chapter 20

"THE PEOPLE INSIDE! COME OUT AND FACE THIS DADDY HERE?!" outside of the humble abode that Leonard and his group received as a gift from the local gangsters that he and his group had beaten into submission the day prior, a muscular man, bare-chested filled with scars and "ancient" wounds and tattoos were screaming at the top of his lung for anyone who was inside of the humble house, he stood there with a group of people who are guaranteed to be a bunch of never-do-well in life numbered in the fifties, with weapon such as machetes, lead pipes, baseballs bat- basically anything that can do pain- and one or two with an old outdated pistol in hand pointing at the front door.

"I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME! I'VE ALREADY Destroyed YOUR BUNCH OF HOODLUM IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD AND NOW IT'S YOUR TURN! SURRENDER AND JOIN MY GANG, ELSE THERE WILL BE A LOT OF PAIN!" he roared as he signals one of the goon to throw a brick at their window and breaking it apart.

While more goon would rush to the door and began the process of knocking it down.

"So, how are we going to do this? Kill them or just beat them up?" Leonard asked for the opinion of the people inside the living room, which was a hallway away from the front door that was being slowly kicked down by the mob of thugs and gangsters outside.

"what's different is that going to make? They're just going to come back for more, either way, we might as well kill them all now to avoid future trouble." Leonard shrugged.

"But doesn't that going to prompt the authority down on our head? I thought you say we will be lying low here for a while." Ryuji asked, noticing a bit of contradiction.

"We can just kill them off quietly, no one will notice anything if they mysteriously disappear without a trace, right?" his smile caused all the people in the room to feel the chill of death.

*BANG! The heavy wooden door that Roger group reinforced the day prior had finally given in and collapsed, why would Roger and his group want to reinforce a door you ask? It just them being overly paranoid, they only stopped at the door and not the entire house because Leonard doesn't want this beautiful home in his standard to be turned into something like a bunker from the World War eras, secondly- that would just be attracted too much attention.

"What the hell is this door made out of?! My foot is hurting boss!" one of the goons who was responsible for the "demolishing" job complained as he rubbed his right foot.

"Fuck! They reinforced the joint and layer the door with a sheet of metal!" another goon lifted the door over and checked it, only to find a tough looking joint that held the door to the frame and a thick sheet of steel- likely from a table bolted to the door.

"Come out and face me now, else once I find you, there will be consequences, I heard that there are three beautiful women in your group." the bare-chested gangster licked his lip as he mentioned the "three women" part.

"Did they included me as one of the women?" Ryuji heard the commotion caused at the front entrance and the fact that the gangster mentioned three females, but in fact, there's only two, he was quite irritated.

"I think so, I mean- I'm not surprised that those idiots we beat up yesterday mistaken your identities, just look at yourself, long pink braided hair, cute clothes and with that face? I'm surprised how you manage to "survive" this far until you met granny and lose your "chastity" to her like what it said in the story." Leonard narrowed his eyes as he glanced back at the annoyed and pouted ancient trap emperor.

"I say we kill them all! How dare they mistook my gender identity like that! If we were at home! I would have thrown all of them into the dungeon!" the trap emperor pouted angrily.

Which only made him look even cuter and caused cold sweat to roll down the audiences' forehead as they listened on and witness how "Cutely" Ryuji is acting.

"Can you even blame them?" Leonard inner chibi questioned as his real facial expression was twitching violently.

"I found them, boss! They're all in here! And look! I found the girls too! There's a pink hair one, she looks cute, absolutely my type!" a goon rushed in and found that all their "soon to be" victims had gathered in the living room, his sole focus was on Ryuji for some reason.

Quickly a group of thugs surrounded the six people who were sitting on their sofas and was having morning coffees.

"Right, who the fuck are you guys?" Leonard decides to play the arrogant and ignorant fool card.

"Heh? Quite high and mighty eh? You stand before the boss of the entire district- yet you showed no fear… didn't you know that those in the underworld has to pay respect toward their better if they want to have a good life?" the bare-chested gangster grinned as he poked Leonard on the top of his head with his rough finger.

"I suggest you stop doing that, or else," Leonard warned.

"Or else what? Hahaha! What can a skinny wimp like you even do to me?! I can't believe the Black Tiger gang was beaten by a kid like this?!" the gangster laughed until droplets of tear began to roll down the corner of his eyes.

This reaction prompted all the other gangster to laugh as well.

*twist *crack *Crack *crack

The bare-chested gangster was too busy laughing to noticed the sound of something twisting and breaking, however even if he didn't notice it doesn't mean all the other gangster didn't pay attention to what was going on, even if it was just a blur in their eyes.

"Why are you guys laughing? It's ridiculous! Hahahaha!" he continued to laugh without feeling any pain or noticed that his hand was literally, wasted.

"B-boss...I think you might want to take a look at your hand…" finally one of the thugs pointed out the matter of what just happened to his hand.

"Huh- AHHHHHHHHH!!!!" the moment he glanced down on the hand that was poking Leonard previously, he shrieked in horror.

His hand has now turned into something that's worse than a malformed mess that was out in the vast radioactive wasteland.

"I did try to warn you… but too bad, fools don't listen to other people warning, even when it was for their benefits." Leonard shrugged at the sight of the screaming man who wailed like a baby at the sight of his hand after Leonard little warning.

"What the hell are you waiting for?! KILL THEM! I WANT THEM DEAD?!" the bare-chested gang leader roared loudly for his underlings.

"You guys and girls want to join in?" Leonard turned his gaze back to his group and asked.

"Nah, we're good, you can have fun…" Roger, his group and Jeanne shook their head.

"Save some for me! I want some payback!" Ryuji glared angrily at the thugs while cracking his knuckle at them, making those nerve-wracking popping sound.

"AHHHHHH!!!!" from outside of their little house which was located in a remote corner of the city, a terrifying scream could be heard, scaring around all those who wandered too close to the vicinity, from then on, the legend of the screaming haunted house began to spread- the tale began with a group of fifty hard-headed gangsters marching into the house, and none of them can ever be seen again.

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"What is this? You're saying that one of the big bosses of the underworld mysteriously vanished? And his former territory was now being slowly divided up by smaller factions in the district?" a middle-aged man in a suit was sitting behind a desk while resting his leg on a chair and reading a report questioned.

"Yes, Godfather." a young man who was also in a neat black suit answered.

"Where was he last seen?" the middle-aged man who was named "Godfather" questioned.

"He was last seen entering a small estate in a remote corner of the district, Godfather."

"Huh? You mean that haunted house?" the Godfather raised his eyebrow as he asked.

"Yes." the youngster replied with cold sweat soaking his back.