"Come on if you ever try to manipulate someone then you got to do better than that, tut tut tut, I truly am disappointed in you Xiu." Minna said as he shook his head.
He let go of the old man who fell down on his ass and greedily gulped down the air as if it was his first time breathing and knowing it was the last air he was going to get.
"THIS IS INSULTING, YOU DARE TO GRAB MY THROAT LIKE THAT!" Old man Xiu shouted, "YOU KNOW WHO I AM, DO YOU THINK THAT-"
Minna grabbed the old man's by the hair and brought him until he was only a couple of centimetres away. Minna had several of his veins popping out of his forehead and the killing intent was something else. It could not even be described in words but I will try my best to do so.
The killing intent was like mother nature. Powerful and scary beyond imagination and was as deep and horrifying as the ocean. When Old man Xiu looked into Minna's one eye, he felt trapped. He felt like a cow in a cage and outside the cage was a lion and butcher. The butcher would kill him and then give the meat to the lion. It was undoubtedly the most terrifying experience ever. It was taking him his all to just not wet his pants.
"Who the fuck on earth do you think your speaking to like that? It seems like you do not value your life at all." Minna spoke in a calm manner. This voice of his was terrifying as it reminded Old man Xiu of a cold calculative murderer.
Old man Xiu looked at the ground and apologised quickly. Minna gave a quick sigh.
"You thought that you could manipulate me. When you said you would bet 999 silver coins that was just a way to humiliate me right. You made sure it was only one silver coin that was missing so if you paid me you would pay the same amount as the cursed year. And had you won you were going to use these men as witnesses to say that I did make a promise to you and not matter how unreasonable or dumb it is you would have me do it." Minna tapped Old man Xiu's cheek before back handing it.
DAAAAAA!
"Don't you ever do something as dumb as trying to manipulate me in any way ever again or you will lose your life next time. Do I make myself clear?" Old man Xiu was holding his cheek that had just been slapped. He nodded his head quickly.
"Tell me about that demon that came into your house, I'm pretty sure it would fetch us a nice price."
Old man Xiu rubbed his throat. Peter looked to the side, he did not want to see his master in such a pitiful state.
"Earlier on today, I met two people and a dog. One of them was a scholar while the other seemed like a pugilist or swordsman of some kind. The pugilist helped us push our carriage all the way to the front gates, once we got to the gates and the scolar passed through the gates, the gates lit up. So I invited them over to stay at my home but they ran away last night."
"Well there's nothing we can do if it ran away. I know several alchemists who would pay their mothers weight in gold just so they can have a demon slave or assistant or whatever the fuck on earth they use demons for. It's a shame we missed out on such an opportunity."
Minna crossed his hands behind his back and looked out of the glass window. The second match was about to start.
"I need you to go to Uriklis Down South and convince him to hand over the dragon gold and return it to that fucking giant lizard before he brings down all hell on us, Use whatever means you deem necessary to get the gold, I don't care if you have to kill his sister or marry his grandmother, just make sure you get it by the end of the month."
Old man Xiu stood up and bowed. "I received word that Urik Down South left the entire country."
Minna clenched his fist, "And where did that bastard go?"
Old man Xiu still did not lift his head up from the ground. He wasn't going to take any chance with him now, not after he had been shown just how easily his throat could be crushed.
"I received word that he left this evening on a Grion merchants carriage train. It was headed to Atlantis, the summoned city of heroes."
Minna clicked his tongue, "If that idiot manages to get there then and sells the gold then he will have the protection of the Atlantian government and if we attack him there then my business with the Atlantian's will suffer." Minna walked over to a desk in the far corner in the room.
He opened one of the drawers and brought out a bottle of wine and a silver goblet. He filled the goblet to the brim and drank it all in one go. He then poured himself more but this time he only filled it halfway.
He walked back to the window and kicked the goblet from earlier on to the side.
"What are you waiting for?" Minna asked menacingly.
Old man Xiu slightly lifted his head up to see Minna was still looking out of the window.
"Go intervene, I do not want that bastard to even be within eyesight of that country. Make sure he is dead and don't let anyone see you. But most importantly don't even lay a finger on the passenger's. I don't want several nations investigating the incident and come to bite us in the ass."
"Yes, of course." Old man Xiu said. He straightened himself up left the room followed by Peter and the other man.
"Where do you think your going?" Minna asked as Peter was about to leave through the door.
Peter stopped in his track and turned around.
A fist connected with his face launching him out of the room and onto the hall. Peter felt several of his teeth missing. The blood in his mouth tasted bitter and nasty.
Peter's associate who was called little Pete for some reason came flying out. His head hit Peter in his guts as landed on top of him. " Mister Minna What are you doing? You sent me on a task and now you are attacking my subordinates."
Minna walked out of the room with his goblet in his hand followed closely by Ralph and Sukli whose rifles were aimed at the two Peters.
"Your subordinates dared to raise their guns at me, I'm not gonna kill since you need them but I have to teach them a lesson about the dangers of aiming their weapons at me." Minna said.
Old man Xiu was only a metre away from Peter and little Pete. This was his fault, they had raised their weapons at this monster just so they could protect him and now they were paying the price.
"Do you have a problem with that?" Minna said as he walked leisurely towards both men who were sitting up now.
Old man Xiu bit his lips and clenched his teeth. Right now he felt truly helpless. He was a grandmaster of martial arts who had been studying martial arts for more than 60 years and now he had to watch as a man nearly half his age trample on his pride and disrespect him by beating his subordinates in front of him.
'THIS BASTARD! HE'S DOING ALL OF THIS BECAUSE HE'S MAD THAT I TRIED TO MANIPULATE HIM INTO DOING SOMETHING SO SMALL, I NEVER THOUGHT THAT HE WOULD BE THIS PETTY." Old man Xiu had a lot to say but he didn't. He held back the urge to charge at Minna and instead turned around. "There is no use for a subordinate that can't read the room and takes matters into their own hands."
Having said that he walked away.
He could hear the thudding sounds of Minna kicking his subordinates jaw. As he was walking away something small flew past him. It fell on the floor in front of him. It was an incisor.
He paid no mind to it and continued on until he took a left turn and was out of Minna's sight.
As soon as old man Xiu was out of Minna's sight, Minna stopped kicking both men. Both of them had a destroyed jawline. Most of their teeth were missing and their was someone's tongue on the floor.
Minna quickly took of the black trainer shoes that he was wearing using his feet. He turned around to face Sukli and Ralph.
"Ralph, you collect their teeth and that tongue on the floor and get them medical attention, and you Sukli, get the cleaners to clean this hallway and the wall. Also take my shoes to my personal shoe washer." Both Ralph and Sukli immediately did what they were told. Sukli placed his rifle on his back while Ralph put it down on the floor and did what they were told.
Ralph collected all the teeth on the floor and the tongue and picked Little Pete up.
Little Pete was on the verge of death as his tongue was already cut of. He could barely walk so Ralph placed him on his back. Peter was conscious and could walk. He followed Ralph to the medical bay.
Minna stood in front of the walls which was covered with blood. There was a small dent that was in the wall formed by one of the teeth that had been lodged in their.
"Tch, had that old bastard attacked me, I would have had a good reason to kill him. Oh well, I can get another chance."
Minna walked back to his room bare footed and closed the door behind him.
He walked up to the window to see how the fights were progressing.
"Fourth match, I missed two entire matches. Sigh, I'll just enjoy these last two."
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