Nineteen: Eagle Eye
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Arima Kousei POV:
Jupiter and I had no choice but to bring my dad inside the secret meeting place of the members of the Eagle Eye Organization. Every one of us had been granted code names which we mostly use to interact with each other. The organization has 11 members currently and our code names were mostly based on our birth months. It's located deep inside the Ashworth Estate and only the Inner Circle knows about it. Not even Cassiopeia or any other syndicate or police knows where we meet secretly as it has firm security.
Jupiter placed his hand on the scanner to open the steel door. A huge foyer that was draped with red linen showed another door with an engraved eye. At the time we were in front of it, it opened up and we all saw a medieval-looking meeting place with only wooden torches light the whole room.
"March," August spoke. "Why is your father here?"
I smiled at her. "Don't worry. He's going to be one of us."
"Your father won't be a member of the Round Eagle Eye Table," Jupiter said to me. "He can stay in the shadows be he can slowly know your world."
"Dad won't have a code name like me?" I asked him. "We need one more since Phoebe betrayed us, right?"
Dad stared at us for so long. "Phoebe was in the Eagle Eye Organization before?"
"Yes," he told him. "As you are my brother, would it be alright if I bestow you the right to be Pluto?"
"Alright," he smiled at him. "I'll accept it. Now, can you introduce me to them?"
"January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December," I spoke up. "Here, I am March. Currently, the only people here were August and May. Phoebe was April but she chose to betray Jupiter instead of working with him."
"The Yang Syndicate isn't a Gun Dealer before," he told us. "She was angry at me when she knew my connection with you. She chose to be my enemy."
"Does that just mean you don't know why she's angry with you?" I asked him. "Do you have any idea?"
Jupiter just shook his head. "I don't know."
"Where are the others?" Dad asked me. "Can you tell me where they could be?"
Jupiter sat on his huge leather seat and grinned wide. "All of us have our own little jobs. January, February, and November are working in the CIA. You'll meet the whole round table, soon."
"I haven't really met everyone yet," I admitted. "We're not always complete."
"So, does that mean they may have not met you, yet?" Dad asked me. "Is it?"
"Yes," I replied. "They know my name but I don't know their real names. I'm the most vulnerable member after all."
"Jupiter," May spoke out. She's a Black American. "Why can you easily trust that man?"
"Oh, May," August laughed. "He's January's dad."
May's mouth went wide open. "Is he going to be a round table man?"
I sat on my seat in the Round Table at that time. It's been so long that I haven't seen her. "No. He's just a watchman. He's not officially a member of the Eagle Eye Organization."
"Are you going to stay here?" Dad asked me. "Are you really happy, son?"
"I never felt happy. I don't even know what that is," I answered him. "Uncle still would keep touring you around the mansion. I suggest that you keep following him."
He tried to hug me but I kept my distance. "I'm staying here. Leave with Uncle, now."
He nodded. "See you soon, son."
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At that moment, August sat beside my table and handed me the marijuana packets I needed. "I heard that your piano mentor burned all of the marijuana you had."
"Yes," I told her as I begin smoking it. "Thanks for this."
"Your welcome," she said to me. "I'm sure you missed it so much."
"I haven't met January, February, November, and December yet," I told August. "June hasn't been here for months, too."
"They're a bit occupied in their job in CIA," May told me. "Terrorists still bombard them."
"What about December?" I asked her. "Do you know who that is?"
"September is Seto Hiroko's husband," August informed me. "That's one of the reasons why she allowed herself to be your caretaker."
My eyebrows raised after she handed me a cold whiskey. "What about December?"
"A detective who pretended he was investigating your case," she said to me. "I'm sure you were friends with his son."
"Watari Ryota's father?" A sudden interest to see him sparked inside me. "He's December?"
"What do you plan to do anyway?" May asked me. "September would be shocked to know you already know who he is!"
I just waved my hand. "I got to say 'Hello'."
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I found Seto Hiroyuki's mansion inside Las Vegas Casino Real. He's living a lavish style even if he's just a private investigator. His mansion's Greek- styled and he has a very huge lawn. Inside the mansion were two huge pools and in every corner, you'll see a lot of guards standing with huge guns on their shoulders.
