Chapter 21
The car was walking with a medium pace. Shizuru was on the front passenger's seat, while Toru and Kikyo were behind. Somehow they could leave Belgrade. But they still were surprised that they were able to do that without problems from behind. Now they were on highway and Toru started to feel easier, when the capital was behind them.
"I still don't understand why they didn't sent after us anyone or didn't stop us." Kikyo said seriously, "With their powers they could stop us anytime."
"Who knows?" Toru shrugged with his shoulders, "I will not be surprised if they go after us somehow."
"I have got one thought, but I'm not sure." Shizuru mumbled, "They can try to see what we are and capture us when we try to escape." Shizuru looked at the retrospect mirror. She saw few cars behind, some of them were taking them over, while the other ones were going after them slowly.
"By the way, what you want in Tuzla?" the man asked the Taimanin in bad English as he knew they were foreigners, who were talking on the language he didn't know.
"We want to make a report about the problems on the broad." Shizuru answered with a smile, "By the way, what about you? What can you say about it?"
"So, you want go to Gradishka." the man mumbled, "Not quiet place, you can stuck in fighting with Croats."
"And what are they fighting for?" Toru asked the man.
"Okuchani has got many Serbs." the man replied, "They wanted to join, but Croats didn't let them."
"I heard Yugoslavia wanted to capture it." Shizuru quickly answered the man.
"Lie!" the man shouted, "Croats wiped their ass with their petition! These bastards always try to fight us!"
"I see." Shizuru didn't want to argue with the man, "That what we want to know and to tell, what people really wanted to do."
"If that really true, it good." the man continued in bad English, "People must know truth."
"And how can we reach Gradishka?" Kikyo asked the man too.
"By train from Tuzla till Banya-Luka and then by car till Gradishka." the man merely answered her.
"And if we need by car or by bus?" Toru asked him.
"By bus, you can sit in…" the man pondered, but didn't close his eyes, "Dokany." the man seemed remembered something, "But I not remember where it go, it better ask people there. It must be in the evening."
"That means we need to kill some free time there." the male Taimanin frowned, 'I hope they won't give us problems.'
"By the way, aren't you scared to deliver journalists to that place?" the blonde woman with glasses asked the man, "After all you break the law."
"Yes afraid, but I get big money for that." the man chuckled, "I also know needed roads. It's hard to know that I break the laws."
'I hope he is right.' Kikyo thought understanding that the problems they give him are much bigger, 'After all we're not ordinary journalists.'
"I wanted to ask you." the woman with the blonde hair suddenly asked the man, "Is only that direction hard? I mean there's no military points like that."
"Yes, that direction the worst." the driver replied quickly, "Be careful there, because you can be under the fire."
"Thanks for the information." Shizuru nodded with a smile, 'So, what do we have?' she asked herself, 'One military location where Croats and Serbs fight. We can be taken as spies there.' she frowned, but then relaxed, 'If we are captured by Serbs, who have their so called 'Taimanin', they will ask us a lot of questions, and I don't think they will think everything, but throw us into a jail.' she looked at the sky, through the windshield, which still was dark, 'From the other hand we have Croats, who are the part of European Union. They can help us leave back to Japan. But we can't be sure they also won't ask us questions. The other thing is that we don't know what to wait from them too.' Shizuru opened her hand bag, 'I think we need to call Asagi when we are on the place.' she sighed then, 'But I hate that strange situation, why the hell they don't use all their powers to take us? Is it all because of that meeting? Don't they want to make a lot of noise?'
Shizuru thought a lot. Kikyo and Toru decided to sleep a little, while the man was only driving the car. On their way they did only one stop, which was in the gas station, because the car needed to be refueled, and the passengers along with the driver need to eat something.
While the man was refueling his car, Shizuru came to him, the sun started to rise little by little, Shizuru had a glass of coffee, in her hand.
"So, did you decide, where is our stop?" Shizuru asked the man with a smile.
"Yes, in Dokany, we will make a little hook, but it will safe." the man replied her, "Since the bus there you can take it."
"When we come there?" the woman asked him with interest.
