Agent Night (Tagalog | Complete)

Chapter 21 - Battle Tactics

Xander must also have known this because he said, "It's okay. Agent 7 assured that he assigned another Senior Agent to supervise us in this case. The agent shall join us tomorrow. But for now, we'll work on our own."

"The Acquaintance Party of the College of Communication will be held at the basketball court so it will be in an open space. The occasion will start at exactly seven o'clock in the evening. The students are required to wear semiformal attires. There will be spy cameras that will be put all over the place including the nearby buildings."

"Can vampires be detected by cameras?" tanong ko bigla. As expected, pinagtinginan nila akong lahat.

"Of course," si Apollo ang sumagot ng tanong ko. "But they are too fast for cameras to register their movements."

"Then we should put thermal detector or—what do you call those things that ghost hunters use to detect ghosts?" tanong ng isang agent. Siya naman ang umani ng mga nakamamatay na tingin. Kitams. Hindi lang ako ang walang kwenta kung magtanong.

"First, they are already dead so you won't detect heat from them and second, they are not ghost. They are corpse. Walking corpse. Fanged corpse. Blood-sucking corpse." Si Veronica naman ang sumagot sa agent.

I rolled my eyes. Sige, kayong magkapatid na ang vampire experts.

Xander continued explaining the plan when he was sure no one would follow our noble lead of asking stupid questions. "Anyway, ito na ang plano. Sinusunod na lang natin."

So, tuta kami ng kabilang team?

"The tech people are already preparing the communication lines between the field agents and deductive members, so wala na tayong problema dito. Sila na rin ang bahala sa spy cameras at sa video feeds na ita-transmit ng mga 'yon sa atin.

It will be up to the field agents now kung paano natin huhulihin ang salarin. Agent 21 and Agent 13 will continue with their acts while both Agent 31 and I will scout the place nearby. 'Wag kayong mag-alala dahil may mga field agents din ang kabilang team. And Agent 7 has assured that there will be snipers positioned and back up squad will be readied. Nakipag-cooperate na rin ang organization sa mga pulis para sa mas maayos na operasyon."

He looked at us one by one and lingered lastly on me. "Any more questions?"

I held his gaze, but didn't ask again. Kahit pa nga ang daming katanungan na gumugulo sa isip ko.

"If there is none, then you can all go out except Agent 13. We have something to discuss."

Walang sinuman ang tumayo mula sa kanila, pero may isang naglakas loob na magtanong.

"Don't we have a better strategy?" nilingon naming lahat ang agent. It was the agent who approached Apollo and me on the first meeting, Novice Agent 53.

I secretly wished I had been as better as him in asking questions.

Bumuntong-hininga si Xander at umiling. "None."

What happened to the Hunter?

Isa-isa nang nagsitayuan ang mga agent at nagsilabas ng conference room. Ramdam kong saglit akong tinapunan ng tingin ng magkapatid bago sila lumabas, pero ni hindi ko inalis ang tingin ko sa mesa.

Nang masiguro naming kami na lang ni Xander ang nasa loob ng conference room, ako na ang unang nagsalita.

"What's your plan?"

"So, you're trusting me now?" balik-tanong niya.

Bumuntong-hininga ako at pilit na ngumiti. "Why would I?"

Ilang segundo ang lumipas bago siya sumagot. "Okay. Alam mo namang galing ako sa pamilya ng mga notorious na mamamatay tao, 'di ba?"

Of course, I knew. His father, uncles and older brothers were assassins. Fortunately for him, Psyche found him first before he turned himself like the rest of his family. I knew he also did assassination plots as a show for his father, but he also did that as part of his job as an agent. Hitting two birds with one stone, 'ika nga.

Nevertheless, his family background had never tainted my respect for him as the best Junior Agent until now.

"The ring is a family heirloom. It is passed to the gentlemen in the family when they turned 21 years old." Bakas ang kaseryosohan at pagkakalma sa mukha niya. "And it has been in my possession for three years until my cousin Bryan turned 21 two years ago. Now, the ring was passed to his brother Michael who turned 21 a few days before I volunteered for this case. Unfortunately, the day after his birthday, he has gone missing."

Bumuntong-hininga siya. Ang bigat ng dinadala sa loob ng mga nakaraang araw ay unti-unti na namang bumabakas sa gwapo niyang mukha. It might be his reason why he volunteered.

"Hindi pa rin siya nahahanap hanggang ngayon. And the whole family is in action to find him."

I pursed my lips. Should I believe him or not?

"I can see you're debating within yourself if you will believe me or not. Pero hindi na mahalaga 'yon. Paniwalaan mo man ako o hindi, kailangan ko ngayon ng tulong mo."

I looked at him in the eyes and sawthe desperate call of a soldier to another.