47

time of count qiliang

Akame walked down the corridor.

-- Where are you going?

-- To my house. Where I should never have left," Akame said, averting his gaze.

-- Akame. You're my wife.

-- I am your wife, that's the truth. The thing is, you're not my husband. You satiate your lust in my body by thinking about her. We're in the dining room, with you looking at her chair. Now you're sleeping in her bed, hugging her pillow.

-- Akame... you're jealous.

-- No. Not jealous. Despised if... Mik su's ghost is around the clock proclaiming his triumph. I don't want to be here when he takes you out of a window...

III

-- Ye ye... Ye ye... You saved me...-- Melissa said effusively, hours later on one of the many uninhabited islands of Hong Kong.

Ye ye with two gigantic splints rested next to Melissa, watching the sunset and the placidity of the sea.