Chapter 16: The Master of Romance loves women so much…

 

EPISODE 6: TRIADS

 

Set in an isolated spot in the south hemisphere of the Pacific Ocean, more than 2000 km from the closest piece of land, this average size island ought to meet the same fate as Rapa Nui. 

Yet, with its gigantic number of natural resources and strategic economical localization, it has built itself into one of the richest harbors in the world. 

As a natural checkpoint in the most dangerous ocean, the island has claimed water territories of more than thrice its diameters, owning the monopoly of the largest trade routes, putting taxes for every commodity that goes in and out, assuming embargoes and customs as they see fit.

The local legend says that it was discovered only 2 or 3 centuries ago, at a time of great migrations, by a French explorer who had fought all night against a dreadful storm and found himself stunned by its almost perfect circular shape, like a haven ring in the dawn’s light.

That’s how he came up with the name Aube-Ronde, which later derived into Omond.

The few hundred natives he discovered there spoke an isolate that had a few similarities with Austronesian languages. He called it Aubaine, now Omen.

The legend ends with the people helping him build a new ship to leave the island, but the explorer disappeared and nobody knows what happened to him.

Word of this island’s existence started to spread in Europe’s courts, and control over its strategic position was deeply coveted.

Russia quickly sent an expedition in its direction, followed by England, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Germany, and of course, France and Belgium. A few decades later, America, Asia and the Middle East would join the party as well, but that would be after the Revolution.

From the moment they set foot on the island, conflicts between countries for its monopoly were non-stop, until a few generations later, when social and economic movements started slowly rising.

Official history states that the natives had peacefully “melded” with the newcomers, yet the rise of a terrifying secret society that existed long before colonization proves the opposite.

First acting as a militia, it silenced one by one every country’s official envoy and ambassador, cutting communications with the continents for years, at a time where the internet or telephones didn’t exist.

Quick and precise, they used fear, money, but also diplomacy and charismatic ideas in order to recruit people from all the factions to join their cause in unifying the island and make it as prosperous as it could be.

At wit’s end, some countries decided to use force and brought their naval armies in order to clash in a gigantic Pacific war, but the secret society was too powerful and it was a loss for every country that participated, who ended up fighting each other instead of solving the problem at its roots.

From there on, the people who claimed to be from this island weren’t French, English, Russian, etcetera, they were the people of Omond. That was their Revolution.

The secret society established the Republic, with the yet to become a megalopolis Tanumm as its capital, as their siege.

The modern Omen is very different from before the European migration and evolved into a creole with a large number of Indo-European loanwords, like the capital itself, that the newcomers named after the vast titanium deposit that lay nearby.

Nowadays, the island is a tax haven for a lot of billionaires, and with its luxuries, tropical weather and breathtaking scenery, is also considered one of the most beautiful places to go for vacations and work, becoming the top 1 most prized location for business and tourism in the world.

For this reason, and the island’s limited space to live in, the housing market skyrocketed in the last decades, making it incredibly difficult for anyone without citizenship to buy real estate.

On the other hand, the huge financial attractiveness of the island brought some modern conflicts and tensions from the different countries, especially with the new American and Chinese superpowers.

It is an enigma whether the secret society still exists, but the way some of these conflicts are mysteriously solved with very little difficulty makes me think they’re far from gone.

I close my computer as I lay deeper in my chair.

With a hand massaging the beard on my chin, and the other scrolling mindlessly on my phone, I meditate on my research.

Who could give me the information I’m looking for?

Well, I actually know someone… This woman… 

But how can I ask her without her turning me down? 

I need to bargain… If I have something she needs, then I might be able to trade it.

I realize her face has appeared on my phone.

My mindless scrolling had unconsciously changed into calling her.

“Ah! Ah! No! No! NONONO!”

I quickly press the “hang up” button before it starts ringing.

I don’t have anything to trade yet, so it’s too early to call her!

Even though…

I really like her… 

I would kill to have a date with someone like her, such a jolly and voluptuous lady.

We only spoke a few times, but I was subjugated by her mannerism, her professionalism. She was not only charming in personality, but her body was one of an angel… No, a goddess!

Yes, with her provocative breasts and her provocative hips and her provocative smile and her provocative way of calling me worthless…

Ah, this is too much for me! I have completely fallen under that snake’s charm!

No! I need to focus!

