Answering God’s Call

Tatyana Belyaev, a spy of the Lubyanka Military Intelligence Directorate who operated in the shadows of a fierce intelligence war, is a death row inmate sentenced to execution for murdering her superior.

“I’ll arrange a position for you, so go over to Lytton. Defect.”
“Are you telling me to abandon my homeland?”
“Did you ever have anything like loyalty?”
“No. I did not.”

Not only had she been subjected to brutal training and used as a test subject for biological experiments since childhood, but she had also carried out every order the state gave her.
If the result is a false charge of murder and execution, isn’t it fair to betray them a little?

“Fine. There’s one condition for your defection. It’s simple.”

Retrieve the list of Lubyanka’s illegal agents.

“Have we met somewhere before?”
“No. We haven’t.”

In many ways, it was an easy mission. She was a little flustered when the Dochen agent holding the list suddenly pulled that old line about having seen her somewhere before, but still.

“Do you need anything other than cigarettes?”
“I’ll take tips, but I don’t sell my body. You’ve got the wrong person.”
“Not that.”

Thanks to that, seducing the man wasn’t difficult, and neither was slipping a sleeping pill into his drink or switching out the agent list.
It felt almost too easy to defect like this.
So at the time, she didn’t know.

“Father, it’s a pleasure to meet you.”
“It’s nice to meet you, but have we met somewhere before?”
“….”
“Sister, you’ve really never seen me before?”

She never imagined she would meet him again.
She’d naturally thought he was a Dochen agent, but he wasn’t.
That he would be a colleague she’d have to work with. That he had been demoted because of the list she stole a year ago.
She was screwed. She should’ve just killed him back then.