26th February 2031
Gulshan - 2
09:00
Everyone but Sohel was already in the car. Sohel was standing beside the car, waiting for someone.
"Come on, Sohel. The building's caretaker will receive the package. You can get it after we're back."
"No Naser. I'm not going anywhere without my package. Oh, look! It's here."
A delivery man came on a bike and stopped in front of him. After taking his signature, he gave Sohel a guitar bag. His friends got annoyed. Mitali said, "Really, Sohel! You made us all wait for an hour just for a fucking guitar."
"It's not just a fucking guitar. It's my guitar. Anyway, let's go; we're getting late."
Everyone gave him an annoyed look but didn't say anything. While on the way, Sohel let his friends know that two of his friends wanted to join them. They were already in Pabna and will meet them in the hotel. None of them really objects.
14:21
Ratnodweep Resort
They all get out of the car as two porters take their baggage. Naser told them that he had already booked five rooms for them. They decide to freshen up and meet at the resort's restaurant by 15:00.
Sohel entered his room. He took a shower and put on a fresh pair of clothes. Then he checked if the door was locked and pulled the curtains. He opened the guitar bag and took out a guitar. But without a second look at the guitar, he put it aside. Then he used a guitar pick and pressed on the corner of the back of the bag. Another compartment on the back of the bag opened up.
That compartment had a HK416 rifle, a M17 pistol, and a KM2000 combat knife. He took out and inspected the weapons one by one. Then he took a shoulder holster from his bag and wore it. He put the M17 in the holster and the knife in another hidden holster on his belt. But he put the rifle back in the compartment and put the guitar back. He left for the restaurant, leaving the guitar behind.
As he opened the door of the restaurant, he saw his friends were already there, sitting on a table in the corner. He reached the table and sat down.
Tahmid shrugged and said, "You're late again, Sohel. How the fuck are you even in the army with this shitty time management?"
"I'm sorry. Just took a long shower."
Naser said, "Where are your new friends? Weren't they supposed to meet us here in the resort?"
Sohel replied, "I don't know. They should be here. They told me they are staying at this resort too."
As they were saying that, two people approached them. One 23-24 year old Japanese girl with straight bob-cut hair and a round face. Another was a white man, clean-shaved, with blond hair and grey eyes.
"Hi, Sohel. We've been searching for you everywhere," said the girl. She continued while looking at others, "Hi everybody. Sohel may have already told you guys about us but allow me to introduce ourselves again. I'm Sgt. Naomi Kobayashi and beside me is Sgt. Jacob Williams. We were together in our boot camp in Tokyo."
Everyone else also greeted them. Sohel asked Naomi, "What about Shero? What's he doing? I don't know. These days he's doing really weird things like collecting junk, but his interaction skills with people have improved." Jacob looked like he remembered something. He took out a small box from his pocket and gave it to Sohel.
"Ann, sent it for you."
Sohel opened the box and took out a pair of glasses. He inspected it closely and looked overjoyed.
He wore the glasses and said, "It's awesome. Congratulate Annabelle for me, will you?"
Naser broke their talk and said, "OK. OK. Let's eat, please. I'm starving."
He looked at the other two and said, "Why don't you join us?"
Naomi answered, "Gladly."
As they had their lunch, they planned how they would spend the rest of their days. After eating, all of them decided to go outside. They wanted to explore the place.
Sohel told them, "You guys, go ahead. I'll meet with you guys in around an hour. Naomi and Jacob, you guys go too." They agreed.
Sohel came back to his room and noticed that someone had been in the room. He knocked once on the rims of his glasses and said, "Wake up, Aria."
In a moment, letters and bars appeared on the glasses screens. A robotic voice then said, "Aria, at your service, boss."
"Aria, scan the room and check if anything's missing."
A sound came from the glasses, and a moment later Aria answered, "Everything's the same boss, but your rifle is missing."
Sohel said, anger seeping out of his voice, "Fuck. Should've checked for spyware in the room. Aria, scan for me, please."
"Yes, boss. There's a microphone in the bedside lamp and a camera on the drawer handle of the dressing table."
"Thank you, Aria."
"Certainly sir."
Sohel removed the spyware and left the room as he told Aria to rent a car for him.