Lord Shadow

Chapter 1373: The Red Table II

Take Jean for example. What could these criminals offer him that he could not find for himself? All he seeks is a peaceful life and the refinement of his magic.          

    

What could you offer someone like that? And then there is the most obvious and the stumbling block of these criminal families.     

Death Monarch. That is a person who hated Crime Alliance with the passion of a thousand burning suns.     

In the past, if there is someone who becoming the stumbling blocks of these criminal’s organization, there are many ways to solve it     

Hire an assassin. Bribe them. Threatened their family. That and more of the same variation     

But Death Monarch is the strongest person in the world. There are no assassins that have big enough gut to try to assassinate Death Monarch.      

The last time that somebody tried, they turned into scorched meat, being smite by red thunderbolts that shot down from the Heavens     

As for bribing Death Monarch, that is the most ridiculous move anyone could make.      

With his status of the strongest person in the world, if he wanted anything, he could simply say it and the whole world would move to answer his wish.      

And the last time someone tried to threatened Death Monarch closest friends and families, bad things happened to them     

So, in this new era, the crime families were reduced to rats, always having to hide from the world powers      

It is the same for the Bratva. Even when the organization wanted to compromise the Republic, it falls to deaf ears.     

Boris could still be negotiated with since he understands the world that the world is not white and black.     

Most of the time, it is shades of gray.      

But that is not something that his sister understood. Katarina if she is simply a naive woman that would be fine.     

But that naïve woman is the strongest woman in the world. With her red sword she cut down people like weeds     

To the rest of the world, Katarina the Ice Queen also has the title of the most beautiful woman in the world.     

But to the Bratva and to the criminal families in Russia, she is a butcher, a boogeyman. Sitting on one of the seat, representing the Bratva is Mister Moscow.      

He had a bowler hat, wearing a tight fitted suit. He is lean and tall and his hair reached the back of his neck but neatly tied.      

This is his nickname. And this is not the first time he is here. As the representative to the Red Table, rarely these people gave their true name.      

Because they deal in the dark side of the world they also know that giving one-person true name is very dangerous.     

In a world of magic, even names should be protected.  There are all kinds of magic and there is magic that could use names as mediums of curses or calamity.     

Mister Moscow look to his left      

‘It has been a long time seeing you, Amaterasu’ He said. His voice is a little hoarse like he as something stuck on his throat.     

Amaterasu mask seems to show a smile. Amaterasu is also tall and his hair is long enough to reach his waist.     

But his hair is tied very neatly and it is tied in a certain knot.          

    

Amaterasu is the representative of Yomi     

Yomi is now the name of the new criminal underworld forces that appeared after stomping the Yamaguchi Gumi.      

Yamaguchi Gumi is basically the largest Yakuza gang in Japan before the Fall. But Yomi had risen from the ashes of the old world.     

They did not behave like normal Yakuza and they disdain the hierarchical concepts of the Yakuza.     

Their rise to power begins with them slaughtering the members of the Yamaguchi Gumi, creating terror in the criminal underworld of Japan that had never been seen or experienced before     

Basically, it was a war to decide the new lord of the criminal underworld of Japan. And the one standing at the top is the top ranking members of Yomi.     

In a world without law, the most lawless would surely be the criminals. And they rule the criminal underworld through fear     

Since then Yomi had unified almost all of the factions of criminal underworld of Japan organized crime. But unfortunately enough Hikigaya and Oreki could not tolerate their existence.      

Unlike Death Monarch who despise crime families form the start, Hikigaya and Oreki both have ties with the Yakuza in the early beginning of their rise.     

This is not something that is mentioned because it is a hidden part of the history of those two great men     

But once those two people have the power, they immediately eradicated almost all of Yomi forces forcing them to run away from the island nation     

All of them exiled from their own country.     

Those who still remember the reign of terror Yomi once had over the population probably does not think that the merciless Yomi is nothing in front of those two.     

When Hikigaya begins his purge, the methods he used is very ruthless and cruel. Hikigaya at that time was not as powerful as today, but he was more ruthless.     

Hikigaya uses his illusion to coax the location of their headquarters. At times, he would torture them in that Illusion World that he created in the minds of the people he captured.      

And there is also the fact that none of the secrets of Yomi is secrets in front of Hikigaya Illusion World.      

How did the World Government eradiated Yomi influence so thoroughly and so neatly is all thanks to Hikigaya effort?      

Then there is Oreki.     

Oreki wields the power of thunder and the way he kills people was by burning them inside out. You could even smell your own innards is cooking as you die in terrible excruciating pain.      

The leader of Yomi at that time was lucky that he did not put all of his eggs in one basket and he manages to escape just right before those two warlords could get to him     

Then, Yomi join the others and then the Broker came and propose an alliance of criminals. And Yomi is one of those factions in the Crime Alliance that sits at the top of the pyramid     

So, now Yomi had gone global. And they do not forget what has been done to them.      

Representing the Yomi is someone who is called Amaterasu, taking the name of one of the chief deity in Japanese mythology     

Yomi is that kind of organization.      

They give code name to their high ranking members. And most of them take the names of mythical beings in the ancient mythology of Japan         

    

Amaterasu look and then nodded toward Mister Moscow.      

Then he spoke.     

It is clear from the moment he spoke that he is using a voice changer. Like Mister Moscow, he wears a mask     

Amaterasu wears an Oni makes over his face with horns on the top of each side of his mask     

As for Mister Moscow, his face is bandaged with black and red clothes.     

The clothes on his face seems to be something that is alive as it sometimes wiggles and moves by itself.      

Amaterasu then said     

‘It is not that long of a time. Mister Moscow. Six months is not a long time. I was expecting us to not meet for a while. Death Monarch…. return is expected.’ But he sighed     

Mister Moscow understand.      

Even though they always expect that such day would come, there is always this hope that Death Monarch does not return     

At least with the other world power there is still room to wiggle.      

Even though they were not as powerful as they were before, able to influence state politics, they still could have thrived and slowly recover back their influence     

Even the World Government could not stop this and the other world power also deals with them.      

Only Pandemonium is stubborn. But Pandemonium is not something that one could simply ignore or try to make it go away.      

With the return of Death Monarch, one could predict that once that death god knows that Crime Alliance once again becoming powerful, he would lead another purge.     

Even now, most of the members of their factions is restless.     

When the thunder roars in the sky, they shudder.  When the day is clear and there are no clouds in the sky, their people do not dare to go out.     

And that is only a day after Death Monarch had return.      

‘There is also the matter with Void’ Amaterasu snorted and said.     

‘I told Susanoo that we should have killed him with all of our efforts. Now, we have another formidable enemy in our long list of enemies’     

He sighed and then added     

‘Why does this organization refuse to see that only dead enemies are good enemies. We have repeatedly told the Crime Alliance that bringing that madman as the head of the Crime Alliance is a mistake. Now, that decision has come to bite us in the ass.     

Mister Moscow shakes his head and said     

‘Nobody would have expected that…. he could be such a headache. Before he simply unorganized. But now…. Void seems to have some purpose. There might be someone guiding him from behind’     

Mister Moscow said.         

    

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