"Do you know what is most fascinating about my line of work?"

"What is?"

"Everything." I chuckled.

6th April,2014
Sunday

I groaned as I woke up . What a weird dream . Was I having a dream flashback?

Either way , in order to get back to my self and bring a sense of meaning to my existence, I had planned several measures and I had to do several things . First of them was setting my hair like my usual self in a curly hair type .

I found that it was 6 am when I woke up . Today was Sunday and so no school. There is no school on Saturday too but since it was first day , it happened . Cistella was sleeping and snoring slightly . Should I wake her up or not? But then again, what would that achieve?

I quickly packed my bag with several of the stuff I was going to need today and headed out of the room opening and closing the door as quietly as I could.

The campus was wide and no one was on the ground yet . Not even a single teacher. Guess all must be tired after coming yesterday and are sleeping in late since it is holiday today. Well either way ,it was perfect for me . I sat on the park bench and took out a folded table that I had brought with me . Now to get to work.

"First!  I needed to establish a order in this school. Not as a order like I wanted to lead the school. Not yet.  But from now on , I can't just go on around searching everywhere for mystery and information. I need to establish a system so that any information from any corner of this hostel reaches me . In order to do that , I need to recuirt a lot of students. Well not lot lot but certainly they would grow to large numbers through correspondence . I need to make use of the assets that are available to me . I had recieved quite a hefty sum by govt on my last case and then my pocket money. All of them was stashed in my bank account under an Id but I need to make use of it . In order to do that someone with good tech skills . I had a lot of work to do .

So I began drawing my plans, hierarchical order and writing down methods and information columns . It was around 8 am that first sightings of students were possible.

I knew that if I just take interviews like last time or test their skills , I would  get nowhere and it would take lot of time and already expose their cover. Nope! This time , it will be for rest of the term . This year is gonna be foundation for stable structure so I will alone start and then get people involved secretly . That also means avoiding Cistella and Clare .  While Cistella may accidentally leak something , Clare just might bother me . The only person that I could get involved was Claude. But I don't want to rely on her . I only called her for one case and then we solved the last case together too which was pretty fun I am not denying but yet it contradicted my plans .

So I am going back to way things used to run . Keeping order while sharing with someone is not something that a rational like me would like to do . I have much more fun and excitement doing things alone and yet with people but yet at reasonable length from me .

So, all this can only began if I find a computer guy or girl . In order to do that , I must go to admin's office.

"Hello mam ! Good morning . I was hoping if I could have a list of all the students in my form . It is just that it is quite hard to keep track of all." I stated calmly. It sounds like a reasonable reason at least to me.

"Sure. I was going to give it to you anyway. There is no rule prohibiting it you know.." she chuckled as I sighed relieved. Alright!  There are approximately 120 students . Each class containing 40. That means there are 60 shared rooms and three common room . And that is just for my fourth form . But then again, I am only going to involve anyone from fifth year at prominent position because I don't want them leaving midway. That would destabilize us .

I quickly crossed off the students I already knew and all . There were approximately 70 students left still . Out of 50 I knew , one was good with computers but not interested in that kind of stuff.

So my only hope was in these 70. I think starting with students who have come new , I can narrow down search since it would be much more beneficial. Because if I ask something from newbie, it would appear natural to rest of people , at least more natural than me suddenly asking existing students out of nowhere questions.

So counting Cistella out , there are 21 students. I would start with 12 new girls since they are less likely to gossip that I asked them are you good with computers to someone whereas boys soon might get word of it as they speak without thinking.

I knocked on the door of a girl called Astella first.

"Hello! Can I help you?" She asked opening the door.

"Yes! I just want to know are you great with computers." I stated.

"Uhmm.. ok kinda out of nowhere but not that much ." She answered.

"Alright! Thank you for your time.  Have a good day ." I moved on .  It was around 10 am now. I had asked them all but none seemed to be any good . I was pretty tired now .

"Give me a drink, Raul." I said sitting down at a table in his place as he pushed me coca cola.

"Oh right! I am in school." I reminded myself seeing coca cola.

"You appear as if you have been running around nonstop ." A girl said sitting down at a table. She had hazel -mist eyes , almost as if presenting orbs of golden dark , an unnatural warmth exuding from her even though it was just first time I met her . I am sure I am just too tired to think that probably.

"Well ! I have been kind of doing that." I sighed.

"Why ? Today was holiday." She asked perplexed.

"Well! I have been trying to find someone who is good with computers . I have something of a need for it .." I stated .

"Aren't you lucky?" She laughed to herself.

"I don't see any point in laughing." I gave her a look.

"Oh! Don't get upset. It just so happens that only skill I have are tech related and now you tell me that you are looking for someone like that . So anyway why?" She asked.

"Well! You need to answer one question first."  I said.

"Which is?" She asked.

"Would you hack Fort Knox database if you could and get away with it ?" I asked wristpalming myself.

"Sure. Why not ?" She bit her lips.

"Alright! I need your help to hack into school database, go through with personal creditanials of students in fourth form , background check , everything about them . Then I would also need your help to well do a lot of things actually.." I stopped.

"Wow! And why do you want to do that ?" She asked.

"Because my name is Max Ryder. I was bored but now I am back and in order for it to remain that way , I need to establish a order so that I recieve all the information from every corner of this hostel and surrounding hostels . I need a system that can allow me to do that . In order to make that possible, I need capable people and to provide them with incentives to join me and I can only know about it with help of information that you can help me get . I need Shadows of Order" I explained. I knew that telling her everything was risky . Yet for certain reason . A certain not so rational reason my mind told me that it was worth the shot . After all I hadn't found anyone after whole day's search. So if I am going to fail, well I am going to give it my best to fail.

"You know.. you could have stopped at Max Ryder. I would have understood anyway ." She smiled.

"Oh well!  Didn't realise my name have such effect. What is your name by the way ?" I asked.

"It is Selica. From this day forward, I will be your eyes and ears in this place." She smiled.

"Sounds like an oath taken by a knight but sure, I look forward to working with you Selica.

Au revoir readers! Keep posted for the next chapter.