How to Survive as the Second Son of a Mage Family - Chapter 202

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How to Survive as the Second Son of a Magic Family (202)

‘What the hell is this bastard trying to do?’

That was the thought that flashed through Lucas’s mind.

He was smiling too slyly, making his grin look even more ominous and adding to the suspicion.

“…Since when were you someone who cared about such things? Don’t try to match my standards and just do it. I’ll accept whatever it is.”

“Alright~ Close your eyes again. The fact that Narke knows we’re at City Hall but isn’t coming is a bit… no, really bothering me.”

Elias suddenly grabbed the cloth and pulled it, then untied it and properly retied it.

“Luca, do you know what I’m going to do?”

“How would I know? Just hurry up and tell me.”

“It’s nothing special.”

Elias suddenly stood up from his seat and disappeared from the front for a moment.

When the sound of footsteps approached again, Oswald asked in a surprised voice.

“What’s that? Could there be rampage drugs here…?”

“Oswald.”

Elias’s lowered voice, as if telling him to shut up, cut off his words.

A cold water bottle was placed in Lucas’s hand. Lucas shrugged with an expression asking what he was supposed to do with it.

“What’s this?”

“Luca. You trust me, right~?”

“…?”

Lucas slightly furrowed his brow at the out-of-the-blue comment.

He didn’t know what the situation was, but was he telling him to drink this?

Then why did Oswald mention rampage drugs earlier? Was this some suspicious-looking water?

Lucas, whose head was starting to ache as he pressed his forehead, began gripping the bottle as if he was about to smash it right away.

“No?”

“Sob sob…”

“This bastard… Elias is actually crying out loud? Look at his expression.”

At Lucas’s harsh voice, Julia waved her hand.

“Elias, could you just tell us what’s going on? From Lucas’s perspective, this must be very confusing. If you tell us, we’ll try to persuade Lucas properly.”

Lucas’s expression softened a little at those words.

It was the first sensible thing he’d heard in a while.

As expected, sometimes friends like Julia who are smooth, well-rounded, and sensible are more comforting than guys like Leo and Elias who have peculiar aspects worthy of being novel protagonists.

This was his thought after feeling Leo’s murderous intent born from his desire to win for about ten minutes. It was definitely all because of that.

He felt Elias’s mana move toward Julia. Soon Julia spoke as if she had realized something.

“Ah, I see.”

“What is it, Julia?”

“Hmm, shall we do it this way?”

Julia took the bottle from Lucas’s hand.

The sound of drinking water reached Lucas’s ears loudly.

“…Mmm.”

Julia handed the bottle back to Lucas.

Now the bottle’s weight was much lighter than before.

“There, I drank it too, so now you feel less resistant, right?”

“You’re not going to explain what it is?”

“Haha, I can’t explain everything, so I drank it myself. Let’s check the progress together.”

“…Progress…?”

Lucas, who roughly understood what he meant, let out a hollow laugh.

At the same time, Elias looked down at Lucas and anxiously tapped the table.

Lucas couldn’t think too much here. As usual, Luca seemed reluctant to take losses, but just for today, he needed to properly take a loss in various ways for it to return as a big gain for them.

Luca probably knew this, which was why he had been staying in the back all day—though of course he wasn’t just hiding but had found a way to counter Narke’s authority, so Luca had already scored points—but if he calculated everything now, it would all be for nothing.

‘Should I just snatch it and pour it down his throat?’

While Elias was looking down at Lucas and thinking thoughts that would likely get him cut off, Lucas downed the bottle’s contents in one gulp.

The team members who had been watching them both with anxious eyes, not knowing what was happening, widened their eyes.

“What, he drank it? Julia did too, what are you trying to do?!”

“Hey, Elias. What was that? At least tell us.”

“…Oh.”

At Elias’s admiration, Lucas put the bottle down on the table and said.

“I trust you. Is that enough?”

“…”

Elias, who had been staring down at him silently without even thinking to close his mouth, burst into laughter. Then he sat next to Lucas and put his arm around his shoulder as always.

“Ah~ Our Luca is so straightforward~”

“Since when are we ‘ours’?”

Even at the slightly irritated tone, perhaps because there were only more unknowns, Elias didn’t care and leaned in.

“There’s something more important than that, Luca.”

“What?”

“Let’s go on a fountain tour.”

