Everyone on the room looked at Izaya. Seven opened her mouth to talk but was interrupted by the troll.
"Sev is the one who actually found it out first then she contacted me. I, having a lot of connections, found out about their plans and called her here." Izaya explained as if he spoke the truth. "So before demanding where their base is, let us handle the planning first"
Izaya yanked Seven's arm and pushed her outside. She let out a curse of protest but didn't appear again in the room.
"I know that the people responsible in capturing your dullahan will examine her here for 4 days before sending her abroad. Before that day, entrust the planning to us" Izaya emphasized but careful not to leak any other information of where. He walked towards the door but stopped and looked back. "The reason she called me first is because I'm her lover. Important detail" the natural smirk of the troll returned on his face before turning away and exited the room. Shizuo's anger multiplied.
Izaya inwardly laughed of amusement but was changed with a bitter laugh.
He saw Seven waiting for him near the elevator and greeted her happily but was greeted back by a punch on the face. Without another word, Seven walked away to return to her apartment with Izaya caressing his abused cheek followed behind.
After being shoved outside by the informant, Seven instantly grabbed the door knob to enter the room again but stopped. The words of Shizuo echoed in her mind. She refreshed her memory when she first visited Shinra and Celty weeks ago, what she said to them is not even considered as a warning. Seven let go of the knob and faced the wall she deemed as the hardest.
Bam!
Her forehead collided with the wall, the sound of the impact slightly echoed in the hallway. She knew that someone is after Celty but she didn't even gave a proper warning.
Bam!
She knew that Izaya is lying to Shinra and Shizuo earlier yet she didn't try to cut him off.
Bam!
She knows that Shizuo will get angry with her if she reveals that she knew. That's why she didn't try to explain a while ago.
BAM!
She's just scared to tell them the truth. She's a coward.
A small amount of blood slid down her forehead and she hurriedly wiped it off with the back of her hand. A red stain appeared on the bandage of her left hand. She heard the door open and acted like nothing happened as she leaned on the wall. Seven caught a glimpse of the informant's looking-back action making her furrow her brows. Why? Why would he lie?
Seven glared at the approaching man and punched him strong enough to make the man step backward. "What are you planning, Orihara?" she whispered almost impossible to hear before turning back.
The informant gave a solemn expression. Izaya completely understood what the woman whispered but he can't answer her. Not yet. He caressed his abused cheek as he followed the woman.
"I hid some bugs in the facility during my 'visit'" Seven said. She and Izaya returned at her barren apartment and now facing a laptop showing the facility's blueprint with some small red dots in every room. Izaya raised a brow.
"I know… I did freak out at first but I didn't forget my objective. I didn't even tell Sazaku."
"…I see"
"... Connected" She muttered with an obvious fake tone of happiness.
Seven put on her earpiece and lend the other to the man beside her. Making sure that she properly put on the device she tapped a room in the blueprint labeled as the 'lab 1'. Static first greeted their ears as they listened and waited for it to catch any sound but it seems like that the room is silent. Seven tapped another lab but the room also is empty. She repeated her actions until all the rooms labeled as lab proved to be vacant.
"I'll try this" Izaya said tapping a rectangular room without a label. The two waited for a minute and finally they can hear voices.
" –ve succeeded" a man's voice said. A meeting? The two thought.
"We can't celebrate yet. We still don't know the demonic bastard who brutally murdered our men" A woman's voice said with a terrifying amount of venom.
The troll stared at Seven who glared back.
"Two things" Seven held up two fingers. "First, they're also demonic. Two, I don't know if I'm a bastard"
"Personality wise, you are" Izaya smiled at himself while the woman beside him rolled her eyes. "Demonic bastard. What a fitting description for you."
"I'll say the same for you" Seven replied but doesn't sound offended.
The insults thrown towards each other didn't even affect them but the two just fell silent to concentrate in listening.
"The important thing is that we retrieve the bodies since those can be proved as evidence to pinpoint us."
"The bodies have already been collected by Miwa's team."
"Sazaku Rin" Seven said. The violet-eyed woman can't feel happy even though Sazaku Rin can be helpful in retrieving Celty. She glanced at Izaya to ask about his subordinate but instead saw him frown, she decided not to continue . This is the first time she saw him in a troubled expression.
"But that person might be an obstacle. Tracking that person is still important" the woman earlier retorted.
"Don't worry. I know who is behind those crimes" An old man's voice calmly said before laughing.
A maniacal grin appeared on Seven's face. Izaya, who also recognized the voice looked at the woman beside him. She has a glint of inhuman intentions in her eyes and her grin became more maniacal as the clock ticks.
"Yodogiri" She rasped. He feel lucky to see this kind of expression but in the same time an ill-fated experience.
"I know where the culprit is." Yodogiri's voice once again entered in their ear.
Izaya remembered the other informant's call, the game and the bet. "Yodogiri Jinnai"
Seven opened her mouth.
"DEMONIC BASTARD"
Somewhere in North America.
"I told Yodogiri to get his dirty hands away from Shinra" Shingen banged his fists on the kitchen table.
"We need to send him" the woman in front of him said. "Though they have a chance to meet, there's no choice is it? Shinra is also my son I'm worried that they might attack him again"
"Seven can handle them. She's capable of this job, she'll protect them" Shingen hesitantly said.
"Shingen! She can't handle everything!"
"Then I'll go. They don't need to meet" the man clenched his fists.
"I'll go" a man's voice sternly said behind the conflicted couple. The two looked back and met his angry eyes. The one standing on the doorway is a man in his early twenties wearing a casual outfit.
"No. You stay here. This matter doesn't concern you" Shingen replied seriously.
"Do you two think I don't know what you're talking about?! I know what you did!" the man yelled and grabbed Shingen by the collar. "I don't care what you two will say but my decision is final. I. Will. Go. Back."
"Shingen, let him go back to Japan" the woman looked at the older man with pleading eyes.
"Fine" Shingen raised his hands in surrender and the man released him. "But don't show yourself to – "
"That's for me to decide" The man glared at the doctor and whispered a thanks to the woman before leaving the room. Upon reaching the outside, he looked around to make sure no one's around before dialing a number and waiting for it to be answered.
"It's me. About the matter you're talking about the other day, I accept." He immediately said upon hearing the call being picked up.
"Great. I'll arrange a plane for you… right now"
"You're in a rush… Is it that critical already?"
"Of course. Her body can't handle it anymore."
"I understand."
"Ah yes, I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Mairu Kira."
"I know you already know me but to dispel you're doubts, I am …"
The woman on the other line smiled triumphantly.
"I never doubted"