Inside the apartment building, in one of the rooms on the top floor sat the Kingpin of the operation on a luxurious couch and was watching a game of football on his massive fifty-five-inch television.On both sides were two skimpy-dressed girls who couldn’t get their bodies off of him.The Kingpin had his right hand inside the shirt of one of the girls, fondling her breasts while the left hand held both the cigar he was smoking and his betting ticket for the current game he was watching.On each corner of the room was a hooligan who served as his protection and they were all properly armed.The Kingpin took his eyes off the television for a moment and looked at something that caused the veins on the sides of his head to throb.“How long are all of you fuckers going to take before you finish counting that, huh?!” He yelled at the gathering of five scared kids between his couch and the television.They all sat on the floor, counting heaps of cash in their middle while supervising them w

Jeremiah ran into the building and immediately was confronted by the multitude of hooligans, all ready to fight back with their different weapons of choice, not including guns.Because of how loud a gun was, firing many at once was bound to bring unwanted attention like the police, so they had to take care of Jeremiah quietly. They also thought that they didn’t need it because they outnumbered Jeremiah. Also, shooting him would deal with him too quickly and they didn’t want that. They wanted to punish him for coming into their turf and throwing his weight around by beating him to a pulp and torturing him for a long time. Knowing just how dangerous Jeremiah was, thanks to what most of them had witnessed take place outside the apartment, the information to not underestimate Jeremiah had already spread and not a single one of them was going to make the same mistake as the first two hooligans who had fought Jeremiah outside.They also weren’t going to go at him as singles or in pairs of

“Charlie?! What the hell is going on?!” Jeremiah panicked.He hurried to the room and then stopped by the doorway, his mind going through many scenarios of what could have happened.Could they have figured out why he was there and done something to Charlie in retaliation?Jeremiah assessed the environment, trying to figure out what caused the screaming he heard earlier, all the while hoping it wasn’t what he was thinking.First, he noticed the kids on the floor who all looked scared and seemed like the ones who had screamed because the voices matched their age.He didn’t know what Charlie looked like and he couldn’t use Jackson’s face as a reference because Jackson was his grandfather and an old man so the resemblance wouldn’t be there. Still, the fact that none of the kids looked hurt helped calm his mind a bit and if Charlie was one of them then things were good. Jeremiah continued to assess the environment and then saw the sight that gave the kids their fright and caused them to

The kingpin’s words resounded in Jeremiah’s ears and he groaned suspiciously, wondering what he was trying to do. From the look on his face, it definitely wasn’t anything good.“Now, walk forward,” the kingpin said.Jeremiah furrowed his eyebrows, getting even more confused. What reason did the kingpin have for making him go closer when he, the kingpin, had been trying to keep him at a distance since he made his appearance?Surely, he hadn’t started underestimating him all of a sudden, right? That wouldn’t make any sense or be smart and would be contrary to how he had come across this whole time. So, what could his end goal be?Seeing that Jeremiah was hesitant about following the instructions, the kingpin frowned. To teach Jeremiah a lesson he used the bottom of the gun’s handle to wack Charlie in the head and Jeremiah jolted.The three remaining kids who were watching screamed, shocked at what the Kingpin had just done.“Shut it!” The Kingpin yelled at them. Their voices dropped a

A minute ago, after the kingpin pointed his gun at Jeremiah and told him to jump out of the window, Jeremiah smirked discretely.That was exactly what Jeremiah wanted— for the gun to be aimed at him and not any of the kids who would definitely die if they were shot. He also wanted the kingpin to stop using the kids as hostages and he just got exactly that.The kingpin made his smug comment about Jeremiah losing to him and was about to shoot, but Jeremiah didn’t care to listen. His focus was on the nozzle of the gun and the kingpin’s trigger finger.He used his keen sight to predict where the bullet would hit when fired based on where the nozzle was pointing. Then he used the kingpin’s trigger finger to know how long he had to dodge before the bullet got to him. He had to dodge before the gun was actually fired but he had to do it at the right time— when the kingpin couldn't stop himself from firing the gun and changing aim. It was a very thin margin for success but with his reflexes