139 Ism Sorry and Thank You (1/2)

”Your ID card, Sir?” One of the female guards who was guarding the prisoner cells asked him. With his silver suit and red tie, Rei Ishii sighed inside, he took out his ID which he got from Ta and showed it to the guard. The person checked the card wisely and stamped it, it was valid.

”You can come in, Sir.” She said, but before she could finish explaining him the rules, Rei Ishii already walked further from her to the prison, instead to prisoner visit room. ”H-Hey, Sir!” She was trying to warn him, yet he ignored her shouted.

Striding his legs through the gray corridor, looked at his surrounding. He was trying to search for his sister's room number. He heard the news about his sister was 'found' according to the reports from Han's subordinates.

Fixing his glasses, he lifted his head and halted his step. He stood in front of the door her sister prison room. He was hesitating. Clenching his palms tightly, suddenly heard the female guard who was shouting to him a while ago. ”Sir, that's the wrong way, it's right this way.” She reminded. He glanced at her, turning around and followed her. He walked to the prisoner visit room.

He sat down while looking in front of him. ”Where's she?” He asked impatiently.

”She'll be arriving soon.” The guard saluted and stood far behind him. After a few minutes later, the door from across was opened.

He looked at her whole. The orange outfit she wore, short hair, pretty face, sharp eyes, and pale lips. She was Hina, no, she was Aiko. She lifted her head and noticed the person in front of her, she opened her eyes wide shockingly, standing there staring at him. 'Brother?' She thought inward. The guard behind her pushed her and scolded her to sit down, and she did what the guard said.

Her hands were handcuffed so she placed it on her tights. The siblings were gazing at each other, silence in a small booth and glass partition separating between them.

He said, ”It's been a long time.You've changed so much, even I don't recognize you anymore. But your voice is still the same.” He traced her thin body and sharp jaw. The slight chubby girl he knew back then was gone. Her former slanted eyes were changed to round eyes with a double eyelid, her long hair was cut like a boy, right now it wasn't the plump pretty girl anymore, instead, she turned to the beautiful thin woman.

Aiko fixedly staring at his eyes, ”B-Brother...” She nervously said that. Her palm was sweating cold and her heartbeat beating rapidly. She heard him saying straightforwardly, ”It has been six years, I don't know anything about your life before, I must say, it doesn't look good. Mom and dad miss you, I miss you, please go back home with me, Aiko.”

Her eyes turned teary, she chocked while saying, ”Brother...” Rei Ishii looked at his sister with ash face, he bit his lower lips and muttered, ”When you were gone that day, I wasn't there beside you. I'm sorry and please forgive mom and dad. They didn't scold you because they hate you. They were worried because they were afraid that your boyfriend was fooling you. Your boyfriend was too old, even older than our uncle.”

”Raiga is not a liar! He loved me as who I am! He never touched my cross line, we just date with a pure relationship!” Aiko raised her voice scolding at her brother, she didn't want to accept someone was bad mouthing him, even it was her brother herself.

Rei Ishii looked at her sharply, ”That man eloped with you and ran away together. His action proved his words, he's not a good man, do you want me to say the 'pedo' words? Don't tell me you two didn't do anything in those time?”

”No! We didn't! He's pure kind heart man! He agreed with me because I just want to get away from the family! I really planned to get back to Kobe after we spent a few days abroad! But, I can't!! I can't go back again... I can't.” Her voice turned to quite in the last line. Rei Ishii's face was complicated. She didn't have to say it, Rei Ishii knew her full story from the report criminal statement. Her motives and so on and so on.

”Do you still love him? Do you still think that he still alive from all of this year you've been enduring, Aiko? Do you think Mr. Gobi's a 'keeping promised' man you believed?” Rei Ishii questioning her. Her face suddenly turned paler than before, her body trembled, she was gasping with her eyes shaky. He continued with a quivering voice, ”All this time, you were near me, but I never realized you were one of Mr. Gobi's eyes. I was shocked, until now too. I can't believe I'm stupid not to realize it sooner. This the first time I question my intelligence.”

Scoffing, he redeemed his feeling. He regretted it. He regretted he didn't try harder to find her. He only waited for the people to deliver their reports, but there were always zero results along years. At that time he had a plan to give up on her, but Han's statement last year, resolving him to find his sister once again. He mocked laughingly at himself for his obliviousness to search for her overseas, yet stupidly, he didn't know she came back to Japan and stay within the year.

Chuckling, he couldn't believe the truth that she was right beside him all along. She was with Mr. Gobi! She was with that damn man, the same man that he tricked! Was this karma?

Heaven graciousness, his sister was being used by that fu*king bastard Gobi more or less than five years!!! She was close to him, yet why, why he didn't detect it all this time?

Freaking damn it.

Now what? He succeeded to find her in the end but, he didn't feel satisfied with it. Was it because she was in jail, right now?

He observed her reaction, her tears, her red eyes, sighing he said, ”I will free you soon, please wait for me, and tell me you wanted to come back to Kobe, to meet our parents again. Don't worry, I will accompany you to apologize to them.”

”Hiks...uwu...I...can't...brother... I can't...” She started to wail, she held her head down, and cried hysterically, along with her crying she continued, ”I...I don't need you to help me. Please let me stay in here until my time in this prison is over. I can't go outside again. I'm a murderer! I'm a kidnapper! I'm a prostitute! Prostitute to that 'man'!” She referred to Mr. Gobi. ”My body, my hands were all sullied, I can't face mom and dad! I changed my face! I'm not Aiko anymore!! My name is Hina! My name is Hina now!!!!!”

”Brother, just forget about me. I can't be your so-called sister anymore. Please just treat me I'm a stranger. Brother, do you want to know the truth?” She said with her hoarse voice.

Rei Ishii was silence and listen to her words. She continued, ”I noticed when you visited at the port few times, I never showed up in front of you, afraid that you would know. I avoided you, I don't want to see you. Yes, all this time, I was with Mr. Gobi just because I want to save my boyfriend. But there was also one reason.”

She curved her smile up, ”I can't stop killing.” She saw her brother slightly opened mouth, his reaction was something she expected. ”That's why I need to stay here, for you and for the family safety. I'm not in good condition to roam freely.”

Rei Ishii closed his mouth tightly, suddenly the air around them turned colder, he said to her, raising his voice, ”What 'truth'? Stop lying! Do you know how long I watch you?! Your eyes weren't telling certainty! I know you are being forced doing that thing, I don't need your excuse! Just tell me you are not ready to face people! I know it was a sin, but you can start over again after this.”

”No matter what crime you committed before, no matter what you become, you are still my sister! I will do what you want, you want to stay here? Fine. It's okay, I can wait until your time is over. I will visit you often! I'm not giving up on you just because you like to kill people?” He snorted, ”Then, does it mean I should not roam freely too? Because I like to torture people until it kills them!”