Chapter 18. Trust (2)
One. Two. Three.
Unlocked at the signal. I opened the door slightly and stepped back. The hinges beep and groan.
“Kruk.”
Zombies come into the open door. Suddenly, Leticia’s submachine gun bursts into flames. The head of the guy who came in front flies off.
As soon as he falls down on the bonnet, another zombie comes in. Leticia shoots again. Put it on her single foot, take one step, then another. A zombie pierces the center of her forehead and causes her to kneel helplessly. No matter how strong a zombie is, if her head flies off, she is a marionette with no strings attached.
“Gyaaagh!”
The third guy came in, bending his body slightly. A bullet from his submachine gun pierced the top of his head. The fourth guy couldn’t even get inside because of the dead zombie in front of him. Bang! This time I finished it off with a pistol. Because the angle was very awkward for Leticia to shoot.
The wriggling stopped. There was no sound anymore. I waited for about 30 seconds and whispered.
“I will upload the shutter. Please take a look. “There might be more out there.”
Leticia nodded her head and answered.
“Put it up half way.”
I was planning on doing that anyway. Just in case, there might be someone waiting outside. I pulled her chain, closed the pulley, and the shutter rose with a loud creak.
“Keuuu!”
As expected. One guy was waiting outside. When the shutter didn’t fully go up, the impatient guy knocked on it. Without hesitation, I shot both of his ankles. When the guy collapsed, Leticia finished him off with a single bang.
“John, are you calmer than I thought?”
Leticia seemed quite surprised.
“Because I have the world’s most reliable soldier by my side?”
“The situation is not over. “Don’t relax.”
But Leticia, the corners of her mouth keep turning up.
* * * * *
Midday. The sedan drives through the field. It’s hot, Leticia keeps complaining, but she can’t open her window. Because the front of her car is covered in blood.
Of course, it has long since dried to a dark red color due to the sun and wind. So there is no way the bacteria in the blood are alive… Is there one? I’m not sure.
“Hey, John. “Is there much left?”
Leticia, who kept flapping her collar and blowing air into her, finally opened her mouth.
“I think it would take about three to four more hours, why?”
“Is the way there very complicated? Stop the car for a moment. Let’s take turns.”
Well, nothing complicated. For now, just keep going in a straight line. The road is so monotonous that you have to struggle not to fall asleep.
“Just a moment.”
I ran for about 5 more minutes. She stopped the car in the middle of a barren field. It’s better to have an open space like this. Because if a hostile guy runs from somewhere, you will be able to recognize it.
“Shall we change shifts here? “It looks like there are about three zombies over there.”
Leticia narrowed her eyes and nodded her head.
“Yes. I think it would take them about 5 minutes to walk all the way here. Stop.”
When I parked the car and opened the door, a rush of fresh air came in. There was no difference in whether it was hot inside or outside the car. Still, it was pretty cool because the wind was blowing.
“Ah, is it good?”
Suddenly, Leticia took off her top. Although she is wearing emerald colored, lacy underwear, she is still quite embarrassed.
“Re, Leticia? What are you doing?”
“I told you it was hot.”
“But aren’t you taking off too much?”
“What, I haven’t looked at it like that, but it’s surprisingly hard?”
How did a woman like that live in the military? She is dumbfounded. A woman like that who put her hand on her car and said, “Oh, it’s hot,” And flicked her palm.
“John, are you paying attention to me too?”
Leticia glances at me. I shook her head and told her to leave. Because the zombies were limping towards us.
“For now, just keep going. It takes about two hours, and when you see the red brick house at the intersection, turn right. And Leticia.”
“Yes.”
“Get dressed when you arrive.”
“Why me?”
“There are a lot of zombies. “It’s better to have at least some clothes on.”
“Okay.”
Why are all the women I know so strange?
* * * * *
There were no major problems on the way to the research institute. I took out my phone and sent a message to Camilla. ‘I’ll be there in about an hour.’ Before sending the next message, I looked at Leticia’s profile.
Can the four of us get along? I’m very worried.
“Over there. Leticia. “I have something to tell you.”
“Why is it holding so much weight?”
“As you know, I have company. One is Camilla, who, as you already know, was a member of the Elsa Liberation Corps. And the other one is Cassandra, who was a senior researcher at the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency.”
Leticia didn’t say anything. Instead she slammed on the gas pedal. She suddenly feels as if her body is being thrown backwards. Luckily for her, she seemed to have taken her feet off the pedals, although she was gripping the steering wheel as hard as she could.
“… “I almost had an accident.”
“But I’m not really surprised.”
“Of course I had a guess. And I was a little suspicious that you would say that those people had some kind of weakness and were being dragged around. To be honest, I almost didn’t believe it in my head.”
A strange word. She knew it in her head.
“What does that mean?”
“No matter what you said, it means I wanted to fool you.”
Here, ‘Was I that good? In fact, it hasn’t been that long since we met and talked in person.’ It would be tactless to say. In this case, just saying that you are so moved that you are speechless is enough.
