Cold Man And Miss Stone
45. I'm Unreachable

Soraya was struck by Emilia's eloquent accent. His breath began to hunt, completely unprepared for all this information. "You killed her?"

"Them," corrects Emilia.

A moment before Soraya ran, Emilia pulled him over, shutting her mouth tightly.

"There's something I have to ask you, right from the start, Soraya." Emilia plucked the poisonous needle from her arm without releasing the mouthfuls of Soraya. "I wonder why I should really care about you?"

The girl shivered.

"Your father killed my parents. They died and I was cut off from the world. No one knows about me. No one's. Besides, I'm unreachable. Ema, Emilia, whoever I mentioned, they don't know who I am. That's the life your father gave me."

"...."

"I didn't come for revenge. I'm not a stupid little kid who dissolves in unimportant emotions. To be honest, I don't give a *** about anything. I don't know about my parents, I don't even like them. Being angry over their deaths is none of my business. But someone asked me for Samuel. They wanted to work with Samuel. That's it."

Soraya started crying and Emilia said she didn't care about anything.

"But on the first day I came, you were hostile to me for no reason. To me, your excuses don't make sense. I am a villager and you are Soraya Ahkam. I'm with Samuel, you like Samuel."

"...."

"On the same first day your father sent a snake to my bed just to confirm Samuel's reaction. I'm not important. Just stuff. Just objects. Just something invisible."

"...."

"I honestly understand that. I treat you like that too. So, this is not revenge. It's something about action and reaction. Do you understand theoretical physics? I'm afraid your tol* brain won't understand."

"...."

"I saw you and your family happy when I was locked up in hiding. I like my cage. But I was thinking ... Have I been insulting myself because of your father?"

Emilia sighed. Poked a fine needle into Soraya's palm before releasing it.

"I just don't understand what I'm doing to you until I have to continue to accept that. What money? Power? If it's true, then it makes sense."

Emilia squatted in front of the girl's corpse.

"Money and power are sometimes very expensive, Soraya. That's why I don't like it."

...*...

"Is Mahesa still awake?"

Nine's distress call was answered by his wife Mahesa, Rashi. "No. He just fell asleep. What's up, Nine?"

"Yes. And sleep too."

Nine snorted, sending a video to Mahesa that he would open later.

He took a sip of his hot sweet chocolate while watching Emilia sitting near Soraya's corpse.

He talked a lot, was what Nine thought.

Some time Nine realized Soraya's mobile phone on the floor can he make a tool to communicate.

So soon, the phone that he had been tapping from the beginning was Nine connected to his computer.

"It was an emotional murder, Emilia."

The girl stared at the phone which was now only filled with the Shi logo and higanbana flowers as a symbol for their operation. "I'm just sick of them."

"Painful?"

"Does guilt reduce their arrogance?"

"Ma." Nine pushed her chair to add water to the brown glass, as she continued to speak. "Besides, Ahkam must indeed perish for the victory of our war. You kill him now or later won't really change anything."

"You provoked him?"

"Just play a little trick. Something called strategy."

"Then it's good." Emilia. "I need to move him."

"I'll make excuses for death from here. Just return him to his room. I'll watch."

Nine leaned her head against her chair as she watched Emilia begin carrying Soraya's body.

At a glance, Nine smiled.

She's a weak girl. Maybe that's why Mahesa just used him as bait for Samuel.

Lonely, alone, has nothing but his own heart.

Perhaps deep in his heart, he felt like he was not doing what he really wanted.

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