In the end, we ended up landing in Goiânia, where everyone started to go their separate ways, or rather, more than half of them went their separate ways.
Apparently, these people were from Goiânia, so only a small group stayed behind, following Bianca. This group is probably the original group that came from headquarters with her.
Unfortunately, Lydia was part of it...
The redhead and the ugly duckling too...
Theo too... What an absolute cunt. He shows up now, eating a bag of chips he got from who knows where, and doesn't even offer any...
Forget it. Leaving that aside, we were probably going to headquarters... My hometown.
It's been a while...
Much more than a while.
I just wanted to get back to São Paulo and take care of what I have to do, but there's nothing I can do. I'm a dead man legally.
So I'll have to follow these people and resolve this issue there...
.
.
.
"Bianquinha, you can handle any kind of bureaucracy, right? As you can see, I'm just a dead weakling. You must know how long it will take for me to be considered a living man again in the eyes of the law...
Or not. I doubt you've ever suffered from bureaucracy with such treatment..."
I sighed, sitting next to her on the jet they sent... What treatment. I ended up looking like an idiot for a few seconds when I saw the black jet that came to pick us up.
"... Are you really going to make a big deal out of this? Don't start with this nonsense. Am I the only one around here, by any chance? HQ is just in a good mood"
"Yes, of course..."
Yes. I knew that... If Bianca were that awesome at headquarters, she would never have made me that offer. Anyway...
"You know... I never thought I'd get into one of these in my life, but who knew it would be so easy? All I had to do was be tortured, lose an eye and a few fingers, burn alive for two weeks, be abandoned, burn alive again...
Then, my arm...
... Thirst...
Hunger...
Walking aimlessly...
And several traumas as a bonus... Easy, right?"
It was a joke, but I couldn't lift my head at any point while telling it.
The depression hit hard now...
... Just when I felt like I was sinking, I got a flick on the forehead...
I didn't need to look, but I looked to the side anyway.
"Enough drama. Don't think you're the only one who's been through so much shit."
... I was scolded. Until then, I had never seen her with such a serious expression, but even so... She still hugged me, saying softly:
"I really mean that, but since you're a weakling who's never even entered a crevice, I'll cut you some slack."
"... Thank you."
... I really didn't expect that. It was very unexpected coming from Bianca, but I accepted it...
I thought for a moment about saying how soft her breasts were, but I gave up...
It wasn't the right moment...
And I didn't want to ruin her gesture either.
We stayed like that for a while...
I felt my heart and mind gradually calm down...
Now was the time.
"Didn't you have anything more original, Bianquinha? I'm disappointed...
Just sticking me between your breasts, after hitting me, poisoning me, and everything else, isn't going to give me Stockholm syndrome..."
For a moment, I felt her hand on the back of my neck before she let me go. A simple caress...
"Well, you got me there... You never know, right?"
"Yeah. You never know... Who knows, if you use your breasts like that every day... Their strategic potential is enormous."
"Indeed. They have great potential, but it's a shame you'll never see it, isn't it?"
"Well, you said it yourself... You never know."
For a moment, Bianca smiled... She genuinely smiled, even though I was using her own words...
"Yeah. You have a point..."
... That smile...
I felt lost for a few seconds before becoming a little surprised, realizing that she wasn't angry but going along with it...
"Anyway, you're going to take care of the paperwork, right?"
"Don't worry. It'll be very easy to do."
I liked what I heard. No paperwork, then...
"What about the new arm and eye? Are we going after we take care of this, or will it take some time?"
"I've already taken care of that. After the headquarters, we'll go straight there. Now be quiet, we're close."
I wanted to say more, but I decided to keep quiet. It was already clear that the jet was descending as I looked out the window...
The sea was getting closer and closer...
It was so blue that it didn't even seem like it was now home to unknown monstrosities.
Looking at the ruins...
Or rather, some points of debris sticking out of the water, I felt a little regret for not having visited Rio de Janeiro or Espírito Santo before.
Looking even further...
Way down there...
I saw it.
It was simply in the middle of the air... Tearing through space...
A black line that looked tiny from where I was, but I knew I was wrong to think that. Very wrong.
... Water was pouring out of the rift all the time. A proportion...
That was perhaps only less shocking than the corpse of the constellation altering and transforming an entire ecosystem...
"That's why you ended up in the Amazon, right?"
"Yes... It turned out that another crack was opened with the maritime world. It happened a few days before that happened in the Amazon. And you must know how aggressive these lambaris are."
I nodded before asking.
"... So, is it true?"
"... Yes."
So it really is a fact. An extremely disgusting and repulsive fact...
These things really deserve to be slaughtered.
... I put my hand on my chest, suddenly feeling a warmth.
Anger.
I've never been so pissed off in my life. These monstrosities...
Intelligent like many of our allies, but they simply chose violence...
Massacres.
Atrocities.
... Why?
Why do you have to be so repulsive?