"Huh? You want me to change your clothes?" asked Luci in disbelief. Her white face was now flushed red.
Even though it's Spider, an adopted brother who was like her family, but wasn't changing clothes very intimate? Not to mention that both of them were adults now, right?
"Look at my hands! I can't possibly change my clothes alone." Spider then stretched out his two hands which had been affixed by the cute pink hansaplast. Never forget Spider put on a made-up pain face.
"Yes – but –" Luci was already stuck in confusion.
'I mean, isn't this outrageous? Changing clothes?' Luci fretted inwardly.
"Brrr, cold, why are your tears cold, Bee? Brrr." Now Spider pretended like he was cold.
But if you look at his shirt, it's already very wet. Luci's tears were very heavy when they spouted earlier, so her tears didn't only wet the Spider's chest area.
The tears even flowed down to the shirt part of Spider's stomach. Seeing that made Luci even more uncomfortable.
"Mmm, can you change your clothes?" Luci asked uncomfortably. Luci felt very guilty for making Spider cold but Luci couldn't even help Spider to change clothes.
"I bothered you too much, didn't I? Let me try it first. I'm a strong man." Spider nodded approvingly.
Then when he was about to unbutton the top of his shirt, he pretended to groan again. Now and then he glanced at Luci. If Luci saw it, Spider would groan even louder.
"Ow, ouch, it hurts so bad. Huff! Huff."
Spider then pretended to blow on the wound. Then he pretended to want to unbutton his shirt again. But before that happened Luci had stepped forward and interrupted Spider's hands.
In silence, without making a sound Luci took off Spider's shirt button. Every movement of her slender fingers made Spider beat faster. Especially when Luci's hand moved further down. But Spider could still do his best to restrain himself.
"Gosh, how long have I been crying just now? Even your underclothes are getting wet. Forgive me." Luci said sincerely.
Spider nodded shyly.
"You can cry all you want. Don't think about me," replied Spider, lowering his face with a smile that couldn't be hidden.
Because Spider's underclothing was wet, Luci couldn't help but take it off too. Luci carefully took off the white shirt. Luci felt a little nervous when she did it, but the man sitting in front of her was overjoyed.
After Luci managed to remove the undershirt, Luci's eyes widened.
Luci saw a sight that made her look sad. Spider's body turned out to have several cuts that made an impression. There were even scars that were still red and dry. There were several blue bruises on his skin.
Spider did not remember that on his body he still had the scars of fighting with other mafia groups. The fight happened three days ago.
And when his deep eyes looked at Luci's face which looked shocked and sad, Spider just remembered that he had several wounds on his body that had not yet dried. Spider hastily covered his burly body with both hands.
"What's this? What just happened to you? Did the person who took care of you torture you again, just like in the cage back then?" Luci looked down at Spider's face which was now looking down and didn't say anything. Luci's eyes were already teary.
Inside Luci's brain, the image of Spider's beating flashed back. Especially when Spider was beaten with spiked sticks. Spider's face was unrecognizable at that time.
"That – not a problem. T-shirts please," Spider mumbled with his hands still covering his naked body
Spider couldn't possibly tell Luci that he had just fought another mafia group.
Spider also couldn't possibly tell Luci that the battle was finally won by Spider.
And Spider wouldn't have been able to tell Luci that he had killed ten people at once in that fight.
'Bee will hate me if she finds out. No, I have to hide it,' Spider quivered nervously.
"Tell me first! Where did you get those wounds from? Has someone tortured you? Hmm?" Luci's voice sounded very trembling. Her eyes couldn't hold back her tears. As a result, tears escaped and dripped, wetting her beautiful face.
"I – don't want to – discuss it now." Spider lowered his head without daring to look directly at Luci. Spider was afraid that Luci would guess what disgusting thing Spider had been doing all this time. Then after that Luci would leave him.
Diamond mafia clan. People who hold the highest power in a country would understand who the Diamond mafia clan was. But its fame was like a bright flame on a planet at the farthest tip of the Milky Way galaxy.
The bright flame could only be seen by a few people. Hard to sniff, hard to trace.
Even articles about the Diamond mafia clan were never available on the internet because people in the Diamond mafia clan would clean up data regarding information about them.
So if Luci wanted to find information about Diamond, the data that would be available was only photos and news about jewelry.
Because of his too strict secrecy, Spider had to admit who he was to Luci in person. Because information about the Diamond clan rarely spread within the lower-middle-class circles.
And at the time of that identity recognition, Spider was afraid that Luci would leave him, even for good.
"You don't want to tell me now, I can accept. But I just wanted to say that you can live with me if you can't stand the way they treat you.
We've been through a lot of sadness in our childhood. We also have the right to be happy, Ider," said Luci with tears still in her eyes.
What Luci said just now probably meant nothing to her. But for Spider, what Luci said earlier was like an invitation to build an ark of love, a small family, marriage.
"You can live with me." Those were the only words Spider always heard.
Those words had raised thousands of hopes in Spider's heart to keep reaching for Luci, to keep taking Luci's heart, no matter what the risk.
"Yes, I will live with you," Spider replied with deep eyes at Luci. He was already imagining marriage and cute children in his mind.
"Okay, you can wear the shirt yourself right? You just have to wear it carefully." Luci also handed back the shirt that was on the table.
"It still hurts – I can't get dressed yet. Please put it on," Spider pleaded very pitifully.
Because Luci felt sorry for Spider, especially after seeing the many wounds on Spider's body, Luci nodded without thinking. Luci carefully put the shirt on Spider's body. The shirt's size was a bit small but it was not too bad.
"Well, now you're feeling warm. Want me to call someone to pick you up here?" asked Luci offering help.
Spider was still reluctant to leave, especially tonight. He even wanted to sleep with Luci right now, literally sleep.
"That, ah, alright...Argh, argh, my head." Spider groaned holding his head.
"Ider, what are you doing?
Good grief!" Luci was panicked.
She tried to find Spider's cell phone in any pocket on his shirt, but couldn't find it. Luci didn't know that Spider kept his cell phone in his coat, and Spider didn't tell Luci on purpose.
"My head hurts. Please take me to bed," Spider pleaded while holding his head.