Blood Of Platinum
Chapter 78. The Dark market bag. 5
Pulling her wagon and crying, Riz tried to regain her composure without stopping to shed her tears.
“Nee, Arkan. You're not seriously saying he's dead, are you? It's Justin, you know.Justin!! We're talking about that mean Justin!!” riz's tone rose as if in disbelief
“You think in this place how many Justin do you know?”
“My brother's nephew is named Justin too!” riz's answer is like trying to escape from reality
“.....” Arkan showed his strange face back while lifting his knife
Riz realized Arkan's cold gaze and immediately did not discuss anything for some time until Riz finally asked Arkan.
“What happened? Who killed him?”
“I don't know if he's dead now or not but he's obviously seriously injured. He's been fighting with the guy he's been looking for since last night”
Riz's face began to look serious hearing what Arkan said. He asked her.
“Arkan, I'm serious now. Does this have anything to do with the bodies you gave me this morning?”
“I didn't tell you this morning but actually Justin-sama is looking for a man with a sword without a sword sheath who entered this place some time ago. You yourself know what that is like, right?”
“Justin will not be happy that anyone else has entered his territory. Then?”
“As you know, they happen to interfere with his feelings and eventually end up being your trading later tonight. But, it seems Justin-sama did not take into account that the person is stronger than him”
Riz was shocked to hear that. He couldn't even believe what he had just heard.
“More...stronger you say?! Aren't you wrong to say such a thing, Arkan?! This is Justin you know. We're talking about–”
Before Riz continued what he wanted to say, Arkan immediately cut him off and shouted in a high tone.
“We're talking about Justin, you want to say that right?!!”
“Um..”
“The problem is that the person Justin-sama is looking for is indeed strong and he has also managed to defeat him! You want to know, even his two arms were cut off perfectly and are still on the road near the bar!!”
Riz's eyes instantly widened. Without giving any cue, he immediately quickly ran with his wagon.
“Oi! Where do you think you're going?!”
“I can't believe I didn't see it for myself!! My money field!!”
“Si that fool!!!” Arkan yells and chases after Riz
With such a wagon, it was impossible to run quickly but it did not seem to be. At the very least, Riz's speed was superior to Arkan's now.
Grumbling inwardly, Arkan used all the energy he had to catch up with Riz who was already in front of him.
‘I've run half dead to his house and he easily ran without any problems with the cart behind him?! Is he that strong?’
There was already nothing else that Arkan wanted to think about, seeing Riz running made him quite happy because that way they would not spend a lot of time to go to the black market.
‘I'm not sure if this will work but this is the only way I can do it. However, I still really hope that the children can survive including Kaito's friend. You crazy gorilla!. I do not like children but that does not mean he can be that bad until selling them all for reasons that are not logical!!’ arkan murmured in the heart
Arkan sounded angry at Justin even though it was too late.
“No longer need to think about Justin now because there is more important” murmured slowly
Arkan and Riz are almost at the bar. The sound produced from Riz's wagon created some sounds that echoed in the area. The road they walked was no stranger.
While running straight towards the bar, Riz stopped. Arkan stopped behind his wagon.
“Haah..haah..haah...” Arkan looks exhausted with gasping breath.
While breathing back in, Arkan saw Riz standing still on the spot. Instantly he realized something.
“Geh! I forgot that his arm was still on the way! Don't tell me he–”
Arkan no longer continued his sentence because his face already looked very pale looking at Riz who was kneeling while picking up something.
Inwardly, Arkan began to pray.
‘I beg you not to be weird!!’
And sure enough, Riz turned around carrying the arm that was on the road and walked over to put the arm that he had taken from the road into the wagon while crying.
“Huwaaaa!! Her arms.ada her arms. Huwaa….Arkan...”.
“Geeh!!”
After putting his arm inside his wagon, Riz immediately ran to the bar and that was when a sword almost made him switch nature if it was a little too late.
Riz immediately shouted while crying as soon as the sword stopped right in front of his nose.
“Aaaah!!!.Don't kill me!!”
“......!!!” the man with the sword was shocked
“I beg you I am innocent! I just want to see it!! Hiks..huwaaa”.
