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00:00I paid a fortune to wipe my memory clean.
00:03I forgot the fiancé who forged me from a street kid into a blade.
00:07I forgot the girl I once saved off a trafficking line,
00:09who then stole everything I had.
00:11I only remembered life before 18.
00:14Rainy nights, the orphanage,
00:16the bitter taste of cheap coffee,
00:18and one old poetry book, swollen from water.
00:22Three years later, I ran a used bookshop in Palermo.
00:25That dusk, the shop was empty.
00:27The bell over the door suddenly rang.
00:30Three men in black suits stepped out of the shadows.
00:34The lead one peeled off his leather gloves.
00:36His voice was low.
00:37Nightshade, why did you never answer the Don's recall?
00:41I stopped sliding a book back onto the shelf.
00:45Sorry, you have the wrong person.
00:49He took a step closer.
00:53Luca Moretti drowned the whole commission in blood for you.
00:58And you don't even give one explanation?
01:02The shop went so quiet I could hear a motorbike pass the corner.
01:06I looked at him.
01:07My chest ached for no reason.
01:10I had a memory override once.
01:12I kept my voice polite.
01:14Who is this Luca Moretti you're talking about?
01:16All three men froze at once.
01:20I followed their eyes to the other side of the street.
01:24A man stood in the dusk.
01:26Black coat.
01:27Tall.
01:28Lean.
01:30I didn't know him.
01:32But he looked at me like I had once killed him with my own hands.
01:37Later I learned his name was Luca Moretti.
01:42He was once my fiancé.
01:45He was also the man who drove me onto that operating table.
01:49It all began at dawn, on the day of our wedding.
01:52That night the terrace of Villa Moretti was still lit.
01:56White roses filled the small chapel.
01:58Everyone was waiting for me to become Mrs. Moretti.
02:01But I couldn't find Luca.
02:03I went around the long hall and pushed open the terrace door.
02:06And I saw him holding Mia Belliani in his arms.
02:09She rose on her toes and kissed his lips.
02:13I didn't cry.
02:14I didn't scream.
02:15I was Nightshade.
02:17Red Lily's sharpest cleaner.
02:21Before my emotions broke, my body moved first.
02:24I struck for Luca's throat.
02:25My fingertips stopped on his artery.
02:28Mia screamed and threw herself at me.
02:30Valolina, don't hurt him!
02:32The next second, she shoved me into the pool.
02:36My head hit the wall.
02:38Cold water flooded my mouth.
02:40I opened my eyes underwater and almost laughed.
02:43Five years ago, I pulled Mia off a trafficking line.
02:46She was 15 then, thin as a sheet of paper.
02:50I taught her to read codes.
02:51I taught her to clean ledgers.
02:53She would make hot soup for the men after a job.
02:56She would say thank you in a trembling voice.
02:59Those blood-soaked men did no time.
03:02They said Red Lily finally had a real woman in it.
03:05When they said that, I was in the corner stitching a knife wound on my arm.
03:11Back then, Luca would frown, walk over, and take the needle from me.
03:16You're always harder on yourself than on the enemy.
03:19He tied the knot.
03:20I laughed at his shaking hands.
03:23Clumsy for a man who could strip a gun in three seconds.
03:26I believed that line.
03:28For ten years, we dodged hunters in the jungle.
03:33We emptied our magazines back-to-back in warehouses.
03:37We dragged each other out of blood at the docks.
03:40The first time I took the fall for him, I was locked for three days in the black site.
03:44He knelt outside the cell, eyes red enough to kill everyone.
03:47He said that for the rest of his life, he would never betray me.
03:50But a vow doesn't break in a single moment.
03:53It rots slowly from the first time someone starts playing favorites.
03:57I woke in the medical wing.
03:59I thought he would at least ask if it hurt.
04:02But when he spoke, his voice held only a tired warning.
04:07Miel was just scared.
04:09Don't use your night sheep methods on her.
04:12I looked at the old scar below his collarbone.
04:15Ten years ago, that bullet should have gone through my heart.
04:19You're afraid I'll deal with her in private?
04:25Red Lily forbids infighting.
04:27The wedding moves to next week.
04:29This ends here.
04:30The encrypt device by the bed bugged.
04:32Mia's name flashed on the screen.
04:34Luca glanced at it once.
04:36His brow tightened.
04:37She's having a panic attack.
04:38I'll go check on her.
04:39Luca.
04:40He stopped at the door.
04:42I asked him calmly.
04:44If it were her in the water tonight, would you also tell me it ends here?
04:48He didn't turn around.
04:50You're stronger than her.
04:51Don't waste my time on this.
04:53The door closed softly, but it was a nail pinning ten years of love to the bedside.
04:58My private terminal lit up with a black market ad.
05:03Phynex protocol.
05:05Rebuild your identity.
05:08Seal your trauma.
05:09I stared at that line for a long time.
05:11A tainted blade can be reforged, but a tainted love is not worth polishing.
05:17I booked my first neural overwrite.
05:19After the first overroad, my mind felt rinsed in ice water.
05:23Many memories remained, but they were locked behind an invisible door.
05:27I knew I had been hurt, but I couldn't grasp the shape of the pain.
05:30The doctor told me that once the final overhaul was done, I would lose every emotional tie
05:34to red lily that had formed after I came of age.
