Deja Vu [ Lilian Ashley ]
30. The Bitter Truth

A consciousness that has been lost, eventually returns and can open the eyes until the results look at the white nuances of the hospital room.

I automatically glanced at the digital clock on the nightstand next to the bed I was sleeping on. As per my estimation, the 23rd and the month of July in the early hours. Indirectly I just fell asleep on the path of drowning and woke up bad luck. Silly, but at least I managed to live.

"Thank God you're awake."

I sat down when a voice I didn't want to hear after the door opened and showed someone coming in. After last night's incident, he still dared to show his face in front of me. Who else is not a DJ.

I turned my face away from her and stared at the window.

"Why are you so indifferent?" The DJ's voice was getting closer and he pulled a chair to sit next to my bed. "By dropping down like last night, and then being saved by Zack, can it still convince us that he's a man who doesn't deserve to be removed?"

He knows my purpose in committing temporary suicide. As I expected, Zack really helped me.

"If you're not sure, should I repeat the same?" I turned and stared at DJ patiently. "Choose. I'm not afraid to die if you insist on catching Zack."

DJ put down his plastic bag and took out a bowl, then poured orange soup. I guess that's the pumpkin soup on the caffe menu.

"No, we're sure he's a really good guy" the DJ said with a smile and made me feel a little relieved. He fed me the soup and I devoured it to the point of feeling right if my guess was right that it was pumpkin soup. "It's really good to just lo, Ley."

Expressions change.

"really? So, his friendly attitude when being a caffe subscription, how?" ask me calmly.

"Everyone can also be kind to cover up his rot, too" DJs said.

I looked at him cynically and remembered that it was not wrong for Zack to have an evil side protected by his real self.

"Then explain to me what the rottenness is like to make you go to catch it" I asked after swallowing a mouthful of soup.

"Lo's like a person suddenly exposed to alzhaimer," grumbled the DJ before exhaling heavily. "Zack is a member of the asashin division of the dark corporation Near Crew. You know asashin, don't you? It means a hitman."

"What's his motive for working for the company?" rebuttal rush.

"Gue doesn't know either." DJ poked on his shoulder. "Our goal is to stop the company from operating through reducing its secret workers. The less members are, the harder they are to meet consumer demand."

I was stunned for a moment. "So, the company was serving consumers who were asking for ...,"

"To kill the target," the DJ sidelines, "And Yurika gets the info that Zack is one of them."

Where did the info get clear?

"Then, why isn't it just his company that you guys are putting together to get his roots resolved?" sergeant rush.

DJ looked at me. "Lo think it's that easy? They don't operate at one point. If you wish to report, what evidence should be provided?"

"And you're moving independently?" my connection. "Despite being a hero in fighting crime, and using me as a fishing rod?"

"We have our own reasons." DJ put the empty bowl on the nightstand next to me. "Just like Zeha. Friends and people he likes have been ensnared by the company. So is Aya, and so am I."

The mood became quiet. I started to digest what we were talking about.

"You're arresting Zack just to extract information from him?" ask me with the element of making sure.

DJ's lips reveal a smile. "Don't think about Crystal last night. We're not gonna kill him, it's an act beyond limits."

Now I get it. They are also unlikely to meet Zack directly because of the risk that scares them. Most importantly, they want to attract back people they think are important. I've felt how losing someone must be worse than all the Norn members I thought. Especially this guy next to me.

On the other hand, Zack and I are not from this world. It would have been inappropriate for Zack to get ill-treatment that he would not have treated the same as me. Whatever Zack or I did in the past in this world, that's not our responsibility. Our souls are merely stranded on our other bodies in one of the parallel worlds.

Let me prove once again that Zack has nothing to do with them. Although what DJ and Cate members were talking about was true, it was all the other Zack's deeds in the past.

"All right, I'm going to have an employee tour" I said suddenly. "But, can I join you guys operating in the cafe?"

"Lo is the Manager, obliged to participate in the activities that you ordered the children caffe," replied the DJ.

I don't know why I've been thinking about tour clerk before. Is the goal of the DJ in the previous world the same as this, which is to bend Zack? If so, it's definitely a failure because Zack always follows everywhere.

"We agreed to do this, right?" DJ starts to end the conversation.

I nodded with certainty.

After all that, we were welcome by the hospital to go home because there was no recommendation for me to stay longer. Anyway, I don't want to linger here.

DJ drove me by taxi to my apartment and immediately said goodbye when I refused to accompany me on the grounds that my condition was not necessarily stable. I've been thinking about caffe and it's possible that the DJ announced an employee tour of the caffe kids ahead of me.

When he entered the apartment and closed the balcony door that had previously been open because of me last night, immediately the cellphone that was still lying on the floor was ringing a sign someone called me. I picked up the phone that displayed an unknown number on its screen. Definitely Zack. He knows that I'm here.

I picked up the call and immediately heard the greeting from the person I had expected.

"I'm sorry if I can't see you in the hospital. I saw that DJ came to you first" Zack said guiltily.

I sat on the couch listening to Zack. "What's wrong, and thank you for yesterday for helping me."

"Why plunge yourself from up there into the sea?"

I smiled when I heard the question. "I'm sorry, I had to."

"Forced because of what? You're making me worry so much!" sergeant Zack with a high note.

"Before answering that question, can you answer me first?" I intend to confirm if Zack knows about what the DJ is talking about.

Zack paused for a moment before replying, "Sure."

"Is it true that you work for a dark company?" Enough with that one question to confirm all the negative statements I know.

"true."

My body became tense, the tempo of my heart beat became fast and fear enveloped me. My estimate has collapsed as a result of Zack validating what I refuse to believe. Aren't we both from this world? The entire parallel world was very different from the other world and there was no way our world was the same as it is now so terrifying!

"You didn't say anything wrong, did you?" hurry up to get off the couch. My reflex is flicking my hair back and biting my lips.

"No, the answer to your question is correct" Zack replied, which made me walk back and forth.

"So, from our original world, there's no difference from this world?" I threw a question again.

Zack was silent for a moment. "Antar of other parallel worlds has only a slight difference. Maybe all that's different here is a position in your job. There's no more."

If this is the case, I can't fight what the Norn organization is doing. From the beginning I was wrong in judging. Maybe this is why Zack told me to stay away from him.

"Know where?" I was shocked when Zack asked that question.

I can't tell you the real answer. I was foolish to ask questions that could have harmed the Norn members. Switching topics is the solution.

"Its unimportant. From the very beginning who could know everything just you, and the question I should know from the beginning, why would I lose all memory?" With this, I can also get important answers.

"That's because ...," Zack's voice rattled out, then he was silent for a long time.

"Zack?" call me.

The sound of the sound was clearly heard by me. "Sorry Ashley."

"What's wrong? Tell me," I said quickly as a result of being impatient in waiting for an answer. Why would Zack apologize to me?

"I, I am the cause of your memory loss" said Zack, to the surprise of his bitter remarks.

Before I threw in another question about how it could happen, Zack resumed his sentence.

"And I am the cause of your death."

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