I was shifting my look from her to him then back to her, wondering what was exactly going on here, but i saw that she really left the office and understood that if someone was to give me an answer, it would probably be the guy in front of me, after the Major General left, he saluted her one last time and i feeling awkward waved my hand at her, she nodded at him and looked at me sharply then went out of the office .
I still saw her smiling a little after activating my eyes, but i saw that she suddenly removed that smile and looked at me sternly from behind the door, that woman indeed looked scary, will i really be alright, i guess no point in thinking about it now, i looked straight ahead wondering what introduction was she talking about .
After she went out, the room became deathly quiet, with no sound other than the ticking clock on the wall, 2 minutes passed by and things were still the same, the silent was still the same, seeing that he didn't have an intention to speak up his thoughts, i was the one who took the initiative in saying :
" You know i wasn't trying to peep on what she was doing or anything before, i was just trying to find whom was the Major General talking to .
I said that jokingly in try of breaking the ice between the two of us, or at least i believed it was ice, but his answer felt that i was the one who got his body soaked in ice, he said :
I'm here under the Yotsuba Family current Head's orders to get you to the Family Mansion, if you still wish to do so .
He said all that in a natural tone that due to it, i wasn't able to make sense of whether he was serious or actually joking with me as well, his stoic expressionless face, didn't allow me to grasp what his intentions was as well, i was setting in front of a sturdy hill .
I was tempted to open my eyes to the limit and pry into the the bodies and the thoughts of the guy in front of me, but in the end i decided against it and still resorted to resolve this confusion of mine by asking him about it directly, i said :
" Are you joking or are you being serious ? .
Answering your question, I'm indeed being serious, the family head tasked me with bringing you to her and knowing her intentions and without confirming what your thoughts were like and what your character was like, i acted on the plan that i deemed effective for apprehending you and foiling their plan in forcing you Into a corner, for that I'm very sorry, but i believed that was the correct action to make .
I was at first a bit unclear about what was going on, then the confusion I had earlier began to increase instead of decreasing, at his last words of apologizing, i was unable to react at all, i felt that my brain is numb from currently the numerous questions that was coursing through my mind at the moment .
As if that information he just gave wasn't shocking enough, he continued to say :
The first time we made contact was also one of the tasks that i was given by the family head, i was tasked to augment how much were you conscious of your own state of life and how much will you be able to benefit the family, i was tasked with assessing your capabilities in general and all the reports about you was given to both the military and the Family .
So him approaching me from the start was really not a coincidence, i guess Dr.Takao was probably unaware that he was already under the radar from the get go, or maybe i was misunderstanding something, after all, even if the government was aware of the experiments done there and paid it no piece of mind, the involvement of a family from the Ten Master Clans shouldn't have gone unnoticed by them, that should probably mean that our first meeting at least wasn't intended and was just an incidental encounter, or so i want to believe .
He seemed to have finished all that he wanted to say to me as he just stood up bowed to me then he sat down again in a systematic fashion, i heard all of this and began to reach to a few conclusions about all that happened, some of the conclusions i made previously were proven to be correct, but even after i took a long time clearing and piecing my thoughts together, i was still confused about a few things .
One of those things was in particular gnawing on my mind, what sort of identity that guy had, from his words, I'm able to tell that he wasn't lying nor joking about being here under the Yotsuba Family Head's orders, meaning that he was a Yotsuba family members .
But if that was indeed the case, then why the military need me to keep a check on the family for them if they already have a member of that family in the Battalion, no this wasn't important currently, i need to know an answer to my question first, who was exactly this guy in front of me .
" Care to tell me now about what is your relationship with the Yotsuba family exactly ? .
I believe you have already guessed it, I'm indeed a member of the Yotsuba Family, I'm a bit surprised by your calm reaction .
" You are, i can't tell anything from your impassive face and look, but i don't feel much bothered by discovering this, I'm feeling a little bit betrayed by the fact you were writing reports on me and giving it to both sides, but i already understood that those seemed to be some of the responsibilities you mentioned earlier, so there no much helping it .
He nodded at my words and was about to say something, when i continued to ask him to tell me more about what kind of identity he really had, him saying that he was a family member was only confirming a speculation that was formed and i was more than 80 percent certain of, so he really didn't answer my question throughly, he only gave me a vague answer to my question .
He seemed to be aware of that as well and the moment i asked him about it, he just say that he will tell me more when we on our way to the family, he then suddenly looked at me and asked me a question that i too was anticipating, since i finally become aware of the other special person that i was bound to meet, he said in a grave tone :
Ate you ready to head to the Yotsuba Family Headquarters ? .
Even though, i still have quite the amount of questions that i want answers for, i can ask them later when we are alone, but that wasn't the only thing that was currently burdening me, no, in fact what was burdening me was finding that even with all the simulations i made about this day coming, i find myself backing down, once i got asked that question .
Was i having a second thoughts about meeting the person i wanted to meet the most, yes, i was .
