973 Another King?
**MWS 966**
All at the table were silent for a moment while Kanu simply sipped his coffee as if it was just another normal day for him. It seemed he had somewhat made peace with what had happened with his sister.
“It’s no wonder that Jayden didn’t tell you anything, nor did he tell Xin,” Kai said. “The fact is, his enemy is NIRV, one of the biggest corporations in the world with links to all gangs, including several Kings.”
“And the One Gang as well. If anyone knew that these were the enemies they needed to face, I imagine they would quickly give up.”
Kanu was looking directly at Kai when those words were spoken, and it raised an eyebrow.
“Let me assure you, neither I nor Jayden have given up. We’ve just decided to go our separate ways. Remember, there are two enemies in all of this.”
“From the White Rose perspective, even though they don’t want to, I have been pushing them further and further into investigating NIRV.”
“I was the one in charge of the black substance investigation and was why I came and took your opponent away that day.”
“Right, wait, so you know NIRV is behind the black substance?” Gary asked. “And you know the One Gang is behind your sister’s death, so why don’t you do something with the White Rose?”
Kanu placed his cup of coffee on the table rather forcefully.
“Do you need your ears cleaned, young man? I just told you I am. I’m from a group that carries the weight of several cities and the government in its hands. We are funded by the general public, so it means that our movements have to make sense to the general public.”
“If we were to go up against the One Gang, then we would have to use every single one of our resources. We would come out of that fight maybe not even as the victor and would have little to show for it.”
“But you guys got Gary, right?” Austin added, which caused Kanu to be a little embarrassed.
“That was because the White Rose agents involved had the Phoenix Gang as well, and at the time no one knew your strength. Even you guys weren’t going to pull anything knowing you could go up against the White Rose and the Phoenix Gang.”
“However, trying to bring in a gang head would mean going to war. Think of it, if the White Rose came now and tried to take Gary away, do you think it would be as easy?”
Everyone had gotten a lot stronger from the fight with the Phoenix Gang. If they were to employ hit-and-run tactics and the White Rose had to come into Slough, it would be near impossible now.
There was even mass recruitment into the Howlers Gang after Gary was announced as one of the Kings.
“With NIRV, it would also be impossible to take the whole group down, but what I do want to do is at least know who ordered the hit, or what my sister found.
“She was also looking into the black substance. My guess is someone at NIRV is heavily involved. If I could find the link, then we could bring them in, and the White Rose could help Jayden and me in some way at least,” Kanu said.
“Still,” Gary said, “that doesn’t solve the issue with the One Gang, another one of the Kings.”
“They’re strong, Gary,” Kai replied. “Many of the top fighters in the AFC are actually under the One Gang. Since the whole thing somewhat belongs to them.”
“With their connection to NIRV as well, I wouldn’t be surprised if they have some of the best Altered solutions or at least first pickings before anyone else.”
“Aren’t they also the ones that took Inferno City for themselves as well?” Austin asked.
“Correct,” Kai replied. “But no one had put up much of a fight. The Bree family were really the only ones that could contest it with the way things are at the moment, and the Bree family have multiple cities to deal with in other countries as well.”
“So unless she was here in person, I doubt she would have tried to fight for it.”
Everyone continued to sit there in silence. They were waiting for Gary’s response at the end of it, forcing Kanu to speak up again.
“Look, I’m not asking for your direct help in all of this. At the end of the day, this is none of your business, it’s not Xin’s either,” Kanu added. “However, I’m worried with this fight coming up.”
“Jayden might be putting a lot on this fight, and if it doesn’t work out, I’m afraid he might jump and try to do something more radical. I already lost my sister, I don’t want to lose a brother as well.”
Gary looked up and turned toward Kai and Austin, wanting to gauge what their reaction was to all of this.
“Hey, you don’t have to ask us,” Austin said. “Look, we know the guy saved our leader’s life, you managed to come to Slough in time because of Jayden’s string pulling.”
“At some point or another, we would have to go against another of the Kings,” Kai stated. “When we fight Lupus, the other Kings would think we were trying to expand and target us.
“Your dad told us that there needs to be a way for us to get stronger, and maybe, helping out your brother-in-law and going up against the Kings can get us to where we need to be,” Kai cheekily said.
In Gary’s mind, they had just gotten out of a tough battle with the Phoenix Gang. Slough was just repairing itself, and he didn’t want to put the people through that again.
He had to make a choice, though, helping Jayden possibly meant going up against another one of the Kings.
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