False Hero

"Ah, it's fine, I don't really mind, neither would dad since we both understand that you have your family to take care of, so I am sure if you talk to dad he would be happy."

For some reason Uncle chuckled as he said "That's something your dad would say, You talk like my brother."

"That's first."

"Why?"

"Since most of the time, people say that I am very much similar to my mom, in looks and also in nature,"

"I have known Alice from the time we were young she was quite cynical, she was nothing like a normal kid of her age."

By the way, I never mentioned this but my uncle's name is Ronald Hoffmann.

After a brief second of pause, Uncle asked "By the way, how did you and Miles come on talking terms, since he usually doesn't get along well with his cousins."

"Uncle, we are barely on talking terms, he literally threatened me the first time we met."

"That's definitely something he would do." 

With irritated look Miles spoke up, "Grey came here to help us about the Esser family situation."

Uncle had a conflicted look as he said, "How ----"

"Before you say anything, Don't count Grey as a kid, he can hold his ground both physically and mentally, so before you say anything does consider the fact that Grey is not a kid."

Uncle sighed as he said, "But as an uncle, I can't let my nephew go on dangerous missions. Especially I already can't face my brother and if send you on a dangerous mission. It will be more difficult for me to face my brother. I mean I don't have----"

I couldn't help but sigh.

This will be difficult.....

"Uncle can you wait for a second, I will be back from the toilet."

"Okay, servant show him the way."

I walked out of the room, but I didn't really go to the toilet, there was somewhere in particular that I teleported to.

After a good minute, I walked back into the room where uncle and Miles were waiting. 

"Oh, Grey you are back----"

said Uncle as he looked up, but his facial expression turned Grim when he saw the person who was standing on my side.

"Brother?"

"Oh you look healthy--------- Ronald, it's been a while, right?"

"Brother?" asked Uncle again it seems like it is getting hard for uncle to accept reality. as they were talking Miles gestured to step outside of the room and so did i.

Walking out of the room he asked, "How did you do that?"

"Do what?"

"Uncle Ranulf, how did you bring him here?"

"Ah that----- that's a secret."

"Very well----"

as Miles was going to say something more, I interrupted him saying. 

"I had a deal with Esser family, back at the Lenton city."

Miles halted his walk as he looked at me, with a confused look he asked "Deal? and what were they doing at the Lenton city?"

"According to my sources, they apparently came there to make deal with the House Lenton that would be us, but saying that I made deal with the Esser family would be incorrect since I actually made a personal deal with Esser family's daughter, Kirsa Esser."

Miles didn't say anything for a good second or perhaps a minute, it looked like he was considering some things, but later he opened his mouth saying, "I wouldn't pry on the details of the deal since it's none of my business, but have you gotten any gist of what's the source of their unknown power."

As he asked that something lit in me, "Oh that! yes, I do know the source of their power."

"What is it?"

"It might sound stupid or somewhat unbelievable, but the source of their power is a god."

Miles halted again as he looked at me, "Can you be elaborate on that."

"Sure... have you seen the beautiful red-haired woman with them, that's the god of the curse that's helping them."

"a god... aren't they supposed to be pretty powerful?"

"Yeah they are, and just by looking at her one could tell that she is pretty powerful."

"Then, how are going to defeat her?"

"We don't have to defeat her, we just have to find the root cause of the instability that is being caused in the Depool city."

"What do you mean by that?"

Going through the hallway, I looked at a painting of a wolf "It is obvious that the Esser family as a whole are not involved there are only some members that are involved, we just need to find those involved members and dispose of them if necessary." 

"If we are going that route then we will first meet the underground organization that works in the Depool city."

After looking at the painting, I continued my walk as I asked "Are they some big shot? the gang the operates under this area."

"No, they are just third-grade gangs, there are no other gangs in the Depool city so they are doing well since there is no competition and I ignored them for a while, but I can't ignore them now, since they have crossed the line." 

We were near the exit of the mansion, as I stepped out of the exit I asked "The line? what have they done?"

"They started selling drugs to little kids, they started making them sell drugs. I don't know where they are getting these drugs but this drug seems to brainwash people."

My eyes widened as I realized something, after that, I asked a specific question, "Say, Miles, is there any religious rise in your city recently?"

"There is, people, seem to be getting religious in this city they have totally devoted their life to Iris church which is not a bad thing since they have someone to believe in now."

A wagon stopped by, walking near it, I asked "Don't you find it weird that people have suddenly gotten religious and also at the same time coincidently there is a drug racket going on in your city?"

Miles face twisted into confusion, as he asked "What do you mean?"

I boarded the wagon and gestured him to do the same, "I have witnessed the effect of the brainwashing drug first hand, people go crazy over it and they seem to believe in the thing that is told to them, that thing itself becomes their only truth. That drug is circulated by the iris church, they are the one that is running their drug racket. I am sure about that, but I am not sure about why they are doing this."

"Oh....."

The wagon started moving forwards as Miles sat there in silence maybe he was processing something. But I didn't wait for him to process his thoughts as I asked, 

"What are you going to do now?"

"I have sent some of my troops to capture some of their gang members, they were successful in capturing some. So we will start by interrogating them."

"Ah, torture----"

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As we were going to the sight, I teleported back to the mansion where Aetna was sleeping and made sure she was sleeping well and beside her, I left a note that told her not to worry, that I have just gone for a walk and I will be back in an hour or two.

Seriously, the power of teleportation is very helpful. 

After that, I teleported back to Miles and at first, he was shocked by my power, and like all people, he asked me that what kind of power is it. I just said that it was teleportation.

After reaching the site, we entered a building where we have to climb the stairs to the very top floor, when we reached there, Miles led me into the room where a man was tied down to the chair and another man was tied backwards to the wall.

The man hung on the wall was butt naked and there were various bruises on the man's butt. Maybe from the stick or something else happened. 

Just thinking about what they might have done to him if it's not the bruises of getting hit by a stick in the butt makes my face twist into various expressions. I hope they just wacked his but with a stick since I don't want another man to suffer things that I am imagining right now.

Apparently, after interrogating them, we found out that the finance for the drug and the securing of the route was done by the Esser family and the distribution of the drug was done by this low-level gang.

I grabbed the stick from the hand of Miles's troops and walked near the man who was tied to the chair, I placed the stick under his chin as I asked, "Who is the Esser, can you be more accurate?"

"The--- the----the ---the young master, I mean Helm Esser, he provided us with everything even though working with him gets us a generous amount of money but that guy is a monster!!."

Well that was easy or this guy is just a snitch.