Blood Of Platinum
Chapters 70. The Beginning of the Fight in Foreign Places bag. 4
Inside the bar [Barre des Noirs], Arkan was busy tidying up the tables and chairs that had fallen from the previous incident. With a movement that looked very forced, he tidied it all up.
While occasionally staring at the door of the bar that was badly damaged and the wall that was destroyed by the actions of Justin and Kaito some time ago, Arkan's life spirit seems to have been reduced drastically.
“I'm not sure my salary this month will be okay. Maybe if the manager sees this and threatens me, I should threaten back with a knife or a sword like a criminal. Or before he knew it, I could send him a canned letter and a terror letter so he wouldn't cut my salary this month”
“What did you say just now, mr bartender?”
“……!!!”
Arkan looked surprised to hear that voice. He looked straight at Justin's open door. He saw Kaito coming out of the room and closed the door of the room casually.
“Your imagination is really very wild yes, mr bartender”
“This is all because of you! Look at this you did!. Even this wooden floor was also getting dirtier with bloodstains everywhere! I will completely lose my salary and job after this!” Arkan said in an angry tone while pointing at Kaito's relaxed face
It's not wrong for Arkan to be angry with Kaito.
When viewed in its entirety, from outside the street to inside the bar, there are a lot of traces and blood stains in large quantities. It was as if something big had been dragged into the bar and ended its tracks in Justin's room.
“I just want to continue my plan just” replied Kaito casually
“....” Arkan is silent
With a pale face, Arkan recalled the incident before traces of blood were created inside the bar where he worked. More precisely, he recalled the cause of why his bar could be destroyed like that.
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About 25 minutes ago…
It started when Kaito kicked Justin out until the door and the end of the wall were destroyed.
After Kaito came out and the fight started, Arkan just silently stared with an annoyed expression. Moments later, Arkan's annoyed face finally turned back into an almost expressionless one. He began to mutter in his heart as he sneaked to hide behind the bar table.
The content of his mind when trying to sneak around to hide was his concern about the decision he asked for help from Kaito.
During the fight outside, Arkan just sits on the floor behind the bar table while concocting drinks to calm himself down.
“This may sound crazy. When there was a fight outside, I still took the time to make myself a cold cocktail. But I don't want to die before drinking my work that I made, so it's time I complete my last wish as a bartender”
A final wish before dying, that's what Arkan thinks.
In a gripping and unsettled situation, Arkan managed to make three cold drinks in hot weather for himself. He is a true bartender.
“I named this drink as a masterpiece! A toast to a better life and raise my salary this month!”
- Dor
The first shot was heard. It happened when he drank his first cold cocktail.
“Indeed the most delicious is to drink it while it has just been made. You're a genius, Arkan”
Either he said it to comfort himself or he was indeed so enjoying his alcohol in such a tense situation.
Or the third option, he was already too depressed with the current situation and decided to cut off all his fear veins.
- Dor
A few minutes later, gunshots were heard outside.
This time, he drank another cocktail.
“I think my brain is not working properly. I hope the drink in the last glass left is not the last one for me”
Along with a loud shout that sounded, Arkan instantly turned panicked.
“Oi oi oi oi. How could that gorilla really look so weak in his eyes?! Is Justin that weak or is that guy called Kaito too strong? Is this reality?! I even saw my pay cut would be huge after this but it doesn't matter!”
Arkan ventured out from behind the bar table and started walking towards the exit. While looking around him, Arkan tried to accept the reality.
In his heart, he had already started to lose his life spirit back.
‘For all my savings under the bed, if this continues I will probably imitate Mr. Nox's actions last night. Not only have I been threatened twice today, but I have also met someone who may be more terrible than the gorilla. Damn the fate of workers like me”
Already not wanting to think anything of the sort, he started to sigh and try to regain his composure.
He even prayed by mentioning the name of the manager who he considered the highest caste in the world of work.
“Manager, please don't fire me even if this dilapidated place is flat on the ground. This is all because something unexpected happened. I know I'm stupid for trying to care about Theo and his friends, but trust me, manager, I still care more about my pay and my leave than anything in the world. Please don't fire me or I'll pray you die soon before you manage to escape with your affair. Aamiin”
After praying and swearing an oath of absorbency to the manager, Arkan returns to the bar table to drink the remaining glass of cold cocktail.
Raising his right hand that held the cocktail glass, he said a word as the opening and closing of his hope.
“For the sake of increasing my salary, my mental health, my life safety and for the sake of better survival before my age grows this year. A toast to myself!”
All the hardships of an Arkan's life are finally revealed.
The atmosphere outside the bar was not so quiet. Every now and then he heard there was friction and something was broken.
With sweat and a pale face, he tried to look out. Only once did he try to get his foot off the bar table towards the exit but he stopped.
[I'll keep him away from you as much as possible]
He remembered the sentence Kaito said a while ago. It was clear that the young man was trying his best to fight in a place away from the bar to keep Arkan from getting involved in danger.
For that reason, Arkan continued to undo his intention to see the fight that occurred directly.
“If I go out, there's a chance I'll be a hindrance to that young man named Kaito. In addition, Justin could have used myself as a hostage to let Kaito off guard. I have to stay here until everything is done”
An idea of thought that is very reasonable and very acceptable in such situations.
Arkan could only stand pecking for a few minutes.
However, everything changes when he looks around the bar room and gets a visual of the future about the face of his manager who will use it all out.
“Ekh..This place is much worse than overnight” grumbled Arkan with a strange face
Along with the vision of his future, there was the sound of gunfire from outside. But not just once.
