"What do you mean I can't participate?!" Someone snarled from an office across the Hallway of MI. Company.
Mercen walked in casually followed by silence and a beautiful coordination of his staff.
"You mind telling me the matter, young man?" Mercen asked, his voice highly pitched with seriousness.
To avoid further hate from Mercen, the noisemaker, as Mercen addressed him, quickly bowed to his feet.
Mercen's was more than sadistic and his smug wide. "What are you all looking at" He said, finally breaking the cold silence.
Yes, incase if you were ignorant; This is indeed Mercen Inkyumii. Arrogant, sadistic and very monarchical; but different was the case when it came to people that he was close to: he was lenient and kind, jovial instead.
"Well, I didn't tell you?" Ridka asked with an arched eyebrow. Mercen spun around on the office chair,
"nah" he said with a bored look; "why would I even care, I mean, it's just some random rumour" he added throwing a grape into his mouth.
Ridka sneered at him "thousands of people are dying from an unknown cause"
Ridka was determined to get to the bottom of this mystery but Mercen just wasn't of any help 'true he seems innocent but what then...who then is this imposter' Ridka thought caressing his imaginary beard.
"See, there you go again" Mercen pointed out to Ridka, snapping him back to reality.
"Huh?"
"No kidding man, this has gone too far, I bet your brain will wreck from all this overthinking of yours"
"Can't argue with that but honestly, I think I'm used to it" "wait..you said that on purpose" Ridka accused him
" 'course I did, you were boring me with your good-cop bad-cop drama"
"What do you mean... we're friends for goodness sake"
"Doesn't count" Ridka was beyond annoyed Mercen just wouldn't listen for once!
"A Mr. Ro by name" Bumuura said.
Those words echoed deeply in Ridka's ears
"But that was only five years ago; the memory is quite confusing...it almost felt like a dream"
Ridka tapped his pen thoughtfully on his desk. This was beyond confusing!. 'Were Ro and Mercen one person or were they two different people from two different worlds?'
Whatever it was, Ridka was determined to figure it out ...and soon.