Chapter 7 – Gangs

“Hah the gangs in this city really are a pain in the ass to deal with”

Kazuki dropped the metal bat he used to cave in the skull of the gang member onto the ground and stretched his arms while cursing at the gangs of the city. There were frequent problems with the gangs within the city and all around the country. The city Kazuki was in was Masaki City which was a city which had over 1,000,000 residents in the area. The city had many different districts which offered many different activities for people to participate in however there were huge problems which had been coming up in the past few years which were gangs.

There were many gangs set up across the city which claimed several districts as their territory and would setup their different services across these districts, the common practises the gangs were involved in were drugs, kidnapping, murder, and even human trafficking. The gang which had tried to kidnap Mia and the rest of the girls was the Dragon Palace which were a smaller sized gang which were famous in this district for their actions. There had been rumours circulating around the district that the gang had been kidnapping girls of any age of the street and taking them back to their base to do who knows what.

Despite Kazuki having the power to deal with these gangs he thought there was no point in doing anything to them as they weren’t personally bothering him in anyway or hadn’t touched anyone he cared about, however after seeing his little sister almost beaten and kidnapped in his mind he was completely enraged and was about to go and slaughter the rest of this gang however he kept a cool appearance and turned towards Shiroyuki.

“Thanks for the help, even if I didn’t need it I still appreciate it”

“Of course, I would help, this kinda reminds me of old times you know”

The youths looked at each other while smiling as they were talking to each other, Kazuki was thankful to Shiroyuki for participating, while Shiroyuki was looking at Kazuki with a smile as she was reminiscing about the past.

“I hadn’t really thought about doing anything to the gangs in this district since they weren’t getting in my way but now I think I’ll go pay this Dragon Palace bigshot a visit”

The youth displayed a displeased expression on his face as he began pondering on how he should deal with the gang. There were 2 options he thought of on the top of his head which were to completely slaughter and destroy all assets of the Dragon Palace or to directly root out the leader kill him and let the gang decide on a new leader.

“Well its currently 4:34pm I think I can annihilate most of the gang before midnight you up for it Shiroyuki”

“Yeah I’m up for it so we better hurry up and finish quickly as we still have important topics to discuss”

The pair both smiled mischievously at each other while preparing to destroy the entire Dragon Palace and were completely ignoring the surroundings which contained the confused and slightly fearful group of teens who were still in shock from what had just occurred minutes before this situation, the first to step up and question was Mia who got up and rushed to her brother.

“B-brothe- I-I mean K-Kazuki w-what happened t-to those p-people did y-you k-kill them”

“Yeah those guys are dead”

While Mia kept staring at the bloodied floor which contained the corpses of the several gang members, she stuttered in her words as she was scared due to never being accustomed to death as well as seeing someone killing another person, this shock was increased further as the one to perform the act was her brother. Watching someone you have been around for years and thinking you know everything about them kill someone so easily in front of your eyes isn’t something you can easily forget.

Mia was shocked due to how Kazuki had so easily killed someone and had lost interest in the people he killed like he was accustomed to this kind of scenario. She was looking up at her brothers face where she could see his aloof appearance mixed in with a bit of anger which she hadn’t seen in a long time, despite these feelings welling up inside her about her brother she still felt very grateful towards her brother as she knew that the reason he had gotten angry and dealt with the hoodlums is due to her.

She felt a warmth inside of her as she was reorganizing the feelings inside of her and she rushed up to her brother and suddenly hugged him.

“*Sniff* *Sniff* T-thank y-y-you for helping m-me I-if you didn’t a-appear who k-knows what c-could have happened t-to m-me”

“Of course, I helped you I’m your brother after all but didn’t you also call out Oni-Chan right before I appeared it’s been a while since you called me that”

“Y-you must have heard things… Idiot”

While Kazuki was teasing Mia, the mood became much more pleasant as she was still hugging on to Kazuki while Shiroyuki was standing beside them with a warm smile. The rest of Mia’s friends which included Luna and the gang all started to come out of their shock as they walked up to Kazuki, Mia and Shiroyuki.

