Chapter 23: Logbook

EPISODE 8: OCEAN

 

Observing the secret society members. Day 1.

The group we infiltrated is… a noisy one.

It is made of three members: A tall girl, a short girl and a child.

They spend most of their time at home, arguing or yelling at each other for childish reasons.

The language barrier makes it difficult to communicate and overhear useful information, which makes me wonder why our dearest masters didn’t choose superior students who can already speak the local language for this mission.

Thankfully, the short girl speaks Chinese almost fluently, so I asked her to teach us some Omen, which she agreed with a sigh.

Some people showed up at the door in the early afternoon and yelled, so the tall girl came to us with a mop and a bucket of soap and water, and it took us half an hour to clean all the blood in the apartment’s lobby.

We ate curry for dinner, which was fine but mild. I promised myself to cook something really good the next days.

They don’t have any spare rooms so we shall sleep in their basement.

The number of weapons they put at our disposition made us twitch and wonder if they have perfect trust in us or believe we’re absolutely inoffensive.

I wished to clear my head but the smell of a rotting corpse lying nearby annihilated all form of libido.

TIAN HUO

Observing the secret society members. Day 2.

“When are you going to get rid of this old man?!”

I asked the crazy girl’s sister which she answered with a shrug.

I can’t believe it, are they fucking stupid or what?

The busty one proposed to cut him into small pieces and throw him into the ocean.

The child argued the waves would to bring him back on the coast.

The short girl asked why we don’t eat him.

I…

I had to ask myself if that was a racist joke toward Chinese people “eating everything” or if she assumed the two of us were cannibals for some obscure reasons.

Anyway, TIAN HUO started taking lessons of their language with her.

This is boring but I guess I’ll listen a bit while browsing Tik Tak.

Today we learned how to say “My sister is mean” in 3 different ways.

Apparently, the syntax of this language is pretty flexible.

TIAN HUO made some mapo tofu for dinner. That was delicious, but I think I spotted the busty girl cry silently because of the spices.

TIAN SHUI

Observing the secret society members. Day 3.

The Omen language is made of 6 vowels, noted like this in the International Phonetic Alphabet: [a e o i y u], and consonants: [p b m c ɟ n g β f ð s ʃ ɾ l j h ʀ], and the three nasals [ɲ ŋ] that appear in some combinations. All sounds can be doubled, and the script is pretty consistent except for some exceptions.

For example, the name of the language, Omen is [omen], the capital Tanumm is [canumm], but the name of the island, Omond is [omoɲ]. It’s the combination of the letters ‘n’ and ‘d’ that makes the sound [ɲ]. The same way, the letters ‘n’ and ‘g’ makes the sound [ŋ]. The pronunciation of the letters ‘d’ and ‘t’ is unconventional, but I just imagine there is always a very short ‘i’ afterward. The sounds [β] and [ð] also appear respectively after combinations of [f] and [s] with [j].

The syntax is flexible with the subject being able to appear before or after the verb, so the grammar is packed to be able to tell which part of the sentence is the subject or the object.

The verbs have two modes: active and passive, and different aspects like time, place, person, duration, movement, direction, activity, opinion, feasibility…

Learning all this grammar sounds terribly difficult for someone whose first language is Chinese… I’ll try my best but I think TIAN SHUI is already at his limit…

TIAN HUO

Observing the secret society members. Day 4.

I’m at my limit…

This language is too difficult! How the hell is this sound supposed to be pronounced?!

Why can’t they say ‘t’! It’s written Tanumm not tijijianumm!

And this girl is the worst teacher ever! She can’t even teach us useful stuff like, say, ‘Hello, I like tea.’ No, what I can say is ‘Boobies’ boobs are huge!’ and ‘Mecha Dinosaur Impact is a great anime.’

Why are they spending all their time watching some stupid Japanese donghua anyway?! Y’all don’t have jobs?!

WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO GET RID OF THIS CORPSE IN THE BASEMENT?!

They keep drinking cocoa and they don’t even have green tea! Worse than that, they make us do chores! Everyday TIAN HUO cooks dinner and I’m washing the dishes… Earlier, the busty girl asked me to use the vacuum cleaner in the living room…

DID WE BECOME THEIR MAIDS?!

Only one bathroom is too little for all of us and I waited almost one hour before finally being able to pee.

I think about the cute shidi I bullied in the dormitories and pray for his wellbeing.

I wish this kind of torture to nobody anymore.

TIAN SHUI

Observing the secret society members. Day 5.

TIAN SHUI couldn’t keep at it anymore so I tried to find a solution.

The first problem is this corpse, so I contacted the cleaning department of the Shensu Shu.

But I can’t bring them all the way to this place since our mission here is secret.

