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Chianti pressed the earpiece with a look of surprise and asked.
"Alright, Chianti, come back right now, let's get ready to leave."
Gin didn't waste any words and immediately issued new instructions, ending the communication.
Sano took off his headphones and glanced at the elevator that had just descended to the seventeenth floor.
Behind Sano, the leader of the Kagee gang, a white-haired old man who was less than 1.7 meters tall, took out his ringing cell phone and answered it.
"What?! You still haven't found her?! Are you all useless?! I gave you three days to find her and you still can't find her?! If you still can't find her today, you're all to commit seppuku!!"
Seemingly having just learned about the progress in the search for the audacious "Faceless Man," the old man angrily yelled into his phone before hanging up, still cursing under his breath.
Sano couldn't help but chuckle, then looked up at the elevator that had reached the fifteenth floor and reached out to take off the hood of his sweatshirt.
The leader of the Kagee Gang glanced at the white hair on the back of Sano's head and raised an eyebrow, then shook his head self-deprecatingly the next second.
What a coincidence that the person I'm looking for just happens to be at the hotel I'm staying at. I guess I'm just so sensitive because I'm angry.
However, just as the Shadow River Gang leader had this thought, the person in front of him suddenly turned around.
Sano tapped the brim of his hat with his finger to reveal his innocent, kind, and harmless smiling face.
"Hello, nice to meet you. I am... No-Face. I heard you were looking for me."
The atmosphere inside the elevator froze for a moment. The president of the Shadow River Gang's pupils contracted sharply, his scalp tingling, and he felt a surge of anger.
Damn it, they've come looking for trouble!
Even without the Shadow River Gang leader's order, the fat man beside him had already drawn his gun.
Unfortunately, Sano was faster than his opponent.
Even before Sano greeted him, he had already tossed a pebble to the fat man.
By the time the fat man pulled out his gun, the pebble had already hit him in the face.
"boom!!"
The explosion, even more violent than a gunshot, immediately caused the elevator to shake violently.
The simultaneous appearance of fire and blood caused the elevator ceiling lights to flicker.
The leader of the Kagee gang was so frightened that he sat down on the ground with a thud, looking at Sano with a face full of terror.
This madman actually dared to use a bomb in an elevator?!
Aren't they afraid the elevator will be hit by such a strong impact that it will plunge down with both of them?!
Sano looked at the Kagee gang leader, who couldn't even get up, and shook his head: "How boring. You're already rotten."
"what?"
Under the bewildered gaze of the Kagee Gang leader, Sano pressed the button for the fifth floor, and about ten seconds later, the elevator stopped and opened its doors.
Sano glanced at the president of the Kagee Gang, then stepped out of the elevator.
Looking at Sano's retreating figure, the leader of the Kagee gang was bewildered but also secretly delighted, thinking that he might not be killed.
It's good to be alive, it's good to be alive...
Chapter 159, page 158: Is this how the phrase "the student surpasses the teacher" is used?
When I get back this time, I will definitely burn incense and pray to Buddha, be more vigilant, and then...
Find this guy again and skin him alive!
Indeed, the leader of the Kagee Gang had no intention of letting Sano off the hook. This was not only because Sano had just narrowly escaped death from Sano's clutches and was filled with resentment, but also because Sano had killed his elder father and son.
If they don't eliminate the opponent as a warning to others, then both the prestige of the Kagee gang leader in his own territory and the status of the Kagee gang in Japan will be significantly affected.
Actually, when he received the call just now, the leader of the Yingjiang gang had considered finding a scapegoat or something, but judging from the current situation...
The leader of the Shadow River Gang had no doubt that once he released the news that he had killed the other party, the other party would immediately return to attack.
Although he didn't know why the other party had let him go, the survival rules of the underworld were just that ruthless. Not to mention such trivial matters, repaying kindness with enmity was commonplace.
The elevator doors slowly closed, but at the very last moment, two dark figures suddenly flew into the elevator through the crack in the doors, rolled a few times on the ground, and stopped right between the legs of the Shadow River Gang leader.
"?"
The leader of the Shadow River Gang looked down and saw that the two objects, one big and one small, were stones.
"Squeak."
Just as the elevator was about to start, the smaller pebble cracked open, and from between the cracks, a burst of intense white light shone.
Then—
"boom!!!"
The immense impact swept through the flames, even bursting out from the gap in the elevator doors, causing Sano, who had already reached the emergency exit, to instinctively turn around and glance back.
Let the leader of the Yingjiang Gang go?
What a joke!
Putting everything else aside, just the fact that a kill order was issued against Sano shows that the two sides are already locked in a life-or-death struggle. Even if the other side wanted to stop, Sano would never agree.