"I think in two hours." the driver informed her, "Maybe less…" he pondered about something, but still he watched at Shizuru, "It's a village, if you want you can try to stay at someone's place."
"Are these people really that kind?" Shizuru was wondered of heard information.
"People in villages kind, if you good person they will help." the man nodded.
"I see." Shizuru nodded, "You will need bus number…" the man pondered again, "Two hundred and fifty, it go to Banya-Luka." the man continued with his bad language skills, "Ask driver, if it use the Northern road, it better to leave in Laktashi."
"Understood." the woman nodded, 'Northern road, to stop in Laktashi.' she repeated in her head.
"What?!" Mladich shouted in his phone, "How the hell did you lose them?! If they left Belgrade, they can't leave far, find them and continue chase!" he hit the table, "You're the best scout use whatever you want or I'll send you to work in a quarry!" the man hang up the phone, "Idiot!" Mladich hit the table again, "How the hell they could lose them? I understand these idiots, but the 'Red Squad…" he grunted watching at some papers in the table.
"Mister Mladich…" the door was slightly opened, and there appeared a woman with black hair "You have a guest."
"I'm busy!" the man shouted.
"She says it's urgently." the woman, but then looked back, "Hey! You weren't allowed to enter!" the woman said fast.
Mladich looked at the door and a saw a woman, who was in an official black suit. She had black hair too.
"I see." the man nodded, "Let her in and inform the others I'm busy right now." Lazar was still frowned, "But his anger suddenly gone, "Nice to see you here, Haze." the man said when the door was closed.
"The same." the woman sat onto the chair.
"As I understand, Stephan has a mission, since you're alone." the man with the scars asked the woman, who only nodded, "Any news from Japan?"
"Nothing special." the woman quickly replied him, "Cooperating with Russians and Taimanin, nothing else."
"I see." the man nodded, "Any victories over 'The Third Law'?"
"I wouldn't say it victories, but small opportunities to make them feel troubles." Haze pondered for a little trying to find good words, "Nothing more."
"I see." the man mumbled.
"Have something happened?" Haze asked him straight.
"Is it so obvious?" he looked at her emotionlessly, she only nodded, her face also was frowned, "Well, we're chasing spies." the man said suddenly.
"Spies?" Haze seemed was surprised, "I thought you hold situation well."
"I thought so too." the man replied her, "The worst thing that Andrew went after them too."
"What?!" Haze exclaimed, "The hell you let him go?!"
"Shout at him, after all it's not me who let him go." the man replied seriously, "He wanted to see at these scums."
"Idiot…" the woman said through set teeth.
"Who?" the man looked at her angrily.
"Both of you." she said watching at him, "Who are with him?"
"Olga and Owl ar with him." the man responded fast.
"Yeah, the team of the dream." Haze answered him, "I understand Owl, but Olga? Seriously?"
"She is a good fighter, and since Owl is a fighter on middle range it's good for them to have her." Lazar told her.
"Fine, it's hard to talk to you." the woman mumbled, "Any clues on these spies?" she emphasized the last word.
"Only their descriptions." Mladich said, "One of them is woman with glasses and blonde hair. Damn she was near me." the man hit the table again.
"A blonde woman with glasses?" Haze reasked the man.
"Do you know her?" the man asked the woman with interest.
"Kinda." Haze got up, "But I must see her to be sure in that."
"I hope they will be detected soon." the man replied her, "So you'll be able to follow them."
"Was she alone?" Haze asked the politician.
"No, as I was told there was another woman with her, she has brownish hair and glasses too." the man answered her, "And we were informed, there was a man with them, he was with them in the hotel." he added after a small pause.
"Three of them." Haze frowned more, "Unknown, who they are, but they prepared really well." she sat back onto the chair, "Any ideas how they retreat?"
"I gave orders to check all broads, but somehow I think we'll find them on Croatian broads." the man concluded.
"In Gradiska." the woman mumbled.
"There also is an interesting thing, they didn't leave by plane, or train." the man continued, "That makes me think they planned, everything well."
"From your words everything sounds like that." Haze was watching at the man, "The real question is who is after that."
