A woman dressed in a black gown stepped out from the crowd and touched Blanche's left cheek with an acrylic manicure. It was in the shade of red same with her lips, she's the only one wearing such seductive and bold design, her smell of some red roses that bloom together in a field on the night masqueraded the whole winter and Blanche held her breath when her cold touch brush her cheeks.
It's the touch that can bring tears to your eyes. It's the kind of touch that once you feel even the tip of her long fingernails, it can graze your skin with sins of what you did in the past. It can make you realize that what you're doing for so long, and what you're trying to cling to live was all wrong. And that, the only thing you can do was freeze at your place because even if you open your mouth and tears cascaded on your cheeks, no words would come, it's like she held your throat all of a sudden and she'll dive on your inside
The only thing you can hear at Slidell's kitchen was the slices of bacon sizzling on a pan, and the rice cooker that turned warm."Don't you know any other food to cook for breakfast?" Ace hissed as he opened the rice cooker and steam rose to his disheveled bed hair.Slidell crinkled his nose, the delicious smell of bacon was starting to dwell in the whole kitchen. "If you don't want what I'm cooking then get out of my place."He was wearing his animated pajamas and his varsity sleeveless shirt that has the number 24 on it, compared to what Ace wore, a cream-colored cotton short sleeve with a Chinese collar and grey boxer briefs, his was more descent, it just differs from their bed hair.Ace has more charisma, Slidell got it, and his hair that was frosted with gel and he forgot to wash it before he got to bed last night made him a loser.He reached for a tray of eggs on the fridge and crack it open with one hand, he le
-Misha ran to Blanche after she opened the door."Where the hell did you go?"Blanche walked passed her, ignoring her question and removing her boots. She was supposed to walk straight to her room, but then she noticed the black invitation on the center table."I know where did you go, in hell right?" Misha who turned up to her side smiled from ear to ear, her eyes forming a line.Blanche snorted. "That doesn't fit you," she said and sat on the couch in front of the invitation.Misha snickered, rolled her eyes, crossed her arms, and also sat on the couch."I talked with the devil," Blanche started, she straightened her back and look at the invitation that has dents and was slightly crumpled on its lead.Misha licked her lips. There's a distinct way that the devil uses to call her child, each one's different from the other, sometimes she calls them by giving a secret messa
Blanche hasn't had another conversation with Misha after that, and she doesn't have any idea what the organization was up to after that talk with the devil.They haven't done anything bizarre or put anyone in harm's way, so maybe they did take a break after what they did to Astolfo.Although Blanche couldn't put her guard down completely, she took her time picking which fresh cabbage to choose in the supermarket.The one on her left hand has more weight but the other was more rubbery and firm. She tried to search for other more on the tray but she saw nothing that caught her eyes more than the two.If only there's something that can know which is the better cabbage, she sighed and pushed the shopping cart forward, taking both of them.Thanks to Ace, she learned how to go to a supermarket, she found peace in putting things on her cart and walking with the sound of the shopping cart in front, now, she's looking at
Blanche's leg was getting tired, she sat on her left leg for a comfortable sitting, and it's just perfect because of her black maxi dress, it seemed like her foot was nowhere in sight under her skirt."Wait, are you telling me that you're planning to infiltrate your organization?" Slidell said as if her explanation wasn't clear to him."Your organization?" he repeated, with a mocking tone.Blanche gave a nod. "Why? Are you belittling me? Don't you think I can't do that?"Blanche couldn't say it to Misha, because they're not on speaking terms, Astolfo died, Penelope slapped her, Ainé's a bad girl, Farah's mad, Ace hasn't shown up to her, she could only come to Slidell."Wait, don't you think this is too much for me? You're talking about an agent right? You're a spy."Blanche gave him a look. "Yes."Slidell exhaled an exasperated sigh. "See? I'm just a normal city boy
Rat went to feed his chickens, he didn't come with Blanche, so she followed him. “Why can’t you come with me?!” Blanche asked in an annoyed tone as she tried to pace with his stride. Rat stopped almost hitting Blanche behind, he faced her and pointed her with his hand holding a container of chicken feeds. “Because I can’t trust a person I failed to rob and is now being nice to me and offering me a job.” Blanche rolled her eyes, she took the chicken feeds away from him and pour it all to the ground, ten chickens and roosters ran to the feet as they tried to pick on the feeds. “What did you do?!” But Blanche didn’t let him do his ramblings and put both her hands on his shoulders. “Listen to me, Rat, didn’t you say you needed a job? I’m also like you, in some angles, my job is being taken away from me because they see me as incompetent now. it feels like I lose all the qualities they’re finding and not only that,
