116 What She Is 3 (2/2)
Time passed and the aftereffects of the explosion finally subsided.
Now, the girl's chest was violently heaving up and down. Anger was evident from her eyes, face, and voice when she swore, ”Damn wastes of space! All of you are so dead after this!!! Just you wait!!!”
The deafening and mind-numbing sounds of the gunshots suddenly stopped.
All of a sudden, a familiar female voice echoed from the doorway and Clarissa wondered if it was her illusion that they did in order to let her hear that irritatingly soft and calm voice.
”Wrong, Clarissa Guzman,” said the long-haired woman who just entered the hall wearing a black dress that reached just above her knees.
As Clarissa saw the expressionless face of the other, she couldn't stop herself from hatefully muttering her name, her disturbingly fiery and murderous gaze focused on the woman that she temporarily didn't notice the man escorting her,
”Sofony Mendez...”
A couple of seconds later, without taking her eyes off of Sofony, she managed to force a laugh,
”As expected... It's you! You opportunist whore! But congratulations, b*tch! For the second time around, you actually forced me to hide under a barrier!”
The other acted as if she seemingly did not hear the sarcastic and heavily-stressed words Clarissa said nor see the terrifyingly murderous glares she started giving her. Sofony was obviously watching her tremble in anger, but no other emotion showed from the girl's face.
However, the girl did meet her eyes. Those pair of orbs when observed closely were actually more beautiful than hers and they stared at her in neither cold nor triumphant manner. When Sofony asked Clarissa, there was not even a hint of a smile on her lips even though the current moment was the best time to show it.
”My senior... how's our surprise? Let me guess what's currently on your mind. Are you perhaps thinking that only you have the rights to drive someone else mad with helplessness and rage?”
Humiliation suddenly crept into Clarissa's heart and all she wanted to do is charge out of the barrier and hack the other host to death! Of course, she recognized that it was Leo's skill disturbing her calmness again hence after unwillingly looking away from Sofony, she began chanting her calming mantra.
She repeatedly reminded herself that she was inside the barrier. Just like how she wouldn't be able to attack the lower-leveled b*tch, Sofony also wouldn't be able to do anything within thirty minutes because no attack from the outside would ever reach her! This was why she deemed it better to pacify her out-of-control emotions first.
Unfortunately, as Clarissa tried to regain her composure, the eye movements from that someone behind the other girl escaped her notice. She became too trusting of her barrier hence a certain possibility never crossed her mind. This was why when something suddenly got swung her way, the abruptness of the attack and the close proximity of the attacker did not give her enough time to react and avoid it!
She was suddenly stunned! The calmness she was trying to build up immediately flew away as she labored to turn her head to the side. Just when her mind was asking what happened and who it was, a man's face registered in her now widely opened eyes.
It was that person who she thought was not part of the hypnotized bunch.
”...You?!!”
Before the one asked answered, he first let her watch as the bloodied tip of the long knife disappeared from her left chest as it got pulled out from her back.
She then heard the man said in a manner akin to a secretary or employee reporting perfunctorily to his boss, ”Miss Sofony told me the poison coated in the blade is enough to incapacitate you, but it won't kill you. By the way, I am the one tasked to do the stabbing because I'm strong enough to let the young miss see the knife stabbed from the back stick out in front.”
”Though actually, anyone from the team could do this...”
Clarissa could feel her strength being rapidly drained so she hardly cared anymore to the last part which merely sounded like a man's grumble. The images moving in front of her started to get blurry in her eyes. However, she still held on to her consciousness and glared daggers to the person who should not be next to her, ”...Vien... you traitor! How did... you get inside?”
Despite his average looking figure gradually turning unclear, she still made out his eyes indifferently looking at her. In an uncaring attitude and a matter-of-fact tone, he answered, ”My name is George, not Vien. I'm not a traitor because I am never your underling in the first place, and I got inside this invisible enclosure through running to your side before the grenades exploded. Hopefully, my answers are to your satisfaction.”
Not long after, before she fell unconscious on the cold cement floor, Sofony's voice which still sounded low and calm reverberated throughout the place, echoing clearly in the hall due to the lack of any sound hindering or overlapping with it.
”...You are wrong Clarissa,” she began.
”No one will be dying tonight. You too won't be dying any time soon.”
”For separating me forever from Steffy and Wendy, I'll make sure your remaining days will be torturous to both your mind and body...”