Chapter 3
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I Will Steal Your Heart, part 3
"Hello, Silva." Hao greeted as a man with long dark hair come into his working room, "Long time no see".
"Yeah, Hao, little cousin." Silva grinning widely when Hao scowled at him because of the 'little cousin' part, "I see that you are targeting the Bloody Maiden now".
"Yeah." Hao answered, then he smirked, "You know, there's this Dragon that caught my interest, and you know what, he is the Prince." He grin when Silva stare at him open-mouthedly, "I will get him, I will make sure this Dragon fall for me".
"That would be a bit troublesome . . ." Silva muttered softly, but he shook his head, "That's for later, what would you do? You need the X card to get inside the building, what's your plan?" he raised an eyebrow at his cousin as he take a seat across Hao.
Hao turned to face him, "Oh, it's easy, that's why I called you here, I want to copy your card." Then Luchist come into the room, "This is Luchist, please lend your card to him and he will start to work immediately, don't worry about being found out, he is good at this." he smirked again, "I can't wait to have another encounter with Dragon".
Silva merely sighed and complied to the request, "Don't get caught, okay? I heard that Dragon will bring some strong allies tonight, not to mention the Harusame." He warned the boy, who gave him a questioning look, he sighed again, "Dragon is the best disciple of Amidamaru The Great Samurai, don't underestimate him. And with the Harusame, the greatest sword forged by Mosuke The Swordsmith, he is nearly unbeatable, only Amidamaru himself can beat Dragon".
"It's an hour before the time, all of you do as we planned." Yoh as Dragon said to his allies, Ren, Horo Horo, Anna, Amidamaru, and Lyserg, "We will catch Phoenix tonight, but if we can't catch him, we should at least make him fail to steal the Ruby of Cross Maiden".
"Understood." They said together and ran to the place they are assigned into, Anna at the entrance since she is good ad judge people, Ren at the south entrance to the Bloody Maiden while Horo Horo at the opposite direction because they are good when working together, Amidamaru is working with Marco, a blond haired man with glasses as the head of Jeanne's private guards, to organized where they should placed the guards and Patch Clan, and Lyserg is working with Yoh himself.
"Manta, are you ready?" Yoh asked through his phone to his best friend who is good with technology, he is currently at the control room.
-Yeah, Dragon.- Manta answered with confident, -Everything is ready, just need to work according to the plan-.
"Good." He said and cut off the call, Yoh then turned to Lyserg, "Lyserg, you will assist me as best as you can, are you ready?" he smiled even if he knows that his green haired friend can't see it.
"Yes, Dragon." Lyserg answered with a smiled, but Yoh can still detected the uneasiness in his voice, "I hope I can be of any help, I'm not as good as father after all".
"Don't worry, just focus on our mission." Dragon said cheerfully, but then turned serious, "We will catch him, definitely".
"10 minutes." Hao mumbled as he stand on the roof of one of the buildings around the X building, his eyes glued at the Fortune of Mermaid in his hand, "Yoh. . ." he gripped the ring tightly as his eyes stare at the building with uncertainty in his eyes.
** Flashback**
"Silva, what is it that you said that if Yoh fall for me then it would be troublesome?" Hao asked just after Silva stood up to leave, causing him to flopped back to the sofa.
"You see, Hao, you and Yoh are actually. . ." He trailed off, uncertain if he should tell the truth or not.
"What's about Yoh and me?" Hao pressed, he glared at the older man, if there's anything that Hao dislike, that would be if he left alone in the dark, "Tell me Silva, what is it that you are hiding from me?".
"If I tell you now, it would disturb your action later." Silva tried to escape from the question, but Hao glare at him, "Look, Hao, if after you heard this and you can't concentrate-".
"Tell me, Silva." Hao growled in anger, cutting off his cousin's words, his eyes sharp and his voice cold, "Don't hide anything from me".
Silva gulped, "You are brothers, twins." He said with a low voice, afraid if the boy will get angrier than before.
Hao's eyes widened, "What did you say?" he asked in disbelief, ". . .Brothers? . . . Twins? . . . How come?".
Silva gulped again, "It's all started because of Asanoha-san's inability to have children, and she is the only child of the Douji family. Asakura Yohken, the King's cousin and as Asanoha's husband, knew about this and he committed a crime with Faust VIII, the Royal Family's doctor. When the Queen gave birth to both of you, the King is away from the Palace, Faust hired a man to acted as if you were kidnapped by birth and the man gave you to Yohken." He explained carefully, "After that, the man Faust hired get caught and told Amidamaru, as the head of guards, about Faust. Faust then put into jail in the Palace while Yohken managed to lied to them that the baby in his care was not the First Prince, but adopted from an orphanage from another country." He looked at Hao with serious face, "You are the First Prince, Hao, you are Yoh's older twin brother".
**End of Flashback**
Hao gritted his teeth, "Damn you, Yohken. I thought you are my father, but actually you separated me from my twin." He grumbled in rage, then he looked at the ring again, "But, that's already in the past, I can't change it." He sighed and keep the ring in his pocket, he will return the Fortune of Mermaid to Yoh later. He looked at the sky, "The scary part is. . . I fall in love with my own twin".
