"That… friend of yours sure is something, James…" Jose said nervously with a laugh as he fixed his hair, a physical tell he does when he feels rattled to the core.
The Class A students from the cafeteria were currently heading back to their classroom as some of them had mixed feelings after what Isaac Mahoka displayed to them, some were in awe, upset, rattled, impressed, and charmed.
"Yeah James, you really had a unique amigo haha!" Alejandro who was next to Jose also laughed although this was more convincing than Jose's.
"See? I told you all! He was fantastic!" James exclaimed with excitement as an idea came to his mind, or rather it was forming.
Arwa being who she is, wrapped an arm around James as her expression, while still having a blush, was that of someone who looked like a mischievous cat. "Hey James, my dear~"
James jolted a bit, and despite not knowing much about Arwa, or her personality, his unparalleled social intuition kicked in, sensing that Arwa was planning something. "Y-yes?"
"Me and you for the next three to four weeks, will be scouting Isaac and his day to day life outside of school." Arwa purred.
She was essentially planning to stalk Isaac for an entire month.
The very idea of stalking sent a sickening feeling in James, as he thought Arwa wanted to stalk Isaac to find weaknesses and perhaps plan a matchup to play against Isaac and try to harm him using any vulnerabilities.
However, James couldn't be any more wrong.
"W-why?" James asked.
Arwa sighed and pointed to her own face, or more specifically her cheeks. "Can't you tell? I have been smitten by that magician's charms~ naturally, a woman such as myself would be interested in a man like that! I'm surprised you couldn't tell."
"I-I couldn't tell! Given the only thing I know is that you framed your father's opponent for money laundering and started a human trafficking ring just to have your father's new party to rise! Of course, I would believe you are just wanting to stalk him to profile him and find any vulnerabilities. I would never have thought you just wanted to do this because you were charmed!" James said, throwing his concerns like a child's tantrum.
To many, one would find this accusation insulting and take verbal offense to it, however, Arwa was a woman who was indifferent to any insults or slanders thrown at her, even though what James said was true.
"You're sweating the small stuff, James. Also, for someone being the son of the Prime Minister of England, you sure are dense in simple social skills to not notice when a lady is smitten~"
"I-i'm not dense!"
"Keep telling yourself that, James~"
Their bickering was ignored as Jin and Bai were behind all of them as they were in deep thought.
"To be able to detect the symbiotic nature of you and I just from reading my work and deducing who you were to me, Bai…" Jin murmured as his reserved stoic expression broke with a small smile of respect. "And to offer a flower of appreciation to it…"
Bai whispered next to him and finished Jin's words. "Is a man who knows how to wield a scalpel but chooses to heal instead of dissecting and exploiting… he offers appreciation… is an excellent man…"
Bai was a girl of few words, she always had a way of seeing people's emotions, her way was similar to Vittoria's perception of smelling emotions, but when Vittoria smells a person's aura, Bai sees the aura as animals and always perceives the aura and the emotions behind it perfectly, and When Bai saw Isaac, she expected a fox given the popular video of Isaac's introduction of being a magician and foxes are known to be clever and a creature of tricks and trails to leave, but once Isaac performed the flora reading and told that emotional story.
Bai, saw an owl, an owl sees in the darkness where others are blind. It is a creature of quiet wisdom, not of noisy cleverness. Its feathers make no sound when it moves, it just observes. It understands. It does not hunt, it simply knows when to descend. Its presence is a calm potent. That is what Isaac was to Bai, and Bai felt that Isaac was like ancient libraries and moonlight, a guardian of silent truths, and that comforts the flock. That is what Bai's assessment of Isaac was.
And having a compliment from Bai of all people, is a high praise that Jin agreed with. Although Bai and Jin aren't completely disarmed by Isaac, they respect him for seeing them perfectly but they will be guarded due to how easily Isaac was able to read their hidden symbiotic nature.
The sentiment that Bai whispered to Jin was shared with Jin, Freja, Sae, Arwa, James, and even the Villanueva brothers despite the two being uneasy about Isaac.
"He is a healer!" Sae exclaimed, wiping the remaining tears off her face as she had a hopeful smile on. "He read my greatest fear and acknowledged it and accepted it and accepted me for who I am… I-it's the most beautiful thing anyone has done for me…"
"He's a very kind person…" Freja beside Sae whispered, holding the written note in her skirt pocket that Isaac dropped on her lap during his Flora reading performance.
