Quick Hero

Chapter 04 - Inauguration, Part 1

About thirty minutes had passed since Chloe's and Alex's sparring match.

As we were all talking, Jun pulled Chloe to the side to chat with her privately about something. Whatever Jun was telling her, had her reacting in such an animated manner. She even did a quick glance at me. I wonder what they were talking about.

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"You know I've been thinking. Lisa hasn't reached back with a conclusive answer to Mary's case yet, so I thought I could teach her a thing or two while we wait."

"You mean like train her?"

"Yeah, I guess. I think it would be kind of fun too. I might as well be proactive doing something."

"Darling, I get what you mean, but I don't think that's a good idea."

Chloe glanced over at Mary with a slightly concerned look.

"Why do you think that?"

"Well for starters, you haven't gotten any clearance from commander. And if I must be honest, it was a security risk bringing her to the training facility. Besides, only official agents can receive training here."

"Yet, you still insisted on her coming here. Plus, I won't teach her anything crazy, just some basic combat moves."

Chloe adamantly looked at Jun.

"Okay, well, how about Zoey then. Do you plan on telling her, because she's going to be the most vocal about it all."

Jun looked away with guilt in his eyes.

"Y-yeah, my plan was to just...You know...Not tell her. And I was maybe hoping that you could somewhat keep her distracted."

"Are you out of your mind! You out of all people should know that you can't hide anything from her. She'll notice something immediately."

"It'll be fine trust me, I have it all under control. Also, if you think about, wouldn't it be a good way to sniff out if she really is a spy or not?"

"Sigh, listen darling, I'm not gonna try and talk you out of this, but let it be known that I did warn you. But I will go along with this for Mary's sake. I can't have Zoey rain hell on her."

"Oh, looks like someone took a liking to her."

"Of course I did, who wouldn't with a face like that. I can't extort the modeling agencies for money if her face is all bruised up. Speaking of which, you be careful with her too, darling."

"That's my favorite little British devil."

"Well, I'm the only little British devil you know."

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Alex managed to convince some of the lesser ranked agents to set up a small snack bar area for us. So much for equality.

But those agents didn't seem to mind, so I won't delve further into it.

Jun and Chloe had since reunited with Alex and me. I couldn't help but notice an odd expression on Jun's face. His head was facing away from us with his eyes closed.

It looked as if he was trying to contain an untamed beast in his mouth. The sight was quite something to see. Chloe was standing next to me facepalming, which I assumed was because of Jun.

"Uh, is he alright? He's been acting strange for the past couple of minutes now."

"Really? He looks entirely normal to me. Don't you agree, Alex?"