The scene begins with me, living a normal life in the planet and having no issue... It was my dream, which I prayed to be true but couldn't.
Just continued walking in the streets after purchasing fruits and vegetables. I reached to my imaginary home and entered. It wasa small room where everything was settled. I lived without a family or friend and just focused on myself, life would be still good if I don't have a single friend, even if I don't have a family there to build... it would still be fine, at least I would be away from this world where some hate, I have to kill and think and chose dying was the best choice.
But it all was just a dream, it would never happen in my life and I have realized it, I will have to keep struggling, I will have to keep on moving ahead, at least to reach at the highest peak-- no, to at least to meet and end where I could die andy life would end.
The old man was listening everything whatever I tried to say in front of unconscious Lia and he realized... I am just existing, not even living a life. But he knows that everyone will get that thought once in everyone's life... because that is only life. You just need to live, keep on living if you have a reason for it or not.
I smiled by my own imagination, "Really, life would be still good even if there's no one to stay with me... I really want that life."
But I know that it is just an imagination, it can never happen, at least not in this life. And I smiled and started making medicine for Lia as usual I do.
At night, the old man and I started having dinner in the small shelter and only one candle was lightning everywhere.
"Are you excited?" The old man asked.
"About what?"
"... We are soon going to scam, our another mission."
But I wasn't excited too much that my face would turn of shocks. I just smiled and continued having dinner, "It will be actually fun, I guess."
The old man realized that I have changed in a day, he regrets to taking her to Academy but nothing can be changed now. It's all a past now and nothing can be helped now.
And Java was also sad that everything was spoiled. The old man and Java thought that I would enjoy and everything was messed. They didn't think that I will start hating myself and my own life.
The night continued with silence and the candle continued burning and holding everything, the hopes, courage, everything and the night passed.
A few days later, I was in a Tax Evasion Officer uniform and standing in front of a huge mansion.
... So it was all going to be true? I still couldn't believe... that I am going to scam a noble by acting of being a Tax Evasion Officer... But my head raised with proudness, I wanted to do this in my life once!!! To scam people!!!
And the old man looked at my face of proudness and started sweating.
"We should not worry about her... I guess."
I looked at the old man and he was also in the uniform of a Tax Evasion Officer but he was my senior... I was seriously lost in acting and actually started acting like a real Tax Evasion Officer.
But I got a question, "But what if they all asked about identity and if suspected that we are not the real one?"
The old man smiled and took out two cards and handed me, it was a Tax Evasion Officer's identity card and on my card there was my photo and my identity, just my age in that was... 32?
"Hey, old man, when did I became of 32? I am of just 16, double of your guess."
"I know that your age is not 32, but that's a normal age for a Officer to go and raid. See mine."
I looked at the old man's age and it was... 55, I couldn't trust and asked, "What's your real age?"
The old man started sweating with looking in front, at the gate and answered, "60..."
I was shocked.
"Is there an age retirement of Officers? Is 60 the age?"
The old man started sweating more, "... No, it is of 65"
And everywhere remain silence for a second... And I finally started laughing loudly. The 60 to 65 will look more like trustworthy seniors as they would have a great experience, so the old man could still keep his age the real one... but he wants to look younger.
Nice fun, the old man was embarrassed and said, "... Now you can stop laughing, Vanile."
I tried to stop and handed his card back. Suddenly a servant reached with a panic and opened the gate.
"Sorry for delay, sir and ma--"
I looked at her the servant seriously.
"Ma'am"
The old man and I entered in the mansion and being called as a ma'am shows respect to me, although I am not even of that age to be called ma'am, but it was great making the servant scared.
The old man and I entered and for the first two minutes of walk to the gate, we discussed already.
"But we are not from Goverment and what if they contacted to goverment already to know?"
The old man answered, "Goverment will never raid a noble, it is corruption. But we are currently working for Academy, they will support us and they are trying to make a new Dark Elites, and they have contacts with goverment so there will be no problem."
I was knocked... We are working for Academy?! Then I want to leave it already and I already said, "After this, I will never work if we are working for Academy. How they can steal my money--"
"They are not stealing, they will just expose the corruption and black money, otherwise all the money we will gather by the raid will ours only, or I say yours."
... It was fine, but still... I hate Academy.