The Shadow Circle

Chapter-24

Three days left.

"So, I think the crates are being stored in a storage house a little uphill," Ryo said and pointed at the map. "Unfortunately we have to go to the dam today."

"After that, we can slip away at lunch," Elizaveta said. "Julian, were you able to trace the buyers?"

Julian shook his head. "I can't hack in without alerting Nakamura. To find out who the buyers are, I need to use one of his computers."

"Surely you can find one in the dam," Ryo drawled.

"Surely you can shut up because you don't know what you're talking about," he said.

"Julian, can you use one in the dam?" Kai asked.

Julian hesitated. "I think the WAN details should be the same, so that might lower the risk of him finding out."

"That will have to do," Kai said.

Elizaveta and I had forced Ryo and Kai to move the tables and chairs out of the house. The five of us were enjoying a nice warm cup of ginger tea amidst the cold Himalayas. It was like paradise which was incidentally the same place I was headed towards if anything went wrong.

Not my fellow companions though, I was fifty percent sure they were headed in the opposite direction.

"What about his security detail?" Kai asked Ryo.

"There are two levels. He has three bodyguards that I doubt we can take. I did a background check into them, two of them were bodyguards to the President. One of them was an intelligence agent, all three were from Koga-Ryu," he said.

Kai bit his lip. "Koga-Ryu does mess things up," he said.

"Agreed. Don't tell me Koga-Ryu don't kill Koga-Ryu," I scoffed.

"Its nearly impossible to kill someone who has gone through Koga-Ryu. And they've been with Nakamura, so I bet they've broken the all the rules we were taught," he said.

"What is that?"

"No innocents. We never kill them, we don't even hurt them unless we have no choice," Kai said. "Now those kind of people will kill you."

"Woah, I thought Koga-Ryu was all evil and shit," I confessed.

"Koga-Ryu isn't evil and shit. They have honour and so do we. The Circle is evil and it's made up of shit," Ryo said.

"Aren't two of you in the Circle?"

"Moving on!" Ryo interrupted.

The glaciers looked so inviting, I wanted to run up the mountains just to see what they looked like up close.

Kai snapped his fingers in front of my face. "Focus."

I flipped him the finger and he slapped my hand away. Though it must have been gentle for him, I clutched my hand and glared at him.

"What about the second layer of security?" Kai asked.

"Again, spies from Koga-Ryu. They monitor his immediate surroundings. You can't use a rifle, they monitor all the location you can possibly use to aim," he said. "You can't get too close to him. There's a chopper with a medical team on board so it has to be quick."