* * *

“Everyone, good work so far.”

Leo clapped his hands to focus his team members’ attention.

Among the students looking at Leo expressionlessly, Ulrike and Josefine’s faces were particularly dark, having been unable to do anything since their artifacts broke from the beginning.

They were blaming themselves, thinking that if only they had been connected through artifacts, they could have responded to Leo and Narke’s support requests, and might have been able to defeat Team 3 and win.

Leo comforted them as if reading their thoughts.

“It’s been a mud fight for a long time now. Don’t be gloomy about giving up 1 point, let’s focus on the remaining 1 point.”

“That’s right, everyone~ It’s nobody’s fault. If we blame ourselves and each other, it’ll only hurt us in the end, so let’s just resolve to do better going forward!”

At those words, Josefine, who had been hanging her head low, muttered.

“…Nobody’s fault? I’ve only been holding you back since getting beaten from the start.”

“No~ If you think about it, I also couldn’t use my authority on Julia and Auguste because I was only focused on Lucas. If I had used it on them, I could have gone to find the City Hall coordinates right away. Same with Leo. We were doing well until what Elias said… mmph?”

Narke looked up at Leo, who had covered her mouth while rolling her eyes.

Leo, with a disillusioned expression, sighed deeply and said to the students.

“…The conclusion is this. There’s still 1 point left, so from now on is the real deal. We can use our past mistakes as stepping stones for the future.”

The students, now much more determined than before, nodded.

Ulrike received a new artifact from Leo and put it on, saying.

“But Narke, is your head okay?”

“Haha, no~”

Every time Lucas covered his eyes, really useless information would swirl through her head.

For example, that the wind was blowing from the northwest, or that something seemed to brush past her cheek, or that Oswald’s mana seemed to keep rushing toward her from behind.

Hundreds of such pieces of information poured in per minute, and now her vision was spinning.

She had even almost collapsed earlier from reading hundreds of building names and warp coordinates.

‘But maybe it’s a bit better now~’

Lucas was also sitting and resting now.

Since he said he was going to City Hall, he was probably having a strategy meeting there.

The moment she activated her ability again with that thought, a flustered cry came from beside her.

“Are you okay? Narke, you have a nosebleed.”

“Huh? Really.”

Narke took something to wipe with from her clutch and roughly wiped away the blood.

To think this happened from using her ability just one more time.

‘I won’t be able to use it freely anymore.’

She couldn’t afford to be more leisurely. If she lost consciousness like this, she might get ejected from Mimesis.

“I need to finish this quickly~ Let’s start. The first rampage victim was a beggar, and the second victim was a City Hall official. The remaining person must also be someone related to this place, right~?”

“Right.”

“First, they were in the same place, and the most likely hypothesis theoretically is… they ate the same thing.”

At those words, puzzled questions came from the team members.

“What did he drink? Did this civil servant steal and drink water that a beggar was drinking?”

“…He could just go to city hall and drink his own water, there’s no need to…”

“I think the same. The evidence is a bit weak to say they ate something together, right? Still, it’s too much to completely remove it from the list~ Haike. Were there any other clues there?”

“…Yeah. I might have missed something, but there wasn’t anything for now.”

“Hmm…”

The students fell quiet again.

Then Leo took out the bundle of newspapers he had set down on the chair.

“I figured this might happen, so I brought all the newspapers from the newsstand on the way here. Take a look.”

After rummaging through the newspapers for a while, the team members shook their heads.

Ulrike muttered while resting her chin on her hand.

“There doesn’t seem to be any particularly related stories. I’ll read from beginning to end. Benz & End announces 3rd generation magic-powered automobile, strengthened qualification requirements for gymnasium teacher applications, mandatory military education for New Humanity aged 8-24 expanded to 100 hours annually, Entrepreneurs’ Association requests lowering Old Humanity employment age from 13 to 9 years old…”

“Anything even slightly related?”

“Penthalon. It’s an article from the Department of Urban Aesthetics. Up to five times the existing fine for illegal garbage dumping, deployment of 1,000 plainclothes environmental inspectors in Berlin, encouragement for low-income earners with annual income under 1 million pel in the capital to relocate to metropolitan almshouses and new admissions, replacement of aging water and sewage pipes, water quality inspection of Berlin fountains and drinking fountains, forced demolition of street vendors with high contamination risk on the 19th of next month, 50% increase in domestic alcohol and tobacco taxes until Penthalon ends…”

At the list of seemingly useless news, the students’ faces darkened. Then Leo tapped the table with his finger and furrowed his brow.

