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Jellal sat in his new headquarters. The one he asked Levy to find after the old place location known by Erza. Beside the woman being the reason, he had thought about changing place. Because people like them couldn't stay in one place for long. The new headquarters located in the middle of the city. It was the team's policy to live in a busy place. Well, you need a forest to hide a tree.
Macao jumped and sat onto his table, and stared into his eyes. The young man startled.
"I think you shouldn't believe to that woman much." Jellal raised his eyebrows. "She told me everything about you." He gaped.
"How much is that 'everything'?" he asked. Macao smiled.
"How much that 'everything' can hold, well that much."
Jellal sighed. He wished that he could say anything that could erase whatever his subordinate think about him. Because he knew what the man was thinking now.
"Come on. Let's go for a walk." The older man jumped on his feet. Jellal still with his thought but followed the older man.
They walked on a lonely pedestrian street. Macao not saying any word, made his leader curious. Especially about his thought. What had he thought after he knew the truth?
"I knew her when we were in college." Jellal forwent his intention to ask when the older man started his word.
"Huh?" Macao smiled.
"My wife," he said. "She grew up being a troublesome kid. Family problems, peer problems. She had a tough life." He took a deep breath. "I started to date her when she was in rehab."
"Rehab?" Jellal asked.
"She started taken drugs when she was 15. During the rehab session, she kept saying that she couldn't change. She had been depended on that thing for too long; till she couldn't believe there's life without it."
"But, you did change her, right?" He was getting interested into the older man's story.
"I did. I married her. We had Romeo about a year later. I never seen her so happy." He paused. Jellal decided to wait for him to continue, but he didn't.
"Then, how…?" The older man's heavy sigh stopped him from continued.
"The two brats came to her. Selling those drugs. It was economic recession, so money was really hard to get. Furthermore, I was fired from my job. Both of us were stressed."
"That wouldn't be the reason why you killed her, right?"
"No. She was the only woman I love. She was a very lovely woman, a very caring mother. As Romeo knew her. That's why I killed her. I want to remember her as such woman. I want Romeo to remember her as such mother. Not an immoral person," he explained.
Jellal had no word to comfort the older man, but he knew one thing. Love is complex. As the love between Juvia and Gray. As the relationship between him and Erza.
Suddenly, Macao grabbed his shoulder.
"Why do you think I told you this?" he asked. Jellal raised his shoulders.
"You wanted to explain why you eagerly looked for the teenagers?" he asked him back, innocently.
"Well, I knew your secret, so I want you to know my secret as well. It's fair."
"Fair?" Jellal still confused.
"I got your back, don't worry about that." Macao playfully punched his left chest. Jellal confusingly nodded.
"One more thing, do not tell what I've told you to Romeo. Understand?" He nodded again. Macao continued to walk. "Another thing," he turned to his leader again. "Thanks for not killing those boys. I don't want you to stain your hands or feel guilty. You're not doing any wrong," Macao assured him. Jellal nodded, liked a child being advised for his doings.
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Ultear roughly banged her table with files she'd been carrying. Then she slumped herself onto her chair and gave out a heavy sigh.
"Rough day?" She looked up.
Erza leaned at her door's frame. The woman neither smiles nor frowns. She then took a seat in front of the officer.
"I was very mad when you demoted me four years ago," she started.
"I never demoted you, Erza. I told you before. It's for your own safety. You can't be on the special team anymore. Your cover blown," Ultear explained.
"I know." Erza rolled her eyes.
"Then, I guess you're here for another reason." Erza turned her face away. "I still admired your skills in avoiding CCTV to come here. This is not your authorize place." Erza looked back at her.
"Jellal. I met him yesterday."
Ultear a little surprised. She almost forgot that Erza had known the secret.
"So?"
"He told me everything." She raised her brows. "You lied about his death. You kept him for two years, torturing him. Then you released him, but you still keep an eye on him move."
Ultear gave out another sigh. She might not know the whole thing.
"It's not your concern. I don't have to tell you anything." She tidied up her table.
"Yes, it is. He's my friend."
"So, what can you do? He told you everything, right? Did he tell you that we didn't get the reason why he killed those people? They are innocent," she cut her off.
"These two years after you released him, have he done anything? No, he did nothing. He just spent his life normally. Can't you just leave him alone?"
"Did he tell you what happened within the two years we kept him from the outside world?" Erza silent. "No, right? Then you don't have the right to say anything about how we do our work. Now please leave. I have a lot of things to do."
Erza crumpled her fingers.
"All of you don't have to monitor him all the time. I can take care of him myself." She walked to the door.
Ultear stared to the woman. She hoped that she didn't do anything that would disturb Blue Thread.
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Heheh...the case not yet detailed...heheh...I'm sorry...Maybe next chapter?
