“Miste~r Larren, right? Yes, yes, Mr. Larren. Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Ryuta Yong, very pleased to meet you.” said the clown, waving his right hand as he spoke, his left hand in his pocket since he entered the room.
Patrick Larren was the president of the Sea Monsters, the least successful of all the teams in the games played in the arena.
Trying to understand the purpose of the man who spoke strangely, Patrick at first thought he had come to be a mascot. The man, who introduced himself as Ryuta Yong, wore a funny suit, half yellow and half blue. His face and hand were as white as snow. Ryuta Yong's hair and lips were purple like his eyes.
Yet the first thing anyone seeing this remarkable man would think was that he was a clown, so someone like him could only be here to be a mascot.
But making him a mascot would have been a mistake, because Ryuta Yong was one of those clowns that children would be afraid of. Even if he was a mascot, instead of entertaining people, he would make people shudder, especially children cry.
“We don't have to stand, we can sit, it’s okay.”
The clown spoke quickly while smiling slyly. Without asking permission, he sprawled out on the couch as if the office belonged to him, his violet eyes never leaving Larren's for a moment.
“Why are you here for?” The only impression Ryuta was giving Larren at the moment was that he was uncanny.
“Why did I come for? I came to tell you that I have a business proposition that will benefit both of us.”
In his daily life, he was careful about how he dressed and especially how he spoke, as he was careful to make a good impression on people. It was a nightmare for him to have such an awkward way of speaking, but now he was speaking freely and he liked it.
“Please don't waste my time.” Patrick tensed every second Ryuta looked into his eyes.
“Why~ so ru~de...” Ryuta pursed his lips and lowered his voice to show his sorrow. “You're being rude by judging me based on my appearance while I'm being polite to you. You broke my hea~rt.”
Patrick averted his eyes, unable to withstand Ryuta's gaze, but then re-established eye contact, thinking that the gesture made him look weak. Ryuta chuckled.
“Believe me, I'm a respectable businessman with a very good future for both of us.”
“I've never heard of a businessman named Ryuta, and I know the bourgeois society in Rolderhelm.”
“Well, well... I'll take it as a compliment that you've never heard of me.”
Ryuta chuckled lightly and Patrick was already beginning to think he was part of a bad organization, things were going Ryuta's way.
“Since I am a fair and honest businessman, I will be completely open with you.” As Ryuta spoke, he opened the palm of his right hand towards Patrick as if to show that he wasn't hiding anything. “I want your team to be the champion.”
The Sea Monsters were clearly the worst team in the arena.
They had terrible performances in the spring and summer seasons, finishing last in the league in both seasons. On top of that, a couple of scandals involving the players had caused a large part of their own fan base to stop supporting them.
The fans who donated to the teams were important, and without them they were struggling to pay the salaries of the team's staff.
The Principality had set a prize of six hundred gold coins for the tournament in honor of Rolderhelm's centenary. The third prize was two hundred gold pieces, and third place would have kept the team going for a while.
But even third place didn’t seems possible for the Sea Monsters, which had twice finished last in the league.
“What do you mean?”
Patrick didn't know what to say, or even what to feel. He wanted to kick him out, but he also wanted to hear what he had to say.
“Like I said, I want the Sea Monsters to be champions. I told you I'm an honest and fair businessman, right? So I'll explain to you why I want that too.” Patrick was distracted by Ryuta's finger gestures as he spoke. “As you will agree, trade should benefit both sides. You obviously stand to gain from the championship, and I stand to gain from this.”
“We don't need to cheat-” Ryuta put his finger close enough to Patrick's lip to feel his breath and silenced him.
“Ssh... Nck, nck... It's ru~de, let's not try to deceive each other with lie~s.”
Patrick swallowed his words and gulped when Ryuta suddenly turned serious and squinted his eyes. Patrick had developed a complex because he was a physically weak man and once he was pushed, he accepted the dominance of the other side.
“I will deal with the jury and the referees and make them work in your favor, and in return you will give me two hundred gold prize.”
Ryuta, who had stopped mincing words, seemed more evil in Patrick's eyes. Maybe he wasn't even human.
“Why? You could have gone to other teams.”
If he wanted a share of the prize, there were seven teams with a better chance of winning than the Sea Monsters. It would have made more sense for him to sign with one of them.
“I cou~ld have, but I didn't, because the two hundred gold coins I'm going to get from you is just a small reward for my efforts. My main source of income will be the be~ts.”
