While Artirian was following Arthur to go to the next house. Which is the main headquarters of the group. Suddenly Arthur stopped walking in the middle of the sidewalk and then he turns around and looked at Artirian.
Artirian then looked back at Arthur and asked "Why did you suddenly stop?" Arthur replied with a gloomy face "Well before we go there I was going to say that you can still forgive him?". Artirian will still be slightly confused about why Arthur has to say that but still, they continued to walk towards the house.
Soon enough they reached the house. It was not that pleasant, not like the first house earlier they went into. While they were looking at it, It looked like a house from the 4th section. It was dirty and unappealing.
While there are 4 teenage boys that are guarding the door, once they see Arthur they then immediately bow 90 degrees. After they raised their heads they then opened the door and Artirian would see gambling drinking and smoking.
Artirian will be shocked and disappointed to see the old senior rats, group squad leaders were doing vices. He thinks that all that was happening in the room was a plague for the group and must be stopped immediately.
Arthur quickly looked at Artirian face and there he saw the disappointment that is drawn to Artirian face. Rommel suddenly went out from a room with two young girls. And when he saw Artirian he immediately stopped and He was so startled that he immediately bowed at Artirian.
After that Rommel shouted with an angry tone of voice, "ATTENTION THE LEADER IS PRESENT WHY DIDN'T YOU INFORM ME MAGGOTS FIX THE WHOLE PLACE AND REMOVE THE BEERS AND CARDS!" Once Rommel shouted those words all of the people inside the place were in a state of distress it was so chaotic that some of them scramble. Artirian walked slowly in the middle of the chaos straight towards Rommel.
He then hit Rommel with a hard punch in the face knocking Rommel on the ground "Uhk~". All of the people inside the house then quickly stopped what they were doing earlier.
While Artirian action was surprising for newcomers for the old ones in the group it was a disgrace to be punched by the leader. For the point of view of the new ones because they did not know it was the leader that punched Rommel.
Even though Rommel shouted that the leader is here and the thought that runned through their heads was Arthur was the leader. Then all of the new Rats simply get pissed looking at Artirian with a grudge one shouted.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO OUR VICE LEADER! YOU PUNK!" the one who shouted was at the back and a new rat member. He didn't know that Artirian was the leader at that time so he received an unexpected punch from the face by Arthur.
And said with an intimidating tone of voice "Sit down and learn! that guy is the leader now, pay your respect!" All of them were scared and immediately bow 90 degrees and the guy who was punched would also bow.
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Rommel POV
I then held her hands and started giving her a kiss on her neck as I kissed her neck. She then slowly got a reddish face and I can sense she is getting hot. So I whispered at her ear and said "Hey…if you want we can have more sensual stuff upstairs" then I gave her a gentle smirk and wink before standing up and kissing her hand.
She then responded with a giggle at the same time with a smile and then a nod. Why is she so cute? I said to myself then put my arm around her while we proceeded to the stairs then I immediately stopped when I saw Artirian near the door standing.
I was shocked, startled and didn't even know that he had already arrived. I then quickly panic and would push the girl from the side.
And then would shout "THE LEADER HAVE ARRIVED!" as I look around I see gambling drinking and even hostesses are around I then start to kick one of the tables and shout at them they then also quickly panicked and fix everything.
As I saw Artirian walk towards me I can feel the sense of disappointment from his light blue eyes. His gaze is different. I can feel something going to happen to me. I would then scratch my head and ask "Lead-"I was cut off and a punch in the face I would receive."
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Artirian POV
This wasn't as I expected from Rommel. I really can't believe that he would have this kind of plague in the group. This is too much even in the other house it's like this. The discipline of the group has been lost. I understand that they all came from rags but they cannot always possess a characteristic as rags.
looked at Rommel and said "Stand up, Vice leader!" with an intimidating tone of voice then Rommel replied with a smirk and said "I guess that is your welcoming punch. My dear leader so you want to have some fight eh!?". I then slowly offer my hand and as soon as I offer it he grabs it and then stands up.
Then I put my fist near my face like in a fighting position and said "Let's get to it. Vice leader proved to me that I can still lead this group!" Rommel then started to attack with a kick that landed on my left rib and left shoulder.
To counter his attack I then threw a few straight punches to back him up hitting his left rib and his arms that were covering his face. As I tried to cover my face Rommel jabs were quick and able to hit my face a few times.
Then I quickly duck over hitting him from the left side making his defence weaken and another counter punch that aimed at his face and as it landed he backs off a few steps before regaining his old position.
"After this, we are going to plan something Rommel so prepare the boys," I said while grinning imbued my fist with Gallant force knocking him straight down. The other teenage boys who were watching were shocked at what kind of power I just did. They were amazed and they were also frightened but because Rommel is also a gallant user he would recover once I punched him with that kind of power.
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After the match, Rommel slowly gets up and leans on the wooden wall. Then as Artirian looks around he saw that the place was a mess. The tables are broken, chairs are destroyed, cards all over the ground, the smell of beer and stink.
Artirian is convinced that the palace is corrupted. So Artirian then starts to discuss the renovation and the update for the house so that it will look presentable and neat as possible. After 3 days of cleaning the houses, the group leaders were much organized and well informed there are now 5 groups that are under the 2 councils.
The 2 council is Rommel and Arthur while Artirian would be the head of the group they then renamed the group as the Flying Dagger or FD. They soon head towards the new meeting room that they have constructed inside the house.
Inside the room is a square table where there are 8 chairs and 1 chair is at the edge. There are two chairs on the left side and then 5 chairs on the right side. Artirian would sit in the middle looking at the news reports from the rackets and part-time jobs.
The reports were good, occasionally the pickpocketing and part-time jobs are boosting the stocks for food and necessities of the group. After aligning some money on certain duties they now have the plan on the orphanage operation.
Artirian then received some reports regarding the orphanage in the city of Moon scar that are selling the children to sex slavers and making them as livestock. Artirian then informed all of the group leaders of the Flying daggers that they needed a decisive plan on taking this operation to make it as clean as possible.
Artirian occasionally has a 1 step ahead plan so he surely made a scouting party first to look outside of the orphanage and some informants for the inside of the orphanage.
The orphanage was then located at the middle of Section 3 of the City it can be assured that the orphanage is selling children to slavers because the reports have been backed by informants in the black market.
After the scouts went back to report to Artirian, he then called the group leaders to assign each of their objectives. Group leader of the 4th group Geronimo to assure the intelligence was correct.
Then Artirian discusses the following training modules for the senior rats so that they can have a hand to hand skills in the case and basic use of short swords that are meant for an operation that will jeopardize their lives.
With the money they have Artirian is planning to buy a land so that soon they can build the Flying Dagger a house so that they don't need to live in the crapped city and so that members can be trained easily with hand to hand combat skills.
even though some of them need to learn how to read and write. The ages of the teenage new members in the flying daggers are 14- 16 years old. But these 14 to 16-year-olds are the ones who are not allowed to join into mission until they are 18. In mere months that the group has been in the city, they have grown steadily.