"You know that better." the man suddenly said, "But I have a thought that it's Eugene sent some of their hunters to check us."
"Don't be stupid." Haze answered him, "First, they have more troubles with those scums in Japan. Second, if you don't like him it doesn't mean, it's him." the woman answered him slowly, "And if it was him, Andrew would know about that."
"Well…" the man sighed, "Here you're right."
Suddenly there was a knock at the door, Haze turned around, while the man only watched at it.
"Sir, Mladich it's urgent!" there was a male voice behind the door, "It's the information you demanded!"
"Come in!" Lazar replied loudly.
The door was opened and they could see a tall man, who was holding a small file in his hands. He quickly came to the table of the politician and put it onto the desk.
"We found two persons that you ordered to find." the man opened the file and took out the picture, "Here the woman and the man."
Lazar took the photo and looked at it, was studying it fast, and gave it to Haze.
"The brown haired one with glasses." the man said, "Where were they found?" he looked at the man then.
"In the petrol station near Priboj." the man quickly answered.
"You may be free." Lazar let the man go and looked at the ceiling, "So, they decide to go through Bosnia. It won't be a surprise if they are from Ustashi."
"Why them?" Haze put the photo onto the table, "Maybe Chinese Union or UFS?"
"Maybe, but at any case they work with Croats, since they chose that direction." the man said to her.
"Probably they go to Montenegro, the broad there is smaller. It's convenient to go there."
"Far road." Lazar disagreed with her, "It's fast to go to Croatia from there." the man pondered then, "But I'm surprised they went by Tuzla road. There is much closer places, where they can cross the broad."
"You told they were prepared well. They know such places are protected." Haze looked at the man.
"Yes, forgot it." the man nodded and took his phone, he quickly turned it on and started to press some buttons, "It's me." Lazar said, "I have information. Where are you now? In Bosnia?" he stopped for a second, "Good, go to Priboj they were detected on the petrol station not far from it. I'll send you it's location."
"Tell them I'll be there too." Haze got up, and the man only looked at her.
"Haze will be there too." the man said, "Fine, wait for the location. Yes, now contact her too, if you find anything let her know too, and bring me these scums!" he hit the poor desk again and hung the phone.
"Priboj, who take me there?" Haze asked the man coming to the door.
"I will prepare the car, you go and change." the man told her fast and started to make another call while Haze headed to the door, "I forgot to tell, Haze." Lazar turned to the woman, "That blonde one uses wood techniques."
"Understood." Haze nodded, 'It seems the meeting will be interesting.' Haze smirked when she turned with her back to Lazar Mladich.
The Taimanin continued their way, now they were about one hour and forty minutes in the way, when they reached some village. The sun appeared on the sky and everyone felt better that the new day was far from the capital of the country they sneaked it. The driver increased speed of his car sometimes, sometimes he reduced it. Somehow they weren't stopped on their way what the hunters liked, and were glad there was nothing what could give them troubles.
Kikyo was still tensed as she didn't know what they can face next hour. Toru tried to stay positive as there was no chase and they could relax for some times. Shizuru combined such feelings, she tried to stay focused, but didn't show she was serious and tried to seem as calm as Toru. Shizuru enjoyed the radio and tried to understand what the singers were singing. She told her friends a little about what she knew as she could understand few words. That helped them to distract.
When they saw some kind of a place with small houses the man stopped.
"This Dokany." the man suddenly said, "There no need go further as it can be troublesome for me." the man looked at Shizuru, "Remember number of bus?"
"Yeah, two hundred and fifty." the Taimanin replied fast.
"You can ask people. They know when it come." the man said and stretched out his hand.
Shizuru looked at Kykio, who quickly understood, what the man wanted and took out money out of her bag.
"Nice work with you." the man chuckle and when the passengers left the car he turned around and went to the direction they came from.
"I hope someone of the villagers will let stay for some time." Toru quickly stretched his back.
"He told people here are kind." Shizuru chuckled, "So you'll not only stay, but also eat."
"It'd be really good. At least we eat some local food." the man looked at his comrade with a smile.
