In a large downtown building,
A tall but muscled man was sitting on the large leather chair in the middle of the room. There was a large table in front of him. Strangely, several kinds of several white powder were spread on it.
He took a whiff of the first one and smiled with approval.
"I want half of it distributed in every shop near the high school buildings. That would be our first target. As the number of customers increases, we will target universities too." he smiled with greed dancing in his eyes. He could already imagine money falling from the sky. As if sensing something he added, "Do not target those poor government-aided buildings. I only want rich private high schools where young masters and young ladies study these days." he spoke with a grin,
His dark yellow teeth peeked in the dark and his eyes glinted with dark rays of light.
A man walked hurriedly toward him and whispered something in his ears. The smile of the man froze there. And replaced by an ugly and dark look,
He looked like he had swallowed a fly and it got stuck in his throat.
"He escaped?" he spat it with dripping poison. "How did that happen? Did they ask for more money?" he signaled another man to come forward.
The man picked up a suitcase and walked toward his master but the young man shook his head.
"No, they have arrested him but he left after beating all of them and since there was no camera in the interrogation room they could not prove it. More than that, the chief already knew about the accident so Officer Mike said that he could not help anymore. I heard that he was suspended for a month." the more the man heard, his face getting darker and darker.
He looked like he wanted to kill someone.
"Ha! Since we can not deal with it properly. It would only be better if we dealt with it silently. Go and look for him." three men with an evil smirk and glints in their eyes left the room. "Collect as many as you can." they heard but they only laughed at it.
They did not need to deal with a foolish man so much. The son of the boss was a fool. They wanted to show off that they had been stronger for a long time. Now that they had the chance, they would not lose it.
With that thought, they collected the best guns from the drawers and went to look for Ethan.
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On the other side,
Ethan was already full and the feeling of feeling followed had left him too after he had dinner with the police chief. So, he walked toward his apartment. He was not in a hurry and he wanted to know more about his surrounding environment, so he decided to walk slowly.
A few of them nodded at him and he nodded back. He noticed a young girl, half drunk and half conscious was held by three thugs. They were giving her leering gazes as they dragged her together.
He could feel her absence of mind. Most of the time, he did not meddle in the affairs of others. But when he looked at the girl, she looked so pitiful. He could not take his gaze away from her.
With a red bodycon dress up to the knee lengths, all her assets were on display. Her brown hair fell up to her waist. Her skin was white like jade and her animated face looked like a celebrity.
"It is happening often these days. I think they have laid their hands on a strong drug. They are using it too many times these days." Ethan turned to look at the man leaning on the tree and taking the drag of his cigarette.
The way he spoke freely to Ethan, it felt like they have shared this kind of conversation often. "But do not interfere. Have you forgotten how they insulted you last time when you asked for the drug they were using? You should be happy that the Ana girl is finally paying you attention." Ethan raised a brow at that, a low curl of his lips.
"You meant that those foolish men had insulted me in the past?" he asked, pointing at those men directly, making the man leaning on the tree frown.
But before he could warn Ethan, one of those men gritted his teeth and glared at Ethan.
"Hey, you! Who are you pointing at?" he challenged Ethan with a malicious look.
Ethan looked at their neck instead. There were not many gold chains. But what about their pockets?
When they noticed Ethan staring at their pants, one of them who hated gays felt infuriated.
"Hey! Take your gaze away or I will make you blind," he warned only for Ethan to chuckle.
"What if I don't?" he rolled the words lazily in his mouth and spit them with a careless attitude as if those men did not need his attention.
But the man felt irked.
"Forget it, we will deal with him later. For now, we have an important task." The one holding the girl tried to mind the other two but they were already gritting their teeth.
"No, this foolish man needed a lesson or he would not understand what position he held. I will teach him a lesson first." the man stomped his feet and smirked with an evil look on his face.
His friend only shook his head and looked at the girl with regret. How he could not wait to take the girl into his room and have his way with her. But even he understood how much respect was important in the area they were living in.
This was a slum area where police and law did not rule the land. But the first law did. Whoever was strongest would survive and the weak would be eaten alive.
Last time they hardly dealt with this fool. But though he had strong muscles, he hardly had a brain. So it would be easy to deal with him.
As long as they frustrate him and he attacks first, he is bound to lose. And then they could keep him silent. He was noticing way too much these days.
The challenging man stood in front of Ethan and looked at him with an air of arrogance.
"I have already told you twice to not meddle in our affairs. What part of it do you not understand?" he titled his head and asked in an icy voice.
Ethan just snickered and took the cigarette from the man leaning on the tree.
"Leave or you will regret challenging me." his tone was dismissive that irked the man. He gritted his teeth.
"Ha! When you have newly arrived here, I remembered that you wanted to join our gang. Could it be that you are still sour that we did not accept it? Dude! Even if that is the case, you should not challenge us. And this time, I am not going to leave until you apologize." he challenged only to get a chuckle from Ethan.
"'Then you can wait here for eternity. Because I, Ethan, do not apologize to fools and weak chickens."