Between Guns and Roses

Takagawa

Anna and Antonio, who had reached the top of their romance, immediately recovered when they heard the sound of footsteps walking closer to their room.

"There are people" whispered Antonio.

Anna just nodded as she fixed her clothes quickly, not to forget also she held back a sword that had been placed on the bed.

The hearing of those who are trained enough can hear clearly the sound of footsteps, although in fact still quite far away.

"Gun or sword?" anna asked Antonio for consideration.

"It looks like the gun is more effective, target the vital parts so as not to throw too much ammunition," replied Antonio.

"OK," said Anna briefly.

Then they cocked each other's weapons, preparing to welcome an uninvited guest.

"I'll open the door, you execute" said Antonio, clutching the doorknob.

Anna simply nodded her consenting sign, then took a standby position with her hands forward holding the gun and pointing it at the door.

The sound of footsteps grew clearer, a sign of their distance getting closer. Antonio then gave a cue, he counted down while tightly grasping the doorknob.

3 ....

2 ....

1 ....

Chequek! Sleb!

There was a whistle of wind from a bullet that shot out of Anna's gun shortly after the door in front of her was opened by Antonio. The bullet shot from the muffled gun managed to pierce through the chest of a man trying to enter their room, the instant the man's body fell lifelessly down with blood rushing down the floor.

"Wow .. is amazing" praised Antonio, smiling at Anna.

"You can shoot precisely without aiming first" he added.

"Ah ... You're too much, I know if you can do better than this" said Anna trying to be modest.

"No, I'm normal, nothing special" Antonio replied.

"Nobody can aim right at the top of a fast-paced train car, other than you," Anna said.

Hearing Anna's words, Antonio only smiled a little while holding the woman's chin.

"They know it, bad women," he said.

***

In another room in the Black Shadow headquarters, Takagawa seemed to feel a sense of uneasiness, he was unable to close his eyes until he decided to walk into the backyard of the headquarters.

That day he had not met with Pablo, for some reason his premonition said that something was not right at this headquarters.

"Good Night, Takagawa-san!" greet Marcello as he sees Takagawa walking towards the backyard.

"Oh ... Marcello, it seems you. Why not rest?" ask Takagawa to Marcello.

"I'm used to going around every night, to make sure everyone is safe and no other members are still active" Marcello replied.

"Self why haven't you rested?" Marcello asked back with a probing look.

Takagawa sighed for a moment.

"Somehow I don't feel like the nights before. Tonight was like a bad feeling, so I couldn't sleep and decided to wait for sleepiness while relaxing in the backyard" Takagawa replied.

Marcello just nodded slowly, trying to understand Takagawa's words.

"Yes, I understand," he said slowly.

"Then come with me, we go around!" He said he tried to take Takagawa.

"Round around?! No problem, come on!" takagawa's reply agreed to his colleague's invitation.

Marcello smiled a little, he felt happy tonight someone would accompany him on patrol, unlike the previous nights that he had only done alone.

The two of them walked down a corridor filled with room doors. Headquarters is like a hotel, every room door is numbered so that each member can easily find the location of his room.

"It looks like they're asleep" Takagawa said when he learned that all the doors had been locked from the inside.

Then the two of them walked into another corridor.

"Are you also patrolling the women's room area?" takagawa asked in a slightly seductive tone.

Marcello stared intently at Takagawa and stopped his steps, then shook his head with a look of disappointment.

"No, in the women's section there's more on duty. I'm just patrolling men's territory" he replied softly.

"I understand why you're a god, hehehe" Takagawa said, laughing with a grin.

"Huh ..." said Marcello.

Seeing his partner's expression like that, Takagawa let out a small laugh. He felt happy because he managed to prank Marcello.

Although the Black Shadow headquarters looked like a mansion, but when inside, it was like a dormitory building. The dormitory is the resting place of the members, which consists of two zones, the male zone and the female zone.

The men's zone consists of male rooms and a training ground that is exclusively for men, while the women's zone consists of male rooms and a training ground specifically for women. The difference is, the women's zone is equipped with a public kitchen, a place to cook and provide food for all residents of the headquarters.

Pablo's bed was on the second floor along with the rooms of the other Black Shadow higher-ups, including Marcello and Takagawa's rooms. Likewise, the room that had just been entered by Antonio, the empty room was the former room belonging to Fabio.

"How about we check the second floor?" tanya Takagawa gave her advice.

"I think the second floor is safe, there is no way the other higher-ups are still active at this time" replied Marcello rejecting Takagawa's invitation.

"Hmm .. Did you?" Takagawa.

"Why don't we check first?" he asked again as if shaking Marcello's stance.

Indeed, all this time Marcello only went around on the lower floor, because the lower floor is often noisy and noisy at rest hours to disturb the higher ups who are resting on the upper floor.

"Hm ...." Marcello muttered softly as he let out a short breath.

"Alright, we'll check upstairs both! I also checked Mr. Pablo's room" he said, confirming Takagawa's request.

"Mrs. A pablo?! Does he not exist?!" takagawa asked in a surprised tone when he heard that Marcello would check the private room of the head of the Black Shadow organization.

"Yes, he left yesterday, but I don't know where he went" answered Marcello.

"Well, let's check, maybe he's home" Takagawa said.

Marcello just nodded slowly, then the two of them then climbed the stairs that went straight to the second floor of the Black Shadow headquarters.

Seen a row of closed room doors, but the distance between each other is quite far, unlike the distance of the door on the ground floor which is quite close.

Marcello then rang the triangle that he had been carrying, as a sign that he was on patrol.

The tring! The tring! The tring!

There was a sound of the tool as much as three beats, accompanying the steps of the two of them.

"It looks like they're asleep, there's nothing here" Marcello said as he checked through some locked doors from the inside.

But as they headed to Pablo's room, their eyes were fixed on a room whose door was slightly open.

"Why is the room open?!" Marcello muttered as he walked quickly towards Fabio's room.

Takagawa who saw the look of confusion from Marcello's face could only follow his partner's steps.

***

Will they meet the two members of the association, namely Antonio and Anna?

or

They only found the corpse of poor Black Shadow?

I don't know ....

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