Chapter 111: stealing the pills

Right before they stepped into the tea house Al stylishly picked up a pebble from the floor. He hid it in his pocket.

They rented the whole tea house for the duration of time that they were going to be there. Some of the students from the Righteous school stood guard outside the tea house, while the rest stationed their selves by the windows of the tea house. There were 4 chairs positioned by every table in the tea house.

The clients ordered some cakes and 4 cups of tea.

"System, activate X-ray vision," Al whispered.

*Activating X-ray vision. Activated.

The scenery changed for Al, he could now see through the walls and the skeletal structure of his companions around him. Within everyone, he saw a different color of light on the middle of their heads, some dim and some bright.

On the foreheads of the Beastal students, he saw the imprint of animals, the animals corresponded with the shape of hairpins that they had on. He looked at the clients and they had colors on their heads, but theirs were dim and filled with impurities.

['What the hell are those? Why do they have lights on their foreheads?'] Al wondered. He was feeling very weird seeing this. He had never heard or seen anything like this.

He turned his gaze and looked at the forehead of Camron. He had a black wisp leaking out of his skull and dropping to other parts of his body. The wisp swam around his body.

['And what the hell is in this retard!?'] Al exclaimed.

['We can investigate this later, focus on the main objective.'] Alex snapped him out of his thoughts.

"Miriam, why did you order 4 cups?" Jayda asked her sister.

"Well Alex seems to be the only one that has been left out of a lot and I intend to invite him to join us for a cup of tea," Miriam answered.

"Alex." She called.

"Yes?" Al answered shortly.

"Would you like to join us for a cup of tea?" Miriam invited.

"Huh? Why does he get to be the lucky one amongst everyone here? He doesn't do anything and he still gets the best treatment from the clients." Neko complained.

"Forget about it Neko, his looks are not something that you can compete with." Emma who was standing next to Neko said.

What she said made Neko lose his self-esteem. He sighed and chose to ignore what was happening.

['Damn I can't tell which of the twin is asking, their body structures are the same.'] Al raised his hand and used it to touch his left eye.

*Command recognized.

The system responded to his action. The scenery on the eye that he touched went back to normal while the other was still on X-ray mode. He smiled at Miriam and said; "I would love to. Hope you girls don't mind?" He said to Jayda and Himari.

"Please, go ahead." Jayda permitted. Himari only gave a nod.

"Forgive my intrusion then." Al flashed a smile that could make the hearts of young girls skip and went to take a seat next to Miriam.

He picks the cup of tea up and took a sip.

['Quite the gentleman. Wolf in sheep clothing.'] Alex muttered.

['You have to understand that to get some girls you have to act and speak their language. Communication is key, learn from me, rabbit.'] Al smiled at Alex's comment.

"You like the tea?" Miriam asked when she saw Al's smile.

"Very much, thank you."

['Lair.'] 

['Thank you for the compliment, Alex. Where I'm seated now is facing the Apothecary, I can see the pills from here, horizontally. I calculated it from the moment we passed by the apothecary, from where we are to where the pills are, is estimated to be about 248 meters. There is a pebble in my pocket. It will be much better if we get it right on the first try.'] Al said.

Al closed his left eyes and focused on the pills, he looked around and searched for the toilet of the tea house.

"So Alex, do you have any hobbies?" Miriam took the initiative to start up a conversation.

"Quite a lot. I love to lay around do nothing, sometimes I gamble, I love mind games, and sometimes lose myself when I see beautiful ladies right in front of me." Al's tone was haughty when he said the last part.

Jayda smiled at his compliment, Miriam giggled while Himari started to blush.

"You are very direct aren't you?" Miriam bit her lower lip and eyed Al.

"Yes, I think it is much better to be direct. That way others can know your intentions and you can avoid a lot of misunderstanding." Al took another sip from the cup in his hands.

['Lex, when I head to the toilet, I'll switch with you. You'll have to be fast about it so as to not attract the unwanted attention of the nosy people here.']

['Alright. Whenever you are ready.'] Lex responded.

Al continued to drink more tea, when the one in his cup finished he ordered for more.

"You are drinking quite a lot of tea, you like the tea that much?" Miriam chuckled.

