Seeing Nian in front of him was not something he expected to happen. He was surprised but he quickly recovered. With all the shit he had to deal with, a good surprise was something rare for him to experience. And Nian coming to his rescue fell in that category for today.
However,
"Nian? Where did you come from?" His curiosity got the best of him as she asked the deity in front of him. Lin Ye looked in front of him and saw the entrance of the bathroom. If she used that as her way in, he must have noticed but Nian arrived as she came from the air.
Looking away from her opponent, Nian glanced at her brother and pointed behind him.
"There. Where else?" She simply answered, raising a brow at why he was even asking that.
Lin Ye followed the direction of her finger and saw something that he did not like.
There was a massive hole in the wall behind him.
"…" Lin Ye stared blankly at the scene in front of him.
THIS WAS THE FIFTEENTH FLOOR!
HOW DID SHE EVEN DO THIS?!
He did not know if he should be impressed or scared that Nian was able to do this. With how there was no sweat on her, Nian did not have trouble doing so either
The Doctor could easily see people staring up at the hole in shock.
Then the realisation hit him.
Was he going to pay for the damage?
Just as dread was creeping onto his form, he remembered something that washed all of this from his body.
He was a prince.
He was rich.
… He had money.
"… Gege? Are you crying?" Nian could easily see a lone tear falling from the corner of his eye. Lin Ye's mouth trembled, holding back some type of emotion.
Even W, their enemy, spared a glance his way. The man that only had an uncaring expression on his face throughout their whole interaction was now holding back tears from falling out of his eyes.
To be able to make that man react like this, it must be something significant.
While the two women were busy theorising about what was up with him, Lin Ye found himself on a quick trip down memory lane.
Memories of him needing to ration food when he first arrived in the world.
If it was normal food, even Lin Ye would not bat an eye.
However, Lin Ye needed to ration pet food for him to eat. Because that was what he could afford at the time.
For almost a decade!
But now…
Now, he could do something he always wanted to do, in both of his lives.
Throw money at his problems.
Maybe all that he had to endure was leading up to this very moment.
It was… He did not know what to think of it.
So, forgive him for being emotional at that revelation.
"The heat got into my eyes. You don't need to worry about it."
He waved Nian's worries away.
Lin Ye placed a hand on his eyes and looked away from both of them. At the very least, he couldn't show himself being emotional in front of a person that was about to kill him.
Nian saw through his weak attempt at a lie and stared at him blankly. Gege must be thinking about something weird again.
She sighed and looked away at the strange-behaving brother of hers and glared back at the person who was about to endanger the same person.
So just a glance, Nian was able to know what race this woman was. A Sarkaz. That meant she was a mercenary. Mercenary was not a foreign concept for her. Even Yan had some. They were people that would do anything at the right price. And most of them were Sarkaz. That was understandable. If people knew what type of environment most Sarkaz are brought up in, it would not be surprising why most lean into becoming mercenaries. People that would never be loyal to anyone except themselves.
However, that was not something that Nian cared about. Someone hired her.
Someone was aiming for Gege.
W on the other hand was not liking her situation now.
She had been a mercenary for many years now. So long that she even forgot why she became one in the first place. Being in this type of work for that long, W obviously learned a lot from those experiences.
One of those things was to know when the favours were not on her side.
And this was a prime example of that.
The newly arrived woman in front of her was easily one of the strongest people that W had ever met. She had the same feeling as Talulah and that was a feat that most could only dream to do.
How did Rhodes Island get a person like this on their side?
And more importantly….
Were there more?
Sadly, W did not have the privilege of thinking about that now.
Getting out as far away as she could from here was her objective now. She overstayed her welcome.
"Who are you?" W asked the woman, hands still on her weapon just in case she did something that could kill her.
The woman just stood straight and raised a brow at her. Then the white-haired woman, a trait that both women shared with each other, nudged her head towards the man behind her.
"I'm his little sister."
She said, pride slipping out of each word that she spoke, W could almost taste it. W looked back and forth between both of them and saw nothing that indicated that they were siblings.
Just as she was about to call out her bluff, Nian spoke again.
"My turn. Who are you?"
W noticed that her eyes had a slight edge to them as she stared down at her. Rather than be shaken by this harsh treatment, W smirked.
"Name's W. I'm just an everyday mercenary."
"I can see that." Nian spat out, "Who are you with?"
Just before she could answer, Lin Ye did it for her instead.
"Reunion. And from looking at it, she was assigned by a high-ranking person in the group." Lin Ye slowly went beside Nian as he tightened the towel around his waist.
"Oh? Do you already know? What gave it away?" W asked curiously, the smirk on her face never leaving her face.
Lin Ye folded around his chest as he stared at his attempted killer.
"Ignoring that you were there with Reunion when I was being hunted by them."
This got a reaction from Nian, glaring at W.
"Sorry about that," She nonchalantly apologised.
Even an idiot knows that she did not mean it in the slightest.
Lin Ye shrugged at this.
"I just guessed really."
"You guessed?"
"Yeah," He hummed, "So which one sent you? Talulah?"
"Ding. Ding. ON your first guess too. I'm impressed," She said joyfully, "You're on the dot. You made quite the impression when you killed Mephisto. Thanks by the way. I was never really fond of that brat."
Lin Ye only hummed at this.
So Talulah was aiming for his head.
Grand.
Another thing he had to consider now.
Just when Lin Ye thought nothing else would bother him, the world had to throw an angry dragon his way to keep him humble.
Damn him and his optimism.
Lin Ye was kicked out of his thoughts when he heard W start to talk again.
"One more thing that I need to thank you for."
Lin Ye's eyes narrowed.
"What do you mean?" He carefully asked.
"Let's just say, when you work in a job like this as long as me, you make backup plans."
Hearing this, Lin Ye's eyes widened and quickly gripped Maple tightly.
Beep.
Beep
Beep
Shit
Then he heard multiple beeping noises around the area.
And just when Lin Ye thought nothing can become worse, a voice echoed in the bathroom.
"Gege! What was going on?! I heard a gunshot—!"
Both Nian and Lin Ye immediately acted, one rushed towards the clueless sister of theirs and the other toward the mercenary.
Just in time to hear a joyful chuckle from the Sarkaz.
"Boom!"
{Rhodes Island's Psychologist}
Draft: jaq
Proofread: Discord
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