Chapter 10: Problems in the favela

Momo tried to move her hands to get rid of the ropes that she had in her wrists, but it was pretty impossible. It seemed like Maylon's henchmen were experts in marine knots. Both she and Rito, and even Paulo and Yami were strongly tied to chairs while the leader of the Bloody Fang gang watched them carefully with a baseball bat in his hands. His companions were there, pointing their machine guns.

Paulo (struggling uselessly): Come on, Maylon, you can not do this to us... Why do you have to do it? I thought you liked my friends...

Maylon: And I like them, make no mistake about it. What happens is that Nemesis has offered me such a good sum of money just to torture your three buddies. As the Americans say, business is business. Oh, by the way, what has the pink haired girl in her insides to make Nemesis so obsessed?

Rito (a little scared, worried about Momo): What... what do you mean?

Maylon: I do not have it clear, really. But it looked like she was very excited talking about it, it seems that she wanted to see her suffer a lot. A little more and she breaks my table. Holy crap...

Momo began to tremble with fear. It was official: Nemesis was behind her and she wanted to make a lot of damage in her body and soul. But... why? Why this bloodlust came against the third princess of Deviluke? The answer seemed clear: the baby. Since she had learned of her pregnancy, Nemesis and Mea Kurosaki had made her life miserable. And it didn't seem to improve because she was tied against a dangerous grup of drug dealers. She had to do something, and the sooner the better. Then she remembered that Celine was within the virtual space of her D-Dial. After thinking for several minutes about how could she use that to her advantage, the pink haired princess had a great idea: if she could reach her device and deliver Celine, she could distract Maylon and his henchmen while others escaped with the retained girl. Then, when they were well away from the house of the drug trafficker, Momo could again lock her friend in the D-Dial, thanks to the huge range that the device had. However well planned, the pink-haired girl began to slowly move her hands, trying to reach the D-Dial. The girl tried to hide showing terror and fear in her face, and perhaps get mislead the dealers. After a long struggle, Momo managed to reach her device, and was able to press the button. Seconds later, Celine was out of the screen. Rito could not help but wonder, while the plant in human form began to float above Maylon, stretching his hair. The assistants to the Bloody Fang gang leader started firing at the smallish but incredibly she dodged all. Maylon was pissed off.

Maylon: What the fuck are you waiting for? Go behind her, dammit!

And the four guards, with their leader, went after Celine, floating at high speed on the corridors. The others, with sore wrists by the pressure of the ropes, did not understand what had just happened.

Yami: Princess Momo, you really reached your D-Dial just with your own will?

Momo: Of course! Did you ever think that I get locked in situations like this or what?

Yami (while turning her hair into a knife to cut her ropes): And it wouldn't have been better and easier to ask me to use my hair?

Momo's face was priceless. How couldn't she notice that detail? As she was thinking about that, Yami cut her ropes, as well as Rito's and Paulo's.

Yami: Don't worry, Princess. We can not always remember everything. For now, we are already free. Sure those ropes were tightening the fetus growing inside you.

The pink haired girl put her hands on her belly while smiling at Yami, thanking her by worrying about her future baby. The intergalactic assassin blushed, and then they heard what seemed to be screams. Possibly it was the person retained by criminals. Rito topped the group, saying that he recognized the voice. The four young ones ran on the adjoining corridors while Maylon and his minions were still chasing Celine, while she was still dodging and throwing seeds as if they were bullets. The group stopped in front of a locked door, the noise had brought them there. Paulo wanted to open it by his own force, but Yami was faster and punched it to the ground. Late in the door, a cloud of dust rose and Rito and company could not avoid coughing and covering their eyes. Once all the dust cleared, Rito was the first to open his eyes and her saw there a young woman with long, black ebony hair, wrapped with insulating tape into a chair, wearing a blindfold and a gag full of drool in her mouth, as if she had been a long time that way. The redheaded boy recognized her at once:

Rito: Yui!

Indeed. Yui Kotegawa was the first of the girls abducted that Rito and his friends had found. The young man was quick to remove the gag and blindfold while Yami immediately proceeded to cut the tape. Yui fell, but sighed in relief. Rito knelt and asked his friend for her state. The black haired girl looked up, looking directly into his eyes. The redhead's worried face was clear, and that made her blush.

Yui (turning her head): Fine... fine, of course I'm fine, you idiot! But I really appreciate that you came to my rescue...

Rito smiled, noticing that, even if she didn't wanted to show it, Yui wanted to thank him more clearly what he had done for her shape. So he gave her a warm hug, to the surprise of the brunette.

Rito: I'm glad you're okay.

Yui could not avoid to let out a few tears of happiness as she clutched Rito's torso. When they got up, they saw Momo and Paulo petrified, because Maylon and his four henchmen had managed to hunt Celine (whom the drug boss grabbed by the hair) and now stood before the five young pointing them with machine guns and pistols.

Maylon: Well, well... You really thought that you could run from me? Do you remember what I have said of business is business?

Yui and Rito embraced afraid, the situation was very ugly and they were against the wall. To their luck, Golden Darkness had other plans. Thanks to her processing, she could create a wall of hair immune to bullets. There were several minutes of patience as the intergalactic assassin had to wait while the drug dealers shot all they got. Once that happened, Yami pounced on the evil ones and the melee strategy started. In less than four minutes, the five criminals were on the floor, unconscious. The group took the opportunity to run away as fast as possible. Paulo was the last to leave Maylon's mansion, remembering fondly the memories of a childhood marred by the murder of his parents. Now, this symbolic gesture of leaving the house where he received shelter, was like a slave to break the chains that had held him to his master. Paulo was finally free.

To be continued...