“There’s useless news mixed in here too… Street vendors?”

“Yeah. They say such low-cost food stalls might be contaminated by Pleroma, so they’re going to remove them all on the 19th due to complaints.”

“Really? That makes sense. Pleroma might disguise themselves as street vendor owners and spread contaminated substances while selling cheap food during Penthalon.”

Leo answered while lost in thought. At his words, Ulrike’s eyes became serious.

“…Wait, wouldn’t such street vendors be accessible to beggars too? Street food is much cheaper regardless of quality. Plus, the government officially acknowledged they might be contaminated by Pleroma.”

The students’ eyes met each other.

Though the situation was still unclear, clues were gradually becoming visible.

Another student raised their hand to focus attention and spoke.

“Guys, the almshouse is worth considering too. The Department of Urban Aesthetics is going around catching beggars. Those two might have met at a relief kitchen set up by the almshouse. I’ve heard recently that the almshouse has been temporarily opening soup kitchens.”

“That’s good.”

Then Haike, who had been quietly listening, spoke softly with bright eyes.

“…What about environmental inspectors? What if Pleroma pretended to be an environmental inspector and contacted those two? Inspector management is overseen by the Department of Urban Aesthetics, and if they were environmental inspectors, they could have directly met the beggar.”

Leo leaned his head back while lost in thought, took a deep breath, and organized the previously collected information once more.

“Alright, it’s possible. But if no related clues come up, it’s not a particularly compelling hypothesis. Let’s put this hypothesis on hold until we find something.”

When he finished speaking, another student who had been looking at the newspaper looked around at their friends and said.

“Then after that, the aging pipe replacement… the beggar probably isn’t a replacement specialist. What about the alcohol tax… isn’t it possible they bought and drank alcohol from the black market because of taxes? And that was contaminated.”

“Those two seem unlikely. There was a fountain article next, right? Honestly, the fountain seems promising, what do you think?”

“I think it looks promising too. But at this point, this round seems doable for us?!”

It really was.

All plausible hypotheses.

The connection points between the beggar and the Department of Urban Aesthetics official had emerged quite well now.

Now they just needed to see if there was evidence matching the hypotheses.

“Right. This is worth considering too. Then, next…”

“Oh, wait a minute.”

Narke grabbed his head.

The gazes of all five sitting around the table turned to him.

“Lucas is drinking… something.”

“Drinking? During the exam?”

“Yeah. Elias just made him drink something.”

Elias?

Just made him?

Leo raised his eyebrows. Those two words shouldn’t go together, right? For some reason, an ominous feeling crept up his spine.

“What did he make him drink?”

“Lucas doesn’t know either. He just thinks it’s something like water. Ugh, he’s really disgusted.”

“If it’s water then it’s water, what’s this ‘something like water’?”

“…”

Narke couldn’t answer Leo’s question for a long time.

After a while, Narke’s face turned pale and he barely managed to speak with a hollow laugh.

“Fountain… water…”

“…”

Silence flowed.

No one could understand those words at once.

Leo was the first among the other students to shout.

“…What?!”

“What are you really saying, Narke? Are you saying Lucas is drinking fountain water right now? Did you read that correctly?”

Ulrike asked with an incredulous face.

Narke didn’t answer and just held his head. Heike Einsiedel asked with a darkened face.

“…Narke, so you’re saying they’re drinking that right now to find out if they went on a rampage because of fountain water?”

“…That would be it, right? At least that’s Elias’s intention.”

“Lucas alone?”

“Probably together with Julia…”

The other team members shook their heads with completely disgusted faces.

“What the hell are they really? Their way of thinking is fucking extraordinary. This isn’t just ordinary crazy.”

“There really are only crazy bastards in Team 3…”

“We should have known from when they said they’d take the exam blindfolded…”

Narke suppressed his nausea and smiled as he spoke.

“Guys, shall we think a little more?”

“About what?”

“We don’t have information about the second rampage case and its victim. We need to know that to choose one among all those possibilities we reasoned through our earlier conversation.”

The students nodded.

“Team 3 has information about that second rampage case and victim. So, what should we do now?”

“We need to meet with Team 3.”

