24 Farewell, bounty hunter

"I'm sure you already have your fair share of information on Crimson night. So I'll keep it to what I found out after some interrogations I did after arriving here." (Jeorge)

Interrogations, does he mean? Well let's not think too deeply on it, if I think about it, it may be easier to find more things out instead of hoping to be at the right place at the right time of a conversation. He starts to reach for something in his pocket.

"What are you doing?"(Luis)

"I'm trying to take out my phone," he says as he pulls it out. "Alright, come here for now."

"..."

"Come on, I'm not gonna hit you again or are you afraid of me now?"

Frankly, yes. This guy can keep up with me when I'm using enhancement and has the fighting instincts of an animal. HIs blows are heavy as hell and he's better at shooting than me too. I don't think I can beat him even if he's a normal human.

"Not really," I get closer to him and see that a map of the city.

"Alright, I don't know how useful this is going to be, but according to what I heard, according to what I heard these are the places where most of the distribution happens." He says as he points to two locations on the map. 'It is usually done at about 19:00 or so on each location, This is usually done on Tuesdays and Fridays, so you will have to wait till tomorrow. Of course, there are other places, but these are the only ones I know about."

So at the **** center and some part in Central park huh. Looks like I may not have been so lucky. Well even If I was I'm usually not out patrolling by 18:00. Guess I gotta start.

"Got it... This seems so stupid."

"Wha do you mean?"

"I went through that whole shit last night to hear those couple of sentences, It's honestly ridiculose."

"... I guess it does." The old man as he laughs. "It reminds me of Mr. M.'s password."

" 'Information always comes with a price'?"

"Yes, how suitable don't you think?"

When I first heard it I thought it was pretty stupid, I guess now I somewhat understand what he means by that.

"Yeah, it really doesn't it." I say with a small laugh, and then compose myself."...Well, with this we part ways don't we?"

"That's right, oh, before we do here." He grabs three cartridges of ammunition and gives them to me. "We use the same type of gun and as far as I can see, you only have one cartridge am I right? Honestly, it made it easier for me since I could report the bullets you fired as mine since you have the same gun. "

"Well... you aren't wrong, why would you give it to me?"

"I have my own reasons," he says as he looks far away. Some shit must've happened, but I won't pry. I take the extra ammo gladly.

"Also, by the way. If you deal with this type of work all the time, why do you only carry a handgun?"

"I don't like hindering my mobility so, I use this gun I guess, well I have my personal reasons but I guess it's fine. You are being strangely social this time around aren't you? Normally you would just take it and leave. I even heard a small laugh from you, It's almost as if you are actually a teenager."

"..."

He starts laughing. " Looks like you are still shaken despite acting so cold and being an asshole the whole time."

He may be right, maybe I just wanted someone to talk to, but I can't say that. We'll have different paths, I already resolved myself to push through my own resolve and he has his own different goals too.

"Shut up, I was just about to leave old man," I say as I start walking away.

"HAHA, that's the brat I know. Take care."

"Don't go dying on me either!"

" Remember that I won't die even if I am killed!"

"Yeah, yeah."

"Hope to see you again Dark Menace, maybe we'll go out for drinks when I come back!"

"They will be on you!"

"!?!?"

With that, I leave the alleyway on my way to patrol the streets again. I guess I wanted someone to talk to after I left that night was the last night I ever heard from Jeorge. The bounty hunter who helped me face my own promise and corrected my thoughts, the person that was next to me when I killed my first person and the person that rectified my way of thinking.

With that, I left the place and blended into the night still continuing to patrol my surroundings while stepping closer to my goal. I may only have 4 weeks, but I will make the most of them without rushing.

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I wake up the next day, And as always do my morning routine, but this time, I have further intensified the amount of magic used, the speed of my jog, the jogging time, and the amount of magic I try controlling at the same time.

I finish my run to find someone at my waiting in front of my apartment. It looks like he came back around again.

"Morning Trevor."

"?!?!... Hello?" he said warily

Why is he wary of me? Oh, I guess since my head is a little more clear right now, I ended up greeting him. He probably found that weird.

"What business do you have with me?"

"You'll be leaving August 4."

"I see...an exact date now. Go it."

"Is something wrong with you?"

"Nothing at all. Now if you'll excuse me."

I walk past him into the apartment in order to get ready for my part-time job. Today is July 7th, not counting the day I have to leave I have... 27 days. Well, time to get to work, both in the nightly sense and part-time sense. The rest of the day is uneventful with me just going to work and training for the rest of the day. I have gotten slightly better in terms of the scales of my spells and efficiency, or at least I feel my efficiency has increased.

Not only that but what I call my "compressed muscle strength," which is basically my strength without any magic reinforcing me whatsoever, has increased lately, it is close to Olympian level now, or so I think when I compare and contrast. I wonder if I turned into those anime characters that are stupidly strong but have small muscle mass. I'll leave it at that for now, I gotta get to patrolling earlier than usual.

I get home and put on my usual things, I grab the gun and look at it. It still feels somewhat heavy, but I'm sure I can handle it for now. I grab one extra cartridge just in case, if I had a belt or something to put it on, I would honestly appreciate it, but this is all I get I guess.

I go to Central Park and get there around 16:50, alright now to find the... wait a second. Central Park is fucking huge, how the hell am I suppose to find the specific spot where the deal will take place? That stupid old man should've gotten more specifics!!! So in order to find out where there is most likely something going on is... by making my presence sensing that large enough to cover Central Park I guess.

Covering the whole park is gonna be extremely straining. But I guess might as well, I run as close to the most central part of the park as I can and expand my search to reach the whole park. Shit, this is too big, I don't think I can hold this for more than a minute.

I focus all my extremely trying to find the right presence. A festival going on over here, some drunk people over there. I found them!! There some people with some weapons northwest of here, by the tip of the lake that juts out from the west. They have some bags and are giving them out for now. I decided to focus there.

Ugh, I found some familiar presences as well, I don't wanna deal with them right now. But I mean, they probably found out about this and decided to take action. Why is it gotta be on the same day that I find this out.

I decide to rest for a little, this was the biggest I had enlarged my presence sensing so precisely so I decide to take a minute break before heading there so I do so.

Well, now that I'm rested I will head northwest and then think of what to do once I get there. I start jogging there and stop about 40 meters from when they are and hide in within the surrounding woods.

For now, my goal is to just watch this play out and then follow the supplier back to where they are going. I wait there patiently for the transaction to go off when I sense those presences I don't want to deal with getting closer. If I start moving to avoid them there's a chance that we may be discovered. So I guess I'll just let them get closer.

Well at least it's not all of them, it's only two so it might not be as bad. As I was thinking that they arrived at the place where I was hiding.

"Hello, Dark Menace, Long time no see."(???)

"Hello"(???)

"What do you want?"

"Nothing, I just sensed you near coming I thought I would say hi and see what you were doing."(Rebecca)

So he came to check on my objective and see if it aligns with theirs. Why is the leader the airhead but the right-hand one the cunning one? They are still as suspicious as they were before, but I guess there's no helping it for now if we'll be doing similar work.

"... I see."