There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL) novel Chapter 218

Chapter 218: Chapter 212. Disturbing Invitation

"Someone asked to meet you, Sir."

Jock, who usually spent his time at the door, came to the dining room of the suite where the rest of the Trinity members had their breakfast in. As he was in charge of security, everyone who wanted to meet the members, especially Zein, had to go through him.

"In this hour?" Bassena frowned disapprovingly. Wasn’t it enough that his lovely morning time was already disrupted by these people who came barging into a couple’s suite to have breakfast? Now he had to let people come to his boyfriend at said breakfast too?

"Who?"

"Someone who’s in charge of the guide conference."

Zein tapped on his fork in contemplation. If it was a committee member looking for him so early in the morning, despite knowing Bassena Vaski was here, the possibility that it was something important was high. That being said, there was no reason he should abide by their calling.

"I can go down and find out what they want, Boss." _{freёwebnovel.com}

Alice, the diligent assistant, readily offered herself as if she knew what Zein was thinking already.

"You’re done with your breakfast?"

"Yes."

"Alright, go down with Jock," Zein decided. "Them them I’m guiding my esper."

Bassena raised his brow, lips curled into a smirk. "You’re not guiding me, though?" he said cheekily, to which Zein responded by intertwining their fingers. "Okay, you’re guiding me."

"Hmm...what do you think they wanted? Didn’t we already say we’ll participate?" Dheera tilted her head.

"Probably..." Nadine tapped on her chin to think of the possibility. "Either tell us we can’t come to reduce chaos, or...perhaps they want Captain to become a panelist?"

Zein, who was resuming his meal while guiding Bassena, paused and looked up from his plate. "What?"

"It’s just a conjecture, but..." Nadine shrugged.

"It actually makes sense," Rina said. "With how the opening went yesterday, they now see the importance of having guides who could stay on the field. Even if they have no plan to go to the Deathzone, it’s still an interesting topic."

Lex suddenly paused and blinked, as if he just remembered a piece of important information. "Ah, that’s right--I forget," he looked at Zein and Bassena then. "Last night, I heard that Celestia will send their guides to the conference."

"For real? They never did before..." Nadine widened her eyes in surprise. "Is it because Captain would be there? Wait--if the committee really wants Captain to be a panelist, Celestia might be behind it."

"What--so they could know more about how our system works?" Dheera responded in disgust.

"Now, now, why don’t we wait for Alice to return first before making further conjecture?" Rina calmed the young guide with a smile, prompting Dheera to grin and resumed her breakfast.

They didn’t have to wait long, however, for Alice came just after they finished their breakfast. Not surprisingly, with the things they had predicted.

"They want you to be one of the speakers for today, Boss," Alice said. "They said one of the presenters couldn’t come today."

She gave the report in a flat tone as usual, but after a few seconds of pause in which none of them looked very surprised, she added her own appraisal. "I smell bullshit."

That was very Alice to say--Zein chuckled, and then proceeded to lean back and think. So it seemed like they were all thinking there was something fishy. "Have you told them we don’t bring any material?"

"Of course," Alice answered readily. "I told them that they couldn’t just shove it at us at the last minute," she huffed in annoyance. Of course, since it was her that would need to do the work of preparing everything. "But they also said it will add a point to our evaluation."

"How so?"

Alice bit her cheek before replying. "They said someone from the World Government will attend the conference."

Bassena clicked his tongue and Zein turned toward his guard. "Jock,"

"I’m on it," the esper said. He had been shadowing Zein so much that he was basically one of the guide’s assistants at this point. Even without Zein needing to spell it out, he knew what the guide wanted.

And he had no qualm about moving Zein’s shadow guards around now, reasoning it as a part of security measure. Zein, despite his reluctance at the start, started to find a way to benefit from the facility that Radia had given him.

"They said they need the confirmation in an hour at least," Alice finished her report.

"The nerve," Bassena hissed in response. But that was all he did because he was in Zein’s soothing vicinity, so his temperament went down a lot. "Well, Radia did say everything regarding the guide’s matter here is up to you, so just do whatever you want."