Rebirth: The Shadow Of Greed

..."Useless kid! I don't even know why I feed you."

Rat shouted as he cursed at his underling.

The man fearing for his life, looked down on the ground racked in guilt, his life was way more important than that of his boss. It was a dog eat dog world and ultimately it was who survived that is important.

"Rat, what's it gonna be, will you tell me what you know?"

Z looked at Rat indifferently as if his life didn't mean anything to him at all.

Rat gave a cruel smile showing all his rotting teeth. Looking at his men just standing around he grew angry that he raised a bunch of good for nothing.

"Do you think I will tell you anything while we are in this position? HAHAHA, you must be crazy if you think I'll tell you anything."

Z once again raised his hand lifting Rat's right hand up and pinned it on the wall. The piece of 8 went in hard and fast pinning his other hand on the wall.

"You bastard! F*ck you, I won't tell you anything! I hope the disappearance of the kids weighs in heavily onto your conscience."

Z released his grasp on Rat gently, allowing gravity to work its magic and letting Rat's hand rip apart from the weight of his body.

"So are you going to tell me? or should I let you feel more pain?"

"Okay okay! Let me down first, it hurts damn it!"

Rat relented, begging for mercy as he struggled on the wall. Z just looked on indifferently.

'Rip! Squeak!'

The sound of flesh rending resounded, followed by a loud squeak as rat transformed into a rat ripping both his hands to break free of the pieces of 8. He plopped to the floor and started scampering away with all his might, attempting to reach a drain so he could make his getaway.

'Clang!'

A piece of 8 landed in front of rat blocking his way to advance forward stopping him dead in his tracks, just as he was about to turn and make a sprint for it, 2 more pieces of 8 landed followed by 3 more, blocking him entirely and trapping him like a Rat in a trap.

"When you turn into a Rat, does your intelligence decrease as well? Let me give all of you a lesson in interrogation."

Z waved his hand as another piece of 8 landed, completely decapitating Rat, ending his life there and then.

"When going through an interrogation, after the first 5 minutes, if they don't give you any information, you can just move on, because it's likely that their information is inaccurate. I'm going to ask all of you now, you're all under interrogation. Who. Did. This?"

Some of the homeless underlings started to panic and decided to hoof it, turning around using their full strength to run away, but found themselves rooted on the spot.

"Of course, there are those that react in fear, but these are probably those that wouldn't be trusted with important information anyway. So..."

Twisted his hands as cracking noises came from the underlings, as their body fell to the ground limply.

"Enough! I can't take it anymore. Sir, I will tell you everything, let them all go. I will bear this Sin.

I've told the boss it was bad luck to sabotage a church, now he's unleashed a demon amongst us."

The young man who spoke up before but was beaten down decided to come forward. Z raised his hand as he pulled the young man a little closer to him until they were face to face.

"Go ahead, tell me what you know."

"Let the rest of them go first."

"Alright, but you have to know that if you lie to me in any way, I will come back and hunt each and everyone of them down."

Z said normally, but it brought a tinge of fear and worry to the people who were running away.

"Speak now!"

"The Boss... I mean Rat contacted the snake fang gang to tell them that the kids were prized possession. They attacked the church with the intention to trade the kids off as merchandise. I told him, it was wrong to do this to the church. He didn't listen."

"Where is the snake gang located? How many people do they have." Z asked.

"They are the biggest most ruthless gang in city A consisting of over a thousand members, there are few who can rival their power, their officers are strong manifesters so it's difficult to come out alive, let alone fight them."

"Very well, what's your name?"

"I have no name sir, these people they call me bastard. You can just call me bastard."

The young man said, with a tinge of humiliation hidden within his voice.

"From today onwards, your name will be North, you will handle all the affairs here, I'm assuming all of you people here can listen to what I'm saying, North will be the one in charge of this area, listen to him otherwise I will hunt all of you down."

Z turned and left, letting North down slowly, his knees went weak as he fell to the floor with a thud. This was as close he was to death than he had ever been and he thanked God that the demon didn't take his life.

If the demon wanted him to play the devil's advocate he had no way to say no right?

The underlings of Rat all came out of the woodwork after Z left, coming out wanting to claim leadership of the slums. 

"Didn't that guy say that bastard is the leader now?" 

"It's not bastard, it's North now eh?" 

"He'll be the leader, but he will be under our control. Isn't that right North? Come over here." 

'Crack!' 

The man who tried to command North, had his head twisted 180 degrees as he fell to the ground. He fell to the ground with a thud.