"Ralos, wake up." The gentle feminine voice whispered around Ralos's ears like wind. Ralos looked up, he was in a dark place with nothing but pitch black shadows. Strangely, he wasn't afraid, he felt calm, his eyes peered into the darkness as an angel-like figure stepped out accompanied by a tall man with a cloud-patterned scarf. It was Qilin!
"You're - !"
"You still remember me? That's nice." Ralos jolted up like a rocket ship. He could hardly believe it was that same girl who saved him and Luna. "How's your sister?"
"She's fine, she made me wear girl's stuff because I was born with a lady's face. It's a bit saddening that I have to cross-dress." Byrne looked at him, eyebrow arched. Ralos grinned at him sheepishly. "Anyway, who's that ol' dude? His scarf looks familiar."
Qilin's pause made the silence awkward. "Ralos, this is Byrne –"
"Hello there, Byrne."
"Faraday, he's Kay's father." Ralos jaw dropped. Byrne smiled menacingly. He would haunt Ralos for a long time if he had plans to make a move on his daughter.
"Oh, uh, sorry Mr. Faraday, I didn't recognize you."
Byrne's face darkened. So this is a boy who had some infatuation with his daughter. It was Qilin who broke the awkward tension with her cheerful tone.
"So Ralos, I'm leaving Byrne to you, I opened a gate to Kay because she fell asleep. You two have a lovely chat, alright?" With that she disappeared like the light from a setting sun.
"I hate it when they do that," Byrne said annoyed.
"What can we say, she's gone now." Byrne glared at Ralos. For once, Ralos wished Liuxang was with him. He ran with Byrne shouting and threatening him along with swears and curses.
Shelley shook Liuxang gently, he smiled as he saw Liuxang sleepily grumble and turn around. He was like his grandchildren before they were taken away from him. Liuxang lifted one eye.
"Wal ... ter?" Liuxang asked as he rubbed one eye. He had a good sleep, something that was rare.
"We're about to arrive Liuxang, back to your place."
Liuxang lifted his wine lute. Walter raised his, they toast.
"To Zhengfa."
"That's all I can tell you ... wish I could tell you more..." Tyrell said, he closed the case books he had shown to Franziska and Miles. He pushed the casebooks back to their rightful places in the bookshelf and threw away the lollipop stick. Absentmindedly, he picked up a photo of him, Byrne and Kay, he still remembered who took it, Liuxang after he had bought a new camera.
"You know what this means, right Miles?" Franziska asked as she stood up.
"Yes, it's glaringly obvious." Miles nodded his head smugly.
"Liuxang lied, he didn't have amnesia."
"And he was here in America."
"He got his medical license here probably so we have to investigate in some of the hospitals."
"We'll squeeze the truth out of him, we'll wring it out and we'll know for sure who Liuxang is."
"Excellent, Langzi always said: To find the smoke, seek the fire."
All heads turned to Shi Long who was standing by the door, he had a bruise on his jaw.
"You know what I'm thinking, don't you Agent Lang?" Miles asked.
"Don't tell me, let' first write it on our palms." With that, Lang wrote a word on his palm with a pen. Miles did the same and they showed it to each other.
The word on both hands were the same, Zhengfa.
"I'll go get the tickets, Mr. Edgeworth."
"That would be kind of you, Agent Lang."
Franziska smiled. "We will finally expose Liuxang for what he truly is."
Liuxang smiled as he put away his earpiece, no one had known that Kay had given Lang a chip not only to give them a bit of information, but to listen on their conversations. He chuckled. Walter looked at him.
"You're laughing."
"I love to laugh and besides I'm near my home."
"What are they talking about now?"
"Going to Zhengfa."
"You calculative little wretch."
"I'm flattered by your compliments, Wally."
"I'm not very good at flattery."
"And besides," Liuxang said going back to the subject," they don't know the true nature between those two's deaths, they don't know the real thing, as for Ralos and Luna, they know it but they are in denial."
"You are talking about my grandchildren?"
Liuxang merely nodded. "Ralos and Luna de Killer."
Walter glanced at Liuxang, but Liuxang looked out of the plane window. He wanted to speak but he decided not to.
Byrne panted, Ralos was a good runner, but he was bound to get tired soon, Byrne summoned his energy and ran to Ralos.
Ralos had stopped running. "I like your daughter."
"I don't like you."
"Is there another way to talk about this?"
"No, nothing."
"Let me guess, you don't like me because my grandfather is a hitman."
"For one thing, number two is that you cross dress."
"Look, I just wanted her to like me."
"It seems like you're taking advantage of her." Ralos saw red at that snide comment Byrne made.
"Sir, if it pleases you, if I hurt Kay, I'd gladly tear out my innards and give it to you as a sacrifice."
Byrne raised an eyebrow, a creative comment, but no dice. He should have known he would get that comment since Ralos was a hitman's grandson. "Then tell me, what do you like about my daughter."
"Other than the fact she has nice round dark brown eyes, her laugh is like a stream of bubbles, she can look at you as if she's looking inside you and seeing you for who you truly are, and that her hair smells like rain, and she is cute, it was that she was someone you could trust, she was always there when something bad was happening, as in she would be there for that person, I like how she would steal things and then give it back to the owner with a mischievous smile."
Byrne's eyes popped, it was just like him and his wife Shiela. He was impressed. He saw the look in Ralos's eyes and he knew Ralos meant it.
"So then, where's Kay?" Byrne asked with a smile that showed acceptance.
"Just you wait Miley, Zis, and Lang." A girl came out of her bath, she felt refreshed after being confined in a small space until a while ago. Her black hair shimmered against the light.
"Liuxang's been such a bad boy, but don't worry, I'll fix it, I can't have you all three suffering. Liuxang thinks I'm dead, but he just thinks it's that."
The girl touched the mirror with her palm. "And it's time to bring Liuxang down before he harms you three."
She pulled her hair into a pony tail, and she smiled. Qilin von Karma Long was back from the dead, and she was going to bring the phony Liuxang down and crushed perfect like a villain's tragic end in good ending of a fairy tale, She had played along with his little scheme, she knew he thinks she was dead but she wasn't. She lit the incense stick and set it standing in a pot to fill the room in a rich pot of relaxing pot of aroma. She blew the candles out. They all will meet in Zhengfa, and they will bring Liuxang, the liar down. It was Liuxang who killed Byrne, not Manny, Liuxang had sent Calisto to kill him. He killed Manny also to cover his tracks, and he pinned it on Alba just because Alba was a pawn to him, disposable and useless.
Liuxang will go down before he does more damage.
Hello guys, if any of you read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, you will know that Miles and Shi Long are re-enacting an extract of it, specifically when Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang hatched a plan to destroy Cao Cao's one million men army. I love that book a lot.