“Uh...”
Patrick understood now. Since the Sea Monsters were the team with the least chance of winning, few people put their money on the team, but in return, if the team won, the bookmakers' profits would increase.
Ryuta could have won hundreds, maybe thousands of gold coins on the bet. Two hundred gold coins should have been a pittance compared to his potential earnings.
So why did he want it? Patrick couldn't understand, and Ryuta wasn't going to give him a chance to think about it.
“If your tea~m finishes last in this tournament, you will be out of a job, the team will be disbanded, and you will basically be bankrupt. You know you'd be a fool to refuse the chance I'm handing you on a go~lden platter.” Ryuta resumed his strange and cheerful speech.
“If people hear this...”
Even if they were champions, they would still go down when it got out, and it would be a black mark on their name in history.
“I guarantee that if you honor our agreement, it won't get out, and if you don't, the fact that it will get out is the least of your worries.”
Patrick immediately understood the threat, it was no surprise that when he was involved in illegal activities he had no security.
“How will you convince the jury and the refurees?”
“That's pa~rt of my job, you don't have to worry about that.”
“I, I don't know.” Patrick wanted to take the deal, but he still had doubts. “How can you guarantee it won't be overheard?” His weak voice showed that he was ready to give in.
“This way,” Ryuta said. He took his left hand out of his pocket, holding a black glove. In the palm of Ryuta's hand was a white orb of light. “We will make our deal with magic, and if either side betrays the other, the deal is that the traitor's soul will be shattered. That person will neither go to heaven nor be reborn; he will be lost forever.”
Patrick was not familiar with magic, but he had heard stories from his childhood about people who made pacts with evil wizards and broke them.
Now he was in front of a real wizard, and before his eyes was a concept called magic that he did not understand.
Still, he knew he had to accept the offer. He would accept the offer of the clown, Ryuta Yong.
“I will honor our agreement,” he said.
“Give me your hand,” Ryuta said, extending his own left hand.
When Patrick held out his hand, their palms touched and the white orb of light disappeared.
***
“You might as well not take it off, you're no better than a clown.”
“I've dressed up as a clown before, but I still don't understand why you thought I was a clown.”
The purple dye in his hair ran down the street, washed away by the water Yurine had poured.
Yu had dressed up as a clown in a show for children a year ago. He didn't think it was good for him, but he didn't like to disobey his older sisters, so he agreed to be a clown and tried to entertain the children.
The result was disappointing; Yu became a clown that the children feared and made one of them cry.
It was supposed to be a bad memory, but because the incident had made her sisters laugh, it was etched in her memory as a funny memory.
After all the paint was gone, he dried his hair with a towel and put on her everyday clothes. Since it was impossible to dry his hair right away, he would have to walk around wet and prayed that he wouldn't catch a cold.
“Normally I'm not keen on back alleys and I'm not keen on being separated from you, but I'll make an exception for this. I don't want either of us to be alone.”
For the job he was going to do, they had to be unrecognizable, and even in disguise, if he took Yurine with him, he would be more likely to be recognized.
So on his way to meet with the heads of the eight teams in the tournament, he left Yurine in a park that could be seen from the team building, and when Yu came out of the building, he went to a secluded corner that they had predetermined and quickly changed his clothes.
“But you know what? Even when I was dressed as a clown, I looked so charismatic. I mean, it's just my nature, you know? No matter what I wear, it's always number ten, five stars on me.”
“Hmph.” Yurine stepped in front of Yu as she walked away to avoid talking face to face.
“Patrick Larren, that guy is a real idiot. What kind of person makes a deal with someone who shows up in a clown costume? I was already sure I could convince him, but I can't deny that I was surprised. He was convinced very quickly, he didn't make me work for it like the others.” He couldn't understand how some people got to certain positions. “There seems to be some lack of merit here too.”
Even if Marino couldn't persuade his loan shark to grant him a grace period, he would still need to make money. So he decided to try a method he had heard of around the world: he would charge the teams money in exchange for helping them win.
“Patrick's team will pay the most, if he wins we will get two hundred gold coins. I don't think so, but I hope he wins.”
Yu was in no mood to go and convince the jury and referees to favor the Sea Monsters or any other team, that would require bribes and he didn't have the money to bribe them.
He had made deals with five of the eight teams that would play in the tournament. The other three he didn't go to because he didn't want to take any risks.