05:39I signed the consent form.
05:42What if I regret it?
05:44The doctor didn't look up.
05:46Once you enter the final overround, the regret gets overwrought too.
05:50I smiled.
05:54Good.
05:56When I got back to the safe house, a celebration was underway.
06:00Mia sat in the center, holding a diamond set tactical watch.
06:04Lana Creechie saw me and rushed over.
06:06Nightshade.
06:07Mia gave us key intel on the Balkan contract.
06:11The Don praised her himself.
06:13She pushed the gift box into my hands.
06:15You brought her into the family.
06:16It's only right that you give it to her.
06:18I walked to Mia and held out the box.
06:20She reached for it.
06:21The instant our fingers touched, the box dropped.
06:24The sapphire face shattered like a crushed eye.
06:27Mia's tears fell at once.
06:29Valentina, I know you hate me, but this is from everyone.
06:35Someone whispered.
06:36She went too far.
06:37A maid woman fighting a young girl over a man.
06:40A maid woman fighting a young girl over a man.
06:40Luca rose from the fireplace.
06:42He came over, picked up the broken watch, and pressed it back into my palm.
06:50Apologize.
06:52I looked at him.
06:54You saw me drop it.
06:55You saw me drop it?
07:23I saw her cry.
07:35I saw her cry.
07:36I saw her cry.
07:37I saw her cry.
07:42I saw her cry.
08:10I saw her cry.
08:13I saw her cry.
08:16I saw her cry.
08:17I saw her cry.
08:37I saw her cry.
08:41I saw her cry.
08:46I saw her cry.
08:54I saw her cry.
09:03I saw her cry.
09:58I saw her cry.
10:13I saw her cry.
10:20I saw her cry.
10:32I saw her cry.
11:04I saw her cry.
11:20for my corpses.
11:21You owe me a life.
11:23And now you're spending it testifying for her?
11:25She looked away.
11:26One thing has nothing to do with another.
11:29I finally laughed out loud.
11:31Wonderful.
11:31It seems what Khad Bob explicitly taught you best was ingratitude.
11:35I looked at Luca.
11:36You wanna judge me?
11:38I'm protecting the rules of family.
11:40No.
11:41Luca.
11:42I wiped the blood from my lip.
11:45My voice was very soft.
11:47You're protecting her.
11:51Hours later, I woke in the Blacksite interrogation room
11:55Restraints held my wrists and ankles
11:57A thin sensor was taped beside my temple
12:02Luca stood at the door, like a judge with no feeling
12:05Valentina Rinaldi, you are charged with private violence against a family member, in breach of Omagia
12:12Where's the evidence?
12:14Mia's testimony, the medical records, the camera blind spot
12:18Snap your skill
12:20I laughed, so skill can be evidence now?
12:23Luca's fingers paused on the discipline order
12:25For one instant, I thought he would look at me, but he didn't
12:30The pen came down, the signature was sharp
12:34Begin
12:34Two masked figures stepped closer, one drove a probe into the back of my neck
12:40The torture leaned close to my ear and smiled
12:42Don't worry, someone gave special orders, there will be no scar on you
12:47The moment the device started, pain exploded from my spine into my brain
12:51As if someone were threading a red hot wire through every nerve I had
12:55I bit through my lip, blood filled my mouth, but I made no sound
12:59Faint footsteps came from outside the wall
13:01I knew Luca hadn't gone far
13:03I also knew he would not come back
13:06I don't know how long it lasted
13:08The restraints loosened, I slid off the chair, not even feeling my nails tear and break
13:13The next day, the door opened
13:15Luca stood in the backlight
13:17Exhaustion in his eyes
13:19And a late, tangled something
13:21So many eyes were watching last night
13:23I had to give everyone an answer
13:25I braced on the wall, stood, and walked around him
13:31Done giving answers?
13:33Mia's cry came from the end of the hall
13:35Luca, I'm so scared
13:37His hand stopped in mid-air, then withdrew
13:40Go back to your room, don't cause more trouble
13:43I watched him run towards that voice
13:45My terminal buzzed
13:47The final transfer had cleared
13:50I flagged down a taxi and gave the address of Phoenix Clinic
13:53The doctor attached the sensors to me and confirmed the final procedure
13:57After the over-route, you'll forget Red Lily, forget Nightshake, and forget Luca Moretti
14:04Will the body memory go too?
