EPISODE 8: The LM of S Familia

Arriving at the century-old Victorian goth-style mansion of S Familia mansion, the huge lot was very quiet. There was no security personnel walking around making the entire lot abandoned or haunted. Nash opened the door and dropped his lady boss Veronica Santiniez, or better to name her LM or the Lacrimosa Mafia boss of the S Familia at the doorstep of the mansion. 

"Have a nice night, my lady." Nash wished for her lady and Veronica just nodded before heading inside the mansion.

As she got inside, it was no longer quiet as she was greeted by familiar faces who had been trusted and loyal servants whom she'd been helping through her rough years. "Good evening, boss."

"Evening." She greeted back in her usual cold voice. "Any news for me?" she asked as she removed her coat and gloves.

"It's always the usual but you have to check something that Ms. Asa's security system made for you." one of her servants answered her.

"Usual but something else happened..." Veronica muttered. "Interesting," she smirked and headed to her bedroom. "I'll be in my private room in case you look for me."

"Yes, boss," they responded and let Veronica head to her room.

Her room was simple and spacious since there was nothing displayed in her room only the things she needed. She's minimalist and organized. She took her refreshing bath before she went straight to her small hidden room to get something personal that she only did whenever she was the boss of her familia, her private room.

Veronica started humming as the lights in her private room started opening. Let's do some work." She accessed her huge personalized computer set just by the end of the room. "What do we have here?"

She was checking the recorded footage throughout her properties when she was out. But in the middle of her checking, her secretary, Yuna suddenly made a call. "What is it, Yuna?"

'Sorry to interrupt, my lady but Mr. Sebastian Salazar, wanted to speak with you. Should I give your number to him?'

Veronica halted from what she was watching and wondered. 'Was her family like him too, persistent? Hope not.' She sighed before answering Yuna. "No, but let him come to my office if he decides to." She replied flatly her eyes sternly watching a certain footage captured on their security. "I'm busy at the moment."

'Understood. That's all, my lady.'

As soon as the call was hung up, Veronica focused on what caught her attention on their system. On the huge screen, Veronica watched her prey walk out from the company where he works and chill with his workmates. But when he was done having his usual bonding with colleagues, he went into a certain street where drunken fools and addicts passed through.

"Hm, this is an interesting place to walk at night," she smirked. "I better deal with him now."

She started wearing something she only wore whenever she was on the hunt. She wore her pure black suit, a long black coat that looked like a dress with a hood, and her black lace mask. It was making her look like a weeping lady. Then went out of the old mansion.

"I'm going for a hunt," Veronica informed her servant. "Keep the familia safe till I get back."

"Yes, boss." they all answered and let their boss drive her car alone.

In the right speed limit, Veronica drove her car like a professional racer and reached the venue where her prey was last seen. She parked her car and casually got off to track her prey's tracks down. She walked like a sad mysterious lady as she carefully followed the tracks which led her to her bar.

Noise from the pumping beat blasting around its perimeter making her smirk. She owns the bar and it was hit around young adults, adults, and particularly, gangs or mafias but Veronica only chooses which gang or mafias are allowed on her turf.

"Hm, he won't stay long here." She knew that her prey wouldn't stick around the nosy place for too long. She left and decided to walk behind it where her prey was spotted. "Bingo." Veronica chuckled to herself as she blended into the shadow of the night. "Found yah," she clapped her hands making her prey from making out with a young lady.

"Get away." the man said and was about to kiss a teenager again. But Veronica noticed that the young lady was drugged to have sex with random men.

"No, but can I take her place instead?" Veronica's voice was full of seduction making the man halted from what he was doing.

Her prey looked at her lustfully as if he was thinking before he decided. "Then come here." he pushed his target in exchange for the lady in black dress. "Let me taste you."

Veronica whispered to him slightly causing the man to shiver. "My pleasure," then she walked passed him.

The man was captured as he followed Veronica and quickly grabbed her wrist. He hurried and took her to a certain area where trees and bushes only the witness around them. The man pushed her against the tree and Veronica chuckled.

"You like that huh?" The man smirked as he lustfully studied Veronica's features. Mysterious but a totally sexy lady. "You want wild fuck." he went on and Veronica chuckled. "I'll give that to you."

She kept laughing. "You better impress me with your wilf performance or I'll make you bathe in your own blood." She talked grimly and the man even didn't notice.

"Make me." the man was full of lust and Veronica laughed like a maniac.

Then the man halted when Veronica whispered something to his ears. "Play fire with LM," hearing that the man felt cold and his knees began to weaken. "Lacrimosa Mafia."

Joining harmoniously in the dark

Despair and the future

The moonlight that exposes my sorrow

Shines coldly

Lacrimosa by Kalafina is played in the background of Veronica's hunt. She started to hum the melody that could only be heard when the Lacrimosa Mafia of S Familia went for her hunt. And the man before Veronica was not exempted from it. He was haunted by being a pedophile and connected to her past.

With the secret, you gave me as a companion

I proceed into the silence of the blue night

The man quickly stepped back and started to run in fear but Veronica had already put a red dot on his back. He can run but he can't hide from her anymore. He kept hearing the melody in his ears as if it was taunting him and adding fear to his system until his mind broke down and immobilized him.

Lacrimosa

Broken and vanishing into the distance

I want to love this dazzling world once more

She smirked watching her prey immobilized. "Valerie Stirling sings lacrimosa on the top of the corpse of the man who betrayed her." She sang and the man looked at her. His eyes widen from the haunted past standing before him.

She even can be compared to a mysterious angel but with the baggage that she was carrying behind her closet, she had a second face that she only showed to those people who betrayed her. All of them face death. 

"It's not my fault. He us do it." He cried in fear but it was too late as their no remorse in the cold stormy eyes of a broken lady. 

I hide my dreams within my eyes

Until my tainted heart

Receives falling tears

When her dagger reached its throat and a deep stab from its back reached its heart, "Goodnight, Eric Johnson." she wished him goodnight.

As his body fell lifeless on the ground, a tear fell from Veronica's right eye. She finished her humming and slipped away the night without leaving any tracks while texting Kath. 

LM Text Message:

Target: Eric Johnson

Crime: Pedophile

Committed Crime: Attempted rape on Valerie Stirling

CASE CLOSE

After sending the text to Kath, she wondered. "I wonder what he will think now that one of his men died," Veronica as LM smirked thinking of a certain person's worried and panicked expression on his face as the haunted past began to creep out of his life. "It will be an interesting scene."

As she was done with her hunt, just a few minutes her men alongside Kath met her halfway. "Had a happy hunt, my lady?"

"Yes." She responded with a fair smile. "And you know the drill."

Kath nodded in understanding. "Understood, my lady."

"I'll go ahead." She waved her hand and let her men handle the rest. They all respectfully bowed at her until she was gone in the area and they started cleaning up.

Veronica looked around as if she did nothing wrong and she had some eyes watching her delicately as she passed her bar. She was tempted to look around to find whoever owned them but she rather not and just walked back to her vintage Mustang car.

But as soon as she opened her car's driver seat, her stomach started on complaining. "That made me hungry," she told herself and decided to make a detour to a small local diner to grab something to eat. "I'm craving for a macchiato and blueberry muffin."

As her car drove off to the road, the caring eyes that were staring at her watched her car vanish into their sight.

But with smirking lips, "So, that's LM's full figure, a lady…" Sebastian as the boss of S Empire was fascinated by LM. "...but nobody can say when LM was going to show up and it's my privilege to see her tonight of my chilling rounds."