Chapter 10
-Red Lotus's gate-
-01:30-
In front of a golden fence gate stood two guards dressed in black suits with a red lotus flower on their breast pocket, dark sunglasses and a white earpiece on their ear. They stood on each side of the gate with their eyes focused on the road.
"Black and green Audie," said the man in the left making his colleague shrugged.
"Red Ferrari," the man on the right said getting a snort from the other. "What's wrong with my choice?" he asked looking at him.
"Have you even seen a red car, let alone a Ferrari enter this place?" he asked looking back.
"Satoshi, told me in his shift someone came in with a red Ferrari," The man on the left defended, making the other snort.
"Well lucky him then, let's see who's the lucky one today," The man on the right said as he returns his gaze to the road as a black and green Audi, made its way towards the gate stopping in front of them.
Both of the men walked to each side of the car as the window rolled down, to show a man with combed back snow-white hair, dark purple eyes and peachy white skin. "Good Evening, mind letting me in?" he asked.
"We need your id first," The man on the left said making the snow-haired man give it to him.
"Here you go," he said as the guard took the card.
The man took out a flashlight aiming at the card, turning it on making a purple light hit the card and scan both sides. "Sir mind if you lower the windows of your car?" the guard on the left requested.
The snow hair man did so, lowering the windows to show that he was alone in the car. "Something wrong?" he asked getting silence for a few seconds as the guard took his own flashlight turning it on and aim at the inside of the car for a few seconds scanning the car and backed away.
The guard look back at him and shook his head. "No, not at all."
The other guard gave the card back to the snow-haired man. "Enjoy your night, Mister Kusutā."
"The same to you, gentlemen," Kusutā said as the windows rolled up as the gates opened.
The car drove off and when it passed the gates, they started to close. "You owe…" the man on the right started but his colleague stopped him.
"Shut up," he said with a growl making the other laugh a little.
In the car, Kusutā pocked his id and snorted. "Security is pretty lax on the gate."
{What did you expect? People dressed in SWAT armor with rifles?} Yusei's voice came out of the stereo.
"I was expecting more than just, two guards and a large gate," he looked down at his watch touching the faceplate, he started to scroll.
"Ben, that would look suspicious as hell." Lilith's voice came from the backseat.
"For what's happening tonight, it's pretty lax in my opinion," Ben pressed his watch again as metallic flakes form on his hand and formed into a pair of square glasses and a silver earbud.
"They probably have more guards inside," She said once again.
"Probably, but I doubt that they are going to bust out their best, just yet," he put on the glasses. {Anyways, how far is our new friend?}
{20 minutes from,} Yusei said as Ben grabbed the wheel and took a turn to a parking lot.
Ben parked the car and turn off the engine. "Well good luck on your behalf ladies," he said getting out of the car tapping on the side of his glasses making the inside of the lens to dim while on the other side it looked normal and put the earbud on his left ear.
"The same to you boss," came the voice of Amber getting a nod, from Ben and closed the door and started walking. "How much of a show, do you think he might do?" she asked making Lilith sigh.
"Well considering the mission, he might go out with a bang," Lilith answered.
…
Humming to himself, as the earbud was playing one of his favorite song. "Well this, new earbud work perfectly," Ben walked towards the exit. "This sure is going to be useful."
{Kinda why, we made it,} Yusei said as Ben left the parking lot and saw a bright light up sign nearby pointing at the road ahead. "Welcome to the Red Lotus," it was written in large red words.
"Then let's use, this to the best of it's ability," he said making Yusei sigh as Ben followed the direction.
-Meanwhile-
-Musutafu Police Station-
-Briefing room-
-01:30
The room was quiet as the heroes and Daishin heard the recording. {Now it's up to you,} they heard as the recording stopped making the room now completely silent.
Clearing his throat Daishin stood up. "As, we heard Omuni is on the move again, but at least this time we have a lead on his actions."
"And how do we know this isn't a trap?" Asked a man with green hair with a few yellow streaks, dressed in a plain white suit and glasses. "If Omuni did this there has to be a reason."
"That's true Nighteye, but sadly we don't have any idea of his current reasoning," Daishin said getting a thoughtful look from Nezu.
"Perhaps he's after a crowd?" he proposed.
"A crowd?" Naomasa questioned. "That would be out of his usual pattern," he voiced his opinion.
"Indeed, it would. But with what Omuni has done recently, we can't ignore that possibility," Daishin said looking at Nezu. "What could he possibly want a crowd for?"
Nezu looked at the papers once again. "Possibly he wants a crowd for his official debut," he stayed for a bit. "Or it can be for something else entirely."