“Kau–”
Riz remained motionless, until Arkan ran and approached him.
“Kaito, don't kill him! He is the one who can help us to go to Seren-sama place!”
“This person?” Kaito who is in front of Riz looks surprised
After he pulled his sword back, Riz simply fell silent while looking at Arkan with a glaring gaze. Arkan who was still holding the knife in his hand was eager to throw the thing at him but he had to hold himself back.
After a long sigh, he asked Kaito to keep the sword in his hand and allow it in.
Ryou who was inside to keep Theo and the others stared intently at the person brought by the bartender acquaintance Kaito.
‘So that bartender had our pocket watch before and gave it to Kaito. I still don't know his name but since Kaito doesn't look so alert when nearby, I guess I can trust him a little. It's just for the youth who came with the bartender it–’
While glancing towards Theo and the others, he could see that the children also appeared to be unfamiliar with the person. Ryou resumed what was on his mind.
‘It seems that these boys don't know him either. That means only the bartender knows who he is. I can't believe I risked Kino's safety in the hands of a stranger!!’
The last face that Ryou made after that was an annoyed face with a sharp look of eyes aimed at the three people standing in front of the broken entrance.
Kaito finally let the young man who was brought by Arkan to enter and sure enough, in just a few seconds he immediately ran towards Justin's room and shouted.
“Gyaaa!! Money's dead!! It's apocalypse! Impossible!!”
Everyone, including Arkan himself, was shocked. Of course Kaito and Arkan ran to see what happened to the young man.
“Oh, for the sake of all my money in the coffin along with the list of items I want to buy this month..hiks...” now Riz so talk unclear.
Fed up with everything, Ryou who was outside the room immediately approached the three of them and pulled Riz's hand lamenting Justin's death.
Ryou even looked so scary as he was already annoyed waiting.
“Stop with all this nonsense and let me clarify something!. You came here to help us all bring this demon corpse to the black market or whatever it is called. Right no?!” Ryou
“It...”
“Then do your job now!! I don't want to listen to the sound of your crying it”
“Si–who are you asking me disrespectfully like that! I'm older than you, little boy!”
Ryou who was annoyed to hear it instantly took Kino's dagger tucked in his sword belt and used it to threaten the young man in his hands now.
“Bare you too! Little information for you that I killed the demon. So you better take care of what you say or you might end up worse than him”
“Gyaaaa!!” a hysterical scream from Riz
Seeing that, Arkan instantly broke them apart and tried to calm the young man with a knife that even until now he had been unwilling to call out his name.
Arkan even tried to drag Kaito into this tension.
“Wait wait wait wait wait!! We are so dependent on Riz right now! If you skin him now, the lives of Stelani and the others will not be saved!! Hold that emotion! Hey, Kaito! You also do something to your friend and help me!!”
Kaito showed a high sense of ‘peduli’ to the situation by coming out of Justin's room to calm Theo and other children who had become panicked because of Riz's scream some time ago.
Arkan could only curse at Kaito inwardly.
‘Useful basis, man has no heart, poor expression!!’
Already unwilling to rely on Kaito anymore, Arkan is still trying to win over Ryou who looks annoyed with the unreasonable attitude of the young man in his hands.
“I don't care about the fate of your money or anything. Open your ears well. My brother and two of Theo's friends were kidnapped by someone named Seren as the bartender said and they could be like that because of the stupidity of the devil named Justin”
“Eh?” Riz finally found his senses back and started to calm down
Now Ryou felt he could talk calmly with the young man before him. Ryou let go of the young man and continued his explanation.
“Kakku, Kino and two friends of Theo are taken away by a woman named Seren to a place called the black market that specifically sells humans in a state of life or death. That damn devil sold all those kids to be able to find my friend who just came out of that room”
“.....” Riz listened while trying to calm himself
“All that was done by that fool for trivial reasons and the worst part of it all, he involved my brother in it”
Riz looked surprised and looked towards Arkan.
