The Black Swan Behind

261 A Stupid Cycle

It was finally here. This was what the two groups had been waiting for. All plans were in place. Black and Jita Koei; both had prepared everything to attack Beast Empire’s business.

“All right. We’ve got all the equipment ready,” Troy said.

“Equipment for?” Kathy asked confused.

“Burning the transit warehouses?” Troy replied.

“Are you seriously going to burn it?” Emma asked.

Troy nodded. “Jita Kyoei is never half-hearted in doing something. If we want to destroy their building, then we will completely destroy it without a trace.”

“Are you sure you don’t want to take some of our members to go with you?” Calvin asked.

Emma shook her head. “I’m sure we can do it. But if something unexpectedly goes wrong, I’ll ask you guys for help. How about that?”

Troy shrugged. “Fine,”

.....

“I’ll be leading a small group as a reservist,” Calvin said.

“Since we started the attack at nine, you’ll have to move from eight. Is an hour or so enough to make the main warehouse empty?” Rachel asked Ian.

Ian folded his arms across his chest. “Those three warehouse locations are quite far from each other. I don’t think one hour is enough. Maybe you guys can start it around ten. That way, we can knock out every Beast Empire men that come, so that neither of them could rise to their feet to return to the main warehouse.”

Emma nodded in agreement. “All right. Then, we’ll start the attack at ten.”

Then Kathy opened the black backpack she had been wearing. From inside the bag, she took out some equipment.

“Wow! What’s that?” Nicko asked. Louis also looked with a curious face.

Kathy smiled as she put the things on the table. “These are the devices we need for tomorrow.”

Then, she aligned the objects before pointing her finger at the item from the very end. “This is a communication device. Every team leader who leads the attack in each location, must use this device to communicate with other leaders. This way is more effective than communicating using a cell phone, ”

“Have you been using a device like this to communicate all this time?” Martin asked, unable to remove the look of amazement from his face.

Kathy nodded smugly. “Of course. We won’t be using cell phones, let alone a short message application that might be bugged. This will reduce the cost of the mission because it doesn’t require a call fee or an internet connection to do it. As for the details, I won’t tell you guys because this is a company secret.”

“Bugged?” Ian repeated.

“Yes, bugged. Just like at the attack on RJC’s headquarters. I even bugged your cell phones so you couldn’t receive and send messages or calls.” Kathy smiled widely.

Even though her face was covered by a mask, everyone in the room seemed to be able to see the arrogant expression on her face just from her tone of voice.

“You f*cker! How could you be so rude?!” Troy said when he realized the incident that the IT Black expert man meant. At that time, he was really in trouble. It turned out that the culprit was this Black’s arrogant men.

Emma let out a long sigh. She knew Kathy really liked showing off and making others feel annoyed. “Sorry, we better get this over with, KD*. There’s still a lot to do at the base.” *(Kathania Dusk / Nickname)

“Okay..” Kathy said calmly.

The men noticed that Black’s leader seemed very fond of his members. He was annoyingly arrogant and cold towards others, but became gentle and polite to his own members.

Then, Kathy began to explain the other devices and showed the boys how to use them. The tools that Black Swan lent to Jita Kyoei were several communication devices, a small location tracker that could fit in a pocket, and a signal-jamming device.

“You must remember that these devices are only lent by us. So, please take good care of them. I would really appreciate it if you could return it in good condition.” Kathy said as she stepped outside.

“I know. Why are you being so fussy?” Nicko replied, rolling his eyes while sighing. That was because he was the one in charge of all those things.

So far, the man with the glasses had the most contact with Kathy; because in the Jita Kyoei group, Nicko Coffey had pretty decent computer skills, even though he was nothing compared to Kathy.

**

CRACK!!

Juan looked at the glass he was filling with hot coffee from the coffee machine. The glass suddenly cracked a little because it could not withstand the heat from the water. But, it somehow gave an uncomfortable feeling in his chest.