As they were about to make it to Class A Classroom they heard a reserved but charismatic voice across from them.
"It seems you all had a lovely time in the cafeteria, shame I had to miss it."
The voice belonged to a boy with brown hair that was curly and had a calming deep blue eyes and a relaxing smile, his name was William Huntsman(Rank 6), another Class A student.
As they all saw William, Freja beamed as she ran to William with the professional precision of an ice skater lunging herself at William. "Will!" She cried. "I missed you!"
William only chuckled on his part. "It's been less than an hour, Freja."
"An hour too many!" The moment she said that, she went up to Williams' ear and whispered something important as she passed the note to William that he took it and put it into his pocket. "Oh I see…" William muttered.
"Yeah William, you really should've been there, it was really fun." Alejandro said sarcastically.
"It probably would have been fun."
They all walked into the classroom, Nikke who had been silent the entire time, walked in first and in frustration kicked the metal podium's leg as it dented to the point that the bottom half was kicked off making the podium hit the wall hard despite the podium being bolted to the ground. "Who does that piece of shit think he is?!"
She was referring to how Isaac ignored her completely despite Isaac asking James to bring her to the lunch gathering.
Sae yelped. "Nikke..!? What's wrong?"
"Yeah Nikke, and why did you hurt Mr. Britton's podium?" Jose asked as he was startled, Alejandro beside him whispered to Jose. "Maybe she is on her, you know what." Thankfully for Alejandro, only Jose heard it since Nikke would have killed Alejandro on the spot.
Nikke Georgiadis, a woman who is known as the organic fashionista, someone who rose in Europe's fashion industry on her own by making her own clothing and makeup, using her own knowledge on fashion, cosmetics, finance, and business, made a planning on becoming the best fashion model in the entire continent of Europe by the age of twelve and wanted to create her own fashion industry.
Which was her desire to do and came to this school since if she can graduate in Class A or the other top four classes, then she is guaranteed success to create her own industry.
And to her luck, she landed in Class A, although she would have ended up in Class H, due to how arrogant she is, and her unshakable pride that matched Milicia's. But due to her ability to control it with masterful precision that matches the same emotional control of a high-functioning psychopath, showed the interviewers and profilers that with her intelligence and masterful control of her emotional state and desire which made the profilers profile her as a high-functioning egoist, which ultimately landed her a good spot in Class A.
But now… she looks like a popular high school girl throwing a fit for being rejected, and this surprised all of them, even Jin and Bai despite being calm were internally surprised by Nikke's outburst.
All except for one, Scarlett Rivera, who still had her constant serene calmness that matched Isaac's, and Jin, during lunch, internally noted the parallels and similarities between Scarlett and Isaac, as he had a theory but kept it to himself due to not enough information, although he was building up the theory from two pieces of information based on his observation, it was when Isaac had that seven second pause when he said he was captivated by the scenery, but Jin noticed that the pause of Isaac's so called captivation was when he looked at Scarlett, it was extremely subtle and Jin noticed the shift of Isaac's pupil directly at Scarlett, and the second piece was when Isaac spoke of high reverence of someone like Scarlett, and the fact that Isaac said he could not read Scarlett, which had Jin believe that either Isaac is unable to read Scarlett, or that Isaac might fear Scarlett so Isaac did surface level reading.
And the reason why Jin considered the latter a possibility, is that he too fears Scarlett, but he hides it so perfectly that despite Bai can perceive Jin's fear but she can't fully pinpoint the origin of that fear since Jin is known for his impeccable reserve demeanor. He is unreadable to all, or at least that is what he thinks.
Scarlett watched Nikke with her head slightly tilted with a detached curiosity in Scarlett's eyes, but those eyes remained unreadable to everyone.
"Nikke, you gotta calm down." William approached with caution to calm down Nikke, however Nikke slapped his hand away.
"Don't touch me!" Nikke yelled. "That bastard Isaac has gotten to profile everyone but ME! He asked James to invite Jin, Bai, Sae, Jose, Alejandro, you but you had Freja go in your place instead, and even that little FASCIST!" She pointed at Scarlett and then back at herself. "AND ME! And he had the AUDACITY to not even acknowledge ME! He completely ignored ME THE ENTIRE! Why didn't he get to do a flora reading on me?! Am I too 'boring' for a reading?!"
