~Chapter 3 - Interesting to Observe~
Sitting with legs crossed, focusing their minds on the many documents they're holding, Hibiki, Ren and Eve does a little digging on Taiyoura Tsuji's profile. The three, earlier, were told by Master Bob to do the research while he and Ichiya have a little chit chat about the new three. It's a direct order so none of them can refuse... The three students sits on the long, gold edged, black L shaped sofa on the 2nd floor of their guild house, the same room where Karen Lilica abused Aries. Each decided not to sit so close to each other so gain more fresh air.. Hibiki was on the very edge of the sofa, front view, left side. Eve was on the right while Ren sits in the middle. They scan each file carefully and slowly, so that they won't misread and misunderstood any information..
"Damn! These are some long documents!" Ren complained and scratched his black hair. "How many details do we have to read!?"
"Mind if I put it in a nutshell?" a female voice, calmly said out of nowhere.
"Oh that would be a big hel-" Ren turned his head, with a smile. But the smile broke when he got to stare at the holder of the sudden voice. It was Taiyoura Tsuji, the one whom Bob told the three to do research on! "Ah-ah-ah, T-T-Taiyoura.. Haha, what a pleasant surprise. H-How's it going for you three?" Ren nervously stood up and greeted the girl. He threw the documents he possessed back to the sofa.
"D-Do you have something t-to talk about this afternoon?" Eve nervously, too, added, with a shaking voice. He stood beside the shaking Air Magic user.
Taiyoura crossed her arms. She is wearing a white Korean style, long sleeve, double-breasted, woolen coat. It has 6, gold buttons closing the coat and 2 more buttons creating a stand collar. The coat has a hood attached to it. 2 zippered pockets on both sides. "You don't have to hide the idea of gathering information about me," she narrowed her eyes.
Both Ren and Eve sighed. "Jeez, I was planning to read their secrets and hint them that we know about it," Ren murmured to Eve. "Now it can't be done with her around.. Bummer."
"I can hear you!" Taiyoura's angered voice automatically made Ren and Eve stand still, stiff. "I need one answer. Who gave you guys to even dig up information about me and my teammates up to the level of our secrets?! Don't you know the meaning of the word PRIVACY." she demanded and answer.
"Now, now,Taiyoura, please don't be so hot headed on a pleasant winter day, Ren was just kidding. There aren't any secret which were printed out," Hibiki calmly stood up and defended his group-mates.
"I don't think that PROPER guys should joke like that."
"Oh please, a joke is just a joke. No need to worry, Taiyoura.. or should I say Kazerina Sora-san?" Hibiki smirked. By saying that line, Hibiki thought he got the upper hand on the little argument.. But, it was unexpected that instead of being anxious on her situation, Taiyoura chuckled. "Good digging," she praised. She had a moment of an eye-to-eye contact with Mr. Smarty before finally deciding to give a riddle, "What does my names mean?" The question made all three very quiet. It was an awkward silence.. "If you could answer, you're free to question me or ask for a nutshell about me," Taiyoura added, confidently. "But, my time limit is only 5 minutes.. You've used up 2 minutes of silence."
"You just said it now, how about restart our time," Ren complained.
"Time is ticking.."
Ren clenched his teeth in irritation. A minute later, Ren finally broke in, "Ah whatever! We could read these papers for a day, we don't need your help!" He turned his back walking to the table beside the windows. Before he could pull the chair backwards, Eve exclaimed, "Daylight! Your names clan name Taiyoura combined with your original surname Sora, it'll mean Sun and Sky!"
"Are you sure?" Taiyoura raised an eyebrow.
"Well.. In Taiyoura, you'll have to removed the 'ra' to make it Taiyou. Plus the sun and the sky are together only during daylight," Hibiki elaborated.
Taiyoura smirked and taunted Ren saying, "Looks like your friends have better intelligence then you do, Mr. Hothead." Ren remained quiet but irritated.
As promised Taiyoura was questioned by Hibiki and Eve while Ren does more reading. Taiyoura was politely invited to sit down on the same sofa which revealed that she was wearing white, over-the-knee boots. Ren glanced while his other teammates asks questions to Ms. Annoying with irritation. He continued reading the documents in hand and found something that calmed him down..
After almost 30 minutes of questioning, the Trimens placed everything they know on a nutshell:
1. Taiyoura hates squid and likes bread and luncheon meat for meals.
2. Prefers thick, fantasy books over thin books.
3. Likes to listen to music while reading. Classical music to make her sleep and modern music if on the mood.
4. Blood type, AB. No one should dare wake her up when fast asleep.
5. Loves quiet, and peaceful meadows or places along with fresh floral scent of flowers.
Taiyoura immediately left after then. She told them that she had more business with Lenalee to deal with so she needs to leave.
When the three womanizers got down to the first floor of the building, Ren broke the silence, "That Taiyoura really knows to make things hard for her, huh."
"What do you mean?" Hibiki turned to him.
"Remember that argument I had with her earlier? According to the information I had on the documents I held, she often does a test to check out people's temper and how long it could last. Guess she was trying to do that to me."
