EVERNA Arcel Raine's
So the Prisoner
Despite the help of Onyx against Ratfang, the fact that Arcel Raine had taken the lives of two of the top five warriors hunting the Bloodfeast Group could not be underestimated, let alone underestimated.
For this reason, the deaths of Ratfang and Sand Jinx broke the guts of most bounty hunters on the basketball court where the battle was fought and they fled in all directions. Surely they will lose, they do not want to waste their lives in vain.
Only Necho, Khaos the Klown and Phantomime are still fighting against the excommunicado. But of course the actions of the assassins teri class disturb the concentration of the “ troop leaders”.
Necho exclaimed at Khaos who was not far from his position, “Look, many fled! We better back off too!”
But Khaos instead sneered, “Khu, khu... Please back off, hey coward. Let me scoop up all the prize money!”
“Cih! You troublesome clown!” The tattoo mask pushed Cross even more vigorously as an impingement of his frustration.
Khaos doesn't lie anyway. He seemed to be enjoying his fight with Dean Vizier. Despite the injuries, nothing can match the pleasure of facing a balanced opponent.
On the other hand, Arcel Raine decides to help Dean and Cross, while Onyx goes shoulder to shoulder with Faust to face Phantomime.
However, so close to the fighters, Arcel was startled by the swift footsteps of many who approached the battlefield. One loud sound was even heard through the mouthpiece of the loudspeaker, “We are from VOLSUNG! Stop the fight and surrender, all of you we hold!”
VOLSUNG agents dressed in black-and-black uniforms wearing goggles and or black masks closed all access points from the alley to the street basketball court. As with the police, all law enforcement agents are ready to aim with their respective pistols at the perpetrators of the illegal fight.
This time it was Khaos who was upset. “Agency again! A troublemaker! Huh! This fight is no longer fun! I go!” Without further ado, Khaos fled with great ease. Because he was close to the wall of the building, he just climbed up the wall like a lizard until it disappeared on the roof.
“Huh! He said he wouldn't back down!” gerutu Necho's. “The turn is besieged, even he's the first to escape! Then, I should also go!” The mask-tato jumped up high while in the air, then repeated it many times until it was far away and invisible again. Instead, none of the agents' shots could hit, let alone hurt him.
Fortunately Phantomime had anticipated the two rivals. Without talking and just swerving to the right-left in the pantomime style. Then escape in the most unique way, which is to just disappear.
The real Phantomime trick is to hide behind the backs of the opponents and agents while imitating their body gestures. And it was done very quickly, it became like a chameleon mingled with the environment that disguised it.
Only Arcel, Cross, Dean and Onyx are still standing in the field. “Ah, thankfully you guys came in time,” Dean said. “I'm really grateful to the Agency for..”.
“Just save your thanks,” says the voice of the woman from behind the line of agents. The one who said it then came forward, presenting herself as Chloe Hewitt, the green-haired girl. “I'm Agent Circe, and all of you we hold.”
Even the protesting Arcel, “Lho, what's our fault? Didn't I explain it to you? You should have arrested the dark assassins who were after Bloodfeast, not us!”
Chloe's facial expression remained cold as she stared at Arcel from the corner of her eyes. “And I warned you, Agent Helios, not to interfere openly. Now the Syndicate knows that the Agency intends to protect the excommunicado and meddle in the affairs among the hitmen. The VOLSUNG agency is now in a difficult position thanks to your carelessness and your demeanour, and you must all come with us to account for your actions.”
“But, still..!”
Arcel was just about to argue with Chloe again when Cross came forward and put his outstretched arm straight in front of the red-haired young man's chest.
“It depends on the decision of Chairman Zeus!” hardik Chloe's. “You have no right to bargain! VOLSUNG has its own interests and position towards the Syndicate! When his position as law enforcement is violated by interfering in the internal affairs of the Syndicate network, let alone trying to destroy it by revealing the entire existence of the hitman and all the ulcers in it in the eyes of the law and the public, a great war will erupt and it will not stop until the whole Centronia, even the whole of Everna is destroyed!”
Chloe suddenly shuts her own mouth with two hands, a sign that she has been free to talk long, revealing things that are secret and completely outside her authority.
The green haired girl quickly covered it up by saying, “Talk enough! If you have anything to say, just tell the decision makers directly, including Chairman Zeus himself or Secretary Artemis!”
Chloe is Alistair Kane and Vorai Arantes y Parvaez. However, the secrecy of their true identities remains to be maintained, except perhaps in private, highly confidential discussions within the headquarters and within the Agency itself.
So, in order to get the situation back under control, so as not to lose the chance to survive from “curse twenty-seven years”, Arcel Raine was forced to cooperate with his agency. He allowed himself to be led with his hands shackled into an armored vehicle with his new friends, Dean Vizier, Cross, Faust and Onyx.
Arcel had a sharp stare and an annoyed grunt towards Chloe. But the girl did not react and got into her own car, then drove back to District One, VOLSUNG's headquarters.
As Arcel was a prisoner of the Agency, he was not taken to VOLSUNG headquarters in District One Centronia.
Instead, the convict motorcade entered the cruelest, darkest, most dangerous district of Centronia, the Thirteen Districts aka the Prison District.
Arcel was huddled in a tank-like armored truck with four other prisoners. All eyes of Dean Vizier, Cross, Onyx and Faust were on Arcel, as if to blame the apprentice agent for the Agency's arrest incident against them.
Without turning his head and continuing to bow, Arcel said, “Yes, I know this is all my fault. If I hadn't interfered any further, you wouldn't be here.”
“Just the opposite,” Dean Vizier said slowly and his tone tended to be flat. “If you don't help us, even to the point of killing Sand Jinx and Ratfang, we might end up in the grave.”
Cross confirmed Dean's statement. “True. That's why I'm so grateful to you and to you alone, Arcel. Like I said, I only believe in you, Arcel, not VOLSUNG. The principles of your agency that are too straight will wreak havoc on themselves.”
“But I think Chairman Zeus will be fair. He is much older and more mature than anyone else, perhaps even Syndicate officials,” said Arcel while shrugging his shoulders.
Faust chimed in, “Well, just hope your assumptions are correct, Arcel. Our fate depends on the wisdom of Zeus. If he turns out not to be what you said, we could be rotting in a maximum-security prison in Thirteen Districts.”
Everyone in the armored truck fell silent.
Furthermore, no one spoke up for the rest of the journey. It is possible that Cross, Onyx and Faust who once escaped successfully from the prison in Indranara are devising a plan in each other's minds.
If there was Toxin, the strange man who was able to melt any iron door with his chemical liquid it would make the escape of Bloodfeast so much easier.
If only Toxin were alive.