Volume 3 Chapter 6 Translator: LilsxD, Yihn Proofreader: Arc, Catchkatch The moon hid behind drifting clouds. The quiet of the dark, sleeping city was broken only by the occasional phantom bark or whisper, and the noise of vehicles zooming by. A garbage truck was parked in the narrow alley between two buildings. Papers littered the ground, blown about by the wind, and on both sides of the building were old, dilapidated iron doors that looked as if they had stood untouched for a long time. In this seemingly impenetrable darkness, one of the metal doors silently opened. Amazingly, such an ancient, rusty door made not a sound as it swung ajar. Anyone watching might fear one of the citys wandering spirits was opening it... However, the next second a person in red tights and a silver visor walked out, carrying a huge bag with slight bulges outlining the shape of firearms. Although this person was obviously not a spectre, his movements were so nimble and silent that he moved like a ghost. The man slowly closed the iron door. With a slight turn of his head to observe his surroundings, he began calculating. From Theodores morse code message, the time was set for three days from now. So, where should he go for now? He would have to find a place where his brother wouldnt find him. He couldnt use Geges credit card for anything like a hotel room, but sleeping in the park wouldnt work either, even if he didnt use the card. As long as it was in a public place, his brother would definitely find him immediately. Despite that, he hadnt been to many places before, outside of home, the Solaris Headquarters, and the school. Since the first two were off the list, what was left was the school, then? The school... Principal he mumbled. The Principals office! At the thought of the Principals office, no longer undecided, he immediately started running. But this alley had only one exit and his only way out should have been to turn left. However, he didnt go either left or right butupwards! He took two running steps forward, before he kicked off from the wall and landed, perching, on top of the second storey window. With a flip, he landed on the second storey window sill and, in a twisting motion, he swung down to hang from the overhang by his hands, before, with a kick to the wall, he propelled himself up to the third storey window. He used this complicated series of moves to climb higher and higher up the building. He stopped at the fifth story, just below the top floor, and leapt onto the opposite building. Using a combination of jumping, running, climbing and crawling, he advanced forwards along the buildings walls. As he ran, he avoided the top and bottom floors where he could, because he knew that surveillance cameras would be installed there, allowing Gege to track him easily. The cameras blind spots were only between the top and bottom storeys, so as long as his shadow was not captured on film his brother would never be able to trace him. Apart from these surveillance cameras, he had also left the mobile phone his brother had given him at home. Even though he had not checked the phone, he guessed that it would definitely have some sort of tracking device attached. After travelling in the gravity-defying way for a short while, he could see the schools campus in the distance. He quickened his pace, and before long Dark Sun was already on a rooftop garden of a building next to the school. Then, after carefully scrutinising the surroundings, and locating the surveillance cameras, he easily avoided detection as he jumped down onto the darkened school grounds. Because of the Principals promise to remove the surveillance cameras on campus, Dark Sun crossed straight through the centre of the campus and headed directly for the Principals office. Arriving at the Principals officeor, rather, the Principals buildinghe turned and rummaged in his backpack, pulling out a card. It was the card hed received when he agreed to accept the Principals missions, and doubled as Dark Suns ECS identity card. He fought the urge to laugh as he thought about how he was only one person but had two Yelan Academy student ID cards. At a swipe of his card, the huge doors beeped and swung open and he entered the building. Amazingly, even though it was deep into the night, a couple of people were still there, patrolling or sitting in front of a computer monitoring missions. Neither of them paid any attention to the other, and neither of them turned to take a look even when the door opened. It made him, who was originally tense at the sight of other people, relieved. Unobserved, he then went to one of the computers in the lounge with the intention of arbitrarily searching for information to kill some time until the Principal arrived. Casually opening a web browser, he saw the daily news alerts. The top headline was The Stormy Battle Between the Solaris Group and the Lunaris Group. Daren couldnt help but click on the link to read. Once the page loaded, it showed both Devon Solaris and Yue Baylians photograph. In Devons photo, there was even a cigarette dangling from his hand and his head was tilted upwards slightly, with a lofty expression that made him look like he was looking down on the whole world. The image of Yue Baylian stood to attention, revealing a slightly thoughtful smile and there was even the word VS in the middle of the photos. Gege Daren looked at the picture. His heart ached a little as he imagined his brother finding out he was gone. What would his reaction be? Ah! At the thought that he would be unable to see his brother for several days, Daren felt a bit lonely. Without thinking, he automatically pressed the button to print. After printing out Devons photo, he carefully looked at it for a moment before folding it a few times and putting it in the pocket close to his heart. Wait for me, Gege! Once Dar has rescued Papa Avery, our home can go back to the way it was!

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