I walked over to Bernardo, who immediately pointed at me, then to his mouth, and showed the palms of his hands, as he lifted his shoulders. If I understood him right, he wanted to know what we were talking about. As a reply, I could only point at my mouth and shake my head. He laughed, as he realized I had no way of telling him anything. He placed his hand on my shoulder, and guided me to a table. As he did so, I took a quick look around. I saw Saya, walking up to Kyrano, who mumbled a few words that I couldn't make out at this distance, but I saw him bow down to her. I could see Saya's muscles tense up, but she bowed back. He then raised his hand, guiding her to the stairs. Though I could see the reluctance in her movements, she went up anyway, followed by Kyrano, and this mysterious bodyguard of his. While that was going on, Merlin took a place at the counter, where he ordered a glass of wine. I wondered why he didn't have a drink with Garcia, but then I saw him talking to Diego. Garcia, though he had a loud a voice, it was hard to understand what he was saying. Either that, or I was too focused on Diego, who kept trying to walk away, but Garcia stopped him. I could be mistaken, but he wanted to go up the stairs. Was he trying to follow Saya? Why would he do that? Before I could give it another thought, Bernardo was pulling on my arm. I looked, and saw him sitting down at a smaller table. He wanted me to take the other seat, and so I did. He pressed his finger against my heart. I frowned, as I had no idea what he wanted from me. He shook his head. He pointed at himself, then started drawing something on the table, using his finger only. First, he drew what looked like a straight line, with two loops attached to it. Next, he drew one line, with three more crossing it. Next to that, he drew another straight line, with one loop, and a curved line coming from it. It took me a while to realize he was drawing the letters "B", "E" and "R". He was writing his own name. So he wanted to know mine. I couldn't remember mine, but with the name Saya gave me before, I knew what to draw. I drew the letter "M" on the table. Bernardo spun his hand, as if to ask what else, but I shrugged, telling him this was all. He frowned, pointed at me, then drew an "M" in the air. As he did so, he made four "woosh" sounds. When he did that, it reminded me of the fact that he did that before. When he spoke to Diego, he made that same noise, except he used three wooshes instead of four. Was he trying to draw a letter in the air before? Which one? And why should it mean anything to Diego? Since I didn't want Bernardo to become suspicious, I just nodded. He then pointed at me, then to his mouth, held his hand up, as if placing it on an invisible child, then placed his hands on hiw bald spots. Was he trying to tell me that I should refer to him as the little bald one? I laughed as that thought came to me.
"Why do you want to know that?" I heard Kyrano's voice.
I shifted my head, looking for him.
"You brought it up before." Saya replied.
It was then that I realized what was going on. Murphy must have made sure we can hear the conversation going on between Saya and Kyrano. But as I realized that, Bernardo was waving his hands before my eyes. Of course, he wouldn't know what I was hearing. I had to distract him somehow. If I understood his method of sign language well, all I had to do was point at myself, and pretend to drink from a glass. Bernardo nodded, and left the table.
"Indeed." Kyrano replied, "I even asked you if you're Chinese."
"Enough about me." Saya answered, "What brought you to China?"
Kyrano laughed, although it was closer to a cackle than anything else: "You can say that I was left there."
"Left?" Saya asked.
"There was an... accident." Kyrano explained, "I was stuck, hard to save. So of course people didn't think they should waste their efforts to save me, they decided to save themselves first."
Why was he being so vague?
"So as I was near death, others came along, helped me, nursed me to health." Kyrano continued, "But since my body was too heavily damaged, they thought me how to use my mind."
"Your mind?" Saya asked.
Another cackle: "All in good time. Why won't you relax a little?"
I cringed at the sound of that. He wanted Saya to relax? What exactly was he up to?
"Why?"
"Why all the questions?" Kyrano asked her, "I'm not going to bite you?"
I snorted when I heard that, as I knew it would more likely be the other way around.