"What do I need to do to be in your team?"Blanche shrugged. "It's not really a team, I'm recruiting you first, I haven't asked the others."Blanche has a plan in her mind, though it’s better to term it as a shaky plan. She hasn't had a concrete plan in her mind, or much to say she doesn't want to think of a concrete plan in her mind.Because she believed that Hent's awoken by the organization, but she still doesn't open her eyes, that's the signal she found when she's walking down the street after going to Slidell's flat.She sat on the bench and Hent's starting to flood her mind but she felt cold and sharp metal on the side of her stomach, and that's Rat's knife.She knew because it was the same knife she bought from him.It's a small unexpected snap that came from Blanche’s brain, she doesn't know where it was exactly located but it's clear that something was planted insi
Days had passed since then; Blanche tried her best to train Rachmaninoff and brief him to at least a glimpse of what’s happening in her life.On an abandoned warehouse that manufactured pork and meat not long ago, Rat was the one who found the place, said he worked in that place for a while before he found a much higher wage range in a day. He said that the owner went bankrupt and one time a loan shark visited him on the warehouse and swore to gouge his eyeballs if he didn’t pay his debts in the month they set, no other employees wanted to stay with him after that and the month they stipulated came and three men didn’t hesitate to gouge his eyeballs even after he cried and scream when he’s still alive.Because of that story, no one wanted to rent this place after, it went abandoned because people believe the soul of the dead owner haunts this place.Blanche sighed and pinched the bri
Slidell has been pacing back and forth, trying to make sense of his thoughts but ended up with a headache instead.Did he get himself a date?Did the star make his wish come true?Was the tradition true?He has a lot going on in his mind when Blanche barged in into his house without any warning.Did she call first?Why did she know where he lives in the first place?Slidell has a theory that Blanche was not an ordinary human being. She used a fake name, was she forced to change her name? Kinda like how strippers in brothels get their name like 'rose'? But she doesn't look like a stripper, she looked more like a runway model than that, was there any other people who use fake names nowadays?No, no one, because then you'll get caught by the FBI. Perhaps, she has a connection with the FBI.Yes. That's the only reason Slidell can think so he gave her the can of beer
“Never do that again, Blanche.”Blanche nodded, giving in to Hent that she’s wrong on thinking that she could handle all the problems that came in her way alone, sometimes, problems required friends so that you can solve them, just like what Hent said; two can tango.It was in the middle of the night, the moon creepily sought them as Hent and Blanche prepare for the next plan. It’s clear that the vital thing for the organization was not Blanche anymore, it’s Hent, but they learned better, they knew their rotten personality and bad things they did to them, so in order to not have Hent, Blanche arranged that Hent should be taken out of the abandoned building and she’ll be in hiding in the apartment, specifically in the room of Blanche that’s parallel to Ace.She knew how to go there by copying what Astolfo did, peak on the window first, Hent would be shu
Even if Alas looked like a self-centered narcissist, he still has a sense of pity, just a bit though, a tiny bit. For his brother who’s always had the center of attention, for his brother who gets all the love in the world.Alas grew up knowing that he’s not the favorite child, but when their mother died, things take a turn and in just a blink of an eye he was on the room listening to his father as he declared him the next heir of the family’s business.“I won’t let you, Alas,” Ace replied with a stern voice.“Well then.” He walked back to Ace’s bedroom and take a look over the window.“What if I told you that she wants to kill you?”Ace followed him, but his face didn’t move an inch, making Alas conclude that he knew that all along. “How can you do that?” That moment,
“Now that it’s clear Mr. Tassel don’t want to join us, what’s your next plan?”Blanche turned to the computer screen, it was another day and they’re on the abandoned building again, Moss was trying to have a conversation with Blanche while Rat just stood beside the door with his palms buried on his face.It wasn’t like she never told him not to be here ever again, she just told him that his job was done after they got Hent. But Rat doesn’t like that idea, he never talked to Blanche after they got Hent though, it’s always a filler word, sometimes in Moss conversation or in command.Blanche let the poor guy stay. He’s the one who showed them the abandoned place so its just reasonable to let him stay.But one fact surface from all, Blanche thought she could pull Mr. Tassel to let go of the organization and rebel against them, she
As Ace went on to his car with Dog on the passenger seat, he blew air from his rolled-up window and whispered if that’s the thing that his mother wanted.Ace gave it to Alas.Ace’s always the one who gave, Ace protects his brother, Ace loves him, Ace…For years, he has the job of protecting his brother, he had a camouflage and worked at a comedy bar as a jester so that he’ll have a flexible schedule because when Alas needs his help, he shall be there for him no matter what.Because he’s the next leader, the heir to the family, he shall be protected, the family shall put their focus on Alas and trained him to be the next leader, that’s why he always have to do something outside and inside the country, he always have men that observed his surroundings and keep him away from harm, a henchman that would go wherever he wanted him to go.
