Blood Of Platinum
Chapters 84. Amazing Things Done by Kids Bag. 2
“You still look like a perverted om-om to me, uncle”
A short sentence uttered by Theo in a flat yet sharp tone pierced the man named Joel.
“Mesum said..mesum..mesum...” slowly Joel repeated the word with a pale face.
Michaela and the other children saw the man in shock and pulled him out of Justin's room. Theo took the broom that the other kids left on the floor and took it out as well.
While walking out, Theo stood by the bar table and saw Michaela with the other children sitting at the place they had previously occupied together with Ryou and Kaito. The children sat down with the man who was silent in shock.
“Uncle, are you okay?” asked Michaela who was sitting next to him
“I feel my heart and my pride are broken. They were left in the room and ended up being dust scattered on the ceiling of the room”
“Eh?”
It seemed that the sentence had an impact on his mental state so he started talking strange things.
“You are so weird uncle. I'll call you Joel-ojichan! Joel-ojichan can also call me Michaela~” Michaela said with a cheerful smile to cheer her up
The other kids do the same thing as Michaela, except for Theo. He kept looking at the man named Joel with a cynical look.
Theo thought inwardly as he looked at the big man from in front of the bar table.
‘Manager said, that's right! I only know Mr. Nox and Arkan-nii as the people who take care of this place. If he's the owner, why haven't I seen him here? Why doesn't he manage this place himself? Why should Arkan-nii or Mr. Nox always take care of him alone? I don't care what kind of trouble it is to take care of this place without his supervision but it's still weird!!’
He placed the broom he was carrying near the bar table while watching the other children, yet he still carried the mop stick that he had been holding from the beginning. This is done as a form of self-defense.
‘Arkan-nii said to expel everyone who came even though he claimed to be the manager of this place, could it be that it was that person?’ he murmured in the heart
Theo walked up to him and looked at his face with a gaze filled with an aura of intimidation.
“Oi you perverted uncle, don't look like a victim here! You're still suspicious for us!!”
“Don't talk to me like that!! You don't know that I'm a victim here, do you? Check out this bar of mine, crumbling and dirty and looking like an execution venue!!” Joel said as he looked at Theo with a sad face and full of drama
“Why should I trust you?! I've known Arkan-nii and Mr. Nox for a very long time since the gorilla made us his pet, but it's never been in my memory of you!”
“So–soal it...” Joel looks doubtful and scared
“See, you can't answer it right!!” theo said emotion while pointing the mop stick at Joel's face
“All right I say!! I only come to this place during the day when you are not around! I just came to take the money from the bar and left again and I only did that when I had no money!!”
“For what?!”
“To date beautiful women in...hmmph!” Joel closed his mouth with both hands
Theo looked at the big man's panicked face while using his hands to cover his mouth. Instantly he narrowed his eyes and saw the ring on the man's ring finger.
“Uncle, you're married right? You still play with other women even after having a wife? It turns out to be true my guess, you pervert!”
Joel just shook his head quickly to dodge. But because he had unknowingly admitted the habit of ‘unik’, of course Theo did not trust him.
‘What a bad adult example’ Theo said inwardly
Theo looked at him with a disgusting look while letting out a heart-piercing spicy sentence.
“Design adults base! Besides being a bitch you're also a cheat! Don't talk to us or you'll pass on a bad virus to the future of us all!!”
“Don't be cruel to me! Although I love dating other women but I'm never going to hurt kids! Trust me!”
“I don't care! Get the hell out of here or I'll get you to Arkan-nii!!”
While beating him with a mop, Theo tries to drive Joel away. Michaela and the other children attempt to calm Theo down but fail. Theo keeps trying to drive the suspicious guy away like Arkan's previous message.
“Hold hold hold!! Why don't you really trust me to such an extent!”
“Don't joke! After that gorilla tried to sell us to that crazy woman who likes to sell those organs and get my friend kidnapped, where might I trust the adults from this place! Only Arkan-nii is the only adult from this bleak place willing to help us. After Justin dies, we don't know what danger we'll face so you better get out of here!!”
“Eh?! Justin is dead you said?!” Joel was shocked and looked so shocked
As Theo continues to beat him up, Joel ends up getting a little serious and catches the mop stick.
“Stop now. I've had enough of playing around with you, little boy”
“Kh...” Theo became panicked
He tried to pull back the mop but Joel's grip on the mop was stronger. Theo is forced to stop his intention to pull the mop stick and ask Joel while still showing a dislike face.
