'Elly's senses are as sharp as ever. Now that I think of it, it seemed as if she had felt presence back then when she fought that Francis guy,' I thought as I surveyed the surroundings.
'I thought it was just my imagination when it happened,' I kept thinking as I strained my senses even harder, trying to spot the enemies surrounding us.
'But now that she noticed the enemy's presence before I did, despite my enhanced senses, I have to reevaluate her sensory abilities,' I concluded my thoughts about the matter as I finally began to hear some noises from all around us.
"I think you just might be an observation haki genius, Elly," I said with a proud smile as I patted the redhead on her head.
"Please don't do that, captain. I'm not a kid, and what the hell is observation Haki, anyway?" She said with puffed cheeks as she covered her head to stop me from patting her head anymore.
"well, adults don't exactly pout like that, do they?" I said with a smile as I took back my hand, and she just rolled her eyes in annoyance while Wilson snorted in amusement.
"as for Haki, I'll tell you about it later," I concluded as I drew my sword and sent a flying slash at the place that had the most noise I could hear.
"We already know you're there, so come on out, and I promise I won't tear into too many pieces when I kill you," I said as I lit a cigarette and watched as gangsters came out of their hiding places.
There was a sound of clapping as gangsters came out of every nook and cranny imaginable all around us. The source of the clapping finally made its self apparent as the last gangster showed himself.
"very impressive, very impressive indeed. Not only did you people manage to find and destroy several of my safe houses. You even sensed us surrounding you from this far distance," the clapping man said, and he seemed genuinely impressed.
I heard teeth grinding against each other, and I immediately realized the man's identity. 'Frank Nitti, huh?' I thought as I took a second to inspect him.
He was a Caucasian middle-aged man with black hair slicked backward and an icy, calculating pair of eyes.
He was dressed in a simple red shirt with its sleeves folded, showing his muscular forearms with red scars all over them, simple formal pants, and brown leather formal shoes.
'This guy looks like a typical third-rate villain who loves nothing more to hear himself speak, but it looks fun, so I'll humor him for now,' I thought as I put my hand on Elly's shoulder to stop her from jumping at him and smiled assuringly and the redhead nodded at me after taking a second to calm herself.
"Is there a reason you're stating the obvious, or do you just like the sound of your own voice?" I asked with a mocking smile, and both Elly and Wilson rolled their eyes at me for going along with this farce.
"Hilarious. Everyone can appreciate a man with a sense of humor," Frank Nitti said with a blank face as he took out a gun from his jacket. "But I'm afraid humor will not get you out of this situation," he concluded as he shot his pistol and hit one of his subordinates, who couldn't hold it in and laughed a little in the back of his head, killing him instantly.
"It definitely looks that way, but luckily for me, telling jokes isn't my go-to method to get myself out of sticky situations, as you'll soon find out," I said as I merely raised an eyebrow at the little show that he put up to scare us.
"But enough of that. How did you know we'll be here, anyway? And is all this nonsense going anywhere, or are you just here to chat?" I said, as I lost interest in humoring him any further.
"that's very simple, in fact. I knew you would come here as soon as I heard that Aldo's brat was dead," He said with a faint smile. "I knew he would point you to this safe house, If you roughed him up a little since he doesn't have any guts because his father spoils him rotten," he concluded with an even bigger smile.
"and how were you so sure we'll appear here? Maybe he pointed us into another safe house?" I asked as I noticed Laffite appear on the rooftop of a building right above Frank Nitti while slitting the throat of the gangster stationed there.
"that's because the brat only knows about two safe houses, the one he died in and this one since he only started working for the family a week ago," he remarked with a calculating look in his cold pair of eyes.
"in that case, why didn't you stop us before we destroyed the safe house instead of waiting for us to wreck it before ambushing us?" I asked, this time genuinely curious and not just humoring him.
"Aldo was a traitor. He was scheming to kill me and take over the gang, so I called out everyone who wasn't already loyal to him when I figured out you'll be attacking this place," he said in a calm voice that grew more passionate with every word.
"I then watched from a distance as you took care of my dirty work for me," he stated with a maniacal smile and spread his arms dramatically as the gangsters began cheering for him and chanting his name.
"Tehahaha," hearing what he just said, Wilson, Elly, and I looked at each other and began laughing.
"Have you gone mad from shock?" Frank Nitti asked in a mocking tone as he looked at me with disdain.
"Not at all. It's just that this situation is so funny we couldn't help not laughing at it," I said after I calmed myself from my hysterical laughing fit.
Frank Nitti was about to say something, but I interrupted him before he said anything else. "There's nothing wrong with your plan. In fact, I would even say it was clever. Not only do you get rid of your competition and trap the people who have been attacking your safe houses."
"you even get to put on a show for those simpletons you call subordinates and impress them by revealing your plan to us in front of them," I said as I spread my arms even more dramatically than he did.
"that is why you've been talking so much, isn't it? Oh, wise and mighty gang leader? Tehahaha," I asked as I laughed again. "Do you know what's so funny about all of this?" I asked, and he didn't answer, so I continued.
"the funny thing is that none of this matters, because the only thing you've accomplished with your elaborate plan is saving us the trouble and the time of finding you ourselves," I stated as I signaled for Laffite to get ready to act.
"And now none of you will walk out of here alive, Tehahaha," I said with a cheerful smile, as my laughs became even more loud and maniacal.