Ch. 25

My plan was falling together like puzzle pieces. Mr. Raku would be getting a very, very nasty surprise by the time I was done. Hopefully. Or things could go horribly wrong and I would have to hightail it out of the country. But it was best to only think happy thoughts. Bad thoughts could become self-fulfilling otherwise. However, all thoughts of the sort were blown away as my door went flying open.

"Neko! Guess what!" Nemu practically squealed.

"O heaven help me." I said to myself.

"Hey! You can't use that! Your Atheist!" she scolded. She was in a good mood.

"I can if I want. Now what do you need?" I asked.

"Oh. Right. Well, my dad managed to convince my mom, so now we are taking a trip to

the beach!"

"Ohh." I said. I had forgotten that Nemu's parents had no idea that we were coming up

with a plan to fix this. They probably were thinking along the lines of giving us a good time together while it lasted. I didn't blame them. While I fully intended to stop the forced marriage, I wouldn't say no to spending time with Nemu. So I decided to go along.

"Come on Neko!" exclaimed Nemu. She was hyper as could possibly be. I started to follow, but then something stopped me. It was my sixth sense. We all have one. But being a vigilante, I had learned to listen to it.

"Go on ahead, I need to check something." I sent a silent message to her with my eyes, and she gave me a slight, almost unnoticeable nod.

"Be quick!" she called before throwing herself into the surf. I walked over to my stuff, and to the outward appearance, I was rummaging through, looking for something. But my eyes were looking side to side, scanning. Then I spotted them. They appeared to be a couple enjoying the beach. But their actions seemed too cold, too forced. To top it off, they glanced in my direction a lot more than two people kissing should be. They were the people my sixth didn't like. Deciding to launch my plan a little early, I "found" my phone, and got up. I then proceeded to walk towards the couple. At first they tensed up, then relaxed as I walked past them. They kept their gaze locked on the ocean. Idiots. If your target was behind you, you turned your head slightly and used your peripheral to track. Or pretend to gaze are your partners face. I came to a halt behind them, and lifted my phone to my face, as though to make a call. But my phone was off. No call being placed. Then I spoke in an undertone, so that only the couple could hear me.

"I know who you are and where you are from. Don't bother with your cover. Take my advice and keep away from Nemu and her parents for this trip. Ohh, and tell your master Raku I said hi, and nice virus." I then dropped my phone to my side, as though I had hung up, turned, and walked back to where our stuff was. Leaving two mouths agape, and faces in shock. Weren't mind games fun?

"He said that!?" I screamed at the tablet in the servant's hand.

"Yes sir. He said that exactly. And not even a minute after they arrived." the man said. A woman was sitting behind him. They were the team I had sent in after I had learned that Nemu, her parents and the Harry boy had taken a trip to the beach.

"Is that all sir?" the man asked. I snapped out of my thinking.

"Uhh, yes, you may go." I said distractedly.

"Alright. Goodbye, Master Raku." the man said, before logging off. I dismissed the servant with a wave of my hand.

This was bad. Very bad. Harry knew too much. It wasn't the fact that he knew about myself, or what was up with Nemu, that alarmed him. Harry could have gotten the info for Nemu's parents or Nemu herself. What alarmed me so much was the fact that he knew of the virus. Why? Because that was the one thing that Harry couldn't have known from asking Nemu's parents or her. Then an even more alarming thing occurred to me. Harry had spotted my team instantly, targeted them, and alerted them to his knowledge of their presence, in the space of a minute. And my man said that Harry had not been looking around for someone or anything of the sort. So not only did he do all that, he did it with speed and precision. But the most terrifying thing was the information I had received just before the video call. I had used my connections in the police force to dig up information about the boy's SAO identity. He was skilled, as his information showed. But not against mobs. He had recorded 43 kills, and more than 300 arrests on red and orange players in that game. And to him, I was most likely a red player. That boy could kill. Only god knows what he would do to me. I began to feel a worm of doubt enter my mind. Perhaps it would be for the best if I were to back off. Just maybe.

Author's Note: I hope you guys liked this because I stayed up way too late so I could get it done. Anyway, I wanted to say that while I am trying to do a chapter per day, I might miss days here and there. I was kinda hoping to just lie around on my bed with my laptop this summer, but life had other plans. Thanks for reading!

EDIT: 14:30 6/5/15 (UTC)