14:07No
14:08So I might still flinch from gunfire
14:11And I might still grip a knife that isn't there in my sleep
14:15The doctor glanced at me
14:17Yes, but you won't know why
14:19That's enough
14:20I nodded
14:21He handed me one last document
14:23That was a refusal of restoration clause
14:26Once signed, no one could wake my memory in the name of lover, family, or guardian
14:32I signed it fast
14:33As the pen came down, the back of my hand still trembled from the nerve pain after to the torture
14:38The doctor asked if I wanted to leave a message
14:41I thought for a long time, then recorded these words
14:45If Luca Moretti finds this place, please don't let him see me
14:48I don't hate him
14:51Hate still means remembering him
14:53But I don't want to remember anymore
14:55I closed my eyes
14:59Begin
15:02My consciousness was pulled away, piece by piece
15:05Gunshots
15:06Vows
15:07The jungle
15:07The carving on the knife
15:09Luca's back once shielding me
15:11All curling and blacking like old photographs
15:13The last thing burned away was the part of me that loved him
15:17Before the deep sleep took me
15:19I had already arranged my own death
15:21I bought an unidentified female body
15:23A death certificate scorched by fire
15:25A clean route to Sicily
15:28I made every clue point to the eastern border
15:30While the real me would be loaded onto a freighter bound for Polesmo
15:33After the final overrode
15:35When the doctor counted to three
15:36Two
15:37I said one last line to Nightshale
15:38In my heart
15:39You did well
15:40You can die now
15:42After I disappeared
15:44Luca had really come looking for me
15:45It was the third day after my overhoad
15:48He went to the safe house
15:49First
15:49He wanted to swap back the knife with the wrong name
15:51And to end the cold war with a new ring
15:53But the fingerprint scanner flashed red
15:56It let out a harsh rejection tone
15:58He tried again
15:59Still red
16:00The permission had been permanently revoked
16:03He called in the family's cleanup staff
16:05The man pulled up the back ward
16:07And his face dartened
16:10Boss
16:10Her file status is permanent separation
16:13Signed off by the Don himself
16:15Three days ago
16:15Luca stared at that line
16:17And didn't move for a long time
16:19Where did she go?
16:21There's no destination in the system
16:23What did she take?
16:25One bag
16:26One encrypted fund
16:28The man paused
16:29And all her operation records
16:32She wiped them clean herself
16:35Luca rushed into my room
16:38The closet
16:39Empty
16:39The drawers
16:40Empty
16:41Even the pen I used was gone
16:43Only the knife he'd sent lay on the nightstand
16:45LM and MB
16:46He finally read the names on the handle
16:48In that moment
16:49He felt uneasy for the first time
16:50But he still didn't think of the worst
16:52He thought I was only hiding for a few days
16:54He thought I would come back on my own
16:56Like every other fight before
16:57But he didn't know I had deleted the option of coming back
17:00With my own hands
17:01Mia moved into Luca's room soon after
17:03Because she said she had nightmares living alone
17:07She said she only felt safe close to him
17:10She made soup
17:11Changed bandages
17:13Stayed up until dawn when he drank
17:15She would press a wet cloth to his forehead
17:17Over and over
17:18When he ran a fever
17:19She would show every passing maid man a smile
17:22Restrained and brave
17:23Hence, a new saying spread through the family
17:26They said Mia was a good girl
17:27They said Nightshade was too cruel
17:29Unworthy of the boss's tenderness
17:31Only one person never echoed any of it
17:34That was Luca
17:36He didn't turn the page just because he married Mia
17:38The way everyone assumed
17:40He started drinking
17:41Villa Morelli's liquor cabinet emptied by half in a week
17:45The living room reeked of whiskey and tobacco all year round
17:48He took every cleanup contract no one else dared touch
17:51Like he was sending himself into the muzzle on purpose
17:53On the Balkan job he cleared an entire warehouse alone
17:56He came back with two new bullet holes in his left shoulder
17:59He didn't even wipe the blood before taking the next job
18:03It was on the docks of Chicago's south side
18:06It was meant to be the simplest recycling job
18:08But he blanked out right before pulling the trigger
18:10The dying target lashed back
18:13And a blade sank into his stomach
18:15Blood ran down his black suit
18:17But he felt nothing
18:18And pushed the man's head under the river
18:20Back on shore
18:22He leaned on the railer and laughed
18:24There was no life in that laugh
18:26That was the first time Red Lily pulled Luca off the active roster
18:31Don Salvatore ordered him to rest
18:34With no end date
18:35He sat in the empty room polishing the real knife
18:38Carved with LM and VR
18:40Once and again
18:42The blade shone bright enough to reflect his sunken eyes
18:46He didn't know I had seen the copy before I left
18:49He didn't know the knife was never what cut me
18:51It was that he assumed I would always stand in place
18:54Waiting for him
18:57When he was drunk to the point of losing his mind
18:59He repeated only one name
19:01Valentina
19:02Come back
19:03Valentina
19:04I was wrong
19:06But in the empty room
19:07No one answered him
19:09Mia couldn't wait to sit still
19:11She had waited three months
19:13But Luca never touched her once
19:17She finally understood
19:19As long as I was alive
19:21Luca would never be hers
19:22So she spread word
19:24That someone had seen Nightshapes' body at the eastern border
19:29Three days later
19:30A wallet
19:31Warped by fire
19:32Was delivered to Villa Moretti
19:34Inside were my old cards
19:36And a photo burnt to half
19:38That was a clue
19:39I had left on purpose
19:42I needed everyone to believe Nightshapes' body
19:44Had died in the east
19:45But I never expected Mia to be the first to use the false death news
19:49When Luca got the wallet
19:51He looked like a man with his bones pulled out
19:53He shut himself in his room for a full week
19:56No food
19:57No drink
19:58He saw no one
20:00The aide stood outside for seven days
20:04Hearing only glass shatter now and then
20:07Mia decided the time had come
20:11That deep night
20:12She carried in a bowl of hangover soup
20:14In it was enough drug to black out a grown man for an entire night
20:17Luca, have a little
20:19It'll help
20:20He lifted the bowl to his lips
20:21He leaned on the headboard
20:23Eyes hollow
20:24Without even the strength to push it away
20:26He drank it down
20:28From her hand
20:29With no defense
20:30The drug rose fast
20:32His mind blurred
20:33Bit by bit
20:35The last thing he saw was Mia's face
20:37Leaning close
20:38And the flash of triumph in her eyes
20:41The next dawn
20:43Luca woke to a splitting headache
20:44Mia lay beside him
20:46Wrapped in the blanket
20:47One shoulder bare
20:48The sheets a mess
20:49She had silenced the terminal on the table
20:52But the screen still blicked a red life sign alert
20:55The aide's urgent voice came through the door
20:58Boss, are you in there?
