The Black Swan Behind

99 Parasite

Ron stepped closer to Donny and sat on the side of his bed. Quickly, Donny forced his weak body to shift to give the number one more space, “Lately, I just learned a truth that was enough to make my tolerant heart irritated. The news.. made me realize that The North Viking is much better than you.”

Donny’s eyes went wide at what Ron said. His head lowered and his neck stiffened. It was as if the neck could not support the weight of his own head.

“Why are you silent, Donny? Don’t you want to explain something, or at least defend yourself?” Ron asked again.

Donny glanced with a fearful face at the figure with long black hair, “Wh.. why do you... think like that..?” he stuttered.

Ron smiled faintly as he sighed softly, “Someone had told me that you framed The North Vikings and tricked us into getting you to take their place in my Hell Gate group. Tell me whether it’s true,” he hissed. Of course, Ron would not immediately judge based on the story from one side only. He wanted to hear for himself the version of the story that would come out of Donny’s lips.

But as Ron had expected from the start, Donny couldn’t answer. In fact, he already knew that what TJ had informed him was the truth. But he still had the intention to give Donny a chance to explain.

“So.. It’s all true, huh?” Ron muttered under his breath, “It turns out that the saying is true that the taller a tree grows, the stronger the wind will hit. But I didn’t know that the bigger a tree, the more parasites cling to it.”

“TJ admitted that it wasn’t them who told Dragger, that Hell Gate sent The North Vikings to attack Jen Marrie street. It was you who said it behind our back. And, you slandered The North Viking by telling that they were the ones who said it to Dragger. You’re the one who actually caused Hell Gate to clash with Dragger. You’re the one who made us forced to always go to war with their powerful group and have to add a lot of strong members. It made Kei unable to find sources of funds to cover any losses.” Ron continued with both fists tightly clenched.

Donny’s heart was beating fast and hard. He felt himself being hit by a barrage of problems. He thought, with the trouble caused by Poppy’s friends, he would be kicked out of Hell Gate after taking a few hits. But as it turned out, while he was unconscious in the hospital, things turned out to be the worst-case scenario. The cunning he did to join the Hell Gate group was finally exposed.

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Yes, The North Viking used to work for Hell Gate. It was the North Vikings who had previously been Kei Matsumoto’s right-hand man to keep the group at the forefront and take care of the business needs of their catlanguagedictionary.com site. At that time, the website was just about to be developed.

Previously, it was true that Hell Gate was in the business of selling illegal boat engines. But Kei got a good server and some reliable IT personnel to open a new, more profitable business. He also provided the capital to start up the business.

How did Donny frame The North Viking? As Pablo Diablo once said, Donny was a very greedy guy. He would look for everything that was most profitable for him, even if he had to cut his own tail to get as much money as possible. Donny, who had been friends with TJ for a long time, received information about Hell Gate’s exciting new business, when the two of them were drinking together at a roadside tavern as usual. TJ himself did not think that Donny was so disgusting that he could betray him like that.

Donny envied TJ who was treated very well by Hell Gate. Even, Hell Gate’s website business which involved many beautiful girls also made him really tempted. When Donny heard that Hell Gate was looking for more girls to expand their business, he started to think of a devious plan. Donny told TJ that he knew an insider who was a member of the Dragger group, the owner of Jen Marrie street. TJ didn’t know that on that street, Dragger was also the owner of all of the enormous prostitution and gambling entertainment.

Donny gave fake information to TJ. He said that by that date, most of the Dragger men and their leader would be leaving to expand their territory. Because of that, the guard on Jen Marie street would be very weak. He invited The North Vikings to work together to take the entertainment women who work on Jen Marie Street, by attacking the street.

However, on the other hand, Donny actually went to Dragger’s headquarters and told his leader, whose name was Pablo Diablo, that there was an order from a large group that would attack Jen Marrie street. He was willing to speak only if Pablo paid for the information. Of course, Pablo did not think long to pay Donny’s mouth. To him, the amount of money Donny demanded meant nothing to his fat wallet.

