Surprise Surprise

"Where is my servant?" Charlotte asked me angrily in front of Anton's desk and kicking it off.

"How should I know?" I answered while raising my eyes and sitting in Anton's chair.

"Last night, the knights told me that the skulls attacked his club room," She was trying to accuse me harder.

"Look, I don't know what are you are talking about," I tried once again to prove my point.

"Jeez, your quartet is really hard to deal with," She said angrily.

"And may I know why?" Maria asked her on the sofa in front of the bookshelf.

"The best swordsman in our school, the best mage in our school, and the best Jack-of-all-trades in our school, and on top of that, their leader is a multi-expert," She said sarcastically.

"Well, it doesn't matter if those vigilantes are still in our school," Garth said as he stood near the window.

"What do you mean?" Charlotte asked.

"The skulls," Cecile said while she was reading a book about the philosophy of war.

"So what?" Charlotte asked.

"No matter how good we are, the skulls always win," I said to her as I ground some coffee beans.

"Ok, so back to the point. Where is my servant?" He asked me.

"He doesn't know, and neither do we," Garth said from the door.

"As a matter of fact, I know your secret," Charlotte said.

Garth secretly locked the door, and I closed the curtain slowly. Maria was already holding a duct tape on her hand. Cecile held a taser on her hand.

"And what is it?" I said with an intimidating glare in my eyes.

"Anton is a girl," Charlotte said arrogantly.

"Pardon me?" I said with a surprised face while spurting the coffee to my left direction.

"Your Anton is a G-I-R-L," Charlotte said.

"Excuse me? I think my ears are a bit problematic. What did you say?" Maria asked him again.

"The fact that Mr.Collins is Mrs.Collins," Charlotte repeat it again.

"Excuse me, I think some dust entered my ear, Could you please repeat it?" Cecile asked.

"Anton is a she," She said.

"I think my ears are ringing, what did you say?" Garth said from the door.

"He has that thing," She said furiously.

"So he is a she?" I asked.

"Yes, he is, that's what I'm trying to say," Charlotte repeated.

"So, anything else?" I asked again, hoping her to go away.

"Since you can't answer me, I think I got nothing on my mind," Charlotte said.

"Ok, you may take your leave then," I said as Garth opened the door.

She left from the chair and walked out of our room. After she left, we discussed the result of yesterday's kidnappings.

"What did you get from him?" I asked them who went to the base last night.

"Here is the report from Mayor Smith AKA the Butcher," Garth said as he handed me the report.

"Thank you," I said as I received a brown file.

The file content was a report about the interrogation of a person called Andrew Graham. Mayor Smith said that he managed to extract the way on how to make guided projectile. It turned out that It used some kind of magic circle on the weapon. Andrew drew the magic circle, but I doubt that is the real deal. It's also included a prototype of magic circles that was drawn on a sticker paper.

"Where did they keep him?" I asked.

"They kept him at the solitary confinement as an act of measurement If he thinks he can mess with us," Garth said.

"Nice, bring the container that contains the EOD suit, I will test this thing," I told Garth.

"I will bring it," Maria said as she left the room.

"Are you sure? That's a 37 kg suit," I said to Maria, who was going to leave the room.

"Well, Why don't we bring the juggernaut suit? It's an EOD suit, too, right?" Maria said to me as she left the room.

"No, It's overkill, in my opinion, besides what is the worst that could happen?" I said as I stood up from my chair.

"Where are you going, Wilson?" Cecile asked me from the sofa.

"I'm going to the infirmary, I want to ask some things to the archery club members," I said as I opened the door.

"Ok," Garth said.

I walked out of the council's building and followed Maria. We walked awkwardly, I stayed behind her, and we split when we arrived at the fountain. Maria turned left, but I went straight. The Infirmary was located near the classroom, and the girl's dorm was separated from the boy's dorm.

I went straight to the infirmary, which was located on the first floor. I opened the door to the infirmary and saw five injured students. All of them were the archery club members. I approached a student that got bandage all over his arm and leg.

"Hey, how do you feel, Benjamin?" I ask him.

"I'm feeling a bit better thanks to you, I never thought I will survive the encounter with the skulls," He said as he shook my hand.

Benjamin's full name was Benjamin Cooper. He was the leader of the archery club AKA the one who was trying to kill me last night. He got shot on his thigh and his arm. Luckily, I was able to save him when I returned from the forest.

"Yeah. Honestly, I don't know why fragments of metal got stuck in your thigh and arm," I laughed with him.

"Haha, I never think that you could take care of the patient better than the nurse in this infirmary," Benjamin said to me.

"Yes, How about the other?" I asked him.

"They will recover shortly, thanks to your treatment. You save them by giving them first aid, right?" Benjamin complimented me.

"Yes, I cleaned their wounds and did what I have to do," I said to him.

"I also couldn't believe that you manage to make me survive," he complimented me again.

"Yeah, from all of them, you got the most fragment," I said.

Last night when I returned from the forest, I ran straight to the archery club room looking for injured members. When I open the door, I saw a river of blood on the floor. As it turned out, there were five people who were injured. I ran to the infirmary and brought the first aid bags, I brought more than one.

It was Benjamin, Erin, Amy, Zara, And Edward. Benjamin got the worst injuries of all. Blood was flowing from the holes in his legs and arm like a river. He got the first attention from me. I bandage his wound while applying pressure by using the bandage from my bag.

He screamed pretty hard, so I gagged him with a handkerchief from my hand. He mumbled while I sew his thigh and arm. He screamed harder when I started to sew the wound. After I bandaged his wound, I realized that he was unconscious. I checked his arteries, and I concluded that he was still alive, so I left him.

