Hong Kong

41

QIANG TIME

My lord. A large military contingent is on its way here... The peasants are fleeing... The invaders are moving across the prairie destroying the villages.

-- Who?

--It's Hang Hing who commands them. It is said that he is shouting that he was cheated and his concubine was stolen from him.

-- How many?" asked Qiang Ling rising worriedly from his formal chair.

-- More than 2,000... he brings a lot of artifacts.

--! I don't have that kind of availability," exclaimed the Count with immense concern.

-- I will not fall into the hands of that monster anymore," cried Mei To in terror.

-- I will not give up. I was born here and I will die here.

-- I think I can help," said Kathy in her gnawing rage and jealousy, "I have won four Chivaldi IV and Mordhau V championships. That's all I can offer.

-- Well, I was on the children's javelin team," said Mei To.

-- I'm on my club's archery team...well...was...-- said Thomas, enduring Kathy's dagger stares....

-- I will support my husband-- said Akame....

AKAME'S TIME

At three o'clock in the morning, Akame was walking through the dark corridors with a candle... A few lamps shone faintly...

Until he found it floating in the hall...next to the count's small throne.

-- I know what you want... You are full of remorse, you can't rest for having destroyed his life.

The ghost of the girl whispered something to him, extending her hands towards her.

-- You know that in every battle he desperately seeks death...You came to take him away...He is mine...Leave him alone...You enjoy watching his immense pain...-- Akame accused.

-- You don't love him...I was very young and I was frightened by his passion...the servant gave me a hypnotic concoction and I thought I was in love...the reality is that I only loved him, and he didn't know how to woo me...he overwhelmed me, he choked me and he didn't hold back in his passion...it was a mistake of a child who didn't know how to handle the excessive impetus of his love...

-- So?

-- He does love me... He is mine... And you know it... I know you are a sorceress... You have no power over me...

-- But I'm alive... I make love to him with passion and madness. I have him with me and I'm his wife.

-- He loves me is me... And first it was saturday than sunday .......there are other things here of my greatest interest -- said the ghost diluting...

--What is it?....tell me??...what is it that can be of greater interest?..a dead woman has no power in the realm of the living.

-- That is what you think," said the voice inside her, "He is the sign of the rooster and I am of the sign of the dragon... He is mine, even if I am dead... He belongs to me and now I don't feel like giving him to you.

He will never be compatible with the tiger...If you loved him I would not cross myself....

-- Damn you -- Akame shouted in the darkness.

Keo..or Iwo? Time

Ken ate some tasteless dumplings in a fushing queen... He had traveled 12 hours in a Boeing 737-800 Vip of a private air cab company.

He had part of the tattoo engraved in his memory... Nobody said it was from any of the New York triads... But that tattoo was neither from Hong Kong, nor from Ho Chi Ming City, nor from Singapore, nor Taipei... He would find it.

He would find it, there was no doubt about that.... But the basics, the human, was what bit his soul.

He deceived Ye Ye for years with a false identity. Yet he loved her too much. It turned out that Ye Ye was the daughter of Lai Chong Wisang... Her cover was that of a crude policewoman.

She was the daughter of Lai Chong Wisang, no less! His worst enemy. They always knew about him and she was in charge of watching and telling his every step.

-- Ye ye -- she whispered angrily, making a paper ball out of her napkin and throwing it with such force that it knocked over the garbage can.

-- Hey, buddy. It's no big deal! -- protested the business owner.

Without saying a word Ken walked out into the street.... It was a better area than Chinatown, it was a beautiful day, he really felt an immense pain of disappointment and disillusionment.

-- It just can't be. She is the only woman I have ever loved with all my soul. I came back for her. And I find out that I was just a target to watch out for..." he said with coldness in his soul, as he walked around the area.

YE YE TIME

Your husband cheated on you again. As soon as you turned your back, he left you. And you believed in him," Lai Chong Wisang said mockingly, looking at Ye Ye with false pity.

-- What are you saying," Ye Ye said, pale as a corpse, dropping the glass of orange juice she was drinking from her hands.

-- What you hear... He escaped to New York on a private flight. By the way, he managed to solve all the hacker attacks I sent him.

-- What do you intend to do to him?

-- Everyone seeks their own destiny... He stole from me... He took over my work; and I have to find him because half the planet is looking for him and not to give him a slap on the wrist.

-- Let me look for him. He is very fragile. He doesn't know how to defend himself.

The old man made a "Until when?" gesture.

Ye Ye looked at her father.

-- It's all right. All right! I have to catch that i***t alive to get the encrypted holographic map back.

-- Thank you Lai.

The man made an annoyed gesture of restraint.

-- Another thing... You have a new stepmother... Quite a surprise.

-- Another victim to butcher, you mean.