#THE_LAST_MINUTE_GROOM_S3
©Sir_Zach
EPISODE 74
Everyone here is worried about their lives and their minds are in a fragile state. The wrong word might push them into the enemy’s hand.
“Brothers, what are you still waiting for? Alpha Chaos has less than seven thousand men remaining. If we leave now, they won’t be able to hold on till tomorrow and after tomorrow, we’ll all be in the winning team!” He said with enthusiasm.
“Who told you the Lu faction only has seven thousand? If we add twenty thousand of the SIN into that equation, there’d be twenty – seven thousand men.”
Everyone gasped in shock. Even Maverick wasn’t left out. He was astonished at his wife’s ski|| of lying.
Rex blinked a couple of times. Didn’t she say the SIN had ten thousand men? How did it become twenty thousand?
Seeing their disbelief, although her husband had a neutral face, she could tell he was surprised else he’d be smiling.
“Did you have to lie so much just to make them stay? Ha!!” The betrayer was alarmed.
“I guess it’s time to use the token. After all, I came here in the first place to bring you the token.” She placed the black token in front of her husband.
“My husband has three fighting jets, the SIN has four fighting jets. My husband has three tanks, the SIN has five tanks. With those combined, it’s obvious we don’t need you anymore, so if you want to leave with him, you’re free to go.”
The men dived Into more shock. The numbers weren’t the problem here but the name, SIN!
Those guys are so powerful that the Yu men cannot win them in a fight.
While the people were still staring dazedly at Jeslyn, the betrayer was looking for ways to escape but Maverick’s hand was faster. He flung the knife he was holding and it lurched into his temple.
The betrayer cried out and fell. Rex sighed, pulled out a gun from his waist and released some bullets into the man’s body.
“Betraying others is not cool. Who wants to leave? Please do,” he beamed.
The men’s heart sank. Who wants to leave? Leave to where? Didn’t the lady just say twenty thousand SINNERS were coming? Also, with the way the betrayer was ki||ed, who would dare leave?
“Very good. Y’all know how to grab thick thighs, don’t you?” he laughed again. “You should return, the meeting is over.”
After Rex dismissed them, the men couldn’t help running away.
Rex smiling eyes caught the sight of the soup Jeslyn brought. “This may have gone cold. My brother isn’t a fan of cold soup, but I am.”
Before Maverick could stop him, he grabbed the plate and chunked down some soup, then carried the rice and headed back to his seat.
Jeslyn couldn’t help laughing and shaking her head at Rex’s drama.
“You made them stay, you clever woman.” Maverick pulled his wife closer by the waist.
“Hehe. Anything for you, my Lord.”
Maverick got up, carried her and exited the room.
…
At midnight, after Maverick had tired Jeslyn out, he left the bed and went to his study room. He took out the token and checked it. There was nothing but some irrelevant numbers written in bold on the body.
Maverick observed the token for a while before realizing it could be cracked open. It took him long minutes to finally open the token.
The token lit up and inside it was a drive and a key. Maverick plugged it into his laptop and waited for some commands.
After the thing loaded and did what was necessary, the first thing it did was to ask for fingerprint.
Maverick did as told but he was brutally rejected and called unmatched.
[ Sorry, your fingerprint is unmatched. Remaining two more false attempts to render this token useless. ]
Maverick flattened his lips. He carried his laptop to his bedroom and placed Jeslyn’s thumb on the fingerprint sensor on the screen.
[ Welcome to the SIN. Option to proceed or decline! ]
Maverick sat on the edge of the bed and pressed ‘Proceed.’
The PC’s Webcam was turned on and a man’s unfriendly face appeared.
‘The new boss is supposed to be summoning me?’ he said.
“With her permission,” Maverick replied.
‘What’s the deal?’
“We need the SINNERS.”
‘Number of enemies and weapons.’
“A deadly war with twenty thousand men. Four fighting jets, four tanks, more than four missile launchers… other deadly weapons.”
‘SINNERS recently grew in numbers, 11,000. We can’t make the newbies work yet, so you can only get 10,000 and all the weapons we have. When is this war?’
“Already happening.”
‘The enemy’s coordination.’
The two talked more and after they were done, the guy said;
‘Now that the SINNERS have been activated, please tell the boss she can’t abandon us like she’s done for the past few months.’
“Hm.”
…
In less than one hour, four fighting jets with THE SIN written on them flew into the Capital and headed straight to the northern region.
Once they arrived, Maverick’s three fighting jets also took off.
Maverick entered one of the Lu tanks and started following behind the jets. The Sin’s tanks and fighters haven’t arrived yet. They’ll be Maverick’s backup.
Arriving close to Hwang Min’s camp, Maverick used binoculars to watch the activities and felt that something was wrong. The camp was too peaceful. Although men were standing guard around the place, he still had some strange feelings.
He ordered the captain of the air force to $h00t one missile into the camp while he observed from the binoculars.
Once a missile was launched into the camp, it hit a resistance and bounced back.
Luckily, the pilot was a good one, so he was able to dodge the missile that ended up landing in the sea, some miles away.
“Illusion,” Maverick mumbled.
No wonder they lost the battle twice when they attacked. Wh@ťěver attack they threw at the enemy bounced back at them. They didn’t notice because the fight was messy.
Maverick called all his men and headed back to his camp to analyse things. If the illusion was here, then where is the real camp?
