Chapter 29: Will Be Fixed Soon!
f there were a table in front of me, I’d flip it without hesitation.
"Was she drunk when she came up with this quest? I haven’t met the Five Rings in person, but just hearing the rumors is enough to know they’re not the kind of people someone like me can mess with. If they existed on Earth, they would probably be on the same level as Yakuza or Triad, and what, the goddess told me to destroy them? Hell nah. I would probably be dead the second I think about doing it."
In a way, they operated like private investigators or information brokers. You could practically hire them to dig up anything. But unlike professionals, they had no sense of ethics. They had no bottom line and weren’t scared to cross the boundary without hesitation.
If they needed to, they’d break into someone’s home, kill the occupants, and wait inside just to eavesdrop on a target living next door. As long as it helped them get what they wanted, they didn’t care who got caught in the crossfire.
Their infamous motto was:
"There’s no such thing as a forever secret—only cowards who don’t dare to uncover it."
Naturally, as the gang’s reputation grew, so did the notoriety of its top members.
Within the Sadis Gang, no name was more well-known than "Rat" Peter. It was rumored he served as the left hand of Alduin Sadis himself, the gang’s leader.
And now that very dangerous man had shown up at my house?
What could possibly be the meaning of this?
His involvement suggested the original Aiden’s death wasn’t simple at all!
At first, I thought the original Aiden had simply gotten on the wrong side of some small gang. That alone would’ve been bad enough.