“Right, that’s it. Team 3 happens to be going around fountains trying to prove one of our hypotheses…”

Narke looked at his teammates with a bright smile.

The teammates who predicted his next words slowly raised the corners of their mouths.

“It would be good to bring Team 3’s information as well while we’re at it. What do you think, Leo?”

“…Not bad. But we shouldn’t get obsessed with it like before.”

“Good! Then, it would be nice to capture Lucas and one other person.”

“One other person? Wouldn’t it be enough to just capture Lucas?”

“I can’t cast mental magic on Lucas.”

The students opened their mouths and nodded.

They seemed to accept that Lucas’s level was high enough that magic wouldn’t work on him.

It was true that it was difficult to cast, but that wasn’t the reason Narke didn’t want to use magic on Lucas.

‘His condition got really bad when he was under mental magic.’

No matter how much this was during an exam and they were enemies now, he was a friend before that.

If he didn’t know, that would be one thing, but he couldn’t win by despicably touching his friend’s trauma.

With their goal set, the students stood up from their seats with energetic faces.

“Alright. Where are they now?”

“A park three blocks down from Alexanderplatz. But, guys.”

“Wait a moment.”

Narke and Leo spoke simultaneously.

Narke looked into Leo’s eyes.

They would say the same thing anyway. Sensing this, Narke gestured for him to go first. Leo nodded in acknowledgment and spoke.

“We couldn’t know where Team 3 students went until now. Team 3 didn’t give Lucas any information.”

“Right.”

“But this time, I could tell where Team 3 was and what they were drinking through any method. Why did they make Lucas drink something this time? If it had been when we found the first and second points, Team 3 would have made a different student drink water, not Lucas. Haven’t you thought that’s strange?”

“…You’re right.”

The students looked at Leo and Narke with complicated expressions, as if they had just realized this. At their silent question, Narke affirmed.

“Right. They wouldn’t have let us hear this for no reason. It must be Elias’s deception. Their purpose is obviously to lure us in. What do you think they’re planning to do after luring us?”

Narke muttered while resting his chin on his hand.

“As long as we stay properly alert, there’s nothing bad about it. Besides, we don’t have information about the second rampage victim, and it’s hard to verify the hypothesis we established earlier in this situation, so we don’t have any other choice.”

“So?”

“So, let’s follow them once.”

* * *

At the same time, in front of the park fountain, three members of Team 3 were gathered.

“Are you seriously kidding me?”

Lucas’s hand naturally moved toward the back of his head.

Elias quickly swatted that hand away.

“No, Luca. Don’t unwrap the bandage and don’t throw up either~”

“Do you think I can avoid throwing up?!”

“Hah…”

Julia’s deep sigh could be heard from beside them.

She was feeling exactly the same sentiment as Lucas.

Lucas muttered as he felt something rising from within his stomach.

“…Elias. You said ‘any method would be fine.’ Is this the method you were talking about?”

“Something like that! Though it’s not everything yet.”

“Right… But no matter what, you wouldn’t do something this crazy, so I think this isn’t fountain water but…”

“Hey hey?! Stop! Stop thinking~”

Elias covered Lucas’s mouth. Even through the bandage, Lucas’s furrowed brow was visible. Elias smiled unconcernedly and said.

“Should we review the coordinates again? Let’s start from A~”

“…”

“You’re memorizing them, right? How far did you get? No, don’t answer. I think you probably got to D, so it should be fine to talk at this point. Listen carefully, Luca.”

Elias lowered his voice.

“You can’t think at all. Leo keeps saying that you and I think alike, and I think he’s somewhat right. If you think even for a moment, you’ll quickly figure out my plan. So even if your stomach churns a bit, just bear with it for now. Rather, imagine eating sauerkraut dipped in cola. Narke will be so disgusted he’ll never open it again.”

“Elias, do you seriously have a grudge against me? Get to the point.”

“Keep memorizing the coordinates. First, Team 1 will be looking for this information. The victim that Oswald and Florian found was a Department of Urban Aesthetics civil servant, just like the rampage victim. You haven’t heard the information the kids found yet, right?”

“Yeah.”

