Amanita: Poison Shot

Chapter 32: Find Our Departed Loved Ones

Gabi exited right after him. He was also dressed in that amazing, black bouncer uniform and was carrying more metallic poles and red ropes so that customers could form an orderly queue. He almost bumped into Siegfried's frozen body.

"Sigi, dude. Move!" Gabi exclaimed while standing right beside Siegfried. When he realised why his friend was stupefied, he took a good look at me and whistled. "Damn, Daphne! Dios mío! What a look!"

I guessed my mother's dress made me look lean. Not as stylish as those clones around me, but I liked that simpler look.

Then, Siegfried mildly shook his head. He then approached me and grabbed me by the wrist. Momo and Vera were about to complain, but he ignored them. Not saying a single word, he pulled me inside Amanita.

"Thanks," I told him when we were crossing the main area of the club. "If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have been able to come in. Momo and Vera didn't want to let me in. They don't like me. It's not like I care much, honestly, but..."

I stopped wasting words. He was so silent that I started to worry. Why was he acting like a sleepwalker?

He stopped a few feet away from the stairs that went down to Agape's office. The rest of the team was busy behind the bar and hadn't noticed our presence.

He turned to me. His eyes were heavily fixed on mine.

"Say something. Like 'hello', you know."

He seemed completely absorbed by some distant thought as he stared at me.

"Earth to Siegfried. Hello there!" I said, raising my free hand open and flat, and running it in front of his face a couple of times. Nothing. "You're starting to scare me. Are you okay?"

"Yes, yes... Alles in Ordnung," he said as if he was suddenly waking up. Wow, he had switched to German. He was still holding my wrist firmly. "I mean, I'm fine."

"Agape must be downstairs, in her office, right?" I asked him. "I came to talk to her, remember?"

"Yes. Come," he answered flatly.

"It's not necessary. I can go on my own if you've got work to do."

However, he wanted to come with me, or rather, he dragged me by the wrist a few more feet and down the stairs.

As we made our way to the basement, we passed by the other guys in the group, the ones I had already seen the last time I had been there and to whom Siegfried had promised to introduce me. I just waved as we walked past them, but they were busy carrying boxes full of bottles, and they stared at me with long faces.

When we were already downstairs, in front of the door of Agape's office, I knocked.

"Come in!" Agape welcomed us. We entered.

"Agape, hello," I said. "I know you've got a lot of work to do, so I'll be short. I don't want to waste your time, so..."

"Not so fast, Daphne." The serious but stunned look on her face made me freeze.

"What?!" I exclaimed.

"I need a volunteer for an espionage mission, but forget it," Agape replied in a jolly good mood. "Dressed like this, I prefer you to stay working here from now on, pole-dancing with K8."

"No! Don't even think about it!" Siegfried exclaimed, pissed off and blushing.

"About spying or pole dancing?" Agape asked back with a playful smirk. She giggled. "Calm down, Sigi. It won't happen... unless she wants to, of course," she added while looking at me.