"Maybe he's planning in sending a message," suggested an extremely short, elderly man with heavy wrinkles and a scrawny built. His hair is grey and spikey, styled short with some bangs hanging forward and a trimmed beard. His costume was of a full-body monochrome suit along with a yellow cape, a belt with the letter "G" on it, very thick yellow gloves and boots, and a dark domino mask which resembles two diamonds. "And with the crowded casino, gives him a perfect setting to send his usual bloody message."
"That could be the highest possibility, in case he isn't stop that is," Nezu said looking at Daishin. "And besides of the recording what do we have or know?" Nighteye asked.
Naomasa typed on a computer making pictures of the women how up on the screen behind him. "The women who were in the truck, were the victims of kidnapping and like in the recording said they were plan to be sold," he started typing once again showing the picture of Yìshí. "And this is the man, who's Omuni's after."
. "Yìshí Kòngzhì, I presume?" Nighteye asked getting a nod from Naomasa. "What information, do we have on him?"
"We don't have that much information on him, besides a few court cases of some minor crime," Naomasa said as the screen changed once again, show images of the Red Lotus that showed the full scale of the property showing, it was large enough to be consider a small town.
"We are going to divide in five teams," Daishin said as the outer area that lead to the Red Lotus were marked with red lines. "Firstly, the Police will block all the entrance and exit of the Red Lotus when we have eyes on our targets, Nezu and Gran Torino will be in charge of strategy," he said as the lines changed once again to surround the entire place.
"Best Jeanist, Edgeshot and the Police will be in charge in rescuing those who were kidnapped and arrest the smugglers," he said as the line changed to the center of the Red Lotus being the largest building in the lot.
"Inside of the casino, Naomasa and Nighteye will enter the casino to find Kòngzhì, and use him as bait to attract Omuni, with that All Might and Endeavor will be in charge in attacking and capture Omuni," he said looking at the heroes. "Any objection?" he asked getting non making him nod. "Good, we have little time to spare and we need to get prepared," he said.
The heroes got up and started to leave the room, leaving Daishin and Naomasa in the room and soon after another police officer walked in with a laptop in hand.
Naomasa walked up to the officer. "How did it go?" he asked as the officer opened the computer and turn to face him.
"We tried everything, we could but this happened," he said showing that the screen was dark with a chibi form of Omuni holding a sign written. "Wait for further instructions."
"The screen has been like this, since we connected the flash drive, we couldn't do anything" he said pressing the power button and nothing happened. "Not even the power button is working."
Naomasa sighed slightly as Daishin walked besides the two officers. "And where is the flash drive?" Daishin asked as the officer took the drive from his pocket. "Continue the digging until, something is found," he said getting a nod from the officer. "Naomasa, let's head out," Daishin walked out of the room followed by Naomasa.
-Red Lotus Parking lot-
-01:10-
A man was in the parking lot limping on his right leg, towards a wall as he holds his left shoulder. He had short red hair, one of his eyes was closed while the other was open to show, it was a light shade of gray, he had tan skin and was dressed in a complete black attire. He limped towards the wall and pressed his hand to it.
The wall give way to an elevator, getting in he pushed one of the buttons making the door close shut and the elevator to move.
He sighed as he rested against the elevator wall and looked down at his broken leg, he closed his eyes trying to calm his breathing. "I should've bailed, while I had a chance," he told himself as the elevator took a few minutes and then dinged and the doors opened.
He sighed once again as he started to limp out of the elevator into a room that was filled with rows of server and the room was light up by many green monitors. "You look like crap, Kizaru," said a man that was sat in front of the many monitors.
Kizaru grunted leaning on a server for support. "Don't even fucking start, fly eyes," he growled as he limped closer making the man turn on his chair to face him.
The man had a rather slim build with short wavy black hair, his eyes were covered by round sunglasses, on his left ear was an ear piece, he had a pale skin tone and was dressed in attire of black jacket with a golden security badge on his left shoulder, a yellow shirt with white stripes and black pants.
"You look even worse, up close. What happened to you?" he asked leaning on his chair. "Let me guess, you lost your goons or something?" he asked making Kizaru grunt.
"Don't antagonise me, Bijan. Call the boss the mission was a bust," he snaped back making Bijan sigh and tap his ear piece.
"Boss, Kizaru arrived according to him. His mission was a bust," he said in a somewhat bored tone as he looked at the red head. "Alright, I'll tell him," he said tapping his ear piece again. "Boss said, to wait here, maybe he'll take pity on you and just fire you," he said turning around to face the monitors.
Kizaru gritted his teeth glaring at the back of the black hair. "Screw off, I'm more useful than you!" he barked making Bijan yawn a bit as Kizaru got closer.
"Coming from you, of course you are," he said still sounding bored as Kizaru tried to say something but before he could. The left wall slides open as two men walked out of the elevator.
One of them was Yìshí in dressed in a white suit with a red tie and a red lotus flower on his chest pocket.
