Chapter 25 The Birth of the Mercenary Circle (1/2)

After getting approval from the president, the group was now following the Public Relations officer of the student council to their new room as advised by the Vice-President. When they reached the room, it turned out to be the old storage room outside of the school building.

Rachel was already expecting this, since they were a circle created a week after most people created there own circle's, so this must be the only remaining available room. Oliver on the other hand saw the old storage room, as something with a lot of potential.

Oliver opened the door, and a bunch of dust spread out. Inside the old storage room were spider webs, old tennis rackets, broken balls, and a bunch of broken miscellaneous things. Rachel who entered the storage room, thought that the inside looks much worse than she expected.

Alex on the other hand was scanning the inside for potential bomb threats, and structural hazards. He quickly killed all of the spiders he saw, since he had no time to check if they're able to harm Rachel or not.

”Okay then my comrades let's borrow some brooms and clean this place up.” Oliver said with an excited voice. The three immediately went to get the materials they needed to clean up. When the three returned, Oliver was surprised to see Alex and Rachel surrounded by a ton of people who held brooms and mops.

”Where did all these people come from?”

”Well I told them we created a new Circle and the room we were given was the dirty old storage room outside, so a bunch of our classmates in the going home club volunteered to help.” Rachel was smiling at everyone present, which warmed the hearts of those who came.

'She scammed them.' Oliver quickly figured out what had happened. Seeing as most of the people who came were boys Rachel must've enticed them to help. There were also some girls which were attracted by Alex. Oliver seeing the scene of a bunch of people cleaning the inside of the old storage room just to help them, made him feel that the circle the three of them created would be successful one way or another.

Once the cleaning was done, some of the boys even brought three chairs and an extra table they got from the new storage room and placed them inside. Oliver, and Rachel happily thanked the kind helpers, Alex on the other hand simply bowed his head.

Alex once again looked inside the room as well as outside and double checked everything. He actually found two wiretaps hidden outside of the room, near the open window. One of the boys who helped clean must've placed it there.

'This is a recorder that is connected via wifi... Who could want to use such an obvious wiretap? This is the work of an amateur. Still since they decided to wiretap this place they're target must be one of us. It can't be me cause if they know who I am they would have used better equipment. The same reasoning could be applied to Oliver, so that leaves... I see their target was Rachel, then it's time to eliminate the threat.'

Alex was ready to hunt down the boys who placed the wiretap to protect Rachel from them, but before he could do this Oliver and Rachel noticed the wiretaps in his hands.

”Really those peeping toms what we're they trying to achieve with this?...” Rachel sighed at the pointless practice the boys did.

”This equipment came from the newspaper club right?” Oliver asked Rachel, and Rachel nodded.

”Newspaper club? Are they our enemy?” Alex asked confused why the newspaper club would even try wiretapping their room. The only reason he could think off was that they were the enemy.

”No, they most probably wanted to get some dirt on us so that they can write exaggerated news on this week's newspaper. Well whatever let's just keep these things as our spoils of war.” Rachel suggested with a wicked smile on her face. Alex and Oliver nodded at Rachel's suggestion.

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In the newspaper club's clubroom the president who was listening to the talk of keeping their recorder made him angry.

”Whose the one who hid the wiretap in an obvious place that they actually found it?!” All the members were looking at one guy. The one they were looking at was one of the boys who helped clean the storage room.