Even though she was genuinely angry, her heart remained steady as it was eternally calm with walls that were so thick it made the Great Walls of China look like a thin piece of paper.
No one spoke for a second until Jin broke the quiet silence. "You must calm yourself Nikke, it's unbeffiting for you to do that, and also Isaac mentioned that he had to go early."
James nodded. "Yeah he did seem pretty busy, Nikke! I'm sure he just forgot to and that he was in a hurry."
Mostly everyone in the room agreed, the tension was about to break away and become relaxed.
However…
"That is incorrect."
Scarlett's serene velvet voice broke the agreement as every head snapped to her, especially Nikke's.
"What… Did you just say…?" Nikke who was now dangerously calm said as she looked at Scarlett with a predatory look of a black panther.
Scarlett spoke as calmly as ever. "It is not that he didn't read you. In fact, he didn't even need to give you a flower or a need to explain his reading of you. He already had a great understanding of you, he just knew explaining it would… Cause a scene."
Nikke wanted to be offended, however the way Scarlett spoke, albeit not like Isaac's magician charm, but it was identical to the charm itself, that made her temporarily allow her curiosity get the best of her. "What… is it…?"
And like everyone else, they listened too, since even they were entranced by Scarlett's velvet calm charisma.
Scarlett's charisma was like the sunlight, it commands the room, but it burns. A stark contrast to Isaac's charisma which was like the moonlight. It also commands the room, but it comforts. Equal but different.
"The reason why Mr. Mahoka did not read you because you would throw the same outburst like this even though you crave for someone to understand you and accept you. That is why you were also excited about the flora reading, but you noticed he didn't even spare a look at you nor even gesture that you were next at all," She let her words set in. "Because he pitied you."
Those words were supposed to be a scalpel but also soothing in a way that would acknowledge someone's naked soul and accept it…
But Scarlett's words were not of a scalpel but of a knife that stabs the soul and twists it to make sure the soul is wounded and continues pouring out.
"Pitied… me…?" Nikke mustered out as her heart was beating fast, she didn't know why, but to herself it would be described as her heart being gripped by a hand that effortlessly broke through her thick walls, that was squeezing all the blood and air out of her heart as she started to shake, and she didn't know why.
Everyone noticed it, but they misinterpreted it. Except for Bai, it was anger that couldn't be expressed through a facial expression anymore, and most of them couldn't be more wrong than that as Nikke is feeling a primal emotion she had long thought she suppressed and caged…
…and that was fear
And Scarlett showed no concern once so ever despite knowing what she is doing.
"He already profiled you, you know. Given how he specifically had prior information on Jose, Alejandro, Jin, Freja, Sae, and me. He most certainly had information on you since in public you were known as the modern Aphrodite and also known for your arrogance. So he has created a baseline for his psychological profile of you, and then during that time in the cafeteria, he noticed you were projecting your 'boredom' and subtlety knew you were showing your arrogance through your boredom, however behind that very loud noise of arrogance, your interest was hidden behind it," Scarlett started to walk towards Nikke. "Although… he even saw beyond that, he looked into your soul, and saw your pitiful desperation of wanting to be understood and validated for your ugliness that you hide behind the facade of fashion beauty, that you lie to yourself to that you are beautiful inside and out, that is also where your arrogance came from didn't it?"
Arwa who was watching with amusement, suddenly dropped the expression to a nervous concern after seeing Nikke shaking. "Hey, I think you might be a bit…" but she stopped herself due to her instincts telling her to be quiet.
"U-ugly…? I-i'm not—"
Scarlett cut Nikke off. "Oh, but you are, you have a hideous soul, and you know it, and Mr. Mahoka knew as well. And that ugliness wanted to feel beautiful, that's also why you wanted to start your own fashion industry wasn't it? To make others feel beautiful so that you can take the credit for making them feel beautiful and be responsible their beauty because you yourself can never be beautiful and that is what you tell yourself, you have built a prison around your own ugly soul, and then decorating your prison with fashion, and you push everyone away that wanted to understand you and accept you despite craving for someone to accept you," She stopped for a moment as James went to Scarlett.
