Chapter 106 - Accomplice

"The danger's still there. That crazy wench has nothing to lose now. She could only escalate. Consider the days after this the calm before the storm."

Ryuu's words jolted Kazehaya's brain. He had totally forgotten that he had something important to tell him regarding the crazy bitch. It was something he'd been meaning to tell him but totally escaped his mind because of the emergency last night and because he had high fever afterwards.

"Ah!"

He almost jumped from his seat.

"What?"

"Okada's cohort! I know who that guy is now!"

"Oh?"Ryuu's eyes glinted with interest. Finally, after weeks for investigation, they were able to find out who was the person who sabotaged the breaks in Ara's car that caused the crash.

"Fuuma's report came yesterday. The guy who did that to her car's not really the main accomplice."

"There's more than one?"Ryuu's eyes turned into slits.

"Yes," Kazehaya's voice also turned grim. "It was just a lackey. Okada Koharu's real partner is her real mother's ex-husband."

Real mother's ex-husband…

"And?" Ryuu was sure there was something else.

According to the first report they received, Okada had no close relationship with anyone. Even though she did visit her real mother from time to time at her workplace, there was no indication that she had contact with her stepfather in prison. Also, it was reported that the girl hated her stepfather who was always making a pass at her, so, they never thought the man was connected to the case.

"He's a gang leader in Kabukichou, right? He just got out of prison around the time Ara had her accident."

All of this information was already known to Ryuu, but he let Kazehaya continue.

"It seems when the girl got so desperate the first time she ran into the stepdad who just got out of prison. Somehow they formed a partnership, and the guy's been taking care of things for her. It was one of his underlings who rigged Ara's car. Furthermore, the Chief of Police uncle who erased the evidence and declared the thing as an accident owed the stepdad lots of money. It was easy for him to threaten Okada's uncle to remove the evidence."

"Is that so?"

Ryuu's voice sounded dangerously low. His eyes glittered cold and hard, that even Kazehaya unconsciously swallowed. When he's tensed like this, the air around him seemed so oppressive. Gin watched as Mavara suddenly came out of Ryuu's shirt and settled on the side of the prince's neck again.

"Koutaishidenka, calm down. Your elemental's getting excited," Kazehaya told Ryuu who seemed to snap out of his thoughts, and the air returned to normal.

Sensing that his master was not going out to hunt, Mavara circled around Ryuu's neck twice before returning inside his clothing.

"Have them watched at all times. The crazy woman will get in touch with them again soon. Let them do their stupid move. Let them give us a reason to annihilate them mercilessly."

Kazehaya nodded. In short, they would let the other party do whatever they wanted, and they would strike them all down at the right time.

"How did that girl convince her stepdad to follow her?"Ryuu asked afterwards.

Kazehaya cleared his throat, a look of disdain on his face. "How do you think? How else could a pretty girl convince an old lecher who obviously had the hots for her?"

Homura Ryuu arched one raven brow. "Paid with flesh didn't she?" He shouldn't have asked.

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In an old house around Kabukichou, all the lights were closed, except the one in the bedroom, where a low lamp on the bedside table illuminated the otherwise darkened room.

The creaking of the bed, vulgar grunts and sighs echoed in the chamber, as flesh pounded against flesh in a primitive dance of carnality. Pieces of clothing lay haphazardly on the floor in nebulous mounds as the two souls on the cot continued on with their very private activity.

Minutes passed, and the sounds they made became more urgent, sharp and shallow as they slowly reached the crescendo of their pleasure. With faces contorted in decadence, their throat raw, their bodies stiffened as they screamed their release.

"Get off," the girl underneath snapped, as soon as she recovered her senses, pushing at the man's chest on top of her whose manhood remained sheathed within her.

The man groaned, unhappy to be disconnected so soon, but he conformed nonetheless. It had always been like this between the two of them, and he already got used to her moods after sex. Also, he didn't want to remain coupled with her when the bitch just panted someone else's name again as he rammed into her.

He was already used to her delusions though – being so madly infatuated with a boy from her school. However, even he would be miffed upon learning that after three years of running after the same guy, she suddenly switched to another.

"Why are you extra snappy today?" he asked as he got off her and the bed to grab his shirt from the floor to put it on.

His muscles rippled as he moved, and he almost smirked as he saw the awful girl staring at his body. He might be middle-aged, but his physique was almost youthful and well maintained he could rival those of men in their twenties.

"You're asking me why? Because those stupid people didn't follow the story! It's not supposed to be like this! I'm not a villain. I'm a princess – I'll be the princess," she ranted, and he almost regretted asking.

This girl, even if she was always out of touch with reality was his woman – the woman that took him years to get.

He was married to her mother first, years ago. But that ex-wife of his stopped taking care of herself and became so old and ugly so fast. He was annoyed for he really liked her face a lot – and her body. He thought he'd lost the woman he wanted when this young version of his wife appeared.

Koharu didn't like him of course. He was more than twice her age, and he was her stepfather in a way. When he divorced her mother and was taken to prison for a gang-related case, he thought he'd never have his chance with her.

Until that day…

It was a good thing Koharu was so delusional. In order to get what she wanted, she would do anything – even give her body to him.

"So? Do you still want to take that girl out?" He was referring to the girlfriend of the other boy she liked before, the one she had wanted to kill originally last November.

Koharu's eyes turned glacial, her face stiff. "Of course. That bitch and those other bitches who were supposed to be my friends, they can all just die."

TSK TSK

Such big, terrible words for such an innocent-looking girl. Her speech amused him, however.

Killing? Maiming? He'd done all of those before. To do those in exchange for Koharu's body was nothing to him. She didn't know of course that the next time she'd ask him to do something, he'd make sure to take the man she's crazy about out of the picture as well.

He was getting sick and tired of listening to Koharu's love matters. After he took good care of competition, he would make sure she'd be screaming only his name so passionately in bed. With this thought, the part of him which had been satiated just a while ago became alive again, and he removed his shirt and threw it back on the floor as he turned to her.

"I want to do it again…"