Time Turner

Cathleen looked at him in disbelieve and Henry just has to continue to cut everything off.

"I actually didn't want to go as far as kissing you, but because you kiss me first, I might as well test my kissing skill. Thank you for the help! And please don't mention what happened in this room to anyone." Henry smile as he quickly made his way out from the Computer Club without looking back at Cathleen's hurt expression.

***

Alfizar was having a hard time holding in his laughter. When Henry told him to get into the room with his hand gesture, he obeyed. When he peeked at them again, hearing that cheesy line poured out of Henry's mouth was just too hilarious. He managed to record that cheesy scene into his phone for blackmail purpose.

After that, he quickly helps Aurina to return Cathleen's things the way it was before while she cleaned up any traces.

When Aurina said she was done with everything, Alfizar made sure she didn't see Henry and Cathleen just in case he kissed her again. In the end, Alfizar got a weird look from Aurina. Especially when they get out from that club's room and Alfizar was crouching down in a hallway letting out his laughter. Totally forgot just how important that mission was.

"Yeah, keep laughing until you choke and die," Henry grumbled when his eyes landed on the laughing Alfizar on the floor. Alfizar looked up at him, the moment their eyes made contact, Alfizar ended up laughing again.

Aurina looked at the two in confusion. Henry who has his arms crossed over his c.h.e.s.t looked at the laughing Alfizar in distaste.

"What's so funny brother?" Aurina said with a giggle, Alfizar's laughter was just that contagious. Plus, Aurina feels like it has been a long time since the last time she saw Alfizar laughed this happily.

"I-" Alfizar struggled to calm himself. "I just rewatch an old romance movie, Aurina," Alfizar said seriously.

"Live in front of my eyes!" Before Alfizar could break down into another round of laughter again, Henry forcefully closed his mouth while pinching his arms so he would stop.

"Not a word about that, Alfizar." Then he dragged Alfizar leaving a confused Aurina following behind.

Soon they arrived at home after a short walk from the train station. Alfizar has calmed down, his face was fresh, happy, and there was not any signed of burdened feeling that has been staying almost permanently on his face for years. Now Henry didn't know whether to be glad or annoyed at him.

Aurina let the two inside her room as she connected her USB to her computer's port. Then proceed to play the videos. They watch what they had expected.

In this original version of CCTV footages, they could see Desta Carazo shot the arrow, run out of the club's room, hide in a storage room and came out with a different color of the jacket.

Earlier on the same day in the footage, the door outside male's toilet, they saw a young man with his body feature concealed nicely came out from the door. Not long after that, Desta Carazo walked out of the toilet with a pale face. Then Aurina showed them the footage of where that figure go.

He gets inside an abandoned storage room quite far from the toilet. He didn't even take 3 minutes to change, and Vianzo came out. It really was not Harloz, but Vianzo.

And Alfizar was not surprised, he expected it. But when you hope for something impossible and the reality decided to throw the fact right into your face, you will still feel the disappointment. That was what Alfizar feel right now.

He was beyond disappointed that the boy who he thought was a friend, a really nice one, actually threatened someone to shot an arrow. Alfizar can't say that he was glad that the arrow didn't hit him. After all, the arrow hit Emma, that poor girl who had nothing to do with them.

They have got that 5%. 100% sure now that Vianzo is the culprit. But he framed Harloz, and make Alfizar and Aurina as his target.

Now Alfizar has a question in his head.

Were him and Aurina were really the target, or the whole thing was to frame Harloz? The probability of him wanting to Frame Harloz also very high. He simply has to look at the bad reputation Harloz have now, and he could piece it together.

"Aurin, did you have any footage about the student's that move after being harassed by the so-called Academic Star Killer?" Alfizar said because he might as well ask Aurina. Although he didn't tell her about that Academic Killer thing, being a girl and surround with girls, she must have heard a gossip about it.

"I have tried to look for those students' information, those who have transferred out of GIPEC." Aurina'z face then showed a disappointed expression. "But I can't find any recording about it. Most likely, it was deleted by Cathleen."

"I've been wondering. If she had been accessing GIPEC's database like that. Why did no one from GIPEC notice it?" Henry asked curiously. He had the point. GIPEC, such a wonderful school, but can't detect any digital disturbance when someone messed in their database? There must be a reason behind it, right?

Aurina laughed dryly. She shook her head, with a helpless sigh.

"There's a lot of reasons," Aurina said.

"The coolest one is that the Hacker has a really wonderful skill. The stupidest one is that GIPEC has a bad Hacker on their side. The most reasonable one is that Cathleen has a device that could help her with that. Then the last one is that GIPEC is one of the schools that won't do anything until the victim come to them and asked them for help." Every single one of her reasons list is plausible.

"But Cathleen didn't have that device that could hide. I have seen the devices on the main computer's table. So I know she didn't have anything like that."

[Next chapter's teaser:

"I don't want to be a helpless little princess that need her brother to protect her!"

"What if someone follows you to my house and finds us?!"

"You won't know what people capable of doing, Harlock."

"Have you prepared him for that? Or are you still going to let that bastard to control the whole company for much longer?"]