37. Kickin' The Bucket
Author: Ar7_Storm
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After reaching the alleyway where it lead to the orphanage, Gavin frowned.

'There's this smell that keep following us. One of it had the smell of thick blood that attach tightly.'

He then looked at the front, where there is a beggar with tattered clothes that seems falling asleep with his back lean onto the side of the building.

'How could there is homeless man at this place. At least if they were a beggar, he will be outside on the street right now.'

There's also green and blue dumspter at the side of the alleyway road.

And Gavin, could practically smelled a tobacco mixed with engaging slates of blood, at the place where he can't see due to where he's now, currently positioned.

'Someone's hidin' there.'

Thinking for a very short moment of time, he found himself getting far from just suspicious. 'And they don't look like part of Justice Enforcer either. Hostile party?'

After he certain that those people at the back are still following them, even after they getting inside the alley,
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