Chapter 4: Found You!!

Nicole waited anxiously on the unoccupied table in a fast food restaurant. His legs were shaking vigorously and his clothes were damp with sweat. He was shuddering while watching at the untouched huge burger, chips and cola in front of him. He knew that he was tailed by Nobara's men and that he kept himself in the crowds, avoiding deserted areas as much as possible. He was startled by the ringtone of his phone which almost got him a heart attack.

He recklessly grabbed his phone from the pocket of his hoodie and nervously stared at the contact number. It was from the hospital which made him relieved a bit. He answered the call and tried to call himself with the person on the line.

"Onii-san, I didn't expect you to have good Japanese friends! They visited me and even gave me flowers. They look tough but they're kind, that's cool!" Geneva, the girl from the line began exaggerating things.

Nicole's eyes widened as he had no friends in Japan. He didn't expect for them to target his little sister who was currently hospitalised and receiving treatments. What did they intend to do with her? Why didn't they just capture him but he was terrified to see Tachibana Nobara face to face. He was shaking heavily and speechless. He wanted to cry and beg for help but nobody could free Nobara's victims once they fell into her hands.

"Jane, no matter what, try to turn down those people politely. I know none of them. Please, I beg of you!" Nicole tried to tell his sister about how dangerous they were without alarming her.

"What are you talking about? They even agreed to pay my surgery bills only if you agree to hang out with them. Don't you think that we should-"

"Don't accept any of their gifts and I-I-I can pay for your surgery!! Turn them down and don't engage with them, if you could run, then run!!" Nicole warned his little sister but his words were messed up.

"You're weird. Onii-san, are you alright? Your voice is shaking, did something happen?"

Nicole ended the line before Geneva could ask him more. Geneva looked at the phone then put it back on the counter. She thanked the nurse and returned to her room. She knew that her brother was a freelance hacker for good things but she didn't know that he was currently involved with the Yakuza.

Nicole cried in the restaurant and tried to calm himself down. He sighed multiple times and devoured the food in front of him slowly.

He leant back to the chair and cleared his mind. He tried to remember Geneva's adorable face who was currently running on a field with him in the countryside but her chronic conditions made her immobile. He left the restaurant as soon as he calmed down. His face was hiding in the shadow of his hoodie, not allowing anybody who passed by to memorise his foreign face. As a foreigner, it was easy to memorise the shape of his face and easy to trace him.

He wandered Shinjuku alone and slept in the garbage area to avoid him from being spotted by his hunters. He was like a deer in the forest hunted by a hunter and her dogs who rambled everywhere on Shinjuku's ground. He had nowhere to run. Even if he had the chance, it would cost him his sister's life. He tried to turn himself to the Mafia but he feared death the most. He wanted to live as long as his sister was alive.

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"Nobara-sama, please spare my life!! Forgive us!!" Cried the old man in white suit as Nobara was busy wiping her bloody shear with a damp red handkerchief.

Bloody corpses laid around the area which were chopped into pieces, feeling the air with the stench smell of iron. Nobara glared down at the crying old man then squatted down. She stared into his eyes then smiled. Her smile was too beautiful to even resist but the blood stain which coated her revealed her monstrous side. She wept his tears with the tip of the shear and sheared his nose off. The old man screamed in pain.

"Araa, sorry, now your nose is gone," she grinned.

She snapped her fingers, ordering her men to hold the old man's hands tightly. She snapped his fingers one by one, neglecting his blood-curdling scream and tears. She snapped her fingers again then one of her men lent her a butcher knife. She raised the butcher knife and hit his shoe, cutting his feet off. She peeled off his skin like chicken skin from their white flesh and carved her name on his meat.

The old man was still alive and he was crying and begging for Nobara to forgive him.

"Araa, you know how much I hate your kin. You intruded my zone together with your whole family and now you're asking me to forgive me? Nee, you know that nobody should mess with the Akaibararyuu Family," Nobara whispered softly with an innocent and sweet smile carved on her face.

"Owara-amma, one na'ai (Nobara-sama, gomenasai)-" he collapsed before he could finish his words as he was running out of blood.

Nobara looked down at him as if he was a filthy stool. She stood, then Tsukiyama wrapped a clean towel around her bloody body.

"Cut out their brains, eyes, hearts, kidneys, lungs, livers and pancreas, preserve them and burn the remaining body parts. Also, clean this whole mess," Nobara ordered her men and left the warehouse.

Nobara wrapped herself in the huge towel while hugging her knees as she sat in her car. Tsukiyama, who was sitting beside her, cleaned her face with another towel. Reiji watched them through the rear mirror then concentrated ahead on the road.

Back in her condominium, Tsukiyama stood beside the bathtub, accompanying Nobara as she immersed herself in the bathtub. He scrubbed her skin slowly with a towel. Nobara just sits in the bathtub like a soulless doll. Tsukiyama was also the one who put on her clothes and combed her hair, treating her like an infant.

While fixing her red hair with bobby pins, her iPhone rang and vibrated on the surface of the black marble table. Nobara took it and answered the call. Her eyes widened in amazement and her pink lips immediately carved into a sinister grin.

"I understood, seize him," Nobara clicked the red button and rested her head on her first. "Nicolō Vero, kuh-"

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Nicole hid his hands in his pocket and stood in the crowd. He tried his best to not stand out before people suspected him of being guilty. A bald man in black suit with sunglasses followed him from behind, even Nicole realised his presence. Nicole lowered his head while scrutinising his surroundings.

The door of the train opened and the huge crowds marched forward, into the train. Nicole pressed himself through the crowds and got himself into the train. The bald man tailed him and entered the other carriage. Just before the door closed, Nicole managed to get himself out of the train and escaped from the subway.

"He's following me!! He's following me!!" Nicole murmured under his breath.

He was sweating heavily and his feet didn't stop shuffling on the ground. He was terrified, he didn't want to die. He ran into the busy road and almost got himself hit by certain cars on the road.

"Oii! You want to die, eh?! Value your life, baa-kaa!" One of the drivers yelled at Nicole who was lost in deep thought.

Nicole just watched and ran away, leaving the man shouting and yelling. He ran to a park in the centre of the city. He sighed with relief just to think that he would be safe as long as he saw children playing on the playground. He froze as he heard a clicking sound from behind.

"Don't move before I blow holes in your skull," a deep voice from behind warned him.

Nicole couldn't move, he was paralysed. He knew that he would meet his fate soon. He swallowed his saliva and recognised another man in black suit approaching nearer and nearer to his sight. He was escorted by the two men to a black Mercedes. He realised that they put on gas masks as the car began to move and slowly he began to lose consciousness.

Nicole blinked slowly as he gained consciousness but his head was spinning making his visions blur.

"Finally, found you!"

Nicole widened his eyes and gazed at the figure standing in front of him.

"Tachibana Nobara," he whispered under his breath.