Blood Of Platinum
Chapter 45. Meaningless Treasure Sparkling bag. 1
Turning elsewhere in the most unfamiliar corner of the city, there is a long story that goes along with the time Theo and all the children left their homes to go to the altar at that time.
At the [Barre des Noirs] bar that morning, Arkan as the bartender on duty that day replaced the previous bartender for running away.
He was at the bar table preparing glasses and other small things.
“Just because hearing there was a bloody drama last night from the customer made the old man stop and leave the city. Just bother”
Arkan sounded like he was grumbling, but actually the face shown by him did not represent his words.
Rather than being called a grumble, he spoke as if a murder in the bar he worked at was not
it happened and did not cause any problems for him.
After spending a lot of time cleaning the bar and preparing all the necessities, he looked at the clock on the bar wall. The clock shows at 06:50 a.m.
“It is better to open this bar faster. Besides with last night's bloody party, I'm sure everyone won't come here for drinks sooner”
After walking to the door and changing the sign in front of the door as a sign the bar was opened, Arkan looked at the door of Justin's room. He slightly thought about the state of the big tattooed man.
Arkan said in his heart with a serious look.
‘I haven't seen him out of that room since I came back from home last night until this morning. I saw the cold eyes he showed me before he kicked me out last night. Those eyes are eyes that thirst for prey'
He remembered all the records of what happened at the bar last night.
Yesterday night, it was clear he heard Justin yelling very loudly before killing both of his men who returned with failure at the bar where he worked.
In fact, the words that Justin said to his two men before becoming a corpse were still stuck in his memory.
“How dare you come back before me with failure while searching for that sword-wearing man without the sword sheath!!. It should have been if you guys couldn't find it in the first place, you never reported it to me!!. Basic garbage is useless!!” Justin shouted while beating them up
They were beaten by them. Although he did not see for himself the incident because the door was closed back then, but he could already guess.
One of Justin's tall men was deliberately placed by Justin at that time. He puts her in front of the entrance to his room as a guard dog that blocks anyone from entering, including Arkan who was working on his bartender shift that night.
A bit of his attention is distracted when Theo walks into the bar and insists on seeing Justin. Of course Justin's guard dog hit and pushed Theo down.
Arkan did nothing to help Theo that night because basically, he didn't really care about the fate of Justin's pet orphans.
He only knew about his duties as a bartender who worked at the bar, so he didn't need to put himself in as a good person who had empathy for anyone. The same goes for his attitude towards children.
After the guard dog in front of the door finished doing his job by hitting Theo down, he heard gunshots coming from inside the room. Not just one or two shots, but six in a row.
-Dor.Dor…
- Kyaaaa
Simultaneously, the shouts of the three seductresses who were then serving Justin came out covered in a long piece of cloth covering their naked bodies. They were shaking, crying and running to the back corner of the bar.
The customers also looked pale and panicked at that moment. No one moved out of place or made a sound.
Arkan who stood staring heard all that, could still put on his expressionless face. As if he had gotten used to the mess Justin had caused all this time, he still remained calm even though the entire crowd at the bar including Justin's guard dog back then looked pale and sculpted.
The voice of Justin screaming after killing the two men was heard again.
“Basic is useless!!!. How dare these street rats come back without bringing the results I want!!!. Oi you trash, get these rats out of my sight now and don't try to ruin my atmosphere now!!
As Justin walks out with his upper body without a piece of cloth and is bathed in fresh blood from the corpse in his room, Arkan sees Justin's footprints on the bar floor and begins to panic.
The content of his thoughts back then actually represented his panicked face.
‘Sial, you shouldn't dirty the floor of this bar with your pet's blood, you don't know yourself! Who do you think is going to clean up all the remaining bloodstains?! Gorillas have no brains!. I won't let your men leave my bar with that much dirt!’
His biggest fear at that time was having to overtime without being paid just to mop up the bar floor. What a hell for Arkan. Mopping the floor of the bar with fresh blood everywhere scared him more than seeing people killed in front of his eyes. Really ‘mulia’ and ‘suci’ once his heart was.
After looking at the dirty floor, he glanced at Theo who was still trembling and sat on the floor with his body sculpted. Looking at the boy's widened eyes as if shocked by what he saw, Arkan just thought the boy might be enjoying this free spectacle so happily that his body could not move.
Not long after the sound of the screams of the three seductresses was heard followed by the sound of another consecutive shot from the gun in Justin's hand.
- Kyaaaa
-Dor.Dor..
Arkan felt strange about it. He thought for a moment.
‘Don't there have been six shots before. The bullet in the gun should be gone. How could he shoot those three women again?’
Arkan briefly walked into Justin's room and peeked a little. He looked at the two bodies that were still freshly on the floor and he started making strange faces.
