Chapter 246 Before the play (2/2)

”Oh, is that so?... I was just thinking of something, so truthfully I wasn't listening that much.” Emily answered as she shrugged her shoulders acting as if she was helpless to do anything about it.

”Then pray tell, what were you thinking that so important, that you weren't listening.” Even now Rachel was a bit irritated by Emily, but she understood that this was how Emily usually operated. Still there was a time and place for everything.

”I was thinking about the episode of Vampire Princess last night. The VA of one of my favorite side character changed, and it felt a bit off for me. I was wondering what the heck happened to the original VA.” When Emily finished speaking, everyone was looking at her with a dumbfounded expression, except for Kei who seems to be agreeing with her, by nodding his head. He had the same thought as Emily regarding the new VA.

While everyone was dumbfounded, Rachel's muscles started to bulge, she was about to use RELEASE. Noticing the danger Alex signaled Sayaka who moved without anyone noticing, she then suddenly appeared behind Rachel and patted her shoulders.

”Don't be so agitated Rachel. You know Emi she just likes joking around a bit, same as me.” Everyone was surprised by Sayaka's movements, but the most surprised were Niel, Oliver, and Alex.

Niel who has been training with Lyner's techniques, was surprised to see that he couldn't detect Sayaka's movements. He was tor- trained by Lyner to feel even the slightest presence of the person, using all his senses, the smell, the feel of the wind, instincts and if possible eyesight. Yet none of those worked with Sayaka's movement.

Oliver was surprised on how much Sayaka improved. At the beginning Olvier could still somehow sense her coming, yet now, she was literally like a ghost, this made Oliver smile. The improvement in skill his girlfriend was having, made Oliver feel happy for her.

Alex on the other hand, had a different opinion from the two. Since the start when Rachel showed signs of using RELEASE, Alex was already looking at Sayaka signaling her to do something, since she was the only one who could control the two, the two being Rachel and Emily. So Alex's attention was on Sayaka since the beginning, and the moment she moved she suddenly disappeared and reappeared. It wasn't that she moved too fast, it felt more like she teleported, but that can't be it, since her disappearing reappearing wasn't done instantaneously. There was a delay in her disappearing and her reappearing, Alex just couldn't understand what happened in between the two actions, and was very curious but decided to ask Sayaka about it later.

Rachel hearing her best friend's words was finally able to cool down, she then glared at Emily. ”So why are you thinking about such things, while we're all worrying about our situation here?”

”Well it's because there is no need to worry about something you cannot do anything about. It would be good if we knew what was coming and prepare, but since we have nothing but pictures of people, that when I check seem to be all official Berdonian citezens since birth, and have no criminal record of any kind. With that information, we really can't tell what's going to happen can we?... Basically what I'm saying is, we got nothing to do. We can't plan around something that isn't there, so I believe what Alex and Oliver said is the best course of action. We should act together, and we can only act when the threat appears. So we just need to respond to whatever comes in an appropriate manner. Thinking about these things to deeply serves no purpose. So instead I started thinking about the change of VA in my favorite show.”

Hearing Emily's full explanation, made everyone including Rachel think that she was right. What she said was indeed right, but still it felt wrong somehow.