While the other man was taller than Yìshí, he had a somewhat thin body built and light tan skin, short comb white chair and matching eyes, he was dressed in a red vest with a same color tie with a white long sleeve shirt under it, red slacks and black shoes.
Yìshí walked in with the white hair man followed behind him, he stopped in front of Kizaru staring down at him with a neutral look. "Please, explain what happened?" he asked in a calm voice.
Kizaru stood up straight facing the man. "Boss, before the transport of the merchandise, we were ambushed by some guy wearing a black cloak," Kizaru started. "He showed up out of nowhere and killed everyone, I barely managed to survive him."
"Was everyone in your group and also the merchandise killed?" Yìshí asked getting a nod from the red hair. "And how did you survive?"
"He threw me out of the building and I landed on some trash," he said. "But it wasn't enough for me to came out unscathed."
Yìshí nodded. "I see, and what did the person who attack you, look like?" Yìshí asked folding his arm behind his back.
"I couldn't get a good look of him, he was wearing a cloak with a hood," he said making Yìshí look at him still with a neutral stare.
"And why didn't you contact me or Bijan?"
Kizaru shifted a bit on his feet. "I couldn't call anyone; my phone was blocked."
"Really? That's odd," Yìshí stated. "And where's your phone?" he asked as Kizaru pulled out his phone that was a bit cracked. "Does It still work?" he asked getting a nod from the red head. "Please give it here," he said stretching his hand and Kizaru give him the phone.
Yìshí unblocked the phone. "Looks to be working well," he said as he glanced back to the man behind him. "Seigyo, please call Kizaru's phone?" Kizaru asked as the white hair man took out his phone and dialed the number and put it on speaker.
The room was filled with the sound of the phone for a while. "The number your calling is either…" Seigyo ended the call before, the dial could continue.
"Kizaru," Yìshí called focusing again on the red head. "Let get this straight, someone attacked you and your group. He killed everyone and you only survive because, you were thrown out of the building?" he asked with a slight raised eyebrow.
Kizaru nodded. "Yes, that's what happened," he said making Yìshí look at him as he took a step closer to face him.
"Nothing else happened?" he asked staring right at Kizaru's eyes.
Kizaru stared back at Yìshí and nodded his head. "Yes, nothing else happened."
Yìshí stayed quiet for a few seconds. "Alright," he said smiling at him and gently patting Kizaru on the shoulder making the man flinch. "Oh sorry," he pulled his hand away. "You should head to the infirmary and get patched up, Alright?" he asked getting a nod from Kizaru.
"Thank you, Boss," he said as he stood straight up. "May I leave?" he asked getting a nod from Yìshí making him limp away back to the elevator, he came from but he fell half of the way. "Fuck."
"Need some help?" Yìshí asked as Kizaru helped himself up by using the row as a support.
"I'm good," he said as he limped into the elevator, pressing the button as the door close.
Yìshí's smile vanished as he turns around to face Bijan. "Bijan send someone to take care of Kizaru, I have feeling, his hiding something." Yìshí sighed shaking his head slightly. "I lost a good batch."
Bijan nodded as he turned back to face the monitors. "And what will happen to the auction?"
"It will still happen, we just have to increase our security and make sure to later find, the attacker," Yìshí said still in a calm tone. "I leave the rest with you, Bijan," he walked to the elevator followed by Seigyo.
"Will do boss," Bijan said as one of the monitors focused on Kizaru still in the elevator.
Kizaru sighed as he leaned against the elevator wall. "This is practically, suicide," he thought looking at the scar on his forearm and felt phantom pain creep around it making the man shiver a bit.
"Ding!" That caught his attention making him look up to see, white walls. "Great no one, is here yet," Kizaru thought as he started to limp again out of the elevator. "I need to…" his train of thought was cut when he noticed two men in black walking towards him. "Shit,"
"Follow us," one of them said making Kizaru sigh as he stood straight.
"Can you guys help me?" he asked as the two men walked to each side and one of them cuffed, Kizaru's wrists together and started to drag him. "Geez, thanks." He said sarcastically.
The men started walking as Kizaru sighed once again. "And I guess, I'm fired?" Kizaru asked lowering his head, as the two men started to drag him somewhere.
One of the men pressed the ear piece. {Boss, we have him in the room,} he said letting go of the earpiece.
-Meanwhile with Ben-
-Red Lotus Entrance-
-01:00-
In the entrance of the Red Lotus, there was another gate but this time there was a man dressed in a similar attire to Seigyo behind a wooden podium stand. "And what currency are you going to use, Mister Kusutā?" he asked looking up at Ben.
"Dollars," he answered getting a nod from the man.
"You want 200.000 dollars in your account?" he asked getting a nod from Ben. "Alright," he said as after a few minutes, he took out a golden card with a flower on the background. "Here you go."
