Chapter 99: Bring our brother and sister back home
Raine and Tyrone soon boarded the private plane that would take them back home. The former had wanted to hold a funeral for Jill and Johnny with their families. As such, she brought their bodies with them so that their families could look at them one last time.
"How about you rest a bit more during the flight? You look really tired," Tyrone suggested as they finished eating their lunch.
Raine shook her head and whispered, "We have a long flight ahead of us. How about you have a drink with me instead?"
Tyrone didn’t stop Raine when she asked for a few bottles of alcoholic drinks from the flight attendant.
"You know, in every successful mission that we’re having, all of us, me and the fourteen members of my squad, have our favorite bar inside our territory where we’d just have a drink and party till we dropped," Raine reminisced with a small smile. "Jill was the best singer in my squad. She never failed to entertain us with her good voice. You know, we always teased her since she loved going on blind dates. She was kinda impatient, saying that why would she wait for the right person to come when she can hunt them down instead."
Raine chuckled, recalling Jill’s words as she continued, "Ah, she would always ignore our teasing and tell us how come she can hunt humans but also can’t hunt for her man. I guess she’ll still be hunting for her right man in the afterlife by now."
Tyrone kept his quiet, electing to simply listen to Raine as he poured her another drink whenever her glass was emptied. Eventually, he, too, joined her in her drinking.
"Johnny is the oldest in the group, right? I bet he was like a father who would often scold you guys," Tyrone commented.
"Hmm, yeah. Johnny... he’s the oldest amongst us... Oh, his son just turned seven last month and he won’t stop bragging about it back then. He was the only family man in my squad so far," Raine sighed. "I still remember how I asked him to quit already when he had his firstborn son, considering that every mission we had was almost the equivalent of going on a suicide mission. Well, for them, at least. Unlike me, they didn’t have a gift beyond their exceptional talents. But then he cried in front of me... asking if he was useless already and if that’s why I was dismissing him."