Chapter 312 – Gangs of Rome (1)
As usual, soundproof barriers were placed in the inn room, and it was meeting time.
“Let’s make today’s talk short. We didn’t have a great harvest.”
Dana said after taking a shower with Fran.
Having to move in a team of two in a foreign country is the same even when taking a bath.
No, taking a bath is one of the moments when a person becomes most defenseless.
It’s a little bit like shit when I think of my comrades in the army, but I can’t be careless when I think of the powerful people in the past who were assassinated in the bathroom.
“I showed up at the Wizards Guild or the Archeology branch, but they brought up the topic first because of the recent bad behavior in the city. I immediately bit the horse’s tail and asked various things.”
“There must be a lot of overlap with what I uncovered.”
Why ah-! I replied as I steam-dried Dana’s hair.
Then Fran, who had applied something like skin toner on her face, said.
“Because it’s important how you understand it from the point of view of ordinary people. What did he say? A family of three? They say people are getting anxious because they are protesting even in broad daylight.”
“That’s right. They say the guys from Kitai are the fuse of the conflict.”
Dana closed her eyes at my touch and shrugged her shoulders.
“Did you say that when the other two families were together, they were at the level of fighting without touching the opponent’s nawabari while arguing about dignity? It must have been treated like an ‘external enemy’ for the sake of unity.”
“Right~? Even I had a strong impression that the people of Lucregens’
Muttered Lari Lura as she looked enviously at Dana drying her hair with her steam.
I laughed at the easily imaginable figure.
“Otherwise, it must have kept the proper line. There’s a religious denomination on the other side, so what? Corrupt religious men who take bribes and turn a blind eye to them must have their abilities limited.”
“Yes. But a family from Kitai… They say that Anulus or half-bald bastards have been outraged when they touch me and Bari?”
“The rolling stone touched the embedded stone. It wouldn’t have been easy.”
They are the mafia who have been deeply rooted in the shadow of the city. It would have been difficult for a third party to stand shoulder to shoulder with them.
Financial power or force that will not be stepped on by the existing forces.
In the fight between the thugs and me, wouldn’t a latecomer stand out with something like that?
“That’s why the half-and-half bald people seem to be recruiting lower-class people who the other two families didn’t even deal with.”
Dana’s sonorous voice pierced my ears as I combed the purple dog’s hair.
“They seduce and entice high-ranking or low-level adventurers with a safe salary, isn’t it?”
“Is it winter? Gangsters who have no work entrust them for a while to earn money for alcohol, and in no time they become family members.”
“If you don’t want to play the death mafia game with the religious denomination’s bailiff, then you have to crawl under the organization.”
If the red line of being a former mafia is him, you will become a guard and a heretic interrogator while listening to heresy.
I’m the go-to family for bribing your bosses! Bastards who can’t say anything will be taken away by the religious group’s enforcer.
I thought that far and hung out my tongue.
“Then, it would be possible for the church to falsely propagate that they are expelling the Dark Society. You are thorough.”
“Uh. Because they are so thorough, the existing thugs seem to be sending messages while gritting their teeth and using violence.”
The Kitai Mafia seemed to be trying to suppress religious groups with money + @ and establish themselves in Lucregens.
‘It’s such a big city. It’s like getting a goose that lays golden eggs.’
He probably wasn’t interested in the safety of the normal geese—thugs—who would run after him in the process of giving birth to that SSR-class goose.
Wouldn’t the feed that was sprinkled to put the geese in the chicken coop could be recovered by paying off debts or shackles?
Bitch shit. He is a great fisherman that K-game companies should imitate.
‘It’s not like some fucking multi-level thing.’
It was the same on Earth, but the vicious ways of the criminals were admirable.
“It can be said that this three-way battle is due to greed between families fighting over money in the shadows.”
Those words of Fran, who had lost her family in a similar incident, became the slate that ended a paragraph in the story.
─Sarak.
I dried Dana’s hair and then brushed Fran’s long hair.
