The Black Swan Behind (Beauty of Fire)

Chapter 253

253 My Girl

Kathy accepted the black box her girl had given her, and studied it for a moment. Then, she nodded lightly. “This is a ‘tracker’ device.” She concluded, and shrugged. “It’s the cheap one. But they modified it a bit. At first, it only worked when it was turned on. It worked as a GPS to track lost items. But it didn’t have long battery life.”

Then Kathy slammed the device onto the asphalt and trampled it to pieces with the thick-soled shoes she was wearing.

Emma stared at the ill-fated object while holding her own chest. “Wh.. why are you destroying it?”

“This thing is of no use to us. As long as it is alive, its owner can trace its location.” Kathy replied while continuing to stomp on it.

“But.. you just take out the battery, didn’t you?” asked the girl who had given it to Kathy.

“I know. I’m just expressing my anger. After earning a lot of money from destroying other people’s lives, they are still this f*cking greedy,” Kathy replied before stopping her activities when the device was completely broken apart.

Emma cleared her throat and then returned to the main topic. “If they did call for help, then the Beast Empire will soon arrive at the...”

Before Emma could finish her sentence, a group of bikers had already surrounded them. The light from the headlights of the motorbikes dazzled the girls.

Emma could not clearly see the riders of the motorbikes because of the lights. But she knew that they were the Beast Empire. That way, she immediately put up a position to be ready to fight.

.....

“Get ready, guys. There are quite a number of them,” Emma said.

Then, the light of the motorbikes disappeared when the riders turned off the engine. One of the men riding the motorbike in the middle front took off his helmet and got off his motorbike.

“That...” Kathy mumbled, then stopped when Emma put her hand on her chest to keep her from saying more.

Emma was surprised when she saw that it was Jita Kyoei who came to them. She immediately pressed the button on the side of her mask’s mouthpiece to tell all the girls to restrain themselves, because the group that had just arrived wasn’t the Beast Empire.

Troy stepped into the centre of the location. But before he could speak, Calvin got out of the car and randomly grabbed one of the Black members, who was the closest to his reach.

“Where’s Emma?!” Calvin exclaimed while pulling both the collars of one of the Black members.

Emma, who saw that her girl, who did not know anything, was being targeted by Calvin, immediately stepped up to them. She patted Calvin’s arm. “Hey. Let him go,”

Just by looking at his behaviour and height alone, Calvin instantly knew that the man who had just approached him was the first Black he had met; which by other means, was the leader of the Black group.

Calvin roughly grabbed the short man’s shoulders. “This is the Beast Empire car, isn’t it? They kidnapped my girl. Where are the girls they kidnapped?”

‘What? ‘My girl’?” Emma repeated in her head.

Luckily, Calvin couldn’t see the face behind the mask in front of him. Because, the face of the girl he was talking about didn’t seem to believe what she had just heard.

“Where are they?!”

Calvin’s snap brought Emma’s focus back. He even shook her shoulder violently.

Emma swiftly slapped Calvin’s hands off her shoulders. “They have been brought home by our members,”

“What?” Calvin’s brow furrowed.

Troy, who saw Calvin attack the Black members in a such reckless manner, decided to interfere. Ian also approached the two people. They understood that Calvin was feeling very panicked because his crush was in danger.

“Calm down, mate,” Troy grabbed one of Calvin’s shoulders.

“We’re looking for a girl with light brown hair and eyes; about the same height as you,” Ian explained to Black’s leader.

Hearing that, Emma immediately stepped back. So, Ian realized that Black and Emma Hilland were the same height? Well.. She had to be more careful from now on.

Emma cleared her throat once. “Don’t you dare to insult me. The features you mention are too general anyway,” she said with the coldest intonation possible.

Then Ian chuckled and turned to Calvin. “Hey. Do you have a picture of Emma?”

Calvin thought for a moment, then took out his phone. He opened the gallery, and came to a sacred picture on his cellphone. It was a photo of him with Emma that he had taken during the concert earlier. He showed the picture to Black’s leader.

Emma looked at the picture of herself smiling broadly next to Calvin, whose smile was brighter than hers. Before, Emma did not have time to see the picture they had taken in the crowded conditions of the concert. But she didn’t expect that it turned out to be that good. They both looked very happy there.

