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Chapter 2 - Crows in The Dark

Aki left the pawn shop and made his way down the busy street, the sounds of the city enveloping him. As he walked, he thought about Mr. Yoritoshi's words. He knew the old man was right, but he couldn't help himself. The thrill of the heist, the rush of adrenaline, and the satisfaction of coming out on top were just too good to resist. "Eh sorry Toshi you may be like a father figure for me but I aint stopping so soon." Aki thought as he put the number in his satchel. Aki was walking down the sidewalk when he walked into a small restaurant ran by an elderly couple. "Hey Mr and Mrs Nakatomi, how's business?" Aki said as he stood out of the line. "Oh Akido what a pleasant surprise it's good to see you, business has been great ever since you put up those flyers." Mrs Nakatomi replied "yes Akido thank you for putting those up for us." Mr Nakatomi replied. "Ah these two they call me by my real name, they're like the grandparents I never had." Aki thought "haha no problem." Aki said with a smile "here dear come around the counter let me see how tall you've gotten." Mrs Nakatomi said as Aki walked around the counter. "Ooh your so tall and handsome i got a friend who has a granddaughter around your age who works at a pastry shop nearby. I could get you two introduced to each other." Mrs Nakatomi said as she stood on a stepladder to pat Aki on the head. "Yep, really like the grandparents I never had." Aki thought "u-um that's ok miss Nakatomi." Aki said as he got flustered as he knew exactly which girl she was referring to. "Having a significant other could jeopardize me being a thief and no girl would wanna date someone who lives in a rusty trailer. It's cool tho im not interested in that stuff anyway." Aki thought. "Oh geez Aki you're skinnier than black licorice here have a burrito." Mr Nakatomi said as he handed Aki a burrito. "Thanks for changing the topic Mr Nakatomi." Aki thought. "Thanks Mr Nakatomi anyways goodbye you two i gotta get home to chloe." Aki said as he started to exit the restaurant. "Oh you should bring little old Chloe by some time." Mrs Nakatomi replied. "Will do cya." Aki said as he left. "And now to get some ice cream for chloe. Aki said as he quickly stopped by an ice cream store.

Crows and ravens fill the night sky as a man with a plague doctor uniform walks around. "What have you found so far?" the man said as the crow caws repeatedly as the man nodded his head and was swarmed by a murder of crows and somehow disappeared. The crows then appeared at a warehouse as the plague doctor then walked inside. "Should this get messy, you boys might have an early dinner" the man said as he pulled out two black pistols from underneath his cloak. There were about 200 people in the warehouse, some of them were scraping lines of suspicious white lines of a white brick that was wrapped up, others were counting yen, some of them had hotplates and were cooking up some blue crystals. As this went on it became overly apparent that this was a drug operation. The plague doctor sent one of his crows as bait. "Caww" the crow said as it flew around the warehouse "what the hell, a fucking crow, how the hell did that get in here?" one of the men said as the black mask of the plague doctor came from a dark corner with one of his berettas touching the back of the man's head "how it got in here should be the least of your worries" the plague doctor said as the man held at gunpoint put his hands up "now take me to your boss" the plague doctor said as the man did just that. "Hey boss, uh, someone is here to see you" the man said as the boss stood up and have another gun pointed at him. "Aki sends his regards" the plague doctor said as he shot the boss through the head and then shot the man he held at gunpoint through the head as well. As the men fell, murders of crows bursted through the windows and picked up all the bricks of drugs that hadn't been opened, and flew them off to sellers as 1 at a time each came back with bundles of 100s. "I don't feel like staining my guns anymore so i'll end this quickly" the plague doctor said as he took one of his vials that happens to be filled with bromine. And then he took another filled with gasoline. He smashed them both on the floor as he then lit a match "let's get out of here" the plague doctor said as the crows swarmed him and got him out. The plague doctor dropped the match and just as he was released from the swarm outside from a safe distance, the warehouse went up in flames that lit up the area a bright orange. "This is about 3 million yen, this should be good for now" the plague doctor said as he started walking back to Aki's house. Aki arrived home as he gave Chloe, who was a small little girl with brown hair and green eyes, her ice cream. "Yay thanks Aki." Chloe said, smiling with glee. "No problem sis." Aki said as he picked her up and swung her around. Aki went inside as he started to eat his burrito. Aki started to think about his debts looking through a bunch of notes. "Shit, if i were to pay all these out of pocket i'd be in more debt than an undergrad in Law" Aki thought until he saw a black feather land on his desk "Caww! B-Boss s-says t-to-g-give m-money t-to y-you" the crow struggled to say as it dropped the entire wad of 3 million yen wrapped up in 10 rubber bands in Aki's hand before flying out of an open window. "Ha looks like he got the job done." Aki said with a chuckle.