“What do you want?” asked Theo with an annoyed face
“I just want you to stop attacking me with this mop stick and we'll talk together here”
“You think I want to do it?!” answer Theo ketus
“I told you that I am the owner and manager of this bar. I want to hear the details of why my source of money could be ruined like this”
“You sure you just want to ask something like that, uncle? I can't believe that's all you want to know from all of us”
“Of course I want with everything that happened before I came. In addition, I also want to know the truth about what you said just now. about Justin who died”
“.....” Theo was silent while looking at him with a look of hatred
Theo finally listened to Joel a little and let go of the mop stick. Joel stood up and placed his mopstick near the bar table. Upon returning, Theo sits near Michaela and the other children as a way to protect them from the man she still suspects.
Joel began to ask Theo.
“So, kak–”
“My name is Theo, not a boy!”
“Oh, then Theo. I want to know what you mean about Justin who died”
“As I said, he died” replied Theo casually
“ We are talking about Justin who lives in the room, who always tells you to make money until late at night and only give bread that is almost overgrown with mushrooms throughout. Justin that's what I mean, you know?”
“True, he is indeed the gorilla and he died today” replied Theo with a calm face
“.....” Joel just fell silent while opening his mouth because it was so shocked
He really couldn't believe what he had just heard.
“Long” says Joel as if running away from reality
“Whose blood do you think was on this floor and that room?! It was his blood! You should have seen a lot of blood outside of”, too
“I came from behind the altar. After Arkan came to my house to ask for money on the grounds of buying the needs of the bar renovation, I went to the city to buy some things for girlfriend.ehem, I mean the goods my friend needs in the city”.
“But you see there's a trail of blood, right? How my eyes are supposed to be so thick if you walk ahead you'll see it, uncle! Even I who just ran here had seen a puddle of red and plastic bottles in front!”
“Li–view, I saw it. But kan–”
“Then there is no need to ask again. It's his blood and he died”
Theo finally told me everything that happened. Some parts such as how the door and the side wall were damaged, about how Justin was killed in his room or about the puddle created due to the fight are not told because he also did not know it. The boy just told me all the parts he knew.
Theo also tells the story of Ryou and Kaito to the big man and the thing that happened to his two friends who were kidnapped because of Justin.
“Gosh, so that bald guy finally really is dead” Joel shut his mouth and muttered softly
He also said in his heart.
Joel saw the children looked so exhausted and shabby. He also once again saw all the chaos in his bar. Even the large carpet and wallpaper that Arkan had just bought did not escape his sight.
“Arkan's camera is not bad. But because of the problems that are happening now, all of those things look like trash. Hiks..”
Joel recalls all Arkan's reports of a murder at his bar last night. That alone still left him in shock. Now he is made even more shocked by the condition of the bloodstained floor of the bar and the entrance and the wall near the broken door.
“My money will float a lot more after this. Is this place cursed?” he said in a soft tone
“It's your fault for cheating when you're married, uncle. Feel that as a result!” theo answered with no mercy
“Theo-niichan, what is cheating?” michaela asked with a curious face
“Checking it is an act that only perverts like this uncle do. You don't get close to people like this, okay?”
“So yes. All right, I get it. Joel-ojichan, you can't be close to all of us because you're cheating. Sorry ya” Michaela said all that to Joel with a sweet smile
Hearing the children's words, Joel could only remain silent without replying as if he were justifying the sentence in his heart.
‘I think I should break up with my girlfriends and go on vacation with my wife to clear Justin's curse from this place. In addition, the total number of people who died in this place because of Justin was more than twelve people including himself. Aaargh, I have to call the psychics to make this place holy again!!’
Joel finally realized something as he looked at the children before. He almost forgot something.
“You've eaten?”
“.....” no one answered him
“You haven't eaten because you don't have money?”
The other children answered Joel.
“We are hungry but we are also not so hungry”
“We are still afraid to leave this place. In addition, Arkan-nii advised to wait here”
“If you meet bad guys and we get kidnapped like Stelani-neechan and Fabil-niichan, Ryou-niichan will be very angry. We have to wait for them back”
Joel was silent and looked at Theo as the oldest child there.
