8. Real One

"If that woman is an only child, then who is the man who went with Ruby?"

Jay's index finger skinned the dry skin of his thumb. His thighs shook up and down as fast as thoughts formed strange conclusions.

Jay felt like he was missing something.

Ruby.

Would he have been fooled from the start? Jay memorized every word the woman said.

"He must be someone sent by a gang of attackers and trying to make us scapegoats."

The male wrestler never revealed his identity as part of the gang; Ruby made Jay believe so. Even if Ruby was guessing because of her cleverness in piecing together the clues of the poison gas, the strange man, and the attacker—Jay felt awkward.

It was as if he was being dragged into someone else's scenario. Moreover, the short fight just now was started by a deceptive lie. How stupid Jay was not to check the truth in the first second, as soon as the story began, precisely when Ruby rushed towards him in fear.

It was a too-contrasting change. Ruby, who was initially afraid, s