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"Why thank you!"

"But why did you help me?"

"Why? You got the money I wanted, so I did what I needed to get it!"

-While jumping from roof to roof, Phantom slowed down so that Rin coud keep up with him, while still being in front! They managed to escape the crowd of Magicians and the Mafia becouse of Phantoms fast, on the spot thinking. When he threw the card that released the smoke by impact and created the smokescreen, he swooped Rin from there and took him to the roofs from where they continued to run!

"...Even tho I was full of my self... I ended up losing..."

"...Losing or winning is it really that important, as long as you get what you wanted in the end, then it doesn"t matter!"

"Of course it matters! If you lose then how are you suppose to achieve your goal?"

"Just like you did, there isn"t just one path that leads you towards that goal, you sometimes need to lose to see the other paths!"

Other paths, like there isn"t just one way to do a certain thing, there are more of them, and the way you find them is through losing and being forced to find another way!

"I think I get what you"re trying to say...!"

"Good! Stop at that building there, well do our exchange in there!"

-Looking in front of him, towards the building Phantom was pointing towards, and changed the direction he was running in, towards the building. It was a small, rundown hotel, with broken windows, doors which looked like someone broke in to, and a roof full of holes. It looking like it would fall apart if you even touched it!

"Is this place even safe to be around?"

"It"s not, that"s why no one will be looking for us around here!"

-They landed on the roof of the building, which was surrounded by numerous amounts of holes. Phantom landed first and jumped through one that was double his side, after which Rin landed and unlike Him, Rin lost balance for a moment there but regained it soon enough.

-He looked around to find the hole in which Phantom jumped through and followed him for the rest of the way in the house. They landed on the second floor on which they almost fell through, but they moved just fast enough to not fall and made their way to the staircase which led toward the third floor!

-While running they made sure to avoid all the broken stairs and jump over them, before they reached the final floor and found themselves in front of what seemed to be the living room!

-The wall made out if rundown wood and planks, and the only source of light being the one that came from the lamps outside on the streets, the entire house had this spooky feeling to it. Like they found themselves in a horror movie.

"Let"s go this way!"

-Phantom pointed towards the living room and went inside it. He came in front of the window, from which light from the outside brightened the room and closed the curtains on it, darkening the entire room a lot more!

"Just in case!"

-Rin closed his eyes for a few seconds and waited until they got used to the dark, so he coud see a little better. When he opened them, he made his way towards Phantom, who was standing next to the window, holding a deck of cards and shuffling through them.

"Here they are!"

-Said phantom while taking ten cards from the deck and putting them on the side of the window, after which he put away the rest of the cards he had back into his pocket!

"What are those cards anyway? I"ve seen you use them, but I don"t get how they work!"

"It"s not such a big secret, It"s my ability "Card dealer"! Whatever I touch I can change its shape into that of a playing card!"

-He took the cards that he put in front of the window and leaned on the wall next to it.

He took one of the ten cards and released it from his ability, after which the card changed shape from that of a cart into that of a small robotic Eyeball!

"That"s a pretty convenient ability to have!"-Said Rin, while walking towards him!

"Isn"t it, especially for my line of work!"

"So... that is the eye!"

"You don"t like it?"

"Quite opposite, It"s so cool!"

-The eye he held in his hand was the size of a normal eyeball, it was a grey color with some purple energy looking lines found their way on it as well. It looked very futuristic, to the point that you coud tell it was an eyeball, but you would a.s.sume it belonged to a cyborg or a robot, not a human.

"The look isn"t just for show, it has some special features installed as well!"

"Really? Do tell!"

"For starters, it has Night vision, then it has a feature which allows you to look farr into the distance, as well as self-destruction if you"ll ever need it!"

"So how do I insert it, operation or something?"

"Not needed!"

-Phantom used his arm and put it on Rin"s face, took the Eyepatch off and opened the eyesocket from his missing right eye. All the while Rin just stood there, unable to move becouse of fear, he decided whatever he was going to do isn"t going to kill him, at least he hoped!

"This may sting a little!"

-He pushed the prosthetic eye into his Eyesocket and as soon as he finished let go of him.

"Ah! it hurts less then I expected... What is this!"

-Opening his right eye for the first time in weeks, he had a full view of the room they were inside. He put his hand on his face and started touching the eye, all the while still not believing he coud see on both eyes again!

