Chapter 15: Mail from the agency

“Hey, idiot!”

I crouch to look at her dumbfounded eyes, while she’s reading a comic, seating upside-down on the couch like a moron.

“Stop calling me idiot!” She spouts.

I totally ignore her and ask what I came for. “You… Do you have nothing but a knife?”

“Why do you care?” She disdainfully answers, doing broad kicking movements in the air.

I sigh. “I’m making the plan to make money, remember?? Show me your knife. You’re not using it right now, and you’re clearly useless for brainstorming.”

“Fine, but don’t break it!” She pouts, handing it to me.

I give a single look at it.

It’s a very uninteresting, unimpressive, unexciting folding pocket knife, and I can’t help but feel disappointment.

I want to ask her why she’s only using this, but it’s not the kind of questions I would like to answer myself.

I know her answer will be disappointing anyway.

“Your eyes…” She whispers.

I lower my gaze from the knife to notice she was looking at me in the eyes.

“What about my eyes?”

“They’re not red anymore.”

Ah, I get it… This idiot thought my eyes were naturally red or something.

“You are right, I’m wearing contacts that increase my sight in dark environment.”

“So cool… Like a snake.”

“No way, snakes have bad eyesight, they find their way by smelling with their tongues. It’s more like a cat or a tiger actually.”

“Snakes smell with their tongues???”

I let a small laugh escape.

“Yeah, you should watch animal shows on your phone, you can learn a bunch of funny things.”

I stand up and start walking to the computer room so I can barely hear her whisper.

“I wouldn’t be able to do it even if I wanted to.”

My mind is too busy to pay attention to what she said, and I’m already in the next room where Abhi is tinkering with a cleaning robot.

I put my chin on his head, silently watching him for a little bit.

“Is it really that fun?” I ask.

He looks above his shoulder to stare at me with his blank eyes.

“You wouldn’t get it.” He snorts.

I laugh while handling him the knife. “Yeah, you’re right. Here, check this out.”

“What do you want me to do with this crap?” He says while getting back to play with screwdrivers.

“I want you to put a beacon on that. I don’t want this crazy stray mongoloid to run away anywhere. We need to keep an eye on her.”

He finally drops his tools to take the knife and analyze it.

After carefully looking at it, he straightens up and frowns.

“You know it already has a beacon on it? Thankfully, our hideout is blurring it.”

My heart leaps.

Has this girl been on constant watch? For how long?

I can’t help but look behind my back, in her direction, even though a wall is standing between us and I can’t see her.

“Remove it and put another one.” I say coldly.

He frowns. “Are you sure? I wouldn’t remove it if I were you.”

“Just do what I say.” I finish, walking away.

The idea of being watched constantly, like I used to be, makes me want to puke.

If that girl truly is in this situation, I can’t help but empathize.

Paradoxically, I’m currently putting her in this situation myself…

 

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TIC!

TIC!

TIC!

The smartphone in my hand keeps ringing as I get closer to the devastated house.

This place… I recall seeing this address on the old man’s notes.

I pull the idiot’s knife from the now-dead woman’s shoulder and roughly clean it.

In the end, this radar served to help you… no, to help us in getting rid of the target, and not to keep an eye on you.

My curiosity gets the best of me and I step in the house, looking around for anything interesting.

I’m still wondering how this girl got access to the agency… And where is that other guy… DARIUS?

Who were the ones in the helicopter? Mercenaries? Who commissioned them?

The contact with the agency, the mercenaries, the guns, was all that her doing? It’s impossible, she was a total amateur.

Who did that for her?

That’s what I’m trying to find in this place, being the sole hint toward the solutions of this mystery.

 

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Abhi opens the flat for me, and I barge in with pizzas in my hands.

“Home sweet home!” I yell. “Abhibhi, guess what I bring you? Food! Dinner! Yummy yummy chicken curry pizza and spicy chicken wings! You love that, right? Oh yes you dooooo~”

“Don’t call me like that, and what the hell are you taking me for? Some kind of animal that eats only the same thing?” He spouts, grumpily.

