132 Ground Breaking (1/2)
”What's your name?” Roswaisa asks with a bone-chilling cold voice.
”M-Monica.” Monica replies meekly, shaking in her boot from the coldness emanating from the Demigoddess.
”I see.” Roswaisa's voice grows even colder and scarier as she asks, ”Monica, you think you can cause problems in our case and think we will let you get away with it?”
”I-I wasn't causing any problems in it.” She, still shaking, somehow manages to squeak, ”I w-was trying to give you more motivation to catch Cartel. So … so you can catch him quicker.”
”And your definition of doing that is to blow up a gem shop owned by someone we know?” Seeing her squeaking, Roswaisa becomes even more terrifying. If I were to give a metaphor here, I'd say a tigress is looking at a tied-up rabbit. Kinda feel bad for the rabbit but you know, it's a tigress on the other side. There's no way I am going to do anything that would shift the tigress' wrath towards me.
”Well, I … I may have gone a bit too far there!”
THWAK!
What happened? Well, not much actually. Roswaisa just tapped her ankle on the ground and the ground broke. That's what caused the sound, and also took it away from Monica's terrified self.
”… … …” With her mouth hanging wide-open and her eyes filled with terror, Monica looked up as she finally realized who she had messed with.
”Answer the question I am going to ask you!” Roswaisa commands. Monica nods like her neck has a spring on it. And so,
”What was the name of your fiancé?”
”J-Jerome Hawks.”
”When did Cartel Hopkins killed him?”
”A month ago.”
Oh, isn't that … nah, probably a coincidence.
”Why did he kill him?”
”I don't know.”
THWAK!
The poor ground! It's like spraying salt, no, acid on the wound.
”I-I really don't know!”
THWAK!
And it just doesn't stop. The ground keeps getting bashed again and again.
”I-I telling you I don't know!”
Monica is visibly cowering in fright and tears are welling up in her eyes. I am pretty sure she is telling the truth about not knowing that. So,
”Hey Roswaisa, I don't think she is lying.” I say so.