They slowly went to the village, still chatting about what happened with them. It helped them to distract a little of their stress. Shizuru quickly observed what was happened near them, and there were no cameras in the streetlamps. That made them happy, that this road wasn't that secured as they thought in the beginning.
"By the way, when do you want to call Asagi?" Toru asked the woman.
"As I told you, in Croatia, there we'll be able to have more help." Shizuru replied him fast but quietly, "There we'll be able to return back."
"I hope you're right." Toru sighed, "Next time, I will think twice to take that business trip." the man seemed exhausted, but still tried to stay calm.
"Come on, you had much worse situations." Shizuru hit his back with a chuckle.
"Yeah, but there was no such, when the whole country was against me." he quickly answer her.
Kikyou was still tensed, but the way Toru and Shizuru talked made her a little calm, but still she looked behind from time to time as if she was ready to fight against those, who were about to take them.
They reached the first houses fast. The interesting thing was that almost all people were outside and were working in their gardens, or walking the livestock. Shizuru came to one woman and tried to talk to her. However the first woman understood nothing and only shook with her head.
"Like all villagers, they're distrustful to others." Kikyo said to her comrade.
"Yes, but let's try further."
Everyone agreed and continued try to find a place where they could rest a little before further road. Shizuru tried several times, but all of them were pointless.
'Maybe to try to talk to them in Russian?' Shizuru thought, 'They're really close, maybe they will understand something?' she looked at the man and woman, who were working fighting with grass in their garden.
"Sorry!" Shizuru shouted to them waving with her hand, "We're travelers." she said in pure Russian without any accent, Kikyo and Toru only looked at her with surprise, "And we would like to see a place where we can rest." the woman and the man looked at Shizuru with interest too, their official uniform was really quite something for the village.
"Do you think it'll work?" Toru whispered to Shizuru.
"At least I do something." the leader of the squad replied him.
The man and the woman looked at each other.
"Bus twenty fifth, will it be in the evening?" Shizuru tried again.
"Da, uveche1." the man replied, her.
"I'm sorry, but can we stay here? In the evening we will go." Shizuru tried to find easy words to talk to the local people.
The man and the woman only looked at each other. The man said something to the woman, but the woman didn't like what the man told her and went to the three Taimanin.
"You can… stay here." the woman replied the blonde Taimanin.
"Do you know Russian?" Shizuru was wondered of what she heard.
"Not much…" the woman replied, "Long ago… studied it." she opened the gates of their house, and let the women and the man to come in.
The man, who seemed was the husband of the man only mumbled something and looked strangely at the trio of so called travelers.
"Speak well. But you're not Russian. Where are you from?" Shizuru was asked by the woman, "China?"
"Canada." Shizuru smiled to the woman, "People tell I'm from Japan."
"What brought you here?" the woman asked the demon fighter with interest, likewise it was interesting to talk to the person, who was absolutely new here.
"We visit our friends." Shizuru answered the woman, "They said they would be in Tuzla, but the plans changed and they are now in…" Shizuru tried to remember the name of the town, "Banya-Luka" Shizuru remembered the name of the place the man told her.
"Yes, the bus is here." the woman opened the door of the two floored house, "But it will come in the evening."
"I see." Shizuru replied with a smile.
"Are you hungry?" the woman asked the guests, she allowed staying at her place.
"Are we hungry?" she asked her comrades in English, Kikyo and Toru quickly nodded.
The woman only smiled and started to look for what they had in the house. The place didn't look reach. The house was ordinary, the living room was spacious, while the kitchen wasn't too big and was made only for cooking, but not eating. The woman talked to Shizuru a lot and it was easy to understand that the woman was rejoiced of talking to the Taimanin. The woman also like that she could talk and enjoy the moment as it was the only moment they could enjoy without any problems and worries. The woman quickly made the food for Taimanin and called her husband, who still was working outside. The team decided to eat and have a small nap as the further road will be the most difficult.
"Remind me, what is there near Priboj?" the man in the mask turned to the man with the red beret on his head, "I mean except Tuzla." he added as if he knew the answer for his question.
