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It has been around a week since Zanka and the crazy masochist had their second encounter.
Apparently, after Zanka's battle with him.. The brunette disappeared.
The Raider's boss sent the girl with blue hair to the Cleaner's HQ a few days ago, they saw a large pool of blood trailing away and assumed the Cleaner's took him hostage.
She first attempted to simply infiltrate the HQ, but simply decided to negotiate with the Cleaners.
Seimu was the one who managed to speak to the uninvited Raider.
After Seimu used her jinki on her, she also had to be the one to break the news to her.
"Don't know what to tell ya'. Jabber ain't with us." That's all it took for the short girl to leave.
That's all it took.
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"She's tellin' the truth." Seimu sighs as she announces it in the middle of the room full of people.
"Jabber's missin', they don't know where he is." amidst the confusion of the crowd, some somehow didn't know who "Jabber" is, some were confused because of the rumors they heard.
Others, including Zanka, knew what Jabber was capable of, so how did he go missing?
It was so silent you could practically hear a pin drop.
But in the crowd of confused faces, Zanka spotted something the caught his eye.
He saw both shock and.. Guilt? On Riyo's face before she recovered from the shock.
"But.. That's a good thing right?" Rudo suddenly mentions in the middle of all the confusion.
"The Raider's lost one of their people and we-"
"We aren't exactly sure 'bout that bud." Enjin interrupts before Rudo could finish his entire point, serious as ever.
"We don't know if he planned this," he paused, carefully selecting his next words "They might be waitin' on an opportunity to catch us off guard."
"That would make sense," Seimu interrupts, before Enjin could get another word in. "But, the Raiders truly think he's dead."
A pause.
The atmosphere in the room was suffocating.
It was almost disgusting.
Almost.
"No, let me rephrase that," the receptionist pauses, waiting for just the right moment to strike. "they're positive he's dead."
Zanka felt his heart drop.
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Jabber Wonger.
The weird masochistic piece of shit that poisoned Zanka 3 times..
Dead.
He couldn't believe it.
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He won't.
This has to be fake.
Jabber wouldn't just die. And especially not with his own poison.
He's not stupid.
At least not that stupid.
I think..
Whatever, the point is Jabber of all people wouldn't die to poison. Jabber was practically a genius when it comes to poison, it could possibly even extend to the animals and herbs.
Jabber clearly wouldn't die to poison of all things.
He still needed to take revenge on him. For poisoning him, trapping and attacking the Cleaners, almost killing Gris, and attempting to kidnap Rudo.
This means, two things might've happened.
(1) Something happened to Jabber after Zanka passed out. Causing him to disappear, there is a possibility he's still alive if this was the case.
Or..
(2) Someone else "killed" Jabber, then kidnapped him. They might want to study him; a genius, immune to the toxic air, a strong fighter. Why wouldn't anyone want to study that?
But, it's highly unlikely.. Who would've had the chance to take him in a trash beast, which was in the air? But either way, the only way Jabber will die, is by Zanka's hands.
He'll make sure of it.
One way or another.
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It had been exactly 5 days, 7 hours, and 48 minutes since the blue-haired raider attempted to infiltrate the Cleaner's Headquarters.
5 days, 6 hours, and 32 minutes since Seimu announced Jabber's "Death".
Not that Zanka was counting..
Zanka wasn't very affected by the news of Jabber's disappearance.
.. Or so he thought.
"Hey.. Zanka?"
The blonde slowly turned his head towards the sound, it seemed like Rudo was calling him.
He quickly attempted to snap out of his dazed state.
"Rudo?" he responded still half-dazed. Curious about what the candy-crazed kid had to say.
"Uh.. Are you alright?"
What?
"Of course I am," he said, half confident, but the tone in Rudo's question made him want to second-guess himself. "Why wouldn't I be?" The blonde asked, curious as to how the albino-looking brat came to that conclusion.
"I mean.. You seemed pretty out of it for the last few days, since.. " the spherite paused, trying to force the words out of his throat.
Zanka knew what he was trying to say.
".. Did Enjin ask you to talk to me? "
Silence instantly took over the room.
The guilty look on Rudo's face told Zanka all the information he needed to know.