"Wow, Ren! I can't believe you actually solved that," Eve praised Ren, though that praise was a bit harsh on Ren's side.
"Well from what I saw today, I'm guessing, Ms. Daylight could be interesting to observe," Hibiki smiled.. The other two agreed firmly.
"But what are we going to do with these documents in hand?" Eve took out the files from the pocket inside his coat.
"Burn them?" Ren waved his in the air.
"No way," Hibiki snatched the files in an instant. "These can still be useful since we didn't asked about her skills and magic yet. Plus I worked hard to get these stuff, we can't just throw them away. We'll be double-checking some things using our Wind-reading glasses and finish these in a nutshell report."
"WHAT!?" Eve and Ren exclaimed in unison.
"Of course! We have to give a simplified report to Master before he comes back, so we'll finish this." Hibiki slightly grinned and walked to Master Bob's counter and sat on one of the seats. Before he could even have the chance to pull out something from his pocket, he noticed quite a crowd surrounding a table on a near corner. A lot of men gathered around.. "What's with all that commotion?" Hibiki wondered. "Hey Ren, Eve let's go che- Wait! Where are you guys!?" He turned to the commotion and spotted Eve and Ren already there, wanting to take a sneak peak on the center. "Y-You guys.. Hehe," Hibiki twitched his left eyebrow.
Sighing, Hibiki followed his friends to the commotion. He poked a blonde-haired guys wearing a purple suit and asked, "What's all the fuss about?"
"You didn't hear?" the guys answered in astonishment.
"Hear what?"
"One of the female newcomer is receiving tons of riddles from us! Her male friend claims that she can answer any riddle that people with give her! Just give her 3-5 minutes of thinking and she'll answer you."
"Newcomer? Ah~ You mean one of the Night Knights? Which one is it? The blue haired one or the aqua haired one? There were two women."
"It's the blue haired one. And my, she's really pretty."
The blonde haired guy turned to the commotion and tried to go across the crowd of guys. Hibiki sighed and placed his hands on his wrist.. "What a troublesome group," he mumbled.
"Oh, Hibiki!" a black haired guys came in with hands at the back of his head. His hair half-frames his face, and some hair is in between his blue, round eyes. His got some pointy-edged hair..
"I'm sorry, have we met before?" Hibiki politely questioned the guy.
"Huh? You mean you don't know!?" The guys began giggling afterwards. "I'm Kaede Kudo! You know! The only guy in the Night Knights!"
"What!?" Hibiki exclaimed. "Seriously!? I though you had a red hair and red eyes! What's with the black hair?"
"Nah~ The girls gave me a dare last week. They said that I have to wear a wig and a pair of contact lenses for 2 weeks without spoiling the black parts. Guess it worked on you guys, haha!"
"Okay! I've had enough, how many more secrets do you guys have there?"
"Oi, oi, not through the line. There are private secrets that we should keep, okay~? Plus, no one wants to share their secrets to anybody!"
Hibiki gave a heavier sigh. He totally got enough of the several secrets the Night Knights are slowly revealing. Too many surprises, too many things that will make you wonder. Hibiki is really going to kick the bucket if there is one more secret revealed from these annoying, surprising guys..
"Hey, Kaede!" Lenalee walked to him.. "Where have you been? I've been waiting for you!" she got her arms crossed across her small chest. Behind her, the huge crowd of men dispersed from one direction to another..
"Woah, seems like you ended the whole thing," Kaede complimented.
"No thanks to you! If you didn't told them that I can answer riddles, there wouldn't be a mess!" Lenalee complained. Lenalee wore a blue, elegant, removable stand-up neck, long sleeve, dolman style coat. Just like her friend earlier, she also wore a pair of boots that is colored black. "Glad I made a mistake on one question, that was the reason why they dispatched."
Kaede looked at Lenalee from head-to-toe, whistled the WOO HOO tone and got a punch from Lenalee on the head. "Ouch," he said.
"That's not even enough after what you did, brain-head," Lenalee complained even more.
"Why don't you have a brain on the head?"
"I'll hit you again if you want to know my answer!"
Observing the two, Hibiki soon noticed something unique about the three Knights. Though he knows that they are clearly different, they seem to have something that makes them.. common with each other. "Guess, that's what makes the group a very interesting one to observe," he thought.. "Well, it seems that I'm getting out of place, I'll just go to Eve and Ren. Bye love-birds," Hibiki teased them.
"We are not love-birds!" Lenalee protested.
"Yes we are~" Kaede hugged his girl. Lenalee slightly blushed as she tries to push him away.
As Hibiki walked to Ren and Eve, who're already sitting on Master Bob's counter, he stopped to think.. "Then.. Where is she?"
A/N: OKAY~ I guess some of you guys are still confused on the situation. Earlier, Kaede explained that he doesn't have red hair.. He has black and a pair of blue eyes. Please don't be confused. =) If you're going to ask why I made such thing, ..., I'm bored.. =p
(CHAPTER REWRITTEN DUE TO THE LACK OF SATISFACTORY OF THE AUTHOR. THANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING MINDS.)
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