120 Planned Endeavour (1/2)

I nodded at Gheele's explanation.

Certainly, his specialty was dependant on how much Aegis particles he had spread beforehand. Without doing so, as he said, there would be fewer options available for him during a fight.

About ten minutes later, the Neo African soldiers that accompanied us secured the compound. Qara and a few other soldiers helped the prisoners instead and gathered them at one spot. I didn't move from my spot at all, as I watched them from the side. Hope, Lily, Caesar, and Maltyie approached me from my right side, and I turned to look at them. Gheele was beside me too, watching.

”Wait, wait! Aren't you that guy from Neo Africa?!” said the guy I saved before, as he scrambled his way towards us. Before, an Ancile was about to deliver the killing blow for him when I sliced it apart back inside the hall.

Though, everyone near the area heard him except for Gheele. Instead, he turned to me and spoke about the Pillar, Yvonne.

”I heard one of my soldiers said this Yvonne he found in this prison is a clone. The real Yvonne is nowhere nearby,” he said.

”Yeah,” Hope said. ”That is her specialty after all, as Klaus explained. Cloning. She can morph someone's appearance to look like her and that someone will have the basic abilities of a User.”

Gheele rolled his eyes. ”I know that, slave. As for the prison itself, there should be nothing to worry about. My Aegis particles had been spread throughout the area, so any remaining enemies will be immediately dealt with by me.”

”G-Gheele Folami. I'm Gray!” said the guy from before, as he tried to catch his breath. He had run from where Qara was, which was about a hundred meters away.

'So his name is Gray,' I thought.

Gray rubbed his dark hair and looked at Gheele with gleaming eyes. ”I can't believe it. It really is you.”

Gheele, however, looked at him with contempt. He waved his hand lazily at him. ”A mere stranger doesn't have any right to talk to me without my permission.”

My mouth twitched at his statement. Even though a year had pa.s.sed since Amathelia's rule, Gheele was still the same.

Caesar coughed a few times and stepped in between Gray and Gheele. ”I think we should take Gray with us, Master Gheele.”

Gheele frowned. ”Explain.”

”Well, this mission's objective was to take down the two enemy Aegis Users that had been confirmed to be here. Unlike the Lutalo's previous missions, where all of it involved helping the rebel groups at some parts of the world, this one is different. To reduce Amathelia's fighting strength, we have decided to take down each of her Users one by one.”

”That much is obvious to me,” said Gheele. ”Continue.”

Caesar grabbed Gray by the shoulders and pulled him to his side. ”And we need some more expertise on our side as well, in order to weaken Amathelia. Gray Ludwig, right here, is a renowned pharmacist and a good friend of Doctor Oz. His medical skills are otherworldly!”

Gray stared at Caesar, confused. ”I'm not that great. Doctor Oz is much more dependable than me--”

”Shhhhhhh.” Caesar put his finger at his mouth. ”No need to be so humble. Oh, by the way, he's quite a humble guy.”

Hope smiled. ”I can see that.”

”Of course you can, edgy blonde teen,” said Caesar.

I looked at everyone and then back at Gheele. ”I agree with Caesar. Even though Master Gheele has his own medical specialists, we can use someone like him on our side.”

”I agree,” said Lily.

”Haha! You like Caesar. There's no way you wouldn't agree with him,” said Maltyie as she nudged Lily in the shoulder.

”I'm concerned about his well being . . . And everything about him.”

”Of course, of course.” Maltyie then grinned in Caesar's direction.

”Then you all agree with him,” said Gheele.

We nodded.

”I see . . . What do you think, Gray Ludwig?”

Gray's brown eyes opened wide at Gheele's question. Perhaps he didn't expect to be accepted so easily by everyone. ”I'm not sure myself. But, there's nowhere for me to go right now. My pharmacy is nothing without its customers. As you guys already know, the streets are empty, and it is because of Amathelia's stupid rules. She wants the people that she considered bad to be executed, and those who don't, get to sit inside the prisons. Like, why? Is she trying to cleanse Germany, Italy, and Sweden?”

”Right now, it's just those regions,” said Caesar. ”She has not implemented the rules in the other parts of C.U yet.”

Gray nodded. ”I want to help you guys fight this new C.U. Not that the previous ruler is good, but I can't stand all of this. Who does Amathelia think she is? Who is she doing this for anyway? Herself?”

Hope glanced at me and put a hand on my shoulder. I smiled at him.

”I'm fine,” I said.

”Maybe there's more to it. Don't think too much about her,” said Hope.

For the past year, Amathelia was on my mind a lot of times. I saw her on the television back at Neo Africa. I couldn't help but kept thinking that she had a connection with me somehow.

I had a theory that Amathelia was my mother, considering how young she looked, and what Ivar had said. I still clung onto that theory. Though, if I wanted to know about the whole thing, I had to ask Amathelia herself.

”I want to ask Amathelia about what she knows about me,” I said to Hope. ”That is my goal right now, aside from saving all those people that are suffering under her reign.”

”I know. Haha, we will get to her.”

Caesar talked with Gray for a while, and finally Gray looked back at the rest of us. ”I will join you guys. Would you allow me, um, Gheele . . . Master Gheele?”

”Hah. If you insist, I shall allow it.”

”Thank you. Thank you so much!” Gray proceeded to shake Gheele's hands, which resulted in Gheele glaring at him after that.

”Hmm?”

I noticed a figure walking towards us and I turned around. ”Oh, it's Ulii!”

”Ava,” called Ulii. ”I heard there's nothing else for me to do, eh? I need to rest after we get back.” Ulii halted in front of me. Gray gasped when he looked at her.

”You're . . . That old woman!” He shouted.

”Hmm?” Ulii stared at him. ”Oh, Mister Gray Ludwig. Nice to see you all well and not dead. Hahaha!” She opened the bandages that were wrapping a part of her head and then the bandages on her right arm.

”Wait, wait . . . You're not injured? Your face looks . . . Fine. And so does your arm,” said Gray.