21:00Your life signal went dark for three hours last night
21:03The electronic lock was opened by emergency override
21:06A few made men burst in
21:08Then froze in place
21:09Don Savator stood at the door too
21:11The old man's eyes swept the messy bed
21:14And landed on Luca's pale face
21:15The whole room went terribly quiet
21:18Red Lily does not interfere in private affairs
21:21The Dodd's voice was low
21:23But everyone bowed their heads
21:25But you touched a woman under your protection
21:27So you'll give her a title
21:29Luca opened his mouth
21:31He wanted to explain
21:33But he remembered nothing
21:34He knew he had been set up
21:36But in Red Lily
21:38The scandal itself was evidence
21:42Omada doesn't care about truth
21:44It cares about the family's reputation
21:48He had no proof he'd been drugged
21:51He couldn't even explain what had happened the night before
21:54The wedding was rushed and absurd
21:57Villa Moretti's small chapel was dressed in new white roses
22:00Almost identical to the ones prepared for me
22:02Luca stood before the priest in a black suit
22:05Like a man marched to the gallows
22:07Luca Moretti, will you protect Bella Lurie
22:09Until the end of your life?
22:11The priest asked
22:11Luca looked at Mia
22:13But his mind was full of my shadow
22:16My back
22:17The night I took the fall for him
22:19The way I laughed at his shaking hands
22:21Cold laugh I gave him when I opened my eyes underwater
22:25His stomach turned
22:26Under the wide skirt
22:27Mia secretly pinched his hand
22:29Everyone is watching
22:31You don't want to disappoint the dawn, right?
22:33She lowered her voice
22:34Luca closed his eyes
22:36I do
22:36He said those words like swallowing broken glass
22:39After the banquet
22:40He walked back to the new bedroom alone
22:43Rounding the corner of the hall
22:45He heard laughter inside
22:46It was Mia and Lana
22:48This time
22:49I owe it all to you
22:51Mia's voice was sweet to the point of clogging
22:53If you hadn't helped me edit the cameras and shift the timeline
22:56How would Luca never believe Valentina broke in at midnight to scare me?
23:01Lana laughed softly
23:03Nightshade has skill, sure
23:04But she's too proud
23:06So she pulled me out of a pile of corpses
23:08So what?
23:10Every time she looked at me
23:12It was like she was pitying a trash
23:14Mia scoffed
23:15However good she is
23:16She's just a dead woman now
23:17A dead woman
23:18Her own man
23:19Sent to the operating plate
23:21Outside the door
23:22Luca's hand slid slowly off the wall
23:24Fake
23:25All of it fake
23:26Mia's PTSD was fake
23:28The night raid was fake
23:29My death was fake too
23:31But one thing was real
23:32It was he who signed that discipline order
23:34It was he who had pushed me
23:36Step by step
23:37Into the phoenix protocol
23:38In that moment
23:39Luca finally understood
23:40He hadn't lost a fiancé who threw a tantrum
23:43He had killed
23:44With his own hands
23:45The only person in this world who ever truly loved him
23:48Luca pushed the door open
23:49The laughter in the room cut off at once
23:51Mia's face turned white in an instant
23:53The jewelry box in Lana's hands hit the floor with a clack
23:56Gems scattered everywhere
23:57Luca walked towards Mia
23:59Step by step
24:00His pace was slow
24:01But each step landed like it was crushing the heartbeats of two women
24:04Say it again
24:05Mia backed away
24:08Her lower back hit the vanity
24:10Luca, you misheard
24:12We were just talking about the wedding
24:13He gripped her throat
24:15And pinned her to the wall
24:18The PTSD was fake
24:21Mia's toes nearly left the floor
24:23She clawed at his wrist
24:25Her voice breaking
24:26It's just because I loved you too much
24:28I've loved you since I was fifteen
24:29Why does Valentin get everything and I get nothing?
24:33Valentina's death news
24:34You did that too?
24:35Do you?
24:37She's done with you!
24:39Mia burst into tears
24:41I'm the one who stayed
24:42I'm the one who changes your bandages every day
24:47I'm the one who's really good to you
24:50Luca's hand tightened further
24:52And the cameras?
