The Magician of Sound

"What do you want me to do now?" Kai narrowed his eyes, glaring at the woman. He wanted to kill her right now, but he decided not to.

Suddenly, he heard something from the screen as if someone signaled him something.

'This is… Morse code?' Kai was stunned before realizing who could do such a thing. There was only one person who understood him among them and it was none other than Felice.

In other words, Felice tried to make a small sound in a morse code to tell him something.

'We're good here. There are four enemies around us. Because of the kids, we're unable to move, but I can do something if the kids are not here.' Kai interpreted what she wanted to say, but because the screen showed Julia was caught as well, he couldn't make his move.

He needed to save both of them even though he didn't care much about Julia's life. Only due to her relationship with Sofia, he thought he needed to do it.

'What should I do here?' Kai fell into deep thought before listening to the woman.

"I want you to die after giving the method to get stronger. Only we are allowed to have this kind of information." The woman demanded.

"That's including your ambush in the place we're going now" Kai narrowed his eyes.

"Yes."

"I want to talk to them first to check their condition. All I can see is a video of them, so I don't know whether you're telling the truth or not. If you don't agree with this demand, then I don't need to care about them. After all, they're only related to the two girls behind me." Kai released his killing intent, oppressing the woman.

The woman's body shuddered before considering his suggestion. It was true that Kai didn't have any weakness in this base, so what they could do was limited.

If not because of his relationship with the two girls, they wouldn't try to do something like this.

After contemplating for a while, the woman nodded her head, agreeing to his request. "Alright. We have killed the monsters around here, so no magical beasts will pick up the signal and attack us. However, you only have one minute."

"Ten minutes!"

"You're trying to challenge my limit here!" The woman shouted, glaring at him.

Kai didn't have any change of expression. He was still cool and indifferent. He simply stated. "Woman, I don't think you understand me… If they die, I don't really care. Even the government will only say it's a terrorist attack. If you want me to cooperate with you, you better do the same thing."

The woman gritted her teeth and replied. "Three!"

"Eight minutes!"

"Five. I won't go any higher than that!"

The woman was fuming in anger, but the time should be enough, so he accepted. "Fine. Five minutes."

"Five minutes for the total and only you can talk to these people."

Kai nodded and said while pointing at Julia. "I want to talk to that girl first."

The woman nodded and asked for a video call.

He found that the video was taken not long ago since there wasn't that much change in her gesture.

"Julia," Kai called her name.

Julia widened her eyes and saw Kai's face appearing on the screen. When she saw Sofia, she couldn't help but look down. "I'm sorry… Even though I have gotten stronger, they still caught me. No need to rescue me. Even if I die, these people won't be alive because the Campbell Family won't let them off."

Kai narrowed his eyes, feeling there was something she wanted to convey in those words. He thought for a moment before listening to her whisper when she looked down as if apologizing to Sofia and Kai.

'There's a tracker in my body. If the Campbell Family is notified or finds me missing, they will be able to locate me.'

It seemed Julia also understood the situation and wanted to take advantage of Kai's extraordinary hearing.

'I guess someone who becomes the personal maid of Sofia Campbell can't be ordinary…' Kai couldn't help but smile. This smile could be misinterpreted by the woman because Kai added, "Don't worry. Sofia won't like to see you die, so I will resolve this matter and save you."

Julia lowered her head as if thanking him, but Kai already said, "Change it. I only used one minute."

The woman reluctantly stopped the call and changed it to the orphanage.

When they saw Kai's face on the screen, they all cried, calling his name.

"Big Brother!"

"Big Brother Kai!"

Kai made the best smile he could and assured them. "Ahaha, Kids. I can hear you just fine. Don't worry. I will be helping you right now. Just wait for me."

There was a secret message in his words and only Felice could understand it. Just like other kids who were begging for his help, Felice muttered in a very low voice and took advantage of Kai's extraordinary hearing.

'Madam was a former agent and I could buy time against two people. The two oldest can somehow help me, so as long as the kids are safe, we can move immediately.'

Listening to those words was enough for him, he quickly made a pained expression when he saw the kids crying.

"To think you would do such a cruel thing like this. Not only a full-fledged adult like Julia from Campbell Family, but you even take the children as your hostages…" Kai gritted his teeth and glared at the woman. "Do you think the Campbell Family will let you off if they know Julia is kidnapped?"

"Hmph! To think our hero can't even understand how the real world works? As expected from a hero, you can only see those who walk during the day while ignorant to those who work during the night." The woman snorted.

His previous sentences were actually another message to Felice. After hearing it, Felice understood that she needed to inform the Campbell Family about Julia. They might even send some people to help them guard the orphanage for the time being.

Kai was directing her to this kind of situation.

Hence, Felice tried to understand what Kai wanted her to do and worked together with him to save everyone.

"Do you think you can release the kids first?" Kai narrowed his eyes. "You can still take the bigger ones. I don't want the kids to have trauma because of this."

"Hoh! Still acting like a hero? And do you think I will let you do everything you want just because you want to cooperate? You have been pushing my limit. How about I change my plan? I will kill one kid if you waste my time again? Let's see… How about every ten minutes?" The woman smirked.

"You…" Kai clenched his teeth. "You can just send the kids upstairs and lock them in their room. There's no need for them to see this happening. It's not like they're going to run away."

"One minute…" The woman ignored him and continued. "This is your last minute to talk to those kids."

"You…" Kai gritted his teeth, but he had conveyed everything he could. Felice should understand what he wanted, so he used the remaining time to assure everyone.

"Don't worry, kids. Everything is going to be alright. Just follow their words, okay? I'm sure it will be resolved within twenty minutes… Just hang on." Kai smiled.

Without waiting for their reaction, the woman stopped the call and glared at Kai. "Your time is up. Now you better follow me or I will kill one kid every minute. You can try to kill me, but there's already an order to kill all the hostages as soon as I die." The woman smirked.

Kai clenched his teeth as if he wanted to do something but couldn't. However, this was just him acting like the so-called hero.

In his heart, he still worried about them, but not so much because he knew how capable Felice was.

She had been doing crazy things and the first person he recognized not as a woman but as someone who was like him.

'You will pay dearly if you underestimate the person I have chosen. I'm sure she can do it… I won't accept her as my disciple if she can't even solve something like this after all.' Kai was smiling at his heart, but he couldn't show any of it.

While walking, Kai turned his head and smiled at Roselyn and Sofia. "Sofia, I know Julia… I will save her. I promise. Roselyn, I'm sorry for involving the kids because of this problem. I promise I will save them, okay?"

Sofia shook her head and said, "You… You are not planning to die, aren't you?"

Sofia wanted to cry. Kai didn't have any weakness and they had been relying on his name to protect themselves. The US Base had protected them by using their elites to guard those important to him and their relatives, but the EU Base didn't do it, resulting in Julia getting captured.

She thought Kai had some sort of plan, but when she saw her smile, she didn't know whether he had one or not. That was why she felt regret for not preparing enough.

Roselyn, on the other hand, apologized to him. "No… It's not your fault. You won't even need to care for them if not because of me…"

If she could trade her life for his, she would do it without hesitation. Unfortunately, the three of them might need to die here if they wanted to be safe.

She might not be able to do it, but Sofia might risk it because they might kill Julia anyway.

"Hmph. The only way to save them is to die." The woman snorted and started walking. "Follow me."

Kai was smiling like a devil inside his heart and followed the woman without hesitation. This would be a battle where he couldn't control the battle directly and needed to trust those who could be trusted. Whether he would come to the top or not, it would be settled within twenty minutes.