"Heh-heh, lost them!"
Without Rice Shower's guidance, Hishi Amazon soon shook off Symboli Rudolf and the others. In a hidden corner, she met up with Fuji Kiseki, who had already been waiting there.
"Let's go. Take him to that place." Fuji Kiseki put away the Fortune sachet she had stolen from Rice Shower, then quietly slipped out of Tracen Academy with Amazon, carrying Mizuno all the way toward the city outskirts.
Inside the sack, Mizuno's mouth had been sealed with tape, leaving him unable to make a sound. He could not see outside either, and could only learn what was happening by communicating with Fortune.
'My apostle, this is bad! Rice Shower's sachet was stolen!' Fortune suddenly screamed.
'Hah?!' Mizuno's heart jolted.
Rice Shower's sachet had been stolen?!
Rice Shower had been able to know Mizuno's location because Fortune had been using the sachet hanging at her chest as a base point, constantly guiding her. Once the sachet was gone, that ability would disappear with it, and Rice Shower would no longer be able to get Mizuno's exact position. For the rescue team searching for Mizuno, this was a heavy blow.
'Can you notify Broshi?' Mizuno remembered that he had once given his good brother a pebble as a token. He wondered if Fortune could use it to tell Gold Ship about his current situation.
'No.' Fortune shook her head.
'That's just an ordinary rock. It doesn't have the Fortune sachet's ability to communicate with me.'
'Then what do we do now?' Mizuno asked anxiously.
'Hmm…' Fortune pondered for a while, then shrugged helplessly. 'Nothing we can do. Looks like I can only summon a random nearby Umamusume to help you.'
'Huh? A random summon?' Mizuno was seriously skeptical of Fortune's method.
Mizuno had never really believed in randomness. After all, whenever he played games of chance, low-probability events had a high probability of happening to him, leaving him fuming.
What if the one Fortune summoned was not a helper there to save him, but another dangerous Umamusume? If she saw Mizuno, this tempting Uma Mint, and decided midway to join Fuji Kiseki and Hishi Amazon's criminal team, Mizuno's situation would become even worse!
'Should I summon one?' Fortune asked.
'Not yet. Let me think about it…'
Mizuno did not dare make a rash decision. What if there were some other way for him to escape? Anyway, when he could avoid gambling, it was best not to gamble.
'Then you'd better hurry. Otherwise, they're about to carry you deep into the mountains and forests,' Fortune reminded him.
'This fast?!' Mizuno was shocked.
He had only spent a short while thinking inside the sack, and these two dorm supervisors had already carried him all the way to the suburbs?!
Amid the jostling, Mizuno could also faintly hear Fuji Kiseki and Hishi Amazon talking.
"Is that place safe? No one else will find it, right?"
"Don't worry. It's extremely well hidden. As long as we lock him in there, there's absolutely no way he'll ever get out again!"
"Good. You still have his blood sample, right?"
"Mm. It's in my pocket. Once we move him there and lock him up, you'll be in charge of watching him. I'll take the blood sample back to the academy and ask Agnes Tachyon to research it. Maybe she can make an antidote."
"Oh?" Hearing a familiar name, Mizuno raised an eyebrow.
No wonder Fuji Kiseki and Hishi Amazon had cut his finger and collected his blood just now. So they wanted to ask Agnes Tachyon to research an antidote…
Unfortunately, they did not know that Agnes Tachyon had actually studied Mizuno's Uma Mint constitution long ago. The result had been nothing. Giving her a blood sample to research would be completely futile.
The only method was for Mizuno, the culprit himself, to act and help satisfy the deep desires Uma Mint had drawn out of them. Only then could Uma Mint's negative effects on them be eliminated.
"Phew…"
After understanding the real reason Fuji Kiseki and Hishi Amazon had kidnapped him, Mizuno relaxed slightly.
These two dorm supervisors had no intention of killing him. They only wanted to resolve their desire for Uma Mint.
And that was something Mizuno was familiar with. He had already fulfilled the wishes of plenty of Umamusume, and two more would not make much difference.
He believed that as long as they communicated properly and cleared up the misunderstanding, everything would get better.
So Mizuno decided to stay still for the time being. First, he would find out exactly what wishes Fuji Kiseki and Hishi Amazon wanted to fulfill, and whether he could fulfill them. Only then would he decide whether to let Fortune summon a random Umamusume to help him.
Thus, Mizuno stopped struggling and allowed the two dorm supervisors to take him to an unknown place.
"Hmm?" Hishi Amazon suddenly noticed that Mizuno seemed to have quieted down quite a bit, but she did not pay it much mind. She only assumed he had worn himself out struggling, and continued heading toward the destination with her accomplice, Fuji Kiseki.
Along the way, the sounds outside went from an endless din of car horns and traffic to gradually growing peace. Then came the rustling of wind through leaves, along with a few pleasant birdsongs from the branches, signaling that they had carried Mizuno into some mountain forest.
About ten more minutes passed. With the creak of a door opening, the sack containing Mizuno was thrown onto the room's cold floor.
"Watch him carefully. Don't let him run."
"Got it!" Hishi Amazon agreed. She watched as Fuji Kiseki took the blood sample and set off down the road back to the academy. Only after Fuji Kiseki's figure had completely vanished into the trees did Hishi Amazon turn around excitedly and walk toward Mizuno.
"Hmph-hmph~ Now no one can save you!" Hishi Amazon opened the sack, revealing Mizuno's upper body.
Only, to Hishi Amazon's surprise, despite being kidnapped here, Mizuno did not show the slightest fear. Instead, his expression was calm, his breathing steady, and his eyes were even looking around at his surroundings.
Bright sunlight shone in through the window and spilled over the clean wooden floor. In the space of about fifty square meters, all kinds of furniture had been neatly arranged: a bed, a refrigerator, a dining table, a stove, and so on.
This was not a basement, but a beautiful cabin in the forest.
"Hmm? You're not scared?" Hishi Amazon asked curiously when she saw Mizuno's calm appearance.
"…"
Mizuno withdrew his gaze and looked at Hishi Amazon in front of him without saying anything.
"Hey?" Hishi Amazon waved a hand in front of Mizuno's face, trying to get a reaction from him.
"…"
But Mizuno still did not speak. He merely raised an eyebrow meaningfully.
"You little—!" Hishi Amazon was starting to get annoyed by Mizuno's mute attitude. She grabbed him by the collar. "I'm asking you a question. Are you deaf or what?!"
"Mmmph! Mmmph!" Mizuno hummed excitedly, pursing his mouth and desperately signaling how exactly he was supposed to talk in this state.
"Oh…"
Looking at the thing stuck over Mizuno's mouth, Hishi Amazon finally realized. Her little face reddened in embarrassment, and she reached out to tear the tape off Mizuno's mouth…
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