152 The Night Raid (1/2)

”Is she out yet?” Linri asked. Currently, he was sitting in Hayato's room and playing with an ice ball in his hands. He was changing its shape in a myriad of ways.

”No”

”Is she out yet?”

”No”

”Is she out yet?” Linri knew that he was acting like a little brat right now but he thought it was fun so he kept it going. He was especially wondering when Hayato was going to breakdown. Well, at least for the last 5 minutes he was able to keep his cool. Was he losing his touch? Oh no! What was he supposed to do if he lost his power to annoy people?

”No”

”Is she out yet?”

”No...Yes”

”Is sh- What did you say?” Linri stopped playing with the ice and looked at the screen to see Ms Snow leaving her room.

”What are you waiting for let's go!” said Linri while pulling Hayato along with him. Selim should already be waiting for them downstairs and they needed his ability if they wanted to break in without leaving any traces.

Actually, his power was godsent for a thief. So why did he have to be such a bloodthirsty maniac? If it was Linri that had his powers he wouldn't even consider becoming a merc.

”Here,” said Selim while relaxing on one of the couches in the lounge. Thankfully this was their dormitory and they didn't need to hide from anyone.

”Let's go, Principal should be expecting us,” said Linri. This was the code they decided on. It obviously meant Snow had left her room and it was time to go.

”Really? I thought we were going to br-” Linri hit Selim in the back of the head.

”Shut up you idiot! That was the signal!” Linri said in a half-whisper half-shout. Honestly, this Selim was really smart when it came to fighting but anything else? Linri was sure that even a monkey could be smarter than him. Yeah, well, what was he supposed to expect from a guy who accidentally killed his opponent during a spar? In the background that had seemed intentional but Linri was suspecting that Selim might have very well been idiotic enough to actually do that accidentally.

”Do that again and you will lose a hand!” said Selim. Linri did not say anything and looked at his eyes. Selim looked back. Sparks were flying between their eyes. Hayato then proceeded to drag these two macho idiots to Ms Snow's room.

”You know what to do right? Just phase in and open the door. That's it! Don't touch anything else!” Linri reminded Selim. He, on the other hand, just shrugged and walked through the door. You see, Ms Snow's door was different than all the other ones in this school. She had installed a hand scanner she made herself. Basically, you would need her fingerprints to open the door and there was no way in hell that Linri could get it easily. So the solution was to bypass it and just walk in! I mean sure, maybe Hayato could have hacked it but Linri did not really want to have any chances. What if the device was wired to alert Snow? Wouldn't their whole plan go up in smokes?

Selim phased in through the door and a second later Linri saw the knob turn. He had opened the door from inside. Of course, there wasn't a scanner inside the room. Who would want to scan their hand each time they got in or out? Putting one outside should be fine enough or at least that should be Snow's thinking process.

Linri and Hayato walked in a hurry and closed the door behind them.

”Start infecting the cameras and get ready for the sentry guns” Linri reminded Hayato who had already started to hack the cameras inside the room with his nanobots. Linri did not remember the exact event but there was a time someone had walked in Snow's room for some reason and they were shot by sentry guns that appeared from the ceiling. He thought it might have been Riku who had come to ask a question but he wasn't sure.

Linri slowly inched his way closer to the middle of the room. Actually, it would be more apt to call this place a suit. Anyway, he slowly walked closer and never left his eyes away from the ceiling. He was ready to jump sideways the moment guns pop out or create an [Ice Wall]. However, even though he was standing in the middle of the room nothing happened. Linri frowned, this was not how it was supposed to go.

”Hayato?”

”The sentry guns might have been connected to an optic program that commands it to shoot anyone who is not registered in the database. Maybe because I hacked the cameras it didn't activate?”