Did you say sadness is something you adapt to, not get used to?
It is also the husband’s job to take care of my wife so that she does not feel sad. Then I told you what happened today.
“Hmm… He must be a black magician in nine cases out of ten.”
After finishing the story of the cub who had been fighting long-distance combat with Temurgul’s body, Veronica said so.
“Isn’t that guy a human of the Kitai Cancer Society?”
“Why?”
“You are asking an obvious question. If there is a person from the 2nd family who has the ability to make our master nervous with his alter ego, then there is no way that he cannot rule out criminals who are paid for and free of charge.”
Even if you set it low, there is no way that the top-level gold or platinum level can’t catch a 3rd class like the Kitai Mafia.
I shook my head.
“It is too early to judge. It’s still the first day, isn’t it?”
If you make a hasty conclusion and get the kill angle wrong, it’s a big deal.
‘The worst thing is that there are several bastards who are similar to me or higher up.’
Of course, we don’t really care.
The total power of the underworld doesn’t matter. We only need to find out where Tirshi is.
‘… I have to dig into the gaps in this map of power.’
If they were that strong, they would have been unable to move privately because they were busy checking each other.
Think of the Cold War era.
If you’re scared, they’ll go after you and threaten you, but what the fuck are you doing behind your back? What if you really want to go after it? It is a state of confrontation that makes you break out in a cold sweat.
So, this dispute would be a good opportunity for our commission.
Even in the game, when you catch a boss mob, don’t you leave at least a trivial mob that can be left alone?
I opened my mouth to that conclusion.
“Everyone did a good job today. Let’s eat and sleep well tonight.”
“Well! Then, I am looking forward to Romania’s gastronomy!”
Veronica was as happy as when an office worker opens a can of beer after work.
To be honest, I think he was the smartest, but it wouldn’t have been comfortable to think that he stayed alone in the room and kept waiting for the emergency escape timing.
A husband who makes her wife do five things.
For some reason, she suddenly feels pathetic about herself.
The level of meals was low during the trip, so today, even if the Engel index in my house rises sharply, I have to overcome it.
**
That night, at 3 in the morning.
“Gugureuk gugupokkur—! (Drink meat—!)”
─Food duduck!
The birds that live in Lucregens ate chicken to their stomachs and flew away. I wiped the grease from the meat off my hands with a handkerchief, avoiding falling feathers.
“Loyalty and loyalty, Lord Rodur.”
Long live Papago today. I smiled.
After talking to the party members, I came out of the inn at night and made them cooperate with the city’s biological drones to find the city’s strongmen.
No, it was a bit of a misnomer to have them look for it.
To those birds, I had already heard about some ‘buildings that scare me when I’m near them’. I memorized the location on the map.
‘If it’s the residence of the masters living in this city, it’s safe to say that I can roughly figure it out.’
I didn’t know until I reached a certain level of height, but a master who handles mana like a limb is warned by animals. This is why Sargadis stray cats follow Teresa, our house cat.
It seems that when you reach platinum level, even when it is not time to fight, a sense of intimidation flows out.
If you don’t behave like a chinta who consciously hides your power, you will be caught.
The master’s habitat is to be noticed by animals and avoided.
‘If there is a conflict, the strong members of the family must be in a sensitive state. It must be easy to search for dangerous molecules.’
Fuckers who break into their workshops do all of this for me! Aren’t they in the midst of deshaaat while cutting their annual salary while walking?
If you can remain calm 24 hours a day in this situation, is that human? He’s a cyberman
Every time he hits his subordinates with a golf club in a fit of anger, the blood that flows out will make even the birds notice that he is here.
Even if you hide, everyone will find out.
“I went to Seoul Cyber University~ My success story started~.”
It was in the middle of the way home from work humming a song late at night.
“… Meme?”
I was struck by a strange feeling of discomfort in my eyes.
Sometimes it is.
Just as the world turns around even if you stop after turning the elephant’s trunk 20 times, it is the time when your cognitive ability cannot keep up with the changes in your senses.
