"Moira's awake!"
Pagbabalita ni Sophia kay Rain.
"But we have to kill her!"
"What?"
Di makapaniwalang bulalas ni Rain kay Sophia.
"What's the use of saving her, if in the end—"
Napahinto si Sophia sa paglalakad at hinarap ang lalaki.
"I'll explain to you later, we have to hurry up Mr. Ybanez is waiting for us. This is an urgent meeting!"
Magtatanong pa sana si Rain pero pinigil niya ang sarili Sophia seem to be anxious, nahinuha niyang may hindi magandang nangyari.
Sophia went inside the conference hall, halos naroon na ang lahat ng kanilang mga associates at malamang silang dalawa nalang ang inaantay.
Hades was sitting in his chair sa may gitna, while Sophia pulled the vacant chair in the left side where Mr. Ybanez is sitting and Rain sat in the right side.
All the people who were sitting in the long conference room gasped in shocked.
Even the chief of DIU hindi rin nakatakas kay Sophia ang pagtataka sa mukha nito.
Sophia is supposed to sit in his grandfather's right side pero dahil sa ginawa niya, she indicates that from now on she's no longer Mr. Ybanez right hand.
Tahimik lamang na nakikinig si Mr. Ybanez sa kanilang lahat, while Rain suddenly transform into another person.
You could not seen a trace of Rain in there.
Sophia brief him carefully that, when facing their associates Rain should look intimaditing enough, so they won't opposed him.
"Before we start, I'm going to introduce to all of you my long lost son! From now on he'll be directly in command!"
"You mean, we will be working under him, what about you Princess?"
Alanganing tanong ng isa na may pinakamataas na posisyon sa kanila.
"Yes!"
Sophia stood up.
"From now on I'll be stepping down, he's Mr. Ybanez only heir, is it just right for him to sit in his place, isn't it?"
Everyone of them exchange a nervous whispers only God knows what.
"I hope you give him the same trust and reapect that all of you been given to me since the beginning!"
"Respect should be given to those—"
Hindi pa ito nakatapos sa kanyang litanya ng makarinig ang lahat ng putok ng baril.
Rain just fire a gun towards Mr. Galvez, the bullet just passed through in his left ears with out harming him.
All of them gasped in shocked, walang sino man sa kanila ang nakakilos sa bilis ng pangyayari.
"I don't expect you to trust me that much, but don't forget that my father is still sitting infront of you—you dare to disrespect him by questioning my capability?"
Rain said with an authority.
"My father just introduce me and I understand your reaction, just let me do what I can do and being the perfectionist all of you are—feel free to judge me later!"
Mr. Ybanez smile discreetly, he's also suprised as he didn't expect Rain's action.
While Sophia sat in there with content, she's proud of him!
"I guess we have to continue!"
Mr. Ybanez said when the tension died. One of their men distributes a folder to each one of them, it was until it reach to DIU chief Ramirez that Mr. Ybanez starts the meeting.
"As you read in the report, there's a lot of young girls has been reported missing in different parts of the country, can you explain the details princess!"
Sophia turn on the monitor.
There, they saw a gruesome photage of a teenage girl being fished out of the water, she had a wound in her neck and a big cut in her tummy.
"This is just one of those, take a look on this!
There are few of them, pero pare-pareho lang ang sugat sa mga ito, one in the neck and a big cut in a tummy.
And all of them were fished out in the either sea or river.
"Malamang pagkatapos silang patayin, those fuckers was trying to get raid of the evidence!"
Sophia said in a matter of fact tone.
"All the autopsy indicates that there are some ICE residue in the body!"
Ani Sophia pagkatapos e turn off ang monitor.
"Here's the latest case!"
Sophia showed a picture.
Rain knew it was Moira but he remained emotionless.
"This is our very own mayor Montero's niece! She's was reported missing on the night of august 22."
"That one is already in my department!"
Chief Ramirez said sourly.
"What bothered me is that the report was come from someone else and not from the immediate family or our mayor himself. What stranged is that I recieved an order from higher ups to wrap it up!"
"What do you think about it?"
Mr. Ybanez asked coldly.
"We don't have clues yet—"
"So you mean some psychopath just kidnapped a teenage girl and tosses her remains in the sea and all department of investigation units doesn't have any fucking clue, is that what those motherfucker asked you to say?"