I put the pizzas in the kitchen, and run down to the basement to change my clothes.

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“Aaaaaa, I’m finally free from this stupid suit!! My ribbon!! My earrings, aaaaah, how I missed youuuu~.” I sing.

I give a look at the old man, still soundly sleeping on the operation table, who is just looking slightly paler than usual but I put my hands in prayer and thank him for the money he’ll grant me.

I jump to the living room again, only to find Abhi sitting on the sofa with a slice of the chicken curry pizza in hand.

Our eyes meet and I can see him blush.

“C-come, it’s time for our anime.” He stutters.

“Uhuhuhuuuuu, you’re so cuteee when you’re blushing! You don’t have to be shy, it’s normal to eat the food I brought…”

“Shut up. I’ll begin without you.”

I plunge in the kitchen and grab my own pizza and then plunge again on the sofa, making Abhi slightly fly from the impact.

I smirk. “I hope Boobies come quickly or I’ll eat hers too…”

DINGDING!

I got startled by the ringing of my phone, in this empty and silent house.

Normally my phone is totally muted, but I was using the radar to guide me just earlier.

Looking whom it came from, my heart skips a beat.

“Oh fuck…”

‘Dear ARTEMIS,

We are very displeased to hear that you’ve concluded your mission with failure.

To this day [XX/XX/XXXX], client [XXXX] codename: Prince, you were supposed to protect, has died.

Your rank in the agency tumbled down from XXX to XXXX.

From now, your credits and benefits will be seized until further notice.

Entering debt, your next missions’ credits will be used to repay what you owe.

Please, keep in touch for the next news concerning your case.’

It gets almost instantly followed by a second ring.

DINGDING!

‘Dear ARTEMIS,

Your next mission has already been chosen.

The clients from the Chinese Triads clan Shensu Shu, located in your town, code names: tian huo and tian shui, will come to your residence in a few instants.

Your mission will be to respond to their needs for the next three months, namely [XX/XX/XXXX].

We wish you the best of luck.’

“FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK!” I scream.

First of all, I need to contact DIANA and Abhi!

“DIANA! Abhi! Can you hear me?!”

Fuck, they’re not responding!!

I can’t believe the old man is dead! What the fuck!!! We did all that for nothing?!

I need to rush to the hideout as fast as possible!

 

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DING DONG!

In the middle of our episode, with pizza still hanging from our mouths, the doorbell suddenly starts ringing.

“Eh, it must be Boobies, if she forgot her keys, she’ll just wait until the episode ends as a punition!” I say proudly.

It’s my home too now after all…

But it rings again once, twice, thrice.

DING DONG DING DONG DING DONG!

I frown and stand up.

Abhi looks around, anxious. “Schwa never forgets her keys.”

I shrug. “It can happen to anyone, maybe she actually lost them in the building that crashed? I’ll go see who it is anyway.”

With a slice of pizza in my hand, I slowly approach the entrance door.

Opening to Boobies… it really feels like it’s my home now!

With a burst of pride and malice, I open the door while munching my meal. “Hey, hey, hey, who might that be? Forgetting your keys like an imbecile, should I let you enter my ho-”

My body entirely freezes and I drop the pizza to the ground.

What was facing me in the lobby wasn’t ARTEMIS nor anyone else than the tall and thin demon I see in my nightmares.

With a thin and terrifying smile spreading from one ear to the other, the demon finishes my sentence.

“Home? Your home? Is that what you wanted to say, bitch?”

My thought process abruptly shut down and it takes me a while to notice I am currently falling on my knees.

With blood bursting from my belly, the thin demon grabs my chin and makes me look into its eyes.

“Did you forget me, you fucking piece of garbage? It took me a while to find you here! Did you remove my beacon? You’re going to pay for all the trouble you put me in!”

Holding my wound with a hand, I start tearing up.

Home was an ephemeral concept but I sure loved it.

 

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END OF ARC 1

 

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