Heavy footsteps approached. A voice clicked its tongue nearby.
"Is this the guy? The one who jumped in like a madman?"
"Yes, sir."
Though Darius planned to 'faint' after being hit with a club, the flimsy club broke instead, but he still managed to feign weakness and get tied to an old metal chair inside the abandoned building.
Reginald and his accomplices, thinking he must be a pretty powerful beast-tamer to dive in so bravely, tied each of his limbs with about ten cable ties.
"Connected to the government?"
"Doesn't seem like it." Replied one henchman after handing over everything they'd found from frisking Darius to Reginald and his accomplice from the Black Vine Consortium.
"Why are you uncertain? Didn't you check properly?"