24:53He turned to look at Lana, cowering in the corner
24:55Lana's knees gave out
24:57She dropped straight to the floor
24:58I edited them
25:00But I only helped Mia once
25:02Luca, I really didn't mean to get her killed
25:04I thought she'd only be locked up for a few days
25:06Luca let go of Mia
25:08She collapsed on the ground, coughing hard
25:10He wiped his hand with a handkerchief
25:12Like he'd touched something filthy
25:13Then he threw the handkerchief onto Mia's face
25:16He keyed his terminal
25:17His voice held no rise or fall
25:19Discipline crew
25:20Come to the bedroom
25:21Hearing those words
25:22Mia crawled to him like she'd gone mad
25:24She wrapped around Luca's leg
25:25Kill me if you want
25:27Just don't cut me out of your life
25:28For the three years I stayed with you
25:30I'm begging you
25:31Luca looked down at her
25:32Only cold disgust in his eyes
25:34Killing you would be too easy
25:35Several men in black arrived quickly
25:37They hauled Mia up and dragged her toward the door
25:39Mia went from begging to cursing
25:41Her voice was as sharp as a knife scraping glass
25:44Luca Moretti, you'll regret this
25:45Valentina is never coming back
25:47She's dead
25:48You send her to die with your own hands
25:50You'll never see her again in this life
25:52Luca stood in place
25:54He didn't turn around
25:57He gave the aid his orders
25:59Mia Bellini framed a maid family member
26:02Faked a death
26:03Broke Omarda
26:04Take her to the Palerno Blacksite Cisball
26:06For how long?
26:08Luca's voice held no warmth
26:10Until she forgets she ever saw the light
26:12The Palermo Blacksite Censor
26:14That was Red Lily's oldest place of punishment
26:17An underground water vault left from the family's smuggling years
26:20The stone walls wept year round
26:22A chain nailed into the wall on one end
26:25And locked to the prisoner's neck on the other
26:27There was no light
26:28No day or night
26:30There was only the sound of water dripping into water
26:32One drop, then another
26:33The first night Mia was taken down
26:35Her crying carried through the vents for a long time
26:38She screamed Luca's name over and over
26:40And cursed me over and over
26:42The aid asked if they should gag her
26:45No need
26:47Luca stood beside the well
26:49Watching the cold lamp reflected on the water
26:53Let her hear how ugly she sounds
26:56He turned to leave
26:57Halfway out, he stopped
26:59He pulled a brand new wedding ring from his pocket
27:02The one he'd been forced to slide onto Mia's finger
27:05He casually tossed it into the black water below
27:09The ring sank
27:10Without even an echo
27:12That girl who had once played so pitifully
27:14That girl who used one bowl of soup
27:17One act, one fake death
27:18To ruin ten years of my life
27:20Was finally locked in a lightless citizen
27:22They say three months later
27:24When the guards brought food
27:25She no longer screamed Luca's name
27:29She just hugged her knees
27:31And laughed at the water stains on the wall
27:35Over and over
27:37But none of this had anything to do with me anymore
27:41I didn't even know such a girl had ever existed
27:44Lana was taken to the commission hearing
27:46To light of her own crime
27:48She handed over all the evidence
27:49The camera edit logs
27:51The ledger for the faked body
27:52Mia's dark web orders for the drugs
27:54Item by item, it all matched
27:56Luca took the evidence to Don Salvatore
27:59For the first time, he knelt in that study
28:01His back bent like it had been broken
28:03Tell me where Valentia went
28:05The old Don looked down at him
28:07She took what she was owed before she left
28:09As for where she went, I have no right to ask
28:11No
28:12Luca raised his head, eyes red
28:14I'm begging you, tell me
28:16The old Don was silent for a long time
28:18He slowly ground out his cigar in the tray
28:20I only know one thing
28:21What she begged for was not to escape red lilac
28:24What she begged for was to forget you
28:26That line cut deeper than any bullet
28:28Luca knelt there, unable to say another word
28:30From that day on, Luca was a blade with no sheath
28:33He began the reckoning
28:34Everyone who had ever mocked me
28:35Everyone who handed Mia a knife who spoke ill of me
28:37One by one they were dragged to the commission
28:39Were sent to the most dangerous border front
28:41None came back
28:43The ones who jeered for me to apologize
28:45Were stripped of every contract cut
28:47Lana Ricci was stripped of her maid woman status
28:50And sent to a border counting house
28:52Never to set foot in Villa Moretti again
28:54The torturer who used the neural device on me in that room
28:56Was dragged into the very same metal chair by Luca
29:03Luca strapped him with the same restraints
29:05And taped on the same sensors
29:09They said when that man came out
29:11He couldn't speak one full sentence
29:14Someone advised Luca to stop
29:16The whole family had been purged into fear
29:21But he only said one word
29:24What she went through
29:26Every one of them should feel once
29:28In the end, his reckoning even traced the black market clinic's transfer records
29:33But the trail ended at an anonymous lock he could never open
29:36He sat in the study for an entire night
29:38The next day, he ordered every mirror in the family removed
29:42The 80s didn't understand
29:44Only he knew he couldn't stand the face in the glass
29:46It was the face of a man who sent the one he loved into hell
29:49With his own hands
29:50But late punishment meant nothing
29:52He washed all of red lily in blood
29:54He killed everyone who ever wronged me
29:55But he still could not find the me he lost with his own hand
29:58A blood deet can be collected one by one
30:02But the person you lost
30:03Not one can be traded back
30:07And I, at that time, was in Palermo at dawn
30:11Watering a pot of red spider lissies
30:14Knowing nothing of all this
30:17And feeling nothing of it either
30:20Three years later
30:22My life in Palermo was quiet, like an old book
