EMBRACE YOU: Presence & Poison
Episode 343

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“First, tell me honestly, where's the bomb you installed? Not that it remot.” I pointed at his hand.

“Why should I answer—”

“You have been complicating Bayu's investigation all along, at least that's worth it!” my tone of voice rose, not letting him choose.

“A—I don't want to answer that.”

“Then, there is no reason for me to continue this.” I'll stand up but Cilia screams first.

“I WILL DETONATE THAT BOMB!” He threatened me. His hand holding the remote looked trembling.

“No bomb.” I said calmly looking at him.

“A—what? Of course there is bomb—”

“The last bomb exploded during capture.”

“We don't believe in this remote?! I'll prove—”

“If you want to blow it should have been since, from the beginning you did not put a bomb in the house around here because this place had landslides before. The first explosion at the time of the arrest, it happened because it was the site of his lab. Yes ‘kan? You will choose a house with solid soil for a research lab. So, you guys aren't stupid enough to put a bomb somewhere else.” The hand holding the remote looked limp as if it was useless.

PAAKKS

Cilia threw the remote and looked at me coldly, “we smart people, of course know the conditions in this place.”

My mouth folded inward, I tried not to laugh, holding back the laughter of satisfaction because everything I said was just a guess, but it turned out that my guess was proven to be true.

“The second one, since you have kidnapped me, now tell me, where are the people you kidnapped too??”

“We are not—”

“They are in this village ‘kan? Where is it?” I pressed every word.

Cilia was silent, looking at her who had turned her gaze away from me a sign that she was indeed hiding something.

“Are you crazy?! You're accusing us of kidnapping someone else?? Huh!” Cilia looked at me angrily, but I could see that she was pretending to be angry to shift the subject.

One more thing I noticed before facing Cilia, in the distance I could see a group of people who were captured and watched by a team, he said, but since then I haven't seen any hostages for drug trials other than me because I'm sure, they must be hiding somewhere.

Either in this village or not far from here, and Cilia's reaction said that my guess this time was also true.

“You don't want to say it? Means no more discussions.” I shrugged, immediately standing up from the chair calmly as Bayu and his team's request was to hold Cilia for a few minutes until they could figure out the bomb that Cilia had set up, she said, but it turns out the bomb was just a lie. Then, even if Cilia does not want to answer my second question, sooner or later they will be interrogated and everything will be discovered.

“Do you think I'm the only one controlling the bomb?” cilia's angry growl stopped me.

I looked at him, waiting for him to continue. “our team elsewhere will know something is wrong with us here. They'll come here and detonate another bomb.”

“Ahh if about that you don't worry.” I turned around, not expecting the answer to Bayu.

“Do you think we only hunt here?” there was a small smile of satisfaction on Bayu's face when his gaze could not be separated staring at Cilia.

My eyebrows shot up, I did know that Bayu was investigating about Rey and all of this, but hearing it directly from his co-workers was like this was different. There was pride and satisfaction in the tone of this man's voice.

He then turned to look at Cilia, her voice heavier than Bayu's voice added, “all your branches have been caught at the same hour as in this place. We moved simultaneously this morning.”

I turned to Bayu again and gave him a thumbs up. Bayu smiled slightly before one eye blinked.

“Kamu—” Cilia was at a loss for words as her eyes smolderingly stared at Bayu.

“Am I done here?” I asked the man who spoke.

The man nodded and smiled in satisfaction, “thank you for helping.”

“—apa...” voice urges Cilia to turn our gaze to him again, “what request to three if I answer the second.”

My smile grew even more and more to see how Cilia was very curious about my answer on why my body was fine against her hormone poison.

“Hmm.. what yes, I did not think for the third. Then, how about you offer me something balanced with that answer?” askaku.

Then I could feel a soft swipe at the top of my head. Without even looking I know, this big and soft hand belongs to Bayu.

“Don't the answers I'm going to give mean so much to smart people like you? I'm very sure that my answer will satisfy you because only I know how my body is.” I said, pushing her a little more so she would tell me where they were keeping the people who were the object of the study.

Cilia's fingers moved quickly as if she was calculating a profit and loss in this talk. I saw him chuckle in disgust considering that we were ever close.

“That's enough. Come on you have to go back.” Bayu patted my shoulder from behind, helping me to make Cilia decide quickly.

I nodded, did not refute and immediately turned around with Bayu pushing me from behind.

“K—we're not finished! How about the other hostages—”

“Oh?!” I turned around quickly. Cilia was really messing around, she easily fell into a trap.

“Where are they?” ask me again, this time with a serious and urgent tone.

Cilia lowered her head, closed her eyes and replied, “they are in the underground g—house inside the half-built house that is broken. A—ada doors blocked by the ground.”

“Hah! Really!!” I feel emotion hearing the answer. Whoever's in it, they must be scared and their lives in danger.

One of the men signaled the other man to check the place, he immediately ran a small run past me to get out.

I shook my head in disbelief, looked at Cilia and turned around, not wanting to continue our chatter, but Cilia who stood up from her chair made the other two men move as well to hold her back.

“Answers!! You haven't given me the answer!!” he urges.

“Hei. Didn't you hear that? Three deals! You do not offer anything in the last question.” Bayu replied resentfully holding back his anger, he grabbed me and pulled me closer to him.

“What?! What do you want?!!” he screamed in despair.

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