Blood Of Platinum
Chapter 50. Search and Pursuit bag. 2
Kaito looks at Ryou and successfully says a ‘pujian’ with a flat face and tone. The most pleasant part of it is all the ‘pujian’ sentences that he said were ‘pujian’ sentences that Ryou had said in advance for Kaito.
Hearing that, a loud shout greeted Kaito.
“Kaito!!”
“I'm here” asked Kaito in a flat tone
Ryou who still had not put his sword back in immediately flushed like a tomato as it held back
angrier.
As if ready to slash at the sinless, relaxed-faced young man in front of him, Ryou began to raise his sword.
“You really have a personal grudge against me huh? How does it feel to vent everything at once?” Ryou asked while holding back emotions
“Very happy. I'm glad you feel all those feelings. I felt it first. Thanks for the compliment all this time. You're the best friend, Ryou”
With a sweet and cheerful smiling face, Kaito said that from the bottom of his heart. Kaito's mentality was really already strong facing Ryou's spicy mouth.
Revenge because it was always a victim of the spicy mouth Ryou finally managed to be avenged.
Already unwilling to exhaust his energy, they entered into serious mode. Ryou puts his sword back into his scabbard and approaches Kaito with a gun in his hand.
“Kaito, you're the only one holding this. I don't want to take him” Ryou gave the gun to Kaito
“I don't know how to wear it. You better save that”
“I don't know how accurate it would be if I did it. You have the ability to shoot arrows well. Although it sounds like it has nothing to do, it should be that ability can be useful on this object as well. You have to take this with you, Kaito. I gave you the bullet too”
“How to use this thing? You must teach me first”
“Hmm..bine”.
Ryou teaches him how to use a gun and fill his bullets. He also explained a little about the power of the gun he was holding and how the aiming position using the object.
“Thank you. I'm starting to understand. I'll save this” Kaito accepts
Kaito keeps the gun Ryou gave him into the outer cloak pocket. After some time, Ryou gazed towards the five unconscious muscular men on the ground.
“Do you have any guesses where they came from?” Ryou asked Kaito in a serious tone
“Take yes..there is one even though not so sure”
“So, where do you think?”
“Remember what I said about me being followed by two tattooed men? From the physique of all of them, I'm sure they come from that foreign place”
Kaito looked at them with a cold and cynical look. Ryou who looks into Kaito's eyes learns that the person next to him is watching in detail their entire body from head to toe to remember everything that can be used as information.
He also felt the hidden emotions from Kaito's dangerous gaze.
“Now, want to be flanked?” Ryou asked Kaito
“I think we can leave them here”
“So. Then we'll get out of here. I don't want to linger in this shitty place. Besides, I am still hurting to hear the sentence I once told you instead turned against me!. Shitty!”
“Sorry ya” Kaito smiled as if teasing Ryou sullen face
After calming down, Kaito took out his pocket watch. The time shown that the clock was at 08.05, there was a lot of time wasted now because of the chasing action earlier.
“Jam eight in the morning. We've spent almost an hour since we left the inn. We better leave them”
“If you meet the same kind of people as them, you should think of my advice to kill them. Just shoot him in the head if you need”
“……”
Kaito did not comment much. Ryou's words are really like a real psychopath. Now he did not know if what Ryou said was serious or just a joke.
‘Did he really realize what he was saying? Has Ryou really started to get affected with this ‘world’ and started to lose his humanity? I have to really watch him properly’
Ryou looked at Kaito face while asking.
“What's up?”
“No. It'sit's nothing. Let's go”
Kaito walks in front of Ryou. Ryou who was walking behind him looked normal like nothing had happened.
Kaito begins to feel he has to step up his surveillance on Ryou. Even that was thought of in his heart.
‘Kino, I won't let your sister kill a human. If indeed his fighting strength affected his heart as a human, I guess it would be best if he could not use a weapon at all’
Unlike the strange creatures, this time they were dealing with humans. In the context of real life, killing humans will make them get the designation ‘killer’ in front of his name and it will be a problem and disgrace in his life.
Kaito just doesn't want to make Ryou feel that way. Even so, he did not know if Ryou actually said he wanted to kill a real human or just to make it look strong because it managed to survive from ‘world night’ until now.