“Blanche and I were part of a mission to kill your friend,” Misha started, Slidell’s mind wasn’t on the postponed date now, but on the fact that the whole night, Misha opened up to him.He felt like he had a new responsibility to protect, what Misha said and what she’s going to say was something she let him hold, because she trusts him already.“But Blanche didn’t kill him, as what you see. She fell in love with him instead.”Slidell had no idea whose friend she’s talking, not until she continued, that friend… was Ace Crowne.“What?!” He half-shouted and half of the people in the coffee shop turned their heads on them, so he repeated it with a hushed tone,“Why do you want to kill Ace Crowne?”-“She wanted
“Hent, you recognize me now?”It took a few seconds for Hent to reboot, her processor was a bit louder than usual, Blanche could here her CPU running.And it looked so difficult for Hent, because of her other parts still missing, her skin, the narrow fissures, hair and ears, it looked like she was just a standard robot now.After getting her out of the organization, Moss, Rat and Blanche together with Hent went to the abandoned building.The curse place was the perfect hiding place for them, no intruders dared to step out because of the circulating ghost rumors, and no one dared to speak or point on the abandoned building. Seems like people really put the curse in this to the highest level.It’s a cool thing that Rat worked many jobs and have known this. Blanche is not afraid of ghost, she doesn’t believe in one, one could only believe when you first see i
Hent opened her eyes just after the whole lab room lit up.“Who are you?” she saw the lady in all black who entered in the room and step on her platform as unidentified.Blanche couldn’t believe what Hent just said, she was sitting on a silver chair with wires come from her limbs and arm and a lot on her head, there’s plenty of black wires in her head and it’s all connected to the big computer with 2 small ones outside of her platform.She feels so cold, its like something has change but Blanche couldn’t point what that was.Or she could, she just doesn’t want to accept it. As she inched closer to Hent, her metal skin become more evident, it’s like they peeled of her skin, and she’s left with nothing but a white piece of cloth, evidence that she was put to pieces were visible for her skin has a lot of fissures than ever before.
“We only have limited time, are you ready?” Blanche repeated with worry in her voice. Rat’s slicing onions with a butcher’s knife with such mastery and skill, and as if he didn’t heard Blanche from the second time, he turned on the stove and sauté his chopped onions and minced garlic in a pan. The yummy smell didn’t take too long for the whole room to take.“Rachmaninoff.”Rat stopped and watched the spatula fall from his grip. “Blanche.”Blanche crossed her arms and rested the side of her body on the door frame. “Oh, so now we’re saying each other’s name.”Rat turned to the fridge and Blanche heavily sighed. Blanche became worried as soon as she gave him a suitcase full of money the other day on the abandoned building.“This is going to be your payment, you could take i
"If you're going to take your girlfriend to a date, where would it be?"Ace raised his head from the book he's reading to face Slidell.It's all about having a dragon as a pet, he heard Slidell's question, but he's on the part where the dragon caught a robber sneaking in the house, and so he weighed their importance for a moment before taking the time of turning the page to read what's next.Slidell threw a cushion at him, they’re in the living area of his flat, and Ace was sitting on the seat Blanche sat in the morning, with his two feet placed on the coffee table and his nose buried in the book that he found on Slidell's shelf."What?!" Ace caught the blue square cushion that was thrown with just one hand."Who's the girlfriend your referring to?" He closed the book and sat just what Slidell want him to do, he settled forward and put placed his arm on his knee and touch his chin, giving his full attention