30:26My name now was Valentina Bellani
30:30Every morning at seven
30:31The smell of bread from the bakery downstairs
30:33Reached my room before my alarm
30:38I would brew a wheat cup of coffee
30:41And sit by the window
30:42Writing the day's stock list
30:46Then I would go downstairs
30:48And open the old wooden door of the shop
30:51And carry the pot of red spider lilies
30:54Out into the sun
30:57On quiet afternoons
30:59I would recommend poetry to whoever wandered in
31:02In the evening
31:03Marco would come on his electric scooter
31:06To pick me up
31:07He would take me to the little restaurant on the corner
31:10I lived on the second floor of the shop
31:13The room was small
31:14But from the window
31:16I could see a sliver of the sea
31:18No encrypted channels
31:20No mission countdowns
31:23No one in my ear
31:24Ordering me to clean a target
31:26A life this ordinary feels almost like luxury
31:29Marco always says I'm like someone who just learned to be a person
31:34I say that's not so bad
31:37Being a person is better than being a blade
31:40I don't know
31:41I once held a gun
31:43I don't know why my body tense a beat early at the sound of clashing metal
31:50Once
31:50The kitchen behind the restaurant dropped a whole stack of knives
31:56I pulled Mari behind me
31:58Almost on instinct
32:00Even I froze
32:02Marco looked at me for a long time
32:04You must have been hurt really badly
32:06Somewhere in your past
32:08I believed him
32:12After all I did have one faint old scar on the back of my neck
32:15I didn't know where it came from
32:17But it didn't hurt
32:19That was enough
32:22These three years I had run the shop well
32:24I remembered every regular's taste
32:27The baker downstairs saved me the first corzone out of the Ivan every day
32:31The old woman at the corner flower stalk gave me her leftover daisies
32:37Marco taught me to ride that old scooter
32:40My first time out
32:42I knocked over three trash casses
32:44He laughed at me for a whole week
32:48At night I would sit by the second floor window and watch that sliver of sea
32:52No bodies on the water
32:54No deals
32:55No targets to clean
32:57Only moonlight
32:58And the lamps of distant fishing boats
33:01I started to believe a person really could start over
33:04No need for a codename
33:05No need for a gun
33:06All you need is a creaking wooden door
33:09And a sun that rises on time every day
33:11Until that dusk
33:13Belondi Books had no customers
33:16I was pushing a row of old books back onto the shelf
33:19The bell over the door suddenly rang
33:26Three men in black suits stepped out of the dusk
33:29Their shoes were polished
33:31Their eyes were cold
33:33They carried an air that didn't belong on this quiet old street
33:37The lead man peeled off his leather gloves
33:42Nightshade
33:43Why did you never answer the Don's recall
33:49I stopped what I was doing
33:52I'm sorry
33:53You have the wrong person
33:55My name is Valentina Belendi
33:57He took a step forward
34:01Luca Morendi drowned the whole commission in blood for you
34:06And you don't even give one explanation
34:08The shop went so quiet I could hear a motorbike past the corner
34:12I looked at him
34:13And my chest ached
34:15For no reason
34:16The ache was faint
34:18Like something deep in my body had bumped a door
34:20Lightly
34:21I tried to keep my voice polite
34:24I had a memory override once
34:27Who is this Luca Morecci you're talking about?
34:29All three men froze at once
34:31I followed their eyes to the other side of the street
34:33A man stood deep in the dusk
34:35Black coat
34:36Tall and lean
34:38Like a shadow stepping out of an old nightmare
34:41I didn't know him
34:42But the way he looked at me was like I had once killed him with my own hands
34:46The man slowly walked into the shop
34:48The bell rang again
34:49I looked up at him and thought he was strange
34:51He wore an expensive coat
34:53He looked like a man who could decide many people's in death
34:56Yet in front of me his face went white
34:59You don't know me?
35:00His voice was badly hoarsed
35:01He hadn't spoken days
35:03If we knew each other before I'm thought about it
35:05My memory stops at 18
35:07The doctor said everything after that was cleared
35:10Not a single thing
35:12There was a tremble in his voice I couldn't read
35:14You really don't remember me at all?
35:18No
35:20I don't remember
35:21I shook my head
35:22I saw his hands shaking violently
35:25And suddenly I couldn't bear it
35:28You don't look well?
35:29Would you like to sit down for a moment?
35:31It was as if those words had struck him hard
35:33His whole body swayed
35:36I took a book from under the counter and handed it to him
35:38It was an old poetry collection about making peace with the past
35:41You carry a lot of violence with you
35:44Maybe this book will help quiet you a little
35:46He took the book
35:48His fingertips trembled so much he could barely hold it
35:52The next second a tear fell onto the cover of the book
35:56I froze
35:57I didn't know why this stranger was crying
36:00And I never knew that long, long ago
36:02I had seen him take a bullet
36:04Seen him kill
36:05Seen him grin in a pool of blood
36:08But I'd never once seen him cry like this
36:10The bell over the door rang a third time
36:13Marco pushed the door open
36:14He carried our packed dinner in his hand
36:16Val
36:16The restaurant said the seafood soup was almost sold out
36:19But I got the last two servings
36:20I smiled at once
36:21That smile had grown on my face over these three years
36:24Light
36:24Unburdened
36:25Then let's close early
36:26I turned to the crying man and apologized softly
36:29Sir, we're closing now
36:31He stood by the door
36:33Watching me turn off the lights
36:36Watching me lock the door
36:37Watching me naturally climb onto the back of Marco's scooter
36:42My arms wrapped around another man's waist
36:45Before Marco started the scooter
36:47He looked back and asked me
36:49Who was that man?
