Rejected Secrets

Volume 1: Didn't See That Coming. 014

"I finally plotted out the scheme in my mind."

"And you're going to execute it just from memory?"

"Ah, of course."

"Well, guess I could trust you on this. Hope your scheme isn't stupid."

"You could count on me. Have I let you down during our first mission? Of course not, so you could trust me this time too, m'lady."

"Again, not with that...just call me Keiko."

"Alright alright, fine. You could trust me this time too, Keiko."

"Good." And with that the two of us decided to head back to the cafeteria and blend in with the horrified crowd for the time being. We were planning on exiting the school through the back-entrance where the door was present in one corner of the cafeteria room. "Man, I can't believe I'm doing something like this."

"Hey, it's fine. It's either now or never, you won't get such an opportunity like this ever again, think about it."

"You aren't wrong."

"Mhmmm. So now, shall we, m'lady-I mean, Keiko."

"Good that you corrected your own mistake. Why do you even want to call me that?"

"Like I mentioned earlier, girls and women deserve respect."

"You really are trying to get into that gentleman character, aren't you?"

"Don't I already seem like a gentleman to you?"

"Hmm, I guess not, who knows?"

"Well, enough chit-chatting," He said as he lent out a hand again and forced a sight smile on his face, "since Jacob is possibly supposed to be at a hospital right now, we can't really do anything for the time being...unless..."

"Hm? Unless...?"

"Was he really admitted at the hospital?"

"What do you mean?"

"I don't think so that he was admitted there and taken away to the hospital by a real ambulance..."

"How did you notice that?!"

"Hm? You noticed it too?"

"Well, I felt like those doctors didn't look like the real deal."

"Ahah! Looks like both of our brains thought of the same thing for once!"

"Ehh? It isn't that big of a deal. I'm pretty shrewd at things." Denis let out a slight nod and interlocked his hand in mine and held it and the two of us snuck outside the entrance gate of the school. I was pretty reluctant in doing so as I didn't really feel like it was good skipping classes but my gut feeling is telling me that the choice that I've made is not the wrong one.
We slowly made further distances away from the school building as we escaped the murderous-looking eyes of the blind security guards. Woah, you guys really didn't notice two students casually walking outside the school building during class hours.

Denis, well, still went on walking ahead with his hand interlocked in mine. We started to cover long distances on foot. Surprisingly the neither of us got tired from this.
Then there we arrived...Autre restaurant?! Why here???
"Care to explain?"

"Hahah, I saw that coming."

"But I didn't see this coming! Why are we at Autre restaurant?!"

"Those doctors who carried Jacob away seemed awfully familiar."

"Huhh, I can't remember their faces all that clearly to be honest...it's all so vague..."

"Yes Keiko. That's because you haven't noticed the whole picture yet."

"So...you're trying to say that these pseudo-doctors were people who are--

"working at Autre restaurant." Denis completed my sentence for me. "Yes, they were the pseudo-doctors."

"Oh well, I guess I really didn't see that coming, huh? I'm all that perfectly shrewd after all."

"Yes Keiko, nobody is perfect regardless of the trait the possess." He did a complete 180 degree turn to face me eye-to-eye. "You ever wondered about why I wanted to meet you specifically at this restaurant?"

"Come to think of it...if I sort out this puzzle then..."

"Yes, because these employees too were fakes."