Ruby
“Are you sure this will work?” The voice of the Mafia King reverbrated through the walkie talkie that I’m holding. Before replying to him, I heaved a sharp sigh and returned my focus to the sight in front of me, where at the distance, a figure of a woman was sitting on the waiting seat in the section for departure. It’s easy to determine who the target is because as for now, I can only see her face as a clear image among all these passerby that have blurry faces. For now, that is. Stumbling upon someone with clear face is not that hard but that doesn’t mean they will appear out of nowhere.
I pressed a button on the walkie talkie and a static was heard. “More importantly…” I paced my gaze at the woman with the clear face who was rubbing her slightly bulging belly and to my side, where Mark is sitting there, looking at me with quite an empty expression.
“More importantly, I can’t believe that you accepted my offer, Raul.”
Flashback to the time Mark and I were brought into his office, I daringly proposed an offer to him, stating that I would help him get back his wife, in exchange of mine and Marks’s freedom. At first, Raul hesitated, even ridiculing me for my proposal. I too am actually reflecting upon my action for spouting such nonsense, but as someone who had enough theoretical knowledge and analytical decision making, I know well enough how to win a female lead’s heart the right way.
“You can ridicule me all you want…” I slowly stood up, my eyes fixed to Raul’s figure who gradually followed me and stood up straight.
“But trust me, I can successfully bring your wife back to you.”
There was a short silence between the moment I finished my words. Though faint, now I can see his eyes wavered, standing in between wanting to trust or not. I inserted more persuasion, not giving him time to think about my offer.
“If you dither now, your wife is going to run away, you know?”
He fell into a short ponder and was fazed for a moment, although his gaze weren’t focused, his eyes were at me.
His quietness spans for a few minutes that I thought he might have the time to think about ways to handle it on his own. While I crouched down again, this time to whisper to Mark and ask whether he had any plans. I doubt Mark has any idea in mind considering I don’t know him pretty well and he looked like a reckless person, but I need something to escape this place, this building located at the middle of the city, standing tall along with any skyscraper around it. This Mafia King here is not only reigns over the surface world, he also possessed tremendous power over the underworld.
“I’ll accept your offer.”
Him speaking suddenly caused me to stop midway in my crouching, which made it look like I was about to do the crouching exercise but in an awkward manner.
I swallowed once, still couldn’t believe of what he just said.
“Huh?”
Back to the present, I motioned some of the men—that Raul sent with me to the airport for the plan—to hide among the crowds. Spotting the Mafia King’s men might be hard later, but there are people who their face wasn’t blurred, and that is, the person who was crouching at my other side.
“Miss Absilon, my men are ready.”
I can only remember much by his smooth and elegant voice. His name is Karl Eruz, one of Raul’s most trusted men. At the young age of 28, he held the honor as the acting director for the company Raul manages. He is a mysterious man with many achievements, yet all of them are blurred out by the fact that he’s only the supporting character.
Yes, Karl Eruz is just a supporting character.
I just remembered of the third fact of this world, and that is the supporting characters have clear face. This was proven by my random discovery when I first come to this world, that is me wandering about and following people with clear face only to discover that those people were the supporting characters for the male leads or female leads. That is also the precursor of where I managed to get the information of the interview which leads to me having $10k in my possession.
Talking about money, I can’t really waste my time now. I should finish this task of returning the female lead called Mia and then continue my search for job.
“Thank you, Mister Karl.”
Karl nodded his head. “No problem, this is also to make sure you do your job well.” Despite him smiling so kindly, I can feel a murderous aura coming from him that caused me to shudder.
“Don’t worry, Ruby.” I felt a hand grabbing gently on my wrist. Turning around, my eyes caught a glimpse of Mark smiling at me as he said. “You are a confident person, I know you can do this.”
Hearing those supporting words coming from him makes me want to do well. I smiled back at him, even wider than his blinding smile. Then I turned my head back to Karl.
“Let’s do this.” My command signaled the start of the plan.
After all is set, I left the hiding place where I won’t be seen by Mia and adjusted my brand new outfit that Raul gave me as a disguise. I was walking with a confident look on my face, remembering the smile that Mark gave me which I am glad wasn’t blurred.
After all, I’m convinced that Mark is also a supporting character for someone.
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