Part 15[edit]
(November 10th – Oahu – Smoking Area within Coral Street Shopping Mall – From the camera in the magician’s cell phone)
Ten minutes had passed since the magician had heard the gunshots.
However, she had received no calls and the poor berserkers worried about their children had not returned.
“(…Were they shot by police officers who happened to be present?)” wondered the magician.
She pulled her cell phone from her pocket and spoke while operating it with her thumb.
She spoke to the unmoving hostages.
Those four children were being controlled by the magician and each of them was at or just under the age of 10.
“Okay, everyone, listen to what I have to say,” she said with the tone of a guide on a school trip. She then unzipped her bag and pulled out 9mm machine pistols. “The adults walking around outside are very dangerous, but you will be safe as long as you have these warning buzzers. The scary adults will run away if they hear the noise from these buzzers. If the adults find you, just point your buzzer at them and set it off. Do you understand?”
She then reached for a shopping bag filled with clay-like explosives. She attached the medical electrodes extending from the bags to the children’s wrists as she continued speaking with a big smile on her face.
“And these are your GPS devices. With them, I can tell where you are so even if the dangerous adults capture you, I will come to rescue you if you press the secret button to let me know. So make absolutely sure that you never take off your GPS device!”
She was using the same method she had in her attempt to make Edward Torke attack the Oahu hotel.
She was controlling them by creating a deviation in their knowledge.
From a third party’s point of view, she was telling them to do absolutely unthinkable things, but none of the children there were aware of it. The children looked at the guns and explosives with unambitious eyes.
The magician secretly smiled.
At the very least, Leivinia Birdway was in the same shopping mall.
Even if she was only needed to get safely and surely farther away from her, the magician wanted to create a great confusion she could escape in.
The current problem was their locations.
The shopping mall had 7 exits and the magician had a chance of being spotted even amid the confusion if she accidentally headed toward Birdway.
To prevent that, she had to contact her collaborator and learn where the enemy was currently located.
However…
“…?”
The magician frowned as she put the cell phone to her ear.
She looked back at the small screen and looked confused.
“No signal?”
Immediately afterwards, men holding handguns burst through one of the smoking area’s windows.
They were the poor men who she had used hostages to control.
Part 16[edit]