Chapter 7
The small motel room is completely silent. Waiting. The line is cast and Hei is expecting a bite at any moment. His heart pounds – not for emotion, adrenaline. Poised and ready to pounce but still, deadly still. The only movement is the curtains in the open window, which is selected as his hook. They sway in the breeze and with them this time brings the prey – Mina.
With extreme silence, she approaches the bedside table. On top is the trophy she's risking this venture for, the tape recorder. She reaches out almost in slow motion. Closer. Millimetres away from it-
"Stop, now." Hei hisses.
A flash of movement sees the black reaper in his finest fighting form, sword to sword with the ex- underworld assassin. Her body pressed against the wall.
"I half expected this to be a trap, but it was well worth the risk." She states.
She forces him back. The devilish red glow of a contractor appears in her eyes, her sword begins begins to glow.
"I'll just have to take you on." Mina says with a smirk.
They both charge at each other and clash with massive force.
Skilled contractors head to head with swift movements.
A vase smashes. Hei forced through a glass table. Mina crashes against a wall. They're equal in strength. A failed attempt to electrocute by Hei, a strike to his arm sends him to his knees.
'I can't give up, I've come too far!' He thinks to himself.
He strikes with his sword in retaliation, missing due to pain.
Hei lies on the cold floor, losing blood.
"Your ambition has made you weak, trying too hard." Mina stands above him, sword in hand.
She lifts her sword. It's glowing with a blinding divine light that pierces the darkness of the room.
"Goodbye BK-201"
The sword splits the air above Hei's head, his thoughts with Yin.
He closes his eyes.
"STOP!" BANG.
The sound of the shot and blood loss leaves Hei disorientated. He looks to his feet. The crimson corpse of Mina, a perfect circle puncture in her forehead. At the now open door. A figure, a woman?
Hei passes out.