He would wait without lifting a finger and if one of the teams he had made a deal with won, he would get his money as agreed.
“I'm great, right? I convinced whoever I talked to.”
“You're an asshole.” Yurine voiced a truth that Yu knew in his heart.
“Don't be so rude,” Yu said. He was hurt by the sudden truth being thrown in his face, but he didn't let it bother him.
“I'm helping you to get my mother back, don't forget that.”
“I know.”
After winning the matches, it was not certain that the people he had dealt with would give Yu the money they had agreed to, so with Yurine's help he created the magic deal game to prevent this from happening.
The idea of the so-called ‘magic deal’ was to frighten the people involved and make them stick to the deal.
Yurine had the ability to cast light magic even at a distance. Before Yu went to talk to the team leaders, she put the light magic in his palm so that he could show real magic to them.
The idea of a deal embellished with a small magical orb was more reliable than a plain deal. If the people Yu was dealing with were aware that a magical pact didn't exist, he still wouldn't get his money, but they seemed genuinely scared and Yu assumed that they believed that the pact existed.
“What kind of person have I become? Have I always been like this?”
He knew what he was doing was bad, but his conscience was clear. The idea of scamming the public with letters bothered Yu, even though he had come up with the idea, but he didn't feel bad about scamming the teams.
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“Are you going to share the money you get here with that stupid person?” By stupid person, Yurine meant Marino Swann.
“I'm hurt, I'm hurt,” Yu said, his lips curled down, even though Yurine couldn't see it. “You call me and him ‘stupid person’ even though we sleep in the same bed. You should have at least called him a stupid creature like you called me before, it's hurtful that you equate me with others. How will you mend my broken heart, Yurine?”
“Stop talking nonsense! You will be sad if you overestimate this, every human being is inferior to my superior being.”
Yu was the one who knew where they were going and Yurine, not knowing where to go, slowed down as she walked in front of Yu and let him come to her to show her the way.
“No, I'm not going to share the money I get here with Marino, why would I do that anyway? This is all my idea and I'm not asking for his help, and it's not even certain that he and I are going into the letter business yet.”
It was to be decided tonight whether he and Marino would start delivering letters together. If the loan shark refused to give Marino a deadline, they would have to part ways.
“You play games behind people's backs to make a little more money, and if that's not enough, you even use a superior being like me as a tool in your disgusting games for a few gold coins.” Contrary to what she said, there was no contempt in Yurine's voice. She was just saying it for the sake of saying it.
“A few gold coins is you said but it is two hundred gold coins.”
“Child support?” She countered Yu's defense with her scam from the day before.
“I think one has to count a few pennies. People who console themselves with ‘this is enough for today’ or ‘the pot is boiling, thank God for that’ don't get any further than where they are.”
Yu attributed the development of all wealth, technology and civilization to the ego of men. According to him, a man should be egoistic and always want more to satisfy his ego, so that science and technology would develop and civilizations would rise.
According to him, instead of being grateful for what one has, it is right to want more and more for more satisfaction.
Yurine asked, “Do you mean something like a trickle becomes a lake?”
“Hm? I'm glad you're trying to understand my thoughts.” After Yu's confession, Yurine started walking with her eyes lowered to the ground as if she had lost all interest. “If you're a little warmer, your sweetness will be maximized.”
“Isn't it already at maximum? Besides, what does maximum mean?”
“It means the highest level.”
“Huh, so it's already at maximum and always will be!”
Yu still thought that if she was warmer and friendlier, she would be at least twice as sweet as she was now, but he didn't say it again.
“A drop in the bucket is a drop in the bucket. I still want to win as much as I can without losing anything.” It was a nonsense saying, and saving money in the face of inflation was sometimes counterproductive. “We need money for things like research, travel, accommodation and we might even need to build a team. Even if we don't do any of that, the fact that we need money will still be there.”
The sun was about to set when they entered the guild quarter. Yu had asked Lucia to pick them up in the afternoon, as he was going to deal with the teams today.
Now they were on their way to the Swann Post Office to meet Marino Swann.
It was late afternoon, so people were going home. Yu was walking along the sidewalk with Yurine, not wanting to get close to other people.
“By the way...” Yu said. Yurine held her breath, knowing what Yu was going to say. “I won the bet.”
When he was dressed as a clown, Yurine had told him that he wouldn't be able to convince anyone that way. Yu had gotten ambitious and claimed that he could, and offered to bet Yurine if she wanted to.
