Chapter 19: The story behind the dark secret of the Starlight Hero Academy

"How about we just report it, Brody?" The frightened Superhuman bodyguard suggested.

"And risk the chance of possibly getting promoted to a higher rank and the opportunity to change our life for the best? No way in hell, Mark!" The courageous Superhuman bodyguard, whose name is Brody, didn't hesitate to reject.

"I.." Mark, the frightened Superhuman bodyguard, could only gulp down a mouthful of saliva at the thought of Brody's idea. In the end, his greed for a chance at a better life made him decide to support Brody's plan. After all, who doesn't like that?

With that discussion over, Brody took another step to finally enter the other side of the door. He quickly looked from left to right to see his surroundings, but to his surprise, he didn't find anyone.

"Was it just the wind?" Although he knows clearly well just how ridiculous that sounded, Brody still can't help but think of that possibility. In this era, even the most absurd things could happen at any time, so who could say for certain that it wasn't the wind that accidentally opened the door, right? Especially considering the fact that the wind now has Mana mixed within it. In addition to that, the Technological Building are only managed by mostly robots, so it isn't far-fetched to assume that there would be some things that aren't kept in good condition.

On the opposite side, after noticing the look on Brody's face, Mark asked right away, "Is there something wrong?"

"That's the problem, there isn't," Brody expressed his regret at the chance of turning their lives around just disappearing into thin air.

To the surprise of both Brody and Mark though, the door separating the two of them suddenly shut closed. It wasn't loud, it simply happened unexpectedly and quietly as they were just too focused on something else that they didn't notice that the door was slowly moving.

"Brody?" Mark instantly called out after realizing what just happened. But after not receiving a single reply from Brody, he immediately decided to report to their channel about their suspicious findings on this side. However, as soon as he took out the radio, something invisible suddenly grabbed it and smashed it to the floor.

"What the!" Mark was flabbergasted at the surprising turn of events. Regardless, his mind was quick enough to decide to run away and approach the other teams who still has radios to report to them instead.

Although he has decided to do that in his mind, Mark still stood rooted on the spot as he noticed that the door in front of him was slowly opening. Standing behind the door seems to be Brody while there was an obscure figure of a man lying on the ground below him.

"What a relief that you are fine, Brody!" Mark felt calm as soon as he noticed his friend was alright.

"How stupid of you to think that is Brody,"

All of a sudden, a voice sounded in Mark's right ear, which quickly made him turn in order to see who was speaking.

Weirdly enough, just like in the case of the door that opened without anyone's influence, Mark also didn't find the person that spoke to him just now.

But unlike before, Mark understood right away what exactly is happening.

"A Hero.." This was the only thing that Mark could think about is the reason for everything. The moment he thought of that, all the things that happened so far finally made sense to him.

Unfortunately, aside from that Mark was wrong, it was also too late for him to do anything to change his current situation.

The figure that Mark once thought to be Brody's instantly lunged forward in his direction. The last thing he knew was that he got hit by something really hard on his head that caused him to become unconscious.

....

"That was easier than what I expected," Kayn can't help but throw an arrogant remark at what he achieved. Honestly, just now, he barely did anything. It didn't even go any close to what he was anticipating the performance of these two Superhuman bodyguards was going to be. Rather, they are weak. Extremely weak that he only needed to attack one time for each of them to knock them both out. Not to mention, they clearly lack the experience to deal with the situation at hand.

Kayn can't help but thought, "That being said, I think this isn't the same as the covert operation I was thinking of in my head previously. Perhaps this is still at the level of bullying, and the only reason why it feels so absurd is that this is how bullying a Superhuman is supposed to look like. Or perhaps it is indeed a covert operation, but it's not approved by someone on a high position, hence they can only dispatch utterly weak Superhumans, just like the case of the Heroes that arrived just now,"

What happened was; the reason why Brody did not see Kayn when he walked beyond the door was that the former was only expecting that someone was hiding on either the left or right side of the door considering that it's the most common way to push the door forward. After checking those two sides, he immediately let down his guard and thought of something else. Without Brody knowing, Kayn was actually up above him.