"Let me see." the man with the cloak, who was sitting on the bench of the van pondered, "Nothing special, only villages and nothing more."
"If you want to know my point of view." the woman young lady turned to the men, "Tuzla is not big, they will be detected fast there."
"Here you're right." the man nodded, "It's reckless to stay in the town especially for them. I would also say th closest locations are dangerous too." he continued his debilitating.
"So, where should we look for them?" the woman with the mask turned to the other man.
"Hard question, there are a lot villages where they can stay." the man with the beret and the cloak answered her, "Since they are on a distance, we need more forces to investigate them." he fixed his beret, "Without police we'll not be able to find them fast."
"I'll ask Lazar to form several groups, to check these locations." the man in the mask said as he took out his phone and pressed several times against the scree of it, he quickly turned on the speaker and stretched out his hand in order to let the rest to speak and to listen what Lazar will say.
'Yes?' the heard a voice in the phone, 'What is it?'
"Lazar, we have a thought they're not in Tuzla." the man with the beret told him, "But in the villages nearby."
'Why do you think so?' Lazar asked him seriously.
"Yes, we would find them in Tuzla that means they will try to avoid big crowded places now." the man quickly said him, "At the same time, there are a lot villages, where they can easily hide. So we need some help to check them.'
'Are you sure in that?' Lazar asked the man, 'If I order the police to check the villages won't it be pointless?'
"No." the young woman quickly replied him.
'What to do with Haze then?' Mladich asked them again.
"Send her to Priboj and let her check everything there." the man fixed his beret again, "If she find something make us know, we'll do the same."
'Understood, I'll prepare people and send them to the villages.' Mladich said them.
"Make the visits unofficial, don't make the villagers and mostly this guests worried." the man, who was defeated b Shizuru told him, "If they know the locations it'll be hard for us to find them."
'As if I don't know that.' Mladich mumbled, 'For now you can have some rest then, I'll inform you if their trail is found.' Mladich added and then stopped the call.
"How about coffee?" the woman looked at the men.
"Yeah, I'd like to." the man in the mask said, "What about you?"
"I'd like something stronger." the man mumbled and his the wall that was behind them, the small air-vent was opened, "Stop on the closest petrol station and bring us coffee."
"Understood." the man behind the wall replied, but still didn't stop.
"Well then, he will inform us when they're found." the man with the mask replied, "However I'm wondered, how the hell they could scape Belgrade undetected."
"It seems they were prepared well." the woman pondered, "If the woman also could kick your ass, they're really strong and good in traps."
"I was distracted." the man told her, "And I didn't know she ould do such things quickly."
"But since there are other two with her." the woman pondered, "I wonder, what power do they have?"
"We'll see that." the man with the mask replied her, "But we must be read for facing strong opponents."
"It won't be a surprise if they have some back up." the man with the beret grunted, "To go here was a stupid idea I'd say.
"But still Haze is after us so the four of us we'll be able to capture them." the woman chuckled.
"At the same time near the broad we can use some troops. Who will protect our hides." the man with the mask added too.
"Fine, it seems I won't be able to reason you." the man sighed and calmed down as if he was thinking about something.
The car continued its way for some time, but then suddenly stopped. The driver left the car in order to buy coffee and some snacks for his passengers and himself. The passengers decided not to leave the van as they could make the people on the road excited and even scared.
The driver, who was wearing mere clothes returned fast. He went two times to buy food, first time he brought it the man in the mask and to the woman. For the second time he took snacks for himself and for the man with the beret. There was nothing special, just some coffee with fast food. The man decided to go to the driver's seat as he didn't want to distract his passengers of important thoughts.
"The only thing I don't understand is how could they sneak into the parliament building, how did they et passes?" the young woman asked the men.
"Stole or someone gave them." the man with the beret replied, "Like we do and everyone does."
"These passes are given strictly in people's hands that means someone wanted to sneak there and to do something, but what?" the woman looked at the man with the mask.
"Maybe to deal with Lazar?" the man with the beret asked the other man.
