Chapter 486 - Sams Worries (1/2)

While the Smith Twins were facing a new scenario in their lives whereas the other Elite Five ... were certainly facing their own battles.

✿ Sam ✿

Sam was sitting in the Student Council Room, tapping the pen on the table repeatedly in frustration. His face was scrunched up in concentration as he stared at the notes in his notepad while his fingers never stopped the pen movements.

The tikka-tikka-tikka rapid sound of the pen like a machine gun was starting to get on Sayuri's nerves. She looked up from her desk and saw that scene, sighing and got up. Swiping the pen from his hands, she tapped his forehead with it.

”Stop it, Sam,” she said, putting back the pen into his hands, ”What's wrong?”

Sam looked up at her, then around them.

Seeing that it was empty, he said, ”Sayuri, you're the next CEO in your company, right? I need to dig your brains a bit on this, if you don't mind.”

”Sure, not a problem,” Sayuri said, getting all serious and sitting down next to him.

”There appears to be some sort of undercurrent going on at Smith Industries. I can't quite put my finger on it but ...”

”What sort of undercurrent?” Sayuri asked.

She didn't need to know the details of why Sam was feeling that way, for she has already seen his capabilities. He had a knack for analysing the situation so if he felt that there was something, then there would be something.

”Well, it's been a year now that Kyle's gone MIA,” Sam said, ”And Patrick had been keeping the lid on the actual situation.”

”Officially, Kyle has gone off for further studies so should not be disturbed. No more of these so-called CEO-in-training work.”

”That sounds solid enough, so what's the problem?” asked Sayuri.

”Despite that, there are some rumours floating around that Kyle ran away from home,” Sam said, ”And though that's all that it is, I can't help but feel that something's not right there.”

”I mean, why would this rumour be persistent? Sure, Patrick had been sending those people to try and capture Kyle, but he always did it covertly and the cover story was that they were simply monitoring Kyle. Keeping tabs on him, rather than trying to catch him.”

He sat up, ”I've been monitoring the situation at the company but nothing seems out of the ordinary. It's running as per usual from what I can see, with the stocks being stable and no one raising the issue of Kyle being missing at meetings ...”

”But you still feel something is happening that can't be seen yet?” Sayuri said, putting it into words.

”Exactly,” Sam said in frustration, flinging his pen on the table, ”What if this was the start of a power take-over? You know how these internal strifes have been.”

”So far, it's always been quite well contained in the Smith Line, since the manner of succession is through trials of blood and sweat.”

Literally, blood and sweat, too. Kyle had fought for his position, showcasing his strength by not unleashing the Smith Anger in fights.

At that time, Kyle had only used the basic skills he had learnt from Master Shifu, plus the extra lessons Patrick had put him through. At that point, he was already good enough.

Kyle had only learnt the Kato Art, and the deeper skills of ninjutsu from Master Shifu after he had become the official Smith Heir.