“Urgh, no mirror how do I pop this pimple? Never mind… it’s not meant to be popped.” Jeslyn mumbled from her sleep.
‘Mirror!’
Maverick’s eyes snapped open. He left his room and returned to his men.
It’s been hours, so by now, the SINNERS had all arrived. Once their strategy had been looked into one more time, Maverick led his men in the opposite direction of where the illusion camp was.
Meanwhile, Hwang Min was still sleeping. He spent the whole night planning an attack that would completely bring Maverick to his knees.
The man and everyone else believed the plan would work without a doubt. So this morning, they were all relaxed, celebrating their upcoming victory.
However, the next moment, sounds of explosions went off and radiation ki||ed some men.
The men were shocked, and so was Hwang Min who just jolted awake. He looked from his window and saw they were being attacked by the SIN and Lu faction.
“d@mn it! That witch!” He cursed at Nancy. The man refused to believe that Nancy would give anyone the SINNERS because they meant more to her than the Coca farm.
Thinking that Nancy had gotten involved, he tried calling her but her number was unreachable.
Outside, all of Hwang Min’s tanks and other deadly long-range weapons had been destroyed. What is left for him are the fighting jets.
Maverick ordered the jets to be blown to smithereens. Although it took a lot of work and also the sacrifice of more than a thousand men, the four fighting jets were brought down.
Now that there were no major obstacles anymore, Maverick’s people started bullying their enemies, eliminating them like sardines.
Seeing the tables had turned, Hwang Min carved an escape route for himself but unfortunately, Maverick was waiting for him.
The fight which was estimated to end in about two days, was won in five hours.
The SIN coordination. Both on air and land was something marveling. Thanks to their great support, Maverick didn’t die.
Finally, after the war was over, the government got involved and took away Hwang Min for starting the fight.
…
Maverick could have ki||ed Hwang Min but remembering his wife told him in the past that she’d ki|| her relatives herself, he held back. So when the police got involved, he handed Hwang Min to them.
The PEACE wasn’t very happy with the outcome but swallowed their dissatisfaction. After all, one tyrant has been thrown down from his throne. Who knows, someone else might ki|| Maverick tomorrow, they thought.
After the battle, the SINNERS lined themselves up. Although many died, their numbers didn’t dwindle that much.
Standing in front of thousands of men, was the clueless Jeslyn. She was having lunch with her husband when a report came to them that the SINNERS wanted her presence.
“Master, we are ready to serve you!” They all bowed.
Jeslyn was speechless as she looked at them without knowing how to react. Even though she was their leader, she had no idea how to take care of such a large troop.
She shifted her gaze to Maverick and smiled. Why is she worrying when her husband is right beside her?
“Rise!” She instructed.
…
Later that day at the police station…
A police officer entered Hwang Min’s cell and tried to bring him out of the cell.
“Come with me.”
“Wh– who are you? What do you want with me?!” Hwang Min panicked. He has an idea of what would happen if he leaves here.
“Relax old man, I was asked to bring you out. A woman is here to bail you.”
“Woman? Wh– what woman? I’m not going. You want to ki|| me!” He screamed. Bail him? Did they think he was stupid? His crimes are beyond bailing. He would be appearing in court by tomorrow, so how was bailing involved?
The police officer was so annoyed that he slapped him across the face. “Do you want to get me into trouble? Look,” he pulled Hwang Min’s hair and forced him to look at the others in the other cell. “You drew their attention. What if they rat me out?”
Hwang Min, who was slapped, couldn’t believe that a mere policeman would do that to him. He gritted his teeth and endured. He has a plan to get out. Until then, he’d allow this police officer to live to his fullest.
“I’m not going anywhere,” he said.
“I was paid by a woman named Diana to bring you, so you don’t expect me to go back without doing the job,” the police officer retorted with a frown.
“Diana? Who is Diana?”
“I don’t know. You should go see her for yourself. I’m afraid that if you don’t come with me, I’ll have to force you. I can’t refund the huge amount she paid me.”
“I don’t know who Diana is, so I’m not coming.”
“Then, don’t blame me!” The police officer hit Hwang Min with a baton on his side, followed by another swing. Hwang Min’s roar filled the station but no one said a thing. Sometimes, they beat up prisoners to force them to speak the truth, so the police officers on duty thought the person who was getting beaten was a criminal who wouldn’t confess.
By the door, Jeslyn could be seen sighing as her father was being manhandled like a criminal. She walked towards the cell and yelled.
“Is this how you treat people?!”
The policeman halted and turned to see who it was. Jeslyn? What is she doing here?
“Je–Jeslyn? What are you doing here?” The officer asked in alarm.
“She’s here to pay a visit. Is there a problem?”
The police officer almost peed himself when he saw Inspector Fin going over. “Senior!” He composed himself and saluted.
Inspector Fin waved him out. After the policeman left, he opened the cell and allowed Jeslyn in.
“Oh my, you smell like $h|t. It hasn’t been 24 hours since you were arrested yet… sigh…”
“What are you doing here?!” He thundered. Hwang Min asked weakly as he tried to get up from the floor, trying to mask the pain he was feeling.
“Stop yelling. As you’ll be going to court tomorrow, I know you can’t miss a life imprisonment or death sentence, so I felt some compassion and thought to tell you where the coca farm is. Who knows, it might save you,” Jeslyn smiled like a dutiful daughter.