The bar is particularly busy today.
And one particular place, in particular, is quite interesting.
Who wouldn't notice a large group of men kneeling in front of a child?
Every eye was watching the boy's every move. With interest, curiosity, and intense pleasure.
The boy stood up.
"Follow"
He realized that the group was surrounded.
Two separate groups went out, accompanying each other. Slightly moved away from the bar scene, centered on a relatively quiet street.
The boy lit a cigarette while leaning against the wall.
The face blurred under the smoke.
"What's your gang's name?"
It was a simple questiothatut went unanswered for a long time.
The men feared that later on, the boy would come to find them.
"Hmm?" The second time he sounded more dangerous. Authoritarian.
'Like a villain' was exactly the image that appeared in the minds of the two military groups following him.
"Our gang is a small known gang in this neighborhood." The man suppressed the word small.
"Double-Headed Snake"
He said the name of the gang.
They were really afraid that later this boy would suddenly come to visit them.
"Well, how many are you?"
The man forcefully answered.
"Approximately, around 400"
"Who is your leader?"
He didn't answer that.
He pressed his lips hard, making his mouth unable to open a knife as Yun chuckled and asked the next question.
"What's your position?"
"I'm just a rabble"
The man spoke sharply.
He stared at the man as he blew the "you're too humble" smoke. Yun continued with a slight smile.
"How many gangs are there in the city?"
"This…" the man began to think. It was really difficult to answer the question.
"So let me change my question, how many big gangs are there in the city?" Seeing that Yun was having a hard time answering the question, he spoke again.
"It could be called 7..."
Bald scratched his head in response.
"Names ?"
He rubbed his bald head with his hand and thought.
"Black Dragon, Silver Viper, Poison Lotus, Needle, Scorpion, Hyenas, Scavengers"
"Give information"
"The Black Dragon is generally a quiet group. The members of the group are very few, and none of them are identified. They call their heads the 'emperor', the group may also be called the black shadows of the emperor. I don't know anything about the Emperor... his gender included."
"Silver Viper, I heard that it was led by a woman. The woman's nickname is known as 'snake'. I have not seen the woman, but the group members are quite strong. I know their general weapon is poison. They are proficient in drugs"
"Toxic Lotus, this group is foreign in general. Even though it is widely known that they came to the country illegally, this situation is ignored. I don't know which country, although I hear it comes from the Asian region. They don't have a single leader, they are usually a free and scattered gang."
"Needle, the members of the group are known to be serious criminals. Yet none of them were arrested as they left no evidence. Even if they are closely watched by the cops, they have time to commit crimes."
"Scorpio is a female-led gang. I've heard that he has intense burn marks on his face. Despite this, he continued to be in a relationship with many men.
"The Hyenas, with another vaccine, the Jackals, are a large group without a leader. This nickname has stuck to this group because all the leaders who have been in power so far have been betrayed. Later on, their name as Hyena became a stereotype anyway.
Each group member is on their own. Although known as a group, it can be called a pack of lone wolves"
"The scavengers have become famous lately. The gang mainly works as 'assassination', that is, as a mercenary killer. Although he is the leader, the group cannot be said to revolve around the leader. On the contrary, the leader is just a decoration."
He spoke in one breath.
Yun scratched his chin and looked at the man.
There is tension in his expression. But the fear of getting caught when lying is not the tension. Fear of missing something wrong.
The words are spaced out, and the speech is spoken after a long thought.
A word war ends, a word heads up/ A word turns a poisonous meal into honey and oil.***
He seemed to believe his proverb.
This information is something anyone who joins even a small gang will hear.
Unfortunately, Yun, who was completely 'naive', could not have known about this.
But he needed information.
Then...
He planned.
He would go to any gang and get direct information. It wasn't a problem for him to do it so openly. After all, the identity he used was fake.
He didn't show up as his true self from the very beginning.
"Which areas are these gangs usually active in?"
Where does each gang predominantly live?
"They're all in this city," said the man.
Oh right. The first question I asked was how many big gangs there are in this city.
"Still, these gangs are widespread in the country and may even extend abroad."
The man then continued.
"There are gangs that have a certain effect even in Busraz"
"I understand"
"And the biggest gangs in this country?"
He was silent.
He couldn't answer that.
"Answer me"
He answered in a low, forced voice.
"This is 7 gang beaches that count, but still the country has stronger groups than it has"
"I understand, you can leave"
Both groups followed suit.
The boy left with a group of people behind him.
People who saw him from behind had the illusion for a moment that he was in one of those gangs.
-To be continued-