Prodigies: The Dark Phantom

Episode 2

“He lost so much valuable things that time, including a some of his money that came from his broken electronic vault.” he stared at Samuel's face to see if it will react differently.

The eyes of Samuel couldn't even stare at him without changing its directions while trying to make himself calm in front of Darius, “Uh mm...” he swallowed his saliva once and stared back at Darius.

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(The past)

Beneath the ground, four rescuers was able to reach the location of a man who's been stucked under the fallen debris and is unconscious.

As their feet touches the ground, they were surprised because of the countless money scattered everywhere on the ground, making their hidden greed for material things arise.

Samuel tried to stop everyone's desire to take those money due to the fact that it will only cause them trouble, but even him wasn't able to withstand the temptation when everyone convinced him that no one else will know the truth, including the unconscious man that should have been their first priority.

They all immediately grasp each money idling everywhere until Samuel reaches the location of the black case.

The black case is a flat shape box and has a golden lining to all edges. It has four inches of thickness and is locked with a digital technology that requires the owners thumbprint to access it.

But when it was found by Samuel, this thing is already opened. He picked it up from the dusty ground and wipes the dusty areas of it. He take a look inside thinking that it might have money or an expensive thing.

And as he opened the top door of it, a black book showed up on his eyes. It's just one book that has two inches of thickness. Around this book are small metals that are tweezing the four corners of it to prevent it from changing its form.

When the fingers of his right hand touches the book, the four metals allows him to take it away as they opened themselves. He take another look inside but he saw nothing, making him feel disappointed for expecting an expensive thing like gold or silver.

His left hand layed the black case on the dusty ground and opens the book to see what's written in it. And when every pages of it is revealed to him up to the last page of it, he saw nothing was written. It gives him a big question in his mind, “Blank?”

When nothing valuable was found, he decided to throw it to the ground and just continued on picking up the money scattered around him.

(End of the past)

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After telling the whole truth, “Are you going to arrest me?” he feels worried while staring at the eyes of Darius that seems like judging him.

“No, you have nothing to worry about.” Darius replied.

Samuel felt ease after hearing his words, making him smile for a moment, “Uh, but why?, not because I wanted to get jailed, but uh...” he wobbled his head.

Darius placed back his hands inside his both legs pocket, “I'm not here to arrest you, and my boss isn't really interested to those money.”

“Huh?” he wondered a little and chuckles as his fear of getting arrested is fading.

“If he wanted to put you in jail, he should have done that before... The most important thing for him right now is the book inside that case.” Darius explained.

“Uh, yeah, you're right...” a quick response of Samuel as he chuckles a bit.

Samuel's eyes rolled down to the photo on his left hand and looked on the other direction, “Uh, I'm sorry... But that's all I know.” he said and sighs.

“I understand. I already heard what I need to know...” Darius takes out his left hand from his left leg pocket and shortly whips it in front of them.

“And also, I don't want to bother you more, you're family might be waiting for you.” he smilingly said to Samuel followed by raising his left hand to take back the photo.

Samuel handed it back to him, “No it's fine, I guess they're still preparing the dishes right now.”

Their conversation didn't last long and it ended by smilingly greeting each other a merry christmas.

Samuel opened the same door and seated in, then he pushes the horn twice to say goodbye at Darius.

Darius replied with a smile, he waved a hand that's looks like a salute while waiting for Samuel to leave.

Samuel's car began to move and Darius is just eyeing his car.

When Samuel's car is far away, Darius turned himself around and began to walk away from that place. He took the phone inside his left leg pocket and dialed someone's phone number.

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(Another phone ringing)

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(Tapped)

His call was answered after a moment of waiting, “I found him boss, and we're already done talking.” he said on the phone.

“What did you got?” voice of another man did spoke to the phone.

“According to him, he did saw the black case including the precious thing inside of it.” he replied.

“Good... Where is he now?” said by his boss who's sitting on a wooden chair with no backrest and talking to the phone which is sticking on his right ear.

Darius takes another look at the shrinking car of Samuel as it continuously moving away, “He's moving away now, driving a brown car.”

The man seating on the wooden chair is wearing a white jacket made of thick leather, the buttons of it from his chest down to his belly are unclosed making his inner shirt visible. He wears a loose pants and carries a small bean shape plane made of wood on his left hand, this plane serves as a container of large droplets of each small paint bottles. His hair is painted white that matches the color of his jacket, his body is slim and the age is in mid twenties.

In front of him is a square shape paint board standing closer to a small table which is circular in shape, this table carries several paint bottles and all are opened.