I know exactly the way to stop thinking about that witch!

I grab my long black coat, my black leather boots and my black hat and jump outside my house.

Wearing such heavy clothes makes me sweat abundantly, on this tropical island, but I’d rather suffer than look like an idiot.

The light of morning hurts my eyes after an all-nighter, but I walk swiftly in the streets that I know, greeting the neighborhood that I love.

“Hello, Master!” Says a passerby.

“Good day to you, Sir.” I answer back with a smile.

“Good morning, Master!” Says a young lady.

“What a lovely morning it has become since I met your eyes, m’lady.” I answer back with a bow.

“Salutations, Master!” Says a little boy.

“My my, haven’t you grown up since yesterday! Here, I didn’t forget my promise.” I answer while throwing in his hands a lollipop that I hid in my hat.

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After causing commotion and laughter everywhere I go, I finally reach a silent alley with nobody to greet.

I enter a small and quiet Chinese restaurant that lies there.

An old woman I know well runs it and she greets me in Mandarin when she sees me.

“It’s been a while, Master. Are you here for work?”

I remove my hat and coat that she comes to take, and answer in Mandarin as well. “No, today I come for distractions.”

“That’s good too. I don’t need to show you the way.”

“Not that I would dislike your company, mademoiselle.” I say with a wink, but her eyes roll in disdain and she signs me to go away.

I knock at the backdoor thrice and a voice comes from behind.

“Who?”

“The Master of Romance, Langman Shi.”

The door opens to a clandestine club where a waiter guides me to a table with bottles of whiskey and coke waiting for me.

I notice a man I know, who probably spent the whole night there, is visibly drunk like hell and is laughing like a madman with a girl in each arm.

He screams in my direction: “Don’t steal all the women today, Langman Shi!”

I smile. “I won’t steal what is yours, Lianjie Shi!”

I sit at my table and start drinking. 

A few girls are already surrounding me and I quickly feel like I’m in heaven.

I laugh, I shout, I cry from laughter in an unparalleled ecstasy.

Yet… I can’t remove that woman’s body out of my mind.

What has she done to me? Even though there are so many pretty girls around me, some that I can kiss and touch, some that are far gentler and sweeter than her!

I head into the bathroom and wash my face with cold water.

“What the fuck am I doing?”

I take my phone out to check the time.

I messed around for so long already, I should go to bed.

DING DING

DING DING

The picture of that woman appeared on the phone I was holding.

SHE’S CALLING ME?!

“H-hello?!” I am so surprised I burped.

“Hello Dick? I have a big problem!”

“Stop calling me Dick! I’m Master of Romance, or Langman, or just Master!”

“Never in my life will I call you Master of whatever or long man since you’re pretty short.”

“LANGMAN! IT’S CHINESE!”

“WHATEVER! I need your help now! Some members of the Triads are coming to my hideout, but I’m not there yet! I need you to stop them! I don’t want them to barge in or mess around! They have to wait ’til I get there!”

“What? Why? Who? Do you have their names?” I say while running out of the bathroom.

“I can’t tell you… Names are TIAN HUO and TIAN SHUI!”

My heart jumps. I know these guys and they’re no joke. 

But this is the best opportunity I could wish for. “Hm, fine. I know them. I’ll help you but you’re going to do something for me in exchange.”

“Naturally.”

“So how about a date so we can talk about-”

“I’m sure your hands are pretty full, and I’m busy too, so see you later.”

CLIC!

She hung up.

What did she mean by ‘full’? Like my hands are full with helping her? Just giving a phone call to some subordinates isn’t that difficult.

I laugh at myself and quickly try to make contact with TIAN SHUI, the most reasonable out of the two.

“Langman Shi?”

“Oh, TIAN SHUI, I’m glad to hear you! May I ask where are you and TIAN HUO heading to?”

“We’re on a mission from Jinqian Shi’s orders. And why are you in the club at noon?”

“You disrespectful bastard, don’t speak to me like that! Wait, how do you know that?”

“I can hear the noise and music, and Lianjie Shi posted a shameful picture of you in the discussion group.”

FUCK! That means that woman heard EVERYTHING TOO! TECHNOLOGY IS TOO DAMN GOOD NOWADAYS! 

“What can I say…? I love women so much…”

I’m going to beat the shit out of Lianjie Shi when this is over.

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