Wesley Academy is on Extermination List
Monica is knocking on the surveillance room while checking the time. They only have thirty minutes before the class starts.
She feels intense pressure but halted her hands from knocking. She laughed inwardly at herself while saying inside her mind; why does she believe Keith? She already checked the offices while heading her way to surveillance room but couldn't find a trace of bomb.
"Am I trusting him too much?" she asked herself inwardly. The surveillance room opens while a man wearing security uniform appeared in front of her.
"What is it?" the man asked while standing there on his spot without letting her come inside.
"I… I lost my pouch. It has phone and my medicines inside. I couldn't find it so I want to check the CCTV footage" she stuttered while pretending being shy and weak.
The man looks at her up and down, "Did you know that students are not allowed inside?" asked.
Monica shakes her head and shrinks herself while holding back herself to cry. "My medicines…are important. It is…time for me to…drink it" she reasoned.
The man sighed and said, "Fine but you should look at the places you had been"
Monica nodded shyly while smirking. Fortunately, she strolled around the school as her normal routine every morning before meeting with Keith. This is easier than she expected.
The man is checking every place that Monica told him. Her eyes are looking for potential person who they suspected.
Monica noticed on one of the footage that 'this' man was entering and exiting the classrooms. Her heart beats intensified while her hands are trembling and hid it right away when she couldn't stop her hands.
"Oh, right there! My pouch went missing after exiting that place. I guess, I lost it inside" she almost stuttered while pretending that she already knows the place where she lost her pouch.
"Good" the man replied and stood up.
Monica flinched while sweating. She tried not to let the man knows that she's scared.
"Are you okay, Miss?" the man asked as he slowly walks towards the direction of Monica while Monica is slowly stepping back in every step forward of the man.
"Why are you sweating like you are caught red handed?" the man asked coldly until Monica reached the door and tried to open it.
"You are Monica Viola from Class 1A. A freshman in Senior High Department and this day should be your first day of school but you acted like a detective trying to find out a secret pry on. Am I right?" he asked and extended his arms towards Monica. He cornered her with vicious thoughts.
"Why are you looking for the bomber?" he whispered on her left ear.
"Who… Who are you?" Monica stuttered while panting because of too much anxiousness.
The man frowned, "Monica, how did you find out?" he asked with devilish smiles.
"The bomb planted around the school shouldn't be known by a student. Only suspect knows it but based on your actions today, it is impossible that you are the bomber" the man said with assurance.
"I… I… "she couldn't tell the man that Keith told him, right? Who would believe her anyway? Now, she's thinking about it. Is this the reason why Keith didn't tell anyone of his secret?
"Hmmm?" when the man turned his head, he noticed Keith on the current footage. His actions filled with anxiousness and seemed like he's racing with time.
Monica looks at the direction where the man stared and her eyes widened when she saw Keith on the footage.
She clenched her teeth while panicking. She doesn't the man to misunderstand Keith. Based on the words of the man, he is also looking for the bomber. He might be from the FBI or Police.
The man gets his phone and dialled a number, "Tell everyone to evacuate without letting them know that any minutes there will be a bomb exploded" he ordered.
The order is executed smoothly without causing stampede.
On the other side, Keith is looking around the third and fourth floor. He checks every tables, chairs, ceilings, fans, boards, and other possible places where to place bombs but failed to find one.
He halted when he felt the presence of someone who is looking at him. He frowned then noticed the CCTV on the corner wall of the ceiling on this corridor of third floor
He shakes his head and continues searching until he halted in the middle of corridor when his ears heard a tick-tack sound beneath his feet. His head looked down and crouched down.
He slowly knocked one of the tiles with his point-finger but it looks unusual like it was been removed by someone before. His eyes widened and tried to move the tiles but have no enough strength to do so.
Suddenly, his phone vibrated. He picked it up and an unknown number appeared. He was about to say something but a man's voice came from the other side of the call.
"Don't move around! I'll help you remove the tiles. If the bomb is touch heavily, it will explode. Your body will turn into fried chicken" the man seriously said but his tone sounded like he's nagging a child.
Keith flinched after he heard the man's words and waited for them.
"No need to worry, Keith! He's here because someone tipped him about the bomber" Monica's voice echoed from the other side. Keith frowned.
He doesn't know why there's a man beside Monica helping them.
Then, hurried footsteps are heading on his way. He prepared himself for surprised sneak attack but Monica appeared in front of him while waving her left hand on the air.
Monica is almost about to step on one of the tiles but Keith shouted. "Be careful! There are many bombs on the floor hidden on the tiles!" and the man immediately pulled the hand of Monica away from the corridor.
Monica panicked after knowing that bombs are hidden inside the tiles while looking at the direction of Keith.
"What should we do?" she asked as she tried not cry.
"It is best if you stay away from the corridor, Monica! I recently check the tiles before stepping here. There are two bombs in this corridor and three bombs at each crossed corridors which formed into reversed C-shape!" Keith shouted.
The man looked around the corridors that mentioned by Keith and noticed a slight bump on few tiles.
Again, he dialled a number and called for back-up who specializes on dismantling bombs while checking the direction of Keith who slowly lifted one tile. His mouth twitched on Keith's stubbornness.
"Keith!" Monica shrieked when she saw Keith put his hand beneath the tile and slowly lifted up the bomb. Keith's face looks shocked when he is checking the bomb.
"Damn it!" the man cursed while clenching his hand. "You should have waited for the experts!" he shouted.
"This is not the real bomb!" Keith shouted. The man's eyes narrowed while digesting of what Keith said.
"Don't tell me that the bomber also planted a fake bomb to buy some time?!" Monica realized the meaning behind this scheme.
"I don't know you are but my instinct said you are more than what you are on the surface. I just want you to call for help to find the bombs either fake or real as long as we found all of it! Call for many helpers as much as you can and let them scattered around the school building and search for the bombs! We only have short time now! The three of us couldn't find it if we continue to search!" Keith seriously said. His aura fluctuated like a superior authority who ordered his subordinates.
The man felt chill on his spine and immediately called fifty men for search until they found three fakes and five real bombs and dismantled it carefully.
However, they turned their head towards the opened court when a monotone voice sounded throughout the school. The students are trembling for being scared while the Police who are disguising themselves as a worker.
"I never have thought there will be someone who could find out where I hide the bomb in just a glance! HAHAHA! This is exciting! You are Keith Balthazar, am I right? HAHAHA! You even know which is fake or not!"
"I couldn't believe this! I made the fake like the real one so that no one could differentiate which real or fake"
"Wesley Academy is on the extermination list of our group. The reason is to stop them from corrupting the victims who were raped or abused secretly by the teachers! We only aimed on those wolves but a student stopped us? Are you implying that they should continue teaching these students? Are you certain you are saving people here or you are just being ignorant?"
"Keith Balthazar, Wesley Academy is not what you think it is on the surface. You are prying on this incident that you shouldn't. Did you know you are triggering the anger of those who wanted to exterminate Wesley Academy?"
"Being magnanimous doesn't let others save themselves from harm. Remember that!"
The man was angered of Keith's opposition to his doings.