NOVEL NEXT The start of the problems
Leon watched the lucky white fang member continue to scrape off letters until the sentence was like a weird nonsensical cypher. it was at this point the circle just winked out of existence like it was rage quitting at this guys stupid levels of luck. leon kinda had to agree that the man had gotten within inches of erasing himself or his companions several times with his unskillful dismantling of the circle. even with those stupid white grim mask on leon could see the initially dumbstruck expressions the group made seeing the pit where the summoning circle should have been followed by anger at failing their mission.
It was at this point leon spoke up from his location nearby "the funny thing is that the first symbol you scraped off was the one that made you fail your mission." he said with a chuckle. ironically despite most faunus having night vision none of the white fang members noticed leon standing nearby not even hiding. "when did you get here!?" one of the group yelled in surprise. leon grinned "I got here about a minute after you lot set off my alarms."
"I admit it was fun to watch you dance at the edge of death by messing with the obscuring circle this whole time." he said with a casual smirk. "what do you mean?" cobalt asked seriously. "ah well as I explained in class I am the only person who understands the intricacies of this language. what I didn't mention was that not knowing what you are looking at and trying to mess with the written script is testing your luck since the language is VERY volatile if a mistake is made in the writing." leon said honestly. "in other words you've basically been smashing a bomb with a hammer hoping to disarm it." he said grinning.
Apparently one of the white fang members paid attention to the fact that leon said he was the only person to fully comprehend the language. "we haven't failed our mission if we bring you back with us." the hand said drawing his sword at leon. the other members of the group took after the first guy and drew their weapons at leon who burst into laughter. "you guys are either ignorant or stupid if you think you have a chance against me , but fine let daddy give you the belt." he said with a malicious gleam in his eyes.
A few moments later the entire group was covered in bruises and welts while tied up. "now think about what you've done." leon said mockingly. ozpin was not happy getting a picture of leon posing with the captive white fang members at one at night. when he showed up with security he found leon casually using the captives as a chair while reading a book. "do you know why they were here?" ozpin asked ignoring leon behavior. "oh yeah it was hilarious , they failed immediately in the most spectacular way." leon said with a chuckle.
"How so?" ozpin asked curiously. "right , so first they were trying to be stealthy but set off literally every alarm I had in place. then they tried to lower the obscuring circle to record the summoning circle but ended up turning the thing into a giant eraser that deleted everything inside it. as if that wasn't a big enough mistake they actually thought they could capture me of all people. I roughed them up a bit as a punishment , you don't mind right?" leon said while cackling madly as he remembered it.
Ozpin just rubbed his forehead at leons antics as he felt a headache forming. "so they didn't succeed then?" he asked seriously. leon just waved it off " nah , they failed before they even left their base." he said dismissively. "that's good , now i suppose you'd best be off while we take this group into custody." ozpin said and leon left through the air. ozpin lost sight of him quickly as leon seemed to blend into the cloudy sky easily. "i feel like this is just the start of the problem." ozpin said to no one in particular.
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