" Yup. These stimulation apps are quite useful. Never have I ever thought that it would come in handy in a moment like this, hehe...", Asher thought to himself while undressing the delivery boy.

What actually happened was, a moment ago, when Mike entered the house, he didn't really hear a person but he heard a voice coming from a stimulation software in Asher's phone.

When an oblivious Mike was entering the house blindly, responding to the coming voice, Asher was hiding behind the door. 

Once he got Mike in front of him, with a swift swoosh he alternatively whipped Mike's neck on both sides with the edge of his hand.

It was a technique called the Okinawan slap that he learned during his kickboxing classes.

This technique is all about hitting the carotid sinus located a little under the jaw, beside the upper border of the thyroid cartilage. A sudden hit on the sinus causes confusion among the numerous baroreceptors located there, thus causing an abrupt fall in the blood pressure and ceases oxygen flow to the brain,  resulting in the recipient's sudden unconsciousness. 

Taking cover of the darkness, Asher came out of his house.

Then he left, riding the delivery vehicle along with the police cars. 

He never would have imagined in his wildest dreams that after planning every possible scenario and outcome, someone would still be able to follow his trail.

While the raid team entered Asher's house, cloaking herself in the dark, Loralai silently slipped away from the IRADSs and tailed the GPS signal.

Seeing the signal beeping motionlessly at a few metres away, she sighed in disgust as the thought ran through her mind,"Fuck! He left the bike so soon. I thought, he would be riding it a little longer, before dumping it. Damn boy! you keep on exceeding my expectations. "

She felt her mouth drooling unexpectedly as the excitement in her mind was becoming boundless. With a slurping sound, she sipped the drool back as the words came out of her mouth," I might just fall for him."

Keeping her sanity and composure was becoming more and more impossible with the passing of each second .

She was about to go full on psycho with the intolerable feeling of anticipation in her mind.

A set of glowing eyes was ogling on the tab screen, searching for the most probable places that Asher could have gone to, from the park. 

After looking thoroughly, through the local map for a few seconds, Loralai figured out instantly that Asher must have escaped to the Central Market complex.

  [ Brandon Ball Tower, Central Market complex, inside an ascending lift ]

Loralai was holding her left hand with the right to keep it from shaking incessantly. Sweating oozily, she kept on making a continuous swishing sound with her mouth, while becoming increasingly impatient.

On reaching the tower roof, she rushed to one of the city view binoculars. Brandon Ball Tower was famous among the tourists for its city view binoculars, as anyone could see any part of the Central Market that they wanted.

The sweat, that was oozing before, started gushing now, as she kept on repeatedly licking her lips while searching for Asher, from top of the 135 th storeyed building. As her eyes were scouting, through the whole of the Central Market, they suddenly locked on a crying boy, wearing a yellow tshirt and white cargo shots with blackish red sneakers. 

The boy, standing near a car parking, a little away from the main crowd was weeping quietly but his eyes were red with tears.

" What the!..., What the fuck is he playing at now?", as the thought was crossing her mind, she saw an old lady approaching the crying Asher.

Lip reading, a trait that came in really handy during accessing the situation while she kept watching using the scope of her rifle, was something that she had mastered over her past years.

As the lady spoke to Asher, Loralai kept on muttering the word silently.

Approaching Asher, the old lady spoke in a soft and worried tone,"Kid, why are you crying? Tell me, are you lost?"

His eyes were blury with tears, hearing the voice, he wipped his eyes with his arm and made a loud snorting sound twice. Then, he slowly raised his head to face the person speaking to him.

" No...I am not.", he replied in a fractured voice.

" Then, what is it? Why are you crying, boy? You can tell granny.", she asked in a concerned manner.

Asher : I shouldn't tell you... No! Mama told me, not to talk to strangers.

Old Lady : Hmmm, your Mama told you right. Where is she now? Is she nearby?

Asher ( pointing his finger towards a mall ) : Yes. She is shoping in there.

Old Lady : Then why are you crying here? Do you want me to call her? I will call her here, okay. So, don't cry any more.

Asher : No! No! Please don't call Mama. Please don't call her here.

Old Lady : Why? Why don't you want me to call your Mama, dear?

Asher : Because.... I forgot.

Old Lady : What did you forget? Was it something important?

Asher : No, I shouldn't tell you.

Old Lady : I am no stranger boy, I am Grata granny. Do you think granny will harm you?

Asher : If I tell you, you won't tell Mama, right?

Grata : Why kid? Did you loose something valuable, that your mother gave you.

Asher : No, no, I didn't loose anything.

Grata : Then? Did you forget something your Mama told you to do?

Asher : Yes, Mama is shopping, so she send me to withdraw some money from the ATM, but I forgot how to.

Grata ( while thinking about how parents these days were becoming more and more irresponsible ) : Don't worry kid, go back to your Mama and tell her the truth. She won't get angry at you. Granny will go with you too.

Asher : (Boohooo....) I won't. Mama will be mad.Granny help me.

Grata : How can I help you with that, dear? You shouldn't share your bank details with any strangers, you know. There are a lot of bad people, who will steal  all your Mama's money.

Asher : (Boohoo....) Granny, you are not bad (Boohoo...) are you? Help me granny, please.

Grata ( thinking," This boy seems really naive, If I don't help him now he will surely get robbed by one of those goons lurking the streets ) : Okay kid, okay, I will help you. But you should tell your Mama that you did it on your own or else she will get really angry at you. Look there's a ATM in front of us, let's go there.

Blood started dripping from her lips as she kept on biting them even more forcefully while gazing at Asher.

" God! He is great. First you escaped my bullet, then you evaded those IRADS dogs and now, you manipulated someone else in withdrawing your money, so that you won't get caught in the cameras!", she was having goosebumps as she was thinking of Asher's smarts.

Keeping watch, Loralai found that, Asher went to some small stores after parting with the old lady.

But he never brought back anything while coming out of them.  

Her impatience grew incessantly, as she couldn't figure out what he was up to now. But an opportunity soon arrived.

Asher entered a rundown store, in a deserted back alley.  After a while, he came out, dressed in formal attire with some baggage and quite a few pizza boxes.

Then, he walked straight towards the main road where a car was waiting for him. As the car departed, Lora noted the number on its plate.