Fear Aida

The Origin of Charlotta

I let Charlotta vent all her emotions by crying out loud for a while, when I felt she was a little calmer then I helped her up and led her back to our seats. There Charlotta and I faced - in front of her, even though she didn't look at me at all, she lowered her eyes and made our position seem as a judge and a defendant.

"Charlotta, don't get me wrong. We're not here to judge or extract information from you, I'm just curious about who you really are. Whether I can trust you or not, this is all for Aida's sake" I gently said, slowly Charlotta raised her head and looked at me.

"I get it, ask me what you want to know about me" he said

Charlotta's calmness at that time could easily be obtained after being hysterical with my previous words, Charlotta's figure was indeed a mystery to me. Now his tone is so calm and I feel I can communicate well with him.

"What's your goal?" much

"Are you talking to Isabella or to Charlotta?" ask Charlotta back to me, I frowned because I didn't understand her question.

"Did they both have different missions?" ask me again

"Yes" he answered briefly

"Well, I asked Charlotta. What's your mission?" back I asked him

"Protect Sir Steve Smith's adopted son Andrews Hopkins" Charlotta replied firmly without the slightest hesitation. The look in his eyes was so sharp I looked at him, that look I never got from the Charlotta figure I knew.

Of course I was surprised by Charlotta's reply, I was unable to continue my words for a while but I'm sure Charlotta understood how surprised I was at the answer. "Where does he know about Sir Steve? since when do they know each other?! is he joking with me?!" that's the question that turns around - turn around in my head.

"What.. can you explain... about the mission?" my question was stammered, I still couldn't believe what Charlotta had just said.

I was too shocked to ask how the process of getting acquainted and meeting Sir Steve who was my foster father, I never even heard Sir Steve mention Charlotta's name to me. Again and again I was confronted by something that left me unable to find any answers.

"Sure, Sir Steve Smith hired me to protect whatever danger Andrews Hopkins was going to face and." Not yet finished Charlotta said, I cut it.

"Why did Sir Steve hire you?" much

"Because my job is actually a private detective" Charlotta replied back without the slightest hesitation

"No! I'm sorry, I know your job before and you're not a detective" I chimed in with a little pressure

"Then, you should have asked about what the mission of Isabella Rosenberg was" with Charlotta's cynical smile saying, I paused for a moment trying to digest what she really wanted to tell me.

For quite a while both Charlotta and I had only been silent since her last words to me, my mind raving at that moment. I still can't think clearly after everything that happened, maybe now I'm already within the limits of thinking ability. I could only be silent and continue to look into Charlotta's eyes still smiling sinisterly at me, until Charlotta's hand gesture that seemed to ask me to continue the conversation awakened me from daydreaming.

"What is the mission of.... Isabella?" ask me after swallowing saliva that feels difficult for me to swallow

"Killing Sir Steve Smith" he answered, sounding so light without burden

The words he said made me feel like I was dealing with Isabella Rosenberg, as if I wasn't with Charlotta back then. Didn't I see Charlotta who was jolly and teased me often, is this the real figure of Isabella? his sharp and cold eyes and intimidating tone of speech made me confused to take a stance. But his answer to the mission he was on greatly ignited my emotions.

I hit the table in front of me very hard, I felt like he was playing me with words. But Charlotta did not react in the slightest, she kept looking at me with the same cynical smile since earlier. "What is this?! is he really telling the truth?! is he trying to play me?!" ask me in my heart, then I try to replay all my memories of Sir Steve. But I never felt Sir Steve was being targeted by anyone, even when Sir Steve and I lived in the same house.

"Don't joke.... Charlotta... This is no longer funny, I know you used to prank me!! this time tell me everything honestly!!" I snatched at him

"No, he. I mean, my foster father always ordered me to hold on to the data" I replied, Charlotta sighing after hearing my answer.

"It looks like we are adopted children who were raised differently, Andrews" Charlotta said

"Stop lying!!" snatch me

"At the age of nineteen, Isabella was assigned by her old state intelligence to kill the man you call the foster father" Charlotta said calmly, I feel like this is the time I can judge whether he's lying or not.

"One night, young Isabella managed to smuggle into the country and began her mission to kill Sir Steve Smith. Looking for his house, then one night... The young Isabella enters Sir Steve Smith's house in silence, she succeeds and only remains to perform her final task of execution" Charlotta continued.

"De.... With your abilities, it's not a difficult task right?" I asked, I had a fear of hearing Charlotta's story that was very easy to talk about killing and killing other people.

"That's right, I managed to stab him in the back but unfortunately when it jabbed my dagger misses a little bit from a vital point. He rebelled but for nothing, I was trained to handle the situation. As he fell down and turned to look at the face of the person who was after his life, his face was so shocked that the look of shock did not last long until he..." Charlotta hung up her sentence for a moment, not knowing what made her pause to continue her story.

I gulped my saliva back but it was so hard for me to do, this throat felt narrowed. My heart beats fast enough, my body shakes a little. It seems that I am terrified of this Charlotta figure, her expression flat as she recounted all those terrible events. But. momentarily silent, arriving - arriving from both eyes I saw tears flowing. "What?! what'sthat?! why did she suddenly cry?!" I asked in my heart, I did not understand about Charlotta's figure.

"Sir Steve Smith looked at me with a look of pity, he said he regretted knowing young Isabella to be a murderer like this, and also said... what he was trying to do was futile." in tears Charlotta said, I was surprised to hear what she said.

I know what Sir Steve wants because he's been asking me to have a discussion about it ever since I was adopted by him, he wants a peaceful world for children without any violence and evil befalling us. That's why Sir Steve asked the council to establish a witness and victim protection center, where in the end Lee's arrogant and arrogant doctor began his story.

It all happened when Sir Steve asked me to continue his determination to create a world of nonviolence and crime in children so that they grow up to be good people, I understood his pattern of work. We will improve the mentality of children who have been damaged by the cruelty of the world and hope that the children we have saved will become pioneers in society to defend other children those who suffer the same fate as them, but it is not as easy as when we say it.

Children are alternately becoming victims of the cruelty of the world, not the fault of the children, that's why Sir Steve wanted to change the world. So did I...

But I failed...

"After he asked me to let go of all things related to my past, Sir Steve gave me a new name and a new life under his care... That's the Charlotta you know today, Andrews" Charlotta said breaking our silence

"Then...What purpose did Sir Steve Smith ask you to protect me? am I in danger? who is suspected of it?" much

"The village where we live.. Do you know what the village means?" ask Charlotta back to me, I frowned and thought hard trying to understand what Charlotta said but I didn't understand it.

"No, the village came because of my concern, I didn't realize I had arrived there after a long journey without direction" I replied.

"Andrews, did Sir Steve say where he would stay when he decided to retire?" charlotta asked me with a little pressure, I was again startled by her words.

"Ja. don't say... Ji.." I said, until Charlotta cut me off.

"The village was chosen by Sir Steve to be his retirement destination. Maybe you feel like things are going your way, but not Andrews. Sir Steve predicted everything, he knows you're out of town after what happened to you and you're bound for the village and Sir Steve asks me for help to keep an eye on you" timpal Chalotta told me

I can no longer say - words, I know too much what - what. What have I been living like all this time? even I don't understand my own foster father despite living together for quite a long time, I feel even more stupid about what has happened. Slowly I bent my hands over the table to support my head which felt so heavy, at that time I tried to fix a red thread that felt very tangled without knowing what the end was.

But. At least with this, I know the origin of Charlotta which has been a mystery all along. I just need to find more pieces - other pieces of mystery until I manage to uncover who is the mastermind of this crime, I must immediately solve everything well.