36:52I looked back for a glance
36:55Under the street lamp
36:57The man in black stood very straight
36:59Yet it looked like the whole night had bent his back
37:02I don't know
37:03Probably someone who got the wrong person
37:06The scooter rolled through the narrow old street
37:08I couldn't help but look back one last time
37:11The man was still standing there
37:14Holding the book I had given him
37:16The rain hadn't fallen yet
37:17But his shoulders looked already soaked through
37:20My chest felt tight for a moment
37:23The feeling was unfamiliar
37:25Like a door deep inside me had been blown open a crack
37:29Then quickly shut again
37:31I lowered my head and pressed my chest
37:34Are you feeling unwell?
37:36No
37:37I looked up at the glowing restaurant sign ahead
37:40That warm yellow sign was the color of my life now
37:43It's just that some people seem to live very hard lives
37:46Marco smiled
37:47Then stay away from people who live hard lives
37:51I smiled too
37:52Okay
37:53What I didn't know was that after that night
37:55Luca went to the Phoenix Clinic
37:57That black market clinic was hidden under an old pharmacy by the port
38:02No sign at the door
38:03Only one green lamp
38:05About to burn out
38:06On
38:07Off
38:08The doctor saw the red lily crest under at Luca's coat
38:12His face went white at once
38:15Mr. Moretti
38:16The Phoenix Protocol contract is protected by anonymity
38:20I cannot disclose client information
38:23Luca set a gun on the table
38:26The muzzle pointed at himself
38:31I'm not asking where she is
38:33The doctor's atoms-joeman moved
38:35Then
38:36What do you want to ask?
38:39Whether it can be restored?
38:41The doctor was silenced for a long time
38:44Finally, he pulled up an encrypted file
38:47Mr. Moretti
38:48You have to understand
38:49The final overroute is not hypnosis
38:52Nor is it ordinary trauma sealing
38:54What she asked to delete was the entire identity chain of her adult years
38:57The emotional chain
38:58And every trigger for danger responses
39:00We kept her basic language, life skills, and bodily instincts
39:04But everything related to red lily has been severed
39:06Luca's knuckles tightened bit by bit
39:08I asked if it can be restored
39:10The doctor lowered his head
39:12In theory, those fragments could be forcibly stimulated
39:15But she would suffer a mental breakdown
39:17More importantly
39:18The doctor paused
39:19Before the procedure
39:21She signed a refusal of restoration clause
39:24The doctor took a recording device from the drawer
39:26And pushed it across to Luca
39:27This is the message she left
39:29She said if you ever came looking, I should play it for you
39:31He pressed play
39:33In the recording, it was my voice
39:35At that time, I had just come off the neural torture
39:38So weak, I could barely speak one full sentence
39:41But the clarity in that voice was sharper than ever
39:44If Luca Moretti finds this place
39:47Please don't let him see me
39:49There was a long pause in the recording
39:51I don't hate him
39:52Hate would still mean remembering him
39:55But I don't want to remember anymore
39:57Another patch of static
40:00Night's shea was Red Livy's blade
40:04She loved Luca
40:09And she was broken by Luca
40:11With his own hands
40:15When the procedure ends
40:17The person who survives
40:19Owes him nothing
40:20Owes the family nothing
40:21Owes no vow, anything
40:23Please, let her be free
40:26The recording ended
40:27Luca listened
40:28And said nothing for a long time
40:30The whole clinic was quiet
40:32Except for the hum of that green lamp
40:34The doctor took out one more thing
40:36A paper document
40:39It was an ordinary pre-op consent form
40:41A small patch of dark brown blood on the corner
40:45From the day I signed it
40:46When the back of my hand trembled from nerve pain
40:49Below the signature
40:50I had written one extra line
40:51The handwriting was slightly distorted from trembling
40:54Nightshade died in the final Oberoad
40:56Please don't not revive her
40:57Luca stared at that line
40:59For a very, very long time
41:01Long enough
41:01That the doctor thought he would never speak again
41:04In the end
41:06He took from the inner pocket of his coat
41:08The folding blade carved with LM and VR
41:10That was the real one
41:12Ten years ago
41:13He had carved both their names into it himself
41:16He said if he ever betrayed me
41:18I could use it to stab through his heart
41:20He set the knife down beside the consent form
41:25Seal it into the file
41:27The doctor froze
41:29Mr. Moretti, this is yours
41:31No
41:32His voice was empty
41:34Like it had been blown through by sea wind
41:37It belongs to the one who's already dead
41:41With that
41:42He turned and left
41:45Without looking back
41:47That knife
41:48Which had witnessed
41:49Ten years of life and death
41:51Was finally sealed
41:53Along with that form that reads
41:55Please do not revive her
41:57Into a file
41:58No one will ever open again
42:01Back at Villa Moretti
42:02Luca called a commission meeting
42:04He pushed through three new rules
42:06First
42:07Nightshep's file is permanently sealed
42:09Status changed to deceased
42:10Second
42:11Belondi Books
42:12And the three streets around it
42:13Marked as a permanent
42:14Red Lion no entry zone
42:16Third
42:16No member may approach
42:18Valentina Belani
42:19Not in the name of protection
42:21Pursuit
42:22Recall
42:22Or revenge
42:23An older capo spoke up
42:25Hesitantly
42:26Boss
42:28She knows too much
42:29Of the family's old business
42:30After all
42:31Even with the memory loss
42:33She's a risk
42:36Maybe we should cut the
42:38Luca lifted his eyes
42:39And looked at him
42:40That one look
42:41Frozen the whole room
42:42I am the risk
42:43He said it
42:44One word at a time
42:46Whoever touches her
42:47I will handle them personally
42:49No one dared say another word
42:51After the meeting
42:52The aide handed him a black envelope
42:55Boss
42:56That bridal suite in Villa Morelli
42:58Is still kept as it was
43:00Inside are your old things
43:02And nightshades
43:04And the dried white roses
43:06Prepared for the wedding
43:07How would you like them handled?