“I will watch over you well, Ryou” Kaito muttered softly
“You called me, Kaito?”
While running over, Ryou walks parallel to Kaito now.
“No, not nothing”
They walked out of the narrow alley and returned to the streets of the city until they finally felt the hustle of the city again.
Just as the crowd was so dense that the morning sun was starting to rise, the two did not realize that they had just passed through.
“……!!”
“What's up, Ryou?”
“That was...”.
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At a fruit stall in the city, Theo is seen helping a short-bodied man move heavy boxes.
“Ukh..”
Theo had trouble lifting the box.
“Oi, boy! Are you sure you can do it no? Do not let my precious apples be ruined because of you. If you can't, I'll find another one!”
“I can, I can!. Please wait a moment, sir!”
With all the energy he had he tried to lift it up again. But it doesn't seem so smooth.
BRAAAAK
The wooden box fell and all the apples in it fell into the street.
“Oi, boy! What are you doing on my trade!!”
“Ma–forgive me. I'll clear” soon
“Not necessary, not necessary! Go you useless boy!. You've made me lose. Look what you did to my merchandise! Already, get the hell out of here and don't come back!”
The big man got angry at Theo and kicked him out. Resisting his emotions, Theo walked away from the place by picking up three apples that had fallen on the ground.
“Oi, back you thief!!. Return my apple!”
The short man ran after Theo, but Theo's running speed was hard to keep up with
Looking back, Theo shouted and stuck out his tongue.
“Mblee! Not want!. You threw me out yourself, you short man!. Feel it!”
With all his strength, Theo ran away from the fruit stall. After five minutes of running and had managed to get away from the market area, Theo took a short breath and wiped the apple he had taken earlier. He ate it voraciously while walking down the street in the city.
“Breakfast is not bad. Good thing I took this. At least my hunger and thirst could improve a little bit”
After one by one the apples he had run out, he began to look around the shopping area in the city and started thinking about finding a new job.
‘I have to find a job to earn money. I don't know if Stelani and the others are okay at the altar. What is clear, I should be able to earn a lot of money so that they can get food’
Theo is still not completely fine since the memory of the murder that Justin did is still firmly attached to his memory. The child's memory is indeed very strong, especially in things that can make him happy or traumatized.
‘I can't think about it! I've decided to pay it back. I can't lose to my fear!’
Thinking of gathering his courage back, Theo began walking and offering his services to shops around the region.
Starting from food stalls, thrift stores, vegetable stalls, other fruit stalls to iron shops he went to. Time passed by so quickly and until now he had not gotten the desired results at all.
“Sial! Why is it so hard to get a job today! Do they have no trouble living like me?”
Theo still tried it despite failing again and again. Life is not easy for a child like him. Without the useful ability and age that is too small to work, his life really always has difficulties.
“Useless. This is not gonna work. If it was like this I wouldn't be able to get the money for them to eat” Theo so desperately
He looked at the wall clock from outside the window of a shop. The clock is now 08:05. It had been almost an hour since he had split up with his friends and gone to the city.
Theo mingled with the large crowd of residents walking in the city. After passing through an alley on his right side, he saw two people who had just exited the alley and took a left direction to continue their journey.
Theo did not realize anything and continued walking straight.
Same from the opposite direction. Unwitting by the two of them that they have walked past him. Although it was only an instant, a shadow with the same features as their own was seen bouncing inside the eyeball.
**
“……!!”
Ryou stopped his footsteps suddenly and fell silent while looking back. He looked at the right side behind him with a serious look.
“What's up, Ryou?” Kaito looked towards Ryou who stopped suddenly
“That was...”
“Ryou?” Kaito calls Ryou who doesn't give him an answer
“I'm like seeing the little boy we're looking”
“Where?” Kaito looked towards the crowd of people there
“There, on the right side of it. I'm not so sure because I saw it just at a glance but it looks like the kid we're looking for”
“……”
Kaito looked at the crowd on the opposite side of his current position.
“I guess it's just a feeling..Eh? Kaito?”
He didn't give Ryou a chance to talk more and ran straight there.
“You wait here. I'll see it for myself!” Kaito quickly ran down that road
“Tu..Oi, don't leave me Kaito!”
Kaito doesn't seem to care so much about Ryou's screams and runs past those people one by one. But unfortunately, he did not see the child they were looking for.
