A deal this profitable should not have driven the Kiryu Group to turn against them.
Someone must have been deliberately stirring up trouble.
Clementi felt he should call the Kiryu Group first.
He would ask what was going on.
He was a businessman.
He could not ruin a deal just because a few of his men had died.
Just as Clementi was about to call the Tiger Claws Gang to ask what was going on,
the other side called him first.
"Clementi? Have you lost your mind? Why did you send your people to Japantown to kill ours?" The Kiryu Group's deputy procurement chief sounded extremely agitated.
Clementi was completely stunned.
"Wait, what did you say? Our people killed yours? In Japantown, no less? Weren't your people the ones who went on a killing spree at my turf?"
"Bullshit! My men were going to your territory to buy merchandise, but they were killed by your people before they even left Japantown! Don't even think about denying it. There were plenty of bystanders who saw everything!"
Clementi suddenly felt as if he had fallen into a whirlpool of conspiracy.
Only then did he understand.
It finally dawned on him.
"Wait a moment, wait, wait... You said a lot of people saw it? About what time was it?"
"After two in the afternoon. Why?"
"My people were killed at noon by someone driving a muscle car and dressed just like members of the Tiger Claws Gang."
"You—"
The deputy procurement chief forcibly swallowed the word "bullshit."
He was no fool.
If he had initially called in a fit of rage because the Clementi Family had broken their word...
then he now suddenly realized that things might not be so simple.
The deputy procurement chief had originally thought that their cooperation with the