I asked the tall woman if she has a body bag I could use so she went out and came back with one a few hours later.

It smelled like rot and was stained with dark red spots, but I don’t want to know where she found it.

I put the cadaver inside and went with her to the rendezvous point thanks to her motorboat.

The cleaning department took care of the body without asking any more. I hope the Masters won’t find this out.

I was afraid of leaving TIAN SHUI in that place alone, but when we came back, he was happily watching a donghua with the short girl and the kid.

I don’t know how they convinced him, but sipping a mug of cocoa, he doesn’t seem too irritated anymore.

I proceeded to clean and disinfect the basement until the fool stench disappeared.

This is good for now, it almost smells like a room.

So satisfied of myself, I can feel my libido resurrecting.

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TIAN HUO

Observing the secret society members. Day 6.

I woke up feeling better than the days before.

I don’t know what kind of drug they put in their cocoa but that shit is addicting as fuck.

TIAN HUO did so much to make please me yesterday that I can’t be mad anymore.

As soon as I went up, I noticed I was the first awake, so I made breakfast for everybody.

I even went all the way to buy some fresh fish at the market and deliciously roasted them.

Served with rice and vegetables sauté, it smelled divine.

Our three hosts seemed to enjoy it, but the most important to me was TIAN HUO’s smile as he silently munched.

When we were done, I asked the stupid girl for more cocoa. She laughed and proceeded to ask the boy to do it, which he grumpily refused and went back to his room.

The busty girl ended up making it, I’m very grateful.

As this routine slowly installed in the household. In the morning we studied more Omen, and in the afternoon, we watched Japanese donghua.

Sometimes in the evening, the busty girl went out for a few hours.

When I asked the stupid one where she’s going, she said while pulling a face, “To work, duh.”

I want to punch her.

TIAN SHUI

Observing the secret society members. Day 7.

Today I received a call from the Master of Riddance.

“TIAN HUO, you asked for the cleaning of a body two days ago that happens to correspond to the description of a researched person by the Bureau of Intelligence. How did you get into contact?”

This is the worst possible scenario. That is the reason why we didn’t choose this solution earlier.

At that I just answered: “Penguin.”

It was the magic word to make a member of Shensu Shu understand that you’re in a mission and can’t answer their questions.

“I see… Don’t be surprised if the Master of Intelligence contacts you later.”

Deep in thoughts, I skip eating today.

Being called by the Master of Intelligence is the worst fate a member of Shensu Shu can expect.

But as long as they’re only going for me and not for TIAN SHUI, then everything is fine.

With a gray expression, I regret bitterly taking that decision.

And if the worst were to happen, we will have to abort this mission prematurely.

After the speech I gave to the Master of Finance, I feel utterly pathetic.

TIAN HUO

Observing the secret society members. Day 8.

Trying to figure out what made TIAN HUO so gloomy, I ask everyone if they know something.

“Maybe he’s got a stomach ache?”

“Maybe he wants to GO BACK HOME?! Go back home, you parasites!!”

“Hmmm, maybe he’s on his periods?”

How should I tell her men don’t have periods…?

I got good enough in Omen to be able to understand that much, so that’s that.

Since TIAN HUO missed some ‘class,’ I almost reached his level.

I’m also curious about the busty girl’s job. That’s the thing we were supposed to look into, our mission, so I asked the stupid girl, and regretted instantly.

“What kind of job is your friend doing?”

“We’re friends?”

“Are you not??”

She looked at me with bewildered eyes: “I had no idea!”

And then she went out to shout into the kid’s room something like “ABHI, ABHI! AM I FRIENDS WITH BOOBIES?”

Which he answered: “NO, FUCK OFF.”

…

TIAN SHUI

Observing the secret society members. Day 9.

After eating a bao TIAN SHUI made me, I feel a little better.

As long as we’re on our mission, nothing bad can happen… We just have to make the mission last as long as possible… The Bureau of Intelligence won’t look for us as long as our mission is ongoing.

So we just have to stay forever…

That’s the solution I came to. It’s not so bad here, anyway…

TIAN SHUI tried to make me understand the tall girl wanted us to work with her, but I finally snapped out of it when she entered the basement with a grin on her face.

“Hey boys, time to make money!”

“What?” I frown.

“She said she’s found some job that pays really well, but she’s going to need us…” explains TIAN SHUI.

With eyes that remind me of a snake… no, a cat, she stares into mines.

“What kind of job?”

“Don’t worry, something really fun and really easy! We’re going on a cruise!” She exclaims, showing a gigantic ocean liner on her phone.

I frown even more. Now that’s a shady job if I’ve ever seen one.

TIAN HUO

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