“I’ll tell you quickly now. A New Humanity in his 40s, navy blue checkered jacket, deodorant smell, gum wrapper, business card, fountain pen, finger-sized portable perfume bottle, five folded fine notices, palm-sized notebook. Maybe because of the rain, the jacket was wet right where it had fallen. The notebook was completely empty and the fine notices were also bills not yet issued to specific individuals. It was an American fountain pen with dark navy ink, and the perfume color was light pink, but you probably don’t need details like that, right?”

Lucas didn’t answer. He was still continuously memorizing coordinates.

“Now, second. Luca, you were incredibly good at acting as Faust and Rosalind. I was especially surprised during Rosalind. Even though you and she have such different personalities, you could speak exactly like that character~?”

“…”

Elias’s voice became even more serious.

“Luca. From now on, when we meet Team 1, say and do things you would absolutely never do.”

* * *

“Memorizing coordinates again~”

“Oh, Narke…”

As Narke turned off his insight ability and stood up, Josefine, who had come with him, turned around with a worried expression.

“Narke’s eyes are already all burst. Are you okay?”

“Say blood vessels to be precise…”

Narke let out a hollow laugh as he slowly closed and opened his eyes.

Drowsiness was setting in now.

‘That won’t do.’

Narke slapped his cheek and touched his artifact.

“Ulrike, Hilde. Have you arrived?”

[Yeah.]

“Leo, what about Haike?”

[We’re here too.]

Nothing special.

We predicted Team 3’s route and arrived early at destinations they might go to. Two teams went to different fountains, and the remaining team went to a water fountain.

Since we split into three teams, one of them should catch something.

The goal was to catch one of Team 3’s students this way, but Team 3 probably wouldn’t let us do that.

‘Elias deliberately lured us here.’

He definitely has a plan.

We need to figure out what that plan is and play along.

Playing along instead of avoiding it is our strategy against Elias’s strategy, and that’s the key.

Thinking this, Narke hid behind a tree and held his breath.

Before long, two people warped in front of the fountain.

“It’s Elias and Lucas.”

Josefine whispered.

Right.

As expected, Elias and Lucas came to a different fountain.

Going around to all these different places, they really seemed intent on finding out which fountain water caused the rampage through contact.

“Narke. What should we do? It would be best to induce close combat and make them warp, right?”

“…”

Narke put his finger to his lips and turned his head toward the fountain.

His breath smelled of metal. He could feel blood flowing down the back of his throat.

Still, the effect was clear.

“Hahaha… This is an illusion. It’s fake.”

“What?!”

“Let’s go. There’s no need to confront an illusion. Staying here would be a waste of time.”

As soon as he said that, the illusion before their eyes disappeared.

Since someone had clearly recognized it as an illusion, the ability couldn’t be maintained. Narke smiled and tapped his ear.

“Ulrike, Hilde.”

[Yeah?]

“Auguste has figured out our movements now. He might be there. Like before, he might be planning to hold us back again this time. Shake him off and just pass through.”

[Lucas and Elias are right in front of us though? You’re saying that’s fake?]

“Right. It’s fake.”

[…It’s not disappearing though.]

Well, it’s just suspicion.

Narke himself, who directly used the ability, knew for certain they were fake, but the other team members without insight ability could only remain at the level of suspicion.

[Anyway, it’s better to just leave this place. We’ll just waste time confronting them for no reason. We’ll go to the almshouse now to investigate.]

[Right, Leo and Haike should escape quickly too. This is just trying to distract us! They’re probably holding us back like before while finding clues among themselves.]

At the same time, Leo and Haike, who had been listening to their conversation, looked at Lucas and Elias in front of the fountain beyond the trees.

“They say it’s fake.”

“Leo, there’s no trace of those two rampage victims meeting in this space either.”

Haike, who had read the memories of this land, stood up and said.

“What Narke and the team members say makes sense. As you said before, there must be a reason why Elias put the fountain information into Lucas’s brain. He’s probably planning to waste time so we can’t find clues like now. Since they said it’s fake, let’s just move on.”

“Right. We should move to the next coordinates too. But…”

Leo took a deep breath.

The cold February winter wind filled his lungs completely.

Honestly, his sense of smell wasn’t particularly outstanding, but having lived surrounded by plants his whole life gave him an advantage in searches like this in parks.

Following the smell of rain-soaked earth, he could smell pine and juniper trees.

And…

The scent of cedar.

It was too deep a fragrance to smell in this small park.

“Nothing to lose, everything to gain. Haike, mark Lucas.”

“What? But then we’d be playing right into Team 3’s plan…!”