"You're being too harsh to her, Scarlett, please stop." James pleaded as Scarlett glanced at him. "For what? She asked for the truth, I am simply giving her what she wanted."
"But look at her! She's shaking to near death!" James gestured to Nikke who fell to the ground and backed up to the wall and was panting.
Scarlett ignored James completely as Scarlett continued with her relentless truth to Nikke. "And Mr. Mahoka fully understood that the moment he sat down with us. And the most empathetic and kindest action he took, was ignoring you completely and letting you be alone with your own despair as he saw through your intricate facade and saw that you as a warden and prisoner of yourself refused to give him the key just by your expression alone," She kneeled to Nikke's level. "It's a shame isn't it? To have the only person in this world that could have understood you and accepted you, and knowing that you are also the reason you pushed him away unknowingly based on your own prison alone… so tell me…"
Scarlett, using both of her hands, gently put them on both sides of Nikke's head to make Nikke look at her eye-to-eye, and pulled Nikke's face closer to hers. "Do you still feel beautiful now?"
Nikke didn't know what was happening to her, or rather she is trying to lie to herself about the truth, that she refused to let herself out of the prison she put herself in, while also not allowing someone else to take the key to let her out.
However, Scarlett was able to make her realize by integrating Nikke's conscious and subconscious together, and instead of Scarlett offering a flower as Isaac would do, Scarlett gave her nothing but the despair of the truth.
"Haah… haah…"
That Nikke is nothing but a Greek tragedy of the self, and now she knows that she created her own despair and trapped herself in an endless loop of her own ugliness.
"!!!"
"Oh dear…" Scarlett said as she got up and slowly backed up as she was concerned. "She appears to be having an asthma attack!"
Everyone in the room was immediately alarmed and went to Nikke who was shaking violently, hyperventilating, and having difficulty breathing.
"Nikke!" James went to Nikke and picked her up with the assistance of Sae, Freja, and William helping Nikke up.
"Scarlett! What the hell did you do?!" Arwa went to Scarlett and demanded as she tapped her finger at Scarlett's chest as Arwa felt Scarlett's heartbeat going fast.
"I-I didn't do anything! I just told her what she wanted to hear! I didn't want her to go into this state!" Scarlett stammered as her eyes dilated showing shock and panic as it did slightly watered.
"I-it's just like at that gala two years ago…" Jose stammered too while backing away with a cold sweat forming with Alejandro nodding as well.
Bai was watching closely and despite that she remained calm, internally she was stunned when she looked at Scarlett's expression, body language, her speaking, and especially Scarlett's eyes as Scarlett's demeanor reached her eyes.
Bai first thought she would see a viper as Scarlett's nature…
But Bai saw a mother bear, when Bai saw Scarlett's concern for Nikke, it was like when a cub is in danger, the mother bear is fierce and protective. It fears that the cub is a pure and blinding storm. It roars not of anger, but of protective terror. When the danger passes, the gentleness returns, licking the cubs wounds. Bai saw Scarlett's aura as a shelter. A fierce, desperate shelter. Scarlett was terrified for Nikke.
"Her concerns are genuine…" Bai whispered to Jin, and since Jin trusts Bai's perception with absolute certainty he believes Bai, as Bai gestured to Jin to go to Nikke to check on her.
Jin went to check on Nikke. "It must be from the outburst she had earlier… we have to take her to the nurse now." Jin said calmly trying to calm the panic down.
Everyone nodded as Scarlett spoke. "I-I'll make sure to tell Mr. Britton that you all went to the nurse so that you all don't get in trouble."
"Alright," Sae quickly said as they all left the room, however, Jin and Bai took one last quick glance at Scarlett and then left quickly.
In truth, the reason why Jin also left was because he never wants to be in the same room alone with Scarlett, not unless Bai is with him.
And as Scarlett was now alone facing the desks, she put her hand on her heart as her heart was beating fast, but it instantly went back to normal as her expression that was a mix of surprise and concern dropped instantly to her normal detached serene smile and calm demeanor allowing her real self be let out as she showed no remorse for psychologically attacking Nikke…and not only did Scarlett convince them that she was genuine…
She has successfully fooled Bai into thinking that she is a 'mother bear'.
"How unfortunate for poor Nikke…" she purred as she went to her desk.
