Antic Shop in china town
"So you said that the operative of that tiger den gang is in Chinatown..?"
Grav nodded from what inari said.
" But isn't it weird..?" Ed asked.
"No actually it is actually more reasonable.because you can't directly go there and start search around one specific group of people it rises suspicion." lan explained to ed in very simple words.
"So we can't directly go there.." ed mumble.
"Not necessarily.."inari hear what ed mubble.
Ed looked at inari in question,"how..?"
"well it is far easier than it seems.." inari then moved to grav "well i think you may have some lead."
Grav nodded " well i indeed have that, but it is not regarding to the operative it is More of the place where the operative meet the supplier and they where two places one this and other is also a warehouse and it is More bad condition compare to this one, that why I didn't give it thought and come here."
Inari think about it for a while" well you people will go to the warehouse this man is mentioning and I will go to China Town."
But yoshimura step in " no..at least take one of here.and i know you are not going to take me so take anyone of three of them."
"I am not coming, i want to clarify that" jihgen gain consisusnse.
"Well that leaves only two people ed and lan." Yoshimura mumbled.
Without any further thoughts inari answered directly on the face "lan you are coming with me ed and jihgen Will go to that warehouse and lan will go with me."
And everyone agrees .
After this inari go out and after that ," and also we are going after sun rise in morning so you can rest for now , although it is not that much of time."
And he go out.
Out side was cold.
The cold breezes in air was brushing against his face.
He turned and walked to realing around the warehouse.
He go and stand there looking at Dark Sea.
He takes out the pendent form his pocket.
"Well, I miss you.."
And then a image resurfaced in inari mind ,the image of he and his family having a dinner.
Every one was happy and smiling enjoying food.
But then Black cloud emerged and then the image of his happy got disappeared.
Those images got changed by a woman in bed counting her last breath.
A father showing fake smile of hope.
And..
A monster made out of the blood…
Inari instantly stepped back hold his Head "no..not those black cloud again.." he fell on his knees.
He then look at pendent again.
Telling himself to clam down.
"Don't remember that..!"
He then get clam after after some struggle.
He takes breath in out.
And sat on ground.
On other side inside warehouse.
Ed was seating and he remembered something which he wasn't able to asked.
That when they arrived at Yokohama ed noticed something weird on the inari hand.
He wanted to ask about it but forgot on top of that inari isn't a type of person who answer question as fast as you ask.
So who can he ask?
He instantly dropped the name of jihgen and lan since they was mostly sleeping.
So only person who is left is..
Yoshimura..
So ed look at yoshimura.
And yoshimura notice that, "now what do you want to ask.?"
Ed hesitant little since he is asking one after another but then asked at the end "when we came to Yokohama I saw some thing was different about inari hand."
Yoshimura look at ed for a while and says "well i didn't think that you notice that."
Ed was little lost by yoshimura words so he asked for more proper explanation.
Yoshimura agreed and start to explain, "see when all of you and your friends where in sleep our boat got stuck in middle of a storm."
But then ed suddenly raise his hand "wait isn't we was under your magic mist..?"
"Well I can't use it forever obviously. " Yoshimura said "well whatever, let's continue in that Storm One the mortar of the boat got broken. We was almost stuck.
And also I was using the little magic I had to keep us all dry.
At that time I had a spare motor but inari said
We don't have time to change the motor,i will do something
And then he go to the back.
He planned to use his blood magic to provide power.
But unlike me he doesn't have magic which go like that he have to use blood manipulation techquion. Since oni blood magic is still a very vague concept they are still two ways of using it first is manipulation and second is your own special magic.
Since he was using manipulation to power the boat it requires a huge amount of blood.that Why he cut his hand."
That leaves ed little petrified " wait you said he cut his own hand.?"
Yoshimura nodded to that.
"Well no wonder his hand was looking different.
His hand was regenerated." Ed actually knows how it feels or look when your hand regenerate since his demon blood give him that ability.
After that they all where just seating until the morning.
Inari was all night out he didn't come in the Wearhouse.
Until the very morning.