I seriously thought that I wouldn"t open this eye ever again, that I wouldn"t be able to see as I did before! I"m grateful!

"You know, With this, I fell even less of a human, but I"m still grateful. Thank you!"

-Becouse of all he"s done in the past as well as in the tournament, the way he acted and the lives he took. It"s not something a human would act like, that"s why he considered himself a monster or at least something similar to one.

But even monsters have people they care about, so I"m ok with being one!

"...Let"s move on! Next, we have the pain killers and the heling drugs you wanted!"

-Next, he took Three cards in both of his hands and Released his ability on them as well. The cards in his left hand turned into injections with "Ww42x" written on it, and the ones in the right arm turned into slightly bigger ones, with "Ww96z" Written on them!"

-The Injections in his left hand looked very familiar to Rin, and after he gave it a little thought he remembered the writing on them, it was the same drug that the doctor used in the Colosseum infirmary!

"The Ww42x is the healing drugs right, they used them in the infirmary!"

"That"s right, It stands for "Witch work number 42 X" It"s a state of the art drug that fixes all the oddities on your body, but as a side-effect takes most of your body"s energy after."

"And these are the "Ww96z" Energy givers, but be extra careful with this one, they give your body a temporary boost but as a side effect stops your body"s metabolism for a few days! any questions?"

"Witch work? What"s that!"

"It"s the name of my biggest suppliers as well as one head of the Underworld, The Witches!"

"Witches, huh!"

"Here"s a piece of advice, Don"t get involved with them!"
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"Not like I was planning on, but thank you none the less!"

-He gave the Drugs to Rin who put them in his back pockets. He then took the last three carts and tried to release them as well but Rin stopped him before he had a chance to do it!

"Wait, those are the bombs, right?"

"yes!"

"Give them to me in the card formes, I just need their energy!"

"...If you say so."

-Phantom handed the cards to Rin and stepped a few steps back, not knowing what he might pull he felt safer having some distance between them.

-Rin took the cards and took the energy from them after a few seconds of holding them. He then gave the cards back to Phantom and told him to do whatever he wanted with them.

"Well, now to the final thing you wanted, the information on the artifacts that can resurrect the dead!"

"YES, what have you found?"

"...I"ll tell you straight, there aren"t any!"

"What..."

"Let me finish! ...There aren"t any from the one hundred seventy-nine artifacts here on earth, but they are being discovered every day so tomorrow someone might just find it! So there is still some hope."

"...Yeah..."

-That energy and spirit from before were all gone now, he was back to zero with the same information that August gave him. But eves so he wasn"t about to just give up, this just means he has to find another path to get to his goal!

"Hahaha just perfect, I guess I"m going to take your advice and find another path to get to my goal!"

"good for you... Well, let"s do my payment now!"

"So how much?"

"one million!"

"DON"T f.u.c.k WITH ME!"

"What?"

"What do you mean, one million! you mean to tell me that a nanotechnological eye, six drugs to which even the infirmary in the colosseum has exes to and three nukes are worth ONE b.l.o.o.d.y MILLION?"

"Don"t forget the Information!"

"WHAT INFORMATION? you told me literally everything I already knew!"

"FINE, FINE, seven hundred thousand!"

"...Oh, f.u.c.k off!"

"Look, man, I need to survive somehow, don"t I?

"This is not called surviving but Ripping someone off!"

"Tsk, fine five hundred thousand!"

"Did you just "Tsk" me?"

"I"m not going lower than that!"

"Fine, even if it"s too much. Here!"

-He took the briefcase and gave half of the money it contained to Phantom, which he turned into a card and put it into a deck of card that he pulled out from his pocket!

"I Gues..."

"Shh, be quiet for a moment!"-Said Rin!

"What is it?"

-Rin heard something that seemed like a little girl screaming and crying. he slowly went towards the window and opened the curtain a little, just enough that he coud peek out from it. What he saw was something truly disturbing.

"I"m sorry master! I truly am but please spare me!"

-A little girl, the age of nine, was walking on all fours and covered with nothing but a rag, her body covered in bruises and injuries. around her neck a chain which leed to the person she called "Master". A tall man with a serious look in his eyes and an even more p.i.s.sed off expression on his face!

-As she continued to cry and beg, her Master pulled her on the ground while walking in front of her.

Unable to take in that sight he closed the curtain and walked away from the window.

"What is it?"