However, she walked by a desk that had a book open that belonged to another class A student, Azrael Monroe(Rank 21) and she was the representative of the United States Youth Group of an Occultist group that was linked to many arsonists on many religious sites and public sites, who went to the bathroom before the Class A student group came back.
Scarlett placed her finger on the page it was on, which showed Baphomet and a phrase that Scarlett. "As above, so below…"
She let out a soft chuckle as she walked back to her desk and sat down. "As above, so below indeed…" A slight blush appeared on her face.
"Oh, Isaac... How you never changed one bit…" She moaned quietly. "To play with Nikke's emotions like that just for me to reveal what Nikke really is and also for me to reveal my own reading skills…"
It was true, the moment Isaac sat down at the VIP class A table in the lunch hall, Isaac had a hidden layer in his planning, and that was to use Nikke to reveal what Scarlett was really like.
Isaac deliberately ignored Nikke when he sat down, and when Isaac also revealed how he admired the academic works of the other students in Class A, he intentionally did not talk about Nikke's works. However, when Isaac told everyone at the table the story, he made Nikke think that the flora reading would give her the chance to see if Isaac does understand her and also accept her, but when Isaac even ignored Nikke during the reading and left abruptly, this made Nikke's anger escalate further.
Isaac also anticipated when the Class A members went back to class, Nikke would reach her peak and let out her anger that she had thought she controlled, but since Isaac indirectly dismissed Nikke the whole time during lunch, she couldn't hold in her anger anymore.
And once that occurred, Isaac knew Scarlett, who knows Isaac the most, would take the bait and tell Nikke the real reason why Isaac didn't bother trying his flora reading on her, and Isaac knew Scarlett would twist the knife to trigger Nikke's asthma attack further, and Isaac knew of Nikke's medical condition due to it making huge news two years ago in Europe that Nikke had a panic attack during a fashion gala. And Isaac knew how anger, being a strong emotion that changes breathing rates and increases the likelihood of an asthma attack, and knew that the stress of wanting to be understood would cause the anger to increase that would eventually trigger the asthma attack greatly as Nikke tried to suppress.
And that was one of Isaac's greatest performances to make his invisible strings to be directly tied to Scarlett for her to perform Isaac's trick of being the one to break Nikke's cage.
However, despite Scarlett's own reading skills being on par with Isaac's, she lacked the compassionate and affectionate empathy Isaac had, so during the flora reading, Scarlett watched and observed Isaac's reading and high level of empathy within the compassionate and affectionate field, and understood the mechanisms of both variants of empathy, and successfully integrate it to her own cognitive empathy in order to not only feel what others can feel, but also fabricate her own emotions to a point that she can change her own natural aura into a different aura to fool someone like Bai, in other words, she has amplified her own acting skills, despite that they were already on par with Isaac's, by integrating Isaac's compassionate and affectionate empathy into her own by observation.
"And to make me reveal my cards while you hold your cards inside your sleeves…" Scarlett whispered with a loving look in her eyes. "When you're done with your little games with everyone… I hope we can have a proper reunion, my dear Isaac…" Scarlett said as she picked up a pencil and pointed it at a lens and then threw the pencil gently at the lens.
The pencil flew across the room as the pencil went through the center of the hidden camera as it split into half by the pencil.
"Now the little mouse has been exterminated."
———
The skies were a mixture of a deep red, orange, and slight of purple indicating that the sun was setting.
The colors were always… foreign to me, given where I was raised where the colors of the sunset were a muck perversion of orange, and with an eternal fog that you might as well just consider the sunset in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea… my homeland…
It was always colorless in my homeland and I usually only see the bland colors of the atmosphere before enrolling here and coming to Austria.
However despite that, I always looked up at the night sky and always saw a constant bright collection of stars in the sky.
The stars were the most interesting things to see that were different from the emptiness I am used to seeing.
I was always so mesmerized by the stars so much that I memorized each star as I remembered all six thousand of them.
Naturally, a human being even with an exceptional skill of sight perception can only detect three thousand, but I can always see more than what any human can see.
I can always remember the constellations and positions of all the stars, it was the only thing that made my life seem less like a puppet to use to keep a legacy in decay going, but made me feel like an astrologist finding meaning in my own life through the stars.
