Chapter 2: Friend of Mine

"... See you never too"

Ace entered the office and the Joker was right, the headquarters has basement way that he's not even know, he scan his ID card at the scanner and the door opened. At the begining he only knew the other way to go to the headquarter's basement but he didn't know there's such 'invisible' way to enter that no one would suspicious.

As he open another door, there's an elevator room and an emergency exit door. He pressed the elevator button and wait till the door opened as the door opened, he entered and wait till the right floor. After the elevator reach the floor and opened he walked across the corridor he's not usually walked to. There's many some kind of room he's not usually see such as autopsy room, there's 3 of it, and there's many morgues.

"Huh... Seem I haven't see this side of headquarters... Feels walking in an old hospital. This place also quiet, that's the source of eeriness" say Ace in his mind, this place is eerie indeed and the lamp was flickering. Then there's a sound of rolling cart echoing across the corridor, he became a bit wary and think it maybe just one of the worker here to take dead body to the autopsy room, should he run away? This is a one way corridor, there's no way to run. Then he decided to peek a bit thinking it's really just the worker. But seem his guess was incorrect, it's Joker again brought a cart with few sacks. Both are silent and staring at each other.

"I'm pretty sure we're saying never see you again" said Ace with visible annoyed tone.

"Ah shit... Here we go again... You see nothing, good bye" Said Joker in nonchalant tone. He seem just walk to an autopsy room with the cart and the white sacks he store in his van earlier.

He seem just deliver those sacks to the person's that already waiting in the autopsy room and then walked out from there, passing by Ace without say anything and press the button from the earlier elevator.

"Where are those dead bodies goes to after you send it here" ask Ace serious

"Hm.... After a bit of identifications of demon types, or experiment. When they're no use anymore, both dead bodies will be incinerated separately. The victim's ash will be handled by funeral director and the ash from the demons... I don't know? Maybe turned into garden fertilizer?" Says him with shrugs but seem also curious where those demon ash will go.

"Huh, I see... Where are you going after this?"

"You really want to know, huh?" Says Joker as he entered the elevator without telling him where he go, seems he's intentionally doesn't tell him to simply annoy him because he likes to.

It's already 03.20 am. Soon Ace quickly make some quick report to the person who give him mission earlier then clean his mask and then go home by his motorcycle.

In his house, he take off all combat suit, gloves and boots that stained by blood and put it in the washing machine. After that he prepared some clothes and books for tommorow. Even though he's an secret agent, he's also have another life as a normal student which this secret agent job is cutting off more than a half of his needed sleep time.

BEEP-BEEP-BEEP!!!!

His alarm beeping violently showing its already 06.30 am making him wake up in annoyance and accidentally hit the alarm till fell to the floor. Seems the event last night does triggered his anger issues and he just gotten only two hours of sleep before go to school.

"Geez... I swear I'll shoot that Joker on head one day...." Say him in full annoyance as he quickly wear his school uniform.

He immediately go downstairs and look around finding no one in his house "Huh.... Dad must be haven't come home again". Say him as he lock the door and drive his motorcycle to school because he's already late to have breakfast. After few minutes later he arrived at school on time. He park the motorcycle at the school parking area then go to his class before the bell rings, he put his backpack on his seat located at the back with his friend.

"Sup, dude" say one friend of him casually.

"Hey, Kai." say Zayden short, still catching breath.

This is Kaiden, one of my closest friend in this class. We're used to play playstation together in my house, or sometimes doing some homework in his apartment. However, he's a bit different from the other normal students. He can see... The thing we cannot see, he can sense there's something or bad feeling around us. To put it simply, he has sixth sense.

One night, we have a sleepover to play some game I buy for my playstation when my father wasn't home yet. Then he tells me that he see something on my basement, even though I search it thoroughly there's nothing at all! It's just old storage with some old tools. I'm not sure what he saw but it makes me had a chill whenever I'm at my house alone.

"You got eye bags like panda, something happens?"

"Shut up, I just got too much play games last night, what are you even do last night" lie Zayden sounds really convincing.

"What else? Doing my night shift in cafe, like usual" say him casual.

Then, a tired looking math teacher enter the class after the bell ringing. "Alright brats, take out your homework book and give it to me" say him with tired tone.

"I still can't believe I'm the homeroom teacher in this class..." Think the math teacher. This class also known as brutal class which not recommended to new teacher or pick me student or any attention seeker student, this class also known as troublemaker class which traumatized many new teacher at their first teaching.

The math teacher was work here for about more than ten years, he didn't traumatized with this class. Instead he really wanted to flip a table for the first student that making trouble in his class. But he know it'll make him fired from his work.

The class was brutal so the new students recommended to wear helmet and other safety to protect their head from flying projectiles these students throw while fighting each other. This class successfully produced expert roasting students, athletic students, and almost successfully make a fight between 2 schools.

Luckily the headmaster and the counselor was good at giving the right punishment to the troublesome student and they'll never do what they did again (just in period time till they did it again). He even threat the student that he'll make them get some torture punishment like good amount of push ups and other works, and what's the headmaster says about this?

"Ah don't worry about them, I'm sure they had great amount of pain tolerance and resistance. Just 100 more push up then some pull up, keep it up!" say the counselor with sadistic smile as he take a sip of coffee and see the process of torture. And what about the students? They're screaming like the inhabitants of hell.

"Yep, nothing to worry, they're all still safe and sound. The nurse in school infirmary will handle the casualty" says him as he took a sip of his coffee.

Now back at the time when the math teacher enter the class. The student look at each other as they forgot to do the homework, the math teacher facepalm and told them to stand in the corridor while holding bucket of water on their head with one leg and the first one who drop it shall clean the corridor after school.

"Ugh.... I swear I didn't remember we had homework...." Say kaiden as he almost drop the bucket.

"How long.... Does this take?!" Says Zayden in disbelief.

Meanwhile in the class the math teacher took a well nap for a while. Leaving the students to suffer outside the class making the class heavenly quiet and peaceful from those students. Meanwhile after a night duty as secret forces, Zayden still doesn't have any good sleep time, you can even see the cracks in his eyes. In the mid of punishment Kaiden felt something off, Zayden has been quiet for minutes. As he checked he surprised that Zayden actually sleeping but haven't drop the bucket. "This guy is insane..." Think Kaiden in cold sweat.

After some hellish hours of school, the last bell rings loudly like it's trying to repel all students that still staying inside the school. Zayden yawned as he walked out from school with Kaiden. "Geez.... Anyway, are you having another shift tonight at your cafe?" Ask Zayden curious.

"Yep, it'll take some time till night" say Kaiden casually as he still holding back of his neck, feel still a bit sore from the punishment.

"Stay kept an eye from demons out there, I heard their amount had increased" say Zayden serious.

"Wha— for real? Well... Fortunately my gun still loaded, don't worry about me" say him while checking his gun and load the new magazine with full of ammo inside.

"No matter what happens, people around me must not know who am I really... And no one should know. But.... I can feel my sanity getting thinner and thinner from last night..."

To be continued...