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Chapter 82: Confrontation!
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The sound of rain reverberated through the city as a result of the water droplets making contact with the ground and other things such as the sound of it making contact with the black umbrella and the sound of a person's shoes stepping on the wet pavements as she walks In the darkness of the night.
The person was wearing a silver coat and black pants beneath the coat that's closed tightly.
She was wearing black boots with her blonde silky hair tied into a bum not hiding the two long scars on her face and holding another umbrella in her other hand.
She continued walking through the streets until she noticed something, people are surrounding her, more than twenty all around with a particular one that should be their leader.
A tall, lean man with neatly combed, dark hair and a sharp jawline. He has thin, dark eyes and wears rectangular-framed glasses.
He's dressed in a dark-colored suit colored and matching color tie, this is Ken'i wang the underboss of the Cha-R family.
He said in a calm tone, "Finding you alone is too easy which made us cautious but not to this extent, you have to just be stupid since you're basically inviting us to get rid of you... or you're setting up a trap?"
Morena remained calm without any change in her expression, "You're going against the code of conduct by doing this, you know that right? You're also risking the Xi-Yu family attacking you so why would you go through with this?"
The code of conduct of the mafia families is quite simple, Independent attacks initiated by members of a family against another and the use of guns must first be discussed with the family's boss, who then contacts the leader of the targeted family.
The attack is passed off as the unapproved initiative of rogue underlings, and the boss of the damaged family is entitled to request compensation in a guise and amount they see fit and conducive to restoring and maintaining balance.
The formal apology of one boss to another generally occurs within 24 hours after the fact, but it is even more crucial that the boss was away from home turf at the time of the attack.
Failure to respect the latter rule is sure to result in an all-out war that will end only with the complete extermination of one of the two families.
In case of an all-out war, they are only allowed to use their own men and not to hire thugs outside the family as well as from other minor Mafia families.
Instead of the previous calm tone, Ken'i Wang's tone became on of irritation as he said.
"You should've thought about that before you went ahead with your plans and cost our family most of its business and territory and you even killed some of our members.
I don't need proof to know the Heil-Ly family is responsible for most of this and I definitely know you're responsible for the incident that started all of this.
You either have to be a manipulator or one of your underlings is a manipulator else, how could you control our underline to attack the Xi-Yu family, you signed your death warrant the moment you've done that.
And you don't have to worry about the Xi-Yu family, it appears they agree with our sentiment of eradicating the Heil-Ly family so we came to an agreement."
He didn't seem to mind answering and he even took his time doing so without taking any action against her yet and she noticed that as she let out an innocent smile though amusement could be seen on her face.
"You're actually the one trying to stall for time, huh, that's interesting."
The man just smiled without taking any action though all the underlings surrounding her had guns aimed at her until his phone started ringing.
"What's the situation?" He directly asked after accepting the call.
"It's Empty! the whole building is empty, she's probably setting a trap for you since we lost contact with our spies in her family so watch out for your surrounding, we'll be there soon."
Ken'i frowned as he made a signal for his underlines "Unless a number of your underlings are Nen users, whatever you're planning will definitely fail since you made one simple mistake and that is judging my strength so your death is destined." Gunshots sounded the moment he finished talking as all of his underlings started firing at Morena.
Morena almost instantly opened the umbrella in her hand and used the other one to cover her back as she focused her Aura on both umbrellas encasing with them with it which made their already strong defensive power stronger 'Shu'.
The umbrellas are something she ordered to be made with a light metal material which gave them the needed defensive abilities and light enough for her to move it around at fast speeds and they're big enough to envelop her completely.
The clanging sound resonated through the street with the bullets not causing damage to the umbrellas at all.
Noticing this, Ken'i also aimed his gun at her and fired, the difference is that the bullet this time actually caused a small dent on the umbrella.
This is the result of using 'Shu' on the bullets and using emission to keep his Aura on the bullets which enhances it.
Morena who is hiding between the umbrellas narrowed her eyes noticing that then she allocated more Aura on the umbrella he is shooting at and continued to be on the defensive side while moving slightly from time to time but never putting her defense down.
Ken'i frowned even more as he looked around, 'No one is coming? I thought she is setting up a trap for me and that other Nen users will surround us but no one's coming.
Just where are the other Heil-Ly family members? we even lost contact with all of our spies so what is she planning? well, it won't matter if she's dead but I should let the others know.'
Ken'i sent a message on his phone then signaled for his underlings to stop firing, "I'm curious, is the former boss of the Heil-Ly family dead? did you kill most members of the family that follows him?"
Morena retracted the umbrellas though she still kept them close just in case, she then looked at him with a smile, "They're all dead, what did you expect?"
Ken'i let out a laugh as he turned his head looking at a subordinate next to him asking, "Sun, Is she lying?"
The subordinate is actually a high-ranking member of the Cha-R family named Sun-bin, a man with thin, fair hair and slanted eyes.
He was wearing a zipper jacket and dark pants. His most distinguishing feature is the rose tattoo on the left side of his neck, he shook his head and said in a bored tone, "Nah, they're dead."
Hearing that made Ken'i narrow his eyes and asked Morena, "You really expected me to be the only Nen user here? Or you just didn't expect someone from the family to have such an ability?
Well, it doesn't matter, knowing that they're dead is the most important thing so thank you for that and thank you for giving me the time for my ability to work though it wouldn't have mattered anyway."
Morena didn't react nor did she move from her place as Ken'i started focusing his Aura above his hand with it forming a simple black coin.
One side of the coin has a plus sign with the other side having a minus sign engraved on it, "Plus or minus?"
He asked but he didn't wait for her to answer, instead, he directly tossed the coin up as it flew for more than two meters above him, and the instant it started going down he said, "Minus!"
Morena frowned ready to change her plans if the ability is too dangerous, she observed the coin spinning in the air until it landed on his hand, "Minus!" He announced with a smile on his face.
The instant he announced that the coin started shining for a split second before the plus sign disappeared, and instead another minus sign appeared in its place making both sides of the coin have the same minus sign, and before Morena can react the coin appeared in front of her only to disappear into her heart.
And she instantly noticed something that made her narrow her eyes with a hint of relief in them, something they didn't notice.
'About 5% of my Aura disappeared just like that, and even a portion of the Aura I'm already manipulating disappeared as well though this is good.
His ability isn't that dangerous to my plans but it's an incredibly dangerous, one of the most dangerous abilities if it actually works how I think it does.'
A gleam of light appeared deep within her eyes thinking of the implication of such ability as she moved the two umbrellas to engulfed her protecting her from the incoming barrage of bullets...