Chapter 362: You won’t forget me
Another week passed, and Kellen’s first team was set to leave in a few days. He had told the trainee Field Guides last week, the day before they drew straws so that if anyone didn’t want to go, they could subtly tell him without letting the whole class know.
No one backed out.
He did find that a bit surprising, given how Bree had reacted after the press conference, but he had also seen how the faces of everyone had lit up at the mention of going to the front lines. They had been training, and had been doing a good job, so now it was time to test them.
They were also excited that they were going with Brent, who had been advertised as the ’teacher who came from the front lines’. They did know that Kellen had basically trained him, and it wasn’t as if everyone had forgotten Kellen’s background, but he was the one who had been there most recently.
Kellen’s image had ’softened’ slightly from having worked at Guiding Center B. He thought it was ridiculous, especially when Brent told him about it, but Brent had just shrugged. What was Kellen to do? Rumours were rumours, and for the most part, he didn’t care about them.
In that time, the tension between Casper had gotten worse, and then had drastically decreased. Kellen didn’t know why, but he didn’t look a gift horse in the mouth. If Casper wasn’t ignoring him, or giving him one word answers anymore, Kellen was okay with that.
Gunther hadn’t calmed down in the slightest, and with the way he was using his powers, he had to stop into one of the Guiding Centers. Kellen had been busy.
He now had spies at all of the Guiding Centers, partially bribed by the Saturn Guild, D.E.C., and through his own connections as well. That meant that the moment Gunther entered into Guiding Center C with a group of other Espers, Kellen was alerted immediately, even when he was in a meeting with the Lieutenants, Rhys, and a few scientists acting on the Peach Guild’s behalf.
Kellen had excused himself, rushing away to somewhere quiet, like a Guiding room, and helped the Guide who was panicking on the other side of the phone to navigate the situation. He was able to get in contact with Gunther through said Guide, since they happened to be a good match, and the Guide was safe since they weren’t affiliated with the Saturn Guild in the slightest, and was actually a veteran recruit from the D.E.C. who had taken up the position at Guiding Center C since they heard ’a new position would be opening up soon’.