High school Sweethearts - Niragi

Chapter 27: The race for a deck of cards

We followed the rest en route towards the more private room, where the opening of famous black envelope would take place. 

Oh Niragi if things start to go south now I will consider murdering you

Upon arriving at the small room we were directed to take place at the table. 

I couldn't really describe the way I felt. Was I scared? Was I nervous? Anxious? Excited? It felt like a mess of various emotions that strolled through my mind.

But altogether; I did know that I had to act as if I wasn't up to anything traitorful, and more or less act in favor of Aguni. 

Mira placed jet-black envelope in front of Aguni, permitting him to open it. The look on her face this whole time felt deceitful. Her expression showed defeat, but yet she still had this aura that felt suspicious. Every once in a while I could see a corner, or both corners, lift up, showing a slight smirk. If she was scared of this whole situation, her body language would not show as confident as that.

I feel it, she must be onto something..

Everyone's gaze was glued on Aguni, whom was now slicing open the special envelope, revealing a white tinted card that was folded in healf. As the legend goes this must be where the location of the safe is, in which all the player cards are kept. 

It's now I should pay attention, to his expression, his gaze, is body language, anything that could give any clue to where that location could be. Even if it's just the tiniest detail, I should be able to figure something out.. 

He took the card out, then opened it, his eyes turning into a look of slight confusion, to then turn into one of realization. 

Is it empty or something...? It can't be...  if there would be a concrete location, written out, he shouldn't look at it like that. 

A .. drawing?  Is that it...? it's either one of those two, come to think of it, it shouldn't be that easy to figure out.

After taking his time to observe the mysterious card, he placed it into a new black envelope. He then took a tool where hot, melted wax was in, to pour it on the envelope. Lastly he took the ring that belongs to the beaches number one, and pressed it onto the wax, printing the letters BOSS on it, finally sealing the envelope. 

I've never really seen that ring before, it must've belonged to hatter first. What is striking is that, the letters on the ring oddly look like numbers.

B O S S - 8 0 2 2 

That's it - the code to the 'safe'.

The last thing that was asked from us, was to sign the envelope, before it had to be stashed away. 

This whole time, there was a painful silence, filled with dread but also satisfaction. Niragi seemed to be quite content with this decision, given the smirk that was plastered on his face throughout this whole meeting. 

"Gather up everybody here and bring them into the lobby, it's time we should let them know", Aguni spoke, breaking the silence, the confidence radiating off him.

Everyone nodded at his words and got up, and left the room, now only waiting for the inaugural speech. 

With Niragi walking in front of me, I pulled him aside and walked away from the other executives to tell him what I had found out. 

"What's it?", he asked me. He looked rather confused, so I guessed he probably didn't think yet that I would pick up on something.

"I think I discovered something small, you know, about the safe", I responded to him.