Chapter 31: Answers

Merliah's Pov

"I love you, wait for me"

Iyon ang mga huling salitang binitawan ko bago tuluyang makita siyang unti-unti nang nahuhulog sa gusali kung saan ko siya bahagyang itinulak.

That's the last thing i do when I heard a very sharp loud sound that ricocheting into my ears, it's like a high frequency that makes me deaf.

The sound of it was like a fireworks that shot inside the bathroom or a loud bang that have a sound of epitome pop in the soundproof closed room.

What does it feels when you shot by a gun?

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Well at first, hindi ko talaga naramdaman na meron na palang tumama na mga bala sa likod ko at tanging mga sunod-sunod na pagputok lang ang aking narinig. Iyong feeling na may kaibigan kang nagbibirong manghampas sa likod mo, pero medyo meron lang itong kalakasan. Kung hindi siguro niya ito sinabi, hindi ko ito naramdaman.

"B-Bakit mo sinalo 'yung bala Merliah na para sa kaniya? Akala ko ba kasabwat tayo ha?"

Sigaw ng demonyo na nasa likuran ko sa napakataray nitong boses, habang ang mga mata nito ay parang naka marijuana dahil dilat na dilat ito.

Dala-dala pa nito ang baril na ipuputok niya sana kay Reycepaz ngunit sa likod ko tumama.

Ilang minuto ng malaman kung may mga bala na palang bumaon sa likod ko, naramdaman ko na ang kirot. Hindi ko alam kung bakit ako nakaramdam ng matinding sakit dahil lang sa tatlong putok ng bala. Nararamdaman ko talaga ang sobrang sakit na may halong pangingilo na para bang hinampas ito ng pako at ibinaon ang umiikot na barena.

I'm glad that I can feel pain already, pero hindi ito ang tamang panahon para maging masaya ako dahil nakakaramdam na ako ng sakit.

Wala nga akong ideya kung magigising pa ako pagkatapos kung pumikit sa mga segundong ito.

Maybe this is really my last day to take a glance of this beautiful world.

There's one thing I didn't tell about myself to Reycepaz.

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I have acrophobia, and yes I am scared of height.

Silly me, not scared of dying, but scared of heights? Hmp, sino ba ang taong handang saluin kahit ilang bala hindi lang siya mahulog sa tuktok ng gusali.

Dahan-dahan kong ginalaw ang aking katawan para siya ay maharap, dahil parang namamanhid hindi lang likod ko pati na rin ang buong katawan ko. Para bang tinusukan ako ng Isang daang anesthesia.

Nang maharap ko na siya ay agad ko ng sinabi na ang kanina ko pang gustong sabihin, ngunit pinipigilan ko lang ang aking sarili sapagkat si Reycepaz ay nasa tabi ko pa.

"Don't worry Savannah, I'm satisfied already living this phenomenal world. And I guess I must buy the farm..." sabi ko sa kanya habang nakangiti ng abot tainga. Ang weird lang, nasa bingit na ako ng kamatayan pero nagagawa ko pang ngumiti.

"What do you mean?" Asik niya habang nakakunot pa ang noo.

"I thought you're good at idioms?" Sagot ko naman.

"I didn't say that I'm good at it, I'm just—tsk! can you just jump to the point huh? Wag mo ng damihan iyang kaartehan mo! Napakarami mo pang dal-dal!"

She's really freaking good on her field, and that is being a bitch of all the bitchess on the trash.

"Simple lang naman ang ibig kung sabihin, kahit kindergarten alam ang ibig sabihin nito, and that is to end my life."

Matapos sabihin ang mga salitang iyon ay bigla nalang umarko ang dalawang kilay niya na tila ba ay sinasabi ng kaniyang reaksiyon na hindi niya naintindihan ang ibig kong sabihin.

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After knowing that I'm really not an unique living being as i think, besides after meeting Reycepaz, I finally figured out what are this things that have been running wild all over my head.

Because of him, at last my gut was confirmed and i already connected all the dots, then to die was cast.

I have 80% of the knowledge I have when I still alive. What I mean for this phrase is, i still have majority of memories in my head, but I just don't know if this is from past or present, all I know that I'm alive at somewhere.

I cannot say that this is just created by my creative imagination, besides the memories I have is very clear and accurate. Even though this memories mingled in my head, I can still say that they point the same subject. And that is I am a Lawyer in my memory.

Yes, I know that's sounds crazy.

That's also the reason why it's easy for me to understand everything when I first opened my eyes in this world.

Moreover, that's also the reason that I accept my father's wish to be enrolled in Maximus Vice University even I didn't take the lectures seriously, besides I crazy already know everything they said. Aside from the whereabouts of monsters though.

I confirm this things when I met Reycepaz, he's the reason why the doors of knowledge about knowing the things that bothered me when I was still a kid until now opened.

Like I said before, my dad is a great detective lawyer, but he's an intimate. It means he have rules, first, he will do his job in private, he must use any disguise just to hide his true identity.

That's why I glared at him when he almost said to Reycepaz that he's in disguise as a taxi driver that time when he and Reycepaz met.

Second, he must not receive other clients if he will not accomplished his recent task.

Currently, or should I say the longest task that dad handled is from Mr. Maximo, the grandfather of Reycepaz.

Reycepaz didn't mention her deceased sister to me, but dad told me that when Reycepaz still a cute little pony—i know that's not the best thing to describe him but it's quite similar.

The only thing he knew when he's still a child until he died, is that her sister died on an accident.

Sa likod ng kanyang kaalaman, his sister was not died on a mere accident, rather than she was-murdered.

That's why Mr. Maximo ordered father to find the culprit who killed his granddaughter. Then father ask me to invistigate inside the university.

Besides, father can't enter the university kahit na magdisguise pa siya o kilala man niya ang Isa sa worker sa University.

Because the university is very strict when it comes to letting outsiders inside. Kahit kami mga studyante ay dumaan pa talaga sa maraming pagsubok gaya ng 300+ na examination, drug test, urine test, blood test, at marami pang mga test at tanong na itinanong nila sa amin.

The thing here is, you can literally make a lie. However, lying is what other people cannot do.

Reycepaz made it through dahil apelyido niya mismo ay kilala ng lahat. Pero hindi ko talaga inakala na maliit lang ang mundo, sapagkat the client of my dad is the grandfather of my professor. Weird right?

My point is, father want me to be the spy in the university because the culprit was here and disguising as a student.

Yup! your intuition was right, the culprit who killed Psyche Madigan and the one who would have wanted to kill Reycepaz ay iisa at kaharap ko ngayon, si—Savannah.

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Last date updated: May 04, 2022

Last update I: 10/06/22