With his gesture met with rejection, Raph chuckled dryly, his eyes harboring malice. Kent nodded and said earnestly, “I want to apologize for earlier, Kaze. “You must be on your way to Riverbank City. Why don’t you stay over at my place? I’ll be a good host to you. “May I know why you are heading to Riverbank, Kaze? I want to help you whenever I can. I owe you my life.” Kent was certain that Kaze was a person of extraordinary abilities. He wanted to make a friend out of such talent. Kaze was fond of Kent too. He said, “I’m not some Superman. I’ve witnessed a similar situation before, so I know what to do. I just got lucky. “Don’t worry about paying me back. Just count it as a favor, Mayor Synder. “I might need your help in the future,” Kaze looked at Kent and said with a faint smile. Kaze could be sure that the Ryokan hex on Kent had something to do with Sanwell Finances. He and Kent would cross paths a lot. Kent was taken aback at first, but he quickly took out a
Raph was oblivious to the fact that Cole wanted him gone. He was still trying to win Kent’s favor after the embarrassing stunt he pulled. Thanks to his tricks of the trade, Raph could read the room and deduce Kaze’s purpose of visiting Riverbank. Kent nodded. “You have a point, Dr. Tyson. In that case, why don’t you pick a couple of things from Dr. Tyson? I’ll foot the bill.” “These herbs are meant for medical treatment. Let’s not talk about money. Besides, the herbs aren’t worth much. Just take whatever you want, Kaze,” Raph said with a smile. Though just a scammer, Raph had amassed a lot of wealth over the years. Kaze glanced at Raph and said with a smile, “Since I’m free to take whatever, why don’t you just give the whole sack to me? I can present them as a gift to a friend I’m visiting this afternoon.“The herbs aren’t worth much, but it’s the thought that counts.” Raph was speechless. His herbs were worth over 10 million dollars. Yet, Kaze wanted him to give the
Hamlin nodded. “Got it.” Cole returned not long after Hamlin and Kent’s conversation. By then, the train had arrived at Riverbank East Station. Kent asked with a frown, “Where’s Dr. Tyson, Cole?” “Dr. Tyson has a patient who urgently needs his care, Uncle. He left ahead of us.” Cole said with a smile, “I’ll contact more doctors to help Myra get better, Uncle.” He did not tell Kent that he had chased Raph and the other two out. “Alright.” Kent nodded. After the earlier incident, he realized that Raph could not be trusted. Nevertheless, Kent ran a background check on Raph beforehand. Since Raph was popular among the rich and powerful in Riverbank, Kent did not want to have a falling out to avoid any unnecessary trouble. It was a good thing Raph left on his own accord. Meanwhile, the train started decelerating into Riverbank East Station. The passengers waited for the doors to open. Due to a recent assassination, Kent was surrounded by heavy security. His party got
“I was thinking about a way to get this thing out of the station. The guy can help me out now.” Butch snickered grimly. Raph asked curiously, “How do you plan on doing it?” “Just watch me.” Butch chuckled and hid the weapon in his sleeve before approaching Kaze. The first-class cabin had a seating arrangement of two seats per row. Since Butch’s girlfriend was hesitant to sit next to Kaze, she left the seat vacant. With the seat empty, Kaze put the sack of herbs on the one closer to the aisle. Not in a hurry to get off, Kaze closed his eyes for a rest. “Plop!” He felt the sack falling to the ground and opened his eyes. Butch smiled and picked the sack up from the ground. “I’m sorry, Kaze. I bumped into the bag while passing through. Why aren’t you getting off yet?” Butch put the sack on the seat like nothing ever happened. He slipped the weapon into the sack while picking it up. “The doors aren’t even open yet. Everyone else can go ahead and leave. I’m not in a h
The advanced security system at the gate triggered a loud alarm when a high-level threat was detected.The sudden blaring startled everybody around, stirring a commotion. The security officers nearby stayed on high alert. They radioed for backup while drawing close to the threat. As the alarm grew louder, Kaze and those around him became the center of attention. “Don’t move! “Put down your bags and put your hands in the air.” A team of heavily armed police officers stormed the scene, their guns drawn and aimed directly at Kaze and those around him. “Thud!” Kaze threw his sack out of the scanning range. The others, in a panic, followed suit. However, the siren did not stop piercing everybody’s eardrums. The police officers narrowed their eyes. They had initially suspected that the scanner picked up on a prohibited item in one of the bags. Besides, the level of noise from the alarm determined that it was the highest level of threat. ‘A suicide bomber?’ The po
"Hands up! Put them over your head and don't make any sudden moves!" the security squad leader shouted at Kaze.Kaze replied calmly, "Sorry, I've served in the military. I can't bring myself to make a surrender gesture."He served in the military?Everyone immediately raised their assessment of Kaze's threat level by several notches.“Then, what about the items you’re hiding? Hurry up and take it out!” the squad leader shouted.Kaze shook his head. “I’m not hiding anything…”“That’s impossible, the alarm wouldn’t have sounded off otherwise!”The squad leader ordered sternly, “If you were to hand it over voluntarily, your punishment would be much lighter compared to us forcibly searching you! You’d better think twice before you answer again!”“I really am not hiding anything dangerous though. What do you want me to hand over?” While eyeing Raph and Butch, Kaze calmly added, “As for the opium and the firearm that you found in the bag, they were planted by these two to frame me.”“
“Order him to hand over the prohibited items once again, or he’ll be searched otherwise!” Aegon sternly instructed.The squad leader turned back and faced Kaze, saying, “The Deputy Director of our police force, Aegon Gwake has arrived. I’m sure you understand the consequences of defying him, so once again, please hand over any prohibited items you have on you!”“But I’m not carrying anything prohibited,” just like before, Kaze maintained a calm tone and expression as he replied.This surprised Aegon, who glared incredulously at Kaze. Regardless of the situation, being able to remain so composed showed a rare strength of character in someone so young.“Get the bomb squad to search him! Be extra careful!” Aegon barked the order with a steely expression. He would no longer waste any time talking with Kaze.With that, the surrounding officers spread out, leaving behind only a few equipped with bomb suits, who were now in charge of searching Kaze.Despite a thorough search, however, t
”S-Sir, you have several shrapnel pieces lodged within your body. Why haven’t you tried to remove them?” Aegon was tongue-tied. Even after recovering from his disbelief, he was still stuttering to get any words out.His former commander in the military too, had two shrapnel pieces stuck within him. As his commander grew older, these shrapnel pieces caused him great suffering, especially during rainy days, when the pain would grow more severe.Compared to his commander, however, Kaze was way worse off.Aegon could not fathom how Kaze was still able to move about so freely despite having so many shrapnel pieces lodged within him.As Kaze put his clothes back on, he casually answered, “The surgeons who operated on me have already extracted as much shrapnel as they could. Those that you see here are the ones they dared not operate on.“One wrong move and my central nervous system could be damaged, leaving me paralyzed, or even worse, cause fatal bleeding.”“These… These shrapnel piec