Demon's Reborn

Chap 6

Luigi is still pondering on what the poem could mean, and why is it intended for him, but to no avail. He lied motionlessly on his picnic blanket as he stare at the blue canvas and the streaks of white passing and going by it with the calm touch of the morning sun. The cool dry wind caressing his still wet hair, it felt soothing that it made him close his eyes. He was about to call Hale that he won't be going to office today when he remembered that he was relieved from the office by William's command. He doesn't know why the old man did that but it seemed to him that William wanted his full service and now he's tasked to solve the poem because it seems like a puzzle. William himself is trying to decode it too. He must've received the report by now, maybe I'll go and drop by later after this day.

A sudden wave of trouble crossed his mind after an irregular wind touched the tips of his neatly cut hair. He immediately sat up and looked around only to find a troubled lady looking left in right as if looking for somewhere to hide and behind her as if running away from someone. The moment he got a glance of the lady's face he stood up and called the lady. "Yleine!" The lady shot a glance at him then relief washed her face. "Hey!" a man shouted not far away from them and started towards her direction. Luigi quickly grabbed his picnic blanket and stuffed it into the basket. The sound of a gunshot echoed within the park which alarmed the people.

"Follow me," he told Yleine and grabbed her hand. He led her to the parking area where his Sedan is waiting. He opened the door at the passenger seat and urged Yleine to get in and gave her the basket then they drove off. "Who are those men? Why are they after you?" Luigi asked as he glances at his side view mirror and rear view mirror to see if they're following them because he's sure enough he heard motorbikes right after he they left the park.

"I-I don't know...t-they just s-started chasing me when I got into the park. W-when I saw their guns I immediately ran away from them," she answered filled with fear and wondering. "I'm very much glad you outran them, even with your dress and slippers," he said and Yleine's face was washed with color with either embarrassment or pleased with the compliment she received. She don't know which. Stiffly, she pulled her long dress to herself and stared out of the window at the side view mirror.

Yleine gasped in terror when she saw four men on motorbike following them. "Wear your seatbelt Yleine," Luigi said as he switch his gazes from the side view mirror and in front. Yleine frantically reached for it and buckled it across her chest. "Can you think of anything why they're after you?" "I don't know, I've never seen them before!" "Did you happen to have something that belongs to them?" Yleine shot a questioning look to Luigi. "You mean they're after this?" she asked and showed Luigi a golden pin on the size of a thumb with an engraved roaring lion head on it. Luigi doesn't know why but he's sure he's seen this pin before. And he's positive it's a tracker.

"Where did you get that?" "I accidentally pulled it off from one of them when I broke free, that was before we saw each other," she answered still keeping an eye at the side view mirror. "Can you see something peculiar beneath the pin? A button or something?" Luigi asked so Yleine flipped the pin and saw a hatch. She pulled the small cover with her long dirty finger nails and saw a red flickering light under it. "Pull that red thing off" Luigi commanded and turned sharp left. She used the cover to pull the red thing off and it came out with some wires. She pulled it off and the wires snapped from the force. The flickering died in instant and she threw it out of the window before Luigi could ever tell her to do so. Seeing another light within she plucked all the wires until the whole back cover of the pin came off. Beneath it is a chip that keeps another red light flickering. Without luck in pulling it off, she broke the chip into pieces with the first cover she took off from the pin. The flickering still won't stop, annoyed, she was about to throw all of it out of the window when Luigi stopped him. "Don't throw the cap. It's a concrete lead to whoever is after you."