"Well we are going to different ways today but there's a little change in plan."
"What is that..?" lan asked.
"Me and you are going to China Town and ed and jihgen are going with that detective.and The Change is that yoshimura will stay here." Inari answered.
"But why..?" Es said.
"Well yoshimura job in mission is transport us to one to another place so he doesn't have any right to interfere or come in battle or investigation." Inari calmly explain " and car is already out there,it will send you to the location this man will tell.i am going on feet."
and then all of them get out except for yoshimura who stayed in Wearhouse.
Ed , jihgen and grav go in a car and inari and lan moved separately to the Chinatown.
lan was little down because he have to walk but he doesn't have any option.
And all of them separated.
At very distance a man with with clothes even his Great coat was white was watching ed and other from far away. Looking at there movement
"well i guess the time is coming..?" That man in white Great coat Muttered but then he siad "well it will still early for my appearance i should wait till the villan apprence."
And on the great coat there was little werid symbol.
A symbol showing a peach.
That man moved back with smile on his face.
On other side inari and lan walked through the city cross multiple road and corner to finally reached to the Chinatown.
after reaching Chinatown the first thing They notice was a lot tourist and second was there was some kind of festival going on.
"There are lots of civilians around here.." inari thought.
lan and inari Walk deeper in Chinatown.
Looking around lan asked " well how we will find the operative…?"
Inari doesn't answer yet first as he purposefully ignore him.
But then he spoke.
"Well,it is much easier to find or to interpret where that operative will be."
lan don't get what he said.
" Well to put in simple words the shady business like this always hides under the curtin such as gym, medical store, liabary and in this case it should be that antic shop."
And lan Head moved to that store
It Said cho antic store
It was really straight forward and very normal way to Name a antic shop.
One more thing to notice was that it had two floor. To make it more suspicious it was on little corner of main Street.
"No antic shop will do such things." Inari said "i am going in so you may Wait here." Inari instructed to lan.
lan also nodded in the answer and inari gose in.
His suspicious raised More as he stepped in.
The Store wasn't well condition it was clean enough to just show everything is fine.
But inari was getting very different feelings.
The store had second floor which inari and lan saw from outside.
Inari go there and walked through the stairs to go to upper floor.
The condition wasn't different from ground floor, it was just More clean to walk around.
There was a window from which light was coming in the dark room.
Inari take a step but then a voice come "erm..who are you..?"
Inari look back it was old dwarf lady with White hair.
"Oh..I am come here because I was investigating something around." inari make excuses. " I am very sorry for coming like this without any notice."
That old lady laugh "oh.. don't do that it happens a lot i always forget to put a sign down there. But I whould like to help if you need."
"Well it will be some simple questions so do you really want to answer them..?" Inari asked.
That old lady smiles.
Inari asks his first qustion "Well so first question do you know anything about a gang called tiger den gang..?"
That lady give a thought and answerd "no I don't remember hearing about a such gang."
Then inari asked his second question "do you heard someone talking about some kind of suspicious thing..?"
That lady said no this time too.
"Well i guess I waste your time but thank you for your cooperation." And inari bow in reacpt.
"Oh..dear there is no need of that." Old lady look at inari.
Inari start to leave but then he stop a little and asked something very different "erm…is that pendent or locket Have Yang part on it..? Yin and yang."
That lady look at inari and chuckled "oh.. you notice that well Yes."
Inari start go muttering "how weird…our case have something Linked to a family named yang.."
As Old lady heard that she stopped inari,"wait what was you muttering There..?"
Inari come up a little near to the window,"well i Said that this case is Linked to a family named yang.."
That old lady start to come closer to inari "oh..I know about that family."
And then she jumped and kicked inari out of the window.
Inari go and Hits to a wall of building.
lan saw that and come running "what happened..!"
Inari steadily
stand up and looking up at the old lady he asked to lan " do you know how to make barrier..?"
"No" lan answered.
"So again I have to do all by myself…" inari look up at old woman .
" so you are the operative of the tiger den gang..?"
Ch 64 end