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Chapter 4 - A little terrorist

"I think we've already met, don't we?" (Thomas)

"Yes, I think so." Said João with a notable frustration on his face.

"Follow me... we need to talk" (Thomas)

In a large office, with Thomas now sitting in a chair behind a desk, João says: "Anyway, are you going to shoot me or are you just going to arrest me?"

"I am not going to shoot you... at least not now." (Thomas)

"I'm not a detective here, much less a dog of the king's bastard."

"What are you talking about? I don't understand anything anymore." (João)

Thomas, with a fixed vision in João's eyes, replies: "What I mean... is that we are going to overthrow the king."

João, while wandering around the room, not believing what he just heard, replies: "So you were shitty terrorists ... and you still had the courage to frame me!"

"And to make matters worse, do you think I'm going to join all this shit" (João)

With a bowed head and a small smile, Thomas replies: "You will join us simply because you have no choice ... or you will be shot by me here and now, or you will be shot to protect your family. Are you sure you want to see them? starve?"

Thomas calmly opened one of his desk drawers, taking out a revolver and handed it to João as if he were delivering a gift.

"The choice is now yours." (Thomas)

When João left the room he was in, he finally realized how big the place was, a bar, cheerful people, weapons, what used to be a little house now looked like a real castle.

But before he knew it, Thomas already had his arm around João's shoulder, saying in his ear: "It's beautiful, isn't it?"

"Losing yourself in ambition is the door to failure." (João)

"Anyway, I think you've already made your choice, take a walk around, it will be nice to know the place." Thomas says while patting João on the back.

While walking through that giant place, an elderly woman stood out around several people, it was as if all the people in that place admired her.

Before John could rest, a cold hand touched his shoulder. Dressed in black, plague mask and hat. Not too high, maximum height of 1.74

"Come with me, you have work to do." (Unknown)

Outside that place, a tall man in a cowboy hat spoke loudly: "You are late!"

"The one over there is called Berry." Says the man in black while João and he walk towards this "Berry".

"You are younger than I thought... whatever, we have work to do." (Berry)

"What kind of work, exactly?" (João)

"Let's get information, that's all." (Man in black)

After leaving the sewer and walking a few minutes between alleys and narrow streets, at a certain point the man in black points to a stairway next to a beggar and says: "I'm going over there, you and Belly are going to "Pub Canyon"."

Already with João and Berry sitting inside the Bar among drunks, smokers and a beautiful voice singing in the background, Berry notices the entrance of 2 men dressed in a black suit and "Fedora" hat, and quickly says as he forces João's head down: "Put your fucking head down."

"What's it?" (João)

"It's the secret service shit." (Berry)

"I think they are not so secret." (João)

"Shut up, let's get out of here calmly." (Berry)

As João and Berry calmly walked to the exit, one of the men in black while drinking a glass of whiskey looks at them and asks, "Aren't you going to pay the bill?"

"Sure." says Berry as he pulled a handful of coins out of his wallet.

As Berry took the handful of coins to the bartender, João noticed a strange movement in the other guy's hand, as if he were ready to pull out a Regmilton and shoot Berry.

But before anything happens, Berry while delivering the handful of coins to the bartender, John pulls out the revolver he received from Thomas and aims at the head of the man who was ready to shoot.

"Calm down... no problem.", says one of the men in black as they both raise their hands.

"Let's go!" Berry says as he runs to the exit.

"This alley, let's hide there." says Berry as they run desperately.

While Berry and João were hiding in the alley, Berry says: "We have to find Jack."

"Jack?" (João)

"Jack Mack Flack... is the name of the guy who was with us." (Berry)

"Let..."

Before Berry could finish speaking, João heard a loud noise from the other side of the alley. But before João could realize Berry was already lying with a bullet hole in his back and agonizing in pain as his own blood flowed down his back.

As the man walked towards Berry who was in agony of pain, João tried to pull his gun, but he was scared enough to be unable to move.

A tall guy with long, straight hair - this is the man who now points a gun at Berry's head and ready to pull the trigger.

The noise of the fatal shot echoed inside João's ears and despair fell under him as he saw a hole in the head of his new friend... now dead.

As the mysterious man put away his revolver, he says: "You are too young to walk with these" people."

While João's desperate eyes were fixed on the mysterious man, the mysterious man brought his face close to João and said: "Come back where you came from, understand? This no-man's-land, go back to your city or you dead too."

"The shots came from here, come on!"

"I have to go now, tell Mack Flack that my death song is his now." (Mysterious man)