Finley stared at me with a frown as he blinked a few times. It looked like he hadn’t managed to hear me. Maybe he was a bit too shaken up from the beating I just gave him.
I waved right in front of his eyes a couple of times. "Hey! I. Need. To. Meet.
With. Your. Boss."
I made sure to utter every single very clearly so that he would grasp every single one of them. However, his frown was only accentuated.
Did I make him deaf or something?
I swear...I didn’t hit him that hard.
"Can you hear me?"
I went with a simpler question just to see if he could hear the words that were coming out of my mouth, and he moved his head up and down.
Good news! He wasn’t deaf. Bad news! He wasn’t speaking.
"So, can I meet him?" I asked very politely while roughing him up a little.
Ava gave me a few glares as I did so. She was probably wondering what was on my mind since I was asking a criminal to meet his boss. All kinds of thoughts must have been running through her mind.
Still, I couldn’t explain to her what was happening. She would panic, especially since her husband had died from demons. There was no way to tell what her reaction would be like. I didn’t know to what point she had been affected by his death.
I stopped looking at her when I heard the voice of the Fishman.
"You." He barely raised one of his fingers. "Who the hell are you?"
It did give me a slight laugh as this was a question that I had been hearing more and more ever since I had arrived at the Royal Academy.
My bet was on the latter, but I couldn’t be 100% sure.
"If I find out that everything that you said is a lie, then when we meet again. Getting tied up witll be the least of your worries, I’m telling you."
I gave him a little threat before removing the rope and restraining him. I wanted to see his reaction. However, he swore to me that everything he had just said was the truth and only the truth. So, I went with it. He didn’t even have a reason to lie.
"Then, you better stick close to your boss tomorrow because I want to know what he looks like."
Finley shook his head. "Don’t worry. You’ll know who he is with a single glance. Everyone in Atlantis is scared of him. Even authorities won’t do anything against him."
I nodded again and untied him. "Alright, thank you for your help."
"S-Sure..." He muttered those words and started running as far away as possible from the alley. He was scared that we would do other things to him.
Seeing him run away, both Ava and I laughed as we hadn’t expected something like that. Still, she quickly stopped laughing and started asking me a few questions that she wanted the answer to.
"Why do you want to meet his boss?" She asked with a dubious look.
I just shrugged. I wasn’t going to tell her now. I needed to know more about her past with the demons and the war. I knew that she had suffered enough, and I didn’t want to put more onto her shoulders.
"I have a couple of questions for him. Don’t worry too much about it."
However, that didn’t cut it as she got closer to me.
"Tell me why."
She got closer to me, holding onto my right hand and looking at me dead in the eyes.
Her glare was intense. It was as if she wanted more from me. Her body leaned forward against mine, even causing her breasts to squeeze against my body.