Janus was getting out of the hospital he stayed in when he was suffering from an injury due to the accident that made him fell down from the cliff. He stepped at the front of the automatic sliding door then opened automatically and gets out of the building right after, the sun was still bright but not as bright to blind him indicating that it was passed afternoon. Near the white post, there is a woman that visited him earlier was waiting outside and she walks towards him holding a white paper bag with a brand logo of watch.
Janus slowly starts to feel strange again as the lady was getting near at him, making him calm, weak and relaxed until she was at the front of him and her eyes were looking up, she angrily stared at Janus's eyes.
Her mouth starts to move as it starts to say something.
"Whatever you said, I still feel indebted to you; at least accept this and the deal is off."
The woman was handing over the white paper bag to him. Janus grabbed it and opened it slightly, the moment he saw what's inside, it was an elegant black watch that looks like expensive but Janus closed the bag and opened his hands from holding it. Now the bag has fell down to the ground as his hands let it go.
He walked two steps forward getting near at the face of the lady. He stared down to the lady's eyes calmly until his lips starts to tell her the words indicating that he, Janus, was rejecting the watch that was presented as a gift of compensation to him.
He's telling to the lady that he doesn't want or even need those things and he's wishing her to stop bugging him because he needs to get home already. Janus was slowly walking away from her finding a car but suddenly remembered that there was never a car left for him in the first place because the white-van was used by his friends going to the eastern part of this city to buy jet to let them go to their hometown.
The woman walks towards him knowing that there was nothing for him to drive for; she offered her a drive in her black-company car.
"Sy-ner-gy?"
Janus saw the Synergy logo at the bumper of the car she was offering to drive with him and he asked to himself confusingly.
He just stared down at the lady as he was thinking about what's her connection to the company. But he still accepted the offer for a drive.
They got inside the car where Janus was the one to drive as he decided where to go, Janus was telling her that this thing that she did for him was enough to repay the debt and after this, there is no reason for them to meet again while Janus saying it coldly to the lady.
The lady was forcing Janus to accept the gift she was offering to stop herself from irritation of being indebted to him because letting him drive her car was not enough for her to pay it but Janus rejected it again and again.
Janus was driving towards the direction of western coast where the port was located, he told to the lady where the destination he would go.
Janus starts to ask her name and her connection to the Synergy Company instead of accepting the watch, this would be enough to settle it.
"I am just the director of that company, my name is Maika. Maika Kouris."
- She replied.
Janus realized that Kouris surname from the old times when he was living at the past life means that someone who is living inside the forest while Maika means someone who is like God. Completing that was a result of someone who is like God living inside the Forest which was totally related to the satyr, the creature he was before he reincarnated in this modern world. But Janus introduced himself and asked something instead of saying that thought.
"I heard the former CEO has died because of old age and the new CEO was introduced right?"
"By the way I am Janus, Janus Nephus."
-He said.
"Yes, the thing is, they are my family, the new CEO was actually my father but never mind, just continue driving."
-She said.
Janus was shocked from what he heard, the new CEO that the lady was telling about was the one he killed before and what's worse is that he was her father.
Janus thought that this is Kairos (Kairos means a propitious moment for decision or action) to kill her but concerned about not wanting to involve her as she is innocent and something strange that made him calm and weak was felt towards Maika.
It was already dark, the moon can be brightly seen at the sky already when they reached the port. Maika was found asleep inside the car as Janus doesn't even interrupted her from the depth of resting, he just left the keys at her pocket and got outside the car.
The cruise ship was waiting for Kairos as the line of people getting in for a ride was visible, it was long, the ticket he was having was from the one that Angelus prepared earlier due to the reason that he knows what Janus would want to ride to get home, Janus just found it inside the chest pocket of his scarlet suit as he gave the ticket to the one that was inside the glass room that stapling those.
Maika opened her eyes slowly as she woke up looking at her left side thinking where is Janus. The cruise ship was seen at the front of her eyes thinking that Janus might ride in it. She got annoyed because Janus has no manners to even inform her that he will leave already.
Maika got out of the car and she ran towards the line of people that now became short because the departing schedule was 20 minutes away, that's the screen attached to a post was telling. Until finally Maika was the one who was at the front of lady who was stapling the tickets, there she doesn't have one to show to making the staff to disappoint but as soon as Maika got her wallet from the pocket inside her pink suit, she opened it in the middle and an Identification Card was seen, it was from Synergy Companies telling that she was the director.
The lady was thinking about it because it was still against the rules about someone who doesn't have reservation to get the ticket was not allowed to ride the cruise ship.
Maika told the lady that she was going to pay 2.5x the fee of the ticket just to let her ride and the lady agreed, as the ticket cost was Q3,000 and eventually sold it to her at the cost of Q7,500. She immediately paid it through card where she slide it in the scanner and typed the code until she paid the exact amount. She was rushing finding Janus to let him know something about the necklace but he was nowhere to be found.
Janus was walking towards the hallway of the cruise ship, looking for the cabin with a room number that can be seen at his key card, it was room 44. Number 4 was unlucky due to the reason in eastern part of this world, that number was sound like death and if it was doubled, it would mean destruction. There are elevators in 4 eastern countries that doesn't even have 4th floor button.
He reached the room 44, at the right side of the door; there is a scanner that will just read the key card in order to open the door.