“What's true, Arkan?” ask Riz
“It's true. A few hours earlier Seren-sama had come with a big and tall man to ask where Theo and the others were staying. Even before leaving, they asked for a big plastic like the one I used to wrap the bodies in. I can guess that it was they used to bring them”
“……”
Riz was silent and thought to himself.
‘Seeing from the circumstances, it seems to be true that way. It is fitting that I who have never seen Justin come to Jack-sama's place early in the morning actually saw him before I went home’
Now, Riz is in serious mode. Finished her dormitory and wiped away her tears, she knelt down to check on Justin's corpse.
As the name implies, Riz is already an expert in examining corpses. And thanks to that too he made it his skill to sell the corpses offered to him and resold them on the black market.
“From the wound, I could see that this was done by a person who was quite used to cutting things. The line of cut marks on both of his arms looks very neat Besides, there are gunshot wounds on his legs and hands. It is likely that this wound was made about an hour ago. Except this part”
Riz pointed towards the wound on the neck and continued his explanation again.
“Bekas on his neck is still new. Although it's been a while but I can tell that Justin hasn't been dead long. Don't you? And judging from the marks, it seems like your sword did it” Riz pointed at the sword at Ryou's waist while continuing his explanation
“True. I did it. That's why I told you I killed him. Other than the wounds on the neck, the rest were made by my friend outside when fighting that demon. I'm sure the bartender there knows the details better than I” Ryou replied
Riz stood up and asked the two people in front of him now.
“Alright, I put aside my business source problem first. As for this matter, I honestly never expected that Justin would do such a senseless thing by sacrificing the nine lives of those children for the sake of one person. It was the craziest thing I've ever heard”
“That's. But I wouldn't be surprised if it was him, since he doesn't have a heart so maybe this thing is indeed a face for him” Arkan said
“Now, you want me to help you bring this corpse to the black market. What do you want?”
“We want to exchange this corpse with the three people brought by that woman”
Ryou said that with a sharp eye. Hearing that, Riz was certainly surprised but he gave an unexpected answer.
“Changing corpses with those brought in huh. why do you think it will work?”
“Since the beginning they were not paid with money but with human lives. In retrospect, the contract happened because Justin wanted to find my friend when in reality he was the one who died. That means the contract has been cancelled”
“But you think with Justin dead, they want to give those three guys?” Riz refutes Ryou's thinking
“We're dealing with a killer but they're also traders. You didn't forget that, did you?”
“....” Riz surprised
Now he understood the meaning of what the young man in front of him was trying to explain.
“You want to hold an exchange with them?!”
“Fast. Since they are not paid with money, meaning they are open to barter options. As long as the value is considered the same it should be done. That fool alone could hire their services for the sake of finding one person with nine lives, supposedly a precious corpse that could be resold by them, would not be too heavy to exchange for three lives”
Ryou's logical explanation left Arkan and Riz speechless. Arkan even muttered inwardly after hearing everything.
‘He can think of everything so far! Am I dealing with a real demon?!’
Riz crossed both hands and thought.
“If what I hear is true, it should. In addition, on the black market, it is not always sold by Jack-sama and Seren-sama that the corpse has been cut. Sometimes they sell people a good life that is still smooth without wounds or that has been made dying. Depends pasar” fans
“.....” Ryou listens while clenching his hands tightly
“This is just my guess. If you succeed though, the chances of you succeeding are 50:50. Tonight, the opening of the black market focused more on the children's body parts. Therefore I would not be surprised if Jack-sama and Seren-sama strongly approve of the Justin” exchange
“Therefore they were so in a hurry when they came to this bar this morning” Arkan muttered softly while looking anxious
“But, you have to prepare for the worst possible” Riz continued
“Worst possibility?” Arkan immediately saw Riz
“There are times when everything has to be solved with...you know what it is right?” Riz made a mark with his finger
Ryou who understood all that immediately smiled.
“You think I'm stupid? Of course I know that money can solve everything. I also know that we are dealing with business people so most likely they will want to listen when money is talking”
Riz smiled and nodded in agreement. The two of them finally found a match for each other and smiled wickedly.
Only Arkan felt he could not get into the conversation.
“Am I here to see the birth of other sane people?”
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