Stranger

On her back is a piece of a violin case, it has a steel color with a golden zipper. In her palm, she holds a fan. She gets closer to Anna while the latter stood, not moving at all.

As she got in front of Anna, she darted her head to Anna's head. She covers her mouth with the fan.

"What are you doing in here?"

Anna's eyes turn to her side, watching Mao's face while quivering.

She tries to push Mao away from her, but Mao evades it by backing away from her before Anna's hand pushed her.

"What's wrong with you? Why aren't you saying anything?"

Mao's eyes deep stare at her. She tilts her head and rests her chin on her hand.

"Hey, don't ignore me. You didn't forget about what you have done to me, right?"

Anna distracts her eyes and turns it below, she looks at the concrete on the parking spot. Not answering Mao's question.

At this moment, a mediator came between both of them. The mediator puts his hand on Anna's face covering all of it.

"Who are these people?" he said.

Anna recognizes the mediator's voice, the voice is very familiar to her. She looks above and saw the mediator's hair.

The pearl hair flutters because of the winds, a big and intimate hand covering her face, and the beautiful voice making her at ease. Ah, it's uncle, she thought.

"Who are you, old man?" Mao said drawing her fan and covering her mouth.

She steps away from them twice, before stopping.

Elias turns his eyes at Anna, the latter turned away from him.

"Do you know her, Anna?"

To no avail, she doesn't respond.

"Don't ignore me you, and who the hell are you old man to call her Anna?" she asked purposefully "What is your relationship?"

"None of your business"

Without looking back at Mao, he puts his hand on Anna's shoulder and darts away from the place. Mao glares at them and stomps her tiny legs, her eyebrows flinching and she left the area.

The commotion makes the surrounding people come and become crowded, but after the problem maker leaves, the crowd also left the vicinity.

After walking for a few steps, Anna's legs feel weak and she dropped to the ground. Elias tries to carry her but she doesn't ready yet.

"Kya"

Anna's body becomes unbalanced, and she lowers her body touching Elias's body. Her hands hug Elias's head and her face meets his hair.

A whiff of his hair smell couldn't be missed by Anna's nose, the smell makes her calm and relaxed. She releases her legs which were locked hard holding Elias's body. Elias goes to his wooden cart while carrying Anna.

"I-I am sorry for troubling you Uncle," she said while Elias place her down on his cart.

He raises his hand, Anna closed her eyes expecting she would get beaten but unlike her expectation, he goes for her hair and pats her.

"It isn't your fault," he said patting her head "I promise Auntie to take care of you, remember?"

"You are unbelievable, Uncle," she said turning her red face away.

He doesn't reply and starts pulling his wooden cart. Anna who sees his back made her remember a certain memory of them in the past.

Soon after, they arrived at the Hunter Alliance. The atmosphere inside the building isn't conducive, the people are chaotic and noisy but, their faces are gloomy.

Elias and Anna peer into their ear and heard the conversation of the people hence they know why the situation escalated into this atmosphere.

"The Hunter Alliance's founder is predicted to be dead." some guy said.

"What, are you telling the truth?"

"Did you mean the breaking news this morning?"

"Yes, the Queen has fled away from the UK but the Alliance's founder Plantagenet is left behind."

"I wonder what will happens with Hunter Alliance's branch all over the world now"

"Yeah, I am wondering about that too."

"Rest In Peace Founder Richard"

They are letting out sighs nonstop.

Elias continues to the checkpoint before halting. He opens his bag and gives his hunter card to the Alliance's staff standing behind the bar with a sullen face.

"Welcome to the Hu-" he said receiving the card from Elias "Please wait for the examination of the card."

He puts Elias's card on top of the machinery, the machine lit up and it doesn't affect anything the card, then the Staff gives the card back to Elias.

"I have examined your card, what can I do for you?" he said.

"Sell," Elias said pointing at the bodies of the animals on top of his cart.

"I understand, please come in here"

The man shows the way to the back, Elias wants to follow him to the inside but is held off by Anna who put her hands on his shoulder.

"Wait uncle, could I see your hunter card?" she said.

Elias tilted his head, then give his bag to her.

He carries the Animals' bodies and follows the staff inside. Anna opens the bag and takes out the card she has seen.

She takes a look at the card. She rubs her eyes and scans the card once again but it doesn't change. She swipes the card with her hand and there are no ink marks on her finger.

"It is truly Indigo," she said holding the card.

"You have hella strong uncle, girl"

All of a sudden, a random guy peeked from behind her and said it to her. She covers the card with her hands and looks at the random person.

"Who are you?"

The guy raises both of his hands, waving them.

"My bad, my bad. I am not a bad person." he puts his hand on the back of his head. "Besides, I wouldn't be looking trouble with a niece of a high-rank hunter"

The guy leaves away from her, meanwhile, Anna is back gazing at the card in her hand.

Somewhere in the Town.

A girl with black hair and black eyes pointed her fan at a guy in front of her. The guy kneels and bows his head down. The girl puts her feet on the guy's back.

"Why you weren't moving at all, you useless guard," she said stomping her feet at the guy's back.

The guy doesn't say anything until the lady put down her feet away from him.

"My apologies. Someone warned me with these, young lady," he said raising his palm at the lady.

The girl looks at the guy's palm, her face changes, and she kicks the guy's body several times.

"What do you mean by that, isn't that just mere pebbles, do you think I am a fool?"

She bashes him with her fan.

"I am talking in honest young lady, these rocks were thrown at me in precise whenever I try to step out"

The guy tries to explain the truth to the girl, but the girl wouldn't believe whatever the guy has said.

"Enough of lies, if you continue lying I will call Daddy and tell him to fire you"

The kick didn't stop until the guy grieve in pain. The girl takes out her smartphone from her bag, opens her contact list, and calls the name Daddy.

Ring, Ring, Ring

The call is connected.

The guy gulps his saliva, his ending is close.

"Daddy, I wanted to change my bodyguard as fast as you can,"

She glances at the guy lying down on the ground in front of him, then turned her attention away.

"The previous one? He is a liar and a coward, you know I don't like a liar"