Rowena Roman

Chapter 3 Mei: Part 3 (Beta) (Slight Edit)

"Asked?" Mei repeated. "What do you mean by asked?"

The girl who called herself Diana merely shrugged as if what she said wasn't something more than that. "It's as I said, I was asked to do this, nothing more and nothing less. It's nothing that you should worry over."

"How can you call something like that nothing!?" Mei snapped as she stood up in anger. "You're talking about killing a man for crying out loud!"

She didn't even look remotely phased by Mei's outburst. "I never said anything about killing him." she said softly while watching the woman with those ice blue eyes of her's. A chill ran down Mei's spine as the girl continued to stare at her. Something about her eyes felt almost unnatural to her for some reason. "I merely said as to what should be done with him, as I said I never spoke anything about killing him. What gave you the assumption that it was something that I was going to do?"

"You said it would be easier just to kill him."

"Just because I say it doesn't mean I'll act on it," then the look in her eyes changed slightly, almost taking a darker course, as if her soul was fading away from her body in front of Mei's very eyes. "Although, I would be the first to admit that killing him, though probably for the best of the other girls out there, won't mean it'd be good. "You kill one monster ten more will pop up in its place." Someone I knew told me that once a while back. I guess you could say that he and I were friends, if you could call it that. But considering the truth behind those words it could be seen as pretty accurate. All things regarding monsters pretending to be human, who knows who you might find in the woodwork..."

Mei didn't say anything in response and Diana continued.

"Besides, he also told me, to defeat a monster like that; it would have to be an even stronger monster then the one standing in your way."

"That's some friend you have," Mei said as Diana merely shrugged in response. "So you don't intend to kill him, if that's the truth, then what is it that you intend to do with him?"

The girl shrugged again. "I don't know. I mean, I wouldn't really know at all, after all the only thing I was asked besides gathering information on him, was to grab him and hand him over. That's all."

Mei couldn't help but feel that there was more to it than that, that it wasn't the whole truth. "The Xiang family asked you didn't they," she said but not in a questioning way. "That's why you're here isn't it, they hired you."

"Why would they hire a seventeen year old girl to kidnap a serial rapist?" Diana asked. "Who in their right mind would even do that? When you think of it that way it sounds crazy."

That was true, it did sound crazy, and Mei knew that when asking. But this girl, there had to be something more to it than that.

"So then why? If that isn't it then why are you here? Why are you doing all of this, for what purpose would there be for you to do it?"

Diana didn't say anything for a moment, she merely remained quiet.

"Answer me!" Mei snapped.

"I could ask you the same thing," she spoke finally.

"What?"

Diana gave Mei a look, a kind of look that said she could find any kind of truth about a person by just looking at them. "I think you know what I'm talking about."

Mei took a step back from the ominous tone that Diana used how she stared right through her like glass, it felt unsettling. "Now what are you talking about? You aren't making any sense!"