The second place of the worst injuries was Edward. His injuries weren't as serious as Benjamin, but he had a hole in his arm, and he had already gone unconscious. I cleaned his wound with a special mixture, then I sew his wound then bandage it.

Then the hardest one was the girls, Their injuries weren't as bad as either Benjamin or Edward, but they were still conscious. The worst one was Zara. The problem was her injuries on his feet. The moment I cleaned their wounds, they started to scream, so I gagged them with my handkerchief. The problem was the moment they mumbled, it was erotic. I sew her wounds. I applied bandage too.

I brought all of them to the infirmary after that. I laid them on the bed as I walked out of the room.

"Has the nurse treat you with [Heal]?" I asked him.

"Yes, in fact, I'm fine right now, I could move my arm and legs normally again," Benjamin said.

"Haha, we got a good healer," I complimented the nurse.

"Yeah," He said.

"May I join your club? After all, you have a debt to me," I said.

"Sure, Saving my life is invaluable, here is the key, whose bow you are going to use?" Andrew asked me.

"I think I would use Andrew's," I said to him.

"Sure, after all, He was stolen by the skulls," He gave me the key to the room.

"Bye," I said as I left the infirmary.

I greet the nurse then closed the door behind me. I walked slowly in the hallway. I got out of the building and proceeded to walk to the club building.

On my way, there were a variety of students. There were some people that sat on the chair while dating. A boy and a girl staring into the sky in the park, and a girl was carrying a large black box to the council building.

I opened the archery club room, and the room was a large mess. The bow was broken, and there were stains of blood everywhere. Some people might think that there was a massacre there.

I grabbed a mop and a bucket and started to clean the bloodstain. I rearranged their trophy to its place. I threw away the broken bow and searched for a certain bow that contained certain magic circle.

"Where is it?" I said as I searched the bow storage.

There were a lot of bows, even there were several crossbows. I threw away some broken bow. Honestly, if I could, I want to change the archery club to the marksman club. If the club name changed to that, I could introduce firearms to them.

I finally found his brown longbow. The bow has a magic circle in it. I brought it on my back and left the club room. I brought it to the council building, and several students asked me why did I bring Andrew's bow, and I answered by saying that it is confiscated by the disciplinary committee, and I said that it is the order from the skulls so they would stop asking me.

I opened the door to our HQ, aka Anton's room. In the room, I could saw Garth was sitting on the couch while sipping a cup of coffee with an HK 416 beside him. He wore his skull uniform. Maria was putting on the EOD suit with the help of Cecile. She was wearing that green suit with a black balaclava.

"Have you found that bow?" She asked me from her bomb suit.

"Yes, I got it right here," I said to her as I compared the magic circle in the bow and the magic circle that Andrew drew on the sticker paper.

"Is it the same?" Garth asked me.

"Yes, but for safety reasons. Maria will test it," I said as I slapped the sticker on the HK416.

"Does Mayor said that we have to use any spell beforehand?" Maria asked she pulled the bolt on the HK416.

"Let me see," I said as I opened the file again.

"The documents said that in order to use the spell, we need to chant, "O, direction, please bless my weapon with your direction," I said to her.

"Ok, I have it on my mind, I might do it chantless now," She said to me.

"Ok, Please test the weapon now," I said as I guided her to the wall located behind the council building. There were two training dummies that Anton placed when she was still here. I told Maria to shoot the rifle to the dummy.

"[Direct Projectile] Firing!!!" Maria said as she shot Cecile's riffle. She shot it to the training dummy with perfect accuracy to the head. She didn't aim" anywhere besides its head.

"Now try it by shooting it upwards," I said as I poke her bomb suit.

"Ok, Firing!" She said as she aimed her rifle upwards, but the bullet was flying to the head of the flying dummy with pinpoint accuracy.

"Wow, I couldn't believe my eyes," Maria said as she inspected the bullet holes in the training dummies.

"Testing complete, good job team. I will tell Lillie to put him into the basic training then," I said as I grabbed my smartphone from my pocket. I pressed the speed dial to her office telephone.

Wilson: "Good Afternoon, General Meyer."

Lillie: "Good Afternoon, General Galliard. How may I help you?"

Wilson: "Could you move Andrew from his cell and give him the basic training?"

Lillie: "Sure, It would be done."

Wilson: "Any intel for Anton Collins?"

Lillie: "I might have it."

Wilson: "What do you mean?"

Lillie: "Well, there is a person that fills those characteristics, but she is a girl, and Anton is a boy, am I right?"

Wilson: "Well, I've just found out that Anton is a girl. What is intel?"

Lillie: "If that is the case well, then, as it turns out, the real name of Anton is Natalie Gallagher. Our 45th recon squadron discovered her in a slave's carriage on the Vialis village. Our recon team followed them with a horse until they arrived at a bandit fortress for selling slaves near the village. It is a fortress surrounded by several walls and with the size of a regular prison compound. One of our recon team dressed up as a potential customer and entered the compound. The compound is a heavily guarded fortress with a guard tower on every edge of it. He asked for a slave with the same characteristic as Anton, and he found it. He asked every single detail about her, including her price. He also took a picture. Do you want to see it?"

Wilson: "Sure, Give me the rest of the intel via e-mail, ok."

Lillie: "Ok, see you later, general."

Wilson: "See you."

I got an email after that. It is a full report from the 45th recon squadron, which was containing every piece of detail that I need. At the end of the report, there were a lot of pictures with their own description. At the end of the report, I saw a picture of a girl.

She was wearing glasses and a slave rag, which revealed her body. She has smooth skin all over her body. She had brown hair, and her hand was tied to an iron cuff. She has long brown hair which it's length is the same as her neck. When I saw her face, I got shocked pretty bad.

"Guys, she is Anton."