Chapter 188 – Black Moon
Germi, who had pushed me away, sat down and looked out the window with her arms crossed. It’s an act to hide something embarrassing.
“Well, since he’s the boss’s future husband, it’s only right that I speak up.”
Danny An smiled and looked at me.
He’s a quick-witted guy. Do you like it.
But I don’t care too much about it. Let’s keep the attitude that it’s natural for you to say honorifics to me and move on to talking about business.
“First of all, we need to have a building to use as a factory.”
“There is a useful warehouse on the outskirts of the city for that.”
“Storage?”
“Originally, it was a warehouse where kidnapped people were kept, but it was recently vacated because rumors about the disappearance had spread to the city guards.”
“Good for you. We plan to gradually reduce illegal business in the future.”
“An illegal business? And drug trafficking and kidnapping?”
“Yes.”
I nodded at Danny’s question.
The Black Moon also kidnaps people and sells them as slaves after being trained, but it’s not just illegal slavery. I was also legally training and selling criminals into slavery. I intend to keep that one going.
Drugs… It would be better to reduce the scale a little rather than completely eliminate it.
No matter what you do, if your tail is long, you will eventually be caught.
When you start a legal business and advance to Yangji, you may get caught if your criminal activities under the surface are discovered.
“First, let’s go to the warehouse building that will be used as a factory. You have to look at the size, so you can see how many weaving machines will go into it.”
“All right. Please follow me.”
Following Danian’s guidance, we rode a wagon and headed west outside the city. After leaving the western gate and going through the forest to the south, I saw a fairly large building.
Thermia, who saw the building from afar, grabbed my sleeve and looked at the back of Danny Ahn’s head, who led the way.
“You mean you locked up the people you kidnapped in that building? We’re laughing and talking now, but he’s a terrible criminal…”
“There will be no such thing in the future.”
Natalya mostly approves of what I am about to do. I don’t know what Roin is thinking, but he usually tells me to do what I want to do. Both are far from mediocre.
On the other hand, Thermia is an ordinary person. It would be a normal reaction to show an attitude of reluctance toward criminals in this way.
Come to think of it, wasn’t Germi also running a criminal organization in Arpagon? Did Germido kidnap people and do that? She said that the brothel was hers too, but her knowledge of sex was quite poor.
“Germi.”
“Huh?”
Germi, who was walking in front of her, turned to me.
“You said you had a brothel or something in Arpagon.”
“Why?”
“Then you also kidnapped people and put them in a brothel?”
It’s a story that doesn’t really matter whether Germi committed a crime or not, but I became a little curious.
Germi narrowed her eyes at my question and smiled.
“In that neighborhood, kidnapping people like here is a big deal.”
“Why?”
“Westway is a trading city, and it has a lot of floating population, so it doesn’t matter if one or two people disappear, but it’s not Arpagon.”
“Ah…”
Well, if you think about it, yes. It is strange that there is such a large criminal organization that kidnaps and sells people like the Black Moon.
As Germi said, Westway is a trading city, so it must be possible because there is a lot of floating population.
In a border city like Arpagon, it would be too easy to find out if something like that happened.
“The women in the brothels there are either slaves who have been sold for crimes or people who work because they really need money. We only do space rentals and guest management. Because when only women gather and sell their bodies, bullies always come to visit.”
“It was a healthier organization than I thought.”
“What were you thinking… ?”
Chatting with each other, I followed Danny Ahn and looked around the warehouse.
It must have been true that he said he had left it empty. There were spider webs and dust piled up here and there in the warehouse, so cleaning seemed urgent.
“I think we can bring the slaves here and do the cleaning later… Thermia-san, how many weaving machines do you think can come in?”
“Hmm… Even if I catch a small amount, I think I can get about a hundred. Speaking of teaching the weaving skills to the slaves, it seems impossible to commute from the city to here… The slaves would have to eat, sleep and sleep here.”
Thermia, who was looking around inside the warehouse, was muttering while Danian, who was listening to her side, answered with a clear eye.
“I will call the contractor and prepare a separate space for the slaves to live in.”
“It’s good. And I need some space to trap the spiders…”
“I will do that too.”
Danian listened intently to Thermia’s words while looking around the warehouse.
You can leave the factories to Thermia.
*****
Hergel looked out the carriage window at the dusky street. I saw a huge building in the distance.
Normally, it would be time to rest at home, but a while ago, stopping by the villa in the evening like this was added to his routine.
With a rattling sound, the wagon stopped vibrating. Soon after, the coachman opened the door.
“Im here.”
When he got off the carriage without saying anything at the coachman’s words, the maid from the villa greeted him this time.
“Are you here? Dinner is ready.”
“Go in.”
After being guided by the maid to a room with a long table, Hergel naturally sat at the top of the table where the maid had removed her chair.
As I waited in the seat of honor without a word, the door opened and Herendal, supported by a maid, walked in.
“Are you feeling better?”
“Do you think it’s okay? I can’t even walk alone.”
Herendal showed a prickly attitude at Hergel’s question and sat down on the chair with difficulty, and the maids brought food and started serving. After hearing only the rattling of tableware for a while, Hergel spoke first.
“I’ve decided to hand over my seat to Germi next week.”
“Fuck!”
Clink!
“Hey…”
At Hergel’s words, Herendal hit the bowl with his fist. The bowl broke and the sauce inside splattered along with the debris. The maid who was waiting next to her panicked when she saw Herendal’s arm dripping with blood from a broken bowl, but Herendal didn’t care and glared at Hergel with a murderous gaze.
“What are you giving that motherfucker?”
“He said he was handing over my seat.”
“You originally intended to hand it over to me!”
“Look at you now. How are you going to lead the organization with that figure?”
At Hergel’s words, Herendal bit his lower lip. The fact that one of his arms was cut off and the tendons of all of his limbs, which were still in good condition, were all cut off, were all the work of Germi and his gang.
“He’s the one who instigated the mercenaries and made me look like this!”
“They are not mercenaries, but Germi’s husband and other wives. You can see it as your own strength.”
“It’s not your strength… ! If it wasn’t for those bastards, I could have cleaned up all of Germi’s tissues by myself!”
“Then why didn’t you hire mercenaries too? I obviously assigned you an assassination team as well.”
“Profit… !”
Soon, Herendal glared at Hergel, gritting his teeth with a red face. After having a snowball fight like that for a while, Herendal sighed and lowered his head.
“I can’t use my strength like before.”
“Know. Isn’t that why you assigned people to wait on you?”
“Originally, these are things that I can do enough alone.”
“…”
Seeing Herendal talking helplessly, Hergel shut his mouth.
The old tiger looked at his child for a moment with eyes mixed with pity, then erased it from his gaze.
“It is unavoidable. Because it’s already happened Get used to it.”
“…”
“After handing over to Germi, I plan to retire and go up to the capital. What are you going to do? Will you go up together?”
“…”
Herendal had no answer. Hergel, who had been watching quietly, raised himself cautiously.
“There is still time until next week, so think carefully about what to do and answer. Take good care of yourself. Come back tomorrow.”
Even when he got up from his seat and left the room, Herendal did not raise his bowed head even once.
Hergel felt uncomfortable at the sight of his child who had fallen down, but since he had never encouraged anyone in his life, he had no choice but to leave the room without choosing the right words to say.
He only let out a frustrated sigh at the helplessness he had never felt, hoping that his son would overcome it on his own.
Herendal clenched his fists as he saw Hergel slipping out of the room. He squeezed so hard that his fingernails cut into the flesh of his palms and blood began to flow.
“Never, never forgive… I will take revenge… Germi, who made me like this, it’s not just you… Can never forgive…”