Kwaang—!

Sky-blue magical power so bright it hurt the eyes exploded in midair.

Elias, who had somehow switched his wand to a staff, held it up to the sky and blocked Leo’s attack.

“Isn’t that a bit too obvious~? You can’t attack like that, Leo!”

Leo didn’t react much and just kept swinging his wand continuously.

He used no special spells or attack methods.

Having already gained the upper hand once with just indiscriminate barrage, he already knew he didn’t need to put in effort when facing Elias who was with Lucas.

The problem was Lucas behind him.

Kwaang—! Bang!

Amid the thunderous roar that shook his body, Leo muttered while looking at Elias and Lucas.

“Auguste really isn’t an ordinary ability user. They’re so identical that honestly, I can’t tell them apart.”

“What did you say, Leo?”

Haike shouted and asked.

Leo didn’t answer. Instead, he came out from behind the tree where he’d been hiding and charged toward Elias. Deep blue magical power rushed before his eyes. Despite the thunderous noise and flash from hitting the barrier disrupting his senses, Leo paid no attention and only rushed at Elias.

Clang—!

“Oh, you’re in a hurry. Not good~”

Elias blocked Leo’s sword with a grin.

In the distance, Lucas could be seen confronting Haike. Leo, who had glanced behind Elias, looked at Elias again and said.

“Does that matter?”

“Of course?”

Leo smiled faintly and shook his head.

“I haven’t deployed spatial magic right now, Elias.”

“So~? Our Leo keeps losing focus.”

“Disappointing. You could run away right now if you wanted to, so why are you confronting me?”

The blue eyes beyond the sword wavered.

The force behind the sword became slightly unstable.

Leo’s eyes turned toward beyond Elias’s shoulder.

Haike had already subdued Lucas with the help of Leo’s unique ability.

“I wonder why. Why are you killing time here so unlike yourself, Elias.”

“Who knows~?”

“That’s because you’re a calculated existence. Not the real thing that thinks flexibly according to situations…”

Creak—

Leo looked at Elias again and smiled.

“But a fake that has to stay here under orders. Am I wrong? Honestly, this time it’s sloppy, Auguste.”

At that moment, the Elias before his eyes disappeared.

Leo steadied himself, feeling the magical power that had remained in the air scatter.

As expected, according to Narke’s words, this was a fake.

‘I said it was sloppy, but…’

It wasn’t sloppy.

The defensive bluffing Elias had claimed wasn’t a bluff.

I admit it. What I just said was the real bluff.

Auguste’s ability is precise, and there really are no loopholes to escape through. Unlike when I distinguished Lucas’s authenticity with my own power alone earlier, this time Narke’s hint played a major role.

However, anyway…

One thing is certain: this time it’s the opposite.

Even if Elias was fake, Lucas is real.

Why?

Leo took a breath, pressed down the grass that had grown thickly between the brick cracks with his magical power, and approached Haike and Lucas.

The cedar scent he’d smelled earlier grew stronger as he got closer. He could also smell other grass fragrances mixed in. It was the scent Lucas used when he was in his original identity. Lucas seemed to find it bothersome to apply every time, but after learning that super-sensory ability users like Oswald and Philip were scattered throughout the school, he couldn’t help but use it even if he didn’t want to.

Anyway, that evidence Auguste couldn’t possibly know, the proof that this Lucas was the real Lucas, was right before my eyes.

Leo approached the fallen Lucas with his head turned to the side and knelt on one knee.

“Lucas.”

“…”

There was no answer.

Leo lightly pulled the string at the back of his head.

This annoying defensive tool that had troubled our team from the start of the exam until now came off easily with a single gesture. It was so absurd he let out a hollow laugh.

Then, pink eyes with dissolved laughter came into Leo’s view.

Whether he was laughing because a friend’s face suddenly popped up, or because it was absurd, or because things were going according to plan, was unclear.

But one thing was certain.

‘This isn’t a coincidence.’

I’m standing on a well-orchestrated game, and the same goes for Lucas.

At this moment when I need the information Team 3 has for the final score, why did I encounter Lucas so conveniently?

“Shall I hear what you’re planning by staying alone? Surely…”

“…”

“There must be a reason.”

Leo looked down at his friend with a proper smile to hide his calculations. The corners of Lucas’s mouth slowly rose upward.

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