BXBX NOVEL Chapter 137 - Logan's Suggestion
I fell asleep and woke up in the middle of the night with a headache. I checked the clock, "Two in the morning… ugh, this is why I don't sleep early… most of the time."
I got up groggily from the bed and washed my face in the bathroom. Then I returned back and checked my phone.
As expected, there was no answer from Elise. I knew it wasn't easy to persuade a sexual assault victim, so I won't pressure her for now. I can still proceed with my current plan with Noah. What I wanted with Elise was just her testimony, so it'd make it harder for those three to escape juvenile center later on.
But then, I saw a text from a man right when I unlocked the screen. I opened the text and read it.
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Logan: Yo.
Logan: Sleeping already? Heh, as expected from your lazy ass.
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Dang it, this guy still had the audacity to insult me out of nowhere in the middle of the night! So I texted him back out of spite.
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Emmy: How come you can't answer my call or text me back when I need you to handle some administration in the pottery club, but you can still insult me in the middle of the night!
Logan: Heheh, I'm so stressed right now. That's why I'm chatting you up.
Emmy: So… your way of destressing is by insulting me?
Logan: No, I have another method.
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My heart jumped when he suddenly called me out of nowhere. I was about to reject his call, but then again… this might be the best time to ask for his advice.
Logan had a lot of experience. Although I didn't know how the hell he could get those experiences, getting some suggestion from him wouldn't hurt.
So I accepted the call, and we had this long silence before he opened the conversation.
__Phone Call__
"Miss me?"
"Dang it! You disappear for months, and that's your first sentence?! How shameless can you be!?" I yelled at him annoyedly. He seriously needed to get his mental checked. How could someone be that shameless and overconfident?!
"Hahah! Don't get so worked up. I mean, I miss you a lot… so…" Logan paused for a moment. "A—Anyway, that's not important. I just want to call you because I'm bored and stressed right now."
"Honestly, what are you doing right now? What kind of mission does a 16-year-old have to handle? Mowing neighbor's lawn?" I asked and joked at the same time.
"I wish it's that simple…." Logan sighed. "My mission is about something dangerous. As much as I want to tell you about it, I don't want to risk your life, Em."
"You're… important…." Logan mumbled, but I could hear it on the phone.
"Huh? Important? Me? For what? For your mission?" I started questioning what he said just now.
"N—Nothing! Just forget what I said before. I must've been too tired these days!" Logan suddenly rebuked. "Anyway, what are you up to these days? Someone like you must've found a new target, right?"
"Well… yeah…" I confirmed. "Actually, I want to take down three people at once, and it won't be easy."
"Huh? Three people? Damn, Emmelyn Jones, you're so vicious and evil!"
"Well, thank you for the compliment—if that's not backhanded," I rolled my eyes.
"Who are these three people?"
"It's from the sophomore class. They are a bunch of bullies who beat up my new friend—"
"A new friend? You can get a friend?"
"Hey! What does that mean?!" I raised my voice again. "Do you think I'm that anti-social? Besides, he is a good man and kind too!"
"HE?!"
"Yeah, he. He's a man."
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"Did you—"
"He's gay."
"Okay, never mind."
I could hear Logan let out a relieved sigh as if he had been holding his disagreement for a while.
"So, do you already create a plan to take them down?" Logan asked.
"Well, roughly, yes. Noah found out about their service. They're basically hitmen. They will bully or assault any students as long as they get paid. They don't even hesitate to sexually assault a girl after they got paid a sum of money," I explained the current situation.
"I'm planning to use this to my own advantage. I'm planning to take advantage of this service by trapping them."
"Trapping them?"
"Yeah, I haven't planned a good trap to set, but if I can get them expelled, or even worse, put into the juvenile center or jail, then I consider it done."
"Then, any rough idea of a good trap for them?" Logan asked again.
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"Hehe, then let me give you advice on a good trap against them."
"I'm all ears," I said as I listened to Logan's words.
"Ever heard of… wrong place at a wrong time?"
"Huh? I mean, what does that connect with my current mission?"
"You should put someone in the wrong place, at a wrong time, and let those three bullies enter the trap."
"… I still don't get it," I shamefully admitted.
Logan sighed and continued explaining, "Put someone you don't like in that 'wrong place at a wrong time.' And then let them watch the whole scene of those bullies doing what they are paid to do."
"That someone will definitely shit a brick, and at that point, he or she will report it to the police, school board, or at least record the whole thing and share it in social media."
"Any of those works in your favor, and those bullies will get expelled or jailed in less than a week, trust me."
I tried to connect the explanation from Logan and the current mission, and the lightbulb finally popped in my head, "OH! So, what you mean is… I put another person as a witness and created a scenario of involuntary witness in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Those three bullies will have to chase and beat them to silence them, right?"
"Yes, and if you can find someone important enough as that involuntary witness, then those three people will have to face charge they can't escape."
"Someone important, hm…." Okay, I seriously didn't expect this conversation to evolve into big progress in my plan.
I mean, I knew Logan was experienced, but he was THAT experienced in this field as if he had been doing this for so long.
Now I had to think of someone important to be the involuntary witness. I was about to put Chrissy as the involuntary witness in the wrong place, at the wrong time. But then again, I remembered that she was nothing important. She didn't have any worth except being a bootlicker and social climber.
I needed a student with enough influence, so those three bastards would have to beat and threaten that person, or else that person would report everything to the police.
And I had to make sure to give those bastards a mission that was too dangerous and might lead them to jail, but with big money as a reward.
A mission that was high risk, high reward.
"Now, I will let you start thinking. I'm sorry I can't help you with this one. I'm still in this dangerous mission," Logan said.
"It's okay. Thanks for helping me, Logan. Good luck with the mission," I said.
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"Just that?" Logan asked. I really thought he would hang up the call after that. "You're just going to say thank you as my reward for giving you a genius idea to take them down easily?"
"Ugh, fine, what do you want? Remember, I don't have money," I warned him.
"I have enough money to buy the whole school if I want, haha!" Logan's arrogant, bratty voice somehow infuriated me. "Just cut the crap and tell me what do you want as a token of gratitude?"
"Well, I'm not demanding. You can start with giving me sincere encouragement. Because I'm so stressed out right now, a small encouragement wouldn't hurt," Logan suggested, and I could only agree with that.
"Ugh, fine," I cleared my throat and started giving him a small encouragement. "Logan, you can do it. I know it's hard, but you can do it, fighting… yay…."
"What the—I want a sincere encouragement! What you did is a half-assed encouragement that got me even more exhausted than before!"
"What kind of sincere encouragement do you want, honestly?"
"W—Well… the one when you become a cat maid… or whatever… I don't care…." Logan said in a soft voice. I almost missed it.
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I seriously wanted to smack his face right now. But I was the woman of my word, so I cleared my throat again and closed my eyes to prepare myself.
Then when I opened my eyes, I had an entirely different persona.
"Meow~ Master Logan, are you tired? Stressed? Why don't you rest with me, Master Logan? You should stay strong and finish the mission! Then you can meet me, and I will give you a kiss-kiss, nyaaa~."