Disclaimer: I'm sure everybody would've figure out by now even if they didn't know it in the beginning, not mine.

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Chapter 6: ( Interlude 1 : Brad's POV) ----- Dedicated to Misura-chan

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A week. It is a little longer than I would have liked, certainly, we don't have enough time to spare. In fact, we have too little time. Yet I must give him this amount of time, for the future to go along that path. Yes, I see it now, my desired future will be the most smooth-flowing If I am to follow this path, if I am to take any other… for example, giving Nagi a week will, eventually lead to the premature finding of the Forth Key, and will in turn lead to the mental distress of Second Key and Third Key. And with all these same actions, will have different repercussions, depending of the timing and choices made then.

Indeed, tinkering will the future is a delicate issue. I am definite that if Operation Japanese Bobtail goes according to plan, and Schuldig, the troublesome Second Key, DOES follow my instruction. Then, we can be free. This is NOT the only route to take, nor is it the easiest route to take, this, is the road, which at the end of everything, the end of Esset, the freedom of Schwarz, Every single member will come out best.

Best not as in physical health only, but also mental and financial health also. Yes, money IS important to survival. There may be several setbacks, many setbacks that if we are not careful, can place the sanity of all of us in danger. All of us. Including me. Ah, a shiver runs down my spine.

I want everything to go according t plan, but one can never tell if something or someone messes plans up.

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Dedicated to Bulma Greenleaf and Misura-chan. "I hope you're reading this."

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Schuldig's POV

That kid was weird. At least from what I can ell without peeking into his mind. I still won't understand why brad won't allow me to read his thoughts, that way I'll be ale to gauge his thoughts, and therefore know how to act around him.

Nagi is it? You do not have shields, I can barge in anytime I want to. But brad says " trust is important in a team. He must trust us."

Seriously, even without meaning to, your uncertainty and doubts form a cloud around you. I can answered all I can, shoved everything into your mind, delivered nice and neat with a yellow-polka-dot ribbon.

Brad, Bradley Crawford, Crawford, Oracle, all one and the same. Besides, who gives us these stupid codenames? Hn. Esset. And we're beneath them. All of us, majority of the psychics in the world. A organisation, a cage, a boundary, a barrier. One that we cannot cross, one that we cannot escape from.

Now we're pulling Nagi-chen into the mess that we're in. are we really helping him? I don't know. I think Brad does. But it is confidential. Sealed. Kept inside his stinkingly tight, airless, shielded head, AND WON'T REVEAL ANYTHING!!! Indeed, I hardly know a thing about that man. Like where he be from, ( though I'm quite sure he from America)

Anyhow, this week is going to be a long week. And I want my freedom. I want Nagi to join Schwarz, and I want to drugs back, if all else fails. Damn Crawford. I'm not going back o being Esset's lackey after I have had this little taste of hope and hint of breaking free. Nagi will join.

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Nagi's POV

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A week. I retire to my room. A week. Spent doing what? Doing nothing but thinking? I don't want to do that. The telepath's weird. Very. I just dislike him. Armani-clad-san is equally weird. Uh huh. Well… I shall take a bath, think later.