Family Head

Koke City was unusually quiet tonight.

Oboro stood on the rooftop of the Fills Group headquarters, looking down at the pitch-black streets and buildings below as the cold wind blew against him.

The calm before the storm! The Kenny Family had made their move... otherwise, there was no way not a single person would be visible nearby.

The area had been sealed off.

One had to marvel at the influence the Mafia wielded in ordinary society... with a single word, even the city's public officials dared not disobey.

Woo woo woo...

Suddenly, Oboro's eyelids lifted. In the darkness far away, beams of headlights appeared... growing more numerous, densely packed.

They poured in from streets in every direction, surrounding Fills Building so tightly that not even water could pass through.

Then came the Mafia members stepping out of the vehicles... at a rough glance, there were well over a thousand of them. It was an enormous spectacle, truly like an army bearing down on the city!

Oboro sensed aura. There were several Nen users among the Kenny Family's forces.

The Kenny Family dealt in smuggling. Though their financial foundation could not compare to the Fills Family's, their gang members were all fierce... their brutality was quite famous even among the medium-sized forces in the country. They were a ruthless bunch, and other families did not dare provoke them lightly.

There was no warning and no preparation. After getting out of their cars, the gangsters immediately drew their guns and opened fire on the building. At the same time, fully armed men appeared on the lower floors of Fills Building... the two sides began a fierce confrontation.

For a time, artillery fire thundered and smoke filled the air.

Flashes of light kept flickering, accompanied by earth-shaking cries of battle and slaughter...

The two sides traded fire, and many vehicles were riddled with bullets and disabled within moments. The roadside green belts and vegetation were reduced to dust... the scene unfolding before Oboro's eyes was even more real and shocking than anything he had seen in movies in his previous life!

From machine gun exchanges to blade-wielding brawls... ordinary gang members used opportunities like this to rise through the ranks!

Bloodshed was the essence of Mafia survival...

And luck and strength determined whether one could make a name for oneself.

There were also people who made it through using their brains, but they were a minority after all.

Oboro took a few steps forward and stood at the edge of the rooftop. Below him was a drop of nearly a hundred meters...

"So this is... a real corner of this world..."

He watched the black dots on the ground, biting one another like ants, and muttered softly.

The deaths and deviations of life, beneath Koke City's night sky, intertwined with gunpowder into a hymn of Asura hell.

"Hahahaha... found you!"

"So... you were hiding here, you puppet of the Fills Family... the newly appointed boss."

A sinister laugh suddenly came from behind Oboro.

The full moon hung high tonight, with no stars adorning the sky. Its light stretched Oboro's shadow long across the ground, and this person had emerged from that shadow.

The moment he saw Oboro, he stuck out an extremely disgusting tongue dripping with saliva and said smugly.

This guy was unkempt and dressed in filthy clothes. He looked as though he had not bathed in months. Even from several meters away, Oboro could smell his body odor.

Oboro did not move or turn around. He merely raised his head and looked at the full moon overhead. "The moon is beautiful tonight. Don't you think?"

The Nen user froze.

He looked at the moon as well... What was beautiful about it? Wasn't this just an ordinary night view?

Oboro slowly unbuttoned his suit jacket, letting the strong wind whip it with a snapping rustle.

"You know you can't escape death, so you're preparing to jump?" Seeing Oboro with both hands in his pockets, utterly unafraid or panicked by his arrival, his eyes closed as if he were enjoying the breeze and the commotion of the city below, the Nen user said coldly, "Our boss gave orders to take you alive... even if you want to die, it won't be that easy!"

Suddenly, Oboro turned around and faced him.

Still smiling, he took a step backward, one foot suspended in midair. "Try... to stop me..."

As soon as he finished speaking, his body dropped into free fall toward the ground below.

"Damn it!"

Seeing that he was serious, the Nen user's expression changed sharply. He immediately dove after him, stretching out his arm just as Oboro was about to vanish from sight.

Just as he was about to grab him, the man suddenly realized that his vision had shifted. He heard a faint sound... He flew past Oboro, but his body remained at the edge of the rooftop, still holding the pose of leaning forward and reaching out.

He saw his own body, dragged by the man as it soared through the air and fell toward the ground.

The man held a gleaming dagger in one hand.

"I... only have a head left..."

"In that instant... he cut off my head..."

Before his eyes sank into darkness, a hazy thought surfaced in his mind.

The Kenny Family had overwhelming numbers, and their firepower was on an entirely different level from the Fills Family's members. Even with the cover and defensive advantages inside the building, they could not withstand the enemy's relentless assault.

In only a few minutes... the Kenny Family's Mafia members broke through the Fills Family's defenses and flooded into the building.

The Fills side's gang members were dead or wounded, retreating again and again, with few remaining.

