The Goddess Made A Mistake Again-Chapter 251 - - The Gang

Through my eyes, I saw no poison on it so I took it. The boy immediately ran after that.

This boy was what you would call a messenger. They're job was to give messages to someone and leave. No small talk or anything.

Opening the paper, I read it. My brows frowning at the words on it.

"The Master's hurt. Meeting to start this midnight."

…

Midnight

I was inside a carriage that was going through the slum parts of the city. The simple carriage I was in, easily went through the empty streets before coming in front of a motel.

The motel looked sturdier than the surrounding buildings. There weren't any lamps lit on around as well.

I knocked on the door, a distinct few times before it opened. There were only two guards standing behind it. They didn't say anything to me and I quietly went inside.

I walk through the familiar narrow space before finding a basement and going inside. Unlike above where there were only 5 five people inside the whole motel, the basement had 12.

There was a bed at the center with medical equipment's lying around and a tube attached to the patient and some liquids. A woman was taking care of the person on the bed while all others stood around the person.

Hearing me approach, all of them looked at me. Now among the 10 standing, six smiled at my entrance while four of them snickered at me, but all of them did so quietly.

I came towards the bed and spoke, "How's the situation?"

One of the snickered person spoke first, "Can't you see for yourself? The master's in grave pain, shouldn't it be obvious!"

This was Philip Freer, a Sub-leader of the Snake Tail's gang.

"What do you think, Philip? If he cared about the master, then he would have already been here, not making us and the master wait like this?" Aslac Gonson said, another Sub-leader of the gang.

"Stop bickering like children. Do you want to make the master even more ill?" Gerard Sackville, another Sub-leader said. "It doesn't matter now; what matters is what we do from now on."

"Yes Yes, let's hear what the master has to say." The final snicker was called Elric Wood.

As you could see, all these guys had one thing in common. They were all members of the Snake Tail's gang and all these standing were the Sub-leaders of the Snake Tail's gang.

This oldie who's being carefully rubbed by the female nurse was none other than Kay Gon, The Leader of the Snake Tail's… well, not for long it seems.

Oh! You guys thought I was the leader huh!

Well, not really no. I'm kinda like the second in command here.

The reason why most outside thinks I'm the leader is because I'm way too active and making too many moves and securing places.

These four Sub-leaders hated me for the above. Especially when I brought in my stuff and became another Sub-leader of the gang, I made sure to give benefits to only those that I made contact before and to the leader only.

Which meant, this four snakes didn't get to eat my piece of pie.

Why the fuck would I give it to those, that won't even help me anyway.

Kay Gon also couldn't listen to the bickering anymore and said, "Stop shouting! Show some respect to me, I'm still not dead for you guys to bicker over who would have the most spoils."

Gerard, the slyest, spoke like honey, "We could never do that boss. We're your loyal servants. Even if you were to die, we would only continue on as you have told us to, nothing more."

At that, the people on my side laughed out a bit.

Seeing that Gerard snapped at them, "What! Do you think I am lyin-"

"Slap!"

Gerard got a slap from the lying patient, "I just told you to stay quiet, didn't you hear me?"

"I- I'm sorry, boss. I won't do it again." Gerard said, stepping back.

Kay Gon gestured the nurse, "Go, I need to talk with these greedy bastards."

"As you say, my lord." The nurse respectfully left.

Finally, when the nurse was gone, Kay Gon gestured for us to take seats.

"Sit down, we have matters to talk about."

We all took seat and before anyone could say anything, I spoke first, "How did you get hurt?"

"Silence! Let the boss speak firs-" Kay Gon stopped Eliric from talking as he answered me.

"I was simply caught in the bombing."

Had to say, I was shocked by that.

"Before you ask anything else regarding my health, let me say. I'm going to be okay… or I'm going to still leave for a few more years according to the doctors." The guy said while smiling slightly.

Yeah, the guy liked me.

Why wouldn't he when I'm the one who brings in the most money. Kay Gon liking me is the second reason why those four hate me so much.

Because it meant, I was in the hierarchy and had more chances of becoming the leader.

"That's very good to hear."

Kay Gon nodded before becoming serious, "Now for the real talk."

"What the hell happened with the bombing six days ago? Weren't we supposed to be prepared for it?" Kay Gon said a bit angrily. "I thought the attack was supposed to happen away from our territory, not at it."

"I'm sorry boss. But it seemed the intel was wrong." Fredrick Barlow said.

"Or they deliberately wanted the intel to be that way and trick us, those Sekai Bastards!" Benedict angrily said.

Yeah, the bomb attack was done by the Sekai Kingdom. It wasn't done by the Snake Tails or any gangs actually, which I already knew. But this was a good thing to use against Lazarus.

The only thing I lost were hundreds of thousands of pound worth of Sigmat Crystals… no, doesn't hurt at all.

"No, the intel was correct… until the final day." Maverick said, "I found out from my source that Sekai found out about the intel and changed it on the final day."

"They deliberately wanted to harm us."

"So…" Kay Gon muttered, "Does this mean war is closer than we thought?"