Ben took the card and smile. "Well thank you," he said as he started to walk to the gates as they opened.
"Wow, this place is pretty much a tiny Vegas," he thought as he walked through the gates to see a sea of bright neo colors coming from the various establishments spread around the Red Lotus from stores that looked to be mini malls, large restaurants, cinemas and hotels all around one building that also was the largest building. The casino that from the point of view of the streets, it looked to be about 10 stories high.
"Wow, and I thought I overdo stuff," he said to himself as he started walking towards the casino, as he walked, he looked noticing that the number of security guards who were dressed in heavy armor and were standing in front or near by each store and also the many cameras around the place. "Alright, this looks more like a prison," he thought as he approached the larger building.
Ben noticed the guards were wit batons and a bulky gun in the holsters. "Enjoy your night sir, and avoid causing problems," one of them said getting a nod from Ben.
Ben walked in the casino the entire place was decorated with red and white décor from the walls to the floors with circles in it written in golden letters kanji for gamble and bet and also the large number of gambling tables around the floor.
"Which of them should, I play," Ben tapped his chin, as he stopped in front of a blackjack table. "Well this we'll be a good start," he thought as he sat on the chair. "Evening," he greeted the dealer with a smile.
"Good Evening Sir, I believe you already know the rules?" the dealer asked.
"I know the rules, but I don't know how the betting system works here," Ben answered getting a nod from the dealer.
"There are those small card readers," he started pointing at the small silver card reader with a digital screen. "Where you swipe and you could adjust the amount you wish to bet."
Ben nodded. "Alright," he swiped his card on the reader and placed his bet.
"200.000 right at the start?" The dealer asked getting a nod from Ben.
"Yup, I'm feeling pretty luck today," he smirked at the dealer who nodded as started shuffle the cards.
The dealer placed two cards on Ben's side two king of hearts and for the dealer a 10 of hearts and one that was faced down.
"I'll stay," Ben said as the dealer turn his other card to show it was a 7 of spades. "Well nice," he said as he saw the number on his screen to increase to a total of 400.000.
"That's pretty good Sir," the dealer said taking the cards. "Another round?" he asked getting a nod from Ben.
"Yup, I'm planning on walking out rich tonight," Ben smirked as he swiped his card again on the reader.
…
-Red Lotus Gate-
00:50
The two guards stared forward as a police car drove towards the gate, making the two share a look at each other and then approach the car.
As they did so, both windows on the front lowered to show Naomasa and Nighteye. "Good evening, gentlemen. We are here to have a talk with Mister Kòngzhì," Naomasa said making one the man looked at them.
"Firstly can, I get both your id?" he asked as the other man on the right extending their hands to take the cards.
Both Naomasa and Nighteye give them the cards and analyzed and after a bit give them back. "Please wait a minute." The man on the left pressed on his earpiece. {Chief there's an officer and a hero here, that want to talk to the boss.}
Looking at the clock, Naomasa slowly tapped his finger on the wheel. "48 minutes left," he thought as the guard walk back to the car.
"Sir, my superior asked, the reason why to want to talk with Mister Kòngzhì?"
"There was an accident truck with a truck that held illegal material earlier tonight. According to the sign felt on it, the truck belonged to Mister Kòngzhì," Naomasa said making the guard silent for a bit with his hand on his ear piece.
The man nodded as the gates opened. "Please drive directly to the second gate, since it's an important matter," he said getting a nod from Naomasa who rolled up the window and drove off.
As the gate closed the two guards went back to their spot. "Another one?" asked the man on the right.
"Probably," the other responded with a shrug.
…
Leaning backward on his chair, Yìshí closing his eyes. "I see, maybe I'll get some information from them," he said in an almost bored tone.
{I honestly doubt that, they'll have any information about who did it,} Bijan's voice came out the earpiece. {But better avoid suspicions.}
"Indeed, while I'm dealing with our dear guest. You should take care about security."
{Already on it, sensors and everything else being set up as we speak.}
Opening his eyes Yìshí stared at the grey ceiling, while he sighed slightly. "And also make sure, Kizaru has some company for the night. I don't want him to spend it alone."
Slight laughter could be heard on the other end. {Leave it to me, I'll send him some special company.} his laughter was audible until Yìshí pressed his ear piece and stood up.
His office was rather large able to fit 10 or more people, it was decorated like any usual office, with a desk, computer, couches and other furniture around the room, with a few paintings of himself on the wall and a large window behind him giving a great view of the lighten up city.
Yìshí looked at the couches where Seigyo was sat and signaled him. "We have to meet someone," he said walking passed the white hair man, who stood up and followed him out of the room without noticing that the chair, Yìshí was sitting near seconds ago moved slightly.