For example, Sano could have simply thrown a bomb into the elevator of the Kagee gang president from the very beginning, but he didn't.
Instead, he chose to enter the elevator, thus playing with the other person's mindset.
Unfortunately, the old man's mentality collapsed too quickly, and Sano felt it was pointless, so he simply ended it.
However, in the end, he gave the opponent a tiny glimmer of hope before killing him, which could be considered a way to vent his anger a little.
Not far from the hotel, Chianti and Cohen, who had just returned to their car, were staring at the hotel entrance.
"What's going on? Why hasn't he come out yet? Didn't they say everything was settled and we could prepare to evacuate?"
Gin, holding his binoculars, ignored Chianti's incessant chatter.
Half a minute later, Gin clearly saw the members of the Shadow Gang in the hotel lobby suddenly start to stir, their muscles tensing up.
Gin only relaxed and put down his binoculars when a certain figure came into view.
"boarding."
The four men each got into one of the two cars.
Sano opened the back door of Gin's car, and as soon as he got in, the car sped off at maximum speed.
Seeing Sano take off his hat, Gin lit a cigarette for himself: "Is it cleaned up?"
"Don't worry, with your method, not even a single bone fragment will be left."
Sano waved his hand casually, and Gin immediately understood that the kid had used a bomb again.
Well, it's good that the matter is resolved. In the end, nothing unexpected happened and there wasn't much of a commotion. It just feels like I made a wasted trip.
Just then, Sano snapped his fingers again, and a faint rumbling sound immediately came from afar.
Gin glanced back, somewhat puzzled, judging from the direction and distance of the sound...
"you?"
Sensing Gin's thoughts, Sano laughed and said, "I left a bomb next to that old guy. After all, the president died so mysteriously, those poor guys will definitely be punished when they go back. It's better to just get rid of them."
That's right, the last thing Sano threw into the elevator was two bombs. The weaker one was timed and was meant to kill the leader of the Kagee gang, while the stronger one was remotely controlled.
The purpose was to blow up those other people who went to check on the body of the Shadow River Gang leader in the fallen elevator.
"..."
Upon hearing Sano's answer, Vodka, who was driving, was already sweating profusely.
"Since I'll be punished anyway, I might as well die"—what kind of twisted logic is that? If you're so capable, why don't you ask those guys whether they want to die or accept punishment first!
That rye guy really is a devil!
Gin also paused for a moment.
To be honest, Gin himself couldn't remember when his impression of Sano's abilities gradually changed from close combat to infiltration and assassination, and now to a bomb maniac.
Sano first used a bomb, I think it was during the Tequila mission?
It was during that time that Gin learned that Sano also possessed the special skill of making bombs on his own.
It was also from that time on that Sano seemed to start using bombs to solve problems in everything.
This also includes the previous mission with Mescal.
The thought of Mescal gave Gin a headache.
Although Gin did give Sano a heads-up about silencing him before the mission began, he genuinely didn't think the probability of needing to silence him was that high.
After all, unlike Koren and Tequila, who were previously operatives, Mescal was an intelligence officer. It was impossible for him to do anything stupid that would leave people speechless again.
This time, Sano will surely be able to truly see the experience and qualities that a codename member should have.
...That's what Gin originally thought, and then reality proved him right!
Of course, compared to that, Mescal's failure wasn't that stupid; it was simply a mistake that was discovered, which is a normal occurrence and there's not much to say about it. It can only be attributed to bad luck.
Gin didn't pay much attention at first, until the peripheral members who were sent to check the Metropolitan Police Department's surveillance footage that day returned to confirm the situation.
Gin then learned that Sano, who was supposed to be the backup that day, had been silenced by Mescal without even trying.
Although Sano later said that there was no way to provide backup at that time, and that forcing a backup would only result in both of them being captured, the surveillance footage from that day showed that the bomb on Meskar had already been planted before the operation.
What does this mean?
Does this mean that their core members were so stupid that they didn't even realize they had a bomb planted on them?
...Ahem, this probably means that Sano had already made preparations to "silence" the witnesses before the mission even began.
Although Sano brushed it off with excuses like "just in case" and "out of caution," Gin always felt that something was off about the guy.
...My thinking went astray. The deceased are gone; what matters is the present.
If Gin had to choose between Sano and Mescal to live, he would choose Sano without hesitation.
Gin rubbed his temples. Before the tequila incident, Sano hadn't shown any signs of being connected to the bomb. Why had things changed like this now?
Could it be that during the previous Three Flowers Gathering, I used a bomb to destroy the body and cover up the evidence, which triggered some hidden attribute of Sano and led him to the current path?