Chapter 20

when we got out of the hospital, I begged Mina if she could temporarily watch over Hera, while I was gone. At first he refused, but later I agreed. I told him that I had something important to attend to and was not sure when I would be able to return.

After our conversation, I immediately learned the true identity of the mysterious masked man named Allen. Suddenly, what happened before the incident occurred in my mind as well as the removal of the mask of the man inside the car and shot at the tire of the car we were riding. It was only now that I realized that it was Allen who was sitting in the driver's seat and driving the car at that moment. Perhaps he passed the mask he was wearing to the person next to him to confuse me as to which of the two was the real leader of their group.

A month later I discovered that he was not from the Philippines. He grew up in a foreign country, in Russia, but according to the tone of his speech, it was as if he had mastered the Italian language. If