-Not stopping, he made his way towards the stairs they used to get in the house and walked down all the way towards the first floor before he finally reached the entrance doors. With no hesitation, he opened them and walked towards the man who was dragging the girl!

"Excuse me!"

-When he came in front of the man, only then did he notice. The girl that was been chained behind him wasn"t just some random slave, it was someone he knew. A little girl who fought in the second round of the tournament, it was the gladiator going by the name White knife!

"You are..."

"What do you want!"

"Ah, sorry! I was just wondering if that was your slave?"

"Yes, It is and a useless one, unfortunately, unlike her sisters!"

"Why, so?"

"Listen, I don"t know who you are or what you want, but I have things I need to get done and time is money!"

"Things like torching that little girl!"

-Suddenly the tension started rising between them, becouse of Rin"s comment on how the situation looked.

"And what if I am, it has nothing to do with you!"

"Well you see I like having money, which means I like when people save money!"

"What are you going on about!"

"I"m trying to say that, if she"s so useless to you, why would you waste money on her. She looks very pretty, I coud use someone like her to play with!"

"So what, you want me to give her to you, go f.u.c.k your self!"

"Of course not, I"m saying im willing to buy her off of you!"

"Buy, you say, how much?"

"I would say some forty thousand!"

"Are you crazy, I would get more selling her body to some old geezers!"

"Fine then, so how much do you want?"

"You"re asking me, are you that desperate for her body, you f.u.c.king pedophile!

"..."

"Fine then, three hundred thousand!"

"Three hundred thousand... fine!"

"very well!"

-Rin took the money out from the briefcase and gave it to the man. And in exchange, he gave Rin the chain he used to drag white knife with! Before leaving the man looked at Rin one last time before he left, but the thing he saw was a smile that only someone completely sick had!

"Hahahah well enjoy your self tonight!"

"Oh, I sure will!"

"Ah! please, sir, don"t hurt me!"

-Her entire body shaking, as she was holding on to the rag with which she tried to cover herself up. Not knowing how her new master would treat her she begged Rin not to hurt her!

"Huh, that went better than expected!"

-Letting go of that face he had, Rin took some of the money that he still had in the briefcase and put it on the ground in front of White knife!"

"I thought you would at least remember my face, but whatever. Listen I didn"t buy you becouse I wanted you, The fact that children like you exist disgusts me, so take the money and go live a life you want!"

"B-but, everything you said, this must be a trap!"

"Ah! Shut up please, I"m not a pedophile, I like my girls older, OLDER, not younger you hear me! so take the G.o.d d.a.m.n money and run!"

-Wanting to dig up a hole and barry himself in it becouse of all the things he said, Rin was crying and trying to make himself feel better. While on the other hand, tears stopped flowing from White knives face As she grabbed the money and started running towards the elevators.

"Good, ...What is she?"

-While running she stopped all of a sudden turned around asking for the name of her savior!

"I"m..."

-Gripping the bandages around his torso tightly, his heart started pounding faster and faster as he tried to say his name!

"Rin... Rin Felicia..."

-For some reason, those two words were the hardest words he ever needed to say!

What is this feeling in my heart, Why did I hesitate just now?

-With a smile on her face and eyes that couldn"t stop letting out tears, she waved at him one last time before turning around and running towards the exit elevators!

"Well, that was unexpected of you!" -said phantom!

"What is so unexpected, that girl was hurt and suffering... no one deserves to live like that... no one!"

"I guess not, well my job here is done, so I"m leaving!"

I guess I misjudged him, there might still be some humanity left inside him!

"How can I get in contact with you if I need something?"

"You usually don"t, but I like the "Pharaon"s bar" It"s a nice little place!"

"I guess I"ll find out for myself soon enough!"

-Taking his leave, Phantom threw a card towards the edge of one of the buildings and the card turned into a rope while it was flying to it, he grabbed hold of the rope"s edge and pulled himself up towards the rooftop!

-Rin stood up from the position he was in, and took one last look around the Underworld in which he was in, before turning and making his way toward the exit elevators!

-Entering the Elevator he made his way back towards the surface and once he finally arrived he found himself behind a little store opposite to the Wong lee restaurant. But he wasn"t alone, when he left the elevator and went out of the ally he was in, he saw there was another person standing there, and she wasn"t happy. Her expression was that of a devil, a true monster, It was Serah!"