Chapter 38

One by one, they asked every person in the neighborhood to see if they could find Hotaru's old house but one after the other, all of them didn't know where she lives.

Meanwhile, Her father called someone on the phone.

"Yes, yes, I've brought her, Yes, It's a pleasure doing business with you too... Thanks to you Hotaru, Half of me and your mother's debt is settled, You're really a big help Hotaru."

"Fuck you!"

"... You know if you would've been an obedient daughter, none of this would've happened to you, I wouldn't have to force you to kidnap and beat you."

"Liar! You still beat me and my mom when I was younger."

"You were a child back then, you wouldn't understand why I needed to hit you."

Hotaru started laughing at his audacity. "HAHAHA! I wouldn't understand!? Bitch fuck you! You have the audacity to tell me that?! HAHAHA! You're actually dumber than I thought."

Feeling embarrassed, her father tries to hit her again until he was interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Who the fuck is it?!"

Her father goes up the stairs to check who was at the door. Hotaru's mother was still laying on the ground with guilt and shame written all over her face.

"Why don't you try to become useful for once in a long time by untying me?" Hotaru said with great malice.

"..." Her mother complies with not a single change on her face. She slowly unties the rope on Hotaru's hands. Until they were interrupted by her father coming back with two other people with him. Her mother immediately stops and goes back to the floor.

"Is this her?" The guest asks.

"Yes, this is my daughter."

"This her?" The guest asks his companion.

"Yeah, that's her alright."

"Alright, a deal's a deal, Half of your debt is paid once you hand over your daughter, don't worry we'll take very good care of her, I promise that."

"What are you planning to do with her?" Her mother asks.

"Nothing, we'll just take care of her and have her become a female escort to escort some few people." He replied with a sinister smug on his face.

"Y-you can't do that!"

"Why not? You agreed on selling off your daughter in exchange for having half of your debt paid and if she does well in the industry she might even pay off all of your debts, Isn't that great?"

"N-no! She's my daughter! I'm not going to send her off to some shady business ever!"

"Hm, too bad." With a breath and a blink of an eye, he quickly drew his gun out of his holster and A terrifying crackling thunder filled the room. He pulled the trigger, shooting her in the thigh. Followed by blood gushing out and screams of pain and terror.

Hotaru didn't feel even the smallest remorse when she saw her mother get shot in the leg. 'It's just the leg' She thought to herself.

"You, You didn't faze when I shot a gun to your mother's leg... You... Do you have experience in these kinds of things?"

Suddenly, a loud crash could be heard. The entrance door was broken down, But by who? Quickly, the door leading to the stairs was also torn down by a strike coming from a person's leg. It was the sixth division. The loud bang and the screams made it obvious to them that something was wrong in the house, they were fortunate enough to be in the vicinity of the loud noises.

"We're here to take back something precious to us," Raiden said.

"Well, too bad she's already sold to someone else." Her father replied. "If you want her back then-"

Without letting him finish, Shou threw a cross punch full of malice, making his nose bleed and teeth fall out.

"Just shut the fuck up old man, I don't wanna hear you spewing bullshit anymore and I'm not in a very good mood." His eyes resemble that of a snake hunting his prey, his heart was beating excitedly, ready to beat the man in front of him and anyone who stands in his way to pieces.

"This kid, You think you're some hot shot? We'll see what happens when you get confronted with a gun on your head." As he said that, one of the guests pulled a gun and aimed it directly at Shou's head.

"Shou!" Yuichi tries to help him but Raiden stopped him and grabbed him by the arm. "C-captain! Shou is-"

With a serious look on his face, Raiden replies; "Let him be, He'll manage..." Yuichi decides to trust Raiden's words on this.

"What's wrong? Too scared now that there's a gun pointed at your head?"

Shou got into a stance, in a flash, jumped one step back, pushing the thug off of his balance and throwing him over his shoulder with the arm which he holds the gun with. With his body on the cold cement ground, he quickly steps on his arm to disarm him and picks up his gun, and points it at his accomplice who was with him. His accomplice tries to shoot at Shou and pulls the trigger but he missed. Both of them are now at a standstill as they aimed their guns at each other.

"What are you going to do now kid?" The thug taunts him.

Shou didn't want to reply to his taunting and instead taunts him back.

"Pussy."

The thug immediately didn't want to take that disrespect so he quickly tries to shoot him but Shou ducked under and consecutively shoots him in three different spots; two of his thighs and his chest. In a short amount of time, he already wanted to shoot them with no hesitation from the start.

"Y-you monster. How can you still be doing fine when you took down two people?! Aren't you still a kid?"

"That's true, people tend to hesitate when harming someone severely especially when they have a knife or a gun but not with their fists unless they have techniques or experience, but I- no we are different from those people. Because we are from a yakuza and those people are normal civilians who are trying to protect something, unlike a coward bitch like you who uses other people to his own benefit so he could live. Ironically it only made your lifespan shorter." Without a second thought, He pulls the trigger once...twice... in a short moment in the same place as the first shot, to his leg, followed by loud screaming, louder than his wife's scream.

"It-It hurts!! Arghh!!!" Her father yelled as he rolled around on the ground trying to cope with the pain from his wound.

"I get that it hurts but for you to scream and whine like a bitch makes you pathetic, even a normal person who hasn't tasted pain would scream less loud than you." Shou taunted.

Ryota finished untying Hotaru from her chair. She puts her attention on Shou and looked him in the eye.

Shou paused for a moment before asking a question to Hotaru; "Sorry but, do you wanna shoot him or? Spare him? Whatever you like."

"...I was a fool."

Her father thought she realized how foolish she was back she was younger and regretted everything she did up until now and was trying to give him mercy and let him go. He smiled and looks up at Hotaru from the ground. But what he saw on his daughter's face was a face that looks as if she was looking at something worth less than a human being...No, worthless than a bug on the ground. She was disgusted. Her father's face was immediately filled with fear and horror.

"You want to do the honors? Or?..." Shou asks.

"Gladly!" Hotaru replied with a smile.

Hotaru grabs the gun that Shou was offering and without giving her father a chance to speak, Pulled the trigger and shoots him in the head.