Bab 76: Orso d'oro (2)

As soon as I entered the room and introduced myself, there were weapons aimed at me. But I was not afraid. Bullet holes and I went hand in hand together.

"Here's the thing…" But it was still rather awkward for me to deliver any news at gun point.

"Who are you?! Fess up!" The aged old man who I presumed was the boss shouted. His gun was still firmly pointed in my direction.

"I… I already answered that" Were they not hearing me? Or maybe I picked up Kaiser's bad habit. Ah, it was definitely the latter.

"I'll give it to you all straight, I am taking over your gang" I decided to just tell them and as expected, they lowered their weapons and-

BANG

Ok, well it didn't happen like that.

The very instant I saw the middle-aged man's finger move for the trigger I ducked. The bullet didn't even graze my body. My speed was unprecedented for the middle-aged man and the boss's eyes widened.

BANG!

I shot back, my gun was covered by black mist and thus the middle-aged man was surprised to find that his leg now had a little blood fountain.

"AHH!!! ARGH!" It took him a moment to realize what had happened before he fell to the ground in pain. He clutched his leg but the blood fountain still spurted.

With hatred, the middle-aged man grit his teeth and weakly aimed his gun at me once more. This time I didn't do anything though.

BANG BANG

"Fa- Father?!?" The son of the boss exclaimed. He brushed his son's gun away from its target just in time. In the end, both of his shots hit nothing.

"Why did Russo send you? We did everything they asked for-a! We've been good!" The old man said letting out some frustration. All I knew was that there was some sort of misunderstanding happening here though.

"Nobody sent me, you are misunderstanding something" I replied hoping not to create any needless enmity.

"What-a? You are not from the government? Den why?" All this did was leave the boss vexed. I couldn't really tell him why, though.

"Why...?" So I feigned indifference and put on an act.

"Wouldn't it be fun?" Though I spoke these words as part of an act, and it was true that I came here at the request of Kaiser, yet I was also not opposed to conquering a gang. Call me childish… Wouldn't it be fun to boss people around like Kaiser does?

"You- You find tis fun!?" The old man shouted. He was looking at me like I was some sort of psychopath which…

Was it wrong? Well, I didn't think I was a psychopath, but was that not something a psychopath would say? Some psychopaths were self-aware for sure but I didn't think that was the case for me. Or was it...?

"Huh…" I was surprised by the realization that there was a chance I was exhibiting some psychopathic behavior.

My amused exclamation at my own thoughts helped me sell my act, I could see the old boss was nearly about to pop a blood vessel.

"Ha… Let me get my son medical attention…" While the exchange was happening, the boss's son was enduring the pain and slowly bleeding out.

"Well… that's it? You give in?" I was taken aback by the Orso d'oro's submissiveness.

"De fact that you came 'ere undetected tells me I don't have a choice if I want my life" The boss's who name I had yet to get told me.

"Well, since we'll be working together what should I call you?" I decided to ask for this figurehead's name. The moment he gave in I became the leader.

"I am Enzo, tis here is-a my son Tony" Enzo said pointing at Tony who had beads of sweat running down his forehead. His facial expression was contorted from pain but his pops was kindly introducing him.

"Say hi, Tony" Enzo continued. His son only gave him a hateful glare.

"Hehehe, suffered enough?" Enzo asked as he opened a cabinet in his desk. He pulled out a couple of painkillers and a first aid kit. It would seem the medical attention was not professional attention.

Noticing my stare, Enzo chuckled.

"I've been in the business for a while, I know my way around a bandage" Enzo said as he slowly wrapped up the bullet wound.

"Shouldn't you remove the bullet first?" I asked remembering things a little differently.

"Oh right, this will 'urt" Enzo said before a painful wail enveloped the entire building.

"AAAAAARGH NOT LIKE THAT!!!" Tony was an unfortunate son.

Much later, Enzo fixed up his son Tony. He personally took him to a room to rest and get better before returning to his office to discuss things with me.

"It's not the first time, Tony can be such a baby" Enzo said initiating some small talk as he found his way to his desk chair.

"So, how'd you do it?" Enzo seemed rather willing to go under me the entire time but that didn't mean he wouldn't ask questions. He had as much right as anyone else to be curious.

"It's my specialty, I walked right in" I replied causing Enzo to jolt from shock.

"You- You are an irradiate?!" Enzo asked bewildered. Cold sweat seemed to soak his back, Enzo was visibility uncomfortable. He must have recalled aiming his gun towards me earlier.

As for being irradiate...

"I guess you could say that" I had no reason to clear up this misunderstand.

Enzo had already suspected something of the sort, he wouldn't have forced his son's shot to miss otherwise. Still, affirming it really came as a shock. He was left agape for a few seconds.

"What is a person of such caliber doing here?" Enzo said with some suspicion. I did claim I wasn't from the government but if I was truly irradiate I would definitely have to have come from the surface.

Crystals were abundant here in Termina but only at the lowest energy ranking. Entering the irradiate stage with just those cheap crystals was worthy of an accolade.

That said, entering just half of the altered stage was amazing on its own. From what I could sense, Enzo was hardly at grade 3, his son was merely grade 2. Kaiser gave me a good bit of information and this was no new gang.

"Kaiser is really a mystery…" I muttered silently forgetting to answer Enzo's question.

"What?" Enzo said confused.

"It doesn't concern you, let's talk business" I switched gears and put on a cold expression as I found myself a seat in front of his desk.

For the coming hour, we would be businessmen doing business.

PERTIMBANGAN PENCIPTA
Pwnzer

By the way, I tried giving Enzo some personality by giving him an accent but if you guys don't like it I can stop. I did try to make what Enzo is saying be obvious in each of his sentences but if it's not obvious enough I can refrain from changing words or removing letters.

Thanks for reading~!

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