Evening.
Inside the warehouse.
White Mouse and A Chun warmed themselves leisurely by the fire with their men.
A man covered in ice, his skin frozen blue and purple, lay curled beside the stove, barely alive.
Kusa no longer had the arrogance he had shown when he first arrived in Chun Prefecture.
The Alliance status he had relied on was worthless in Chun Prefecture.
Now he finally understood how terrifying Chun Prefecture was.
When these enforcers said they would kill you, they showed no mercy.
"Creak."
The door opened.
A bone-chilling current of cold air rushed in.
Kusa instinctively inched closer to the stove.
"Brother Gou."
"Brother Gou."
"Brother Gou."
The underlings nearby rose to greet him.
Kusa looked over curiously. A blond man with instant-noodle curls was looking him over too.
"Still alive?"
Hi Dog walked up with a mocking laugh and grabbed him by the hair.
"What did you come to Chun Prefecture for?"
"I came... as a tourist," Kusa answered, shivering.
"Looks like he hasn't frozen enough. Throw him back outside. Let him in when he remembers why he came to Chun Prefecture," Hi Dog instructed his men indifferently. "If he freezes to death, dump him outside the city."
"Don't..."
Kusa, who had only just warmed up a little, could no longer worry about the red-hot stove. He wrapped his arms around it and pleaded, "Please, don't throw me outside."
"Ready to spill?"
Hi Dog picked up a piece of burning charcoal with his bare hand and lit the cigarette in his mouth. "Brother Nine said if you're no use, you can go be fertilizer outside the city."
Seeing several enforcers step forward and grab his legs, Kusa's fragile psychological defenses collapsed completely.
"I'll talk, I'll talk. It was... it was a mysterious man."
Terrified of being