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Kou slides a picture to the desk, "kill him. I don't care how, i just want him dead. I'll give you about two months from now, before he departs to stellis."
Tuah examines the picture. It's quite blurry, but she can make out all his features. Pale white hair with bright yellow eyes.
"isn't this libra's partner? What was his hero name... Adjudicator or something?" kou nods. "He stole something from our laboratory and refused to return it."
Tuah huffs. "i didn't know you have a lab. " kou pulls out a suitcase and places it on the table."it's actually catto's, she gave it to me before she went abroad" the suitcase opens with a click. Tuah raises her eyebrows seeing the fresh stacks of money. "200000 stellis. I'll pay the rest later."
"I was about to ask for more since 200 thousand stellis isn't enough for a famous villain like me, but I'll give you a discount since we're friends." Tuah jokes. Kou chuckles "don't worry. I'll pay you 20 times more than this if you kill him."
Kou's eyes flicks towards Tuah. She looks burdened as she stares at the stacks of money. "hey, if you have any problems, you can talk to me, you know" Tuah slowly makes eye contact with Kou. "why are you hiring me? You know I'm stopping all this villain thing. I don't want to do any killings. I thought I already announced it to the public."
Kou pushed away the guilt. "consider this your last performance, your final crime. I'll tell the others to not commission you after this."
Tuah pauses. "I need time to think about it." Kou looks as if they've already knew she'd say that. "alright, take your time. Just so you know, the accommodation, food and shelter will be paid by me"
Tuah chuckles, "as if that would sway me." she gets up and held out her hand. Kou shakes the hand in return. "I'll be here if you reconsider it. You have my number, right?" Tuah nods. "yeah."
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"sponsored accommodation... I feel like I'll regret it if I reject their offer." Tuah munches on the cake slice. "maybe I should ask the others." she opens the group chat.
Friendos group chat
You:
Guys
Guys
Join this
[link to Google meet]
Catto:
Okay
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"-sponsored food??? You better be accepting the offer" Samantha grumbles. Tuah sees a chat bubble. She reads it out loud.
"I mean, you've already considered retiring from villain activities, it may be a bad choice to accept the offer since there's so much people out to kill you." Tuah nods. That's true, her life might be at risk if she accepts the offer. And she might be risking her friends' lives too if they knew they're associated with her. Another chat bubble pops up.
" but if you decide to accept the offer, I won't stop you. After all, what's life without a little thrill, am i right? Take your time, just like Kou said. There's no need to rush. " Tuah reads.
"you know, qistinaur here has a point. But, free food and Kou's gonna pay for your hotel. You're gonna miss a lot if you reject it." zia rambles. Q turns on the microphone. "my name isn't- you know what, never mind" the microphone icon dims out, indicating that she turned off her mic.
Another chat bubble appears. 'like Q said, we will support your decision.' Tuah pauses, thinking back about the offer. "you know what? Fuck those people who's out for my head. I'll take the offer."
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"according to what I know, he's at France right now. He canceled his flight back to stellis so you'll have more time to finish him." Kou looks at Tuah. "are you sure you really want to take this offer? You don't have to take it if y-"
"I'm sure. I'll take the offer" Tuah cuts in.
"... Alright then. Pleased to do business with you." they shake hands.