Chapter 23
[Elsewhere]

The moon glistened over the Pacific Ocean, illuminating the dark, clear and starry sky. The smell of the oceans salt filled Chizuro's nose as he took a deep breath. He and his crew were headed towards the AOA on a yacht. His crew was too large to fit in one yacht, so he picked only five of his finest guards, each with special ops training and killer machine instincts. Edward Ranger and Samuel McColl, former members of the CIA's paramilitary forces, true adversaries in the battlefield. Dmitri Petrovich, former lieutenant of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation or SVR RF for short, one of the most badass soldiers in the world, under the payroll of a madman. Moodley Hassan, a former member of the Mossad intelligence agency. Upon having been part of Israel's intelligence agency, he is a quiet computer freak, information is his baby. And Merylin Stein, she is the mystery of the whole team. A sixteen year old cute blonde with killing skills not even a world class assassin could ever hope to fathom, cold lifeless gaze and a shutdown attitude. Not even Chizuro knows of her past but he was fairly impressed when he saw her killing the man who were about to harm her in an alley. Chizuro may seem careless about his defence but he is a fair believer in the phrase, "keep your friends close and your enemies closer" and this applies to Merylin. Keeping her close and making her aware of his plans is his way of keeping her on a leash, he knows who to kill...