I close the front door, wishing for this person to never come back.
I sigh. “What a pain.”
I need to call my contact with the Triads again.
I take my smartphone out of my pocket and start looking for his number.
He’s an idiot, but he’s pretty useful.
I met him when I first set foot on this island, he wasn’t working for the Chinese at that time.
Well, he was looking for my attention without much subtlety.
“Hello, Dick.”
“STOP CALLING ME DICK! Hello, how may I help you?”
I laugh. “Oh, you’re not playing with girls anymore?”
“Please, I never play with girls, I allow my body and soul to be the humble toy of some women for their personal enjoyment! But that’s not the issue here! Have you met with TIAN SHUI and TIAN HUO?”
“Yes, but you didn’t tell me they can’t speak Omen! What are we gonna do with them?”
“What? I thought you knew that… They’ve been learning it for a few weeks, though so it should be fine. Also, I don’t have any more information about your mission with them.”
“No, it’s not fine. I can’t speak a word of Chinese so… How about you come here so we can discuss it all together? You can be their interpret, right?”
This place is supposed to be a secret hideout but since the Triads already know where it is, I guess it’s not a problem to invite him either… Even though he’s going to have stupid thoughts…
“Y-y-y-you’re kidding, right? Me? Come to your place?”
“Don’t make me regret what I said.”
“I-I-I’m coming!”
“Cool, I’ll send you the address.”
“Magnifique! Is there something you want me to bring?”
I hang up.
Without losing any more time, I head for the basement.
There I find the two Chinese looking at memes on their smartphones.
But more importantly, I find Abhi neatly sewing DIANA’s wounded belly with a needle.
I walk closer to see the state of her injury.
As I expected…
This stupid, cheerful girl has lived some crazy abuse.
I bite my lower lip.
I would have killed that bitch of a sister a long time ago if I were in her place.
“Is she safe?” I ask.
Abhi looks at me and sighs.
“She’s low on blood and her heartbeat is decreasing.”
When I sleep, I rarely remember my dreams.
Yet, there is always a song that is humming in my head.
I hear it all the time so I don’t count it as dreaming.
It’s a very soft humming that sounds like a lullaby.
It’s the one my sister once hummed when we were alone.
When we were still homeless and tried to heat our bodies from the cold.
Lying in blankets, shivering from head to toes, I heard it.
This song entered my mind and never left it.
It was the first time I heard such softness in her voice.
This song is always here to remind me of her good size, even when she beat me up or cursed me.
When I sleep, she is here, softly whispering in my ears.
As a spell I’ll never forget.
She is here and she will never leave me.
I will never be free.
Even as I sleep right now, I can hear it.
And like every morning, I wake up in tears.
They are not tears of sadness, since I’ve never been sad.
They are not tears of loneliness since I’m never alone.
Once again, I ask myself.
Why am I crying?
But I still don’t have an answer.
My belly itches.
I move a hand towards it and feel some stitches where it hurts.
Why am I hurt again?
I reminisce in my head the events of today.
I came back from the job with the green-eye idiot and then we ate pizzas with Abhi…
What am I forgetting?
A thin demon’s smile shows up in my mind.
And then, I freeze.
I feel again the cold sharpness of its knife entering my body and it makes me scream.
My heartbeat increases in a rush, I panic and try to stand up, but my lower body won’t answer.
I finally notice I was lying on the operation table, in the now dark and empty basement.
The excess of adrenaline eases my physical pain, and I try to calm down with long breaths.
“I’m alive. I’m alive.”
Abhi and Boobies saved me… I’m so relieved.
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But where is she? Where is my sister gone? Have they fought?
I can’t let Boobies fight her, she’s going to die!
There is nobody stronger than my sister in the universe.
This demon has been blessed by God.
“I need to move.” I pronounce, while trying to leave the operation table, but I get stopped by a pain in my arm and feel with my hand the intravenous infusion.
I grab the pole that is holding it and jump on the floor.
I almost trip because of my legs’ loss in strength, but I grip the pole harder and proceed to walk slowly toward the exit.
I almost trip again and give an annoyed kick to the obstacle.
“Ah, what the fuck!” I scream.
The naked old man prince or something is lying on the floor, and looks terrifyingly skinny and dehydrated like a dried sponge.
