Chapter 2: The Badlands and the Informant
It’s been four days since Grimoire killed Jose Manguo. He hadn’t got a lot of information since then but he did find out, a few hours ago, at one of the seediest bars in all of Tokyo, from a man who’s nickname was so dirty that if you said it in public you’d either get short or sent to prison, that Yang has been travelling to and from Tokyo and Hiroshima in search of people to help him on a certain ‘ambitious project’ that Yang is currently working on. The man also found out from his friends that Yang has been seen going inside the Kalona Corporation’s office building. “So, Jose wasn’t lying after all huh? Doesn’t matter now anyway.” The Bartender then walked up to Grimoire telling him to stop asking questions and either buy a goddamn drink or get the hell out, James knew he wasn’t going to get anything else form here so he proceeded to walk to the door, but just as he was leaving when he reached the door a tall elder gentleman bumped into him on purpose. “You want to know about Yang Karoshi’s big ‘project’? Then visit this guy…” the tall man said passing the detective something that looked like a business card, “Alec Martin? Hmmmm never heard of the guy.” James said stroking his head and raising his eyebrows in thought.
It was later that night, James was waiting at the place the Tall gentleman told him to at the bar, it was a fairly clean and polished part of Tokyo in the center of the city probably, and he hadn’t seen anybody in the past hour that wasn’t a sharply dressed businessman with a briefcase. But a few moments later, he saw someone strange, he was wearing jeans and a hoody, but you couldn’t see his face, he walked up to James in a slow walk sort of like a zombie walk. “Hello detective, I’ve heard you want to know about The Badlands…” said Alec in a muffled voice, James knew it wasn’t his real voice, you wouldn’t talk about Yang in public, or you’ll never walk, talk, hell you wouldn’t even wake up again.
“Well yes, I would like to know why Yang Karoshi is travelling around recruiting people for his ‘project’ and what his connection is with the Kalona Company, but while we’re talking, what in the world is The Badlands?” Remarked Grimoire bewildered. “Well, I thought this was just about The Badlands, anything else will be extra” snickered Alec, “Damnit, how much do you want?” James slightly barked at Alec, “Well to know about the Badlands will cost you 0, then its 0 every extra question” Alec told Grimoire now in a serious tone, Grimoire first looked at the boy in shock, then in anger as he reached his hand into his wallet giving the boy 0, cash.
“Alright what do you want to know first, detective?” asked Alec staring at Grimoire in a half serious half playful look. “Well firstly, I might aswell ask the question I was originally going to ask, why is Yang travelling around Japan recruiting people?” James questioned, Alec then answered him with a grin,” He’s building his secret ‘project’ of course” James then looked at the Informant for a while before dully asking him what the project is. “Well, it’s extremely complicated to answer, and I’ll probably die no matter what for telling you this but, basically, Karoshi is creating clones of the most important men in the world…” Alec told him which shocked the detective almost to his knees. “B-b-b-but why is he cloning them?” asked a quivering Grimoire, “simple, they’re planning to kill the most famous people in the world, for example, Barack Obama, and then replace them with the clone and the clone then follows orders from Kalona changing the world forever and also because the Kalona Corporation want him and pay him too clone them.” At this moment James thought back to the hotel and Jose telling him about the Kalona Corporation, before returning to the present, “So, Jose wasn’t lying….ok last question, what in god’s name is The Badlands?” asked a still shell shocked detective, “That is the part of Kalona that are in charge of Yang and the clones… or the assassins you could say”. Alec told him
For a moment the detective stepped aback in worry aswell as great shock, he just could not believe that Kalona Corporation, one of the biggest company’s in the world, has a section of the company that creates assassin…..clones!
But Grimoire didn’t have time to go crazy over clones, he had to find and lock up Yang Karoshi before this whole cloning business gets completely out of hand.
“Any way I could meet these Badlands?” Grimoire wondered, “Hmmm, most likely no, but if you really want to I could arrange a meeting, but you will need guns, a lot of guns, because everybody who has ever met the Badlands, has always returned from the meeting with a bullet between their god damn eyes”. Said the Informant with a very serious tone of voice. “I’m willing to take that risk after what I’ve just heard Kalona is trying to do”, Grimoire sharply barked back with an angry look on his face as if to say, I
son of a bitch! its cut off the other half of my chapter O-o
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