"I didn’t know there would be additions to the squad," Meme said looking at both Akira and Yuna. He did look pretty big and scary and Yuna couldn’t help but hide behind me so I decided to speak up.
"Well this is Akira, she works under me and has the ability to teleport and manipulate the air around her and well I did just bring her here because if we need to get out in a pinch, we need a fail-switch, right?" I said and Meme raised his eyebrow. He is being a bit suspicious but I needed to make it as cool as possible. "And this is Yuna, biologically and well by family, she is my sister but had been apprehended by Dominic long ago and has spent a good amount of time here. She knows this place at the back of her hand."
As I finished my sentence, two revolvers were placed right next to me by two kids who seemed younger than me wearing the same black hoodie.
"You really should think twice before bringing one of the enemies with us to the mission," one of them said in a monotone voice.
"What if she is a spy who was sent to infiltrate and sabotage the mission at the end? Do you have no intelligence whatsoever?" the other one said but I don’t know which was which because they sounded the exact same.
"Lower your weapons you both," Meme said in a serious voice and they immediately lowered their revolvers. "But sensei we shouldn’t let someone like her join the mission."
Sensei?
I looked at both of them taking a step back and standing behind Meme. Their eyes still piercing daggers at me wary of any motion I was making. I can understand them having suspicions and I wouldn’t blame them for it. They don’t fully trust any of us.
"Now, now Meme-kun," Ama appeared behind us and placed her hand on Meme’s shoulder, and started patting it. "If you are not too sure about any of them, I give you my word for it all three of them are closely related to each other and the person you are sent to rescue."
"Your word would mean nothing if that vampire over there snuffed us out and put our lives in danger," both of the twins said together.
"Now, now don’t be so mean to your doctor like this Akito and Haruto," Ama said to the twins. "Moreover you didn’t come for your timely checkups. I had to look everywhere for the both of you."
As Ama said that, both of them shuddered and I understood why that was the case. Ama is a menace to everyone she meets.
"But both of them told me they were done with the checkup," Meme said in a confused tone and looked at the two. They both turned their face away and Meme let out a sigh. "Anyways, back to the topic. If you are giving your word for it Amantha, I trust you but know if any of them try to do anything sly they will be killed at sight."
"That won’t come to it," Ama said and walked towards us and pulled everyone in a big hug. "Be safe all of you. And make sure every one of you comes back, okay?"
"Okay?" we all said in unison. With that Ama blew a kiss at us and went to her SUV driving back to her place. She does have her almost motherly sort of moments too, I guess.
I looked at Meme and then it came to my realization. It was supposed to be two S-rank teams, right? Why are there only three of them here?
"Okay she left, come down now Hotori," Meme said and a woman jumped down from the tree nearby. Wait she was there? I couldn’t even sense her in the slightest. The timid-looking woman with short brown hair stood behind Meme. "Well, I think introductions are in order. The twins are Akito and Hiroto. They both are S rank hunters just like me and Hotori here and also my students. Hotori here is my team partner and though she looks timid, her true worth is only shown in battle."
"I see, a pleasure to meet you all," I said and I shook hands with everyone there. I guess that is just basic etiquette. The twins were a bit reluctant to shake hands with me but I guess Meme did something behind my back which quickly made them change their mind.
Looking at all of them just by look wise, they don’t look that strong or intimidating, well except for Meme but one thing I have learned is not to judge a book by its cover in the VEO. Akito and Hiroto were extremely quick drawing their weapon and Hotori-san’s capability to completely hide her presence was something I had never seen before. Well, this is a kind of merry band of vampire hunters.
My eyes drifted and looked at the church in the distance and I could slowly feel the blood lust building up in me. I wanted to go past without wasting any time and already get to saving Ai but that wouldn’t really be the best thing to do right now. Keep calm me, this is for Ai so don’t do anything stupid. For Ai.
"Okay, so what is the plan?" I asked Meme and she nodded his head. Hotori brought out a map from her pocket and unfolded it. I am surprised they could make a map this quickly of the entire vicinity. There were even places I had never seen before. Hmmm…
"This place, the church is just an entrance to the main hideout of the vampires. As expected, they won’t be living in such a place and not have guards outside but as you can see, you can understand why that is why," Meme said and I nodded my head. "There is an underground passageway that you went through while fighting Dominic but this was just the beginning. This passageway leads to a hallway that leads to another building on the surface a kilometer from here."
"So it is sort of a decoy," I muttered and he nodded. "But what about this other building? I see that it has in total of five floors, but this passageway directly leads us to the very top floor. Doesn’t this seem too intentional? We will have to cut through everything to the very bottom."
"Nii-chan…" Yuna said meekly and we all looked at her, she recoiled a little and hid behind me. "This…how did you all get this information?"
"We had a reconnaissance team sent days before to map out the entire area," Akito said and then it hit me. This guy.
"This map is wrong, completely. It’s nothing but a big trap. Am I right Yuna?" I asked Yuna and she nodded her head.
Like I thought, Dominic is not someone who will just let anyone make an entire map out of the place that easily. Given how he is, he probably had a lot of tricks up his sleeves and the fact that he even let a map be made means that is nothing but a farce. He must have someone how tempered with the looks or the infrastructure of the place which sounds impossible to think. But the problem is this is Dominic we are dealing with, no way he would let it be this easy.
"Hey, hey, hey, listen here. So you are telling me that this map is not, right? You know our reconnaissance team is the best amongst the best," Meme said not able to believe what we just said.
"A lack of sense as I expected from him," Akito said, or Hiroto? I don’t know which one but one of them said that.
"This is hard to explain but you have to take my word for it, this is Dominic we are dealing with and he is someone we should not underestimate, I have no doubt that the VEO reconnaissance team is the best that there is but given it is him, this seems way too easy. Moreover, think about it, it obviously looks like it is a trap," I said pointing at the map. "Yes, we have to descend through the place but we can also just go through the front entrance of the place but still, doesn’t that seem too easy? Something about this doesn’t fit right with me."
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"Yes, it is because of Father’s ability," Yuna spoke from behind. "His ability fortification allows him to change the layout and the entire infrastructure of the entire place that he has control over. I have been there for a good while but every single day I get lost in it. It is like a maze and every room is switched after every twenty-four hours."
"So you are telling me…that this map is accurate but only for that certain day?" Meme said and Yuna nodded. "Sigh, no wonder it seemed that easy but the place doesn’t seem altered at all from outside."
"Most likely an illusion," I said.
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