"I wouldn't say so, she could do that, when we talked." the man replied fast, "There must be something else."
"What for example?" the man pondered too.
"Maybe they tried to frustrate our unity?" the man suggested, "Or they were spying on someone."
"Who is their target then?" the young woman asked the man in front of her.
"That the questions we need to ask them." the man with the beret replied her, "There were a lot of significant figures on the meeting." he ate his hot dog and added, "The information that Russia doesn't take part in that meeting was announced, so their point was not in attacking Russian politician. I guess it's some kind of Eugene tricks."
"I don't think so." the man with the mask answered him, "I would know that at the same time, he knows I work here and I try to keep Yugoslavian government friendly towards us."
"That's true." the woman nodded, "There's no need in that."
"Then, our idea is spies?" the man, who fought Shizuru, asked another one.
"Yes, let's think that way for now. Our primal task is to capture them." the man with the mask answered, "By the way, what landscape is in Graishka?"
"Forests." the man fixed his beret and drank some of his coffee, "River Sava, and…" he pondered, "Some gullies too."
"A perfect place for traps." the other man didn't like that, "Well, we must be ready for that too."
They continued to stay in such position for some time. As they didn't know where to go, and near Gradishka they could miss the people they wanted to capture, so they could do nothing but only wait for the call of Lazar with the information about them.
The day was slow for Shizuru and her comrades, they decided to spend it as everyone wanted. Toru decided to sleep, while Kikyo decided to take the shower. Shizuru on the other hand decided to read some books, which she asked the woman that let them to stay here till the bus. She was explained the bus will come at six in the evening, so they had plenty of free time.
"Do you understand something?" Toru asked the woman, who was sitting in front of him.
"Not all, but something." the woman chuckled not disturbing of reading, "When we return, I'll start to study this language." Shizuru added.
"Language studying freak." Toru chuckled and looked at the book with strange letters.
"If you want I would give you some privet lessons of it, when we come back." she licked her lips.
"I know what lessons you give nothing interesting." the man quickly replied, "By the way, what's time is it?" the man asked her.
"We have three more hours." Shizuru replied continuing reading the book, "I was told the bus stop isn't far and we reach it fast. The bus will be in the road about two hours and a half, so we'll come there half past nine.
"Do you want to cross the broad at night?" Toru asked the woman seriously.
"I don't know, if there are some strikes we'll have problems." Shizuru closed the book and looked at the man, "That's why I don't know to cross it in the morning or at night."
"In any case we will have problems." the man laid onto his back and looked at the ceiling, "At least if we escape from here, we'll have what to tell." the man chuckled.
"I like that you stay positive." Shizuru smiled, "Being serous and too thoughtful isn't good thing at all."
"Tell that to Murasaki." the man replied her.
"No, I want to live." Shizuru laughed, "By the way, I thought to stay in some forest for the night and early in the morning to go to Croatia."
"The problem is that we have no idea where to go there." the man answered her, "What we'll do if they capture us?"
"I think you know the answer." Shizuru said being frown, "But I hope it won't come to that."
"Me too." the man mumbled.
There was silence now. The Taimanin didn't want to discuss that, so they preferred to return to their businesses. Toru tried to sleep, while Shizuru tried to read the book. Try to pick some words she knew in the sentences. Kikyo came to them after some time, so Shizuru went to the bath then. The woman saw that the man was sleeping, so she decided not to awake him. She looked at the book on the sofa. She took it and quickly looked through few pages and then returned it back onto the sofa. She didn't want to sleep as the thoughts that came to her head didn't let they do that.
Kikyo wasn't like Shizuru or Toru she was a serious woman that liked to think everything over without jokes and teasing.
"You know, smiling suits you more." Kikyo suddenly heard a male voice, she looked ahead and saw that the man was watching at her.
"I don't see anything funny." Kikyo replied him seriously.
"I don't see too." Toru looked at the ceiling, "But we must try to keep positive, because only in that way we'll be able to think clearly."
"Sorry that I'm not such kind of a person." Kikyo looked at the window.
