Jin slowly swirled and stirred his iced cold latte, letting the ice hit the surface side by side like ping-pong balls. He watched as colours fused together into one. The cafe was so fiery with so much shouting and talking. 'Terrible design,' it sounds and feels like a microwave in here.
'Seems like I still remember the mundane things of life.' Jin thought. The man who called himself 'Isa' looked dazed in front of him. He had a controlled and unshakable demeanor to him.
"So how do you like the coffee?"
"It must taste terrible if you're drinking iced lemon tea."
Isa chuckled and shook it off. "Well, coffee usually gets in the way of my work more than you think." He took a sip and seemed to really enjoy what he had.
"So what did you say you were again?"
"I am the one and only investigator for the Dogs and I serve directly under the Mercenary King himself."
Jin was weirded out by Isa. For some reason it was as if Isa wasn't talking to him at all. His eyes constantly swinged to the sides. It was like droplets of rain, Jin could not tell if it was real or his imagination. Was there something behind him?
"Drink and enjoy your drink Jin, no one usually walks through the backalleys."
Jin was reminded of that horrid stench called a place. Right after Jin woke up, Isa dragged him along into the backalleys. They were attacked by unseen and untouchable force called bugs and their terrible smells. And when they finally made it to the cafe, they almost weren't allowed in.
"Then why did we need to go through that shit?" There is it again, that same preoccupied look on Isa.
Isa readverted his gaze, "I'm sorry, hahaha, I promise it won't happen again Mr Ibuki."
He continued sipping his ice lemon tea and occasionally cringed at the sourness of his drink. 'Why does it feel so weird talking to him? Is this usually normal? This kind of warmth and trust, it feels foreign.' A distaste stroke Jin's heart as he finishes his thoughts,
"PRAYANG!" The glass wall illuminated on the ground, reflecting the roof. 5 men with masks of the same animal broke into the cafe. 'They all held submachine guns except for one. He carried a sword and seemed to be the leader of the group.
"No normal mercenaries are slimy enough to take jobs against their motherland. They must be after a bounty."
Isa quickly drew his gun from his pocket and took 'it' out. It was a tiny finger-sized whistle. The men quickly trashed the shop, hurling tables and chairs as they close in on whomever they were searching for.
"Quickly cover the area, check for possible Dogs and search for our target," the leader of the group commanded as he quickly tied up hostages. "Look for uncut and messy hair, preferably bed hair. He's someone from the Second Breath Program."
Jin looked around for anyone with similar descriptions and he stuck out like a sore thumb. He looked to Isa for help and his face was calm and confident. He smirks and flips the table and kicks towards the bounty hunters.
"Come quick," Isa pulled Jin over to another table and hid behind it.
"Oi you asshole you wanna go?!" The mercenary grabbed the table and smashed it in half.
Jin's heart tensed, it was nowhere near the intensity of his fight against Viktor but he was still shivering. He clenched his fist and-
"Relax," Isa placed his warmth on Jin's shoulders. "I got this."
"Come outside now," this time the voice sounded more controlled and mature; it must be the leader. "Show yourself slowly and carefully with your arms raised, with weapons dropped. If you don't, we are going to need to squabble."
Isa got up slowly with his head down but his hands up high.
"Come towards me now and raise your head," creak, creak, crack. The floorboard echoed Isa's footsteps as he approached and as his nose horizoned revealing and blowing his small whistle.
"SHIT, he's called them abort and get the fuck out of here!" Like swarms, the other mercenaries discharged themselves, fleeing the vicinity. Bang! BANG BANG! Isa fired off multiple shots towards the mercenaries, injuring 1 or 2 of them causing them to screech on the floor like egg frying.
"You selfish asshole, you jeopardise our lives and now you want more blood?" The leader unsheathed his blade, his eyes filled with intense malice towards Isa. launching straight ahead. Jin could feel the force behind the launch; it caused even his shoulder muscles to tense and cramp as if he was in Isa's shoes.