In the midst of that, Natas went out and slowly close the door as Brody and Mark were busily talking with each other. And when Mark wanted to use the radio after confirming that something suspicious is currently going on, Natas instantly grabbed it from the former and smashed it to the floor.historical

Meanwhile, Kayn immediately dropped above Brody with both his hands clasped together and directly hit the head of the latter, which instantly caused the latter to become unconscious. After that, he quickly replaced his clothes with Brody's before opening the door so as to temporarily let Mark's guard down.

At that moment, Natas prepared his foot to trip over Mark when Kayn lunges forward, thus causing Mark's head to hit the wall behind him.

"Did our calculation perhaps go wrong?" Natas expressed his thoughts.

"It could be, especially considering that those Heroes that came just now were simply rookie Heroes," Kayn somewhat agreed with that possibility.

"Exactly!" Natas nodded before quickly adding, "I think this isn't a secret operation, rather it is a set-up directed towards Rowan Starlight by a member of the Starlight Family. And the true reason why they only dispatched weak individuals is that they are already expecting this event to be discovered sooner or later and that these people present here were meant to be used as scapegoats from the start for the real mastermind or masterminds,"

"They'd probably say that these people thought that Rowan Starlight is a waste of effort and resource of the Starlight Family which could have been used to their comrades instead. As such, they took matters into their own hands to eliminate the pest even if it would cause them to become the Villains in the end. That's definitely going to be a Heroic tale that most people would believe without a second thought, especially with how bad Rowan Starlight's image already is,"

"Hmmm.. Pawns to be sacrificed after they serve their purpose," Kayn instantly understood what Natas meant. "Everything is finally slowly making sense to me,"

The likely reason why the event that is about to happen here is going to be labeled as one of the dark secrets of the Starlight Hero Academy might just be because it involves the image of the Starlight Family. Obviously, not only the Elders and Head of their household but also the important people of the Dragon Beast Republic, including World President Nicholas himself, can't afford to taint the prestige and honor of one of the major families of their organization, that's why any information about this event was swept under the rag and was only spread through the word of mouth.

"No wonder my brother didn't want anyone else to know about this certain story of his incarnation. It's because it's a painful tale of betrayal from the people who should be considered as his family," Natas finally understood.

"What the Starlight Family didn't expect was something would go horribly wrong with their plan. As to what caused it, we are about to find out soon," Kayn muttered.

Before finally going down to the underground basement, Kayn made sure that both the unconscious bodies of Brody and Mark are hidden well and wouldn't be found out easily by anyone that will come after.

After doing that, he grabbed the radio that Brody had in one of his suit's pockets since Mark's radio was already smashed into pieces by Natas, which they made sure to clean so as to prevent anyone from getting suspicious and noticing that something is wrong. The reason for taking the radio is so that when their comrades try to check on the two, he could make a fake report. Of course, he lowered the volume enough that only he could hear the sound it makes.

"Let's go!"

Once that was all done, Kayn and Natas started walking downstairs with the latter moving down farther ahead of the former once again.

A moment later, Natas suddenly went flying back, which instantly caused Kayn to raise up his guard to prepare in case something wrong was about to happen. Even though he knows that Natas is a spirit right now, there were still some instances where he could interact with the physical world. So, he didn't disregard the significant possibility that someone else other than him could see Natas.

"What's wrong?" Kayn quickly asked.

"You better go down quick! Those Heroes who came before us are already preparing to destroy the door of the vault," Natas hastily informed Kayn about his findings.

"But shouldn't we be trying our best to be as silent as possible? If I go down there now and.."

Natas promptly interrupted Kayn, "Don't worry, it's like an open area down there with only two floors. One of which acts like a viewing platform, while the bottom floor is where all high-tech stuff and the vault where Rowan Starlight is located at. Currently, no one is at the viewing platform as everyone seems to be fully focused on breaking the door of the vault,"

"Okay!"

Without wasting any time, Kayn hurriedly followed after Natas who was flying in front of him.