Chapter 9

"Damn it! Even Amir is here?!" A menacing man can be seen sitting on a barrel as he holds a whip in his hand, he whips a woman who was tied on a wall as he strongly stumps his feet on another naked woman.

"I didn't even have my fill yet but here they are coming for trouble?! Humph! They're looking down on me?!"

He angrily kicked the woman away as he hastily fixed his unbuttoned pants. He hurriedly slammed the door open as he walks through a dim passage, when he walked out, he arrived at a large empty house with only a large ship docked on it.

He went on the cabin of the ship as he saw a slightly big snail resting on the table.

"Found it!"

He pulled the shell of the snail as he hastily tried to see if anyone is in the line, as expected someone talks. The face of the snail suddenly opened as its face contorted and suddenly takes the shape of a man.

(A/N: Yes it's a Den Den Mushi [1])

"Y-yes Captain Betch why'd ya' call?"

"Where are you now?"

"We and the others are now enjoying our time here in Frauenhaus, hahaha look at this bitches!" The sound of an extreme slap can be heard on the other side. Betch suddenly frowns as demandingly said: "Meet me here in the hideout!"

"W-why Captain?"

"It's urgent, now come!"

"Y-yes we're all coming!"

15 minutes later the empty room has been filled with people wearing a bandana, their face has a bit of redness as they are laughingly smug at one another, smells of liquor permeate through the surrounding, their loud laugh covered the room.

Betch sat on a barrel as he observes his crew: "Shut up!"

Everyone looked at Betch as his intimidating face looked at them. He suddenly stood up as he pulled a handgun out of his pocket.

"I've called you all here because some rats are trying to catch us or for worst they might bite us!"

"T-then Captain we can just shoot these rats why call all of us?"

"You f*cking donkey! Why don't I stick this gun in your ass?"

Everyone clenched the cheeks of their ass as they imagine what they're supposed to imagine.

"It's not literal rats! They are the Marines!"

His subordinate suddenly bickered to themselves as they heard what he said.

"Captain, is it that guy again? That Raul?"

"Yes and no, it is Raul but the one who is chasing us now isn't him alone but with that f*cking Amir, he's the one who made my eye like this!"

As he spoke, his face contorted as deep hatred can be seen. He gently caresses his eyepatched eye as he suddenly licked the tip of his gun.

"I'll pull his eyes and feed them to the dog as I f*ck his wife right in front of him!"

"But boss how can he see what is happening if you already pulled his eyes?"

Bang

"Arghhh!!"

"One more time, I will not make an exception again, not only your ear but you'll also see your body be torn and shredded to be eaten by sea monsters!"

"B-but b-boss I'm already dea-"

"SHUT UP!!"

Betch eyes or rather an eye is now protruded as he stares at his subordinate. He suddenly has the urge to pull the trigger and kill this guy 10 times but he knows that this guy will just be cannon fodder anyway so what's the problem of having him?

"Anyway, going back to the topic I received a piece of very crucial information and that is important for us to escape, the Marines don't know where we hide and so they'll waste their time looking for us unless someone has been caught!?"

Every member of his crew suddenly nodded before they remembered something, their face suddenly changed as drops of sweat form on their foreheads.

"I-it's pretty hot here d-don't you think?"

"Y-yeah, I feel like going out for a while"

"H-how about we go out to pee, gosh I think I drunk a lot of beer"

Betch suddenly felt weird as he overlooks his crew, he could see that they are very nervous. That doesn't make sense they are not even afraid to die or commit murder but they felt nervous. He suspiciously asks one of his trusted subordinates: "Tell me what's wrong?"

"N-Nothing sir!"

His eyes saccade back and forth as if he doesn't want to meet Betch's eye.

"Tell me! Or else.."

He didn't continue but he pointed the gun at his henchman as he is expecting something from his mouth.

"Y-your subordinate doesn't want to lie to Captain but earlier since you want us to arrive quickly we have forgotten that two people were missing"

He bowed down to Betch as he silently mused his bad luck, he knows his Captain's temper, and if something happens then they could only kiss their luck for running out.

