Now every possible exit had been blocked off. If they wanted to get out, the only way was to break through the windows on either side.
But this was the very top floor of Yorknew City!
The Ten Dons were just ordinary people. There was no way they could do something like that. It would be no different from throwing their lives away.
As for the Shadow Beasts, judging from the situation in the room, merely standing off against the people before them was already putting them under pressure. Escorting the Ten Dons to safety was even more out of the question.
"Damn it!" the scar-faced old man cursed under his breath.
Right now, they were like birds trapped in a cage, with no way out.
Just as the situation was about to spiral completely out of control, the goateed old man stepped forward.
"I wonder what it is you truly want, sir. If this is about venting your anger on behalf of your wife, then surely your anger has mostly subsided by now. We will prepare a generous gift for both you and your wife as a token of apology."
With the gap in strength so obvious, and death hanging over their heads, the goateed old man decisively chose to bow his head.
None of the other Ten Dons showed the slightest bit of backbone by condemning him for doing so. Even the scar-faced old man fell silent along with the rest.
They had spent half their lives clawing their way up to their current positions.
They were old now, yes, but they still had a few good years left to enjoy. As long as even the slightest chance of survival remained, none of them were willing to give it up.
"A generous gift, hm?" Roy smiled faintly, neither agreeing nor rejecting the offer.
At that moment, one of the Ten Dons standing behind the goateed old man stared at Roy for a moment, then froze, as if he had suddenly realized something.
"You're Roy! That manga artist hailed as the greatest genius in history!!!"
The instant those words came out, the other Ten Dons — and Roy as well — all went still.
Roy was surprised because he hadn't expected anyone here to recognize him.
The goateed old man and the others, meanwhile, were stunned because they had never imagined that the one coming for them would be the most famous manga artist in the world.
And the man now standing before them, looking every bit like the leader of a murderous organization… was really that globally renowned manga artist?
The Ten Dons felt like their brains had stopped working.
They couldn't really be blamed. The situation was simply too absurd!
"Ahem."
Roy gave a light cough, snapping them out of it.
Then he deliberately put on a blank expression and said in an extremely cold voice, "Since you already know who I am, there's even less chance I can let any of you live."
Even if they had not known his identity, Roy had never intended to spare them.
The Ten Dons' expressions changed drastically.
"Attack! All of you, attack! Kill them!!!"
Still unwilling to die, they had already resolved to make a desperate last stand. The scar-faced old man had just begun to call on the hidden Shadow Beasts—
But the moment his words fell, before the Shadow Beasts could even move, a finger-thin ray of light flashed into everyone's field of vision.
Then, at astonishing speed, it brushed past the goateed old man's face and shot straight into the scar-faced old man's forehead with perfect precision.
The light was like a laser. It encountered no resistance at all as it pierced straight through the scar-faced old man's head, then continued on and punched through the face of another Ten Don standing behind him.
Thud!
Two bodies hit the ground.
The scar-faced old man and the Ten Don behind him were both dead beyond all doubt.
"Sorry about that. I only meant to kill that old bastard with the scar on his face. He was way too noisy. Who knew the guy behind him would be standing so close?"
Ilo blew on his finger, his casual tone carrying not the slightest trace of real apology.
At once, all the remaining Ten Dons scattered apart.
Even the ones who had been hiding behind the Shadow Beasts before now exposed themselves completely.
And every last one of them clamped their mouths shut, terrified that making a sound might further provoke the killer in front of them.
"How boring."
Seeing the Ten Dons react like this, Ilo immediately lost interest.
Then Roy's calm voice rang out.
"Don't drag this out any longer. Finish it cleanly."
"Understood~"
Slash!
The response was a sharp hand strike.
Very quickly, the floor was piled high with corpses — the bodies of the Ten Dons and every single Shadow Beast.
That afternoon, the Ten Dons and the entire Shadow Beasts unit were wiped out to the last one.
"Roy-sama, the cleanup is finished."
Ilo blasted each corpse to pieces with a Ki blast, then cleaned away every last trace of blood.
Thus, the Ten Dons — once the rulers of the underworld, standing at the summit of every mafia organization in the world — became history.
What would replace them was a single sovereign of darkness ruling the entire world.
Only after dealing with the Ten Dons and the Shadow Beasts did Roy begin to properly inspect the furnishings and items in the room.
As the rulers of the underworld, the Ten Dons had an enormous amount of business to handle every day.
Even at this gathering in Yorknew City, they had each brought along work that needed to be processed, along with the related documents.
But once they died, all of it fell into Roy's hands.
"Shalnark."
"I'm here, Roy-sama!"
One of the masked men dressed in the "All Villains" outfit hurried over.
It was Shalnark, who had been brought under Roy's control.
The others were all former Phantom Troupe members as well: Feitan, Franklin, Nobunaga, Phinks, and Hisoka.
Kortopi had not been brought along, since he was not a combat-oriented member.
Roy directly tossed the Ten Dons' materials to Shalnark. This was the sort of thing he excelled at.
And Shalnark truly was talented in that area. In a very short time, he had already sorted out the Ten Dons' distribution of power and allocation of resources with perfect clarity.
Roy also obtained the Ten Dons' private accounts, and the sums inside were astonishing.
So Roy made a grand gesture and, like a true big spender, transferred one billion Jenny into Zeno's account.
That settled the debt.
And that was why, earlier that evening, the moment Zeno and the others got off the airship, they immediately turned around and headed back.
…
There were still many industries under the Ten Dons' names, and bringing them all under control would take quite a long time.
And after all, no secret stays buried forever.
During that period, news of the Ten Dons' deaths would sooner or later leak out, and when that happened, the various mafia families would definitely begin moving at the scent of opportunity.
After all, anyone who could become a mafia boss was ambitious. Every one of them wanted to stand at the highest point and look down on the world below.
(End of Chapter)
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