"Even the city police deliberately let the underworld handle their own business among themselves.
They don't interfere because it's too dangerous, too complicated. What chance do we have?"
And it wasn't only Zavier feeling this way. Many others present were also clearly experiencing deep anxiety, their faces pale and uncertain.
They were just students, after all, most of them only fifteen years old.
For their entire lives up until now, they'd never even seriously thought about getting into violent confrontations with actual hardened criminals who killed for a living.
This was completely outside their experience or comfort zone.
Damian looked at all of them carefully, reading their fears and doubts written plainly across their faces.
Then he stood up and walked closer to the assembled group, his presence somehow becoming even more commanding.
"We will absolutely be able to provide genuine protection to our clients. I guarantee it."
