Blood Of Platinum
Chapter 46. Meaningless Treasure Sparkling bag. 2
Poor Arkan finally accepted his destiny as ‘the luckiest’ of the night.
That's because he really works rodi alone. He began mopping up the entire floor of the blood-filled bar with very cold water mixed with the ammonia liquid he had brought from his house in large quantities.
Actually when he went back to the bar to prepare ‘his equipment’, he saw that Justin's room door was already closed.
“It looks like he closed the door himself when I left earlier”
He thought of positive things to make his mental strong face a messy bar like that animal enclosure.
Finally after a long sigh, Arkan tried to knock on Justin's door to mop the floor of his room. However, he did not get a response from the people in it.
Arkan finally gave up and went back to mopping the floor of the bar.
As he was sliding tables and chairs around the blood-stained floor, he noticed another surprise that would add to his list of troublesome jobs that night.
“Wah wah..it turns out his blood stains up to the wall. How should I cover this up? Haah..”.
Arkan sighed again when he saw the already dried bloodstains on the back corner wall where the three women died.
He still did not seem to have lost his mind that night even though his brain was tired of thinking. He tried to cover it temporarily by sliding the ornamental cabinets in the back corner to cover the walls affected by the bloodstain.
“If I'm not tired tomorrow, I want to buy some wallpaper to cover it. Good also if this old bar get a little touch of art”
Arkan said it in a positive tone but his face did not show any expression.
Trying to push the closet alone, Arkan accidentally broke a flower vase that became a decoration in the closet.
-CRAAAAASH
“Yes geez. I wonder, how many extra jobs are on my list tonight? Why is my shift tonight so fucking shit?”
He was surprised by the sound of a broken vase and complained for a moment.
Before his emotions reached a high point that could make a mental breakdown, he walked into the kitchen to pick up a broom.
He glanced at the door of Justin's tightly shut room.
“I thought he would scream because of the sound of the broken flower vase being so loud. Thank goodness he doesn't bother me now. I've been overwhelmed with blood stains that are not easily lost, so do not add to my list of work again ya”
He quickly picked up a broom and a garbage bag to dispose of the ceramic vase. When he was done, he took her to the landfill that was behind and this was where her mentality began to thin out.
“I...almost forgot the main problem of this place..” his face made a strange expression.
He had almost forgotten the five corpses that were there. They were still lying on the ground with because they were thrown at will by Justin's men a moment ago.
He placed a trash bag containing broken vases next to a messy garbage bag there and went in to pick up large plastic trash, gloves and handkerchiefs as a mask. He also wears a raincoat so that his blood splashes do not hit his clothes and replaces his leather shoes with boots in the employee closet.
“True war on start!”
Lifting the corpse of the big tattooed man was not easy for him, so he started by lifting up the corpse of the woman nearby.
“Lifting a female corpse by lifting a living woman is the same, right? So it shouldn't be a problem”
The strangest logic ever, but it makes sense.
He started to lift and put it in the big bag first. After that he tied her up tightly.
“Fiuh, fortunately it is still new so the foul aroma will not pollute this place. If it gets rotted here, let alone customers.people who used to pick up this garbage once a week will not want to either.
approaching this place”
He started to lift the body of the second woman. Just as he wanted to lift her up, he saw a faint light near the corpse of the woman.
“What is it?”
The light eventually dissipated on its own and left behind only something. It is a small, round, golden object with long chains.
Arkan saw something strange around that thing. It was so unreasonable that it made that expressionless cold face change.
“How can it be just a blood stain around this thing that is clean with no residuals?!”
Arkan now showed a surprised expression. She was so shocked but so curious. With hesitation, he took the thing carefully.
He saw the details. There are a lot of scratches around the lid and other parts.
“This is a pocket watch? Old once”
While opening the lid, he saw a letter-like engraving on the inside of the lid. Seeing that the clock was not moving at all made him think that the clock was broken.
“Old things like this why can in this place?. Who dumped this junkyard?”
Arkan continued to pay attention to the details, but there was really nothing interesting about the pocket watch. It was just an antique old thing with a vintage style that if sold to a junkyard for at least 3 Francs.
But what makes him curious is why the blood stains around the pocket watch are clean with no rest at all. The scars produced on the ground are circular in diameter of approximately 40 cm, almost eight times the diameter of the pocket watch which may be only 4-5 cm.
“I guess I'll save this and see the details for longer after finish working”
Finally, the curiosity made him take the pocket watch and keep it temporarily in the upper raincoat bag.
Continuing his wheelchair work, his struggle to lift the five corpses was really like the touching story of ‘heroik’. At least for Arkan himself.
“I've really done my best, grandma. Look at this granddaughter of yours from heaven, she managed to wrap five corpses in a short period of time. It only takes about two hours to do it”
After giving a message to her beloved grandmother in heaven, she took off her raincoat and gloves.