Makahulugang tanong ni Mr. Ybanez sa kanilang lahat, walang isa man ang nagsalita sa kanila sa takot na mapagbalingan ng galit nito.
"I don't really understand why you can't simply catch a bastards, Hades been itching his hands lately. Seems like all of you were pretty relax, aren't you?"
"Maj. Gen. Mondejar is blocking the investigation. Our hands were tied up—"
Naihilamos ni Mr. Ybanez ang kamay sa kanyang mukha, he was running out of patient but because everything is involved with Mondejar he's going to spare these useless people.
"Mondejar is desperate, If someone rat you out you'll dead before you even speak your filthy mouth. Is that what all of you wanted to happened?"
Mr. Ybanez bang the table that made all of them jerked from there chair.
"Tell all our spies to fucking move their ass and give as a bad news, we'll get those fuckers heads on, before they got us. If you think I'm ruthless then think about someone else children's bright future that was taken from them by those sons of bastards!"
Mr. Ybanez massage his nape, he felt like having a high blood pressure. He's already sick and tired of cleaning mess.
He knows why the investigation progress is too slow because Mondejar is covering it one by one.
"Let's regroup it, all of you from business sectors will lay low as of now. Let's start a real game it's time to turn the tables, section 7 is done resting we'll going to make them chase those wild dogs, while the whole DIU will be incharge of this case!"
Para namang nabunutan ng tinik ang ibang tauhan ni Mr. Ybanez habang tila pasan ni Chief Ramirez ang buong mundo.
"Don't worry Chief!"
Pakunswelo ni Sophia.
"We're going to provide you the information!"
"What about yong nawawalang pamangkin ni Mayor?"
Nag aalalang tanong ng chief of DIU.
"Just let it be! just patch it up present someone in the media as what Mondejar wants you to do, so he won't suspect you!"
Makahulugang sabi ni Mr. Ybanez sa kanya na nagpasakit ng kanyang ulo.
Matagal ng natapos ang meeting na iyon pero tulala paring nakatitig si Chief Ramirez sa file na nasa kanyang desk.
It was a report Mr. Ybanez given to him.
What on earth does he mean by those words? Naguguluhan niyang tanong sa sarili.
"Chief!"
Ani det. Go na kakapasok lamang. Nahampas niya ito sa ulo ng makaupo na ito. Matagal na niyang inaantay ang lalaki at late na naman itong dumating.
"Geez!"
Det. Go muttered under his breath.
"Do you have any lead?"
Nakakunot noong tanong ni Chief Ramirez sa lalaking kararating lang.
"No one saw her that night, malamang sinadya ng mga iyon na dumaan sa walang surveillance cam na lugar!"
Rason ni Det. Go na ikinainit ng ulo ng chief.
"So you mean you don't have any clue?"
Napailing na sagot ni det. Go, wala talagang silang makitang bangkay ng nawawalang dalaga. Sinisid na nila ang lahat ng ilog o dagat na may tulay pero wala parin silang makitang katawan.
"How are we going to explain this—"
Biglang natigil si Chief Ramirez ng maalala ang sinabi ni Mr. Ybanez.
"What if a higher ups wants us to patch it up, what does it mean?"
"Easy!"
Ani Det. Go.
"Wrap it up by staging a play, put a dead fish in the water and fished it out the next day with the eyes of those hungry media clown, inform them about the identity—"
Bigla nalang natigil si Det. Go ng marealized ang kanyang sinasabi.
"What do you mean by this, chief?"
"Arrange that goddamn stage play!"
Utos ni chief Ramirez kay det. Go.
"Me?— why me?"
Di makapaniwalang tanong ni Det. Go sa matandang hepe.
Ngayon lang narealized ni chief Ramirez ang ibig sabihin ni Mr. Ybanez.
Palalabasin nilang patay na ang pamangkin ni Mayor to catch the real culprit.
He's a good tactician, indeed!
"After this you should resign and change your job, I think you're not supposed to in be here. You could be a great movie director, somewhere!"
Seryosong komento ni Chief Ramirez kay Det. Go before he dismiss him, napakamot naman ng ulo ang huli.
"That jerk is a bet clumsy!"
Ani chief sa sarili, pero aminado syang det. Go had some brain which very important into their job kaya nga lang nakikinita niyang parang napipilitan lang itong maging detective.