Year 2050. After the Philippines finally became a progressive nation, fourteen-year-old Milo Sidaris and his parents moved into the country where the remaining islands are built into these colorful domes.
You would think life is gonna be normal for...
Milo wondered how Chirag could bother finishing this book. The way Miss Odval talked about herself and her students made her seem uncharitable. She even had the gall to dismiss complaints of Jonathan and his friends bullying other students as 'rumors' then blame their victims for it.
There are a hundred thousand students in RFA. You can't really check on them 'round the clock even if we want to. It would be up to the parents to take care of that.
She stated in the book.
It's no surprise that people would be appalled by her narration. Her attitude is reflected on her face as well. At the same time, she is actually right about how parents should be responsible for raising their own kids better. He skimmed the entire book until his brain was already filled with any necessary information. Once he turned to the last page, it was blank aside from the same signature. He pinched the screen to zoom in further, assuming that he might find something.
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Lo, behold!
The red ink had what appears to be a faint pattern similar to a QR code. This was quite odd. Nobody has ever done this before and Miss Odval is the first person to ever achieve this. He held his phone to see if his camera could detect the codes on the ink. Once it failed, he tried importing it on a website that is built to decipher any codes. It's a good thing that his laptop is equipped with a strong antivirus in case the site becomes unsafe to use. It has led him to her official website. The layout is rather minimalistic. Nothing but a plain black background with bold red frames. The home page only consisted of a bluish-grey photograph of Miss Odval.
There wasn't anything else to find. No tabs. No additional information.
He hovered the mouse pointer over the photograph and tried clicking it. A vast network of files popped up. They're all written in Mongolian.
"Darn it! How am I supposed to get over these things when I can't even understand the language?" He bit his lip.
He went to ask Aunt Glenda, Chirag, Irene, Jin and other random people on social media so they could help him translate the site. Unfortunately, none of them turned up. Of course, he had to share his findings through private messages for safety reasons. He was about to give up until Jin told him that his dad could help. It turns out that Mr. and Mrs. Inoue used to visit Mongolia a lot during their business trips. Jin's dad is a lot fluent in Mongolian while his wife is fluent in Chinese and Russian.
"Whew! Thanks, Jin!" Milo smiled to himself.
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Milo has come to the conclusion that Miss Odval is linked to Uno Lazardo in some way. Her real name is Chimeg Batbayar and her best friend is Gao Bai. A lot of the photos were either cropped or had Lazardo's face omitted from them alongside the others. The entries dwelled deeper into her past life. The Batbayar and Gao family have been close friends with the former leader of QSPYWARSY, a.k.a. Uriel. They used to live right next to each other in the distant forested neighborhood of The Capital. The Batbayar family were extreme sympathizers to the QSPYWARSY while the Gao family promised their daughter to marry Lazardo once she had come of age. Now, Uriel is Lazardo's father. A strict and violent figure that shows no mercy. On May 30th, 2039, thirteen-year-old Chimeg (Odval) and Bai (Jingmei) both fled the neighborhood with the help of a retired jet pilot named Gerard. He took them to their destination in Sweden and had a couple of his colleagues adopt them. They have taken different names to distance themselves from their past lives. Hence, you know them as Odval Eklund and Jingmei Frisk.
