Chapter 34

They wanted this? How could they want something that will make them suffer? The thought makes me irritated. He continues to speak.

"If I tell you all why they're like this, what do I get in return?" He asks, making everyone in the room irritated. Vilea storms back in front of him. She grabs his collar and pulls him to her.

"It will save your face being smashed. Good enough?" She suggests, her brows raised. He was already sweating and he chuckled hesitantly.

"Hey hey I just want a negotiation. So both parties will benefit with it yeah?" He says. he adds a playful please in the end, but Vilea's tried to consider his suggestion. Making up her mind, she lets him go.

"What do you want? If this negotiation you speak of isn't even appropriate for everyone's situation, I can't wait to see your black eye." She warns him, quoting her hands when she said the word negotiation. He brushes it off with a playful smile. "I know this will be appropriate for everyone. Trust me."

"Trust you? Trust is long gone from you." Chris interrupts, speaking for everyone. Altair is solely searching deep into his tablet for possible conditions that will fit their situations. Chris crosses his arms and fixs his posture. "Start speaking."

"Well first thing I want is for you to release the girl working with me." Everyone turns confused. Whispers of questions could be heard from all over the room. Jennifer. Just what on earth is she thinking working with this lunatic. It makes me even more disappointed.

"It's classified that the girl working for you is from our agency's American branch. How did you manage to make her work for you? Another victim?" Chris asks.

"She worked for me on her free will. It was her choice but because I'm very considerate, I'm going to let her go." Vilea rolls her eyes. The moment she looked at her, she just knew something happened to Anette because of her, or else, she wouldn't have known why Anette was so angry when she was fighting her.

"The branch will take care of her punishment when she flies back there since she used the training provided by the agency for this" Chris says, as he gestures to all that happened. Most of us are in agreement with the given punishment, but not all of us. Soft voices are whispering endlessly from each corner of the room.

"First condition settled. What's the next?" I ask, putting my hands on my pocket and fixing my posture.

"Secondly." His voice was raspy yet playful. He smiled nervously. "Don't take away my license as a scientist." Everyone froze as they heard his next condition. There is no way we would agree to that! This will be unjust. Suddenly, Vilea took his collar again, she's more furious than before.

"Do you really have a death wish?" She shoot a stern look. Her voice has no sign of playfulness. She's dead serious. Seeing her different personality gives me shivers down my spine. But she's calm down eventually. I just pray it'll be soon.

"Woah woah. I'm totally in your bad side now. I was just joking." He defends himself. I could feel her blood boiling from how hard she's grasping his collar, it's scary. "I-I was just saying!"

"Well suck it up! Because it's not happening, even if you cry tears of blood." She really is terrifying when she's mad. Altair notices my expression as I see his wife's bad side. He walks beside me and leans to my ear.

"Scary huh? Would you believe she can be even more scarier than this?" My eyes widened. Even scarier...? This isn't her anger's limit...? The carefree, smiling Vilea I met in the cafe a few days ago wasn't the Vilea I'm seeing right now. He sees my disbelief and chuckles a little. "It's REAL bad to make her mad on her period. If it happens, she becomes more satanic than Satan."

"No way..." I said in a low voice. We put our focus back on the important conversation.

"There's no other conditions. Just that one. You can throw me in jail all you want." He says with no sign of fear or hesitation. He gives us all a warm smile. "I'll tell you guys what you need to know now."

We were dumbfounded of the sudden change of his voice. It becomes more sad and low.

"So let's start with Anette" He turns to her. "As you saw, she's become delusional. To explain how it works. The mixed drugs both made her mind fulfill her subconscious' desires. To cut it short, she kept thinking of you, to the point, the first person she sees will be in your image." He says looking at me.

"But since I was the first person she saw was me, I became you in her vision." I remain calm and reserved as he continues to explain to us.

"I'm guess you guys already found out what triggers the side effects?" He asks and Vilea nodded slightly. With the small amount of time he had, he might have not known what the trigger was. "What is it?"

"Her memories." I answered. "When she tries to remember something, her head suddenly hurts."

"Anette is experiencing delusions. But it should not to be treated lightly. She will be craving the drug again, there's no doubt that she will suffer if she doesn't take it."

"But that'll just cause more complication in her mental state." Altair states, frustration in his voice.

"I know. That's why she should use an effective painkiller while she's taking theraphy. She will be dealing with her memories so there is no doubt, it will make her suffer. But with the painkiller, it could lessen her pain. But this is just a theory but before and after she sleeps, don't forget to ask her what's her name and if she recognizes you all. Because there's a slight possibility that..." He paused, looking at me. He looks at me with a worried gaze. He turns his head back to her. "She'll get anmesia"

The phrase broke my heart. Everyone tensed up. It's hard to hear this. But I'm not going to let a hunch drop my only hope. I'll be able to save her no matter what.

"She also hallucinated with Pepper and not just with him. After a few therapies I guess, she'll be okay. I guess you'll take care of her?" Asking Altair. Given that he's a psychiatrist, he'll be the main doctor for Anette. He nods in response.

"What drug did you use?" Altair asked, crossing his arms.

"I used the same drug in both of them, but I added another drug to Anette" He answered. "Methampethamine and Dopamine" Altair keeps taking note of important details as I just continue to listen.

"The methampethamine made her delusional and as for the dopamine it made her wishes fulfilled. Seeing him that time made her happier than ever." He finished his explaination of Anette's condition but he paused when he took a glance at Cherry. She's already asleep, waiting for her boss' command. Her sleeping figure doesn't give any negative vibe and she'll sleeping peacefully. He turned to look at her and put on a caring expression. I don't know if he's sincere or not, but it doesn't look like he's faking it.

"As for Cherry... I mean... I could say she's suffering a much more terrible mental disorder than Anette..." Chris suddenly started to tremble in fear of what could happen to her. "She wanted to become stronger. When she found out I was trying to do somehing horrible, I knew she wished she could be someone who can stop me from doing it. Badly wanting to become strong, she forced herself to create another persona. A more violent persona."

I became confused. Everyone's eyes are wide open as they mumble to themselves if they heard him right. A new persona. Wait. Does this mean...

"She has a multiple personality disorder..." Altair says with a low voice.