"I didn't say anything about that being bad." Toru looked at the comrade then, "I just mean you need to be a little positive not pretending to be merry or something like that." he did a pause in order to give the woman to speak, but Kikyo didn't say anything so the man decided to continue, "This missions is totally different from what we had in the past. But we had difficult missions too and every time we could deal with them and returned."
"You did everything well, while I failed once and paid dearly with it." Kikyo looked at her legs.
"Each of us can fail." Toru got up, came to the woman and then sat next her, "But it's important to find powers to continue, "And I like that you're from those persons, who even try to practice with students first and then returned back to action."
"Nothing special… I guess." Kikyo blushed a little.
"But I don't think so." Toru chuckled, "I think you're an amazing person, and I'm glad to have you hear with us."
Kikyo said nothing, but only nestled her face against his shoulder. The man also decided not to say anything as he wanted the woman to feel comfortable in that difficult situations, where they had only themselves and nothing more.
"Have lovey-dovey things?" they heard a familiar voice behind.
"Dream on." Toru quickly replied her, "Just making a beautiful woman feel better."
"My, my what a gentle man." Shizuru chuckled, she glanced at red Kikyo, but then sat onto the place where Toru was lying a while ago.
They felt a little easier now, so they decided to chat a little and also to discuss their further steps, which should be done near time.
Lazar was walking impatiently by his cabinet. The man was waiting the calls of his subordinates, but received nothing. And that made him angry. He came to the man of the country few times and tried to watch something on it, but then continued to walk again. He was in such state for some time, when he suddenly received a call, which made him more energetic.
"Yes, it's Mladich!" the man quickly responded.
'Sir! It's Naum, from the fifth squad.' he hear a ringing voice in the phone, 'We checked several villages on the south. I'm sorry but we didn't found the people you need.'
"Then look on the north!" Lazar shouted at the man.
'Yes, we'll do it now!' the man quickly replied, 'But I wanted to inform you about something else!'
"What is it?" Lazar was a little wondered of his words
'We found two terrorist groups of Ustashi, they were in the southern villages near Tuzla in Dubrave Gorne and Vukovie Donie.'
"Two groups?" Lazar was surprised, "Was it difficult? Why didn't inform me earlier?!" he raised his voice.
'We didn't want to bother you! The police informed us and we dealt with them. We few criminals, maybe they know something about these spies?'
"What did you find in their shelters?" Mladich asked the man again.
'Guns and explosives, I'm surprised that they could bring it here.' the man replied again.
"It seems someone helped them." the man mumbled, "And I guess I know whom." Lazar looked at the map and then said again, "Now focus on the northern directions, I want you to find them."
'Yes, Sir!' the man replied and then the call stopped.
"So, two terroristic groups…" Mladih pondered, "This bastard will answer for that." He looked at his phone, "I need someone to send after him." the man left headed to the door and left the office.
The sun started to set little by little and the Taimanin started to prepare to leave the house as the mistress of the house told that the bus will come soon. It didn't take much to prepare everything, as they hadn't much with them.
"Here, take it too." The woman handed a packet with some pies.
"Thanks, but no need." Shizuru smiled to the woman.
"Take them." the woman insisted, "At least eat something in the road.
"Why to reject?" Toru quickly took the packet understanding what they were talking about.
"In how many minutes will it come?" Shizuru asked the woman, who gave them pies.
"I think in ten or fifteen minutes." the woman replied, "It'll also stay here for ten minutes. So you'll have a lot of time."
"Understood." Shizuru nodded, "And the bus stop, is it far?"
"No, it's not it's in five minute walk from here, just go to the center of the street and you see it." she explained the way.
"Thanks a lot." Shizuru bowed to the woman.
"No need." The woman smiled to her have a good way.
The Taimanin left the house and headed to the middle of the street, where was the bus stop. They didn't wait long and when they saw a bus, there also was a tablet with three figures. When the bus stopped they found that it was almost empty. They asked the driver to stop in Laktashi. And the man nodded to the woman that they will stop there as the last but stay will be there. The Taimanin quickly took free places and started to wait for the departure after the passengers would stretch their legs.
Da, uveche – yes, in the evening.