Fair Trade - Chapter 58.1

God, Jesus, Buddha, Mary. And who else was there?

I knew it would be like this.

I already knew it would be like this.  

As soon as Sei opened the door, her gut feeling told her to go in and hide immediately.

What the hell…

Sei couldn’t believe the scene that had unfolded before her. The American who spoke was clearly a man. By his voice, physique, mien, and even scent, he appeared as a man without a doubt.

However, the person who just ran into the room was not an American man but a woman.

An Asian woman, at that.

It was only after the woman who was dressed as a man left the room that Sei crawled out from the cleaning supplies closet. Squatting down on the carpet, she let out a sigh of relief and ran a hand through her tangled hair.

Did she steal the American’s keys to do this? I never expected this to happen.

“Why are things getting so complicated?”

She left her room key behind, so it was clear she wouldn’t be coming back. Moreover, the bandages the woman had unwrapped were soaked in blood, and her clothes also reeked of blood.

Maybe it was the smell of her blood coming from Kirill. Moreover, the owner of the voice coming from the laptop was clearly someone she knew. Sei slowly looked at the traces left behind by the woman. She didn’t know her name, but her face definitely looked familiar. She had encountered that face at least once in her life. Of course, she couldn’t remember it accurately, but judging by the familiarity, it was probably someone she was intentionally trying to remember.

The woman had come in with her bare feet, lay down on the bed as if exhausted, then quickly got up and moved again. In addition, she even talked to someone on the phone and there was mention of infiltration.

“That phantom… Could she be a backup?”

Sei, who instinctively guessed that the American man had died, wiped her sweaty palms on her pants and pressed her ear against the door. No sound could be heard from the hallway. The woman disguised herself by changing her gender. If she hadn’t changed her gender, she would definitely have been recognized by someone.

For the first time in a very long time, Sei felt like her blood was flowing at a rapid pace. A big picture, as complex as a math formula, was drawn in her head, and it was completed quickly.

She said to herself, “Ha, I had really promised to stay put…”

But her hand was already heading toward the laptop the woman had been using.

Sei urgently stopped the rollback. As expected, the laptop was connected to a different cellular network than DE:A’s network.

But other than that, it wasn’t easy to find any traces. That person was using an unclassified country code, and that voice was most likely to be similar to that of David Meyer.

Did he get stabbed in the back? 

I wondered how many people were big enough to stab Yuri in the back, but there was that mysterious old man. Sei closed the laptop after putting it on recovery mode. She then stared at the bag on the floor and took out the fake gun from inside.

The fake gun with a sapphire on the butt. It was a replica of a key that no longer existed.

“I guess this was her purpose.”

Sei gripped her faintly trembling hands. She would be lying if she said she wasn’t scared. It was only after experiencing it that she realized that without Yuri, she would have died many times over.

Now, she could not take her life easy. Staring at the bloody bandages that the woman had left behind, she turned on the room cleaning refusal light and came out. As expected, it was a hallway with no one wandering around. The private elevator was still in place.

There’s no way she could have moved alone.

Who could be that woman’s helper?

By all means, it looked like the person had the ability to roam this ship without suspicion and pass on information to someone easily too.

Moreover, they could provide an alibi…

Sei climbed to the top using the emergency stairs and found a cleaning cart parked in front of the room. This was somehow…

“Did the housekeeping staff go in?”

To Sei’s question, the man guarding the entrance nodded with a slightly surprised expression.

“I heard the orders myself. She was told to change all the sheets… And clear the petals of the bathtub.” Bingo.

“Oh… She’s still at it?”

“She has just been in. I’ll radio her to say you’re here.”

“Where’s Yuri?”

“I don’t know, ma’am.”

“Tell me. I’m very drunk.”

“Yes?”

Sei narrowed her eyes at the man and entered the room, making a loud ruckus. Then, a loud noise was heard from the bedroom.

Sei did not know what her goal was, but she was the woman who had succeeded in fooling Yuri so far. She couldn’t just go back like this.

Sei picked up a bottle of whiskey from the bar near her, threw away half of the contents, and took a sip to her mouth. She then laid the pistol down on the floor of the sofa, as if she had accidentally dropped it, and lay down at an awkward angle.

“I’m sorry, ma’am. I was told to clean up the room…”

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