"Who are you?" A guard asked. "Introduce yourself!"
"No need," spoke a man with a very deep voice. "He's the Eagle Eye Junior."
I took a deep breath after I saw Seto Hiroyuki in front of me. "Good thing that you came here before I explain myself."
"Looks like he chose a relative to replace him," he said as he stares at my eyes. "Aren't you tired yet from the world you're in? Weren't you forced to live in our world?"
"It's all in the past." I grinned at him. "I don't care about wearing black, blue or silver suits. I like to live here with my uncle better."
"I explained everything to your piano mentor what it meant to be the Eagle Eye," he said as he walks with me inside his white- gold mansion. "Had he already explained to you about it?"
"He hasn't yet," I answered him. "He only introduced me to August and Big Dipper Syndicate."
"I'll give you a slight clue and it's all in the name," he said to me. "Eagle Eyes aren't just eyes. You're not just going to watch somebody. Eagles attack their enemies and prey."
"What do you mean?" I asked after he allowed me to sit by his bar stools.
He took some wine on his cellar and laid it on the bar table. "You just officially had done it with the help of August."
I'm confused. "I attacked Phoebe for a reason."
"Kousei," he spoke up. "Phoebe threatened the Eagle Eye."
"What's the Eagle Eye, anyway?" I asked him. "Why is my uncle the current Eagle Eye?"
"You'll know what it is, soon," he said to me. "You're currently the Eagle Eye Junior."
"Say it to me," I told him. "I want to know."
"You're currently just his Junior that's why you don't feel it too much yet," he said to me. "He has his own business he operates, the CIA turns a blind eye towards his illegal activities since he is the Chief Administrator of CIA's secret government organization. Lastly, the Syndicate World is afraid of him. His name defines him. He's the chosen god of sky and thunder of the netherworld by the US Government."
"For so long, I don't actually understand why he took me away from my innocent life," I admitted as I play on the ice on my wine. "Cassiopeia hasn't been in her mansion for a few days now."
"I'm sure you've developed a strong stomach since you were with him," he said to me. "You'll have to keep having that since the nature of your job isn't as elegant as you think."
"I've seen violence enough," I told him. "I was culture-shocked when I saw how his casinos work before. I've played in his casinos, too. Drug and weapon deals happen inside those buildings."
"His casinos, Nevada State Secret Agency, and Ashworth Group were all your uncle's facade on his real job," he explained to me. "Kuroshi Ashworth is a dangerous man. Everyone wanted to destroy him after he inherited the position from Frederick Allan Forsyth Ashworth, the first Eagle Eye. Why do you think people fear him?"
"He knows almost anything in this world," I answered him. "He hasn't shown me how he does that."
"I fear him," he told me. "All of us fear him. He's intimidating but every time I see you together, you're slowly having the same aura as your uncle."
"You know something I don't know," I spoke up. "What is it?"
"People think he has a hidden USB or any container where the information on all the illegal transactions of a lot of people is in his possession," he said as he chuckles. "That's not true at all. His possessions are his people. The loyalty of all those people is what makes him powerful. He can ask any of those people to secretly spy and gather information for him because he has an absolute charm to all of his subjects. If the balance of this world is interrupted or if someone threatens to reveal the truth about our organization, he punishes and eliminates them."
My eyes widened. "Phoebe Yang was one of us. I haven't really met her inside as 'April' as she was already a rebel when I came around."
"He used you to test August and June if they can do any of his orders," he revealed to me. "More on, he had to take you immediately to safety since Phoebe was thinking of killing you."
"Our battle had just started, then," I said as I drink a lot of the whiskey. "She lost my father after James Egorth passed the USB on to us. It was Seto Hiroko who gave it to the police afterward."
"I explained everything to her that I am also one of you," he said to me. "I'm glad she understood."
I stood up from the stool and thanked him for all the information he gave me. "My uncle's a formidable person, then. He's wise, knowledgeable, intimidating and charming. He knows how to scare people of him, too."
Seto Hiroyuki guided me out of his mansion. "I'm sure you will be just like him."
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