4 Deal (1/2)

Charles was in a bad mood recently. The Red Scorpions had recently become more and more brazen, but most importantly increasingly influent.

The total number of gang members went from half a dozen to more than a hundred in less than a month, and there was no sign of stopping. The local officers already had trouble dealing with them, so if their number were to surpass those of the police then that would become a true calamity.

Recently those thugs always seemed to escape from him, and he failed to catch any this week.

Right now, Charles was running around with his squad searching for the culprits of the huge explosion that just took place. The Red Scorpion Gang had burned the shop of someone who supposedly refused to pay protection fees.

The flour inside created a small explosion, very quickly followed by another one, a bigger one, but of unknown origin. It seemed the gangsters only meant to create the small explosion but the big one wasn't supposed to happen because two of them died in the explosion.

And as Charles was patrolling with his troops, panicked civilians alerted them of an aggression. Of course, they rushed at the scene, hopping they would get to catch the gang members.

But when they arrived, Charles felt chills when he saw the scene. Five body on the ground, all covered in blood, with expressions of fear on their faces.

Next to one of them, a youth who didn't even look like an adult yet was calmly cleaning a sword, using the clothes of the victim. The youth was smiling at him, and that made him nervous.

The youth, was Dorian of course. He had tried smiling because he felt this was the best thing to do to avoid any misunderstanding, but it seemed his lack of social skills came to bite him.

He got up and sheathed his sword, before making his way to the police officers, hands in the air. Then, with a colder face this time, he said ”I was attacked by those thugs and was forced to defend myself.”

Charles looked at the bodies behind Dorian and said ”Defense huh… Where do you live?”

Dorian made a helpless smile and answered ”My hometown was destroyed by the war, and I was forced to come here. I don't have a home for now.”

Charles nodded and asked ”What do you do in life?”

Dorian almost answered he was a student before realizing school in this world probably was only for nobles. So he said ”I was about to become an apprentice under a blacksmith, but I never got to actually learn anything.”

Charles nodded and said ”We won't charge you for killings those scums, we should probably reward you to be honest. But now you will have the whole Red Scorpion Gang after your ass. For your information, they are the biggest gang in the city. I have a deal for you, would you be interested in hearing it?”

Dorian looked at Charles' sincere face and said ”Sure, but why don't we get out of here before that? I don't think staying here is a wise idea for me.”

Charles nodded and said ”Follow us to the station. But first, we need to bring those corpses back, we can't let them here.”

Dorian nodded and said ”I'll help.” He went next to the nearest corpse, which happened to be the one of the leader, and as he squatted down to pick him up, Dorian noticed a book was hidden beneath the corpse, shining with a weak light.

Dorian suddenly became excited as he had a good idea of what this book was, and decided to put it in his bag. Once done, Dorian picked up the corpse and followed the police.