143 Rondo (1/2)

Linri literally facepalmed. He had thought wearing a butler uniform was embarrassing and now he was in a maid uniform. He became as red as a tomato. He felt like a pervert. He so wanted to hit Richard and strangle him.

\”NO! There is no blood! Now give me back my clothes!\” Linri shouted in anger.

\”Phew, for a second there I was questioning what kind of a pervert you are. Who would ask their teacher to wear a maid uniform? You are a weird little man\” said Richard and snapped his fingers again. The room was covered in darkness once more and then they returned back to their old clothes.

\”You- You!\” Linri was gritting his teeth but then he slowly took a deep breath and relaxed.

\”Anyway, you know Drake right? I heard you were good friends with his parents?\”

\”Yeah? What about it?\”

\”Well, do you want to hear a great conspiracy?\”

\”Sure! With the Old Man James gone I was getting bored anyway. So what is this one about? Aliens? Demons? Genetic modification? The moon is actually a monster egg? Government brainwashing program? No, wait that one was real... what were we talking about again?\” Linri heard a dangerous sentence but he decided to let that one slide. He had more pressing matters.

\”Church of the Sun brainwashing Drake to make him a sleeper agent,\” Richard squinted his eyes. The air around him had changed but he was still wearing that goofy smile of his.

\”Do go on. I am intrigued.\”

\”I won't go into details but he has been brainwashed twice now. The first time created sub-personalities while the second one erased all his previous memories. The second one was to fix the first one but it didn't work either. I have found the keyword they used to trigger his personality changes so now I need help from someone good at human psychology to lift it. I was thinking about Ms Valerie but considering she is a Kitsune I wasn't sure. So does she know who I am? If not what did you write in my document to hide my identity? I need to know before asking for her help.\”

\”That was all? No worries then! She is also an exile like you guys so she knows who you are. But is that all? Are you sure that they were involved in this? Actually, we have a student from there. How about we listen to what he has to say first?\” Richard then used his intercom to tell his secretary something.

\”Actually I don't we have to see him. If they really are involved who knows what those lunatics might do?\” Linri tried to get up. He really didn't want to meet that student. It should suffice to say that he was the second most person he hated in the club just slightly behind Luxor.

\”Why? He might know something?\” said Drake clearly unaware that Linri wanted to leave.

\”He is right you know,\” said Richard with a mischievous smile. He had caught onto the fact that Linri was uncomfortable so there was no way that he was going to let him leave now.

A couple of minutes later there was a knock on the door.

\”Praise the Sun!\” A guy with bright red hair walked into the room. He was wearing a white sleeveless shirt and had a purple tie around his neck. On his arms, there was a pair of bright gold gauntlets and on his feet, there were a bright gold pair of shins. They seemed like part of a set. This was Rondo, Muffin's narcissistic paladin in-training. Also one of the two transmigrators he hadn't met yet.

\”Principal why have you requested my handsome self today? Could it be that you missed my handsome visage?\” Linri literally shivered. That was so cringey. He couldn't deny that he himself had narcissistic tendencies but it wasn't this bad!

\”No, you little monkey. I heard some disturbing news and wanted to ask what you know about it. What do you know about the inner workings of your church?\”

\”Sure you are joking. Where can you find a monkey that is as glorious as me?\”

Linri finally couldn't hold it in and joined the conversation.

\”Stop stalling and answer your narcissistic bastard!\”

\”Oh, this is-\”

\”No need to answer principal, I know who he is. Linri Harclaw, it's your honour to meet the glorious me. Rejoice,\” Linri wanted to throw up. The original Muffin was an asshole but this version really made him want to throw up.

\”Yes yes yes Praise the Sun bla bla. Answer the goddamn question!\”

\”This glorious one didn't bother to learn about that boring stuff so unfortunately, I have no idea\”