On taking it out, he immediately felt it, it was the money. " Woah, it's quite heavy " He said as his hands scrawled round the bundle of cash sealed in a nylon currently sitting on his hands. " Check it out " A voice flew into his ears, Ade's voice. As soon as Mito heard the voice, he directly tore open the nylon covering the money. As soon as he tore it open, his eyes developed a hint of shock and surprise on it's gaze. " This is definitely not thirty thousand " he said.
Emmanuel on the other hand was still shocked by Mito's move. Earlier when he was about to give them the thirty thousands, he had noticed that the money in his pocket wasn't just the thirty thousand but the entire fifty thousand. He was still thinking of what to do when Mito suddenly made the sudden move. On seeing Mito plunge forward, he had wanted to turn around, but before he could do anything, the money had already be snatched away by Mito. His mind was currently in a shocked state. ' All the money, The fifty thousand. How do I even buy what I would use for school. Do I have to start working from the early moments again, or does my dad have to start going through what he just went through again, working on late hours. How do I even face my parent. Or do I just keep calm and hide it from them, maybe tell them that I plan to buy the items I would need when I got to school. ' He thought, his brain was currently anything but quiet as numerous thought flowed through it.
' No I can't accept this, I refuse to accept this. My hard work, my dad's sweat, my mom's tears. No I won't accept this. Instead of that..., I did rather die. ' As the thought in his head kept pushing towards the negative aspects, a crazy expression was suddenly birthed on Emmanuel face. He couldn't accept this fate, he had sweated every blessed day as he sat under the scorching sun, with a poorly made large umbrella, made of weak materials placed there to shield him from the sun. His dad had left the house even before he woke up, and then came back after he had slept off, all because of the money. Even his mom had gone through her fair share of sufferings. And then now, a group of thugs who claimed to have gone through a lot felt they could just take away such a reasonable part of the money, fifty thousands, he refused. It wasn't that he couldn't give out money to people, but just not this one. The money was to big and it had it's purpose. He couldn't afford to lose it.
Mito was still weighing the cash with his hands as he started at it with greedy eyes, " So you lied to us ", Mito spoke with a smile on his face. The eye's of the thugs shifted from the money to Emmanuel. They noticed the desperate look on Emmanuel face but didn't see it as anything, they knew there was nothing that Emmanuel could do at this moment and so they just stared at him as if staring at a hopeless person. Though beneath the eyes of one of the thugs was... pity.
" Since you couldn't tell what was best for you and decided to lie to us, we would be taking the whole money " Mito spoke out. This just caused the despair in Emmanuel's eyes to intensify. " Why not count the money and share it on the spot " Ade interjected, he felt like the matter had been drawn out for too long and so urged Mito to share the money between the thugs so that they could go their separate ways.
As for Emmanuel, he didn't care about him or what he felt. To Ade, the only person he cared about was himself. In a world of countless predators, he believed that the only way to survive was to become a predator yourself. Predators would only be cautious of predators. He knew the bitter truth about the world was that even with the high level of civilization that had been achieved, the true rule the world followed was still the Jungle rule. The strong would always prey on the weak, the supreme code of his survival.
" Ohh " Mito exclaimed lowly, he had forgotten about that as he was still celebrating within his mind. He took one final look at Emmanuel and then arranged the money to begin counting. Just as he started counting, a hand suddenly stretched out and snatched the money from him. This hand belonged to Emmanuel. He had made a decision. As soon as the money got into his hands, he immediately lay flat on the floor, with his belly directly on the ground, his head being supported by one of his hands, and hiss back facing the sun. His other hands currently held the money and was beneath his chest. He shielded the money with his body and maybe also... his life.