His mind, floating in the void, began to reprocess and recall memories by collecting memories in turn. With an intense pain that engulfed his head as his memories came to life, he opened his eyes in a damp room with walls lit by a dim red light bulb. Throwing his left hand to his head, he gave the air in his lungs through his nose and straightened up and lowered his feet down from the ironing board where he was lying.
"My head..."
"So you've woken up, rookie."
When White raised his head in the direction of the sound, he saw a young girl with a scabbard stretching just above her large, black eyes.Her hair stretched all the way to her waist.
The girl put her arms together on her chest, tilting her head to the side. "Well... are you going to keep looking at me?"
White bowed his head with a tired smile, stroking his clap with his thumb and middle fingers for a while and went down the ironing board. He straightened his back and looked down on the girl, saying, "I'm sorry.I'm still trying to understand," he said. And as he walked past the girl, she grabbed the boy's arm.
White looked over her shoulder. "What's up?"
"How are you so comfortable?"
White saved his arm from the girl. "Because I'm a soldier."
When White left the room, he saw four leather-lined armchairs for three people facing each other. And while two of the three were sitting, one person was sitting in the couch directly opposite White, with his arms wide open to each side.
"Oh!.. The new guy has arrived. How are you, White?"
White frowned slightly and began to approach the seats."How do you know my name?"
The man pointed with his eyes at the teenager's left chest.When White looked at the pointed, he raised his eyebrows and sighed.
That's right. It's written on my chest."
The leader of the team, wearing officer-shaved, camouflaged military uniform, said, "On the left side of that name, S. What is the meaning of the letter?" he asked.
"An unimportant name." the officer sat in a corner of the seat where the shaved team leader was sitting, and stretched his feet on the table in the middle, as everyone else did. "You didn't take me with you just to ask me the meaning of the S. harif at the beginning of my name, did you?"
The leader threw his head back and laughed loudly."It means you want to get straight to the point. Okay." he took a deep breath and looked into his eyes."I want you to help us with something. You can live with us in return."
"Where did you get that out of wanting it?"
The leader took two pieces of paper out of his chest pocket and threw them into the teenager's lap. White opened up what was familiar to him from the papers, and when he saw the mixed letters and numbers written in it, he opened the other. There were some notes on paper.
I I : COUNTER GOAT (Cross from bottom left to top right. Writing; Rectangle with 2x4)
I 4 1 2 0
Q X F D I
X: LOCATION
X1: PIANO VENUE
F: HOURS
F2: NOON
D: ACTION
D0: KILL
Q: TIME
Q4: RIGHT AWAY!
"These are..."
"These are the short pieces of information written on the paper you gave. In the piano venue, you had to kill someone immediately at noon.I wonder who?.."
White looked at the leader. "How do I know?"
The leader smiled under his mustache and turned his body towards the young soldier."It doesn't matter. The important thing is that that man tells you that."
"What do you mean?"
"White look at me. I would do anything to kill this dishonorable.And if this guy tells you to kill someone there, he's definitely going to be there."
"He may be hiding in space," White continued."But you want me to meet him to come out defenseless."
The leader said, "Exactly," the leader said, endorsing the young soldier. So... What are you going to do? Are we partners?"
White looked into the leader's face after thinking for five or ten seconds, drawing his eyes into the void. "There are some questions I need to ask him. So give me five minutes before you kill."
"Okay. That's when we got a deal." he stretched out his hand.
As White gladly shook the hand that was handed to him, the leader turned to his team, saying, "By the way, my name is Nell Sei. Sitting in the opposite seat are the brunette twins Big and Ud. Block, a muscular and bald guy sitting on our left side, blind in his left eye. The calm, long-haired, handsome guy next to him is Lancelot.Sitting on our right is Empress Elizabeth, and our shy, glassed daughter next to her is Soana."
"Your names are really weird. You... where exactly are you from?"
With the question asked, Nell's eyes lit up and her chest swelled."We are the descendants of those who determine the fate of humanity."
As White looked Nell in the eye at the words he couldn't understand, the leader suddenly burst out laughing and everyone else joined him.
"It's not the time to joke," Block said.
"The leader was really surprised at what the new guy had been through," Lancelot said, backing the idea of the bald next to him.
Big and Oud kept laughing with open mouths.Their voice was so rattle and high-pitched that it scratched the ear.
"Now that we've struck a deal, let's share our plan with you, White," Nell said, and he stood up and pulled the cardboard wrapped in a cylinder from the drawer of his nightstand at the back of his seat. And laid it on the table.
"This is the map you see is a sketch of the Safe Area where we are. We're here and we're going to go on that red line that you see.But there is a problem. A big problem... If each of us walked this far with heavy weapons, we would attract a lot of attention, and you would never want that to happen. Therefore, a stranger like you should enter the place. If one of us enters, it attracts a lot of attention. So you press the red button on the controller that we're going to give you when that dishonorable person enters the space."
White nodded. "Well, I get it. And then?"
"Leave the rest to us. I'll go in front and mess up the inside, and ours will go in later.You're not even going to get your hand dirty."
"Where do I get the time to talk to him?"
Nell, put her hand over the teenager's shoulder. "Don't call us as you see him in the space.Call us as soon as you are vulnerable. Then talk as much as you can."
After examining the map on the table and the path to be followed from afar with his eyes for a while, White turned his head towards Nell.
"Let's do it."