Chapter 7

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Primo

I was caught off guard when she said that words. Someone's with her?

"Who is she?" I asked Maxen but she shook her head and kept on crying.

"Look Maxen, I can't help you if you will not tell me what happened that night." I said to her and looked at her eyes determingly.

After several hours of convincing her to tell me the whole thing, she didn't say anything and she kept on denying things.

Now, I am totally confused. How can I defend her if I don't know anything?

Should I ask Aki for a help? Maybe she'll make Maxen talk. I waited for Aki here at my office. I heard a knock on my door and Aki went inside. She sat in front of me and waiting for something.

"How's the talk?" Aki asked.

I explained to her everything and she was shocked and satisfied at the same time.

"I knew that she can't do it." she let out a small smirk on her face.

"But we are not that a hundred percent sure." I said to her.

"So all this time, someone's ordering her to do everything, even that night?" she asked. I nodded and massaged the bridge of my nose. I am frustrated and tired at the same time.

"What are we gonna do? Can you talk to her? I mean, maybe you can make her talk and she might tell you everything." I said with determination.

"Impossible," she said disappointingly.

"What? Why?"

"Everytime we talked, she's just ending up crying, and I'm feeling guilty for asking her a lot of questions that's related to her parent's dead. At the end, I'll let her be and won't ask her anymore. So it is impossible for her to tell me everything." she said.

"Who can help us?" I asked myself.

I was shocked when Aki suddenly hit my table with both of her palms and stood up. She smiled widely as she nodded at her thoughts.

"I know someone." she said while smiling.

It is seven o'clock in the evening and we decided to go out and find her. We went to a room where Maxen's taking a rest. Maxen looks like she just woke up so we waited for her to get up and face the world again.

After that, we three went out of the room and went to the elevator. I pressed the third floor and we ended up in one of the front door.

This was Aki's idea.

As we stared at the door Aki said something.

"She doesn't like someone waking her up she'll get mad, but what choice do we have?" Aki said while shooking her head.

She sleeps early?

Detective Queira Jin Olde

It's a sign on the top of the door.

Aki knocked and no one answered. She knock several times until someone opened the door.

It's Jin, while her eyebrows are furrowed.

It looks like we strobe her sleep because of her bright eyes. She also looked annoyed because of Aki's loud knocking.

"What?" she asked irritatingly while scratching her eyes.

"Can you let us in first?" Aki asked sarcastically. Jin doesn't have a choice so she let us in.

While Aki's distracting Maxen, I explained everything to Jin.

"Fine, leave this to me." Jin said and drank a glass of water.

Aki and I said goodbye to go get food, so Jin and Maxen could be left inside the office.

"Hope this one will work." Aki said while sipping her juice.

"It'll work, this is your idea." I said and she smiled.

We are eating and waiting outside Jin's office patiently. Aki's sipping her juice so loud, she must have been enjoying it.

"Are you still gonna defend Maxen if something might shock us?" she asked that question once again. I didn't answered for a while and thinked deeply.

There is an unconsidered thoughts that coming through my mind with that question.

"Let's find out," I said.

I saw her smiling slightly and continuing to drink.

"If Maxen proves to be the one who did it and I didn't defend her, will get mad at me?" I asked her.

"No, you've done your job to protect her, win or lose there's nothing we can do about it. What's important is that we can fight for what we can still fight for. It's just like Maxen that no one else will help her, if not, us. " Aki promised long. I smiled at what she said and agreed.

This is one of the thing that I love about her. She cares for someone or somebody who's powerless. She always cares when it comes to justice. That's why everytime that she didn't get the things right, she'll blame herself. She's too soft for this cruel world.

Aki's ignoring her feelings, if she really wants a justice for someone, she'll do everything. Even though it might hurt or broke her. That's why we kept saying that she should lay low in everything. I won't deny that everyone likes her.

Even me, I like her.

If I don't admit it, maybe I'll be ahead? But if I confess, she might just hate me.

What the hell Primo! It's like elementary school.

We waited here for a while until the door opened and Jin walked outside.

"What happened?" we immediately stood up.

"Did she tell anything?" I asked Jin.

Jin looked up and we met her solemn eyes.

"She have a mental disorder."