The Black Swan Behind (Beauty of Fire)

215 Knowing the Truth

Calvin grimaced in pain. He tried to escape from Black’s grip. He didn’t expect that even though he had a small body, Black was massively strong.

Emma was still holding Clavin’s hand and pulling it up. There was no way she’d break her best friend’s hand. Meanwhile, her leg, which was pressing on Calvin’s neck, was starting to lack strength due to being pulled by his hand.

Calvin Lee was indeed a great strong man. In fact, according to Emma, ??the strength of the black-haired man was as great as Mezu from the Hell Gate, although the size of their bodies and muscles were quite different.

“Just give up!” Emma exclaimed.

With a gasp, Calvin replied, “In your dream,”

On the other hand, Ian and Marcel were also fighting fiercely. The two of them had almost the same strength. The only difference was in their fighting style. But in terms of speed and strength, it was difficult to determine who would win the fight.

Suddenly, a man with a scar on his lips came running.

“Vico?” Marcel muttered as soon as he noticed the arrival of one of his core team members.

“Underground Cave is under attack!” Vico said directly.

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Vico’s words instantly made Emma pensive. Underground Cave? Wasn’t that the name Kathy had mentioned earlier?

Marcel was surprised to hear that. Oh.. of course. Troy Roner, Frank Duk, and Tobias Ian. Weren’t Jita Kyoei’s core members should be more than that?

A smile spread across Ian’s face. With Marcel’s focus diverted, he immediately threw a punch at his cheek. Seeing that, Vico quickly stepped forward to attack Ian.

On the other hand, Emma who had just heard the information immediately released her lock on Calvin’s body.

Feeling both of Black’s legs loosen, Calvin swiftly released his body from the masked man’s grip and took a deep breath from his choking.

At that very second, the earphone in Emma’s ear beeped. Kathy came into the line.

“Emma! Underground Cave is RJC’s illegal night business. It’s a nightclub and wrestling gambling place that even employs the kids. RJC is lying, Emma. Their business is not only in Redvalley, but Bluevalley too! They illegally make people fight each other like animals!” Kathy said.

“Emma? Rachel? Did you hear me?” Kathy called out to the two girls again. She was confused because there was no answer and became worried that something bad was happening with her friends.

“I see. Thank you.” Emma replied briefly.

Calvin turned his body and quickly attacked Black who was still sitting on the floor. He immediately threw punches from the right and left to Black’s head. However, Black only protected his head with both arms. This made Calvin confused and immediately stopped his punch.

Emma was like didn’t feel Calvin’s punch. Once the man above her stopped, Emma moved her body slowly to get up and placed her left palm on Calvin’s stomach to gently push him away.

Calvin didn’t understand what was happening. Suddenly, Black no longer attacked him after Vico’s arrival.

Emma stood with both legs feeling weak. She approached Marcel without paying attention to Ian and Vico who were in the middle of a fight with him.

“What is an Underground Cave? Marcel,” Emma asked flatly with a sharp look at the man.

Marcel fell silent and Vico looked shocked. Vico didn’t notice there was a Black in the room when he yelled Underground Cave. He also couldn’t understand why Black was suddenly inside their headquarters. However, what he knew was that Black had nothing to do with RJC anymore. Did Marcel summon Black as reinforcements?

Even though Vico didn’t know that Black shouldn’t know about the Underground Cave, from what happened, he just instinctively realized that Marcel had been hiding the truth from Black all this time.

Calvin who was behind Black could only be stunned to see what was happening. The fight between Ian, Vico, and Marcel also stopped.

“You.. didn’t know about Underground Cave, did you?” Calvin asked Black with a confused face.

But Emma didn’t answer him. She kept staring at Marcel who looked slightly downcast. “I ask you the last time. What is an Underground Cave?”

“It’s my business,” Marcel directly answered as he raised his eyes to look at Black.

Emma took a deep breath. Her hands clenched into fists. “So, you’ve been lying to me,” Then she pushed Marcel’s chest roughly with her pointing finger. “You run an illegal business and make young people fight each other for gambling. You put them into a deadly duel to increase your coffers of money, you asshole!”

“I never lied to you. It’s just you didn’t know about the Underground Cave. You never asked about it and we never told you. You were the one who judged one-sidedly in the first place.” Marcel replied.

Marcel’s answer made the blood in Emma’s head boil. She couldn’t help but thrust her punch into Marcel’s face. But the man quickly stopped it with his palm as the punch almost touched his nose.

