Chapter 48 - tongue out

*KRIIING KRIIING*

"are the goods ready?" After a few rings, the phone was picked up.

"yes" Seraphina spoke nonchalantly to the other end.

"Who is this?"

"Fabian's new assistant. He is quite busy now for the shipments tomorrow, sir."

"Good."

*toot toot toot* the line was immediately cut off.

With a hoo, Seraphina turned around to see the quite a few people she held captive. They are held by a chair with their hands and feet tightly tied.

"Well?" Though her own being was almost covered with blood —from hers and from the others, Seraphina could not bother as she gazes to the fearful faces of the crowd.

"Who are you?!" A man with a thick glasses growled.

"A passer-by." She answered in a matter of fact tone. Leaning on the desk behind her. There are currently five people inside the room excluding Seraphina —four males and one female.

"You're not gonna get away with this." he warned and continued,

"Why are you doing this? If you let us go now, we won't tell anyone! I promise." looking at Seraphina, his stern voice resounded across the four corners of the room. His companion nods in agreement with him.

"Let's play a game… a guessing game! I'll ask easy simple questions and you're gonna answer. For whoever guess wrong shall be punished." The corner of her lips tilted as she finished her mechanics. A woman who finally musters her courage asked in a tense manner,

"What if we got it right?" She inquired. Among the people inside the room, the way she kept a strong front was commendable in their desperate situation yet questioning Seraphina made her voice less intimidating which showed all her emotions right there and then -- horrified.

Answered by a shrugged, Seraphina started her 'game'.

"what is the last food I've eaten?" her questioning eyes landed at a man in the corner.

"I'm not participating!" hearing the absurd question which has no relation to all of this -- panic struck him.

"Wrong." with a bored tone, she said.

*BANG*

"You are not in place to decide. You know that right?" with every minute passes, the girl in front of them gets more and more unbelievably terrifying. one can tell that it's their doomsday.

"Just kill us! You are sick! You are mad!" the woman finally lost it as she screamed at Seraphina.

"Is that so? Producing drugs, distributing them —is alright? not to mention the girls you held captive for what? To relieve yourselves? Now that the table's been flipped… hard to swallow isn't it?" keeping her cool, Seraphina's cold eyes landed on the woman, sending shivers down her spine.

[one hour ago]

The lever of the main power switch was pulled down causing complete darkness inside the whole building. Followed by a continuous shooting --one after another, people start falling down, with every bang of a gun. Not knowing who, what and how many enemies, they are facing they are desperate to fight back.

*BANG BANG BANG*

A man heavily breathes while leaning at on the pillar, reloading his gun. Just as he peeks to his unknown enemy, the tip of a gun was pressed on his forehead.

"Tell me Gavriil's location and you live." the man was stunned hearing a woman's voice yet it was not the seductive type but rather an intimidating one.

"He's not here!" he answered in panic. He slowly reached to his side but before he could do so, a kick landed in his abdomen. He grunts to the powerful kick he received and before he knew it, another kick was launch on his man jewel.

She swiftly pulled the gun, the man hiding on his side, c_o_c_ked it then pulled the trigger right in his face.

*SPLASH!*

The blood splashes again, tainting her face and body. It was as if the Seraphina she displayed in front of everyone was gone. All she is now is a beast that got out of her cage. Though the facility does not have many people facilitating it, it was still too much to annihilate a part of a crime group single-handedly.

But in Seraphina's case, her abomination of indulgence consumed her. Turning her head on the feeble sound of footsteps, she saw a girl. She was petite and young. Shivering by the sight of Seraphina, she stumbled down —frightened.

By the looks of it, she is like in her late teenage years. Pointing the gun at her, she tightly closed her eyes waiting for a deafening sound of the gun yet no sound came out.

Slowly opening her eyes, she saw Seraphina's figure walking away. She was confused, she spoke.

"Please…" hearing her trembling voice, Seraphina stopped in her tracks.

"Please kill me." her voice showed her whole soul— scared, confused, lifeless. No one could tell what the girl's been through but Seraphina was sure that it was not a good one.

"please… save me. End it… for me." she broke down trying to stop the tears that clouding on her eyes. Not responding to her pleas, Seraphina takes another step forward.

the time froze as another bang resounded through the facility. Turning her head, she saw the girl standing behind her —caught the bullet for her. Seraphina's reflexes were fast to return the fire and shot the person who almost shot her. Taking the man down, she caught the girl in her arms.

"Why?!" It was as if Seraphina was back to being human, she was confused at why the girl took the bullet for her.

"Please… save this island." Her meek smile and her last words —it was as if saying Seraphina owe her this one.

[Back to present]

"Just kill us! Even if you kill us the people would only be replaced and the operation will still continue!" The woman scoffs and spilled her piece. She kept her strong face for a long time but the humiliation she gets to the girl in front of her— she couldn't take it. Be it her ego, she can't accept the fact that a lone girl will be her downfall.

"na ah, who said I'll kill you? Call it a privileged that you are a she— you get to live." with a subtle smile, Seraphina grabs a small dagger on the table and slowly took strides towards the girl.

"What are you doing?!" The panic-stricken girl question. She shakes her body trying to escape yet she can't.

*Pak!*

She was slap by Seraphina, almost breaking her neck.

"Tongue out." the girl's inhumane aura tells her that her fate will be worse than death.