“… “Did you?”
“I did.”
Leticia seemed a little complicated. It seemed like there was another reason he didn’t want to tell me yet. Well, I’ll tell you when it makes me feel more comfortable.
“Cassandra.”
Leticia let out her sigh.
“Do you know?”
“I know. She’s the girl I interrogated. In fact, as soon as she walked in, she started spewing out very explicit language, which made writing the report very… ?”
Suddenly Leticia turns her head towards me.
“I had an accident!”
“No way, it was you?!”
“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”
“I wonder if you were the one who touched everything in Rambert!”
“It’s me, why?”
Kkiik. Leticia finally stepped on her brakes. Once her slow car came to a complete stop, she put her in park and even put her hand brake on.
“You!”
“Huh?”
“You were V?”
“Uh, what? What are you talking about?”
“You’re V! “The moderates of Erza’s intelligence department!”
“Try to talk so I can understand!”
Leticia kept rubbing her forehead as if she was embarrassed. This woman’s expression is so colorful. Blinking her eyes, sucking her lips up and down as well. She swallowed all the dry saliva and poured out her words in rapid fire.
It was clear that Cassandra got out of V’s car at Rambert. And Cassandra said she had ‘given herself to a man’, something that caused a bizarre misunderstanding. But when I said I was with Cassandra, Leticia immediately connected V and me.
No, but this. If you think about it slowly, isn’t it a bit of a leap in logic?
“Isn’t that too harsh?”
But it seems that Leticia has already decided.
“That’s right, you were sure about V! It was somehow strange! “What are the moderates in Erza’s intelligence department doing now?”
You can’t take it off just because it’s not V. This is something Camilla and Cassandra know anyway.
“Okay. “It is true that I used the nickname V, but I am not a moderate member of Erza’s intelligence department.”
But for some reason, Leticia’s face seems to be getting brighter.
“Hey. John.”
“Why?”
She suddenly twists her waist and hugs me tightly. It was so intense that her underwear got messy.
“… “This is fate.”
“What are you talking about again?”
“Do you remember the National Military Police officer who contacted you to buy the bag? “That was me!”
Are you talking about that insincere nickname? It was a roughly made-up nickname that had a military feel no matter where you looked.
“… Uh. I remember.”
“Wow. Really. This is how we meet. At that time, I wondered what kind of person he really was. Of course, it was so obnoxious that I wanted to kill him.”
Something doesn’t feel right. It’s very bad. This woman’s eyes seem to be spinning. This is what Camilla and Cassandra sometimes show when their eyes roll. The pupils are wide open and look like they are about to suck.
“Okay. “What a coincidence.”
“I heard that this is how you meet all the people you meet. It’s fate, John. The Goddess of Hunger had decided in advance that you and I would be connected. Ah, goddess. Thank you so much. A relationship as inevitable as death… “
I guess it would be better to say it in advance, right?
“Over there. Sorry.”
“Why? What? No way, now that he doesn’t like me, I don’t look like a woman. “You’re not trying to say something like that, right?”
That seems to be the area of crime.
“No, not that. Actually, I’m a little bit with Camilla and Cassandra… “It’s a deep relationship.”
Yes. I think it would be better to say this in advance. Because I don’t want to hurt you unintentionally. What kind of trouble is this?
“What? Was it not enough for you to sleep with me? “You were such a bad guy, weren’t you?”
There was something strange about Leticia’s tone. It doesn’t sound like ‘I am a man with many sins’, but rather it’s like looking at a garbage bag that someone stepped on while walking down the street.
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“… Uh. That’s right. So, it may not be fate or fate or anything like that.”
Leticia agrees with my words, and she laughs.
“What, was that something like that? I’m in trouble because my destined partner turns out to be a womanizer. Are you thinking something like that? “I don’t care.”
“You don’t care?”
“Isn’t it enough to just take it away? That’s more fun. It seems like half of it has already been taken. You probably came to me because you, too, are dissatisfied with those women. “Those women were not destined.”
No. I don’t think that’s it. That’s not really true.
“Ah, I understand why you told me to get dressed. Is it because your situation will be difficult if you show up in front of those women dressed like this? “It’s already obvious that the relationship will not get better.”
“Honestly, yes.”
“Okay. “Let’s go.”
This woman’s eyes were half-turned. I don’t think she drives like this.
“I will drive. “I have to drive here anyway.”
Leticia said so. I took the wheel again. She started the engine and was about to accelerate when Leticia suddenly opened the window.
And he threw his upper garment outside.
“What are you doing?”
“Oh my. “What should I do?”
Leticia is naturally virtuous.
“Your clothes are gone? Nice-sized gentleman over there, could you please give me the outerwear you are wearing? “You’re not going to throw Lady in front of zombies dressed like this, are you?”
“What if I don’t give it to you?”
“Why don’t you take off more? “It’s so hot I’m dying.”