Thank you for waiting . My writing skills may have gotten a little rusty during this hiatus but I believe it should be fine . Have a great time reading .
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Pov 3 Person
Looking at the sky lit up by the flames in the distance . I knew I had fucked up . I wanted to get out of this place and this situation immediately . But the escape will not be easy .
' The question is whether escape even makes sense . '
I thought , knowing that at Least as long as this woman is alive we will never lose the tail . That's why I have to kill her first to escape . However, they are on constant guard , so I know that I certainly won't be able to settle this in one decisive move .
Which means that it will turn into a fight . And then their reinforcements will certainly come . Now , there is still no such certainty that they will come . So I have to finish this conversation and get out of here .
' And I have to do it quickly . After all, why check my luck . The longer I stand here the more I risk '
I thought , while tightening and correcting the grip on my antique gun . The movement they noticed , but did not react much , probably not see it as a threat . However, not worried about them or their reaction , I licked my lips and took slow breaths to calm my nerves.
I felt my eyesight sharpen focusing even more . I let my brain work at the highest capacity preparing for the inevitable . And, contrary to appearances, not a drop of sweat formed on me . My face didn't seem to change much expression either , thus keeping my mask and acting all this time .
In the end I knew that I would win without much trouble . The only question was how much of a mess our fight would make . In addition, I also changed my priorities a bit . Instead of killing both of them , now my prioritie and the main objective is to kill this woman . To get the opportunity to escape .
Killing the guy is not a priority but certainly a nice addition if it happens . Unfortunately, the tense situation does not allow me to act freely . Otherwise, I would have killed the two of them .
' Fuck what a mess I got myself into . '
I thought , while wondering if perhaps I should ask Xiong for extra money . In the end , I met two opponents at the hunters level and I have to kill one of them , just to be able to retreat . Such risks are not cheap . Thinking about it , however , I did not forget about my situation .
I didn't let myself get too distracted by my thoughts . So all this time , I was internally preparing myself for the fight . Although I did not plan for it to be a long fight , but who knows how it will turn out in practice .
And yes, I have a plan . I had it all the time . Although due to the situation I had to come up with another. New plan made up on the fly and so it is not the best one . It is dangerous , certainly reckless and stupid . But if it works out well we will settle this dispute immediately . So, if it works out there will be no need to fight . The woman should die immediately . As for the guy ?
' I hope he dies too but I don't bet my life on it . However, he will certainly not come out unscathed . And depending on how the situation develops , I will consider whether to kill him . However , it is only when it will not require too much effort .'
I thought , knowing that if it works it will kill the two of them . If not and only the woman will die , then the plan can be considered successful anyway . After all without her we will be able to escape . But if both are wounded and not dead .... Or as long as the guy dies and the woman is injured .
' It will still make the fight easier . It is much better to fight two weakened enemy than a two fully healthy enemy . In such a situation, it can only be a matter of killing the wounded . '
I thought , returning to the current situation and my plan . Fortunately , my pink mous and Emerald are still in hiding . They are quite far away and behind cover . In fact , it look's like for the entire duration of the conversation they haven't even put their heads out of their hiding places .
' They didn't even twitch . '
Even when this spider women said where they were , they still did not move . I know this because I have been observing them through the clones . And they did well by don't doing anything . By not making sudden movements , the people in front of us are not provoked . This allowed me to lead the conversation . However , there is a strange thing about all this .
' Why did my interlocutors instead of telling them both to come out . They allowed Neo and Emerald to remain in hiding ? '
I thought , having this strange and meaningless question in my head . I already wanted to analyze it to find the meaning but eventually I came to my own conclusions .
' Well , actually this is none of my business but their mistake . And the enemy's mistake should be exploited and not pointed out . '
I thought , at the same time if she was however to guess the reason why Neo and Emerald were allowed to stay in ther hiding place , it is probably because two im front of me do not see them as a threat or are confident that they can react to anything .
Which makes sense because this woman can apparently just as well monitor them from here . It is also possible that the lack of sudden movements on their part makes the people in front of me not feel the need to tell them to come out
' And letting them stay , can be a show of goodwill and ease the tension . It's like allowing your enemy's sniper to stay during the encounter , thus showing that they have no bad intentions during the conversation . '
I thought , uncertain and not very interested . As for my plan however . Why do I call him stupid and dangerous ? And what does my plan have to do with the current position of Neo and Emerald ? The answer to the second question , a lot . As for the first , unfortunately I am partly threatened by it but I will take the risk . I should not die or be injured if I calculate it right .
' But I won't say that it doesn't hurt my wallet . '
I thought with some bitterness in my soul . As someone who had to earn every Lien I have with hard work and struggle , throwing away even one Lien like this is a pain . Nevertheless . I had to come to terms with it . In the end, life is more important . Besides, I already spend some money on this equipment . And once one buys this equipment one should use it so that it is not waste of money . Although I had been hoping to use it in a different way.
