"This looks good and this too. Oooh, this one looks spicy and..."
Mike was busy searching for good food in his system store but couldn't choose since everything was tempting. He was like a woman in a jewelry shop, everything looked good and very tempting in his eyes
Meanwhile, In the other room.....
"So are you in love with Sir Mike or....", before the excited Elizabeth could even finish asking her question, Mina stuffed an apple into Elizabeth's mouth not wanting her to continue
Mina's face immediately turned beet red looking extremely shy. She felt like her biggest secret had been exposed for all to hear but little did she know that her reaction was enough of an answer to Elizabeth's question
Although Elizabeth's face looked innocent and fragile, her observation skills and her ways of thinking weren't those of an 18-year-old girl. She was a straightforward person who didn't like beating around the Bush.
"Just tell him how you feel and get over with it, " Elizabeth suddenly said after a few minutes of awkward silence "I'm sure you hold a special place in his heart too considering the way he acts with you, and you're also a rare beauty among beauties"
Mina looked at Elizabeth's face for a few seconds trying to see if she was serious or just making fun of her but the latter just kept a straight face
Mina had always been confident in her looks and appearance. She always thought of herself as a rare beauty among beauties
However, since the day she met Mike, all of her self-confidence disappeared, and she felt like she wasn't pretty enough. Such insecurities led her into doing 'makeup' and other things to make herself more beautiful
But despite her effort, the look in Mike's eyes never changed whenever he looked at her, it was like he never noticed the changes. He kept on looking at her as if she was his little sister which she hated so much...
'knock..'. Knock'...
As the two girls were talking, they heard a smooth knock on the dollar.
"Any idea of who it could be? ". Elizabeth asked
"no, let me go and see" Mina replied and started way to the door.
She didn't know why, but she had a bad feeling about it, her heart couldn't stop pounding. She felt as if her soul was begging and crying for her not to open the door
But, she ignored it and opened the door but before she could even see who it was, she felt immense pain on the left side of her chest as if something small penetrated her
"Miss Mina!" These were the only words Mina heard before her small body fell onto the floor with a dull thud.....
........
Mike all smiled in the kitchen busy thinking of how the cute girls were gonna shower him with praises when they taste the food.
He couldn't help but wonder what kind of expression Mina was gonna make when she tastes the food.
'Man, I'm a genius Mike praised himself as if he was the one who cooked the food and not bought it from the system store
However, his happy mood was soon interrupted when he heard a gun sound in the other room where he had left the two girls
Mike didn't waste any time and dashed to where the girls were but when he got there, he couldn't help but tremble and fall into despair
On the floor near the door was a lifeless body in a pool of fresh blood.
It only took one glance for Mike to recognize the body since he was very familiar with the person 'Mina'.
Mike walked a bit closer to the dead Mina's body and he couldn't help but burst into tears not realizing that Elizabeth whom he left with Mina was nowhere to be seen
Mike took a closer look at his best friend who was probably never going to wake up again and hugged her while screaming loud drowning in despair
'Why did you leave me?'
'what did I do wrong?'
'Please come back!'
He yelled like a mad man begging Mina to come back despite knowing that it was impossible, he just hoped a miracle would happen and she would suddenly wake up and tell him that she was fine and never going to leave him
Mike's shirt, trousers, and other parts of his body were colored red with Mina's blood but he didn't care. He didn't even realize that there was a pistol beside him which wasn't there when he rushed in
BAM!
Suddenly, someone kicked his door open.
Mike looked at the 5 policemen who had just kicked his door and pointed their muzzles at him
"THIS IS THE BEIJING POLICE DEPARTMENT, PUT THE BODY DOWN AND SURRENDER!"
Mike got confused and asked "What's going on?" His voice was filled with impatience and apathy
"Don't pretend as if you don't know what you did you bastard!" One of the policemen yelled at the top of his lungs with anger on his face
"WHY WOULD I ASK YOU IF I KNEW WHAT I DID YOU DIMWIT!" Mike snapped back at the policeman and the other party got enraged and pounced at Mike
Mike rested Mina's body on the floor and stood up with the great speed that he was even able to block the policeman's attacks which weren't special in the slightest. He looked like a little boy trying to fight an adult
Mike caught the policeman's fist which was directed to his face and twisted the officer's wrist without mercy
"AHHHHH!" the officer screamed like a little girl but Mike didn't care and twisted the other one
"HELP!!!" The officer's screams woke up everyone in the building
"Put your hands in the air and surrender!!" yelled the other 5 policemen while pointing their guns at Mike seemingly wary of him
Mike looked at the policemen and did as he was told.
He released the skinny officer whose wrists he had twisted and the latter just ran away and hid behind his fellow officers
"Put your hands on your head and face the other way" Commanded one of the officers who looked fat with a pot belly but Mike just remained indifferent to his order which made the officer angry
"Boy, do as you are told and we won't shoot!"
"You better do as sir Bradley says or we will shoot you punk!" said another one.
"Sir Bradley waits for no one especially murders like yourself" commented yet another officer.
Mike continued to ignore the officers and kept his indifferent expression plastered on his face until he heard the last officer's words
"What do you mean by 'murders like me' ".now he was confused. He didn't remember killing anyone except for the gangsters who tried to enslave Mina when they were coming from school
But he was sure he didn't touch the bodies with his own hands and he also burnt the bodies to Ash, so where did those officers get the proof?
"Don't look so confused, we all know that you murdered her and even tried to also kill Sir Jude's daughter but she was lucky to escape and inform us" Said the fat officer leaving Mike completely dumbfounded
'what exactly is going on and who is Mr. Jude, I never heard such a name before unless..... " Mike didn't even finish his thoughts when a familiar voice started yelling
" Yes, that's right sir Bradley, he is the one who killed her. If I hadn't escaped in the nick of time when he went into the kitchen to get his gun, I would have been killed along with my friend"
Mike looked at the source of the voice and saw a very familiar girl pointing her finger in his direction with tears in her eyes
"Elizabeth you..." Before he could finish his sentence, Elizabeth interrupted him
"Don't say my name as if we were friends you murderer. How could you kill a young girl who still had a long life ahead of her you monster and she even loved you" Elizabeth kept on saying nonsense pointing her finger at Mike.
Mike had a confused expression on his face looking at Elizabeth who was making false accusations against him
Another familiar voice also chimed for Elizabeth "That's right Bradley, this young boy is atrocious, he also came to my office this morning and kicked me. If I hadn't called my guards, he would have killed me too, but I decided to forgive him on account of my son's fiancee whom he was with but, I didn't expect him to kill her so ruthlessly "
Mike looked at the man and was surprised to see the principal he had beaten up in the morning.
"Youngsters these days have no respect, he also tried killing my daughter, no matter what, I won't let him off" yet again the principal blabbed lies fooling the people who had gathered at the entrance of his home
....
"What a wastrel, he killed someone, doesn't he fear God's judgment"
"he is the one who moved in 2days ago isn't he?, if that girl hadn't escaped she would have also been killed by that devil"
"maybe he planned on killing us too, thank God he was caught before he did it
...
The people who had gathered at his door entrance started passing different comments about Mike calling him names
Mike ignored everyone's comments and looked at Elizabeth with a calm expression on his face which wasn't what she had expected, she had expected him to fly into a rage and act like a mad man but his indifference to the matter made her feel uncomfortable
"What feud do you have with me?"