章節 100: Chapter 19:Call me Mr. Holmes
"Who are you?"
"It is not necessary to be so aggressive, miss" seeing that Xio still maintained her posture and did not put away the sword, Adryan shook his head.
"I'm no one in particular, just a normal samaritan who saw a person in distress and helped"
"I had it covered" Xio replied defensively and Adryan just pointed at the revolver that was to the side.
"You almost got shot in the back and you wouldn't even know it until the bullet hit you, that's not 'having it covered' to anyone with common sense," he teased as he rested his shoulder on the wall and crossed his arms looking at Xio who gnashed her teeth.
Before they could continue talking the man that Xio had before had tried to get away but Xio stepped on the man's leg with force causing him to let out a scream.
"Please help me" the man said as he looked at Adryan with swollen eyes while the redhead just tilted his head to the side.
"Sir, I would recommend that you give the lady what she wants before she makes your face look like a deformed Mulock."
"Damm you...."
A kick reached his face and Xio grabbed his shirt again as she placed the edge of her sword on the man's neck.
"This is your last chance bastard, tell me where your boss is or say goodbye to this world"
"Okay, okay, I'll talk, I'll talk!!!"
Bringing the sword closer until it drew blood from the man's neck, Xio spoke in a deep voice.
"Fast"
'Shit miss, I knew you had a reputation but to think that you would be some kind of Batwoman, who would have thought?'
Seeing how the man trembled with fear and was very pale, Adryan compared this to the famous bat detective.
"Mr. Joseph has been busy trying to take the Red Gang's land for himself but the Red Skeleton and Creed gangs have had the same idea so he is trying to negotiate with them."the man quickly spoke while sweating profusely and trembling.
Hearing the name, Adryan was slightly surprised and looked at Xio with a raised eyebrow.
'Mr. Joseph? that's the name of the head of the Black Skull gang, what would Xio want with someone like that?' the documents he had stolen from the Red Band pointed to this boss as one of the craziest and most dangerous just below the leader of the Red Moon.
Hearing this, Xio slapped the man's face several times before speaking again.
"Where is Joseph?"
"I already told you I don't know, Mr. Joseph moves between this area and ours secretly and the only one who knows where he is is the second in command Billy Brown!!" the man shrilled as his pants got wet and an ammonia smell reached Adryan's sensitive nose and he frowned.
'This guy's kidney must be rotten,does he even drink water?....'
Xio ignored the smell of urine and she just placed the point of her sword at the man's forehead.
"Where's Billy?"
The man was as pale as a dead man and was shaking as if suffering from an extreme case of hypothermia as he stared at the sword.
"He frequents the Blue Bar and Red Theaters in the Red Street at 8:00 p.m. you won't have a problem finding him, he is a skinny man with sunken eyes along with a large scar on his left eye!!!"
Xio only nodded at the man's words, letting go of his dirty shirt.
The man's face lit up with joy but he only managed to see how a foot collided with his face and then nothing.
Clap Clap Clap.
"Brutal brutal now with the chair!!!"
Whistling and clapping at Xio's move, Adryan spoke as Xio shot him a look while still holding her sword.
"Don't you have a sense of humor"seeing that his joke went over the head of the woman Adryan said as he stopped clapping.
"What is your business with me?"
"I don't have any business with you, like I said I'm just a good samaritan who decided to help"
"Then why are you still here?"
'Great observation'He thought with a smile under his mask, and leaning against the wall, Adryan replied.
"I just wanted to see the show and I couldn't leave after hearing that you had business with the leader of the Black Skull....Don't be so aggressive I'm not part of the gang." he said and added as he watched as Xio almost went against him.
Still alert, Xio asked as she watched for any sudden movement from the masked man.
"May I know why?"
"I'm interested in them and I wouldn't mind helping you deal with them, of course that depends on whether you're only interested in the leader or in destroying the whole gang"
"Who are you again?" Xio asked seriously as she watched the man move away from the wall and move closer to stand in front of her.
"You can call me Mr. Holmes, may I know your name miss?" he said as he extended his right hand towards her.
Xio had to raise her head in order to look at the man's masked face due to the difference in height.
After all she was barely 1.62 meters tall, with her boots adding 10 centimeters, while the man in front of her was easily 1.84 meters tall.
Looking at the outstretched hand, Xio only took a step back as she answered.
"You can just call me miss"
With a small laugh, Adryan lowered his hand as he nodded.
"Understood miss"
'Let's play this game,Miss Judgement' Adryan thought with a smile under his mask.
Xio just nodded as she put away she sword.
"I want you to understand something Mr. Holmes, we will be working together as long as the leader of the Black Skull lives, when he dies our collaboration ends understood?"
"Understood"
"We will be in contact through the bar at the bottom of this street, every Monday and Wednesday we will see each other behind it at 6:00 p.m. If you are ever absent or do not attend for any reason, our collaboration ends"
'Miss, is this a job interview or what?'
"We'll talk again tomorrow goodbye Mr. Holmes" Xio said as she left the alley leaving Adryan and the men she fought earlier alone.
"Okay guys I'll let you wallow in piss and dirt by yourself bye"
Looking at these men who couldn't answer, Adryan only bowed slightly and the shadows enveloped him, disappearing from the alley.
章節 101: Chapter 20:The Red Street
Dodging a bottle being thrown at him and grabbing a man's neck, he threw him through a window.
