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Chapter 93: Checkmate
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October of the year 1996, the world witnessed the happening of a strange event, well, its specifically the Kakin empire that witnessed a terrorist attack one rarely seen especially considering it took place in the capital yet the terrorists were never found.
Even with how much attention the empire gave to finding the ones responsible, none were ever found.
And that declared the end of the Xi-Yu family leaving only one mafia family in the empire.
A family that took the chance to take over the leftover legacy the other family left and honoring their name by becoming the sole ruler of the underworld of the Kakin empire becoming a force to be reckoned with.
And even with all the suspiciousness, the empire has that they're the ones responsible, it's still just that.. a suspicious.
Especially with all the support from a certain prince though that in itself got opposition from two other princes whose rage never died down, after all, they lost an important ally while he gained a much stronger one.
The Heil-Ly family from that time on continued to be a financial force on top of simple brute force, the family's rise to power was in the simplest terms magnificent which are the results of several pieces lining together.
The necessary funds to expand, the necessary manpower which became available as more and more people joined the family meeting the requirement even with how strict the family in accepting new people, loyal and useful and most importantly extremely talented high ranking members and that especially extends to the three of Orilin, Cashew, and Luini.
At the center of all of this is the leader of the family, the one that put the pieces together creating a solid foundation ready to devour the world around it the second a chance became available, Morena Prudo.
Of course, there is the man behind the scene though he didn't do much in the overall expansion.
Instead, he went on his experimentation addiction while also spending most of his time with Morena and Alluka leaving only one time.
Even then, he only left for a few hours to Greed Island bringing the queen piece with the end goal of getting the kind piece for another checkmate.
And so we're in the month that represents both endings and beginnings, the beginning of a particular season that represents death, old age, pain, loneliness, despair, or an end. As well as renewal, rebirth, and hope, December.
The phone rang specifically the Zoldycks personal transmitter in Yasuo's pocket, he answered hearing his father Silva Zoldyck directly say the following.
"I need you to do me a favor, I have a job but I'm not sure if I will be able to do it alone since I already failed once because someone interfered. Also, if you accept I will need you to get here in less than an hour so what do you think?"
Yasuo arched his brows as he started stocking his earring with a smile appeared on his face, "Ok but you'll owe me one."
"Call me when you reach the Yarbia continent specifically Torikosh city in the united of Saherta. And I activated the signal so you'll know where I am."
He hanged up after he said that leaving Yasuo with a thoughtful expression though it didn't last long as a portal appeared in from of him which he went through.
And that's not the only portal he went through as not even a minute passed before he appeared on the Yarbia continent.
This is due to the numerous Aerothreads or as he prefers to call it, the web network, a network of countless threads connecting to all the known continents allowing him to create portals to every continent in seconds.
But he placed the threads through the bottom of the ocean so he appeared at the coast of the continent and flew towards the meeting place.
Torikosh city, a city that rivals Yorknew city in size but nowhere near it in popularity for one simple reason, the same thing it's known for.
The city that rains which simply refers to the fact that it rains in the city and around it most of the year and the only reason it reached such a size is its proximity to the Anrika continent and to the capital of the united of Saherta one of the V5 but most importantly, the abundant of sealife near it.
Its also called the Fishing capital of the world and is famous for having the largest port in the world.
Yasuo gently landed on one of the buildings in the city, the heavy rain sounded through the city as the relatively large droplets fell all around making the city wetter than it already is as puddles of water could be seen everywhere but the city was designed strictly to keep it working under such conditions.
The drainers perfectly placed everywhere trying to absorb all the water around them, trying to extinguish the puddles of water everywhere yet... The rain seemed to think otherwise, raining endlessly creating water in place of what has been absorbed creating a sort of equilibrium.
The dark crow on Yasuo's shoulder seems to look everywhere as it started flying around him with three threads connected to it.
The same ones that are connected to his upper back forming a triangle then the crow started flying high into the sky with Yasuo's right eye turning completely white and his left one's Iris shining scarlet.
Then he called his father informing him of his arrival, this is another use of the Zoldycks personal transmitters.
They can track each other through a signal they emit which the other transmitters can detect though they leave it mostly inactive since the possibility of someone tracking them through it is there no matter how small the chance is.
"I'm here... on the roof.", "That's fast, Wait for a minute." Though only a few seconds passed before Silva appeared after opening the door to the roof.
They walked close to each other and hugged for a second before Silva said, "It's been quite a while."
Yasuo nodded slightly, "You know.. have been strolling around."
Silva let out a loud laugh with a cunning glint in his eyes, "You definitely did... You know when you refused to become the family.
I thought you will rarely take any assassination jobs only taking them when you need funds for your projects but you take missions all the time all over the world more than anyone in the family... And well, that's surprising."
"Well, I can, so why not? And it's a good thing." Stated Yasuo while stroking his earring as the faint clanking sound reverberated through the roof.
"It is... it definitely is. Do you know that they call you the Vanisher? Due to all of your targets vanishing without a trace... Well, most of them."
Silva crossed his arms together though no apparent emotions could be noticed on his expression well except the apparent pride in his eyes.
His expression suddenly turned serious as he started explaining, "Anyway, to the important matter.
A while ago, the southernpiece auction was held in Yorknew city as I'm sure you know but all of the items were stolen halting the auction so the Ten Dons hired us to investigate the one or the ones responsible."
He narrowed his eyes adding, "After using all our connections and investigating methods, I found that the ones responsible are the Phantom Troupe, a world-renowned gang of thieves with Class-A Bounties.
I talked to the customers since and informed them of their identity and they hired me to kill two of the gang, I guess that they want to send a message without losing all of their money."
"Anyway, I tracked them down and found that they split into groups so I found a group of two and faced them."
Yasuo interrupted him here with a smile of amusement, "Oh, you actually failed against little kids?"
Silva's face couldn't help but twitch though he didn't show any emotions on his face as he used his training as an assassin to hide what he is really feeling.
"Stop messing around. Anyway, I well half succeded killing one of them and wasn't far away from killing the other as they weren't that strong but someone interfered.
The gang's leader Chrollo Lucilfer and he is quite strong so it ended up being a battle of 1v2 and since according to what I judged his strength is equal to mine so I just retreated and followed them though I don't know if he noticed or not."
A bright light passed in Yasuo's eyes as the plotting began again looking for another checkmate, "What's your plan?"
Silva answered, "It's quite simple really since the gang split into groups each heading in a direction, I'm sure it will take few hours for backup to come so I just need you to stall their leader for a bit while I kill the other one and don't kill him.
The money I was paid is only enough for two members with similar strength to the ones I faced."
A glimmer of light passed in Yasuo's eyes as he curiously wondered, "Who is it? The other member?"