The Rise of Queen Lilith vol.1

Chapter 23: The Criminals (Journey IX)

"I need to talk to your boss!"

The goon looked at me.

"Are you stupid? Go away before I hurt you, little bitch!"

Fenrir jumped at him in an instant, catching him off guard. My puppy ripped his arm straight off, leaving the goon screaming and writhing on the ground. The goon besides him quickly ran inside the building, with me following close behind.

After the entrance area came a bar, with some serving girls working as waitresses. The smell of alcohol and some sort of tobacco rose into my nose. I didn't want to look around this place of debauchery to much so I rushed after the goon. Instead of going upstairs we went into a sort of cellar.

He screamed for backup and 4 others joined him inside a hallway.

*Dumb...they cant surround me here...*

"What do ya want? Are ya dumb or something?"

"I just want to talk to your boss...I am not here to kill anyone, but if I don't get what I want, there will be deaths..."

I had an unsettling feeling, I was even a little frightened. But it wasn't an option to show it. They needed to think that I was absolutely confident.

The goons looked at each other, not really knowing what to do.

"Hey you stupid scoundrels go back to your posts and let her trough!"

It must have been some sort of higher ranking criminal, because as soon as they heard his commands, they followed them.

"Young lady, I am terribly sorry that my men were such a trouble for you. Please follow me, the Don wants to talk to you."

I nodded, but then I remembered the half dead guy outside.

"Hey...My warg may have accidentally ripped the arm off one of your goons..."

"You there, go and bring Jason to a healer, hes outside!"

"Yes Carl!"

*So his name is Carl...seems like a nice guy, but I shouldn't forget that he is a criminal...*

We walked through the corridor. Doors on every side could be seen every few meters. I wondered what was inside of them, but it would be better to ignore them for now. Who knows what this 'Don' was doing down here.

*I just hope that their boss doesn't have any problems with demons...well if things don't work out how I want them...but I need to be careful around Carl, he has much Mana in his veins so it would be better to go with the flow if push comes to shove...*

We arrived at the end of the hallway and Carl knocked on the door that was before us once. He then opened the door. Right in the middle of this office like room sat an older woman, she had short auburn hair, she had green eyes, but around her left eye was a huge burn mark. The rest of her face was quite pretty, but it shone through that she was something around 30 to 40yo.

"My Don."

"Come on in mysterious woman...Carl would you be so kind and leave us alone."

"Understood!"

Me and Fenrir walked into the room and Carl closed the door behind me. I didn't know if she trusted her underling enough to quickly kill me and Fenir if I attacked her, or if they were already willing to help me, no matter what I wanted.

"So you wanted to talk to me? But before you tell me what you want, I would like to know if you really killed the women?"

My Eyes went wide and I was momentarily shocked.