He lets the card touched the scanner and immediately a green light line was moving up from the bottom scanning the key card. The door automatically opened as Janus gets inside the cabin.
The room was elegantly designed with a huge space; it has king-sized bed and a TV. When Janus starts to lie down on the bed, he breathe deeply as he wants to rest but something has bugging him as to why he was getting calm, relaxed and even cried when he saw the necklace that's why he gets up and opened a glass window.
There he saw the sea and coast, looking at the scenery again just to clear his mind but it was not enough to make him remove the thoughts about the necklace thinking why it was so familiar to him.
"The ship is leaving the port; the scheduled arrival to the destination is April 10, 2021 at 7:00 in the evening. It will now move to go to Caesars, a city in the eastern country of Axton."
- The speaker announced.
The destination was far but Ithaca, Janus's hometown was somewhere between the current place and Axton distance. Janus looked at his watch and it was 10:00pm already as it was the exact time that the ship will leave from the port.
He walked onto the bed as he gets the remote control on his side, above the cabinet near the lamp. As he grabbed it, he clicked the red button indicating that he will watch the television.
"It was undoubtedly a murder, the policemen that assist the CEO was also found dead and burnt to ashes inside the warehouse. All the departments and national staffs already started the investigation regarding the murder case of the Synergy CEO, Dario Kouris."
- Reported by the woman news reporter of IMA channel.
Janus turned off the television because he was not in the mood watching already, he was still overthinking about the necklace and why he doesn't kill Maika because she was daughter of the CEO was all over in his mind.
All he had to do was reach something inside his pocket, he was irritated because it will take long for him to get home, he was rushing to go home due to the reason that there are many things he needs to do in his hometown and he missed his friends already.
He's got a touch-screen cellphone and clicked the button at the right side to open it. His thumb slides the screen and opened the dial typing a contact number in it.
"020-4266-6444"
-He typed.
He put his cellphone in his ears as it was calling the number, the person he called was Jeremy saying hello to Janus but Janus immediately answered something.
"Tomorrow morning, use the money to buy motorboats and also pay when you buy rifles from Gun shop. One more thing, tell this to Angelus so he can hack and remove my name from the registration as one of the passengers here, the location and the plan will be sent to you on 10:30pm."
- Janus calmly told to Jeremy.
"Yes sir."
-Jeremy replied then hanged up the call right after by Janus.
Janus opened the door and got out of the cabin then walks through the hallway, passed the stairs going to bridge where the bridge (navigation system room) was located. Inside the bridge, the nautical staffs were seen.
Janus gets inside the room, walking slowly towards them while the staffs starts to look at him and one of them was stopping him but Janus brought out his gun from his suit and aimed it to the one that's approaching him.
"Don't move, look, I won't kill him, I'm just trying to negotiate with you guys."
- Janus said.
"What do you want? What is it?"
- The helmsman (pilot) said.
"It was simple, I have some treasures here and willing to give it to you and there's more, if all of you especially the one who was in charge as the highest position here must sign this contract, feel free to read it but what's important that's in it was each of you and the people whoever you want to include to help us will get paid."
- Janus calmly said while throwing a little moneybag filled with gold on the floor.
"What are you telling us? What is it that you want to negotiate? Get to the point, bastard."
- One of the officers said, his name can be seen in the plate in his chest, it's telling Dorian Fisk.
"Tomorrow morning, this ship will be hijacked, I have my people getting all the money from the other employees and passengers, oh I forgot, I will include the people working in the ER (engine room) too. 60% of the money that will be collected can be yours, I will distribute it to you guys secretly, all you just have to do is to pretend to be our hostages including the security department, we will not kill you, and we will just do an act and scare people out of their minds to surrender all their wealth to us. If you won't sign or agree, don't worry, it's just the bombs were planted somewhere and all of us will die, unfortunately the money and your lives will lost if that happened."
"Okay okay, we understand, I know we have to talk about this but I think this is the best thing we can do, we already experienced once of these schemes so give us the contract."
- Dorian said.
Janus threw the contract that was hidden from his suit right after while giving a glare at the officer he's talking to. Janus just smiled slightly and he already knew that all was according to plan.
He gets out of the door of the bridge, the staffs and officers finally had breathed comfortably. They started to talked about it why the Dorian decided so fast. The situation gave chaos to them but the officer who agreed to Janus started to say something.
"Don't worry about it, his name is Janus, I know him. Just calm down and relax, this thing already happened once a long time ago and you will see that everything will be just fine plus there will be more money to come for us, hahaha!"
- The officer merrily told to them.
Janus was walking down the stairs as he was going inside the middle of the ship.
An opera has already started when Janus gets in, he gets a wineglass and poured the red wine in it before going down to sit and watch it.
In the middle of the stage, there is a poor-looking mother kneeling down while holding his dead son, she was crying while the musicians hiding at the left side of the stage, they were playing Requiem by Mozart.
Janus drinks the red wine while sitting, his face starts to looks like focused while happy, it gives off a positive vibe to him because he loves watching operas and listening to classical music. He's saying something to himself while holding the wineglass.
"What a wonderful sight and great musical composition choice, this requiem was celebrated the night before their death."
Janus said to himself while the musicians played the climax part of the Requiem musical composition.