The Winter Promise

Chapter 135: I Should Have Stopped That!

The cold morning happened again, Riki and I walked into the classroom which was crowded with my friends. Even though it's cold like this, why is the cooler in my room not just turned off.

We walked to my chair and there I still saw an empty chair in front of me.

Yes, that chair is Kichida's chair.

Because yesterday he said that he wanted to gather his determination first, so maybe he is still gathering it now.

“How was yesterday Mar?”

Riki immediately charged for it, as I had not told them after meeting back from Kichida.

“You today did not take a hiatus?”

“Natasha has already taken it. So?”

“Everything went well.”

The air is so good...

I'd love to sleep.

I took off my jacket and put it on the table to make a pillow.

“Did Kichida return to his home?”

“Stop it, but obviously she's going home.”

“Thank God then.”

I also started to feel the softness of my slightly wet jacket. I began to slowly close my eyes and enjoy the atmosphere of the moment.

Then I heard a noise coming from my class. I felt like someone had entered my class and that person was quite famous.

“What are you coming here Miyuki?”

Miyuki's? What's he doing here early in the morning?

I'd better pretend I'm sleeping so I don't get questioned by him.

“What Amar fell asleep for?”

“I don't think he's asleep yet, because he just closed his eyes.”

Riki said innocently.

Rik, you should have told him that I was asleep and that he was back in class again.

“Mar!... Mar!”

Miyuki also shook my body.

“What?”

I started to raise my face and look at him.

At that moment, I saw Miyuki who was very worried. I saw his face as usual yesterday.

“Are you still worried about Kichida?”

“Yes, last night I couldn't sleep because I thought about it.”

I also saw the eye bags that were under Miyuki's eyes.

Although he tried to cover it with a little powder, but I could see it.

“Not that I've said nothing to worry about.”

“Stay I can't Mar!”

“Why don't you try to distract your mind with something else?”

“I've done that but it's useless.”

Then he doesn't do something he likes. He should have invited Misaki to play the game, surely he would have forgotten about it.

“Then why did you come here?”

“I want you to find out where Kichida is, I'm sure you can do it with help from Maul.”

Oh yeah, I just remembered that he had no idea that I had met Kichida.

“Alright, I'll get Maul to do it.”

While I was chatting with Miyuki, I also got a message from Maul telling me to go to the library to meet her. He said something was important.

Early mornings like this are important.

What matters is what Maul usually talks about.

I have little doubt that he wants to talk about the kidnapping. If that was what he wanted to talk about, he could do it at rest.

Is this still related to the Kichida issue?

But it was rare for Maul to act on this matter before I gave the order to her.

I'd better meet him to find out what it is.

“Rik, please hold Miyuki here.”

I whispered to Riki.

“Where are you going Mar?”

“I want to meet Maul, it seems like she wants to talk about something about Kichida.”

“Alright then, later do not forget to tell me about your conversation yes.”

“OK.”

“What are you two talking about?”

Miyuki looked towards the two of us with a suspicious look.

Without answering her questions, I left the class.

“Wait Mar!”

Miyuki also pulled my hand and held it.

“Where are you going? Do you want to talk to Maul about Kichida?”

Where does he know that I want to meet Maul.

“No, I just want to go to the toilet.”

“Then I will go to Maul's class and ask her directly.”

Miyuki also wanted to go there.

“You're here only.”

Now I'm holding him back from staying here.

“Why Mar? You must want to go see Maul, right?”

“No, I really want to go to the toilet. But if you go to Maul's class now, you'll definitely cause a commotion there and that's a problem for Maul. You better wait here, I'll tell him if I meet.”

“Amar is right Miyuki, you better be here first.”

Riki also helped me to keep Miyuki from coming with me.

“Alright then, I'm sorry Mar. I'm so panicked right now.”

Finally Miyuki let go of her hand.

“I go first.”

I immediately drove my feet out of the classroom and headed to the library.

Given that our meeting place is a library, I believe that what Maul will talk about must be very important. Because he wanted to talk about this in a place where there was no one.

When I got there, just like always, the state of the library was nobody. I was confused if this place was that unattractive to the point that no one came here.

My eyes were immediately fixed towards Maul who had arrived there and was playing her laptop.

“What do you want to say?”

I walked up to him and sat facing him.

“It looks like Kichida was kidnapped by someone.”

Say Maul directly.

It also surprised me a bit, because I just met him yesterday. And on the one hand, I still can't believe what Maul said.

“You have no pleasantries first huh?”

“Will be too long if I use pleasantries first.”

“You said this is no joke right?”

“There's no way I'm calling you this early in the morning just to joke.”

That's right, but somehow I still don't believe this.

It is impossible for Maul to prepare a surprise for me. Because today is not my birthday.

“Where do you know then?”

Maul turned her laptop towards me and I saw a map with several red dots moving to and fro.

“Yesterday when you went to meet with Kichida, I was still watching Kichida until nightfall.”

Tumben once he did that without me telling him to.

Then Maul pressed one of his Keyboard keys and three points changed. Two dots turn yellow and one dot green.

“If you can see on the screen now, there are three different points with the others right?”

“Iya, I saw it. Then?”

“The green dot is Kichida's phone and the yellow dot is her kidnapper's phone.”

Uh! Means these dots are the cell phones of every person who is there. I can see so many spots in one place. So it's like this when Maul is tracking someone's whereabouts.

