The Goddess Made A Mistake Again

Chapter 285: 285 - The Rats

Chapter 285: Chapter 285 – The Rats

I open the door of the room to see Genzo standing right in front of me.

“Yo, did you have fun listening to us?”

“How preposterous! I have not done such a thing.” Damn, even the way English came out of his mouth… it truly seemed like he was a novice Japanese person doing English Anime character dialogues.

“Okay, I believe you.” I bypass him to leave but he spoke.

“I don’t know what it is that you are trying to achieve.” I stop and turn to look Genzo giving a hard stare, “The Princess will not get corrupted by your schemes.”

‘Famous words from the warrior before her princess gets corrupted.’

I act hurt, “How could you think say that to me, Genzo? After all I’ve done to help you and her highness.”

“Hmph! Such foolish acting will get you nowher-”

“Genzo”

Genzo stopped in his step as he heard Hanako voice from behind. I smiled seeing Genzo turn around to see Hanako standing there listening to him.

“I think we need to talk, both of us.” Hanako said and gave a brief look at me as I bow.

“I have something important scheduled so I’ll leave you, Hanako.” I smile and point to a few trustworthy worms of mine, “If you need anything, absolutely anything, please don’t hesitate to order them. They’ll help you out in any way possible.”

“Thank you again, Henry.” We went to first name basics, “You have helped me immensely.”

“And I’ll continue to do so.” I bow and turn to the door, “Goodbye, Hanako.”

“Goodbye Henry.”

…

A carriage waited for me and I went in. But I wasn’t alone in it.

“Good evening, Mr. Tax. How is the princess?” Reina said.

Reina wore fashionably wealthy clothes. A dark purple long shiny dress with a white tiger’s skin as neck coat. She was the definition of a wealthy bitch.

Yet here she was, all respectable towards me.

“Did our investment get hurt?”

“She’s doing just fine.” I lean down at the comfy cushion behind me, “A little scared but that’s better for negotiations.”

“Good!” Reina smiled, “Our risk will pay off then.”

“It was always going to pay off, Reina.” I look at her, “Did you perhaps have doubts about it?”

“Doubts?” She asked, a bit of hidden. “Never. You planned it all perfectly boss! None of us had any doubts about it.”

‘So some of them had doubts.’ I think, ‘Though it’s better that way. Now they’ll be in greater spirits because of the success.’

“Alright” I say as she secretly sighed a bit, “How are our rats?”

“Misbehaving” She had a dark look on her, “We gave them slight shocks to keep them quiet, but they always barking out soft nonsense.”

“Because you ordered not to use excessive force, they actually think that they’ll be getting out of this alive.” Reina smiled darkly as if she found the thought amusing, “They truly are quite dumb people.”

“And yet, they had the same level as you just a few hours ago.” I say, “Reminds you of how the even the mightiest can fall with the slightest tilt.”

That was a silent threat to her which she carefully understood.

“Of course, sir. With you by our side, nothing can go wrong.” Reina smiled with a dog’s favorable look.

I stay quiet after that as she recounted the things that had happened while I was with Hanako.

We not only caught the rats but were also able to get all the shops and districts under our control too.

Good. It meant we would be able to stabilize the situation much better than calculated. And that wasn’t even the best news.

Apparently, the rats were stupid enough to hide their valued treasures and gold under their own home. So robbing them brought in quite the money to us.

After some time, the carriage stopped before an old factory and we got out.

I walked inside the factory as Reina followed me silently. Navigating through the secret passages of the place, we stepped inside an underground lair.

It was one of my secret workshops where numerous drugs and other illegal activities occurred. The underground was so large that it had places for other activities too.

Like right now, we stepped inside a big room with a few people strapped on some chairs and some guarding them. The ones strapped were the rats as they screamed insults at me just as they saw me.

“You motherfucker! What do you think you’re doing?”

“Do you think you’ll get out of this?”

“You’ll pay very dearly for doing this, bastar-”

“Slap!”

“Slap!”

“Slap!”

“Slap!”

All four of them got slapped that made them shut for the time being. The ones slapping them were none other than the other sub-leaders, my people.

“Shut up!” Benedict said, slapping Elric. “You should be glad that the boss said not to hurt you, otherwise you’d be dead already.”

Maverick came in front of me with a massive smile, “The plan was a massive success, boss. We got the places and the gang members all under our control. Not even the Pen Dragons tried to disrupt our mission, so everything went just as planned.”

“So it seems.” I smile, “I’ll take care of the military, none of them will question us about our sudden noise either.”

“Well boss, that means you’re now officially the true leader of Snake Tails.” Maverick said with a smirk.

I smiled too and patted him, “In celebration of my promotion and our huge success, the money that you all have gathered from these rat’s places, will be equally divided to all of you.”

All of them smiled at that.

“Really, boss? That’s so nice of you.” Rocco said.

“That will definitely cut of the losses I got at the explosion.” Benedict counted crazily with his fingers.

“I will throw a party for my boys after this.” Salvick smiled.

“I will give extra pay to my people for this plan, they’ve worked hard.” Fredrick nodded sagely.

“And I can buy a lot of clothes and shoes with that money.” Reina’s eyes shone with greed.

I look at Maverick and ask, “And what will you do, Maverick?”

“Me?… I’ll probably keep it or invest in something interesting.”

‘This guy is the only one that’s truly smart in the whole gang… but he can also be the most dangerous.’

“You bastards! That’s our money!” Phillip roared in anger.

“You’ll pay… all of you will pay when the boss hears about this.” Gerard said.

“The boss?… you mean Kay Gon?” I look at the others, “You guys didn’t tell them?”

They all smiled crookedly, “We were waiting for you to unveil that, boss.”

Hearing me, the rat’s face’s turned a bit pale.

“Open the gate.” I ordered and the gate right opposite to the big room, opened as all the rat’s eyes turned wide.

“BOSS!” X4

At the gate was a small empty room with nothing but Kay Gon strapped to a chair. He was beaten hard by me and seemed to be still.

“Don’t worry, he’s still alive.” I say to the rats as they called for him. “Just a bit drained after the beating he got, but I kept him alive for this.”

“Fucker! You will pa-”

“Bam!” Aslac felt an ear crushing sound around him as he felt the slap from Henry.

“Quiet, I have a show to give you guys.”

I walk towards Kay Gon and call him but he didn’t answer. The only thing that confirmed he was still alive was his shallow breathing.

‘Let’s jog him awake.’

“Hey, Kay Gon. Wanna hear one of my biggest secret?”