Chapter 6

Mai cry in her mind: 'Why am I here…' as the lights is off, and the cold wind is blowing around her.

"I guess I am having a free experience at this (ghost) luxurious house." Mai laughs while hiding the fact that she wanted to say ghost house.

Mai start to inspect the area, 'I wonder what they did that makes this place to be safe, even though compared to when they were here, I am experiencing some issues.' Mai walks pass the living room and move towards the kitchen, "I wonder what a rich man has in the kitchen…" in which she open the fridge and suddenly scream out: "Hold On!", she turn around and take the knife from the knifes holder, "Isn't this supposed to be in the drawers?" and she proceed to place it inside the drawers where the other utensils are at. Then she look back the fridge: "Woah! Rich people even has root beer inside their fridge! I thought they drink wine!"

Mai continue to look every inch of the kitchen then walk pass the corridors to other rooms. With each room she inspect, the place gets colder, 'Lucky there is no way for the place to be darker…' Mai thinks not knowing that it does get darker with every step she is taking.

After Mai finish inspecting the rooms, she look at the entrance to the underground basement and gulp, 'I shall check the rooftop first.' With that thought, she walk away from it. Mai thinks while crossing her arms: "It's been forever… I wonder what is boss and Mr. Jin doing right now?"

On the other side, Hibiki and Jin is walking at the yard outside.

All is well until they realized that Mai isn't with them. Hibiki signal Jin to go find her and so, Hibiki stays in the yard while Jin looks for Mai inside the house.

Jin passes by the areas he visited and arrive at the underground basement...

"What are you doing, Mai?" Jin ask after he saw her and Sir Bernard inside there.

"..."

Mai look back and then smile at Jin, " We were just talking about being safest in here." Mai walk towards Jin and patted his back, "Let's go! Boss must be waiting." Mai walk her way in front while Jin nod at Sir Bernard and follow her.

'This is weird.' Mai thinks inside her mind, 'But I can't seem to put my finger on it.' As she walk her way back to the yard.

Jin look at her back, 'Why is there... Did she notice something?' then he fasten his pace, 'Nah, she can't even sense aura.'

Mai wave at Hibiki who saw her coming out of the house, in which Hibiki signal Jin to get the car, Mai who got ignored just decides to stand there and survey the yard.

It doesn't take long for Jin to drive the car, Mai and Hibiki went in. Before Mai close the door, she glance at the house one last time.

"Why isn't the owner coming with us?" Mai ask

Hibiki stay quiet as usual while Jin look at Mai for a second and then continue driving, "Well, the house is safer for him than outside."

Mai shows a confused expression but then covers it with a relaxed expression: "Well, you both must have make it safer for him. So, where are we going?"

"To ZX suite court." Jin answer while driving, not knowing that Mai's mind is driving faster than the car, 'ZX suite court. It sounds familiar… Isn't that the top 100 hotel in southeast Asia?! Why would he put his wife ashes there?!'

Mai shake her thoughts off, 'Well, rich people's minds are too hard to understand.' And she start fiddling her fingers, 'It's cold…' which she try to not look at the air conditioning system in the car.

The journey is quieter than when they went to the house. Knowing their situation, Mai decides to use her phone to pass the time. She pressed the search button in google app, 'ZX suite court', the screen shows website loading…

'It's longer than usual.' Mai thinks as she look towards her data service, 'OMG! I used 5G and now it is 3G! How? Why?'

But she shrug it off when she realize the area they are in is on the road.

"…"

Mai shakes her head, 'What thoughts is that?' then she saw the result of her search.

ZX suite court's address is 1XX3X Ave and is closed down. Rumours it being haunted by ghosts.

Mai flinch when she reads it, 'If it is like this, how are we going to go in?' and she look towards Jin.

Seconds pass by…

"???"

Mai has been staring at Jin and Jin didn't make a single sound, she shrug it off by thinking that he's focusing on driving, so she stare at her boss, Hibiki. But it is the same result.

'Are they ignoring me?' Mai thinks as it was quite obvious that she was staring at them.

The temperature drops and Mai can't help but look towards the air conditioning system.

"!!?" Mai see that it isn't even on, she closes her eyes and slowly reach for the door, 'It's locked!' She open her eyes, seeing that both of them didn't notice, she question in a worried tone: "Um, when is the job done? My mother is in the hospital…"

Hibiki look back at her with cold eyes and then look to the front, Mai who saw it, look towards to Jin, "Mr Jin?"

Jin reply without looking back, "Soon. Just wait a bit after we arrive there."

Mai smile as she answer, "I'll wait then." While scratching her hands, "Nuts. Mosquito bites." She naturally scratch her legs afterwards, taking a hidden knife from her socks, moving her leg up and kick the door open with 1 strike.

"As if!"