"Yes, I like to drink tea, especially good ones."

Miriam used her legs to touch Al's legs from under the table. Al smirked when he felt her leg caressing his.

['What the hell is this girl doing, Al quit encouraging her.'] Alex panicked.

['How am I encouraging her? I didn't do anything.'] Al said in his defense.

['Leave here and go to the freaking toilet so that we can get this thing and be done with it.'] Alex urged.

['Alright, calm your erection rabbit.']

['Pervert.']

"Excuse me, I would like to use the restroom." 

"Oh, it's just down that hall." Miriam gave him directions.

Before Al stood up, he used his leg to caress Miriam's leg back then he left for the toilet.

"281, 282…" As he made his way down the hall, he counted the distance. "292, 293." Al stopped walking. He was almost at the entrance of the male restroom but if he went any further Lex's ability wouldn't be able to reach their target.

['Damn, that's not an option anymore.'] He thought.

He looked back at a door he passed by on his way to the restroom.

['I guess we'll have to use that place.'] He went for the door and picked the lock open.

Al checked his sides and made sure that no one was coming before he opened the door and stepped into the room. In the room were bags of flour, sugar, and tea leaves.

"Huh, this looks like a storage room. It will suffice, either way, Lex."

['Ready.']

-Switch.

Lex was in control now. He closed his eyes and activated his spatial abilities. ['I can feel the pills. It's a good thing we have the skin crawler, trying to focus on the pills and blocking out the feel of every other thing is hard for me to do.']

He raised his hand and touched his left eye. The system changed the scenery of his eyes and now all he could see were the exoskeleton structure of his surroundings.

"System, zoom in a little bit."

The system did as he requested and zoomed in.

['Take your time Lex.'] Alex soothed.

Lex removed a pebble from his pocket and held it in his palm for a while.

['While you are taking your time, remember to hurry up before our absence becomes a problem.'] Al reminded.

As soon as he said that Lex threw the stone at the wall of the storage room.

-Vnn.

A spatial hole opened and the stone entered it.

-Vnn.

Another spatial hole opened in the Seadan apothecary.

"No."

-Vnn.

The stone appeared back in the storage room.

"I almost made a mistake." Lex's heartbeat increased.

When the stone appeared in the apothecary, it didn't appear inside the show glass but outside, it was about to hit the glass when Lex acted quickly and brought the stone back.

['Why can't you try putting your hand through a spatial hole?'] Alex asked.

['Because it is very dangerous. Remember what Andrea said about teleportation?'] Xander spoke.

['Yeah, but spatial holes isn't teleportation, it's more like gates. Different from the warp gate in the guest inn though.'] Alex responded.

['Yeah, it is different from warp gates. These spatial holes that Lex open are very unstable, while inanimate objects come out fine our hand might not even come back.'] Xander explained.

['Hmm, I understand. Then why don't we use the spear to hit the pills instead? It is better than using stones.'] Alex gave another suggestion.

['I already thought of that, but it is too risky. When Lex was fighting with Nana she was able to grab the spear and take it from his hands. While no one is there watching over the pills, I don't want to believe that there isn't one watching over them from the shadows.'] Al rejected the idea.

['That means that the person might have noticed the first pebble?']

"Yes," Lex answered Alex's question. With his X-ray vision, he could see two skeletons checking the show glass. They noticed when the stone appeared and they seemed to be confused, wondering about its appearance and disappearance.

['Try it again Lex, with better accuracy.'] Al encouraged.

Lex focused on the pills once more. Even with the two individuals that were standing by the show glass they still planned on making another attempt.

He threw the stone at the wall of the storage room.

-Vnn.

The stone appeared inside the show glass this time.

-Thud!!

The stone hit one of the pills and the force from the stone made the pill hit the rest and they started rolling.

-Vnn.

"Yes," Lex exclaimed. Only three of the pills could make it through the spatial hole in time.

-Vnn.

It appeared in the storage room and Lex opened his hands like he was about to catch it.

['Don't touch it!!'] Alex, Al, and Xander shouted at the same time.

The pills were inches away from Lex's hand when he retrieved them into his storage ring.

-Creak!

The door to the storage room he was in, opened...