"2 minutes more." Yoh mumbled to himself as he looked at his watch, "I can't wait to have another match with Phoenix." He chuckled softly, "Man, I'm curious about his true identity".
"And what will you do if you know?" Lyserg asked as they made their way to the entrance.
"Nothing, I just want to know." Yoh answered cheerfully, he giggle to himself in excitement, "I really want to have another fight with him".
They arrived at the entrance just in time for Phoenix to take action, there's a smoke bomb thrown into the building from the air vent, it seems like it mixed with sleeping gas since Anna and the others who was placed at the entrance fell unconscious to the ground. From inside the smoke, Yoh can see a figure opened the door and ran in to the direction of Bloody Maiden. "Manta!" Yoh yelled as he started to run after Phoenix.
Right after he called out, the door locked and there's a bar placed before and after the door to prevent Phoenix to flee later. Yoh caught a sight of Phoenix widened his eyes for a second before he turned around and fastened his speed, smiling to himself, Yoh ran after Phoenix with Lyserg following him.
"Marco, Amidamaru!" He yelled as a signal for them to appear, a second later, the two man come out from their hiding along with many other man. Yoh turned to Lyserg and nod, they turned around and circling back to the Bloody Maiden's room.
Hao never thought there would come a day when he is stressing during his job, normally, he would enjoy it when he get in difficult situation. But now that he get in difficult situation like this, all he can think of are how he can get the Maiden and flee from the building.
It's seems like Yoh had planned everything very well today, he thought when he fight with the two high class guards, Marco and Amidamaru he guessed, since that's what Dragon yelled before the two man come out of nowhere. He had managed to knocked out all the other guards with ease, but the two man is definitely not that easy. Then, after about 10 minutes struggle against them, Hao knocked them out by taking advantages of their bad way of fighting in team.
Hao take a deep breath to calm his nerves, it's not good if he work under panic attack. It's just like what Silva said, hearing the news is definitely disturbing my work. He shake his head and run to the Bloody Maiden's chamber.
"You won't get pass me." A Chinese boy yelled to him, he remembered that the name is Ren, then Horo Horo must be of the other side of the room seeing how those two never separated from each other during their work.
"Don't get too cocky, only Dragon can match my fighting ability." Hao said in mocking tone, then he swung his sword at him, he chose to use sword this time since Silva said Yoh would use Harusame.
Ren smirked and clashed their weapon together, the Chinese boy is using a Kwan-Dao as his weapon. He then jumped back from Hao, causing him to raised his eyebrows, "Chuuka Zanmai (Rapid Tempo Assault)!" the boy yelled as he attacked rapidly.
Hao gasped and jumped aside from the attack, his eyes widened when he saw the damaged from the attack, I would be dead if I get in one of those attack, he thought in horror, why not? Even the wall get stabbed and cracked.
"I won't let you pass, the Dragon said he want to catch you himself, so I will at least make you fail to steal the Maiden." Ren said with a smirk.
"Why are you doing what he said, aren't you the Prince's guard?" Hao asked to distract him as he make his way circling the room.
"The Prince saved my and my sister's life during the war, I owed him, so if he want me to help Dragon, I will." He said seriously, still with the confident smirk, "You know, you may be stronger than Dragon, but you underestimate his skill".
"What?" Hao asked in confusion, then he felt it, there's someone behind him. He turned around in time to avoided the attack from the blue haired boy, Horo Horo, the other guard on Prince side.
"Sharp, aren't you." A new voice joined him as two figure walked from behind Horo Horo, one of them is Dragon, and the other boy has green hair like the famous detective Liam Diethel.
Ren and Horo Horo back away, along with the green haired boy, they formed a triangle and moved circling Hao alias Phoenix The Phantom Thief and Dragon The Tracker alias Yoh The Prince of Forestria.
"Hello there, Dragon The Tracker." Hao said calmly, the situation is really dangerous now, the possibility for him to get caught is high, "It's nice to know that you fight me seriously this time." He slipped his hand to his pocket and press the emergency button that will tell all his servants and Opacho to flee, he won't let them to get caught along with him.
"Yeah, long time no see, Phoenix The Phantom Thief." Dragon said with the same level of calmness, "As I promised, I will catch you this time and fight with my all." He unsheathed a sword from his waist, "Let me introduced you, this is the Sword of Amidamaru The Great Samurai, Harusame".
Hao lifted his sword in front of him and pointing at Yoh, "This is the Ancient Sword of The Medium, Futsu no Mitama no Tsurugi." He said calmly and charge immediately, which defended skillfully by Yoh.
Hao noticed that Yoh's movement improved greatly in just a few days, if the case is like Hao, then the cause is because he uses the sword that suitable for him, just like how Hao himself can move better with Futsu no Mitama no Tsurugi.
They exchange hit many times nd Hao managed to make Yoh slower, but just when he wanted to attack Yoh, which he is sure that will cause Yoh to lose, he hesitate. Even he himself doesn't know what caused him to hesitate to attack, but Yoh use that hesitation to threw Hao's weapon away and placed the edge of his sword on Hao's neck.
"You lose, Phoenix, I will put you to jail." Right after Yoh said that, Ren, Horo Horo and Lyserg work together to tied him, to make sure he can't flee later.
To be continued . . .
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