(BL) Hunting The Field Guide novel Chapter 361

Chapter 361: The front lines are not run by the Nemesis Guild

The following week was pure insanity.

Pamela had given Gunther a ’plan’ for him to follow to get the attention of everyone and everything. It was written out in a bullet point format, on regular paper, and handed over much to Gunther’s smirk. Pamela had talked him through it, each day planned out to the exact minute. Gunther hadn’t said anything as Pamela had briefed him, but Kellen could smell that the plan Pamela made wasn’t going to last for long.

Rhys was supposed to follow it as well, since they were in this plan together. Rhys’ was slightly off of Gunther’s since the two weren’t supposed to interact with each other after the ’fight’ that they had. Of course, the fight alone had gotten out of hand, so it wasn’t a surprise to Kellen that by the second day, Gunther had flown over the handlebars and straight into pure chaos.

He’d run into Rhys on his own, punched him again, exploded fire hydrants, caused chaos like a d tier super villain, and had relished in the spouts of water popping up over the city. A still frame of Gunther laughing, water soaking his clothes and his pitch black eyes and long, white hair swaying in the wind had been circling the media. Kellen thought it was ingenious.

Pamela was pulling her hair out, frustrated beyond belief that her perfect plan had been disrupted, while Kellen had to hide his smile from her view.

He had a feeling that the E.A.G. would avoid Gunther if they even got a whiff of a PR situation on him, and was a little bit proud of the chaos he’d created. Rhys was the same. He put on the good show, agreeing and comforting Pamela, his face still healing from their fight, but behind closed doors, he laughed at the ridiculous, damaging things that Gunther got up to.

They damaged the city, but didn’t hurt any civilians, but definitely targeted specific areas. Kellen was sure that the fact that Guiding Center A was affected the most wasn’t a coincidence, and he knew he owed Gunther something for that once he came back.

Kellen had his own hands full, unable to really keep an eye on what Gunther was getting up to because he had to correspond with Captain Sergei to start pushing the plan forward to get the Field Guides on the front lines.

Captain Sergei had been ecstatic that Kellen had wanted to move the date ahead, and actually get a date set in stone. The front lines were lacking capable Guides at the moment, and any relief was needed, even from trainees. The front lines had always had a disproportionate amount of Espers to Guides, but apparently it had gotten worse.

More Espers had come to the front lines in the time that Brent had been away from the front lines, and due to the loss of his fellow Field Guides to the gates, some other Field Guides had taken a break. That meant, even though there were a ton of Espers on the front lines, doing work on the gates, they weren’t at their best.

Brent was excited to hear that, while Kellen, Hill, and Casper found that alarming. It was concerning, because with the activity of the E.A.G. in the area, there shouldn’t be a surplus of extra Espers. Yes, some from the Nemesis Guild, and the scientists coming to and fro from the front lines, but other Espers?

They should have left, given how most access to the gates had been denied while this new gate was open. They should have asked permission to go to other front lines, or should have come into town and caused problems in that way.

So many had remained behind, and Kellen was a little surprised he hadn’t realised it before now. Captain Sergei hadn’t considered it weird, but Uncle Tom certainly should have noticed. The fact that he hadn’t was another mark against him not just from Rhys’ side, but also from Kellen. Captain Sergei had all the notes, all the information before him, but he had also been so focused on the glowing, purple gate emanating poison that he hadn’t connected the dots.