Chapter 373 - Can You Afford It?

Ten minutes after Jong Woo had entered the establishment.

The shoji door slid to the side, and another man around mid to late twenties entered while wearing a black trench coat.

And this person is obviously Michael.

"Tsk! Tsk! It's a rare occurrence to meet such a depressing young man like him"

Michael took off his trench coat and placed it at the coat rack by the door as he chuckled when he saw a young man lying with his head down on the bar counter while playing with a glass of alcohol in his hands.

"Good evening sir, what can I help you with tonight?"

The beautiful bartender smiled the moment Michael walked past the door, her eyes clear as water, like every customer that walked past through that door are all equals in her eyes.

"All stars are born in the dark"

Not wanting to waste anymore of his time, Michael quickly uttered those words, and then the atmosphere inside the establishment suddenly became tense as the two sides got into a staring contest.

The bartender stared straight into Michael's eyes, while the latter just smiled at her with a carefree look on his face.

Even Jong Woo, who is already quite drunk, couldn't help but shiver and quickly sat up and looked around him with a confused look on his face.

"Owner, d-did...you lower the temperature of the...air conditioner? Because...it suddenly got cold!"

"And all darkness dies in the light"

"W..what?"

Jong Woo with a drunk face looked at her with a confused look on his face as he couldn't understand what's the relation between the air conditioning and what she said.

"Take a seat, and who are you? I've never seen you in these parts of the city before"

The woman just ignored the drunk Jong Woo and gestured for Michael to take a seat as she started brewing a drink for him.

Michael was relieved that the woman is capable of speaking English, and at the same time, he was laughing inside as the woman clearly already knows him but she's still feigning ignorance.

So he just took a seat as he didn't want to even know her reasons and just answered, "Shadow, it's my first time visiting your homeland. You should already know why I'm here"

"Indeed, I received a notice from HQ a couple of days ago, and I really didn't expect you to be this really young Mr. Shadow" answered the woman as she handed Michael his drink, a Negroni.

Michael smiled and said, "Thanks" and he took a sip of the drink.

"I-"

"I know, I've already prepared all the information you need in this"

He was about to say something when the woman immediately cut him off and picked up a large brown envelope under the bar counter and handed it to Michael before he could even say anything.

"Interesting, I've never thought you'd be this welcoming to an outsider such as myself"

Michael grinned, as he was expecting a reception almost similar to when he went to Pearl Nation.

"Dear customer, please don't compare us to those buffoons out there"

The woman smiled at what Michael said, but behind that beautiful smile of hers was filled with cold bloodedness and danger!

Jong Woo who was two seats away from Michael and had pretended to be dead drunk and lying his head on the bar counter was secretly eavesdropping on their conversation, couldn't help but feel cold.

Because the more he listened to it, the more realized that he had actually placed himself in danger!

He wasn't dumb. Sure, he's young, but through the couple of years that he had experienced and witnessed how black hearted the world is through his black hearted company.

He had slowly learned to be quite perceptive about things.

At first, he was just calmly drinking his last glass of alcohol, but the more he listened to their conversation.

He had slowly realized the deeper meanings behind their words.

Those two...are hired killers, especially the man who introduced himself as Shadow!

"Well then Fox, may the light always shine upon you"

Michael placed the documents back inside the envelope as he prepared to leave.

"Likewise"

Michael then stood up from his seat, walked over to the coat rack and wore his coat and left the establishment while Fox watched him leave through the door.

The tense expression on her face quickly eased up the moment he left.

Then her attention turned towards the pretending Jong Woo and she couldn't help but let out a cold smile and said, "So dear customer, did you have fun listening?"

At first, both she and Michael didn't really mind about this person, but they quickly both noticed that this young man was just pretending to be asleep and was eavesdropping on their conversation from how his body was so stiff, which quickly gave him away.

After all, no one sleeps like that unless they are already a cold corpse.

It also surprised them because both of them had already started conversing in Slavic to avoid people eavesdropping on them, but they weren't expecting that this young man could actually understand them as it's not a language that any Choson would choose to learn!

"I want to hire your services to kill someone" said Jong Woo as he calmly sat up and directly looked her in the eyes.

"Oh my, I didn't expect that i'd meet a customer tonight"

The beautiful smile on Fox's face slowly widened and turned into a demon-like smile, which sent a shiver down Jong Woo's spine as he didn't expect that a beautiful woman such as hers could have a smile like that.

Young as he is, he was slowly getting scared, but he quickly calmed himself as he knew that tonight would probably be the turning point of his life if he does this well.

"I want...you to kill Lee Chang Yoo"

When she heard the name of the target, she was actually surprised as she wasn't expecting to hear that name, then she started laughing.

"How rude of me to laugh, but the person you want dead...he's quite a big fish with serious backing of one of the largest mafia families in the country. Of course, we don't mind erasing him in this world, but...can you afford it, dear customer?"

When he heard her, Jong Woo couldn't help but gulp down as he felt fear and excitement at the same time.

But then he despaired, because he knows he's broke as f*ck right now as he can't even afford to rent an apartment of his own!

Fox just calmly observed the young man before him, and seeing the various expressions on his face, she knew that the young man had fallen into a dilemma.

'Want to kill someone? Then you should ask yourself first if you can afford it'

Actually, Fox had long ago recognized this young man the moment he walked in.

Park Jong Woo, a member of the popular duo called Sonic, and as the head of this branch.

Of course she knows the events that's happening in the dark that the public doesn't even have an inkling of.

A few seconds later, an idea suddenly struck him as his eyes quickly lit up.

Jong Woo looked at Fox and said, "I don't have a lot of money. I'm literally broke, but I can pay you...with my talent"

The cold look on Fox's face quickly melted and was replaced by a dumbfounded look on her face when she heard what he said, and couldn't help but let out a voice similar to an annoyed woman.

"What~?"