Secret Police Agent

Evacuations

During the evacuation, Claire accompanies Selby to a location that was last night a battleground as well as a great massacre between agents and the mafia.

Remembering the incident last night, Selby said he wanted to see the face of his partner who had fallen. He was obviously sad but also relieved after avenging the death of his partner.

Just at the last location of the separation Claire, Selby, and the man she helped last night fell from the top floor of a building that had collapsed, seen more than one corpse lying on the ground.

Their faces were hit by a grenade explosion, causing burns. Although it is a bit difficult to recognize, Selby remembers the clingy head where the face of a man he helped yesterday.

Senno, who was one of the victims, was taken by an Ambulance car to the hospital for further examination. Claire who accompanied Selby also went there.

Claire can catch Selby's sadness in her eyes. Also a small vibration in his hand that was almost invisible. She's sad. She wanted to shed her tears once more like last night.

Claire grabbed Selby from behind her back. Trying to calm down her girl friend. Although Claire herself knows that she does not have the ability to entertain others.

"Senno has calmed down up there, Selby. He no longer felt any pain from that deep wound on his back. You should be happy too. Your partner's happiness is your happiness too, right?" Claire begins her words to comfort Selby.

Selby just kept quiet while crying without a sound. He could not hide Claire sitting next to him. He just couldn't accept the fact that someone valuable to him had to go off in a war with the mafia.

A few hours waiting, one of the nurses who also helped in the evacuation invited Claire and Selby to enter the morgue. Senno's body will soon be buried.

With heavy steps, Selby enters the morgue accompanied by Claire. Claire doesn't dare to leave her for fear of something happening to Selby.

The nurse showed me a bed with someone who was not on it covered in a white cloth that covered her entire body.

The heavier Selby's steps closer to the bed. With trembling hands he opened the covering cloth on Senno's head. The peaceful face of his former partner.

His eyes closed perfectly like a person who was fast asleep. There were only small wounds on his face that did not change the shape of his face. Because the main wound is on the back.

Selby's getting claustrophobic in her chest. Not because of anything but because he tried not to cry in front of the dead Senno. A woman's heart is softer than a cotton swab. Selby kept crying with her head lowered without a sound.

"Selby..." Claire stared at the face of her girl friend. Two keep stroking the upper arm of Selby's mushy. Intends strengthening.

Selby stopped crying. His physique already looks more robust. But his mentality is still doubtful. He stood up. Staring once again at Senno's face for the last time.

He ventured to stroke the cheek of the man who yesterday also handled it. They will soon be separated. Will never see you again forever.

"Senno, thank you for being with me. Hiks. That tenderness of your nature to me. hiks. I'm sure now your soul is calm up there. Hiks. Thanks too.. hiks... have shared this grief together..hiks" Selby issued words that bless his heart since last night.

Despite sobbing repeatedly in her cries, she still tried to pronounce it as clearly as possible. At the end of the word, his heart was no longer strong. She spilled her tears onto the floor as she did not want Senno's corpse to be moistened by her tears.

Claire took Selby out of the morgue. Outside, it might be more calming.

"You're satisfied after seeing his last peaceful face?" claire asked without looking at Selby.

"Hiks. I should be happy to see that he is no longer tormented by his wounds. But I was sad like this" instead of answering Claire's question, Selby even let out her other uneg.

"You feel lost, don't you? because Senno has treated you well during your partnering. If one of you is gone, it's gonna hurt"

"Have you ever experienced this, Claire?" selby changed the subject. Forgetting the sadness for a moment.

"Just once" Claire stared at the blue sky with white clouds through the windows in the hospital hallways.

"Did it really feel like this hurt?"

"Yes. I even locked myself in my room for days at a time"

"Oh yeah? I can't believe Claire had experienced this pain before" Selby tried to smile while wiping her tears.

"I guess that's what made me who I am now"

Silent. Selby was trying to digest Claire's words just now. He doesn't know what it means. Was Claire a jolly person?

"After that sad incident, I promised myself not to cry anymore. Hearts frozen. Numbness. To this day, I finally came back to realize what true sadness means"

"Claire... You used to be a jolly girl?"

It was as if a wind had passed through the faces and manes of the two girls in the hospital hallways. Claire just smiled at Selby. That was the first smile Selby saw.

"You think?" Claire turned her hand towards the outside through the window.

"I never knew you had such a painful time, Claire. I'm sorry I made you remember your past" Selby felt guilty for Claire.

"It's okay. I'm not sad anymore despite being reminded of the same thing"

Through Claire's past story, Selby forgets her sadness about Senno's death. They both left the hospital. In the afternoon, Selby will be alone at the mass funeral of the organization's agents at the TPU.