“Haa..the two hours included old, conscious fool!. This was all because of the large bodies of the two muscular men. What's the point of having thick muscles if you end up dying from being shot? Lifting the two of them one by one consumed quite a lot of energy. But if it stops now everything will be more troublesome”
The five bodies have also been arranged in rows like a wrapped corpse.
Arkan did it all because he thought they were alive. Therefore, he still tried his best to treat them as humans to the very end.
“Tomorrow besides buying wallpaper, I'd better stop by Riz Mortem's place to ask him to take these bodies”
The feeling of relief was finally felt by him. The trash and corpse business was done, plus he also found an interesting object. Once inside the bar again, he turned pale again.
“Why can I forget about this too?”
Arkan again lamented his fate while still trying to maintain his calm face.
For two hours he took care of all the mess behind, of course he was forced to leave the bar for a while. And as time passed, the bloodstains on the floor were of course still not cleaned up entirely.
It could be said that Arkan was in other serious trouble.
“This type of old wood will definitely be difficult to remove and it is clear it will not disappear perfectly. Even with the help of cold water and ammonia liquid though, it will not completely remove its marks. I'm so fucking”
He had no idea that time had passed so quickly and the night felt like it was not going to end. That night, Arkan felt that it was the longest night he had ever spent in his entire life.
Enough with all the fatigue he felt, he chose to give up and decided to cover the remaining blood stains that were difficult to lose with the carpet. And on the carpet he will put something so that his customers will not be suspicious.
“Hmm..tomorrow morning I have to buy a big carpet and something to make sure no customers are suspicious. Well, even though everyone who comes to this place is just a drunk does not mean, but if something happens to this place.my salary will be a victim”.
Arkan tidied up everything on the bar floor from his broomstick and mopstick, raincoat and boots he wore and his handkerchief and gloves.
Before that, he did not forget to take the strange pocket watch he found from inside the upper raincoat bag. Arkan keeps it in his pants pocket now and takes it home.
Before he came home, he saw a clock on the wall of the bar.
“Haa..jam 01.00 am yes, I will go to the manager's house tomorrow morning and tell her everything that happened tonight. After that, I will ask for money to buy the needs of the bar and apply for a leave of absence”
After checking back on her work, she looked at the door and knocked once.
“Justin-sama, this is Arkan. Tonight I'll close the bar. I'm not gonna lock the door because I'm keeping the cashier safe in a normal place. Tomorrow I'll polish this place. I hope Justin-sama doesn't mind that”
He did not hear any response for a few minutes. At last the person in the room answered.
“I don't care. There is something more important than thinking about this place. Sort as you please. Don't bother me anymore now and go”
“Good. Have a good rest, Justin-sama”
Arkan got out of the bar and walked down a dark street with minimal light.
He commented in his heart.
‘I thought he killed himself inside. Turns out it's still alive’
The long night is over for Arkan and he must be ready for another life at sunrise this morning.
Finished with all the records of the incident that he himself experienced last night, Arkan who was currently at the bar table tried to catch his breath for a moment.
“This morning I've been to the manager's place and heard the news that Mr. Nox was gone last night. Then, I asked for money separate from the income in the safe to buy new furniture to cover the bloodstains there. I also have to go to Riz's place to ask him to take the bodies outside. It feels like my morning has been long. Plus, the manager hasn't found a replacement for Mr. Nox. I really have to take a leave next week”
All the long grunts he let out in the empty bar without customers that morning were said to be with a flat facial expression.
As if it did not feel burdened, what came out of his mouth with the look of his face was not the same.
Arkan pulled out an old pocket watch he found last night.
“I will use a little time for a break before closing this bar temporarily to go out”
He began to open the lid of the pocket watch and looked at the details once more.
There is nothing special about this clock. That thought has not changed until now. However, that made him unable to throw it away due to the oddity he had seen last night.
Trying to look at every part of it, he felt he did not know how to dismantle this pocket watch.
“Already. I don't know anything about pocket watches. I better ignore it before noon comes. Corpse in the back should be quickly moved”
Arkan might not be interested in the old thing but he still looked at it with a serious look.
“This old watch may not look good at all, but the strange thing I saw last night is enough to make me believe that this watch is like a treasure. I'll let this go if it's time”
Calmly, he stuffed the old pocket watch into his pants pocket and went to the entrance of the bar.
He again changed the sign on the door to ‘close’ and left the bar to go do all his plans list without saying goodbye to Justin first.
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Inside the bar, Justin still locked himself in his own room.
Since last night, his emotions were so out of control. The bottles of alcohol were on the floor, the two pistols he used to kill the five people last night lying on the floor as well.
His body that was still dirty because of the blood last night had not been cleaned at all. In addition, blood stains on the floor have also begun to dry up.
His face looked cold as if he was completely thirsty for prey.
“Swielders without sword sheaths who dare to enter my realm. Even if he doesn't do something, I will still kill him for daring to enter this territory. All the inhabitants of that city..I will not let you enter this place”.
Those sharp cold eyes were like they were waiting for the right time.
Justin was completely obsessed with prey he had never even seen at all.
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