“I was given money by Kaito-nii that I told you about, uncle. But I can't leave these kids alone. If I leave here with them, I'm afraid to meet Justin's men who are still looking for Kaito-nii. It will only add to the problem later. In addition, Arkan-nii has advised to keep this bar until all back”
“So. Then let me buy you some food. You guys look dirty and shabby too. Wait here and don't go anywhere ya”
Joel goes to the back.
Theo and the other children could only watch the man leave.
“Theo-niichan, I think that uncle is indeed the owner of this place”
“He's not evil. Although his face is as ugly as Justin-sama”
“True. At least he's still asking if we're hungry or not. Justin-sama never asked such a thing and just threw bread in cardboard for us to eat”
Theo just kept quiet to hear the children saying his opinion. Although still suspicious, Theo has been able to lower his level of vigilance to Joel.
The first reason was because the man really did not retaliate against the resistance he was putting up. Joel really didn't hurt any of those kids including Theo who beat him with a mop. The other reason, was because it seemed like he showed no signs of going to do any bad deeds to all of them.
Although he still did not fully believe it, Theo was quite certain that he was not a threat to himself and the children now.
Not long after, Joel returned and approached them.
“I'll go buy some food and some clothes for you guys. Anyone want to accompany me?” joel asked with a smile
“What?!” Theo was surprised to hear that
“You won't continue to wear unwashed clothes at all like that right? At least you guys should take a shower and eat”
As if not believing what he heard, Theo asked with a face full of prejudice and doubt.
“But why?!! You don't have to do this to us!. You're a perverted uncle!”
“Come on, I said I'm not the one who likes to hurt kids. Although I'm a pervert.ehem, I mean even though I'm a cheat but it has nothing to do with being nice to you guys”
“Means you admit you're a cheater?”
“……”
Hearing the boy speak heart-piercingly made Joel look annoyed, but he tried to divert the conversation.
“How so? Anyone want to come with me? We're going to town to buy you good food and clothes. I can't possibly take it myself, right?”
Some of the children pointed their hands and said they wanted to go with him, but others wanted to stay because they were still afraid. Michaela and two other children join Joel.
“You don't want to come too?” joel asked Theo
“If I come later who's looking after these kids and the bar?”
“Alright then. Take care of this place ya”
Joel's smiling face made Theo curious.
“Nee, uncle..why are you nice to us? It's not like you really know us. I told you I never saw you, right?”
Joel who heard the question only looked at the curious face of the boy before him with a smile. Seeing that, Theo became even more curious and asked again.
“Why do you even look happy, uncle?”
“I just want you to know that I'm not the bad guy you thought I was. I could never help you, even now I have never helped you out of fear of Justin. It was indeed a very cowardly attitude, but because now he is no more so you are free”
“.....” Theo speechless
“Don't worry, obviously I really won't do anything bad to you guys. Besides without you knowing actually you and your friends have done amazing things”
“Antracious?”
“You can still be together like this, take care of each other and you have also fought to protect these little ones. Thats stunning. That bruised scar on your face is also because you tried to do something for the sake of these little kids, right?”
Theo was touched. He remembers her stealing and ending up beaten by three children bigger than him yesterday as he struggles to earn money so that everyone can eat. He also remembered what Kino had told him.
[Theo-kun has fought well]
Just that sentence made Theo realize that everything he did was difficult and he made it this far because he could protect everything.
The amazing thing that only those children have been able to do so far is that they have never left each other and done anything for the sake of mutual safety.
“You understand what I mean, right? Let's just say I'm giving you a gift for your hard work. Besides, now there are no adults with you so it is only natural that I take care of you now” continued Joel
“Keeping...”.
Not finished with his sentence, Theo must be made silent with the words spoken by Joel. A sentence spoken quickly and slowly is like reciting a spell or curse.
“I also will not forget to make calculations with that ungodly employee when he returns later! I'm gonna cut his pay and I'm gonna lose his cut! I still can't fire him for not getting a replacement for Nox but after that I won't hesitate to kick him out of this place! Then what's his name, the man that the late Justin was looking for.ah! Kaito. I will sue him as well for already getting this place involved in such a big deal!!”
Joel murmured all those things hatefully. His face reflected that he did indeed have an evil intention to do so, even all those little children including Theo could see a demonic horn on his head.
Unwilling to linger, Joel goes with Michaela and the other two children to buy clothes and food.
‘The amazing thing that kids like us do is protect each other. Therefore, I have to protect these children like I promised Kaito-nii. Ryou-nii also said I can apologize to Kino-nii after everything is done. I should be able to keep my promise and protect them all!’
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