' Well , I can always add it Xiong bill . Or ask them to give me the same model at their cost . '
I thought , making a little joke . Then without looking , I focus my sense connected to the shadow under my feet , which from the beginning of our entire conversation stretch very slowly towards two members of the spider syndicate before me .
And it did it slowly enough that the changes might not be noticeable at first glance . Perhaps it even looked natural . But that is not important , the important thing is that so far it seems to work and be inconspicuous . But , as for why I didn't keep the stretched shadow from when I created the clones and instead I do it again slowly again ?
' I have to stretch the shadow again this way , because I was worried that a huge unnatural shadow could catch the eyes of those people . Then they would be cautious and certainly would not dare to stand in it '
I think , while feeling that the shadow was already quite close to their feet . However , it would still take some time . So in order for this to fully work out I had to focus their attention on the conversation to buy time and distract them .
And that in itself did not seem a difficult task , since the guy clearly still had a lot to say . Well I will also take advantage of the situation and gather some more information . I just hope that this is a good decision . But it can't get any worse right ?
' Fuck ..... Did I just raise the flag ? '
I thought, with a sudden realization. Well there is nothing more I can do.
" You see , the information Grey received from our boss was meant only for him . They have very sensitive information . "
Said the man drawing my attention from my thoughts , back on him . And at the moment when he said this I understood the crux of the whole situation between Spider and Grey . At the same moment I also realized the value of those random papers that I took .
This was apparently important intelligence from the spider sindicate . The fact that it was only because of the possibility of their leakage that such a purge was done and two hunter level people were sent , just shows how important they are . And most importantly that they have real information .
' They also have shocking and hard to believe information , looking at the Viper's reaction after seeing them . And how much exactly would they be worth ? Since a spider is willing to do so much to silence someone who has them ? '
I thought while already calculating in my head their possible value . And well I don't know what information they have , but they will certainly be valuable to Xiong or cherry .
" And Grey gave them and talked about them im front of Viper . However, the fact that you know about it means that you had a bug in the club or on Grey itself . After all, your friend can only see and not hear . Am I right ? "
I said , coming to a conclusion and then I asked , trying to gather some more information . Although it may seem too late to collect more , and the informations which I tried to get may seem meaningless . However, who knows ?
" Yes ... Grey had an eavesdropper , tossed to him even before he arrived in the Vale. Additional safeguard . What we gave him and told him was too sensitive to circulate without our careful control . "
Said the man , looking straight at me with an openly satisfied and proud smile on his face . If I had to guess the reason for this expression , perhaps it was satisfaction at my perceptiveness and trying to extract information . Something along the lines of , I wasn't wrong about you or that's what I expected .
And he has done it all while being not bothered at all by the increasing smoke and the glow in the distance . It was so bright that if it wasn't for the smoke you could mistake it for dawn . So I for one , already imagined how this fire must spread from building to building . Of course even if this whole neighborhood burns down I won't care too much .
Nobody but homeless people live here . Although even they should have already left the place after hearing the shots and seeing the fire and smoke . So there is nothing much to lose here .
However, if the fire grows to such proportions I am sure that the fire department will go into action . And when the fire department arrives , and we start a fight here . The police called by the concerned firefighters are sure to take an interest , and behind them will follow the hunters who will learn of the fight between the people with the aura .
But In spite of my awareness that time is running out . The guy in front of me did not seem to worry about it . I would rather say that he uses it as time pressure so that I would make a decision faster . Of course I already knew that I would not agree .
Said the man openly annoyed but also strangely pleased . It looked like he was looking for an opportunity to kill Grey ? His facial expressions , body language and tone of voice were all too clear with this . This is just a guess but looking at how he approached the case from the beginning ?
' Maybe he's also friendly towards us for that very reason ? Well he said that he wants to recruit us too . But one does not exclude the other , at most it adds a little more possible sense to his decision . '
I think without trying to go into it all too much .
" You also heard what they talked about right ? "
He asked , rather rhetorically since it was obvious that we had heard . Nevertheless to gain time and keep the conversation going I answered .
" Information that Grey had right ? He did not talk about the details . Rather he showed the papers to Viper . I didn't see the papers but I saw Viper's reaction . And it was something shocking enough for the Viper not to believe it and significant enough for Grey to consider it as a good bargaining chip . "
I said , recalling the papers I took and the conversation that took place between the two now newly deceased .
" Yes , Lil' Miss Malachite gave them to him for his exclusive use . And yet he shared them with this snake which posed a threat to the source of this information ... "
Said the man , but just as he was about to continue , the conversation in the alley was interrupted by the ringing of a scroll , which came from the pocket of a woman .