─Rumble.
“… Huh, true.”
It was just like that for me now.
The warehouse standing tall and tall on the boulevard seemed strangely sluggish, like a painting of a clock by Salvador Dali.
Was there a surrealist renaissance in this fucking world? I didn’t know because I wasn’t interested in the world of art.
“Open, Bek’an.”
I opened Odin’s eyes without hesitation.
It was a momentary sense of incongruity, but it was clear that my eyeballs, which used Odin’s eyes, sensed the incongruity of mana.
─Stumble.
The sense of incongruity in the distribution warehouse could not overcome the power of Shin’s eyes.
I saw through the true nature of the distorted mana and clicked my tongue.
‘Chit, is it a barrier?’
Should I say that it is dark under the lamp?
It was a warehouse that I finally found because I purposely wandered only on broad roads so as not to get into trouble alone.
If I had tried to search for the dark side, I wouldn’t even have included such an ordinary warehouse as a candidate. And if it wasn’t for Odin’s eyes, I’d never have noticed.
‘The barrier itself has been lifted. This is the remaining mana after it is released.’
It’s like the luminol reaction or ant pheromone. Normally, you wouldn’t even notice it.
It was a very faint reverberation that, even if I had seen it through Odin’s eyes, would have dissipated and disappeared after a few hours.
It is proof that someone opened a barrier here and left while doing something.
“… The fish McDonald’s sister-in-law is talking about?”
I shut my mouth that was making strange noises and pondered.
Should I dig into this, or should I wait for the right time and withdraw today.
The worry was fleeting.
‘Let’s just check it.’
If this place wasn’t a frequently used location, the next time I looked there, I might not find anything. Now is the time to take risks.
I put on the mask after making sure that no one was spying on me by extending my five senses.
‘Transform. Snake Sage Mode.’
─Whiriririk!
Transformed into a non-toxic black mamba, I climbed over the window of a distribution warehouse with a body the size of a rat.
─Clap, clap.
What was there were men dressed in plain clothes, like villagers and young men.
There is no suspicious feeling at all. If I didn’t know about the existence of barriers, I wouldn’t have thought of them as ordinary people’s clubs like mountaineering clubs or early soccer clubs.
‘I still don’t know why the boss concedes to him. If I don’t wash, I’m going to vomit because of the smell every time we meet.”
But I doubt it.
What’s the conversation about? No, it’s the bag of money they pack. You are stacking items that can be exchanged for cash in a large bag like a duffel bag, and you don’t doubt this?
It’s nonsense. If this was a club of ordinary people, the name of the group would probably be a smuggling club.
─Rumble!!
Having judged that, I switched to this mode with the intention of avoiding overkill for now.
They quickly pointed their weapons at me, who appeared while breaking down the mountain of baggage that was piled up. The form of taking out a weapon from a bag smelled like criminals.
I sneered and prepared the flagging ceremony for blood-water magic.
〈Steamed buns again, Sinchon Sinchon Jjam.〉
It was just words that came to mind roughly, but to the people of this world, they would sound strange and incomprehensible. I didn’t even need to say it because I couldn’t interpret it even with my translation skills.
The dumbfounded mafia distorted their faces ferociously.
“This, you bastard!! It’s Kitayin!!〉
“No, I barely understood the truth!”
〈… But how did I know it was Azteca?”
〈Well, you can find out right away, right? Because I believe in our boss! The boss said you can treat the guy who speaks with that weird accent as a bastard who came from Kitai to target Nawabari!”
They discussed something among themselves and then dispersed. A few of them were going to pack their stuff and bounce, and a few others were going to overpower me.
‘Are they responsible for trafficking? Nothing special.’
I was worried because the level of the barrier was high, but it seemed like there would be no problem even now that I didn’t bring any equipment.
‘If these guys didn’t set up barriers, then the trade partner must have installed them.’
If so, catch him and find out what he is doing.
I clenched my fists and released a kick like lightning.