"Sorry for taking a long time to get here, I underestimated the sheer size of this school's campus."
"Of course, and it takes a long time to get used to knowing your ways around this entire campus, although I did take the liberty yesterday of exploring the entire campus, so I suppose the fault is on me since I didn't specify where in the park I am at," I said to Nathanael as I met his icy blue gaze.
"I'll say, it took me nine minutes just to find you the moment I entered the park," He sighed as he fixed his glasses. "So what did you want to talk about?"
"I was going to ask if you enjoyed your lunch?"
Nathanael blinked. "You… asked me to come all the way here just to ask me how was my lunch…?"
"Don't play stupid, I know you went to the cafeteria to spy on Isaac when I sent out those five to watch Isaac." I stated the facts given one of the five spies I sent told me.
Despite being told the truth, instead of him getting mad, he pitifully laughed. "Could you blame me? I mean with your profile of him as a rational strategic thinker, and then that video of Isaac's introduction of wanting to be a magician was found. So naturally, I would go check it out for myself, is that so wrong?"
Given the context of what Nathanael said wasn't wrong, when you are presented with two different versions of the individual in question, you would want to see it for yourself. "No I suppose not."
"See? I knew you would understand. And given what I watched of Isaac's clown performance, it seems he really is just a magician who is leeching on others to try and make it to Class A by flattering the students there. Did you see how he acted with the fascist princess Scarlett and that Arwa girl? It just seems you overestimated him. So I believe your profile on him was completely wrong."
I stayed silent for a short three seconds, processing his words as I finally reached my absolute decision. "Perhaps you're right Nathanael, I probably did overestimate Isaac after all…"
"Now that we've got that out of the way, I'll be leaving." Nathanael mockingly saluted and walked away as I turned around looking back up at the sky.
After a while until I was fully aware that Nathanael was gone, I let out a long sigh.
"And that is why you are in Class E, you are a genius, but you are a fool, Nathanael…"
Isaac being a rational strategic thinker and a magician is not mutually exclusive. A magician is a scholar of misdirection, engagement with audience, perception control, and most important of all, the human heart. Something you did not grasp Nathanael…
It was the reason why Nathanael was a calculated risk when I knew he would question my profiling and confidence about Isaac.
And that is why your usefulness is up, Nathanael.
Hence why I sent those five spies to the cafeteria, not to watch Isaac, to which I assume Isaac was thinking they were there to watch him, or perhaps he also saw through that layer? But those five spies were sent to watch and confirm Nathanael's presence to me, hence why I had those five not even try to blend in since they weren't my real spies for Isaac.
That is why I was able to pay a referee a thousand requiems to spy on Isaac, which was a success, as that referee has given me the full report.
A rather interesting part was that a girl with Isaac, to whom I was able to deduce based on the description the referee gave me was Marie Curie, one of Isaac's classmates who also came from Class H who was looking around and also spotted not only the five spies, Nathanael, but also the referee himself too.
I allowed my brain to start configuring everything together, as for the first time ever…
I have met someone who was able to keep up with me… and that was Isaac Mahoka…
I raised my finger up to the sky and despite the stars not being visible yet…
I began to trace the Corvus constellation as I began to reconstruct Isaac's moves. "You wake up in early in the morning to seeing the mass match-up requests that were sent to you, you didn't reacted yet since you were analyzing the possibilities of the intent and saw which classes those students who sent those matchup requests, so you initially perceive it as desperation, and then after that moment somewhere during that and before six AM, you intercepted a non class E and non Class F student telling you about the nickname king of trash and told you that it mainly came from Class E and Class F that has spread rapidly, and then you deduce that it was actually a strategic move that you intend to gather information about from the enforcers so you decline the matchups believing you manipulated Nathanael and I to meet up in a classroom."
After finishing tracing the Corvus constellation, I went to trace the Octans constellation. "As it hits six AM, you went exploring to Class F since you already deduce they would be either in that class or Class E. However, you hit an unexpected event, James Mosley being there, so you decided to make the decision of having him stick with you in hiding and listening in to Nathanel's and me's next moves…"
Given how Isaac anticipated the possibility of me using a referee, five spies, and even thought ahead of Nathanael also being there…
He knew I saw him
And with how fast I looked at him and James through that corner of the mirror, it was only Isaac who noticed, since if Isaac would have told James everything, James would have shown a guarded demeanor during his time in lunch if going by the referee's report and the video of Isaac's performance.
