Spare a Coin for the Wicked

An Unexpected Visitor
The search was tiresome and long, but worth the wait considering how hard entering Mary Geoise was going to be in the state he was. Kyuka Island was looking great at this time of the year anyways, so coming here was killing two birds with one stone to Gai. Arriving at the massive holiday mansion, Gai felt sick to the stomach upon remembering the memories that were stored within the building. The 'holidays' he'd have here with his grandfather was just an excuse to hide him from his grandfather's friends, who had shared the same innate discrimination towards those that weren't fully noble blood. Away from all the servants that had to deal with the young boy during his times of innocence, so that they wouldn't have had to touch the filthy blood his grandfather hated so. Gai couldn't hold himself from marching up the stairs to the front door any longer, but tried to keep his cool as he moved along. Dressed in very formal attire of a black suit with a long black trenchcoat, Gai couldn't look anymore suspicious to a popular vacation spot, but with the gifts he's brought he would need to hide everything before he presented them to his special family member.

"It's been years since I've seen the old man. I wonder if he still looks as pathetic as the day I left him..." Gai thought in his head, hiding a devious smile under the shade of his black formal hat.

Upon reaching the front door, Gai knocked politely with the tip of his knuckles, hoping that someone would be close by to hear his presence. Seconds passed and Gai was left to stand in the glaring sun that was enjoyed by many vacationers, causing the man to knock again, this time more loudly with the bottom of his fist. This caught the attention of one of the home's workers, who quickly rushed behind the door and opened it to reveal a young lady in maids uniform, holding a feather duster in one of her green, latex gloved hands. A polite smile brightened up her face as she saw Gai standing at the entrance, obviously younger by a bit than the visitor so neither could recognise the other despite the young man's strong history in the family's households.

"Hello. Welcome to Saint-" The maid greeted cheerfully before being pushed to the side as Gai walked through, keeping his hat over his eyes to retain a mysterious appearance. "Oh-sorry-there! Ummm sir?"

"Is he here?" Gai asked in a threatening, deep tone, much more serious to the way he usually speaks.

The maid raised an eyebrow with a worried look, a bit intimidated by the sudden situation she found herself in. "Uhhh, who?" she asked in a slightly nervous voice.

"The master of the house. I need to speak to him, his life is in danger." Gai said, twisting the truth in a way that'd persuade her to talk.

The maid's eyes lightened up as she tried to put the pieces together, gaining some idea about who this man could be. "Oh are you one of the Saint's bodyguards? I should've figured it was you with the suit and all that. It'd be silly to wear something like that so casually on Kyuka Island." She laughed as she tilted her head to the side. "He's up in the study talking with some guests, so I'm not sure he would appreciate any surprise visitors. I can take you t-"

"No need to, there's no time." Gai shook his head as he reached into his trench coat to grab something. Pulling out a small ceramic pot from within his pocket, Gai handed the maid the item gently, signalling for her to use both hands to hold the object. Placing the feather duster to the side and clasping the pot with both hands, Gai pointed towards where he remembered the kitchen to be gently pushed the maid in its direction. "I'll need you to put this somewhere in the kitchen closest to the door inwards to the house, understand? This is extremely urgent."

"Uh-uh-uh OKAY!" She panicked before speed walking to where Gai had instructed her to go, quickly disappearing from his sight as she passed into a nearby hallway.

Dusting his hands, Gai pulled out two more of the same pots from his coat and held them both quite relaxed in both hands, much more casually to the way the maid walked off with the one she was given. Making his way up the stairs to where the study was, Gai continued to place these pots in several spots along the way, making sure to blend them in as normal decorations or hiding them behind plants and the such so that they wouldn't be interfered with by clueless staff. He wasn't ready to jeopardise the plan because of the curiosity of a random person not knowing any better. By the time he had made it to the study, he had emptied his pockets from the trench coat and covered the entire path, each one he suspected would have the effect he needed when the time arrived. Gai slipped his trench coat off and hung it over his arm that he held in front of him, reaching into his back pocket to pull out a hand gun that he inspected right outside the door. Here and there, Gai would look to his sides to ensure that no staff saw him with a weapon inside, turning the gun around to check if the weapon was set the way he did before he arrived.

Once he was satisfied with how the weapon looked, Gai looked at the doors of the study and sighed deeply, bringing the hand with his gun behind the coat to conceal it before going in. Without any hesitation, Gai used the tip of his shoe to knock on the door, hoping to hear that his grandfather was inside. He could easily hear the talking of old men behind the door, but no voice had questioned what was making the knocking sound at the door. Gai allowed a few seconds to pass for anyone to bring it up to the others but to avail, repeating the knock again to check if everyone in there was deaf. Some of the chatting stopped inside and the room slowly became silent, some of the old men chatting in whispers as footsteps hobbled over towards the door from the other side of the room, their steps aggressive and irritated as whoever was inside obviously didn't want to be interrupted.

"I'VE ALREADY TOLD YOU PESTS NOT TO DISTURB ME WHEN I'M IN A MEETING."