Moving his head to the side, he dodged the blow of someone who was attacking him from behind and then grabbed the arm and made a judo movement, slamming his attacker against a table, breaking it.
'How the fuck did we come to this....'Adryan thought somewhat surprised as he gave a roundhouse kick to someone who tried to jump on him sending the bastard flying.
Turning his head, he saw how a somewhat short figure had just hit the head of a man against the wall, knocking out the poor man, and then was grabbed from behind, but she elbowed her attacker's chest, who released her, the figure then grabbed a bottle which she used to hit the man's head knocking him out as well and breaking the bottle.
Looking around he was slowly being surrounded by 5 men who had drawn knives and were watching him waiting for an opportunity to attack.
Letting out a laugh, Adryan spread his arms and spoke mockingly while aproaching slowly towards them.
"Come on cowards I hope you know how to use that!!"
....
Going back in time to a half an hour before, a masked Adryan and a hooded Xio were at the agreed location yesterday.
After leaving the alley Adryan continued to watch over Nathan and so he repeated the same on Wednesday morning till the Clown went back home.
He didn't have classes with Isengar because the detective had given him two weeks off the last time he went to see him...
Looking at the disguise Xio was wearing to hide her identity, Adryan nodded.
'The scarf she's wearing helps to cover her more delicate features while those boots help a lot with her height part although I wonder if she uses them in her day to day'
Seeing as there was still time, Adryan decided to ask a question to pass the time and also answer his doubts.
"Miss, I have a question, wouldn't the men you knocked out yesterday inform the other members that we are looking for their leader?"
Xio shook her head as she took out her triangle sword and looked at it.
"After leaving the alley I went to look for the police who took them away, those guys were wanted by them and they had a good reward on their head so now they are behind bars without being able to inform anyone"
Releasing a quieter sigh, Adryan leaned against the wall.
"That's good to hear. I was worried that leaving them alive was a bad idea."
Not caring about the masked man's dark words, Xio put away her sword as she went deeper into the alley.
"The time that he most frequents the blue bar is coming, we have to move"
Turning away from the wall, Adryan just followed Xio deeper into the alley until darkness enveloped the two of them.
.....
On the red street where the street girls were already paid to go to some cheap motel, where the drunks were passed out from drinking so much, where in the alleys other homeless were taking some drug and where the workers had to go through to get to their houses while their eyes were death.
This was one of the streets most traveled by the poor of Backlund and where the police had the least control, who reigned here were the gangs.
In the middle of between two motels there was a bar, this was the Blue Bar, one of the most popular bars in the East Borough due to its cheap alcohol that allowed workers to get drunk even with their low wages.
Observing the bar from the alley, Adryan had just heard from Xio all the details of this street and he could only clench his fist tightly.
Looking coldly as a girl who didn't seem to be more than 14 years old hugged the arm of a man who could be her grandfather together they entered one of the motels next to the bar.
Xio who was observing the masked man could only sigh having observed the same thing.
"Families here don't earn enough so with no other option the women in the family become street girls to earn more money"
Watching as another girl accompanied another man to the motel, Xio's tone turned darker.
"These women can only continue in this life until they get out of here but because they have to put up with all kinds of treatment that almost never happens, they end up being killed by some drunk who was too hard on them or they end up disappearing never to be found. "
'And there are still other streets like this in the East Borough...'
Looking at how this street was a place of so much suffering, Adryan's eyes clouded slightly.
'It is no surprise that the True Creator has tried to use the suffering and corruption of this place to descend.
Roselle's words couldn't be more wise, Backlund is a huge time bomb for the descent of an evil God'
Thinking of Emperor Caesar, Adryan turned his cloudy gaze to the side and his eyes focused on a person.
"Mr. Holmes..." Xio's serious voice sounded at his side and Adryan answered with a deep voice.
"I saw it Miss"
A thin man with sunken eyes and a scar on his left eye was walking on the other side of the street with his arm wrapped around a street girl who was doing her best not to scowl.
The two of them entered the bar, Xio and Adryan looked at each other and nodded and moved on their way to the blue bar.
The workers made way to let these strange people pass and gave them a few glances.
Arriving at the door of the bar Xio entered first being followed by Adryan who looked around the bar.
The one named Billy was sitting to one side with the girl sitting on his lap who hugged and kissed the man's neck while he drank.
Xio she moved to reach for the table and smack it with her palm as she stood up straight and looked at the surprised man.
"Billy Brown, you're coming with us"
"That was a bad move miss" Adryan said as he watched as several people got up from their places and started to approached them.
Billy's expression went from surprise to fury.
"Who do you think you are to talk to me like that bitch!!" his voice was harsh and his breath horrible.
The woman who was in his lap got up a bit scared and tried to leave the place but was stopped by Adryan.
Looking alarmed at whoever held her arm, the woman was going to scream but saw how the man delicately opened her hand and placed something in it.
"Sorry for the inconvenience miss please have this"
The masked man released her and the woman put her hand to her chest, looking suspiciously at the man.
Opening her hand slightly the woman widened her eyes in shock and looked back at the man.
"Sir..." trying to speak the woman was interrupted by Xio's voice.
"You will come with us whether you like it or not"
Watching and knowing where this was going, Adryan just stood in front of the woman with his back to her and spoke.
"You better go miss things are about to get ugly"
Looking at the man's back, she just nodded and quickly left the bar.
"Thank you..." the woman spoke weakly before leaving without knowing if she was heard.
Clenched tightly in her fist was a 10 pound note....
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