-Dor.Dor.
The gunshot was heard three times and what made him almost scream, his voice sounded quite close to where he was now.
“What's that heading here for?! Did that gorilla shoot Kaito and head here?!” arkan said as he looked towards the exit in panic
Already concerned about what he was thinking a few minutes ago about trying not to obstruct Kaito, he walked quickly towards the exit that had been damaged and the wood was scattered everywhere.
“A...hmph!” his initial intention of wanting to scream finally failed because he covered his own mouth
Not being so yelled, he finally cried out in his heart.
‘Akh! Why is he even here?! Oi, you!! Didn't you yourself say you wanted to keep me away from that gorilla?! Why even go to this place again, you idiot!!’
Seeing Kaito as if he was thinking, Arkan's countenance turned serious.
He sees Kaito picking up a garbage bag that is in front of the building in his bar.
‘That's...the garbage I threw at 09.00 this morning right? What's that thing for?’ he murmured in the heart
The more you see, Arkan increasingly understands that the young man named Kaito could easily make Justin look just big mouth.
He sees Kaito talking to provoke Justin's anger and then throws the garbage bag forward.
‘Could he throw that at Justin?!’ arkan said with a surprised look
Kaito's actions that throw him without moving from his place make Arkan curious. The garbage bag was easily slashed perfectly by Justin so that all the contents came out to rain down on Justin.
The opportunity was used by Kaito well and immediately fired back the gun at Justin.
-Dor.Dor.
“Aaakh!!” Justin shouted loudly this time
Justin's shout instantly made the fur I sat Arkan standing.
‘Must be! No no no no, this is impossible. Justin who was arrogant and acted as if the ruler was now made helpless?! The sword in Justin's hand is Kaito's, isn't it? What really happens when I don't see it? This fight..since when does it look like a one-sided massacre like this?’ Arkan muttered in his heart with a face of shock
Not just once did he hear Justin screaming and getting shot but this was already the second time.
Arkan sees Kaito walking up to Justin while saying something that makes it hard to breathe.
“I feel Theo and the bartender sir are overestimating your abilities. Turns out you're weaker than a pack of stray dogs at night that I've been with before”
Right, that sentence is what makes it hard to breathe.
‘Wild dog said. He compared Justin to a pack of stray dogs and even rated him as weaker than the stray dogs?!. Just be right!!’
As Kaito held his sword back, Arkan could only see it from behind. He only knew that Kaito raised his sword-wielding hand up and suddenly Justin's screams echoed throughout the area.
“Aaakh!! My hand!! My hand!!!”
“....” Kaito is silent
“Basic brash! Rubbish is useless!! Don't be a coward and fight me now!!”
Arkan's pale face finally appeared as he looked at what was flowing down the road.
“Da–blood?!” he said, covering his mouth with one hand
Although only looking at Kaito's back but anyone would know that the young man had just cut off Justin's hand to bleed a lot of fresh blood there.
Once again he saw Kaito raising his sword up and a shouting voice came to his side.
“Aakh!! Damn it, I'll kill you! I'll kill you!!”
“Do not joke!!” Arkan who was behind Kaito involuntarily shouted after seeing him
He saw the gun in the other hand the young man was directed at Justin. Arkan quickly approached her and shouted towards Kaito.
“Kaito, stop there! You're gonna really kill him! You don't know the information to help Theo and his friends. Moreover, that gorilla still owes 5,000 Francs on this bar!!”
“.....” Kaito fell silent expressionlessly hearing that
“Don't kill him, please! If he dies and his debt is not paid, my salary will be deducted! 5,000 francs is not a bit! That is equivalent to the cost of renting a room plus eating delicious food for a month! I could die if my salary disappeared that much, I would instantly be poor!!!”
“I didn't know you could be that cold, mr. bartender. You look like a good friend I know” Kaito said
“Thank you for the compliment. Don't kill him or you pay the debt!!”
Arkan saw Kaito looking back and saw him with a face as if he wanted to protest.
“Oi, mr. bartender. I just got to know you and I've only been fighting this guy named Justin for less than half an hour. I know this place doesn't know the law but that doesn't mean you're dumping this guy's debt on me!. I'll sue you later!!” kaito Protest
“You yourself said this place has no law so you can't sue me, you fool!”
“.....” Kaito is silent with a strange face
After that everything was as it had been before. He saw Justin's helpless condition with both of his arms cut off. He also heard Kaito say strange things about how confused he was about what he was doing.
Of all the things he saw and heard, the most that made him almost scream again was when Kaito who had initially knelt down to talk to him now stood up and kicked Justin in the face and stepped on him with his feet.
“......!!” Arkan was shocked to see that now
Arkan's heart barely stopped beating back when Kaito called out to him in a cynical tone.
“Mr bartender–”
“.....A–What?”
“I'm sick enough to ask him and will start listening to you. You said the woman named Seren was in dark territory, right?”
“Benar” Arkan answered him in a calm tone
“You also said that they are murderers as well as traders who specifically sell the human body no matter in a state of life or death, right?”
“Be–true”
“Then, can I sell Justin's body to regain the freedom of Theo and his friends to that woman named Seren as well?”
“Eh? Are you crazy?” Arkan became even more shocked to hear it
Kaito lifted his leg from Justin's face then turned around and looked at Arkan with a serious look.
“I ask you, can I sell her body to buy those kids back? There should be no problem with it”
Arkan could only resign himself and open his mouth to say something.
“You are this..are you serious you are not a criminal with such thoughts? Are you sure you're really not a criminal in disguise to this place, Kaito”
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