I'm currently conflicated because i was yearning for that meeting for over a decade, i had shed tears for over a decade, due to every night dreaming of that tortures nightmare, it kept being repeated over and over, normal people people would have already been sick of it, but even though it was torturing, it filled me with hope and relief, about being connected to someone .
But the moment i stepped out of the shallow shell, i was met with the ugly truth, even after i came out, I'm not still able to found a place to belong, but for some reason i felt that i might have at least secured a place to stay, even if the Yotsuba family, didn't welcome me, that thought suddenly pushed the other useless thoughts of mine away, i was now having a clear answer to the question he asked me .
" I'm ready .
He nodded his head at me and without a saying a single word began to lead me out of the office, just as we passed by a certain office, a familiar figure appeard out of the room and handed me a phone, it was a gift she said, i thanked the elegant female Officer for her gift and continued to follow Officer Ooguro, just as i took a few steps i got a message on the newly acquired phone .
The message was from an unregistered number, it said :
Don't forget your promise, please note that if you told the Saeki-san about what happened earlier, i might start a rumor on the internet about a pervert peeping on others and attached your name to it .
I didn't even need to use my Spatial Eyes to know who sent me this message, it was sent by the same woman who handed ne the phone just now, i couldn't help but roll my eyes at her weird threat, but i also didn't hesitate to reply to her messaging her, saying :
" Alright, please refrain from doing that, i won't be saying a single word about what happened alright .
A message was then sent to me in an instant as if she already anticipated my response, she said :
I will be waiting for that date eagerly, see you soon .
I read the message but didn't respond, since i had no response for that in mind, i put the phone on my pocket and continued to follow the Officer in front of me, who seemingly aware of what took place behind his back, he said :
Fujibayashi-san seemed to have taken a great interest in you, good luck with that .
" I didn't expect that you too can make jokes, you could tell me some answers instead and i would very much appreciate it .
As i said that he reacted as if he didn't hear me and completely went mute, i couldn't help but want to hit the back of his head, but in the end, i decided not to .
We finally reached to the hunger where the plane we will be taking was in, weirdly enough, the plane in front of me looked quite different to the one we arrived here in and that was indeed the case, the plane was smaller and looked to be quite stealthily with its black color, their were only two seat on that plane, one for the pilot and presumedly the one is for his copilot, that was my seat .
Just as the plane took off, he set the destination and activated the autopilot, he then turned to me and say :
We have a 3 hours and half before we reach our destination at the current speed, so you have free time to ask about what you wanted to know .
" Who are you, like what is your position on the family, is Officer Ooguro even your real name or it's your identity with the military, why did you help me, what was the Family Head reaction when she know of me .... ? .
You really are asking a lot of questions, but i will try to answer them all since we have a bit of time on our hands, but i will answer the parts that I'm allowed to answer, so i hope you respect that .
Answering your question about my identity, you could think of me as a guard of sort, as for my exact position in the family, believe it or not but I'm actually an outsider in the most of the other family members eyes, so that should be enough to answer that part of your questions, again i can't say anymore, but soon you may found out on your own .
My introduction seemed to be a bit late, I'm sorry for that, My name is Shiba Tatsuya, special officer Ooguro is indeed a made up identity to cover my real identity, you could call me Tatsuya, I'm a bit older than you, you might not believe this but you are share the same birthday as my little sister .
As for the reason to why i helped you, let me correct you on something, i didn't actually help you, i just reported back to the military about the interest that the Yotsuba Family began to take in you, so that they be aware and try to interfere and get you to their side, i till now a bit troubled understanding why are you thinking that i was helping you when i was just executing orders, I'm a what could be called a double agent, I'm also troubled at being still unable to grasp the reason why you aren't angry about this .
But anyway, i was the one who did recommend you to join the Battalion, the reason is quite simple and also not, i tried to foil the family plan of talking hold of you and i also believed that my judgement of your character seemed to be quite correct and that was confirmed with the small chat that we had about Blanche earlier, so if you called that helping you, then I'm helping you because i feel that you already aware of the heavy responsibility that came with the huge amount of strength you had at your disposal, that was enough for me to recommend you .
So that should give you an answer to what you are asking, for the last question of yours, I really can't tell you an answer since i don't believe she felt anything nor am i able to know what she was thinking of .
But if you are concerned about what are the thought that the family members had on you, then I'm sorry to tell you that they don't have the nicest opinion about you, most of them have some resentment towards you due to your state and origin, some are holding it just based on the fact that the original body was stolen from the family's graveyard, forcing the whole family once again to relocate .
Some and these are quite few in numbers are feeling neutral towards you, they don't like you nor they hate you, but their thoughts on you joining the family, is completely unclear to me .
I believe those are all the answers to your various questions, do you still have other questions for me ? .
He indeed answered my questions, but something kept telling me that something was wrong with his way of answering, like he was giving me a vague or a glimpse of an answer that might have much more to it than what his words conveyed, especially the first 3 answers he gave, the other answers were clear as well, but the first three were just a lot more weirder .
The one about his identity seemed the most strange, SINCE HOW CAN YOU BE A MEMBER OF A FAMILY, YET STILL BEING AN OUTSIDER, IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE .