"Y-you..." his voice trembled as his face was currently full of shock.
It's not that I blame him because if I were him, I will probably lose control of my expression after seeing someone that I thought was already burried deep under six feet onto the ground sitting on my chair inside of my personal office.
Unfortunately, It wasn't me but him.
"How have you been?" my nonchalant voice sounded across all over the room.
In a matter of seconds after asking him that question,his face change back to his normal cold expression.
He wasn't really that old because if you look at him closely, there's not that much wrinkles on his face maybe he's in his fourthies or so.
But his appearance was clearly saying that he's the boss and his coldness was adding to his aura telling people that he is the very top predetor in this world that seemingly as the wilderness.
But that was out of my concern at the moment.
While I am sitting on his chair, my feet are laying above the desk in a cross manner. I was currently cleaning my gun with a white cloth not minding his nearing figure. He stop exactly a meter away from the table.
"Zyril.."
When he called my name, that's when I finally look at him.
"Yes?" my playful voice unmatched my current stoic and indifferent face.
"...stop ghosting me." his reply made it hard for me to contain my laughter.
"fttt...HAHAHAHA..hah hah hahahaha." and I finally broke.
"What...hah the fuck was that question Luis?"I wipe the tears that fell on the side of my eyes after laughing out loud.
I can't believe he thought of me as a ghost. Is that really how unrealistic the situation is for him to think like that?
"You're alive?"the confusion was clearly shown all over his face.
"Yeah."still trying to return to my indifferent one.
"I-impossible.."it's really funny watching his expression change like this.
Well, you see this is only a once in a lifetime chance that I can see this kind of reaction from him. There's not really that much that would make him change expression, even if you tell him that the whole world is going to be destroyed tomorrow he won't even care and will always remain stoic and cold.
"Why are you here?" it's a shame he already manage to calm himself this fast.
But instead of answering his question I started to mock him.
"Are you really that desperate to get all my money for you to attempt to kill me? Don't tell me you're threatened by those small time organization? Did you fall far too low because of them? What a disappointment."
I may sound like a boss right now but I have the right to. In the other side of the beautiful world lies a dark and ugly side of humans. This is where money only mattered as much as connection. And right now, his wealth won't even reach a quarter of mine.
That's how much effect the police and all the small organization result to right now. Because if his initial wealth before everything happened was more than mine, now it's far too little that you can even compare it to those small time organization.
"You don't understand." his low pitch voice that show how angry he is right now match his eyes that is full of rage.
"He betrayed me. Edward.. Edward betrayed me." his trembling body show how much he's mad at the thought of his former personal assistant as well as his second hand man.
But he looks like a child who's having a hard time stopping his tears from falling right now. I held myself from laughing at his appearance right now.
I heard the news of Edward quitting his job, but I didn't expect him to be the reason why the organization is in this situation.
"He told me that he wants to quit because he wanted to change for his wife and for his soon to be born child. Of course I let him go, he already work for me long enough and I know it's already time for him to go.. He's my trusted aid and we've been together for more than a decade, I wasn't that selfish to stop and held him down in this dark and dangerous side of the world."
I didn't speak or even interrupt his dramatic speech and just continue to listen to him.
"We may have been the friend that got each other's back for so many years but that kind of relationship wouldn't last forever. We have our own personal life and there will be time when we will both go on our own separate ways."
"And I know...that it's already time for that."
Sadness reflect on his eyes even though his face still stays the same stoic expression.
I was actually taken aback by his sudden monologue that is all about his former assistant. I mean, I was talking about how he tried to kill me and now he's all about Edward. Well, let's just let him be.
"That's why I did what I have to do. I already readied myself long ago because I know this will soon happen but it's actually different from what I thought I would feel if that happened. I thought that I can easily let him go without much difficulty as I already thought far this much before."
"And yes, he left. He didn't even contemplate or have a second thought about leaving. He was actually happy when I gave my permission to him as I can see that much on his face. I didn't have doubt that he really want a peaceful life."
"But not even a week passed after he left that everything starts to crumble."
"My years of hardship just to put the Vercallion organization at the top was ruined in just a week of time. And that's because of him."
The previous sadness that can be seen in his eyes completely changed to the enraged one.
"The woman he married was someone ambitious and she wished for Edward to give her the world. The peace he once want change because of that single wish from her."
"I'm sorry but this is what my wife want and I'm willing to do it if it's her; that is what he told me when we met a few days ago."
"He's the only person that I trusted in my whole life but that trust is what brought me to this situation. Because of how much I trusted him is the reason why he know everything about this organization. He is knowledgeable enough about as much as I know in Vercallion."
"And that's what he used to bring me down. I don't kn-" he didn't get to finish his monologue when we both heard a loud alarm throughout the whole building.
[Attention everyone, someone has infiltrated the building. Alert everyone on 14th floor to head to the north wing as the infiltrator is currently in that location.]
Boom!
A loud boom shook the surroundings that made me hold the chair that I'm sitting. Not even a minute have passed when the door suddenly burst open and who entered the room was a familiar person.
It was Sean.