43:11Luca didn't take the envelope
43:13Burn them
43:14Burn them
43:14He only said two words
43:15The aide hesitated
43:17All of it?
43:18All of it
43:19That room burned the whole night through
43:21The wedding dress I never got to wear
43:24The velvet box that held the ring
43:26The old photos from missions we ran together
43:29And the knife carved with the wrong name
43:33All of it
43:34Devoured by the fire
43:35Into the fire
43:37He also threw one more thing
43:38A photo of the two of us
43:40Ten years ago
43:42In the photo
43:43I leaned on his shoulder
43:45Both of us smiling softly
43:47It was the only photo
43:49Where neither of us held a gun
43:51He watched that face
43:53Get licked black by the fire
43:55Curl
43:56Turned to ash
43:57Luca stood in the courtyard
44:00Watching the firelight
44:01Reread in the windows
44:02Of Villa Moretti
44:03Bit by bit
44:04The aide beside him
44:05Wanted to say something
44:06But in the end
44:07Didn't dare
44:09They say he didn't shed
44:10A single tear that night
44:11Because the time
44:13When he could really cry
44:15He had already used it up
44:17In that tiny bookshop
44:18In Palermo
44:19That night
44:20A fine rain fell over Palermo
44:23I was in the shop
44:24With Marco
44:24Sorting newly arrived
44:26Old books
44:28I looked up at the rain
44:29Outside the window
44:30And suddenly thought
44:31Of the pot of pot
44:32Of red spider lallies
44:33At the door
44:35So I went over
44:35And carried it inside
44:38Marco laughed at me
44:39Val
44:40Those flowers look
44:41A little unlucky
44:42They say they bloom
44:43On the road
44:44To the underworld
44:45I lightly brushed
44:46The blood red petals
44:47With my fingertip
44:49Is that so?
44:51I think they're more
44:52Like a reminder
44:53The roads you shouldn't
44:55Go back on
44:56Don't go back
44:58In a car
44:58At the corner
44:59Of the street
45:00Someone watched me
45:01One last time
45:02Through the rain
45:02I didn't notice
45:04And that was good
45:05From that night on
45:07The name Valentina Rinaldi
45:09Was gone
45:10From Red Lime's
45:11Ledgers
45:12Only a codename
45:14Sealed away forever
45:16And I never saw the man
45:18Called Luca Moretti again
45:19The days after that
45:21Remained ordinary
45:22I opened the shop
45:23Every morning
45:24Carried the red spider
45:26Lillians out into the sun
45:27In the afternoon
45:28Recommended stories
45:30That quiet the heart
45:31To strangers
45:32In the evening
45:33Locked the shop door
45:35And climbed onto
45:36Marco's scooter
45:37Sometimes late at night
45:39I would touch that
45:39Faint old scar
45:40On the back of my neck
45:41I still didn't know
45:42Where it came from
45:43I only knew this
45:44Every time the bell rings
45:45I would
45:46On instinct
45:47Look up toward the door
45:48And then confirm
45:49There is no darkness there
45:50Only the light
45:52Of ordinary people
45:53Later Marco asked me
45:54Why I loved the red spider
45:55Really is so much
45:56I said I didn't know
45:57Maybe because they
45:59Bloom so quietly
46:00They need no leaves
46:01Beside them
46:02They need no one
46:03To look back at them
46:04When their season comes
46:05They wake from the soil
46:07All on their own
46:07Just like me
46:09I don't remember
46:10Night shape
46:10I don't remember
46:12The man called
46:12Luca Moretti
46:14I don't know
46:15That someone washed
46:16A whole city
46:16In blood for me
46:18I don't know
46:19That someone burned
46:19All our past
46:20Facing a fire
46:23None of it
46:23Has anything to do
46:24With the me of now
46:25But I know this
46:26The me of now
46:27Opens the door at dawn
46:28Locks the shop at dusk
46:30Greets every ordinary tomorrow
46:31To the sound of a bell
46:33This is not a new life
46:34Granted to me by anyone
46:35Nor is it redemption
46:36Bought with the city's blood
46:37This is freedom
46:38Freedom I took
46:39From the hands of my old self
46:41Freedom I claimed for myself