Yurine accepted the bet, confident that she would win, but it was Yu who won.
“I have one wish, what should I wish for?”
“Pervert! What do you wish for?”
“You're breaking my heart talking like that. I just wish you would treat me better, that's all.”
As he was talking to Yurine, he was scared out of his wits when a carriage pulled by a huge komodo dragon passed by.
“What the fuck!”
He leaned against the building that the sidewalk abutted, staring wide-eyed at the back of the passing komodo dragon.
Yurine laughed condescendingly, “Ha, coward.”
“Of course I am! Didn't you see that creature?”
Even though Yu called it a komodo dragon, the komodo dragon was the animal's closest resemblance.
The creature was almost as tall as Yu, its body not low to the ground like that of a komodo dragon, but high off the ground because of the creature's long legs. Its tail was as long as its body, and as it moved forward, showing its long teeth, it looked like it was going to attack the first human it came across.
“You are the only one who is afraid of it, coward.”
Yu looked around, people were walking on, not even paying attention to the komodo dragon passing by.
“It's the first time I've seen it, others are used to it.” Seeing that he was the only one afraid, he became defensive.
Yu pulled his back away from the wall he was leaning against and continued walking with Yurine as the huge komodo dragon turned right on the road ahead and disappeared from sight.
“What was his name again?”
“Komodore.”
Yurine walked to Yu's left, trying to balance on the corner of the sidewalk. It was easy for her, thanks to her different nature from that of humans.
Still, Yu held her and moved her to his right, afraid that she might fall into the path of the carriages.
“What an original name.”
Ten minutes away from the inn was Marino's company. When they got to the company, Yu pushed the door like he had done last time and it opened.
The bell above the door rang and they were immediately greeted by Marino, who was pacing in the entrance.
“Welcome,” Marino said as he hurried to Yu's side.
He shook Marino's hand. "If you have nothing to do, let's get going. Where is the loan shark?"
"We need to go to a place called the Thirtyoné Bar, south east of the Hull Quarter."
"We were already in the Hull Quarter, I wish we had met there instead of coming here."
The Hull Quarter was the largest part of the city, with the arena to the north of the quarter. South and east of the quarter was the poorest part of the city.
“We don't have to walk,” Marino said. He gestured to the back wall of the company. “There are horses and carriages behind the building. We can go with them. But...”
Marino looked at Yurine. Yurine said, “But what? What are you looking at, nigger?”
“That place is not for children.”
***
There were ten quarter in the city and the Hull Quarter and the port area were separated from the other quarters by a wall running through the city.
They left through the gate west of the guild quarter and entered the hull quarter, and the carriage driven by Marino drove slowly down the street lit by street lamps.
“The loan shark we are meeting is called Pepe Don, you can't laugh like that when you hear his name!”
Yu couldn't stop laughing when he heard the man's last name. Marino was so afraid of the loan shark that he looked around to see if anyone had seen what Yu had done.
“I will be respectful to Mr. Don, I promise.”
“You're still laughing when you say that! Look, he's not someone you can make fun of.”
“Okay, don't worry, I can stop laughing.”
He had a talent for not laughing if he didn't want to laugh, even if he saw something that would make other people laugh.
Even though he was already laughing, he was worried inside. He had told Yurine that he didn't want to be separated from her, but he had to entrust her to Lucie.
The only thing he was doing now was hiding his worry by laughing.
“Have you thought of anything to convince the loan shark?”
“No, have you?”
“I thought you might think...”
If Marino was going to expect everything from Yu, it was going to be a difficult time for him.
“Try offering your house as a hostage, leave your wife and children at the inn for a while.”
“I... I didn't explain to them what we were going to do.” Marino pulled the carriage into an alley. “I don't know how to explain, how to explain this.”
He could understand Marino. It was not easy to tell his family about something like this and it would upset them.
“You simply say, ‘Mr. Valarfin won't let me talk about the job.’ If they get on your case, you tell them that this is my condition for doing the job and that if you tell anyone, the job will be canceled.”
The carriage went through the alleys and into the back streets. At night, the main streets of the city would be empty, but here they were full as if the day had just begun.
The lighting in the area was also different, green, red and blue lanterns giving the street the look of a cheap pavilion.
“Over there,” Marino said. He gestured to the Thirtyoné Bar.
After pulling his carriage in front of the bar, Yu got out, his expensive clothes standing out.
