27. Ships (5)

27. Ships (5)

"here" Lex said as he gave Mio the black tea

Mio accepted the black and tea "thanks" she said

Then suddenly "THIS DAMN INSTRUCTIONS!" someone screamed a bit far from the four,

*bam *clang *clang *clang

the attention of the one inside the tenth cafeteria gathered to the person who's shouted the criticism

The boy is a bit bigger than average, just from his posture they can see he may be the oldest one inside these children, he has a thug like vibe, he flipped upside down the utensils table, many utensils scattered around, the people near him quickly take a distance from him.

Like that he brazenly breaking all the instructions around, from his appearance it's easy to see he got more power than average boy luckily at least he did not get violent with others. He acts like he's alone in this place without care about others.

Before long, even if they did not get violent like flipping the table, but to vent even a bit of their emotion because the annoying instructions the others started to break the instructions, then like a wave one by one, the children were influenced to broke more and more instructions, that they finally did not care about the instructions like the first boy.

Of course it's not everyone, but about 60-70% children inside were influenced.

"what do you think?" Arthur asked Aria, it was seen from the time spend they spend together, among the four of them Aria looks like the most dependable one at least…. That's what Arthur thinking

"… I'm not sure, but I can't rid the feeling that this is planned" Aria replied while twirling her hair

( Hm… this Aria sure had a good head on her shoulder, it's a bit obvious if you see it from different perspectives, first they accumulated the stress, then a certain amount accumulated, they open the door to vent they let them saw the first step, that their not the only one thinking about it. )

( Because it's hard for someone without courage to take the first step before a group, and flipping the table to catch their attention )

"so you mean, this is planned in advance by the instructor to have this kind of effect?" Lex said

( I need to play along )

"correct" Aria said "if not, I don't understand why he need to move so openly like that, you can just secretly break the instructions"

"hee, so we just ignore that, and follow the instruction like usual?" Mio said

Arthur nodded at Mio question "I think the same too, it must be their test, from the beginning I don't think we can join the training of the tops mercenary so easily like that"

Then Mio and Aria nodded with Arthur's point

(Mercenaries…)

"hey" Lex called the four of them "I've been wanting to ask this since earlier, what is this mercenary you all talking about?"

"""huh?""" the three of them make a confused face by Lex inquiry

"???" Lex tilted his head by the unexpected reaction

(Is it something I should know? Why they act like this?)

"We come to join a military camp right? Why are tests needed here? Don't they usually accept anyone?" Lex continued

"""what!?""" and once again the three of them have the same kind of reactions

(Pfft!! It became a joke if you all keep doing that!!)

(Oops! Hold it me! I don't think it's right to laugh here)

After a while in silence, Arthur the first to say something "… Lex do you know Crimson Eagle?" He asked

(I got a bad feeling about this, looks like they know something more than me)

But Lex still answered sincerely "Crimson Eagle? I don't know… what is that?"

"""!!!???""""

(Hey stop with the identical reactions!!)

(Do you all planned all this in advance when I went away to take drinks??)

*glup

Arthur swallowed his saliva and slowly said "you seriously don't know Crimson Eagle" Arthur asked once again to make sure he did not hear it wrong

"yea, I don't know them" Lex replied calmly

"then why are you here!?" Arthur snapped

"eeehh…" Lex was surprised by Arthur sudden outburst

"you don't even know one of the tops mercenary in the world, just how much your family spoiling you! who sent you here? They need at least gave you the basic knowledge in this place! Spoiling you this much is the same as harming you!!" Arthur said angrily

(Eeee… somehow I become a spoiled brat…)

Even with that Lex can't help making a gloomy face as he hears Arthur mentioned about his family which is recently left him alone, but with his mature mental ages, Lex quickly hid it inside his heart,

his effort ended in vain, cause Mio caught Lex reaction just now, but She didn't say anything about it

"it's my neighbor" Lex replied

"???" Arthur tilted his head as he didn't get what Lex means

"it's my neighbor the one who sent me here" Lex said it once again

"huh?"

"wait wait wait!! I know this is impossible, I know there's no way this happen, but still let me ask you, the stupidest question you can ask in this place…"

"do you related?" Arthur asked with a very pale face

"related to what?" Lex replied, that time the color left in Arthur face instantly disappear, his face as white as sheet of paper

""NO WAY!?"""

(for the third time stopped joking already!! aaa~~ I can't hold it anymore~~)

"pfft!! Ahahaha"

"hey!" Aria complaint "why are you laughing?! Did you just lie to us!" as Aria said her word she becoming more and more menacing glaring at laughing Lex

"What?... No! it's me who has to be angry here! Did you all planned this in advanced to prank me like this!" Lex replied

"what do you mean?" Mio snapped out from her daze and asked Lex

"did you know how funny seeing you three making a same identical reaction, I'm trying my best to hold my laughter since earlier!"

"do we really make that kind of reactions" Mio asked again

"well you can try it, later it's pretty funny"

"wait!! don't change the topic like that!" the last one snapped out from daze Arthur said "Lex you said, your neighbor sent you here? Why?"

"because I told them I wanted to learn some martial arts skill and technique" Lex honestly answered

(there's no point in lying here too)

"what about your family?" Arthur asked

"they passed away two weeks ago" Lex replied

By Lex words the atmosphere became gloomy at once "ughh, sorry" Arthur apologized

"no, it's okay" Lex replied "I've been asked number of times before, what's is this related you all talking about?" Lex continued as he tried to change the gloomy atmosphere

At this time the three of them exchange gazes, they discussed about to tell or not tell Lex about it. Because there's some kind of rule in their society to avoid pulling the bystander form their world

Lex saw their reluctant in answering his question

(I had some kind of feeling about this "related" thing but I'm not sure, let's try it out)

"is this related to the Hellhound I saw before?" Lex asked

"Hellhounds?" for the first time Aria replied to Lex directly

"ah, sorry that's what I called it before I don't know their name" then Lex describe the hellhound he met a weeks ago….

"hey, that thing is…" Arthur said before he stopped in the middle changing gazes with the others

"Lex, you're right about that it is 'related', but I think it's better if you don't know about it" Mio said with a serious face

(This is the first time I seen this kind of emotion from her, and looks like this 'related' thingy too more deep than I thought)

For the first time Mio act like a real older sister in front of Lex, after that Lex tried to argue with the others but they still did not tell him anything

At the end, once again Lex did not find out what is this 'related" thingy means