“Was this girl among the abductees?” Calvin asked after pulling his phone back. He didn’t want to let him stare at Emma’s face for too long.

“Well. Yes, she was,” Emma nodded after clearing her throat awkwardly.

“She was?!” Calvin repeated.

Jita Kyoei’s men were also surprised. So, it was true that Emma was a victim of the kidnapping of that group of ruffians?

“Where is she now?!” Calvin asked again with a rough tug on the collar of the masked man in front of him.

“Hey! Get your hands off!” Kathy, who had been watching, couldn’t stand to see Calvin treat Emma rudely several times. She quickly slapped Calvin’s hands so hard that his grips slipped from Emma’s collar.

Kathy understood that Calvin didn’t know that there was a woman behind the mask – even worse- it was the girl he liked, but she wouldn’t let her best friend be abused like that; whether by a man or a woman, she would step forward if she saw her best friend being hurt.

Emma cleared her throat as she adjusted her clothes. “I already told you that all the girls are being driven home by our members,”

“I don’t believe you. Then, take me to that girl’s house.” Calvin said.

“I can’t. It’s been a while since. Maybe my members have finished dropping them off, and now are heading straight back home.” Emma answered. Then she waved his hand once. “You’d better go home now. Trust me, we did get them safely home,” she said as she walked away.

But Calvin quickly followed in Black’s footsteps and grabbed his thin shoulder again roughly. “I’m not kidding about this, Black. I’m really going to kill you if that girl doesn’t get to her house safely. You’d better be polite to her.”

Emma was confused about how to react. She was flattered by Calvin’s attitude that was so worried about her safety. It proved that she was precious to him.

But on the other hand, Emma was not the figure of Emma Hilland, who was a gentle girl like she always was in front of Calvin. Currently, she was a Black figure, who was the leader of a feared group of powerful warriors.

Calvin’s treatment which seemed to be condescending to her was indeed unacceptable. As the leader of the Black Swan, Emma felt her self-esteem had been tarnished. Anger boiled up in her chest.

She immediately squeezed Calvin’s hand that was still on her shoulder before slowly pulling it off, because Calvin seemed reluctant to take his hand off her shoulder. That man intentionally showed part of his strength on it as a sign that he meant what he said. Therefore, the pulling-war process was like a power battle.

“You’d better watch your attitude. I won’t hesitate to kill you here for putting me down,” Emma said with a growl.

Ian and Troy who saw this, immediately calmed Calvin. It wasn’t that the two of them were afraid of Black or trying to keep the group leader’s feelings in check.

But, if a war occurred just because Calvin couldn’t control his behaviour because he was too worried about the girl he liked, it would be detrimental to Jita Kyoei. Fighting because of women was something they didn’t deserve and would always avoid.

“What is your goal in continuing to attack the Beast Empire?” Troy asked Black’s leader.

“We know what business they’re in. They kidnap girls in this city. We want to stop that.” Emma answered quickly.

“Chief, we better hurry. The Beast Empire must be on its way here,” Kathy warned Emma.

Emma nodded at Kathy, then looked back at Troy. “We’d better leave this place soon,”

“Wait,” Troy stopped the man. “If you guys really only have a goal of saving the victims, maybe we can work together again. We also want to destroy that group.”

Emma nodded. “We can talk about it later.” Then, she held out her hand in front of Troy, “Your phone?”

Troy gave his cell phone to Black. Then, the masked man typed a phone number on it before returning it to him.

“You can text that number,” Emma said.

“Well,” Troy answered before saving the number with the name ‘Black’.

“You guys go first. I’ll finish off the Beast Empire with my own two hands.” Calvin said.

“They brought a whole group,” Emma replied.

“I can handle them. They need to know what’s going to happen for daring to touch my girl,” Calvin answered, then he glanced sharply at Black, “And so do you.”

Kathy looked at Emma with an amused smile behind her mask, while Emma’s face turned pale because of Calvin’s words, which were heard by everyone.

Then Emma cleared her throat. “As you wish,” she said as she got on the motorbike ridden by Kathy, and left with all her group, leaving the group of men there, along with the wreckage of the car they’d destroyed.