went into the apartment complex and waited for Glynda to show to ask the receptionist who resides in the apartment. After half an hour, Glynda showed, and she said to me.

Glynda: Well, you are certainly working fast, Silva, already finding the thief's home.

I shrugged and said.

Silva: Let's see if we can get a name to go with the thief's face.

We walked up to the receptionist, and Glynda showed her license then said.

Glynda: We are hoping you can answer a few questions if that is not too much trouble.

Receptionist: Certainly not, ask away, Ms.Huntress.

Silva: Can you provide us with a list of your residents?

Receptionist: One moment.

The receptionist accessed her computer, and after a few minutes, she printed out the list of the occupants.

Receptionist: Here you are.

Glynda took the list and had me look at it, and I found who I was looking for, Room 507, Nyx Ghoul. I then thanked the Receptionist as I handed back the list.

Silva: Thank you for your cooperation.

Receptionist: My pleasure.

Glynda and I headed up to the fifth floor, and we discussed our plan of action.

Silva: Glynda, do you think you can immobilize her while I place the Aura Restraining cuffs in her?

Glynda: I can, but what if she gets away?

Silva: We have a face and a name, so even if she escapes, we can provide the information to the police and have a bounty placed on her. Even then, I have a means of tracking her if she slips away.

Glynda nodded and got my magic ready to place a marker on her through Magic in case she slipped away. We stood in front of Room 507, and Glynda unlocked the door with her Semblance; I really do admire her finesse with her semblance. We walked in as quietly as possible, and we soon heard the thief crying out.

Nyx: YES, YOU B*TCH MAKE ME CUM HARDER, YOU AREN'T BETTER THAN ME, YOU AREN'T BETTER THAN ME B*TCH.

Okay, I did not need to here a girl with an inferiority complex masturbating while talking dirty. We soon walked into the room where the thief resides and saw her lying atop the doll. Glynda and I acted fast; Glynda lifted her arms in the air, and I cuffed her. The thief shouted out.

Nyx: WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON!?

Well, a quick call later, the police showed up and took her into custody, and we reported to the Headmistress. All in a day's work.