He left his room and walked to the room of his colleague who was also his superior in leading their large group. He knocked on Derric’s door twice before opening it.

It turned out that Derric was on the phone with someone. Juan walked in silently and sat down on one of the sofas at the side of the room. Derric glanced at the man briefly, and continued the call to completion.

“What’s wrong, Juan?” Derric asked as he placed his phone on the table.

“I just wanted to visit you and have a little talk,” Juan answered.

“Huh?” Deric’s face gave a questioning look. “I think it’s impossible for a Juan Xavier to suddenly break into my room just to visit and have a little talk. Is there something that might be serious?” asked the man with the golden teeth.

“Our group keeps getting attacked. Black and Jita Kyoei are working together to bring us down. Aren’t you worried?” Juan asked.

“Of course I am. But that doesn’t have to make us slow down the pace of the business we’re growing bigger, does it? We have Dragger behind us. You have to keep that in mind so you can sleep peacefully.” Derrick replied.

But Juan was not the same man as Derric. He was a deep thinker and a rather anxious kind of man. The slightest thing could make him unable to sleep at night.

Juan was the figure behind the suppression of information about the Beast Empire. He always thought ahead, considering the risks that would arise from each action taken.

“I’m not sure we can rely one hundred percent on Dragger. In the end, they’ll throw us out when we’re useless.” Juan said.

Derric chuckled. “Juan, you better take your sedatives again. Think about it using your logic. If Dragger had that thought, then they wouldn’t want to go with us in the first place. Don’t you remember how destitute we were?”

“I know Pablo has helped us so much that the Beast Empire can become as big as it is today. But he is a businessman with an amazing brain. We don’t know what Pablo’s real goals are and what his next action will be,”

“If you’re really that worried, you can think and guess what’s going through in that high school boy’s mind alone, Juan. I don’t have time for that.” Derric said before letting out a long sigh. “Listen, mate. Right now, the only thing we have to worry about is the attack from Black and Jita Kyoei. I can understand if you worry about those two damn groups. But for Pablo, it doesn’t make much sense to me.”

Juan was silent, trying to control his mind. Maybe it was true that he was overthinking. He was thinking about things that were not even necessary. It seemed Derric had also gotten used to him after they had worked together for so many years.

“Well. I’m not going to talk about Dragger anymore.” Juan answered, then continued with a question, “Now, what do you think about Black suddenly disappearing and as if their roles were replaced by Jita Kyoei?”

Hearing Juan’s question, Derric paused to think while rubbing his chin with his finger. “Well.. I’ve been thinking about that too recently,”

“RD said he couldn’t find any of the girls that Black stole from us. To this day, I still don’t know what the group’s real motive was for continuing to mess with us. At first, I thought that they wanted to steal female workers for free. But with the fact that they are now working with Jita Kyoei, that doesn’t seem possible.” Juan explained.

All groups that lived in the dark world of Handway City must know that Jita Kyoei’s was far different from other gangster groups. They were a group that was not looking for money and power. They would even help helpless people for free.

Jita Kyoei was a group that had the potential to become heroes, but refused to do so because of their obsession with the martial art sport of Judo.

“Jita Kyoei sent us a letter to stop recruiting martial arts students. But because I ignored it, they helped Black to mess with us. Should I stop the recruitment?” Derric asked thoughtfully.

Juan sighed tiredly. “If it weren’t for the men from the martial arts studio, then we wouldn’t have a strong member. In fact, it’s our fault for never putting pressure on our men to practice fighting properly. Now, we’re the ones who are in trouble.”

“Goddammit! This is going awry. On the one hand, Black keeps attacking us, so we recruit more and more studio students, which only makes Jita Kyoei even angrier. This is a stupid cycle that has no end.” Derric growled.

“If it’s true that Dragger can help us, should we just ask them to directly attack those two bastards at once?” Juan asked.