‘It seems I'm really going to be overtime today. Those lifeless chunks of flesh still continued to bleed until they flooded this room. I will report this to the manager to request 100% bonus and additional holidays!’
He glanced to the left right of the place and finally found a gun on the floor.
‘Hoo..he has two guns. It is only fitting that he can make a consecutive shot once again’
Arkan noticed Justin walking back to his room and before entering, he briefly looked at Theo with a cold gaze.
Another comment from a very classy Arkan came out.
‘Oi, don't try to scare a child. You didn't know the boy enjoyed the show so much that it made him feel moved and tremble in awe. Get in there, big gorilla!!. Please let the party end tonight!. I don't want to overtime alone!!’
Arkan's eyes turned wide when he heard Justin say a sentence to him.
“Do not bother me or I will kill you”
He could not figure out why Justin could say such a cold thing to his pet.
‘Basic has no heart!. Though Theo seems to miss you to run these nights to the bar. The big gorilla did not have feelings turned out to be’
The cold murmur did not help at all, but Arkan felt like expressing it even though it was difficult.
As soon as the door was slammed by Justin, Theo who was trying to stand immediately ran out followed by all the bar visitors who shouted while doing the same thing as Theo.
In an instant, the place was quiet and left only Justin in the room, some of Justin's men standing in the corners of the bar, five dead bodies, and a few more, one doorman dog still standing was sculpting and himself at the bar table.
While looking at the bar where he worked that was chaotic with fresh red paint on the floor, Arkan was like he was going to scream but he did it in his heart. While his handsome face was still looking calm as if he had no expression.
‘Fuck, shit, shit, shit!!! Look what you did, you gorilla!! Look at that, those three women are still bleeding from the hole in their bodies!! You don't know how hard it is to mop up all those nights, huh?! Tomorrow I also have to get up early to open this bar! You think their blood is like a fragrant perfume of a flower? They were so fishy that I could see the future of this bar go bankrupt because of its fishy aroma. Aaahh!!!’
He only took a long breath many times. As if to cry that night, the young man aged around 28-29 years old was able to predict his dark future in a foreign place in the city.
“I have to take a leave of absence after this for the sake of my mental health” he said in a soft tone
Arkan had almost given up but could not give up. Finally because Justin did not say anything from his room, he asked all of Justin's men who were there to remove all the bodies.
“All of you, please raise the three women and the two people who are in Justin-sama's room. They are not suitable as a decoration in this bar. If left unchecked, later this place can be cursed and my customers will not come here again”
“Alright alright” replied them all in a lazy tone
Justin's men who were assigned as guard dogs knocked on Justin's door after his common sense returned. He asked permission to clean both bodies. When allowed, the door was opened by the doorman's dog. There were about three of Justin's men who came in to carry the two bodies of the big man out of his room.
As they began to lift and carry him out, Justin shouted.
“I will not give any tolerance to those who dare to defy me and fail to do their duty. Dump them all into a pile of trash and let them rot there!!”
“Baik”
Arkan who heard that instantly covered his face with a hand as he muttered inwardly.
Shaking his head he muttered a little. A simple word came out of his mouth.
“My head is dizzy. Looks like I'm a migraine now”
Another of Justin's men carried the bodies of the three dead seductresses and literally threw their bodies all into a pile of trash. When all was done, they just left him.
When thrown to the ground, one of the legs of the woman's corpse accidentally nudged a nearby garbage bag so that the bag fell and all its contents scattered. It was trash from bottles of Justin's drink that had just been cleaned during the day.
Watching Justin's men re-enter after they finished throwing the five bodies back, made him curious about the results of the arrangement they did on the five bodies.
When he looked at the bar dumpster in the back, he instantly turned pale like the condition of the five corpses on the ground back then.
Many bottles scattered, garbage cans and others in large garbage bags that he had arranged so neatly immediately shattered formless. He even saw what Justin's men were like piling up the bodies of the five people.
“That once, they should have piled all the bodies up to look neat instead of being left lying on the ground like that. I can't possibly arrange them to be easily wrapped up by myself right? Look at it later, I'll ask you to wrap all those bodies”
Scratching his head, he turned around and walked into the bar again.
As long as he's outside looking at the bright and real work of Justin's men, he's, Justin seemed to have been shouting and getting angry at his men in his room by taking out some very detailed opening ‘pekor’.
When he was already inside the bar back, he only heard the last words Justin said back then.
“I want the sword man without the sword sheath alive or dead. Since he entered my territory without permission with a gun, it means that I have to take care of him with weapons as well”
Arkan returned to the bar table to clean up the cocktail maker's tools and calculate the cashier's income. He talked while fixing his desk.
