221 chapter 22

"You must be… Mr. Leonard?" said a well-groomed middle-aged man in a fancy black suit sitting behind a desk while having a glass on red wine on hand.

"And you are, Don Zaluchi?" replied Leonard.

"That's correct, people knows me as simply, Don Zaluchi, or Godfather." the middle-aged man replied back to Leonard.

"I assume you have a reason for… inviting me here, to your "humble" abode?" Leonard words with sarcasm as he smirked at the Godfather of a mafia family.

"You are indeed right, Mr. Leonard, as you might have already known, you've killed the men that worked for my family right under my nose, so what do you have to say for yourself?" the head of the Zaluchi family narrowed his eyes at the youth before him.

"I regret nothing!" Leonard declared loud and proudly in the face of one of the biggest crime boss in the city, much to everyone else surprised.

"Hahahaha, this kid- he's funny!" the man laughed before snapping his fingers and at a moment notice, a group of men in suits revealed themselves and pulled out their guns at him.

"Do you perhaps change your mind on this matter now? Mr. Leonard?" the Don asked him with a smirk on his face.

"Why don't you try shooting me with these toys?" Leonard provoked the mobsters.

*BANG a bullet whistled pass through the side of his ear and made a dent and embedded on the thick wooden door behind him.

Leonard did not move an as much as an inch when he was being shot at, as first these small arms would not be able to do any damage to himself.

However, Leonard nonchalant expression brought great surprised to the people that was with him in the room.

They have two thoughts about the current situation.

One was Leonard was too afraid that he frozen on them, while the second was the most unlikely- it was Leonard was confident that the bullet was not intended to hurt him.

"That's enough now, I believe you have made your point, go back now." the Don ordered his underling to remove themselves from the conversation between the two.

"But Godfather, we are here for your protection- we know nothing of this stranger!" one of them argued and tried to persuade the Don.

"Do not question my judgment, just do like I asked." the Don spoke in a stern voice, promptly shutting the man mouth and made him swallow his words.

"yes...Godfather." cold sweat rolled down the side of his face as he replied before he and his companion quickly removed themselves from the room, leaving only two people behind.

"Finally, some peace and quiet." the middle-aged man leaned back on his arm chair and let out a long deep sigh while sipping the wine.

"So, mind tell me, who are you exactly, and what is your purpose for coming to this...beautiful city ruled by gangsters?" he asked Leonard in a friendly manner.

"Would you believe me if I told you that I'm here just to sightseeing?" Leonard asked the Don with a stoic face.

"Pfffftttt!!!!" needless to say, the reaction he got from the man was intense as he spat out the wine he was drinking when he heard Leonard response.

*Cough *cough *COugh!! "You mind repeat those words again? I believe I didn't hear it correctly, my ears might have malfunction me for a moment there, I apologies." the Don took out a handkerchief and casually wiping the stain of wine on his lip and used a tissue to clean up the mess that was made on the table.

"I just said, I'm here just for sightseeing, did you hear it correctly now? Need another repeat?" Leonard repeated his answer with a mix of sarcasm.

"No no no, I think I heard you correctly this time, it was an unexpected answer, sorry about that." the Don now finished cleaning up his mess and casually tossed the tissue to the nearby trash can which was across of the room.

"So...why does the goal of "sightseeing" warrant the killing of the men who worked for me? I'm sure that's a bit too much don't you think? Bare-Chested Joe was one of the important cog that made my district running smoothly- but with his death we have a major issue on our hand as the balance of power has been shifted." the Don asked Leonard as he poured himself another glass of wine before offering Leonard the bottle and handed him a glass as well.

"It's a Domaine De La Romanee-Conti from the 80's, it's not something you would find on the market nowadays." the Don offered.

Leonard noticed the date on the bottle did indeed said that it was aged from 1983's, seeing that he looked at the Don before looking around for the calendar, which read 2016.

"That date is correct, it has been aged for roughly 30 years." he confirmed it.

"Alright then, thanks for the offer." Leonard helped himself to a glass before handed the bottle back to the "Godfather".

"Back to your question, he started to mess with me first, these types of situations would not have happened if he and another fifties of his buddy didn't come knocking and interrupted my peace and quiet." he replied.

"But couldn't you just do something like...I don't know, break his limbs and kicked him out?" the godfather raised an eyebrow.

"These type of peoples are the spiteful and venomous type, I rather killed him off and pull the weed from it root rather than having ants plotting and causing me headache later on in the future, I'm sure you understand that… "Godfather" you too, has dealt with these type of situation right?" Leonard asked the man.

Don Zaluchi did not answer back, he knows too well of these type of situation, for he too, have a hand in many of these situations, they weren't clean, asking a Mafia Godfather to have a clean pair of hand is certainly the biggest joke of the century.

"Now you understand my point." Leonard continued to press on the pressure.

"But what am I supposed to do now that one of the pillar that supported my distract suddenly disappeared? This won't end well for the people and their family member that worked for this family, how are you going to make up for that? Hundreds and thousands will likely perished in the conflicts if the other Don were to take actions once they know one of my Caporegime disappeared." the middle-aged man stressed out, however he suddenly stopped as he looked up onto Leonard who displaying a casual expression of sipping wine.

"I have an offer." he voiced to Leonard.

"How about you take the missing spot that was voided out after the disappearance of Bare-Chested Joe and his gang?" Don Zaluchi offered.

"I refuse." Leonard flat out refused the offer.

"Just hear me out, you won't suffer any lost from this, since I know that you're capable of killing Bare-Chested Joe and his entire gang with just six people, I know you can handle this, as a matter of fact, I will offer you benefit and pay you just to stay in that position to scare off the other gangsters from causing me headache." the Don offered.

"What do I get out of it?" Leonard asked with interest.

"I'll pay you this much! And also, I'll give you a huge discount on any business that's under the family name! Also, I'll also hand you the authority over some competent peoples so you can just hand all the work to them, I need you as a figurehead for this gang until I find someone who can take that place permanently." he offered.

"So, to sum it up, you want my group to be the center of attention and target on the hit list until you find someone who is competent enough to take over our spot and kicked us out?" Leonard raised an eyebrow at the offer.

"No no no, you can keep that spot permanently if you want, and about being on the hit list? I doubt anyone could do much about it seeing you're capable of taking down a Caporegime and his fifty goon with six people, so there must be a power mutant among you." the Don made his guess as to what really happened, indeed he was half right.

"I see… fine, I accept your offer, just keep the low level fools away from my area."

"To a great cooperation." the Don cheered with his wine class.

"To a great cooperation." Leonard copied the man.