Under the Veil of Night

After separating herself from Sakura, Kanae moved to the back. As a minor character of this party, her existence was quickly forgotten. The guests didn't know about her, and most of them ignored someone like her who didn't wear expensive clothes.

After moving behind the crowd, Kanae reached the back stairs. There were only several servants around her, but they too were busy delivering drinks to the party. She turned around and climbed the steps towards the second floor.

The second floor was supposedly off-limits for anyone other than the Aida and the Nali Families. Kanae saw the two guards guarding the entrance to the hallway and smiled slightly. It was easy if she wanted to just bypass them, but she had to avoid the camera too.

She moved towards the side and knocked on the door. The sound caused the guards to tense up.

"Who's there?"

No one answered.

The two of them looked towards each other. "Check who's there. I'll stay here to guard the entrance."

When one of them moved, Kanae leaped to the ceiling. The distance between the floor and the roof was quite great. Because it was a narrow hallway, her short height allowed her to prop her hands and feet against the walls. Before she had leapt up to the ceiling, she had pulled her skirt up and secured it to make sure that it wouldn't droop. Moving her limbs slowly, she made her way towards the rooms.

"What did you find?"

"There's nothing there," the guard shrugged. "Maybe we misheard because the people downstairs are loud."

"You're right."

Kanae continued her way when she noticed the camera suddenly move towards the other side. Her eyes narrowed. Jason shouldn't be free to interfere because he was busy as the young master. It meant there must be someone else around here.

She sped up her movement and reached the end of the hallway. She heard the sound of something falling from the other side of the hallway, so she knew that the person who came here also tried the same thing as her. Well, he did it with more ease.

Relaxing her hands and feet, she dropped to the floor swiftly without making a sound. She moved towards her uncle's door right beside her and opened the lock using a clip she had prepared beforehand. Within seconds, the door was opened and she snuck inside.

'Whoa, Uncle Frank is still as messy as ever.'

Compared to her room, this place was worse. She guessed that her uncle must be busy because of the marriage arrangement between the Aida and Nali Families. Still, she didn't understand why her uncle wanted this marriage to happen so badly. After all, that Young Master Jon was not that spectacular too.

She looked towards the laptop on the table. Her uncle forgot to turn it off when he used it previously. Shaking her head lightly, she made her way towards the laptop while being careful to not step on anything else.

Tap, tap, tap, tap.

Browsing through the laptop, Kanae found out that her uncle was truly careless. The business deals of the Nali Family were all written here. There were even some secret arrangements listed and so on. If this leaked out, the Nali Family would be finished.

'Do you trust the guards that much?'

Kanae made a copy of the proof of the secret deals from the laptop. If in the future came the time when she needed to face off against her uncle, she could just use this. Of course, if it was not needed, she wouldn't want to because she didn't hope for the downfall of the entire Nali Family. There were a lot of innocent people in the family.

She continued to browse the laptop when she found a specific file that was locked.

'Here I thought you weren't careful, Uncle.'

It took her less than 5 seconds to unlock it and access the file. There were two files. The first file caused her to frown. Disgust appeared on her face as she quickly retreated from the file. She wouldn't want to open that again.

She quickly looked in the second file and her eyes shone as she found what she had been searching for.

"Oro, the information they have is about the secret weapon, right?" Kanae suddenly asked.

Jason was talking with the others when he heard Kanae's voice. He let the others talk while he answered.

"Yes."

"I got the information," Kanae said calmly. Tommy almost leaped in joy when he heard that, but Kanae's next words caused him to frown. "But only half."

"What do you mean by half?" Shiro was startled.

"There's some details about the weapon and so on, but Frank only has half of the details. In addition, there's a map with three horizontal lines marked out. I believe that this is just half of the information, and the rest is with the Aida Family."

Shiro frowned. "Can't you also retrieve the rest of the information?"

"I'm not alone on the second floor. When I came inside, someone else also came to the second floor at the same time. Since this room is the farthest away, I guess he's in the Aida Family's room. Even if I went there, I don't think I want to confront him."

By this time, Jason stopped talking. He was frowning as he didn't think that there was someone else who also had the same thoughts as them. It was not that weird, but their timing was too precise.

If he asked Kanae to press on, she would get found out by that person. It was possible for her to make that person faint, but she would make the other party fail to get the information. Unless they knew who the other person was, it was better to not move so rashly.

"Woah, you're drinking too much!"

The young masters were looking towards the wasted Jon with a pitiful look. They never intended to make this young man drunk, but he dug his own grave by accepting all the others' drinks.

"Jon, can you walk?" Taro asked while waving his hand in front of the drunken man.

Jon slapped Taro's hand. "What are you talking about? I'm fine."

The other young masters knew that this man was not fine. With this kind of condition, there was no way he was alright.

Jason looked towards Jon for a moment as an idea popped in his mind. He smirked.

"Let me ask a servant to take him upstairs."

"That's a good idea."

The other young masters clearly didn't want to accompany Jon because they were not too close to him. Asking a servant to deal with him was surely the best option.

Tommy quickly appeared beside Jason. From the moment he heard Jason's idea, he put the tray on his hand on the nearest table and came here as fast as he could. He knew that Jason wanted him to be the one to check the room for the young master.

"Waiter, can you please help him to his room?"

"Certainly, Young Master," Tommy answered politely.

Jason moved to the side and whispered into the communication device. "Make sure the other person is not in Jon's room."

Tommy nodded before helping Jon up. Upon breathing in the stench from alcohol, his face scrunched up a bit, but he held on. His mother was usually worse than this, so he had some tolerance when coming near him. Still, it was not that comfortable to stay close to him.

Inside the room, Kanae shook her head lightly with a smile on her face. It seemed that she didn't have to do the task by herself anymore. Her eyes darted around the room.

"Shin, is there anyone nearby?"

"No, it's clear."

Kanae looked towards her uncle's bag. "I want to check something else. Tell me if there's someone coming."

"Okay, Captain."