Marino gave three silver coins to a thin young boy who came up to him as he got out of the carriage. He must have been used to doing this because there was no dialog between them, the boy took the money and then the carriage and left.
“They look at you as if they have seen a human being for the first time.”
Especially the prostitutes on the street were undressing Yu with their eyes. It stroked his ego and disgusted him at the same time.
“You shouldn't look at them,” Marino said as he walked through the door of the Thirtyoné Bar.
The guards at the door were not human. They were tigers, two meters tall and standing on two legs. The tigers recognized Marino and let him through.
“He's with me.” Marino vouched for Yu to go inside.
The half-animal guards frisked Yu before he entered, the feel of their hands on his body disgusting him.
The first thing he encountered when he entered was smoke. It was smoky from tobacco and drugs, the heavy odor burning his nose, so Yu covered his mouth and nose with his hand.
Marino had his hand over his nose, as did Yu. As he followed him, Yu felt a woman's touch on his shoulder, his eyes burned as she blew smoke from her pipe into his face.
“Don't hide your face,” she said. Yu put his hand to his eyes to wipe away the burning, and when he pulled his hand away, he could feel her breath.
The smell of tobacco from the redhead's mouth made Yu's forehead tense, he had never been this close to a woman as repulsive as her.
“Want to have fun?” The woman snuggled closer to Yu and whispered in his ear.
Yu was where he didn't belong, he slowly pushed her away and followed Marino.
Yu was attracting women like never before in his life. With every step he took, women leaned against the walls, trying to touch him and seduce him for the night.
He knew it was because of his expensive clothes rather than his handsome face. In Rolderhelm, clothes were a sign of status.
There was a woman singing in the Thirtyoné bar, but the bar was so crowded and the smoke so thick that Yu couldn't see who was singing.
He could see a person every step of the way. He was glad he hadn't brought Yurine to a place like this, he wouldn't want anyone to come in contact with him.
He followed Marino and they passed the area where people were gathered and entered a VIP area with more guards.
“Marino, have you come to pay your debt?” the guard said. Unlike the guards at the entrance to the bar, he was human. He was a little taller and older than Yu.
“I wanted to ask Mr. Pepe for more time.”
“He's been giving you a grace period for six months.”
“This is the last one, really…”
Unable to look the guard in the face, Marino lowered his head.
“Who is that?” the guard asked after looking Yu. “Did you trick someone to vouch for you?”
“I didn't... He is Mr. Valarfin. Mr. Valarfin is a businessman, he agreed to accompany me.”
The guard looked at Marino and then at Yu and hissed. He turned around and said a few words to another guard in a language Yu did not understand.
They made them stand for ten minutes. In Rolderhelm culture it was customary to keep guests waiting who were not respectable.
“Mr. Pepe is waiting for you.” The guard let Marino and Yu enter.
Before Yu walked through the door and met Pepe Don, the guard grabbed his shoulder. “Don't be stupid enough to vouch for anyone's debt, whether it's that nigger or anyone else, do you understand?”
“Yes.”
As the guard pulled his shoulder away from Yu's hand, Yu entered the VIP section.
It was less smoky and a little brighter than the rest of the bar. There were still drug users around and the smell of tobacco smoke bothered Yu.
But it was not as suffocating as before, which was due to the fact that it was a private area and only certain people could smoke.
Two blonde dancers with fox ears were dancing in the center of the space, wearing erotic outfits that covered only their genitals.
Yu wanted to look, but instead of looking at the belly dancers, he looked at the person Marino was looking at, Pepe Don.
“You still haven't brought my money.” Pepe Don's voice, deformed from drinking, was wheezy.
The loan shark had straw-blond hair, balding in the middle. His face was completely bald and he had no eyebrows.
He was obese and wore only a scarf. His sagging breasts were disgusting, and even more disgusting was the fact that even his nipples were sagging.
Pepe Don was lounging in a black armchair and didn't bother to get into a sitting position for his guests. With his dark blue eyes he looked at Yu, who was standing behind Marino.
“Rolderhelm looks beautiful on the outside, but inside there are such assholes.”
“I ask for a grace period until the end of October, and this time I swear I will pay-” Before Marino could finish his sentence, a masked man standing next to Pepe Don stepped in front of him and punched him in the stomach.
Yu tried not to react, just watched as Marino doubled over and fell to the ground.