Kaito had looked at the alley beside him and he also did not see the figure of the boy in the alley. The shops around Kaito are flower stalls, tool and weapon shops, kion accessories and thrift kiosks. There's no orange-clad brown kid in there.
“Oi! I told you wait for me!”
Ryou manages to catch up to Kaito who stops beside the alley. He watched Kaito who was still looking around the place.
“Ryou, are you sure you saw it this way?”
“I told you I'm not so sure! You have to listen to people talk until you're done first, you idiot!”
“.....” Kaito silently listened
“I think it's just my feeling because I'm too focused. Hm? Kaito?”
Kaito still remained silent and felt that what Ryou saw was not an illusion. Although it wasn't him himself who saw it but he believed Ryou wasn't the one who would lie about such an important matter.
“Do you not want to check this area, Ryou?”
“Kaito, I told you I could have just misview”
“Why? Don't you believe in yourself? I believe in what you said just now but why do you doubt yourself? You know how important it is for that kid to get your pocket watch again, don't you? Stop reasoning like that!”
Kaito seems annoyed to hear Ryou continue to reason that he just mislooked. Ryou sighed for not wanting to argue long with her then apologized to Kaito.
“I understand, I'm sorry. All right, we'll go look around here so you're no longer curious”
“……”
Kaito did not respond and directly walked into the area. Ryou who could only sigh for the umpteenth time walked behind him while teasing him continuously.
“Oi, I'm sorry. I told you already. Don't get mad or you'll get old soon”
“I'm six years older than you”
“Ish, you are fierce!”
“Haa..stop saying things that make my ears hurt. You want me to strike back at you again like before?”
Kaito's tone is better. His mood was very easy to calm down, making his conversation with Ryou return to normal in just a few seconds.
“Where are you looking?” Ryou asked Kaito
“Because you feel like you saw it around here, we're gonna start looking around this place right up to the store up ahead. If there is none, we go look for it to the city center”
“Baik”
None of them realized that the person they were looking for was actually still around the place. Fate said another and they couldn't find it that morning.
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Theo who was walking in the crowd looked at the flower stall and entered into it to offer his services.
“Can I help here, Auntie? I'll help serve the customer or lift the fertilizer. You paid me 5 Franc”
“Are you not too small to lift all these fertilizers, son? How about something happens to you later?”
“I can do it. I beg you, I will do any job as long as I can get money to buy bread”
Theo begged the flower stall owner's aunt. Although initially rejected but because of his pity he finally allowed Theo to help him lift fertilizer in his shop.
“Don't get dropped ya, son. Just move those ten sacks of fertilizer to the back and I'll pay you”
“Thank you very much!” Theo was delighted
Quickly he finally immediately did the task that the aunt had given him. It sounds easy but who would have thought that all the fertilizers were very heavy. Theo just tried not to complain. The flower stall owner's aunt serves customers while keeping an eye on Theo's performance.
It took about twenty minutes for Theo to move all of that fertilizer to the back of the store.
“It's 5 Franc” the aunt gave money to him
“Thank you very much, bi”
“Tomorrow if it is heavy you should not do such a difficult job and look for a lighter job”
“.....” Theo just bowed
After receiving his money, he went to the city to find another place that would accept him. Along the way through the streets of the area, Theo kept looking at the coins in his hands.
“5 Franc yes. Still too little. Yesterday I managed to get 50 Francs despite my hard work. At least today I should get 60 Franc”
Theo pondered in his heart and stuffed the coin into his pants pocket.
‘Compared to working this hard, stealing at the altar is definitely faster to earn money. But I can't possibly harm another. What Fabil said this morning was true. If until anyone realizes that I stole all the gold and jewelry belonging to the residents there then we will be in danger’
“Haaa..”.
Sighing from fatigue, Theo tried not to think about anything else including the incident last night. His focus now was that he had to earn money so that his friends could get bread to eat.
At the moment the deadlock in his mind was starting to worry him, he was like getting a ‘surprise’ in front of his eyes. But the meaning of ‘ksurutan’ itself is still unthinkable by him. Whether it was good or not for him now he doesn't know.
Theo just silently stared with widened eyes and an expression of disbelief.
“Why...could be here..”.
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