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"Fuck, fuck,fuck, fucking explosion, fucking life" Riley, pissed off beyond explanation could only mumble curses as he ran to the origin of the explosion

"I had finally a moment with Cami!!! Why the fvck would there be the explosion at this exact moment???" Tale could only wonder to how far they could have gone if it wasn't for that accident

He could only recall the faint noises and every subtle move of Cami. He couldn't hide it anymore, he wanted that boy and not only a little. He had lost it when he saw an other person flirting with him.

Furiously, Riley couldn't care less about if the school was in fire or not, because right now, he could make more damage than an explosion

Fuck, if it wasn't for his job, he would have went with Cami

If it wasn't for the fact that he had to do everything the royal family told him to do, he would have escaped the school without caring if the terrorists ever got caught.

But now, the fact that they interrupted him at that time, he was gonna kill these bastards

"Riley!! You're finally here! Where were you!? You disappeared when we were patrolling the area. What the fuck where you doing??"

Riley looked at his companion with a murdering intent

The other instantly shut up and cold sweat ran down his body

Whatever happened, murder was going to happen tonight and not because of the explosion

"WHERE. THE. FUCK. ARE. THESE. MOTHERFUCKER" Riley asked with a threatening voice

The other, still borderline crying, pointed slowly in a direction

And Riley, cracked his knuckles before walking down the way

"aahaha- he's really crazy" the other muttered while his legs gave up on him

First person he encountered was a student, coming begging at him

She came, wounds on her face and left leg. Staggering and hair in mess

Riley only looked at the girl with a cold stare before...

*Fssush*

...beheading her

"Stop fucking joking, you really thought you were gonna fool me? Come out now"

Oh well, look like it wasn't a student

A voice was heard, almost like a laugh

"Well, well, well, I was pretty sure her acting would have won you over. Too bad, she was a cutie. Don't you feel any remorse for killing that beauty, sword of slaughtering?" Riley only glared at the man without a ounce of emotion, just coldness

"Don't ever call me by that name" Riley said in a cold voice

The man stopped walking about 3 meters in front of Riley

In not even a second, Riley already had his sword at the man's neck, a drop of blood ran down his neck

The man looked at Riley with a hideous smile and eyes almost like those of goat, filled with amusement

Riley looked at him with disgust, strengthening his grip on his sword, some drops of blood flowed even more

There was definitely something bigger going on inside that man's head if it wasn't only for the fact that he looked like a masochist

Was he doing exactly what that man planned? Not like he cared, as long as he could massacre them, he didn't mind making the imperial family going into an awkward situation.

"You can always kill me but god will take my side and KILL ALL OF YOU!!

ahahahHahaahahahahaAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH-" he laughed like a madman, veins popping out of his forehead, obsessed

"SHUT THE FUCK UP"

Really just a lunatic Uh? So this is actually related to some kind of cults isn't it? What are they trying to do? Sacrifices? Wouldn't be the first time happening

"Aaahhhh... so you're not gonna kill me? Are you afraid of GOD NOW? BUT IT'S TOO LATE! Even salvation won't help you!! You can beg all you want! But only hell awaits for you!"

Riley was getting a headache from the man's voice

"I'm not so stupid to kill you now, you still have a lot to tell me. And I do not fear god,it's been a while since I stopped to even believe in him"

Riley suddenly cut down his arm, letting a scream resonating on the walls. The man's eye widened in pain

Riley smirked, a shivered ran down the spine of the enemy

"I would love to kill you but I need information so I will have to torture you a bit and I don't have that much time. So you tell me all the informations I need or I make you eat your fucking own legs, now your time to tell me if your 'god' will really save you before you feel your whole body skinned alive"

The man stopped breathing for a second

"Looks like you took your decision" before doing anything, Riley cut down his tendon, the man almost faint but Riley didn't let it happen

"Now, give me the informations"

...

Cleaning his hands full of blood on his clothes, Riley left the room full of corpses

"They shouldn't have messed with me"

The other knights showed up not long after

"... d-did you kill them all? We are supposed to capture them, not kill them"

"Tchh- anyway there's still some breathing, I made sure to not kill them all.. just some"

After some times an other knights came to Riley

"Ummh captain?"

Riley turned around

"What?"

"The terrorists were caught but there might be a bigger problem than that" Riley frowned

"What kind?"

"It seems the explosion wasn't the only objectif of that attack, normally, it's normal for some people to not be found because they died or are just hiding but this time it's different. The number of person who were not found is abnormally high, we suspect there might have been a mass kidnapping and it might have been the real goal of the attack"

Riley's mind went blank

"Kidnapping.kidnapping? How much exactly?" Cami would be okay right? Right..?

"We had been 36 reported case in less than 1 hour and those cases only augmented with time passing by. But the most worrisome fact is that many students reported to have seen groups of suspicious armed people. It is highly suspected that something way bigger than what we had been informed was planned"

Suddenly, Riley clenched his fist tightly enough to draw blood, and a murderous intent made several knights freeze in shock.

Under extreme pressure the knight who delivered the new talked again

"C-cap-captain, I-I can't-t br-breathh" Riley rapidly lowered down his aura

"TELL ME THE DETAILS NOW"

"The research department will arrive soon, after detecting where they left we will leave as soon as possible. The transport of the students probably went by teleportation, probably relied to one or more talents they have"

Riley still hoped Cami wasn't one of the kidnapped people but he had that gut feeling that never lied to him before and it wasn't a good sign.

"I will go search the building for any person hiding or hurt" it was really just an excuse to search for Cami

...

He searched the whole building for about 3 hours, sometimes freeing people from debris or some unconscious or even hurt. But never Cami, he even asked people if they had seen a person with red hair and an androgynous face. They mostly said that they knew who he was asking for but didn't see him after the accident, only aggravating that instinct he had

He went where people were asked to gather

Even outside, where all people were asked to wait, he didn't see him, he wanted to hope Cami was still here, just not seen by him.

He went to talk with the student council, in the middle of mass gathering, they were below an open tent, they were the ones who prepared the festival, they might know something.

The instant the council saw him they stiffened and bowed to him, the look on Riley's face send shiver to their spine

When he asked for a student with bright red hair and an androgynous looking face, they all frowned and looked at each other worriedly

They definitely knew who Riley was talking about

"Ummh, well if the person you are talking about is really the one we know, he's Harrion Jilleco Cami Palanda. We did not see him after the accident but you can always go see the list of attendance, there's supposed to be everyone registered on there if they got out of the building."

Riley froze for a second and then thanked them before practically running toward the stands where the attendance list were taken

"Weird, I wonder what one of the royal knight had to do with Cami" Killian said

"Probably one of the suspect for the accident"

"Yeah probably"

Riley checked and checked and checked again, passing one name by one

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no No, NONO NOOO

No check, Cami hadn't been registered. He wasn't in the building nor outside, and knowing Cami, he wouldn't have been the type to create trouble by faking the data

He had been kidnapped, it wasn't just a feeling, it was reality

Riley leaked a lot of his killing intent instantly before rapidly lowering it when seeing people around him almost faint

His breath went rough as he tightened his jaw

He grabbed his sword

'I'm gonna kill them all'