A Priest in Gotham: Starting Out by Taking In a Little Boy
Chapter 69

Rule-of-Law Society Member

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"No!" Johnny Vitti was startled, but at that moment, the curtains in Gordon's house suddenly closed, blocking the faint light from the streetlamps and signboards outside, and the room plunged into near-complete darkness.

"It's true that the Kamaitachi is almost invincible in the dark..." Roland quietly entered the crowd, his domain fully open, and the Kamaitachi danced wildly in the air, capturing every sound to feed back to him.

Although Bajiquan was characterized by rigid, fierce power, it often required measuring inches with the body to decide the outcome, so its precision could not possibly be lacking, and its training methods also included the principles of inch-intercept, inch-seize, and inch-spit.

Pterion, back of the head, heart, liver, pubic bone, groin, vagus nerve... Every strike from Roland accurately hit a person's vital points, instantly robbing them of their ability to resist and giving the mobsters not a single chance to fire a gun.

"Ugh..." Johnny Vitti writhed on the ground while clutching his crotch. He hadn't passed out, but this wasn't a good thing, and he wished he would just faint right now.

Roland turned on the light and grabbed Johnny Vitti by the collar. "Unlawfully breaking into someone else's residence without permission while carrying a gun—this can already be considered illegal trespassing and armed threat. I could slaughter the lot of you and it would be completely legal."

"No, you knocked us out the moment we walked in. How do you plan to convince a jury that you had any need to use lethal force in self-defense?" Johnny Vitti broke out in cold sweat, but his mind remained clear.

"Tsk..." Roland paused. "Judging by your look, I thought you were a real street guy, but I never expected you to be a rule-of-law society member. Even in a situation like

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