“Your business location is in shambles, dickhead. You think you’re the only one who could act rotten?” Ian said.

From the start, Jita Kyoei had devised a plan to destroy RJC’s source of money, which was the Underground Cave. In fact, they only used the attack on the RJC headquarters as bait to keep the group’s back on their money-mining location.

But Marcel’s expression wasn’t what they had imagined. Yes, Marcel did not think that Jita Kyoei would attack his money field. But that didn’t necessarily make him leave the Underground Cave unattended. He purposely closed the place when he learned of Jita Kyoei’s arrival. And, he put the most powerful man in his group there: Renu Khan.

Marcel raised his hand slightly and snapped his fingers. Suddenly, a can rolled and stopped next to Emma’s feet. She frowned in confusion as she stared at the can. As soon as she turned back to Marcel, the man had already stepped back by covering his mouth and nose with a handkerchief. Not until a second later, the can released white smoke so quickly it fill the entire room.

Emma immediately stepped back from her spot by covering her nose and eyes which felt a bit sore. She just realized that the can was a smoked gas which was usually used to block people’s vision. It turned out that it was Vico who threw the object as soon as Marcel snapped his fingers. Didn’t that mean that they had planned all of this?

In order to stay away from danger, Emma quickly ran without direction, even hitting a wall several times until she was far enough and out of the white smoke gas. Since then, Emma was trying to hold her breath so as not to inhale the gas. She was afraid there might be a substance in it that would make her faint. She could no longer trust Marcel because she believed he would have the heart to do anything to save his treasure.

“Dammit! Looks like he escapes! You just wait, Marcel. I’ll definitely kill you!” Emma growled as she looked at the fading gas. As soon as she turned to leave, a voice called out to her.

“Hey!”

Emma stopped in her tracks and turned around. It was Ian and Calvin who had just out of the white gas puff. Emma was so much in a bad mood right now. She didn’t want anything to do with anyone. She only focused on killing Marcel Douglas.

“Feeling betrayed?” Ian smiled in satisfaction.

“Sorry, we didn’t know that you were clueless about the Underground Cave,” Calvin said.

“Where is that place? I will destroy it,” Emma hissed.

“We’re going there. The Underground Cave is actually our main target. With RJC’s main business destroyed, they won’t have any reason to look for new members.” Calvin explained.

“Wait for me out the building. I’ll find my partner first. Maybe he’s still fighting Troy.” Emma said as she headed for the emergency stairs, leaving the two men behind.

“Rachel, where are you now?” Emma pressed the button connected to the microphone that was on the edge of the mouthpiece on her mask.

“Kenny just left me after getting a call and Troy went after him. I’m heading upstairs.” Rachel answered.

“No. I’m coming down the emergency stairs. Wait for me there.” Emma said as she continued to run down.

Not long afrer, the two girls in black masks met.

“Damn..” Emma breathed a sigh of relief as soon as she saw Rachel. “Are you okay?”

Rachel chuckled in disappointment. “Looks like I’m not strong enough against Troy. Good thing he went after Kenny instead of continuing fighting me.”

Emma smiled weakly as she rubbed Rachel’s shoulder. “Thank you for doing your best, Rachel.” She said then took a deep breath, “But you should know that Marcel has betrayed us. You heard what Kathy said, right?”

Rachel nodded, “Looks like he’s using Redvalley as a side business to cover up his illegal main business.”

What Kathy said was also heard by Rachel. It was a few minutes after Kenny received a call from Vico. After that, he immediately left Rachel without a word because he knew that the Black leader was aware of their rottenness and Marcel was also heading to the Underground Cave.

“We have to destroy that place, Rachel. Marcel has turned us against Jita Kyoei. I even nearly broke Calvin’s arm.” Emma shook her head in disbelief.

“Troy almost broke my hand too,” Rachel grimaced.

“Oh my..” Emma gasped.

“We have to move now, Emma. The Underground Cave business can’t be left running.” Rachel said.

“Girls,” Kathy’s voice suddenly came in.

“Yes?” Emma replied.

“Someone named Kenny keeps trying to contact Marcel. He’s texting him that he’s heading to the Underground Cave and is entering through the back door. But I’ve prevented the message from getting into Marcel’s phone. What are you going to do now?” Kathy asked.

“We’re heading for the Underground Cave,” Emma immediately stepped forward, followed by Rachel.

“Do you need me to find the location?” Kathy asked again.

“No need, Kathy. We’re going to team up with Jita Kyoei. You just need to get Troy and Calvin out of the hijacking. Thanks for the help.” Emma said.