The bracelet that leads to the future

Chapter 3: the aftershock emissary

Chapter 3: the aftershock emissary  

If Yuri would have punched him any harder, he wouldn't be standing anymore.

The man was now bend over with his hands clinging to his stomach and a quite sound of pain escaping his mouth.

"I swear. I don't know anything" he said in a huffing voice.

"Yes, I remember you saying that and I wouldn't expect someone like you to know a whole lot anyway.", he said in his usual sarcastic voice, but he could not keep a hint of anger from slipping in.

Yuri took a step back from the man and put his hands behind his back. He started walking a circle around him. Like a predator sizing up his pray, looking for the time to strike.

Moments before, Starving Venom Fusion Dragon had wiped out the man's life points in a single devastating attack, crushing all defenses in its way. Yuri had found the person's name during his investigation. He is a worker at the docks and a source for illegally getting high-tech equipment undetected.

Yuri had been stealthily following him all night. Using skills that were all too familiar and when the perfect moment came, he attacked.

"Now our duel was really fun, but I don't have all night so what's it going to be?" Yuri smiled at him dangerously.

The man looked at Yuri with blank fear in his eyes, Yuri tried not to enjoy it.

"ok, I will tell you." He whimpered.

Yuri stopped and looked directly at him. Then, without warning, he dashed forward and forcefully grabbed the man by the collar of his shirt.

"Then why don't you illuminate me?" He hissed.

"Ok...ok" he said quickly, "Ten years ago, I worked at den city docks. I never met them. I swear. They hacked into my computer and told me to get them gear you need for electrocutions. I never ask any questions. They paid well."

For a moment there was blind rage and absolute madness in Yuri's eyes. His hand instinctively went to the place on his dual disk were the button for turning people into cards used to be, but he could stop himself and put his hands back firmly around the man's collar.

He took a deep breath, that wasn't him anymore.

"We had such great fun together, didn't we? Wouldn't want to ruin it by telling anyone about it, right?" Yuri looked into the man's eyes questioningly. He nodded quickly.

Then Yuri punched him again to satisfy that wild anger at least a little bit. The person fell to the ground.

Yuri turned around and as he heard noises of pain coming from behind him, he started to slowly walk away, his hands once again behind his back.

Yuri let out a sigh of frustration, as he tried to find the right key from his key chain in the dark. He was standing in front of the small storage room he had rented. He just couldn't see anything in the dark and absentmindedly trying to find the key gave his mind time to wander and that was something he always tried to avoid.

This is actually the third storage room he used over the years.

He had rented the first shortly after Serena became disillusioned with looking for answers about 8 years ago. She made him promise to stop and he swore it to her, but he just couldn't. So, he took everything his investigation had brought and moved it there.

She, of course, found out and they had a fight, not unlike the one they had yesterday. At the time he couldn't understand why she had given up or maybe he just didn't understand what drove him to keep going without looking back.