“The sword man without a sword sheath, yes” Arkan said in a quiet voice
After he was done with his cocktail equipment, he started walking into the cash register with a long comment in his heart.
‘What kind of chaos could the man make in this foreign place to the point of angering Justin? Just getting into this place won't get him in any serious trouble, right? Just because he feels like a ruler, doesn't mean this neglected territory really belongs to him’
After a moment of silence, he heard the sound of the door opening and all of Justin's men came out of the room while running towards the bar exit. They were ordered by the big man to search for the sword man without the scabbard even if it had to be to the center of the city.
Arkan finally realizes that now only he and the big tattooed man live inside the bar.
After taking a breath and throwing it away, the bartender walked out of the bar table and stood in front of the open door of the room.
Arkan, who was already standing at the door of the room, looked at the floor of Justin's room again as he tried to hold back his explosive emotions from having to clean the room and the entire bar alone after this.
“Justin-sama, have I been able to mop up your floor?. This place is not good for bad mood”
“Arkan..”.
“Yes, Justin-sama”
“Do you want to fate the same as the trash behind?”
“……”
“If you understand leave me alone”
Hearing that, Arkan went out leaving the bar. Outside the bar, he lit a cigarette and smoked it. After a long while he exhaled smoke from his mouth while saying.
“They are all troublesome”
Not long after, there was someone running from a distance towards him. While exhaling cigarette smoke from his mouth, Arkan was silent until the figure of the person was seen. A man who looked older than him ran from a distance to get to Arkan.
Arkan who saw the old man had trouble breathing when he stopped in front of him, dropped his cigarette butts on the ground and stepped on him.
He helped the poor old man catch his breath then asked in a normal manner.
“Mr Nox, why do nights come to work? Isn't your shift done this morning? It's still my turn now”
The old man immediately looked at Arkan's face with sweat and fear.
“Arkan, what happened exactly in the bar?! What is the truth of the murder in this place, replied me!!” while screaming in fear and panic, the man named Nox asked him
“Oh that was. Em, right. Justin-sama was in a bad mood some time ago, so he vented all his emotions to his two men and the three women he used to bring into the bar. Is there a serious problem?”
“Don't joke, why can you talk so quietly?!” the heat is increasingly shown by Mr. Nox to Arkan
However, Arkan only answered with a sinless flat face.
“I have to do what? All of that has happened and I'm not paid to stop killing”
“Arkan..kau..” the heartless indifferent answer from Arkan left mister Nox in shock.
As it turned out, Arkan still continued his best indifferent opinion.
“In addition, the manager has given up on facing Justin-sama because he is the ruler of this untouched territory. This place has no laws like in the city. The security guard also never came to check this place, so what's the issue for?.”
“.....” now lord nox is at a loss for words hearing his fellow bartenders speak so coldly like that
“Speaking about that, why did you know there was a commotion at work?”
“Pe–Peter, customers who often come to this bar come while knocking on my door loudly many times while shouting. Di–dia said that there was a murder that Justin-sama committed in the bar. Hearing that, of course my a– became panic and–”
The old man tried to explain it even though his mouth was trembling and his words were stammering. Arkan just kept quiet as he continued the last sentence of Mr. Nox's explanation.
“And you came straight here to see straight away, didn't you?”
“.....” the old man was silent
“If you want to see it up close, you can go inside. Oh, be careful because the floor is still wet. Chances are I'll work rods until morning to remove the bloodstains. I mean to take ammonia liquid at home. Before I go, would I like company to look inside first?”
“Arkan! This isn't funny!. How can you be so cold when someone dies before your eyes?!”
The old man had run out of patience and snapped at the young man with all the emotions he had. And once again Arkan's answer was so quiet without sin.
“I just behave like a normal” bartender
Enough with all of Arkan's words, master Nox finally ran out of patience and said something that made Arkan finally show a pale face.
“I'm tired of this place. I'm leaving town now. This is none of my business”
“Eh?”
“If indeed you do not care about anyone's life to be cold and do not care like that, then do everything as you like. In the end, you will only be part of heartless people like Justin”
“Why–”
“You...not better than Justin, Arkan! You are just like him, a demon who has no conscience and no humanity! Someday you'll realize how low you are and you'll realize it”
Mr. Nox ran away leaving Arkan alone outside the bar. The surprised Arkan tried to call him back.
“Tung...Master Nox!”
He failed to call her. The old man was already far ahead there and now he was alone. Arkan looked a little moody and said what he felt.
“Why can he say that? Though I wish he could help me clean up all the blood reminiscing inside? I think he can be a good co-worker. Unreliable old man!”
Now, Arkan was just lamenting his fate and walking home as he had said to take ammonia.
"Ah.I want to take a day off after this"
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