Wicked Reincarnation

Chapter 126: Infiltration 13

Zero marched quickly to Lia's office while Lia followed him. Suddenly a cheerful voice rang out, "L-Kim!"

Nana ran down the hallway and jumped to hug Lia. Surprised Lia took a second before she broke out in a smile and hugged Nana back.

"What are you doing?" Lia was stunned that Nana was in an extraordinarily good mood.

"Are you free now? Are you? I've something to show you!" Nana pulled on Lia's arm. The whole exchange was caught by Zero who narrowed his eyes.

"Zero-" Lia started but Zero interrupted her, "I know," and a bang shut the door to Lia's office.

Curious Nana asked, "Is that him? You know how he's going to help you?"

Lia nodded and allowed Nana to pull her to training field 2, between building 1 and 2. The training fields were a large area covered by sandy earth and surrounded by grass. The building's ground floor was opened and white marbled columns decorated the whole floor.

From the buildings to the training field everything was one spacious place, open to traverse with no doors except those leading to rooms such as the staircases, lifts or the cafeteria.

The grass part had only a radius of two metres and surrounded the actual training ground like a rectangle. On it were benches with a ceiling for people to rest and put their stuff.

"Are you sure you're showing it in public?" Lia saw that Nana stepped onto the training field ready to show Lia her growth.

"It's ok, we always train with the commander in public, everyone knows already," Nana spread her arms and in an instant large white wings sprouted from her back.

"Look!" she laughingly flew into the air and made some turns. Nana was magical and Lia once again couldn't help but admit that Timo was a great teacher.

Lia enjoyed Nana's flying show for a while that attracted many other students who all watched in awe. Nana's power was, after all, very special.

"What do you think?" Nana was keen on hearing Lia's opinion.

"You learn fast," Lia praised Nana.

"Really? I'm glad you think so too!" Nana and Lia walked towards one of the benches.

"How is Timo's training?"

"He's really great! Oh, I mean he's good at explaining things and that makes it easy to use my lifeforce. At first, I had no idea but then he guided me through it and it was easy! It feels like he knows where our weaknesses are and how to tackle them, so we can overcome them!"

"He has a keen eye," Lia concluded.

"He does!" Nana clapped her hands. Then she took a drink, "By the way, we just had training."

Nana scooted closer to Lia and whispered, "Just after training I saw a strange guy approaching the commander. I don't know who it is but everyone was excited to see him!"

"Another captain?" this news was concerning.

"Could be."

Why would someone else form the private army actively look for Timo? Lia had to know the truth.

"Do you know where they headed to?"

"I think the dorms?"

If there was an opportunity for Lia to eavesdrop, then she wouldn't miss it. Any information was crucial.

"I see, I'll go check," Lia stood up but Nana held her back, "Really? Isn't it dangerous?"

"Don't worry, I'll be fine," Lia reassured Nana and headed back to the dorms. Right before the building, Lia saw several students excitedly talking to each other, "Have you seen? He's so handsome!"

"I know right, my first time meeting him up close and oh la la."

"Are you talking about the commander?" Lia approached them.

"Oh, teacher! Erm," the students realised that Lia had been listening and embarrassedly looked around.

"Did he go back to his room?"

"Yea, yea he entered!" the students quickly dispersed.

Yet Lia knew they were talking about the other captain who was with Timo.

If they were in Timo's room, it would be hard to eavesdrop. Lia had to think of something. She took the lift up and remained in front of Timo's door.

After a second, she decided to knock. The door opened and Timo looked at her. Lia put on her act, "Hey, I just wanted-"

Her view fell into Timo's room and she saw someone sitting, with his back faced to Lia, on the sofa.

"Oh," Lia pretended to be surprised, "Sorry, I didn't know you had someone over, I'll ask later. Please excuse me."

"Ok," Timo nodded and closed the door. Yet the moment before the door clicked, Lia gently put her foot at the door, stopping it from closing. A tiny gap remained open, she pushed it a bit further and leaned against the wall next to the door.

She could hear faint noises then a bright voice, "Who was that?"

"Another teacher."

"And?"

Lia felt this voice was familiar but it was too far away and she could barely pick up the words.

"Nothing just wanted to know something. Doesn't matter now, what did you want to say?"

"Ah, yea, what was it again?" the other person thought for a while, "Now I remember Min wanted something to be done. I was on my way to take care of the Veil, so I thought I should just drop by."

"What does he need?"

Lia thought they might be quite close to Min for them to casually use his name and talk about him.

"Y'know, how he's been going on and on about taking care of the Mortal World first? I think we gotta first focus on the hidden families but he wants to turn the Mortal World now into a ghost place," the male sounded a bit annoyed.

"You're drifting off topic,'' Timo's monotone voice clashed with the other guy's chatter one.

"Yeah, yeah, you always suck up to him. Fine, you know how the portal to the Mortal World opens up once in a while, it'll be soon."

Lia has heard of another way to enter the Mortal World without the permission of the Ghost King and the council but what Min actually was planning shocked her more. Turning the Mortal World into a ghost place? Why?

"I have to do it?" Timo's voice brought Lia back. She missed what else the guy had said.

"How long are you still training the young ones?"

"For a while, why does he want to speed things up all of a sudden? The facility and the ghosts aren't ready yet."

"It's just to scout and rumours about some peculiar people in the core have been going around. My guess it's the hidden families."

"Just because of that?" Timo was unimpressed.

"Yep, agreed. Wiping out the whole Mortal World needs more preparation that's why the scouting."

Lia was lost, she had no idea what they were talking about anymore. Why did scouting the Mortal World aid them destroying it? And why did Min already want to set his plan into motion without having everything ready yet? Most of all, have Xavi and the others been found out? Lia needed to speed things up here in the academy with Zero.

Time was running out. Lia took the lift down to the ground floor but lost in thoughts she walked down the hallway instead of exiting the building.

Zero was still waiting in the office doing work. Lia shook her head and decided to worry about these things later.

She walked back to the lift area to head outside when from a distance she saw the lift open with a tiny 'Ding' noise and a person stepping out.

Yet this person sent shivers of shock, melancholy and even despair across Lia's whole body. Her lips slightly trembled and her eyes unknowingly turned red. She would've to face him anyways in the near future. But now seeing him like this, Lia's choked up heart had no idea what to feel. As if his presence made her question everything.