Chapter 6: Screening
"You'll know it soon."
Why do they always say it like that? Why not just tell it straight if someone asks you? This will only increase the anxiety of the person involved. Not me, though. I'm speaking on behalf of all the people who will be dragged by this towering figure in the future.
I just followed Terrius and Allen silently. We passed several doors, and finally, after turning to the left corner, we arrived at our destination—the interrogation room of the NSA. I'm still clueless about all this, but I dare not ask again, knowing I will just be wasting my saliva.
I walked in as soon as the doors were opened after Allen shoved his ID on the scanner. It seems that the interrogation room was off limits, and only a select few can enter. I was wondering why until I glimpsed the actual room.
Holy... this place is where human rights will be embarrassed to enter. I feel like I entered another world. The chamber beyond the glass screens was vast, far larger than I had expected. It wasn't just a normal interrogation room. On the left wall was a display of many...weapons, on the right were...weapons again.
And in the middle of all that was a single metal chair, with metal cuffs attached on the armrests, and legs, and metal seatbelts on the lap and back. I gulped unknowingly.
"... I think...we entered the wrong room?" I asked the two, but Allen just smiled at me, his eyes curved like crescent moons, and I felt a chill run down my spine. I'd like to ask him if he has a split personality perhaps, but the door opened again and revealed the root of my worry.
"You're in the right place, Jade Dela Torre."
"Captain..." Allen was as just curious as me, but he stopped speaking after the captain motioned for him to stand by the control panel. A long black table with nothing on it at all, but when Allen placed his ID in the corner, the table became a large screen, just like a touch-screen control panel.
Well, it is one.
I stepped forward. "Can you please explain now why am I brought here?" I'm being polite because these people are scary. Better not get on their bad side.