"So you want to know who runs the show in this town?" Sitting down and pouring himself a drink, the deep voice continued. "Obviously you aren't dressed like us, so makes sense you don't know how it is around here. Since you're sitting here politely I might as well help fill you in. Starting with Me and Mine, I'm Hei Xiong of the Xiong Corporation. Most people just call me Junior, but you already know that don't you. My family and by extension, I, own this club and the surrounding part of the commercial district we're in. Most of the surrounding territories are pretty much laid out the same way. We all have a perimeter, and we all have our stronghold in the middle."
"Isn't that just foolish? It paints a target of where to strike, easily exploitable over in Mistral. I think all of your asses would be grass if it were over there." The female remarked with a smirk on her face. "I've grew up in the slums, but this place is different. Why?
Cracking the smallest of smirks that was barely noticeable upon his rather large frame, Junior continued on to the pretty lady across his bar counter.
"Simple, Top of the Top of the current underworld; The Destructive Duo of Doom, The Blazing Golden Dragon and the Swift Red Reaper. Those two are what keeps us from having anymore turf wars. They basically can lean on all of us and squeeze whenever they want, and we got no chance to fight back. Period. None of us has any choice but to agree with this status quo. We're all making money, we're all living good, the only real problem here is the White Fang. Sure all of us love our own, faunus included, but those White Fang, they're bad news. They've been squirling their way into Vale and into our territories but that's not even the worst part. They seemed to have changed leaders a while ago, but it was roughly about the same time of the Reaper and the Dragon's arrival into Vale. Them White Fang been rustling up trouble for everyone around here. Doesn't matter if you're human or faunus, if you're not with them then you're against them. They didn't learn to quick in the first couple months when they arrived but they've learned their place. The two "Big Bads" made sure to put them into checkmate earlier this year... We're still rebuilding that area of the town."
Sighing softly, the bear of a man drank the rest of his fourth drink. Seemingly looking of into space with a slightly more soft expression on his face, the words he spoke next were soft and somber.
"Rumor has it that these two were from Patch. Allegedly they landed with the rest of the refugees on Vale's Docks about Day Eight of the Patch Grimm Resurgence. We thought our cities were safe. We thought our smaller towns were safe. Patch, one of the more rural and safest ones out there, proved us all to be fools. Now I don't know how it is over in lala Mistral land, you and your stupid geography. But over here, it's pretty stable, Island of Patch, Our Capital in Vale, and a couple other smaller coastal cities. If I were a betting man, I'd say that those two were pretty young when the Grimm attacked. It must've been either a miracle that they survived that long, or it was a sign. As some may say 'The Crow may be the Harbinger of Death, but the Raven is Truly it's incarnation. But anyways, it's pretty rude to ask a woman her age, amongst other things." Junior joked trying to lift the mood.
It took a couple of seconds for those last words to click through our pretty lady's head. Dark-Red eyes narrowed slowly. Brushing her mint green hair out of her eyes, she tilted her head slightly.
"Wait a second. This is the first time I've heard of that they were women. All my sources stated that they were men."
Chuckling softly, Junior slowly put his 5th drink down and patted the girls shoulder a couple times.
"Oh you out of towners don't know shit about this town. Hell, a lot of us in towners don't know shit about our town, and don't you worry, there's lots of people working really hard to keep it that way. Just make sure you don't step on any toes while you guys are setting up ok? I'd be really sad to see another upstart disappear to quickly in Vale, almost makes us seem as unhospitable as that shithole Vacuo!" Junior starts laughing hysterically while also crying a little.
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