“How much more time do you want, asshole!” Pepe smashed his drinking glass against the corner of the sofa. His already weakened voice broke into a coughing fit as he forced it out in a fit of rage.
“I swear, pay-” Marino tried to speak again, but he couldn't finish; the masked man who had just punched him, this time stomped on his head with his foot.
All the while the belly dancers continued to dance as if nothing had happened.
“How will you pay?” Pepe Don was spitting as he spoke.
“Let me speak for him.” Yu took a step forward.
“Are you the Valarfin?”
“Yes, my name is Yu Valarfin. I met Mr. Swann a few days ago and decided to do business with him, but I can't do that if you kill him because he can't pay his debt.”
Pepe Don's gaze disgusted Yu. He hid his feelings, unable to do anything but endure it.
“What business is that?” asked Pepe.
“It's a brokerage, I won't give details.” The thing he was most worried about when he came here was the possibility of Pepe getting involved. “I came here with him to ask you to give Mr. Swann until the end of October.”
“You're going to vouch for him? Why should I accept your vouching?”
“I'm not here to vouch for him, I'm here to ask.”
“Don't mock me!” Pepe Don shouted, spittle flying from his mouth again.
“Is there nothing we can do to get a respite from you? Mr. Swann is willing to pawn his house for a respite.” Yu spoke calmly.
“I'm going to take his house anyway and not just his house but his life!” Pepe nodded and the masked man grabbed Marino by the neck and lifted him up. He was about to break his neck.
Seeing Marino dying, Yu lost the calm he had kept until now and raised his voice.
“Is there nothing we can do? Maybe a job? A mission?”
“DON'T RAISE YOUR VOICE WHEN YOU TALK TO ME, BOY!”
Two of Pepe's men in the room came at Yu, Yu took two steps backwards and bumped into another man. Facing Pepe's men, he lowered his voice again.
“Even if you want to kill him now and confiscate his assets, they will want to do the same because he owes money to the bank and you will end up in a confrontation with the bank. Instead of doing that, give him two more months and take your money, your money is worth more than his life and property.”
Pepe Don thought for a moment, then nodded. Yu thought he was going to say no, but then he spoke. “Very well.”
Pepe Don thought Yu's words made sense.
“Thank you-” Marino tried to speak, but the masked man squeezed his throat.
“You don't speak,” Pepe Don said. Then he turned to Yu, “But I'll give you a task. If you succeed, you'll get the respite you want. If you fail, I will take everything from Marino.”
The task. The only plan Yu had thought of before coming here was to ask for a mission.
“What mission?” Yu asked.
“Before morning you will find my son and kill him. Marino will stay here and wait.”
“Your son? I, I can't kill someone.”
Yu had killed Sorrow, but it was in self-defense. Now he was being asked to kill someone for his own benefit, he couldn't do it.
But if he didn't, Marino would die and if he died, his plan would fail.
“You can bring him to me and not kill him if you want, it doesn't matter, but if I don't see you here in the morning with him dead or alive, this man will die.”
“Why do you want to kill your son? I don't understand?” Yu could understand wanting someone executed, after all he was a man involved in illegal activities, but why did he want his own son to die?
“It's none of your business. Are you going to do it or not?”
Just because he had killed someone before didn't mean he had the power to kill someone else. In trying to kill someone, it had to be assumed that he could kill himself.
He wasn't sure he had the determination to do it, as well as the fear of death.
“I'm not really doing this just for myself. It is also necessary for Yurine's request. So it would be selfish to refuse this mission, wouldn't it? It would be selfish if I refused for my own conscience.”
He had to decide quickly, he had to come up with an excuse to convince himself.
“Marino will die too, if he dies, his little children will suffer...”
He didn't care about Marino or his family, but he had to deceive himself to accept the mission.
“If Marino dies, I die.” That alone was enough for him to accept the offer.
He clenched his fist, he would accept the offer.
“How will I find your son?”
Pepe Don gestured to the half-naked servant next to him. The maid ran off and returned thirty seconds later with a necklace.
Yu took the necklace from the maid. It was one of those necklaces with a picture inside.
When he opened it, there was a picture of a woman inside. She was an attractive and beautiful woman with long straw blonde hair, white skin and dark blue eyes.
“This-” he didn't understand why a picture of a woman was brought to him.
“This is my son. He is trying to escape from the city, he is lingering near the harbor, waiting for the morning. In the morning he will escape on a ship, catch him before he escapes, kill him or bring him to me.”