Finally, Donny told them that the North Vikings would attack the street on that day. He even gave a guarantee that if that night no one came to attack, then he was willing to die in their hands. Therefore, on that day, Donny was willing to come to Jen Marrie street to gain Pablo’s trust.

Before that night came, Donny still took the time to visit The North Viking’s headquarters which was also in the harbour area which was located a few kilometres from Hell Gate’s headquarters.

When TJ was off-guards, Donny secretly took the opportunity to insert a paper that seemed to be the evidence of fake orders and transactions to prove that they were The North Vikings who were paid ninjas of the Hell Gate group, into a pocket of a jacket with a fake logo that TJ would especially wear to attack Jen Marie street. Donny did this because Kei Matsumoto had said that no other group should know that The North Vikings were working for the Hell Gate group.

In the end, The North Viking fell into Donny’s trap. When they attacked Jen Marrie street, all of Dragger’s men were already waiting there. No one went to expand territory. It was all just Donny’s fake information.

In an hour, The North Vikings were knocked out by Dragger. There, TJ realized that Donny had set him up. He even still had time to tell all his men about the bad news before he was arrested and forcibly taken to Dragger’s headquarters.

There, Pablo’s right-hand man interrogated TJ to say the name of the big group that had ordered him to steal the prostitute women from Jen Marrie street. But he kept his mouth shut in order to keep Hell Gate’s secret. However, when Draggers’s men stripped his clothes off, they found the fake evidence paper that Donny had put into TJ’s jacket pocket. It was the beginning of the war between Dragger and Hell Gate.

What’s even worse, Donny deliberately brought his female friends that night (Emma, ??Poppy, and the others.), to be a shield when The North Viking finally realized his true devilish form. At that time, Donny used his friends as bait to escape from their capture.

When all of Donny’s plans had worked and made The North Vikings expelled from Hell Gate, he immediately volunteered to join the group. Then, with his good performance and sweet lips, he quickly managed to get promoted and he was able to replace TJ’s position who became a special team to manage the website business of catlanguangedistionary.com.

TJ, who was finally knocked down by Dragger, held a huge grudge against Donny who he could no longer touch, because Donny was already under the protection of Hell Gate. TJ also no longer had the opportunity to tell the truth to the higher-ups of Hell Gate. However, when he heard the news of the attack on the Hell Gate headquarters which caused the group to lose many men, including the two pillars of the guard, Gozu and Mezu, he finally had the opportunity to meet Ron and tell him the whole true story.

Ron felt very disappointed and angry, because all this time, he had kept a bunch of leeches that were secretly sucking his blood imperceptibly. All this time, Hell Gate was infected with disgusting parasites like them. As a result of this action, which was a form of Donny’s greed, it gave serious side effects in the future and affected many parties.

“Greed is like an always hungry monster. In the end, it will eat its own host when the host can’t feed it anymore.” Ron murmured, then rose to his feet. “Your greed and rotten heart have caused many people to suffer. Hell Gate is on the verge of collapse because of you. Remember.. Your life will not be the same as before after you leave this hospital. You will wish that you could back to live in this place instead, or sleep in the coffin. Keep that in mind.” Ron continued before stepping out, leaving Donny’s figure as if he was somewhere between life and death.

Ron stepped on the hospital corridor with his hands still clenched into fists. Just because of one rotten-hearted bastard, he lost everything. Not only money and power that could still be sought later, but his brothers who could only be helped by a miracle. If he wasn’t in the hospital right now, he might have killed Donny with his own two hands.

Once he arrived at the last Hell Gate headquarters, Ron entered his small room. It was very different from the room at the main headquarters, which even had a bathroom and bedroom in it. In this headquarters, Ron occupied a room that previously belonged to the headman of the branch headquarters, who now had to be forced to sleep with the other subordinates in the living room. This was the only last base they have.