A New Life In Another World: Volume 2

Chapter 38: The Final Curtain Part 1

   I've been in the bunker for the whole night, so it was now The God of Air; Doran's day. After this, it was The God of Storms day, also known as Gale's day. There were two days, including today, until the Festival of the Gods was over.

That means Drake is going all out these next two days and nights. We were in the final act now, so let's make sure we win this.

During the entire night in the bunker, I've been working on a plan to deal with Drake and his partner. Amy and the rest were going to be dealing with the Psychic, while I dealt with Drake alone.

I'd be able to defeat the masked man if I had the others helping me, but that wasn't exactly the plan. What I mean is I'm trying to help Drake out by saving him. Since I now know he's only a pawn being ordered to attack me at gunpoint, it is more favorable if I saved him than kill him.

Which is why I've been working out a sort of play the whole night, trying to account for everything and make sure it all goes to plan. Why would I go through the trouble, you may ask? Well, something told me that Drake was being watched by his clients.

So, if I tried to save Drake and not play their game, my only lead to those bastards might end up killed. I'd like to avoid that, so I needed to play along, but only until I get to the point where I can free Drake from the cursed artifact.

It's going to be a pain, but it'll be worth it in the end. Once I get some info on Emilia and her band of baddies, I'll be hunting them all down to the ends of the earth. I just need to hold out a little longer until then.

Besides, there's another upside to this. This was probably the only way I can beat Drake at his own game. He's all about deceiving and tricking people, so this little plan will allow me to pull the biggest trick on him.

I know, it sounds petty, which it probably is, but I stopped caring about that about three hours ago. I'm going through with this plan, and nothing's going to stop me otherwise.

Since I got my plan all set to go, I needed to tell the others. Thankfully, I still had about an hour or so before we had to leave for the Festival. That should be enough time to explain the plan and answer any questions.

I then left the Office with Emma in tow. Once we made it to the living room, I got Van to call the others. It didn't take long before everyone showed up in front of me.

Once we were all settled and such, I proceeded to explain what we were going to do about the Festival and Drake. I told them everything as best as I could without holding any information back, including the part about trying to save Drake from his clients' threats.

After I was finished telling them the plan, it didn't take long before everyone started asking questions.

"Why do you have to face Drake alone?" Vlad asked. "Can't at least one of us join you?"

I was expecting this, so I already had my answer ready to say. "In that case, I'll be taking Thana with me."

This resulted in Arri and Amy protesting while Thana jumping up in the air with joy. It was a chaotic scene, but I ignored it to answer any more questions, which there were.

"So, why are we trying to help Drake? Can't we just take him down and question him then?"

"It's not that simple. Drake's clients might have spies watching over him. If they find out that Drake ratted them out, we lose the element of surprise. Plus, they might try to kill Drake before he can even tell us anything."

This problem could easily be avoided if we can just find the spies, but sadly, we can't. The main reason is that they might be hidden with Elder Magic, and I can't track them with that.