"What?! Why did you leave them in this crucial situation?! Are you all f*cking crazy?! Do you think I won't blow all of your heads!?"

"P-Please forgive us"

"This motherf*ckers!"

- - - - - -

Amir sat on a chair as he reads the description of what happened in the past months and as expected, the crime suddenly went up, and every person who witnessed the crime can only describe that they all wore a bandana on their head. As he reads more, there was a sudden knock on the door

"Come in"

"Sir!"

"It's fine Raul keep the formalities"

"W-well, Hays, fine"

"Have you find anyone?"

"We found two people lying on the street near a brothel and they have a similar feature maybe they were twins, but that's not the important thing, the important thing is that they wore a bandana similar to that of Betch's iconic bandana"

"Very well, have they told you details of where Betch is hiding?"

"They appear to be completely drunk and they only mumbled some words before they fainted"

"What were those words?"

"I think it was 'Captain, call, urgent'"

Amir puts his hands on his chin as he seemingly thinks on what is the meaning of those words. Raul also sat nearby as he also strokes his chin, the room becomes silent.

"What if they're departing?"

"That's possible but we have our men to walk on every dock to find their ship but alas.."

"Then are they hiding their ship?"

"I've also thought that way but where and how did they hide their ship and if they have to hide it who helped them? Even if months have passed this didn't mean they can already build a stronghold so it means that someone is helping them from the dark"

"Can it be an official from the kingdom?"

"Shhh, keep it down Raul, the king doesn't trust the Marines here so they have planted some spies"

"Then isn't that plausible to say that someone is helping them from the dark and it is even a high official?"

"But we still don't have enough evidence supporting this"

As they are conversing, a sudden sound was heard from the outside and the sound of running can be heard.

"Someone is eavesdropping"

Raul suddenly opened the door as he saw a man covered in dark clothes, he sprinted to catch the person, the guy turned his head in his direction as he saw Raul is steadily closing to him.

The man suddenly panicked as he sprinted his best, because of the loss of his composure, he didn't notice a small boulder, he tripped over the rock as he stumbled with his head first.

When Raul saw this, his pace suddenly slowed down, he approached the man as he locked his hands, he uses his knee to pin down the guy.

As he waited for Amir's arrival, he pulled the mask off of the man, the appearance of the man isn't ugly nor handsome he seems to be in his thirties.

"Why were you eavesdropping on us?"

"I-I didn't mean to, it was all an accident!"

"An accident huh?"

"You think you can outsmart me?"

"N-No sir"

"Tell me why are you investigating the room?"

The man kept quiet as if he was admitting he was investigating them but he didn't utter a single clue about who was making him do this. As Raul continued to pry on who has done this, Amir suddenly caught up.

As Amie saw this he suddenly shakes his head 'Oh Raul, how soft of you'

"You're soft Raul if I were you I would've cut one of his finger"

It wasn't loud but both Raul and the man can hear it, the man suddenly shivered as his face has lost its color. Raul reprimanded Amir "That isn't how a Marine should act Commander Amir"

"Raul you're still naive! That's why you've lost- I'm sorry I've lost my cool there"

Amir looked at Raul, he saw his body twitched when he heard what he said. He didn't mean to say this but his temper suddenly flowed up.

"Raul, let me be the one doing that you can now go and rest"

Raul didn't talk like he did earlier rather he became silent, his head was staring at the man he was pinning.

"Raul! Go now! It's a command!"

Raul loosens his grip on the man as he walks on the street, he didn't look at Amir he just continued walking. Amir didn't mind it he saw Raul's back as it becomes fainter, he sighed when he saw his sad back.

He turns his head to the man who was silently crawling his way out as he pulled a knife out of his pocket. Amir bents down as he smiled at the man.

A sudden cry made the neighbor woke but they didn't seem to mind as if it was a common occurrence.

[1] Den Den Mushi is a species of telepathic snail that is used for vocal and/or visual communication throughout the world.