Bab 20: First Conquest (I)
~~Two days later~~
I grabbed a hamburger and took a bite from it before nodding my head… There was just this thing about fast food. Back at the orphanage, we never had any fast food and when I was staying with Ren and Mai, we mostly ate takeouts, but rarely any fast food.
"Umm…" I turned around to find a girl slightly older than me staring at me along with a boy younger than me standing behind her.
"You can have these, but you know what to do, right?" I asked as I picked up the packet filled with hamburgers. The girl simply nodded and accepted the packet before making herself scarce along with the boy. I stared at their retreating back before shaking my head.
At first, I thought I was lucky to find an under-construction 7-storey building. Apparently, I was fucking wrong. The building was filled with homeless people who came scurrying out of their hidey holes as soon as the sun started to set… They saw me and it didn't take long for the news to spread.
That was when a few guys came to me, looking for trouble… It was obvious that I had stuff with me and they wanted to take all that stuff from me…
~~Flashback Starts~~
"I heard there was someone new" One of the men spoke. Ah… The building was not as empty as I originally thought. I closed my eyes before I turned around to stare at the group of men approaching me. This was an anime supposed to be for kids, right? I wondered inside my mind.
"Hey kid, where are you from? You aren't lost are you?" Another man asked, trying to act concerned, but he was a shitty actor.
"What do you have there, kid?" Another one asked, pointing at my bag, unable to hide his real intentions.
"Look, I promise you, you do not want to do this" I warned them as I stood up. I knew they were going to ignore my warning, but I still decided to give them one, just so that nobody could complain after I break their bones. It might seem cruel, but the world was a cruel place.
The men stopped in their tracks and looked at each other for a moment. "Kid, just give us the bag" One of the men demanded since they realized that their jig was up.
"Not happening, but if you want it then come and take it, but remember I warned you" I spoke again as I decided to take off my t-shirt. A fight was inevitable so I decided to save at least my t-shirt.
"Why the hell is he taking off his clothes?" One of the men asked while looking at the man beside him.
"The fuck I know!" The man snarled unhappily before taking a threatening step toward me. "You can only blame yourself for this!" The man growled and rushed at me with his fist pulled back while the others simply decided to stand around and enjoy the show, or maybe, they wanted to stop me from running away…
The man simply gaped when I caught fist with extreme ease… I guessed all of these people were probably Quirkless since people with even the weakest Quirks could get a job in their world. "I warned you" I growled and twisted his arm, making him scream before I punched him in the chest, knocking the wind out of his lungs.
"Fuck! He has a Quirk!" One of the men screamed fearfully as I dropped the man on the ground. He clutched his hand and started to wheeze painfully. I could see fear in the eyes of the others, but one of them still stepped forward, trying to continue this little scuffle.
"What if he has a Quirk? He is just a fucking kid!!" The man screamed and the others were looking at me fearfully, regained their bearings and realized that they could do this.
"Oh well…" I shrugged as I rushed at them instead of giving them a chance to attack me. I kicked the closest man to my left and broke his knee, making him scream before I punched him in the face, knocking him out. I easily dodged the man at my right as he tried to punch me and punched him in the chest before hitting him in the throat when he keeled.
This time I decided to hold myself back as I didn't want to collapse his larynx and kill him… I wasn't against killing any of them, but getting rid of the bodies would be quite troublesome since I was in a completely new city without any local knowledge. The rest of the men also met the same fate within the next few seconds and I didn't even have to transform, which was great.
"I told you, you don't want this" I said as I went to grab my t-shirt and that was when I noticed some other people staring at me from the corners. They were afraid, I could see the fear in their eyes, but they weren't running. "Grab them and get lost" I ordered and a couple of men along with a few women fearfully stepped out of the corners and started to leave with the men who attacked me.
Fuck… This was a nice place… I cursed inside my mind as I realized that I might have to leave this place since they could simply snitch on me, but even if I left, they could still snitch on me… Then all of a sudden an idea popped inside my head. "Hey you, you guys want food, right?" I asked and everyone froze.
"I can give you food, but in return, I want something from you" I said and even though they looked at me warily, they decided to wait and see what I wanted from them…
~~Flashback Ends~~
That was how I became their employer… In exchange for some food, they would go around the city and collect information for me. It was certainly a risk since one of them could simply go off to any of the local clubs to tattle, but it was a necessary risk, especially when the cops were already looking for me.
It was only yesterday when one of the women came rushing to me to inform me that the cops were looking for me. Well, I was already expecting that, but I wasn't expecting them to be this quick… Unfortunately for them, I am going to be one of those thousand kids they were never able to find again.
Now, I simply needed to lay low before they finally give up…
I looked down at the notebook in my hands and started to formulate my next move. There were three nightclubs which weren't doing well at this moment… The first one was a branch of a franchise, so I decided to remove it from the list. I could take over the branch with extreme ease, but it would bring too much heat on me.
The other two nightclubs were a much better option, but I couldn't take over both of them, at least, not yet. One of them was being run by a gang leader wannabe known for a really quick temper. He apparently inherited the club after his father passed away and now he was running the business into the ground with his poor decision.
The third nightclub was a new establishment, but the staff and the customers were being harassed by some local goons. Goons would visit the place and cause a ruckus every day… If nothing was done, they would soon go bankrupt and they would be forced to close the place. It was obvious that the goons were simply following someone's orders, but I had no idea who.
I felt sympathetic toward them, but helping them now would bring me unnecessary problems, which meant that the second nightclub was the best choice for me…
Status Power Mingguan
-- Peringkat
Power 
-- Power
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