“Kazuki thanks for helping u-us out if you didn’t come *Sob* they would have taken us”

Luna looked at Kazuki while wearing a clumsy smile as she was trying her best to hold back her feelings of the situation which had taken place, although she felt like jumping into Kazuki’s embrace and receive comfort like Mia she read the mood and only gave her thanks to Kazuki.

“Yeah thanks a lot man but how the heck did you deal with them me and Mark tried to resist them but we were beaten up pretty bad”

“I know right those guys were pretty big guys and seemed to have combat experience but you and your girlfriend over there took them out instantly”

“Thanks for the help Kazuki and Shiroyuki-san”

Daichi, Mark and Sylvia also responded with grateful but slightly curious responses to Kazuki and Shiroyuki. When they were attempting to resist the gang members despite Daichi and Mark having decent builds and practising low-level martial arts they were still beaten down quickly and lasted barely a minute before being bloodied and bruised.

Mark and Daichi both participated in the martial arts club and had been members since middle school, they had a good amount of experience in marital arts and had the confidence to defeat anyone at least a couple years older than them with ease if they were in a fight.

When they fought the hoodlums, they had realised that these guys had experience in fighting and despite them not using any polished methods of martial arts they had real combat experience which allowed them to overpower opponents like Daichi and Mark who had only ever fought in controlled environments.

Both had watched out easily Kazuki and Shiroyuki had almost instantly defeated those hoodlums. They saw that Shiroyuki used speed and some foot techniques to draw close to the enemy then thrust the knife into the necks of the opponents. They both concluded that Shiroyuki was an expert in martial arts due to her technique and movements displayed.

On the other hand, they had seen Kazuki use his strength to pick up a man who was at least a foot and a half taller than him as well as much heavier and throw him like trash into a wall with a lot of power. The power displayed has confused them as they hadn’t ever seen Kazuki perform in any club activities in school.

They had always known that Kazuki had an athletic body. When they had participated in sports or swim class they had seen that he had a body which contained almost no fat and all muscle which looked like a chiselled Greek statue.

The final person Sylvia gave a basic response to Kazuki however she was still pondering on several things in her head. She had always suspected that Kazuki put on his lazy attitude but she didn’t know why, she believe that he always hid his true personality from everyone else as he was always distant towards their group and she was always curious as to why.

“Sure, no problem, anyways Mia you go home there shouldn’t be any more trouble since it’s a couple of blocks away”

“E-eh aren’t you coming with me”

After the reactions from the group Kazuki was trying to urge Mia to go home so that he could get on with his plans however she was shocked that he wasn’t going with her.

“No, I have some business to attend to before I come home I don’t know when I will be back so don’t wait up”

“What do you mean you have business to attend to… w-wait you aren’t going to look for the other members of this gang are you?”

“Well yeah I have something to discuss with them so go home”

Despite him trying to repeatedly get Mia to go home she wouldn’t budge and kept on trying to persuade him to go home with her.

“Don’t worry little sister I’ll be with him so you don’t have to worry”

“W-who the heck is you calling little sister?”

After seeing the situation between the two siblings Shiroyuki tried to inject into it and tried to reassure Mia with a smile however Mia seemed to get even more annoyed when being called “little sister” by her.

“Hmm anyways if I end up staying out a bit to late I can go check into a hotel, or actually Shiroyuki do you mind if I crash at your place once we finish”

“My place huh, sure no problem I have a spare room you can use, it’s your room anyways for when you stay over at my place in the future”

“Okay thanks”

“Well then let’s set of. Mia don’t worry about anything I’ll be fine I will give you a call once I finish up my business so see ya later”

The two youths started dashing away at impossible speeds and the blonde-haired youth was unable to respond to the comment made to her before he had already left her sight. The rest of them were also in a daze at how Kazuki casually asked to stay at Shiroyuki’s place and at how she had accepted so easily.

End of Chapter 7