Adopted Soldier

The thought that Emily should be the host instead of him flashed his mind every now and then, as he watched her speak to the audience . He noticed that even the former non Emily fans started chanting and cheering for her midway through her speech . Her ability to control the mood of the audience was amazing . It was almost like she was hypnotizing the audience into liking her .

. . .

When Alex was about to return to the players area, Rachel spoke to him, or more like she ordered him . "You better not lose . " Alex who looked back and saw Rachel’s arms crossed while ordering him, made him remember something from back when they first met . This somehow made Alex smile a bit, before returning to his ever stoic expression .

"Roger that . " After responding to her, Alex headed back to his teammates . There Emily was waiting for him .

"So young master I powered up from being a maid, to being your clubmmate, to now becoming your childhood friend . If this trend continues, wont I end up as your wife?" Emily joked about their current circumstances .

"About that we need to get our stories straight so there wont be any confusion, if we are questioned later . " Alex didn’t bother with any of Emily’s jokes .

"Don’t worry about that young master, just follow my lead and there wont be any mistakes or loopholes in our stories . " Emily giggled for some reason as she said this . Alex who saw her reaction couldn’t comprehend it but he didn’t bother knowing why she giggled .

"How can I be assured that there wont be any mistakes, if you don’t explain to me what kind of backstory you thought off?" Same as Sayaka Alex has bit of trouble talking with this kind of person .

"Don’t mind it young master, or should I just call you Alex now . "

"I don’t care either way, but you still need to explain to me the backstory of how we met and how we parted . The reuniting part I already explained to Rachel, but the other bits of our supposed backstory haven’t been laid out yet . "

"It would be better if I just keep you in the dark, about that . This also part of the plan okay, trust me Alex . Haven’t I helped you in numerous occasions already . Aren’t we friends, heck right now we are actually childhood friends . " Emily smiled at how good it felt to tease Alex like this .

Alex thought about what Emily said and indeed she had helped him a lot of times, ever since he started going to school . Emily had helped him not only as a maid of the Samaritas but also as a friend and colleague .

"Fine I will trust you . I hope this goes well . " Emily who heard Alex’s reply hugged him . Alex was shocked by this sudden move of Emily .

"What are you doing Emily?!"

"Don’t worry Alex this is all part of the plan . We’re suppose to be childhood friends right? Being this close isn’t weird for childhood friends that suddenly get reunited . In fact if we weren’t this close we might seem even more suspicious . "

" . . . I guess what you’re saying does make sense . " Emily then started to do some hand signals without Alex’s knowledge . She was sure based on how Oliver reacted awhile ago when she was doing various poses, he noticed the hand signals she gave . Which if somone understood the hand signals you would know Emily said I love you to her fans .

When she did this awhile ago, Oliver reacted by averting his gaze trying hard not to blush . It would seem like Oliver was a fan of this anime as well .

With all the above information Emily knew Oliver could understand her hand signals, and he would most probably relay the information to Rachel .

. . .

In the audience area Emily’s fans were in an uproar because of her sudden movement of hugging Alex . Yet even though they were noisy as hell . Rachel couldn’t be bothered by them as she saw Emily suddenly hug Alex, she started to get a bit jealous . ’The hell even if they are childhood friends they don’t need to be that close!’

It was at that moment Rachel saw Emily looked at her then winked . ’What was that?! Is she challenging me?! Is that it!? Is she telling me I stand no chance against the childhood friend archetype!’

While Rachel was getting angrier and angrier, Oliver who saw the same thing, was able to decipher Emily’s hand signals .

"Hey don’t worry I will put in a good word for you . Be sure to do your best . That’s what comrade Emily seems to be saying through her hand signals . Do you understand what she meant?"

When Rachel heard what Oliver said, this made her bite her lower lip . ’Are you saying that we aren’t even in the same level? Are you helping me your rival because you feel pity?’

Rachel who wasn’t thinking straight had misunderstood the message, but Emily had noticed Rachel’s distorted expression . Emily then let go of Alex and proceeded to message Rachel .

Rachel who received a message from Emily quickly read it, thinking it was another mocking message .

"Heya Rachel, I heard from Alex that he told you we were childhood friends . He thinks that you don’t trust him that’s why you needed to verify with me . But don’t worry I’ll put in a good word for you, so that he wont be too much disappointed in your act . So be sure to do your best in apologizing alright . "

When Rachel read Emily’s message, she finally noticed what she had done . She had doubted Alex, who had always had her best interest in mind . Emily wasn’t issuing a challenge she was helping her smoothen out what happened with Alex .

She made a blunder, she actually made Alex think she didn’t trust him . Yet it didn’t feel like Alex was any different from normal since awhile ago . . .

’Is she able to notice Alex’s change in mood because she’s a childhood friend?’ Rachel who was panicking a bit messaged Emily .

"Thank you, please help . I didn’t mean to doubt him . " In which Emily quickly replied .

"No problem I’ll talk to this idiot . Just make sure to apologize later . "

"Alright . Once again thank you Emily . "

When Emily received Rachel’s message, she was now sure that she had convinced her that she and Alex were childhood friends . Since only someone like a childhood friend could possibly understand Alex’s mood even with that expressionless face of his .

After laying the ground work, Emily approached the panicking host . In her mind this host wasn’t all that good, but it was her fault as well for heating up the crowd . Emily took the mic from the host once more .

"My peons, didn’t I say to quiet down when I’m in battle? Are you disobeying me? Are you trying to shame your Queen?" When Emily’s fans heard her ice cold voice, they all immediately shut their mouths, and quitted down . Since Emily is was an actual former merc, her ice cold voice and her killing intent were very much authentic . Which resulted in a very persuasive way to make the audience feel that their Bloody Princess was irritated by their noise .