That voice was all too familiar to Gai, who sadistically smiled as the footsteps arrived just on the other side of the door. Nodding his head and letting out a few breathes of air, the door swung open to reveal an elderly, quite obese man with a breathing tank and a glass bowl helmet, a face of shock as soon as he realised who Gai was. The old man took a step back and tried to slam the door on Gai, only for it to be stopped as the man shot his visible arm to the door and halted it in its path. Gai proceeded to move into the study with the group of old men, who they themselves were curious and surprised by the sudden change of events, before gently closing the door behind him and locking it with the mechanisms at the top and the bottom to secure it in place. From what Gai could see, this was the only door to the room, meaning no-one was going in, or out.

"Y-YOU! YOU'RE MEANT TO BE DEAD!" The old man yelled out, rushing towards his desk as the other elderly men stepped out of the way to make a path for the two.

Gai menacingly followed after with his gun still hidden behind the trench coat, walking with one foot right before the other as he stared at the old man. "That's very rude, especially to someone that's your grandson." Gai smiled, opening his arms out to reveal the gun in the other hand. The gun pointed to a group of nobles who nervously backed up, intimidated and worried about the gun that was facing them. "Grandson? That's impossible. The only grandson of the Saint's is far away in another kingdom, and the boy is still only young! You're far too old to be the Saint's-"

Gai pointed his gun into the air and fired upward, causing a loud noise to ring and bounce around the room, prompting everyone to shut their mouths and allow Gai to continue. "I can't blame you all for your ignorance about my existence. If my grandfather wasn't too concerned about hiding his Human-Fish man hybrid of a grandson from all of you I'm sure we would have gotten to meet years before."

The sudden revelation caused some of the old men to open their eyes in surprise, some facing the older man that Gai was chasing, now revealed to Gai to be his grandfather. As the grandfather turned around to sit behind his desk, he reached down and pressed a button on the underside of the surface, making a subtle clicking sound that Gai caught onto really quick. Gai's face continued to smile as he reached into his side pocket and pulled out a slim cased grenade, the safety pin dangling from a chain that he proceeded to try and pick up with his tongue and clench between his teeth. Everyone besides Gai was shocked and began moving back towards the walls, some couldn't help but vocally panic as sweat dripped from their foreheads. This was exactly where he wanted them, especially his grandfather, trapped in a room with nowhere to escape through, a single armed man playing god in this situation. Gai walked up to one of the old men closest to him and pulled out a dagger from his pants pocket, handing the man the knife with a gleeful smile.

"I want to play a game. For this game, you need to stab one of the people in the room. If you do so I'll let you out to go to whatever family you may have." He chuckled, waving the gun to point to the scared group of old men.

The man that Gai had picked slowly turned his back to face his friends, holding the knife that laid on top of both his hands. Switching gazes between the men and the weapon, he nervously handled the knife with his right hand and took a deep breathe, trying to decide who to kill. He looked at each of his friends individually and shook his head, as if he was trying to tell them he was sorry. Gripping the knife tightly, the old man swung the knife, turning his body so that the weapon would go ahead and try and cut Gai who was standing behind him. The dagger made contact with Gai with full force, but upon hitting the young man immediately broke off the hilt and flew off to the side. The old man could see that Gai had now turned his body into flat black with colours glowing off his skin, what was more strange to him was that the knife broke and rebounded off him as if he was made of something more stronger than steel.

These thoughts and ideas within the old man's head though wouldn't last for long as Gai brought the gun close to the old man's chest and pulled the trigger, shooting him through his body and also hitting one of the old men behind him, lodging itself into the second victim's stomach. Both men fell to the ground, the latter falling in pain clutching his stomach and the first one dropping dead in an uncomfortable pose. Gai proceeded to move the gun to face the entrance, noticing that in the background two more of the old men had planned to use this mess to escape. The ones having planned this escape were caught in the middle of the act, standing in front of the door just about to pull both mechanisms back to unlock the door and run out. Without pausing, Gai fired the pistol two more times with precision, shooting two bullets into both the mens' bodies as they fell to the sides in shock, both having failed to even touch the lock mechanisms. Gai made it clear that he wasn't playing around, and that total cooperation was expected by his newly caught hostages if they wanted to see the outside tomorrow.

Waving a gun to one of the old men behind him, Gai signalled for their pocket-watch which danged from their pocket whilst slowly swinging back and forth. Needing a few seconds to know what he meant by his signals, the old man quickly pulled the watch from his pockets and rushed to Gai presenting the object, handing it with both his hands. Nodding his head with a gentle smile, Gai snatched the pocket watch from the old man and discharged the pistol into the old man's face, causing him to jolt backwards and freeze before falling back. From the one instant he was still standing, everyone had the opportunity to see that the bullet had been shot into the old man's eye and lodged itself inside, shown by the fact that it had not exited from the back of the man's head.

"Courtesy isn't going to get you out of this mess fellas. Being nobles is enough of an excuse for me to put you down, so be yourselves whenever I talk to you so at least I'm shooting you, for being you." Gai smiled mockingly before looking to the pocket watch.