Rain car stopped near his father company, he gets down fast walking inside and the workers bow for him when he walks by but his mind was on one thing, how can his father have a sudden meeting with Hades without telling him?
Getting inside the elevator, all the way up to the meeting room to open it and find his father sitting there alone.
"You came"
His father said to him once he entered "what is going on?"
Edgar grimaced "what I was afraid of when you first got the invitation"
"What do you mean?"
"The Hellhounds shares went down the hill, their buyers are dropping, the port got seized by the police, some of the area's around the city are being taking by 'the original owner' some of the selling points got closed and I even heard that inspection is it on it way to some of the Hellhounds companies"
Rain thought about it "the five power?" he asked and Edgar nodded
"I heard the Hellhound tried to fight the police especially for the port and the selling points but they got Hades men along with them and they took over it by force last night"
"Taking them by surprise!"
Edgar nodded again "JiYun said he will deal with them tonight but I don't think he will be able to do anything if it is an economy war"
"Hades base isn't here, even if he killed those in here they won't shut and the hit on their stacks will be huge" Rain smirk "that is hell of a good move, but why are you having a meeting with them?" he asked but got shocked hearing his father answer
Edgar take a breath "I am not the only one"
"The Hellhounds too?"
----------// in another place
Yohan came in to a restaurant with some of his men, wearing his Iatros outfit along with the mask on his lower face, he saw JiYun sitting drinking tea. He walks in front of him and sits, turning one of the empty cubs and waiting for the other to poor it him one.
----------// the red-circle parent company
Rain was standing behind his father when 'Hades' men arrived and no one then that Orthrus was leading them with his full red outfit and upper Hades mask
Orthrus stands there with "pleasure to meet you Edgar Volk"
Edgar pointed for him to sit at the far front chair of that meeting table and he sits there.
-----------// at the Hellhounds meeting
After pouring the tea, JiYun spoke "you have the audacity to play more dirty then us"
"Well, we know what the Hellhounds are afraid of the most" Yohan talked with confident
"And what is it?" JiYun asks "losing money?"
Yohan shake his head a no "losing funds"
The words made JiYun look at him in a serious way
----------// at the red-circle meeting
Orthrus spoke first "let us get straight to the point, I am here today since we…" he look at Rain "…had a little meeting two days ago, and your son promised to talk to you about us making a deal"
"He indeed did" Edgar answered "but we already had a deal with the Hellhound so I refused"
Orthrus nodded "well, the left hand of Hades is right now with the Hellhounds, I am pretty sure he can convince him to back off from your deal"
Edgar smirk "is that so?"
Rain asked "so, your master mind went to the hellhounds?"
Orthrus nodded "his face need to do it job"
Rain crossed his eyebrows hearing that "are you telling me that he went there to convince them he is Fourth?"
Orthrus nodded again "that is his first job, JiYun is the one he is meeting with, also he is the one promising to wipe us down tonight, we need to calm him down, and what can calm him more than a pretty little lie?"
Edgar interferes "I heard about the man who looks like Yojong son, but aren't you afraid he will get killed again if he believes he is alive?"
"Don't worry about that part" Orthrus smirks "Iatros knows what he is doing, we know JiYun have a soft spot, he will make a deal to keep his identity a secret too"
Rain laughs it out "so he will convince him then ask to keep it a secret?"
Orthrus mocks "he will be afraid that his little nephew will die again...no?"
-----------// at the Hellhounds meeting
"Losing money and losing funds are the same thing" JiYun states as a fact
"Not if the purpose is mythic"
"Leave us" JiYun ordered the men around and Yohan look at his men too agreeing for them to leave. When the two were alone he asked
"What do you know about the funds?"
"Everything" Yohan said as it was obvious "searching for something that can't be confirmed...is the Hellhound leader sane?"
"So you know about the crystal"
Yohan nodded "we know that Yojong holds 2 fragments and we know where the 3rd one is"
JiYun leans back thinking "are you trying to make a deal here?"
----------// at the red-circle meeting
"By being your ally is only going to bring war to us" Edgar informed
Orthrus didn't refuse the idea "I understand, destroying the Hellhound and having Hades isn't a big change for you since both will be your natural enemies" Orthrus smile "but this isn't our purpose"
"What is your purpose?"
"We want to destroy the Hellhounds then give it all to you to help us destroy the Rogues, we will go back to the south and you will have it all here for yourself"
The words Orthrus says make both Rain and his father look at each other
"I don't think this was Hades purpose in the first meeting I had with him" Rain had to confirm
Orthrus shake his head a no "well, acting friendly won't let us see your claws, he acted like that to confirm if you will take the Hellhounds side or not"
"But at the end we took it no?"
Orthrus smiled confidently "actually this whole time we were waiting you to do so, to show you that he Hellhounds can't be trusted"
-----------// at the Hellhounds meeting
Yohan smiled "You won't back off on your words but Yojong will do if I give him the information"
"You seems like you know him so well"
"Well you know...the devil knows what you desire the most"
"And what if I decide to wipe you the next week who will stop me?"
Yohan shrugs "no one" he took a sip of the tea "but be sure that we are just followers to the mastermind at the south, killing us will only make it worse for you, for now we used only two out of the five cards we have. Do you want to see the full package?"
JiYun thought about it "I see…" he kept silent for some time then spoke "the shares should come back to normal, and the port should be open"
"Deal"
"What about the area you guys took over?"
Yohan acted like he is thinking about it "well it is legally by my name"
"Your name?" JiYun was confused
Yohan nodded "I made a fake ID and I have the face, a small favor the minister did to us and all what Yohan had is mine now"
JiYun laughed at that "Yohan was indeed putting everything legally, but the name is…
"Yohan Lex" Yohan said "he put his mother last name, maybe in case the Hellhounds falls? or maybe he was already hating his father, sadly I don't know that much" he put a fake smile on his face with "but people are calling me Dr. Lex now!"
JiYun couldn't say a word about it "is Hades that smart or you are?"
"I told you we are just followers, and I trust my leader intuition"
JiYun understands "then it is a deal, get things back to it normal flow, and give me the information to check it first" JiYun took his phone "you already said that we are searching for a myth"
Yohan smiled "oh, so you don't know what happened 5 years ago?"
JiYun stopped looking at him "what do you mean?"
Yohan didn't say a word
JiYun understands that this information isn't for free too "What do you want again?"
"Call the red circle right now and pull off the deal"
-----------// at the red-circle meeting
"how?" Edgar asked
"By pulling off the deal they made with us" Rain answered him knowing what Orthrus meant
Edgar phone rang seeing the caller both did look at each other, and he answered "JiYun?" Hearing JiYun speaking in the other line Edgar nodded "I see" then he hang up looking at Orthrus "the Hellhounds pulled off the deal"
Rain looks at him little bit shocked, and Orthrus smiled enjoying the perfect timing.
"So do we have a deal?" He said not able to hide his joy
"Yes we do" Edgar declare "as long as you will give us all at the end we will help you with the Hellhounds and the Rogues"
"Nice!" Orthrus said in excitement
Rain look at his father making a decision in an angry way, like he was pissed of the Hellhounds backing off on him.
-----------// at the Hellhounds meeting
"Is that what you want?" JiYun ended the call
And Yohan nodded "you were going to do it sooner or later"
"So what did happen?"
"This owner I am going to give you said that the piece she had glows at a specific day, exactly at the 21 December around 7pm 5 years ago, she even have a footage for it"
JiYun had a back because that was the time Yohan took his last breath "that date…this means..."
"Yes, unless this information gets out to the wrong people you can easily confirm the other 5 fragments, well, now they are 4"