But going back to that Isaac saw me see him, and the only way to notice if you have a perfect memory recall and a high definition memory of that of a high military grade security camera… and Isaac was able to see me, means that Isaac has a high def perfect memory recall.
That should be expected as a magician, after all, they always need to pay attention to the littlest of things, even the audience's body language and expressions even if they are at a far distance or quickly changing.
"…moves, to fully finish your profile on James, and so you most likely convinced him to be your friend and boosted his confidence after telling him of the brutality of the matchup and slandering of your name, and along with me coercing Nathanael. So you kept boosting his confidence till you got him to invite you to lunch or that you asked him if you could have lunch with him, and he said yes which gave you access to Class A's vip access lunch table, and you knew his excitement would make him invite more people, so you asked him to invite nine specific people that you had particular information on and you got him to come with you to go to the botanical shop to buy props for your upcoming performance for the lunch with Class A."
I then began to trace the Crater Constellation. "And between that and the beginning of lunch period, you brought two of your friends, one of class B, a girl named Aurelie Louise if I recall, who played the innocent, and the other girl, Marie Curie, you used her as a scanner to detect the anomalies, while you were the seemingly innocent magician from Class H that just wanted lunch with your friends, you created the perfect cover where no one suspects you at all."
I then began to trace the Hydra constellation. "And finally you and your friends got to the Class A table, you three got comfortable and got friendly with all of the ones at the Class A tables making them disarm so that you can perform what looks like a tarot reading performance but with flowers instead… let's call it a flora reading. And this is where your masterful deception and information control begin, as you switch to your magician persona that completely captivates the entire table as you begin to read them one by one…"
Although, I did notice he didn't read James, Aurelie, and Marie, which means he has already read them completely so he didn't need to read them at all.
And then there was the blonde girl, Nikke Georgiadis, whom he completely dismissed, either that was a flaw on his part… but I believe he intentionally did it for a purpose I do not know.
"… so when you continue reading the class A students, your scanner, Marie, finally saw the referee and told you that she identified the referee that you anticipated me send, you also falsified your own methodology for me to use for future purposes as a way for me to construct a counter to a fake methodology as you painted yourself as a cold read, a mentalist so to speak. While you were also… crossing off your own suspect lists for who is the true mastermind who is pulling my strings…"
How I knew he deduced someone was pulling my strings? Was because he knew I was withdrawing information from Nathanael during that meeting and knew someone was behind me.
And he was right, yesterday in the afternoon, someone sent an anonymous letter to me to investigate Isaac and learn more about him…
"While hiding your real methodology… Which is a reconstructionist…"
I finished tracing.
"Because you are anticipating a matchup between you and me soon and you are framing it to be done on my terms, when in reality it will be on your own terms…"
I looked back up to the sky… and I finally felt a kinship with you Isaac… I wonder…
Can you really beat me?
I never once lost, I can't think of a time when I haven't…
That is why once the time comes, we will face unexpected terms that neither of us will have predicted…
And we will see if you really are my equal as I predicted or just an unfortunate predictability that is bound to lose…
But…
If I were to lose to you…
… I think I would find it refreshing…
"While you are a reconstructionist… I am a deconstructivist. You will plan ahead and engineer your performance as a spectacular success… But I will be the one who is always a step behind… holding the rope and then pulling it all the way to the beginning to where we are both on equal footing," I took out my phone. "But for now, I'll help you with finding the mastermind pulling my strings that I anticipated would benefit us both."
I began calling the individual in question.
After the call, I waited for five minutes as I saw the person in question come.
She had the typical rebel look, she had piercings in her ears and lips, she also had messy twin tails split in half of red and black, she had ruby red eyes, and a maniacal grin that matched more of a lunatic than the stereotype of a psychopath that movies tend to misrepresent.
And unfortunately, this girl, Morvenne Norris(Rank 128), was a classmate in my class, who by the way, is also my seatmate as well… an unfortunate luck…
"Ah Kim~, I must admit I wasn't expecting this!" She put her left arm by her side. "So whatta want to talk about?"
"I was hoping you could help me with something, Morvenne."