BXBX NOVEL Chapter 214 - Behind You
After Yuki woke up from his slumber in the middle of the day with a big yawn, he prepared to head towards the clan headquarters which was also the castle-like building in the middle of the kingdom.
Once properly waking up, Yuki headed directly down stairs as he didn\'t believe that he had anything else to take care of. As such he could be on his way to deal with the FFF clan.
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"And where do you think you\'re going?" Avila asked in an irritated motherly tone.
"Uh, towards the clan headquarters? Is there something you need from me before I leave?" Yuki asked her with a simple face.
"What I need is for you to tell me when you\'re going to be leaving and where you\'re going as well as how long you\'re going to be there for! You can\'t just keep disappearing then coming back as if everything is alright! It just doesn\'t work like that!" Avila yelled at Yuki.
"What\'s with the sudden change in attitude? Anyway, I\'m not going to go out of my way to give my location so that you could betray me. If it makes you happy, I\'ll just tell you how long it\'s going to be before I come back," said Yuki.
"Okay I guess that\'s a good starting point. So, tell me how long it\'s going to be before you get back," Avila requested as she was willing to take anything she could get out of Yuki.
"I\'m not quite sure exactly how long I\'m going to be gone. If I decide to stay in this kingdom, it\'ll only take me a single day to come back here. On the other hand though, if I have to go to another kingdom, it\'s going to take me around a week or so to get back," Yuki replied to Avila.
"Wow, so you must really be into taking quests. Is that why you went missing for 2 whole months without saying anything? Did you take a difficult quest and refuse to turn away until you completed it?" Avila asked. Even though she was completely wrong, Yuki just agreed with her so that she would let him leave in peace.
"Yes I did. I\'m sorry for not telling you guys, I thought it was going to get finished very soon but I was mistaken. It took me a lot longer than I ever expected. Even so, I couldn\'t bring a loser back into this home so I decided to battle my heart out every single day. I\'m lucky that I even stayed alive," Yuki lied so that Avila would leave him alone but he clearly over did it as she was trying not to sob.
"D-Don\'t worry about us. Please just go and continue going on your quests, we\'ll always support you," Avila told Yuki to which he nodded with fake ambition in his eyes before putting on his shoes and taking his leave.
"Well, that was much easier than expected," Yuki said with relief.
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"Does he take me to be an idiot? I\'ll show you Yuki, I\'ll figure out why you were going for these past 8 months if it\'s the last thing I do!" Avila said to herself as she didn\'t buy even a single word of the lie Yuki had told her.
"Hey Scar, you\'re still here right?" Avila asked as she turned towards the dinning room to speak with him.
"Ya, and I heard your conversation with him. It\'s clear that he\'s lying to you," Scar told Avila.
"So what do you think we should do if he\'s not willing to tell us the truth?" Avila was with a confused face as she tried to think of any helpful ideas.
"Why don\'t we just follow him? It would be simple but effective, don\'t you think?" Scar asked her.
"Now that you mention it, it does sound like a simple but good idea," Avila replied.
"Then let\'s get going before we lose him!" Scar yelled at her before the two put on their own shoes and began to tail Yuki towards the kingdom\'s castle.
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"Oh so I guess she really was going to go to the clan. Maybe he really was going to get a quest. I\'m surprised that he actually told the truth to us. I guess he\'s a changed man," Avila said with a sense of relief.
"No, it\'s not that simple. I don\'t know why but I feel like this isn\'t the end of his secret mission. Given the current conflict between WD and FFF, most of the members are on edge and some of them even stopped showing up to the guild so that they wouldn\'t have to battle against the members of FFF even though it is their duty," said Scar.
"So what are you getting at?" Avila asked.
"Let\'s just follow him for now. This isn\'t the end of his journey. I can just feel it," Scar replied to Avila with a smile so that she would trust him and so she did as two of them hid in corners and other uncomfortable areas to avoid getting seen by Yuki who knew that they were following him due to the increased presence sensing he had after leveling up so much.
"Seriously, what am I going to do with those two? I really believed that they would let me go but it looks like they\'re just treating this like some sort of child\'s game. I just want to run at a speed which they can\'t follow me at but I need to make them think that I\'m trustable. But how do I do that?" Yuki asked himself as he finally reached the castle-like building.
"Looks like he really did go here. Now for the moment of truth. Will he pick up a quest from the quest board?" Avila asked herself while staring at Yuki from a safe distance.
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"Seeing as I told them that I would get a quest from here and leave. I should just follow through with that. After getting a quest, I\'ll just go outside so they can go home and I\'ll have all the time to-" Yuki began to speak to himself before right as he pulled the quest paper from the board, the most horrible outcome took place.
"Hey there Yuki!" Arthur yelled out in a joyful tone while waving towards Yuki.
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"Damn you, you idiot! Do you know what you just did? You ruined everything for me! I was so close to tricking them and now I\'ll have more explaining to do!" Yuki yelled in his own head as he grew furious.
"Are you okay Yuki? Do you have a fever?" Arthur asked as he noticed Yuki getting red from his anger but didn\'t know that Yuki was angry in the first place.
"Wow, I didn\'t know Yuki was close with the clan master. That\'s actually pretty surprising," Avila said to Scar.
"I know right? Especially considering how bad their first interaction went, you would expect them to be trying to kill each other by now," Scar replied to her as he watched Yuki and Arthur speak for a few seconds before heading towards the stairs of the castle which were guarded and only permitted highly ranked players from entering.
"Look where they\'re going! What do you think they\'re about to do? Are they planning some secret plan to take over the world? I mean after all, the name of this clan is literally \'World Domination\',"
Avila asked Scar.
"I don\'t know what they\'re planning but I know it can\'t be good. I can go up the stairs since I have my own room in the castle being that I\'m part of the top 20 players here but you can\'t come," Scar said to Avila.
"That\'s fine, just go in without me. I\'ll be fine here. Just try to learn as much about him as possible," Avila told
him with an encouraging face to which Scar nodded and headed towards the stairs but was quickly turned away for no reason even knowing his rank.
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"What happened? Why aren\'t you following Yuki?" Avila asked in a panicking voice.
"Apparently there\'s something shady going on after all. The guards of the stairs told me that I can\'t go by and no one expects the top 5 players in this clan," Scar replied to her.
"But Yuki isn\'t part of the top 5? Could it be that his friendship with the clan leader is so strong that he doesn\'t have to go by the rules? He\'s so lucky!" said Avila as she began to envy Yuki.
"That\'s most likely the case but what I fail to understand is when those two decided to become such good friends. The bigger mystery here is why Yuki and the clan leader as well are deciding to hide information from even the top 20 players in this clan except the top 5 obviously," Scar replied as he tried to think about it. There were not that many things he could think of that could be kept secret. Even to his knowledge, it couldn\'t be the conflict with FFF because those news were made public long ago.
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"So how did your training go?" Arthur asked with a serious face in the room with the top 5 players in the clan to which Yuki just gave a thumbs up.