At the rear of the Kenny Family's formation, Gole sat in a bulletproof sedan with his pet cat in his arms, unmoved, as though the events outside had nothing to do with him... He even had the leisure to tease the cat with a toy wand.

The car window automatically lowered, and a subordinate standing beside the door reported, "Boss, they can't hold on anymore... our people are already inside the building."

"Where's that substitute?"

Gole asked blandly.

"Fuji has already gone to find him..."

The car door opened, and Gole stepped out. The men responsible for protecting him immediately bent at the waist and called out, "Boss."

Looking at the pitch-black building ahead, completely devoid of light, Gole smiled. "Do you know how much Fills Mabor spent building this place back then? He put a great deal of thought into making the Fills Family famous underground... and now, it belongs to me!"

"Congratulations, Boss!"

Even though they were his own men, these respectful Mafia members kept a certain distance from Gole's car. Only three people could approach it.

And their clothes did not resemble Mafia attire at all. They were merely dressed in plainclothes.

"The boss guessed right. That little girl probably ran away..."

The young man on the left, dressed in a tight leather jacket and looking like a rock musician, spoke up.

"Running was the right choice. It means she isn't stupid."

Gole mocked as he walked forward, with the three Nen user bodyguards following close behind him.

They walked over blood and severed limbs all the way...

Bang! A violent explosion suddenly sounded from high above.

It made everyone's hearts tighten.

Looking in the direction of the sound, they saw that a glass wall high up on the Fills Group building had been struck and shattered... countless shards of glass sprayed out and rained down.

Along with those fragments, a figure also fell rapidly to the ground.

The three Nen users beside Gole reacted at once, shielding their boss behind them.

The slight tremor faded...

The man who had fallen from dozens of meters in the air slowly straightened up and brushed debris from his body. Beneath his feet was a corpse that appeared to have cushioned his fall.

Judging by the shredded clothing on the corpse... it was Fuji.

Their companion! Oboro's appearance left the surrounding Mafia members stunned...

Oboro's gaze shifted to Kenny Gole behind the crowd, along with the three Nen users.

"This man..."

The rock-styled young man swallowed.

Ordinary people could not sense it, but the few of them could clearly see the aura erupting from the man. It was practically... like a blazing furnace.

The sheer amount of aura was terrifying.

"Be... careful!"

From dozens of meters away, the man stared at them, his lips moving as though he were saying something...

Though they could not hear him, the three of them could still read his lips. "Take the boss and go!"

Another Nen user suddenly shouted.

"Open fire! Open fire!"

"Get him! Kill him!"

Someone was yelling.

But Oboro had already turned into a streak of light, charging into the Kenny Family's ranks through countless gun barrels.

Ahead of him... wave after wave of people fell like freshly cut chives. Some disemboweled corpses were even flung into the air.

There were also guns twisted into lumps or smashed to pieces...

The crowd's casualties mounted far too quickly! The rock-styled man grabbed his boss, whose face was blank and who had yet to react, and rushed toward the sedan. He intended to shove Gole back into the car and leave first. He had no time to explain... As a non-Nen user, Gole, an ordinary person, could not understand what they were facing.

However, before he could open the car door, the sedan's roof caved in with a boom, forming a huge crater.

Looking up, he saw a man covered in blood crouching on top. His two crimson arms hung naturally at his sides as he looked down at him and the boss. "Leaving already? Aren't you going to say goodbye...?"

"..."

In an instant, the rock-styled man felt as though he had fallen into an ice cellar.

His two companions... should have been blocking the enemy up ahead...

There was no way the other side... could have broken through so quickly...

The rock-styled man stiffly turned his neck to look aside, and the sight that entered his eyes made him dizzy.

Because... his two colleagues were already lying in pools of blood, dismembered and dead.

"It's over!"

An hour later.

After receiving the news, the butler David led Miss Lily back from the "safe house" to the group headquarters under the escort of their men.

It had ended too quickly... They had thought this battle would last all night.

After getting out of the car, David saw Oboro.

The man stood in the middle of a field of corpses and blood... Strangely, the surviving Mafia members of the Fills Family, who had witnessed the battle and survived by sheer luck, all looked terrified and did not dare approach Oboro, as though this new family head were some ferocious beast.

A full moon hung above Oboro's head, silver light descending through the dim night... Combined with his relaxed expression and blood-soaked body, it gave David a feeling that was both harmonious and twisted.

That scene... was deeply engraved in David's mind.

"David."

Lily, whose hand David was holding, noticed that the butler had drifted off and called to him softly.

"Ah..."

David came back to his senses, took one more deep look at Oboro, then looked at Lily. "Miss... don't worry. It's all over."

"Our family head... is safe and sound."