220 chapter 21: Intermission

After their little run-in with the "lord" of the underworld district and his gang of thugs over some stupid reason, that's impossible to wrap their heads around on.

They promptly "dismantled" that group the moment they entered their humble abode, of course, not before milking the big boss of all the pieces of information he had to offer.

"Please! END IT! THAT'S ALL I KNOW! I SWEAR! JUST MAKE IT STOP!" screamed the boss of the gangster who was pinned to the stone wall with metal rods in the basement.

For some reason, making these type of people scream and beg- Leonard manages to take some pleasure from that.

From the pieces of information he had received, he now knows that there are bigger fishes in the pictures- which mean there would be further troubles and messes that will like form like a festering wound in the futures if he doesn't have a plan to dealt with all of them now.

"You have the local gangster of a small gang, above that, you have a district leader who controlled the smaller faction on behalf of the bigger families…" he ponders for a moment as he doodled a small drawing on paper.

"Quite a simple and straightforward pyramid hierarchy," he commented as he looked at the information he put down on paper, at the bottom- he drew a bunch of stick figures(roughly around 10-15, he lost count) and above them, he drew the idiotic looking face of the one who was currently being pinned to a wall under his basement along with three other stick figures, and above him, he drew the generic mobster godfather-like figure, this represents the major power of the underworld in this city.

Another fact he discovered was that there was five powerful family that controlled the entire city underworld and in the field of politic, these five families are as follows, the Corleone, Lucchese, Genovese, Zaluchi, and quite a surprising and shocking fact- the Government, the situation in the city was quite surprisingly, peaceful currently with these "five" crime families iron fist-like authority, however occasionally, the underlings do cause troubles, but they were ignored in most cases as they were not serious to the extent that the bigwig above would pay much attention.

Currently, their group was on the turf of the Zaluchi family- the least aggressive out of the "five" great family ( from now on Leonard just lumped the Central Government as one of the big family since these gangsters and mobster too, lumped the Government as one.)

However, that doesn't mean that they just take things while laying down, being pacifistic as a "Crime" family had another meaning, it just means they don't actively go out and stir up shit.

"How should I dealt with a family whose power can rival that of the "Government" themselves in the field of politics and wealth…" Leonard scratched his chin as he tried to think of a plan to solve this mess that seems too attracted to him everywhere he goes.

His words seem to go through to the gangster that was pinned to the stone though, as the man looked at the youth that stood before him with dread and fear.

"YOU'RE CRAZY?! YOU'RE PLOTTING AGAINST THE GODFATHER OF ALL PEOPLE?!" he screamed hysterically.

"So what? Do you honestly think I would put such peoples in my eyes? If it wasn't for the fact that I don't wish to cause some major shit- I would just go to wherever the hell these five families are and just blow shit up." he shrugged.

"What you're doing now will cause the same effect as bombing the five Don!" he screamed.

"Yeah yeah, whatever, I will be sending you to the real underworld now, bye bye now~" Leonard curled up his fist and readied it for a "Casual" punch.

"The Zaluchi family will avenge me." the man seen to have accepted his fate and glared at Leonard with bloody murder eyes.

"Tsk, if they dare to make a move against me- or those under my wings, they will all die." he grinned as he spoke the last four words to the soon to be a dead man.

*SPLASH! The sound of something squishy exploded and accompanied by a splashing sound echoed in the basement, under the house.

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*Creaeaaaakkkk the sound of a door creaked as it opened.

*Drip *drip *drip blood dripping.

"That took longer than I had expected, but there's enough information to get us somewhere," he commented as he held onto a thick stack of paper in one of his hand while the other was covered in thick viscous blood.

"You got everything down, Leonard?" Ryuji asked seeing the thick stack of paper on one of Leonard hand, while the other was a bloody mess.

"Yep, should be everything." he nodded.

"Did you dispose of that mess down in the basement? Not even leaving a trace?" Ryuji gulped as he tried to peek down below.

"Don't bother, they won't find anything even if they flip this entire over from its foundation, I make sure to properly dispose of everything… there are absolutely- no traces left behind." Leonard told him as he walked back to the living room with a stack of papers in hand.

When he arrived, everyone was waiting for him- except for Ryuji who hasn't left the basement yet as he wished to poke around down there a little bit, just to see if Leonard indeed manages to clean up the mess properly.

"This is everything that I got from his head." he tossed down the stack of paper which made a heavy slam onto the wooden table.

"A short and quick summary of this is- we just fucked with one of the big bosses of the city no matter what we did, they will come after our ass once they found out that we are guilty- but on the bright side, these families are not completely united and we should be in the territory of a somewhat...reasonable(hopefully) family- the Zaluchi." Leonard summed the heavy stack of papers in a short paragraph.

After Leonard finished summed up the entire things, the different shades of color on the "mortals" faces changes could be seen visible to the naked eyes.

For a moment, it seems like all the blood has been drained from their face- it was pale white and they're sweating bullets as they listen onto the cold and calm voice of Leonard.

*SHRIEK!!!!! Roger was the first to give in to the pressure as he shrieked like a girl.

"LYING LOW MY ASS!!! YOU FUCKED WITH THE BIGWIG OF THE CITY??!!!" he screamed loudly to the point where it almost ruptured the eardrum of his companions.

"Chill out, it's not the end of the world...I'm sure Leonard and Ryuji have a plan or two to deal with these type of situation." Jeanne looked at Leonard with hopeful eyes.

Only to meet with the latter own serious gaze, and a casual shrug, which sent her to the abyss of hell itself, for a moment, she swears that she could see a smirk on his face.

"..." she was speechless as she looked at the youth.

"Just calm down, I'll deal with the problems when it arose, this is not the first time that something like this actually happened- don't worry too much about it." he tried to defuse the situation of mass hysteria- which caused by yours truly.

*ding dong the doorbell ranged.

"We have a visitor?" Leonard turned his gaze toward the recently repaired front door, he went over and opened.

"Who are you?" Leonard questioned the visitor in front of him, which was a youth in fine clothes and neatly trimmed brown hair and blue eyes.

"Hello, you must be Mr. Leonard?" the youth asked.

"Yes, that's me? And who are you?" he narrowed his eyes at the smiling youth.

"My name is Luca, Luca Zaluchi of the Zaluchi family." he introduced himself, in a voice loud enough for the people inside to listen into.