“But how do you know that this is the kidnapper? Though I only see the dots without any description.”

I pointed to those two yellow dots that were still following one green dot that said it was Kichida.

“Then listen to the voice recording I got yesterday Mar.”

Maul gave me her earphones and then I used them.

Maul also began to play the voice recording that he got.

“I'm sure, if the woman there that we can kidnap and sell at auction. Surely we will get a lot of money.”

“Truely, I've already confirmed that he lives in this contract himself. Later that night we can act, he also often goes out at night to buy food.”

“Alright, we'll keep an eye on him until the time comes.”

From that conversation, I heard the voices of two grown men who wanted to plan the kidnapping.

“Where did you get this recording Mul?”

“I accidentally recorded it when they were calling each other, because I was suspicious from the beginning.”

“Surprisingly?”

I wonder where he could be suspicious. I just didn't know anyone was watching Kichida.

Even when I was there I didn't feel that Kichida was being watched by someone.

What because when I was in the location around Kichida rented so many people that I could not realize it.

“From the beginning when I found out about Kichida's whereabouts, I always saw two dots with the same phone number and they always followed Kichida wherever she was. Even when Kichida is in contract, they always wait for him in a place not far from there.”

It's scary if someone follows him like that.

I'm sure they'll be waiting for him at a coffee shop not far from Kichida's contract.

Because in that place is the right place to watch someone who is in the contract without looking flashy.

“Then how is Kichida now? When was she kidnapped?”

I panicked as I remembered what had happened to the women who had been auctioned and bought by someone.

“When? Of course last night, not yesterday you still met him.”

“I know that, I mean what time exactly?”

“I think about half an hour eleven nights.”

Half eleven? It was once night.

“What does he do nights outside of his contract?”

“Did you forget the tape I gave you earlier? Kichida always goes out at night to buy food. Surely they kidnapped her after she finished buying something to eat.”

“Sorry, I'm too panicked to digest something.”

“Unlike you only.”

I forgot that Kichida doesn't cook her food at home.

And why am I panicking right now, I feel a little guilty about this. If only I had forced him to go home or not stay at Miyuki's house, it probably wouldn't have been like this.

I have to take responsibility for this.

“I've also followed where the two men brought Kichida and I've got his location.”

Maul showed me their location.

“What is Kichida currently still with them?”

“Of course, they still keep Kichida in her house. And maybe they will just sell Kichida to the auction place today.”

“Why can you be sure like that?”

“Kichida was kidnapped at half-eleven, and by then her auction show was about to begin. There was no way they could sell it on that night.”

Waitie? Where did Maul find out that the auction event had started at that hour.

“You must know something, right Mul?”

Maul just gave a small smile and she showed me something inside her laptop.

“I have got a ticket to enter the auction event, so I can know when the auction event took place.”

Maul shows the ticket she has bought and there is a ticket number and also a barcode. I think the barcode will be scanned before we enter the auction.

“Good work Mul, save all your information about that ticket later. We'll discuss it with Riki after school at my house. Soon the class will begin.”

I glanced towards the wall clock that was there.

“What will you do Mar?”

“Because you got the ticket, I will use the plan that I told you at the time at the mosque.”

“Maxdumu that plan?”

Maul already knew the plan I meant.

“Iya, I will infiltrate the show and save Kichida. In addition, we will also solve this human sales case.”

After saving Kichida, maybe I'll thank him because of him I can do my plan.

“Tonight my father will also move to the auction with the group he has secretly created without the knowledge of the police station.”

“Create that? I'm very helped if your father really wants to do that tonight too.”

I was a little calm hearing that.

If his father Maul moves, it means I only need to buy time back until his father Maul reaches the auction place.

Do I have to go alone or take Riki?

Since this is a very serious matter, I will take Riki along. Even though he'll do something stupid later, it's better than me to go unattended at all.

“Can you discuss this at my house?”

We both looked over and were surprised that Miyuki was there.

Why is Miyuki here? Shouldn't he still be in my class. Anyway, how did he know that Maul and I were here?

“Did you hear everything?”

“I didn't hear everything but I heard your talk about Kichida being kidnapped by someone.”

That means he heard everything.

What should I explain to him?

I glanced at the library desk behind Miyuki and I saw that there was no one there. When I got in there there was still someone, where did he go?

“Let this problem me and the others solve, you just calm down at home waiting for success from us.”

I'm not very confident, but I think right now, I can only say that to him.

“Don't worry me more than this Mar! The Kichida that disappeared alone had made me anxious, moreover

plus you and the others want to do something dangerous like that. That will make me even more anxious.”

I approached Miyuki and my hand raised as if to hug her.

But in the middle, my hand suddenly stopped and I undoed that intention.

I also held his shoulder.

“Don't worry about that, me and the others can definitely cope with that.”

“I can't entrust to you guys for this one.”

Miyuki was still clean hard about it.

Teng... Teng... Teng... Teng....

Damn the bell in.

I also saw the library staff who had returned. If we don't go, he'll throw us out.

“Well, after school. We'll discuss it at your house, but me and the others want to go home first to change clothes.”

“Good.”

Miyuki immediately left as soon as she heard that answer from me.

“Are you sure Mar?”

Ask Maul to me.

“You know what else, if I don't say that. He definitely won't leave here.”

I think tomorrow I'll give Mr. Febri permission not to go to school.

the End Chapter 135