Requiem: Chapter 12 (Part 2)
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“Stay still and you'll have a chance to experience a new day, survive this if you know what I mean, “the man whispered silently in my left ear. The short but powerful headshot I gave may not have been the right response to his proposal, but I heard a braised cry with satisfaction.
After a few minutes of silence that seemed to me much longer, his reaction. “Another unwise answer to my questions, Miss Mitsukai, and I will cut open your pretty throat from here to here, “while he pressed his knee in my back, he made a not-wrong move with the thumb of his hand under my head. I'm sure a statue could learn something from my sudden immobility. I wanted to ask politely what he wanted from me, but I heard myself mumbling: 'mmm, hmmmm, mmmmmm'. Apparently, I seemed to present intelligible universal sounds, a language that contagued people usually speak, I suppose, because he answered my question directly. However, just after he had given an extra sore poke with his knee in my back.
'I want you to discontinue your private investigation. Shut it down, continue without looking back. Do you know the story of Sodom and Gomorrah and the wife of Lot, my dear Yukiko? Try to do your best to resist the temptation. Go on and don't look back. To become a pillar of salt is hardly enviable. The name of the wife of Lot is not mentioned anywhere in the Bible, do not let them go into history under the name Yukiko Mitsukai. I'm sure you know what I mean. A corpse or a pillar of salt, there's not much difference to me, they're just as dead.!’
