The obedient woman …
Claudio Belles had an internal shudder.
Obedience be damned!
Tom Paul in his car, back to the Chalet Lookout on the mountain at Claudio Belles.
Claudio Belles sat in the passenger side of the car, thinking about what Eduardo Tercero had said and feeling increasingly agitated.
Tom Paul, seeing that he was acting like a child with ADHD, joked, “Claudio, in all the years I’ve been your partner, I’ve never seen you so upset about a rival. Honestly, you wouldn’t be in love with someone after your one-night stand with Ice Blade, would you?”
“I love you, my ass!”
Heh, soporific, angry to the point of blushing, out of control, all signs of the unusual influence this man, Ice Blade, has over Claudio Belles.
“Did you just come to an agreement with Ice Blade or not? You told me not to come out and interrupt your conversation, I didn’t come out to do anything wrong.”
Claudius Belles growled softly, “Count on the deal.”
Tom Paul’s eyes flashed with surprise and he asked nosily, “What exactly did you offer Ice Blade, did he say yes so fast?”
Claudius Belles gave Tom Paul a look that said “yes” when Ice Blade was so difficult.
“And don’t you see what I sacrificed…”
The words came out of his mouth, but Claudius Belles bit them down and swallowed them.
He decided not to tell anyone about such a humiliating fact. How else could he go on in the future?
Tom Paul’s eyes lit up, and then he stared at her and asked, “You’re not … sacrificing your beauty, are you?”
“No way!”
Claudius Belles also seemed to realize that he had gone a bit overboard and he swallowed saliva again and said, “I only promised him that by joining forces to eradicate Orlondo Marta, Esteban Zaragosa would sign a one hundred year truce with them, the R’s, on behalf of the Ming Organization and the Z’s.”
The price was tempting and sincere enough that Tom Paul didn’t hesitate.
“This Ice Blade has a big appetite. But there’s no point, you’ve gone out after him and he hasn’t taken advantage of you….. Ice Blade is too decent, isn’t he?”
Decent people…?
Heh, Ice Blade if he was decent, there probably wouldn’t be any bad guys in this world.
Claudius Belles pursed his red lips and said in an unkind tone, “Does it look like I’m a bully?”
Tom Paul shrugged, “You don’t look anything like that.
…
Aboard a helicopter flying to R.
Old K inquired, “Master of the Court, are we really going to join forces with those three outlaws to eradicate Orlondo Marta’s forces?”
Edward the Third looked out the window into the night and said in a light voice, “It was only a matter of time before we got rid of Orlondo Marta, he has been provoking war all along, and the Ming Organization has brought us a lot of trouble under his leadership in recent years. Even without the three of them, we will have a battle with Orlondo Marta sooner or later. ”
“Court Master, then what exactly did you promise … Black Rose to the Dark Organization just now?”
“Z and R have been friends for 100 years.”
-And, stay with him for a hundred days.
Old K smiled and said, “It seems that this Black Rose is still a man who knows what he is doing. Master of the Court, we have made a great profit this time.”
Edward the Third raised an eyebrow, unimpressed, “Really? I don’t see the possibility of helping you if not with that added condition.”
“Added conditions? Is it hard to say that added conditions are more tempting?” inquired old K with curiosity and surprise.
Edward the Third opened his mouth slightly, with a hint of jocularity and anticipation in his eyes, saying quietly, “I’m more looking forward to the hundred days you’re going to give me.”
Old K was confused.
She? You mean… Black Rose?
The Court Master wouldn’t really be in love with that murderous Black Rose, would he?
…
Claudio Belles returned to Chalet on the Mountain Lookout with Tom Paul and checked that Esteban Zaragosa was not in Dulcina Calvo’s room.
Chalet on the Mountain Lookout is numerous, as many special rooms have been built, with medical rooms, laboratories, practice rooms, martial arts rooms, shooting rooms …
“Where did this Esteban Zaragosa go? You look on the second floor, I’ll look on the first floor.”
After instructing Tom Paul, Claudio Belles searched one by one the function rooms on the first floor and finally found Esteban Zaragosa in the laboratory.
On the lab table was a stack of medical books and a pile of drugs.
“What are you doing?”
Esteban Zaragosa didn’t even look up as he continued his experiments, “I don’t think I can’t develop an antidote. I can’t just leave Dulcina lying there like the living dead, what’s the difference between being alive and dead if she’s barely keeping her heartbeat going with a bunch of instruments and potions?”
Claudius Belles frowned, “But how long are you going to keep trying like this before you can try the antidote? I’ll send Tom Paul to help you.”
After Claudius Belles called Tom Paul, the two men stayed in the lab all night.
In the second half of the night, Claudius Belles tossed and turned in bed in his silk robe, having trouble sleeping. After pouring himself a glass of water and finishing it, he noticed that the lab light was still on and went over to this side, where, through the lab’s huge glass window, he saw Tom Paul asleep on the lab table and Esteban Zaragosa still doggedly experimenting, next to a pile of dead mice.
Claudio Belles hugged himself and looked at the lab man with a slight sigh.
Dulcina Calvo had risked being swallowed by wolves when she had gone to fetch the Meritorious for Esteban Zaragosa, and Esteban Zaragosa had gone alone to the Dark Court to rescue Dulcina Calvo, and now she spent her days and nights in the lab, frantically working on a cure.
Why should she be afraid to make a sacrifice for the sake of a century of friendship between Z and R?
Perhaps they were never meant to indulge in petty love, but in their profession, with their mission in tow, they are forced to sacrifice something.