“Was he trying to give me a heart attack, this asshole! Why can’t Boobies give him some clothes. They can’t just let him sleep on the floor.”
In the state I am, it is too difficult to think of the reasons why he didn’t wake up after I kicked him.
It does remind me that I’m currently topless, so I grab one of Boobies’ long oversized fur coats that she keeps for cosplay.
Now I look like the baddy in the 100 Dalmatians…
But I don’t have to worry about this… I need to find Boobies and Abhob… I hope they’re safe…
I slowly and carefully walk away from the Batcave and crosse the dark and silent laundry room, then walk up the wooden stairs, and pace through the computers’ room.
When I reach the door to the living room, I finally see a portion of light through it, and I can hear some people arguing behind before opening it.
One of them is Boobies’ voice…
But there are also voices I have never heard before.
“There is nothing wrong with having a kid, I tell you. That doesn’t scare me in the slightest.”
“THAT IS NOT THE REASON WHY I INVITED YOU HERE!”
“I’m not her kid.”
“Langman Shi… Should we not… seriously speak?”
“没关系，看这张图…”
“以后…”
“安静, 你们 两个, sorry, what did you say?”
“What are they doing on their phones?”
“Nothing, youngsters like them just like to check out memes on the internet…”
Who are these people…? I need to see if Boobies is okay!
So, I push the door to find three strange guys sipping tea around the table.
Boobies and Abhi are sitting next to each other on the sofa. They seem to be arguing…
But they all stop to look in my direction as they heard me enter.
“DIANA! You can walk?!” Shouts Boobies, standing up.
“Oh my… Who may that be? Their sense of fashion is terrible.”
The fuck is that guy saying. He looks like he’s straight out of those steampunk novel Boobies is so fund of.
With his stupid gigantic mustache, small black eyes, short oiled black hair, ridiculous monocle and golden pocket watch with a chain that comes out of his vest, I think I’m still too high on morphine to focus. He was speaking Chinese earlier but he looks totally white.
Boobies comes to hold me with a concerned look. Eh, did I worry her that much? That’s kinda cute…
Abhi, though, doesn’t seem worried at all.
“You gave us some trouble, dumbass.” He speaks.
But in my second state, since I don’t know what to say as an excuse, I focus on the two quiet strangers, with their beautiful hanfu and jet-black hair.
“Ni hao ma.” I smile.
I’m alive.
As I walk away from the busty girl’s apartment, I feel nothing but anger.
Yet, it doesn’t show on my face.
This girl… she was kinda hot…
When she pointed that weird ass gun at me, it made my heart race… I want to fight her… I want to slash her face… I want to see her cry…
I smirk and begin to giggle lightly in the streets and some passersby are looking at me with concerned looks on their faces but it doesn’t matter.
This fucking sun. I hate this island with this stupid sun looking down at me with its suffocating rays.
I lower my sunglasses down on my nose and walk along the docks which takes me around one hour to get to the central business district.
With its 15 towers aligned in concentric circles that consist solely of offices, the whole district is bustling with business men and women in their expensive suits, conversing restlessly to their phones, acting as busy as one can get.
I avoid all of them and walk swiftly to the central tower, the highest of them all, the Stargazer.
The tainted glass doors are normally closed so I type the digital code and press the button on the intercom.
“Who is it?” I recognize the deep woman’s voice who asks.
“Can’t you tell with the cameras?” I laugh.
“It’s the procedure. And I told you to stop using that code to get in.”
“It’s SIRONA. I’m sure you love to see me.”
“Welcome back to the agency miss SIRONA.” Says a robotic voice after a beep.
The doors open to let me walk in an intense dazzling golden hall with guards left and right and some people talking during their coffee breaks.
I approach the reception and smile at the cute blonde secretary whom I forgot the name but smells like apple.
“Yo baby, they already finished the work here?”
“Miss SIRONA, welcome back. They finished it two days ago, indeed.”
“It’s too fucking sparkling, I can’t see for shit, even with my sunglasses! How can you work like this?!”
She shrugs with a smile, so I laugh back and pick up my phone that begins to ring. “Yes, boss?”
The deep voice I heard earlier answers. “SIRONA, we have an emergency. Come in my office now.”
My grin fades. I just came back for 3 seconds and I already have to work.