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Chapter 9 - The Black Market

The classes today ended without any more events. During lunch everyone was talking to the Emi since she is new and an elf but I did not pay attention to it.

Nobody in class normally even talks to Marc but today many were glancing towards me.

'I bet they are a bit shocked that a quiet person like me would bully someone and that in front of the principal as well.'

Doesn't matter I am having fun.

After school I went straight to home and changed my clothes in casual ones.

One good thing about Marc's life is that his uncle although does not care about him and his sister but still send a good sum of money to them every month. So both of them does not have to get part time jobs.

I started some daily chores like cleaning, studying and cooking. All the while waiting for the night to fall.

At sharp 9 pm I went to sleep.

Well not really since I changed my appearance into a brown haired boy and wore a black hoodie and pants.

I looked into the mirror and imagined Marc's original appearance.

Then a hologram of Marc appeared behind me. It was transparent at first but then it slowly took shape. After a few seconds a person wearing night clothes and Marc appearance appeared behind me.

I smiled slowly.

Doppelganger spell!

I controlled it to lay on my bed and sleep.

The person itself wasn't real but other than me nobody can tell anyway.

I watched it slowly breath with its eyes closed for a few seconds.

Then I prepared to go out.

I made myself invisible and focused on an image of red light district alley. My vision blurred for a second and when it cleared I wasn't standing in my room but in a small dark alley.

Teleportation!

I walked around the area with my life vision on.

Tonight I have a simple goal.

Gather information!

This city has a bustling black market and its location is somewhere beneath the red light district.

Well black market is kind of a loose organization with all the shady and non-legal deals. It is spread throughout the city but the biggest hub in beneath the red light district.

While looking for blood in past few days I heard some people talking about the black market.

I followed them and they lead me to the market. I decided that I will first finish the spell unlocking before going inside.

Now since spells are unlocked I have decided to investigate the black market.

I followed the path those guys took that day while being invisible.

Slowly passing through the streets I arrived at a strip club.

There was a gate as well but I just entered through the walls.

Inside was very… seductive. Suppressing the urge inside my heart I continued to the basement.

Inside a small basement was a door with a muscular man guarding it.

Here people provide password to enter.

I just went through the door. Since I was invisible no one noticed me.

I kept going down the stairs until I arrived at an open area.

What I saw left my mouth open.

Inside was a large dome like space the size of a football stadium. Various shops, hotels and clubs were there.

There were a lot of people as well. Everyone was either wearing a hood or mask to hide face.

I took a deep breath and entered the black market.

I spent 2 hours randomly listening to other people near shops and clubs.

I noticed that there are multiple entrances to this place. Each at various places of the red light district.

Each and every person here is shady in their own rights. The people at the shops talk in roundabout way so no one can tell what business is being talked about but after listening for a while I noticed that there are 3 main businesses of this place.

Drugs, weapons and information. I am pretty sure assassination contracts also happens here but it is a bit hidden.

While listening to people I noticed that there is a rumor which has been going on for a while.

It's about the people getting younger!

Since I have been making people younger randomly the entire black market is looking for me. There is no news of anyone looking for me outside but in the black market it feels like it is the talk of the town.

Everyone is looking for info about the mysterious person who makes others younger.

There are even rewards for providing info.

Listening to others randomly I entered an alley.

"No Shit! You serious?"

I heard two people talking in the alley.

"It's true I bet it on the integrity of our organization. The info comes straight from her mouth."

It looked like they were trading info so I stopped to listen.

The first guy went into deep thought.

After a few seconds he smirked.

"That's right. There is no way she is okay after that."

He paused and said to the info selling guy.

"We are very pleased to use your agency this time and will contact again in the future."

The other guy smiled as well.

"Always a pleasure to satisfy a customer."

'Damn I missed the entire info.'

After the exchange both of them went their separate ways.

I decided to follow the info seller.

The info seller circled around the black market 2 times in a random manner and then went to a door in a secluded corner.

He knocked on the door after making sure no one was following him.

The way he knocked had a rhythm to it.

The door opened and he went in.

While following this guy I had a lot of time to think about my life choices.

I was literally following two steps behind him this whole time and he was afraid that someone would follow him.

This type of following is a bit boring but necessary.

'This info organization trains people well. If it was someone else, they would have already lost him.'

I was about to follow him inside when I had an idea.

'Hmmm… people, organization.'

"Ohhh!"

I hit my hand on my palm.

"That is a genius idea!"

Thankfully my invisibility makes it so that my voice is also silent otherwise someone would have heard it.

"If others have an organization then I can also make an organization. Plus, using doppelganger, I don't even have to recruit anyone. Its freaking genius!"

I went into deep thought as how I am going to make such organization and the different identities of 'people' working in such organization.

Just in this, an hour went by.