"I know you won't." Saya seemed to agree with me, "But if not bite me, what WILL you do?"
"Well, it's like this." Kyrano explained, "Ever since my time in China, I find my own people's women disgusting creatures. I can't even look at my own niece without thinking she's an abomination."
I wasn't sure I liked the way that sounded. Merlin must have thought the same thing, as he ran up the stairs. Once he was up, I couldn't see what he was doing, but I heard him over the radio.
"Eh... Saya." he said, "Our quiet friend needs you."
"I'm coming." she sounded more enthused than she usually does when talking about me. I guessed any excuse to not be near Kyrano was good enough.
I heard some heavy footsteps.
"Oh, hello there." Merlin said, "How are you?"
"Why are you interfering?" Kyrano asked.
"I just told you." Merlin replied, "Now, will you tell your muscle-bound man to let me through?"
"I will if you leave now." Kyrano said.
"If you won't tell him, I'll remove him myself." Saya threatened.
What happened next, I couldn't be sure. A lot of rumbling sounded through my ear. Bernardo, who had returned with drinks, couldn't understand why I had my hand placed on my one ear. But he soon forgot all about that, when he looked upstairs, as did everyone else. All looked worried, and all were saying something like "what's going on up there?". All while I heard something that sounded like Saya's sword being taken out, and a sort of drenching sound, like it cut through something.
"Don't!" Kyrano shouted.
"What is that?" Merlin asked.
This was when everyone decided to run upstairs. Because of that commotion, I couldn't make out what Merlin or Saya were saying. I thought of running upstairs as well, hoping I could find out what was happening up there. But too many people had already gathered at the stairs.
"Pardon me." Garcia exclaimed, "This is official business now, and I have to uphold the law."
They let Garcia go through, who was followed by Diego. Bernardo looked at me, then motioned to me to come along. I followed him.

The four of us were in Kyrano's room. What we saw was an empty room. Kyrano, Merlin and Saya were nowhere to be seen. Kyrano's bodyguard was still there, but he was lying on the floor, not moving at all.
"Where did everyone go?" Garcia asked.
"I don't know." Diego answered, "They must have gone out the window."
"I'll take a look." Garcia said, and ran to the room.
Diego, meanwhile, took a closer look at the dead body. He picked up the body's right hand, which had a green skin, and a strange sort of cut on its palm. I gasped, as I realized I had seen something like this before. One of the people on that base had green skin and cuts like that on his hand. Why would Kyrano have one of those as a bodyguard?
"Nobody's outside." Garcia said, "What have you got there, Don Diego?"
"Eh... this must have been a very sick man." he explained, "For his body to have this odd color."
"Yes... that must be it." Garcia agreed, but then looked at me, "You. You are under arrest."
I pointed at myself.
"Sergeant, why?" Diego stood up for me, "He was downstairs when this happened."
"But it were his friends who committed a crime." Garcia reasoned, "They may have come here to kill Kyrano all along."
"You don't know that." Diego said, "Maybe they killed this man because they didn't want his disease to spread."
"I am sorry, Don Diego, but until I have further proof, I have to place him under arrest." Garcia told him.
"Look at him." Diego said, "Look at that face of his. He's as shocked about this as you and me. Can you really believe he had anything to do with any of this?"
Garcia sighed: "You're probably right as always, Don Diego."
Diego then got up again, and spoke to me: "Do you have any idea where your friends are?"
I shook my head.
"Would they leave you behind if it suited their purposes?" he further questioned.
I shook my head even harder than before.
"So they'll come back for you?"
I nodded.
"In that case, it may be best if you remain at my hacienda until then."
"Great idea, Don Diego." Garcia agreed, "You know what? I'll send some guards along, just in case."
If I understood this right, they were hoping that if I stayed at Diego's house, they would lure Merlin and Saya to come pick me up, and these guards would arrest them. I laughed, knowing that these men had no idea what they're facing.
"See?" Diego pointed at me, "Even he likes it."