The Santora Mafia, one of the many organized crime syndicates that ran through Baltigo and also one with a lot of pull in the underworld. Most people knew to leave them alone and not lie or betray them in fear that something worse than death would happen to them. Any piece of information or item that might seem valuable in the black market more than likely has made its way through the Santora Mafia. In the past couple of days word of another slave trade had managed to pick up around Baltigo and found its way to the Santora Mafia, which so happened to land its way to its right hand who happened to be an ex-slave himself. Hm, how true do you find this to be? Tatsuya would say as he looked at his informant with a stern voice and cold eyes from his desk, making sure to let him know that this was no game. ”It’s no doubt the truth, I’ve seen them and the place with my own eyes. the shaky voice of the male informant would say ”I even have pictures” he continued as he handed Tatsuya several pictures of what seemed to be of chained people and a shady version of the world government logo. When picking up and looking at the pictures, anger shot through Tatsuya and flash backs of his younger years rushed into his head.

”Thank you Rocky, you can go now The crimson haired teen would say as his informant left the small room that he called an office. The anger that shot through his body had not left yet, it had built instead to the point that he wanted to punch something. He gripped the pictures that his informant gave him, his stare full of rage as he looked at all the shackled slaves being transported somewhere here in Baltigo and the world government figures directing them. Looking at the picture put more of his past into his mind, of the young kid who was beaten and treated like shit for so many years. He had to make sure to stop this slave trade as soon as he could.

Standing up from his chair Tatsuya grabbed his cloak that was located on the back of his chair and his precious sword Shiro, walking towards the door. However before he exited he grabbed one of the several pictures from his desk which so happened to be the twisted looking world government logo. Tatsuya quickly made his way into Baltigos streets, luckily enough his informant had given him some kind of location where the slates had were being kept and used at along with a picture of what the places logo would look like so it wouldn’t be too hard to find them. After about thirty minutes of searching for the logo in the picture, he finally found it on the sign that belonged to a bar that he’d never seen before. Do they ever think of anything original? Tatsuya scoffed as he put the picture into his pants pocket, ready to barge in before he stopped himself.

Even though he wanted to bust right into this bar and apprehended everyone inside, he knew he couldn’t. In fact if he did so it would alert them that someone was trying to take them down and just try to kill him, Tatsuya knew he couldn’t handle everything by himself. His best bet for now is just make sure that his source was actually right and scope out the place a little. Taking a deep breath in to calm himself down, he walked through the bar doors and hoped for the best. When walking through the door he immediately noticed all of the shady unfocused around the bar and swore he could hear the clacking of chains as some of the cloaked individuals moved around, serving others that sat and chatted in the bar. It took a lot for him to not say anything and he made his way to the bar, occupying a seat next to a woman who seemed to be the only non-shady thing in establishment. Maybe she knew something or was one of the slavers, he would have to ask.

After sitting down and looking at a menu from those, he decided to order a milkshake since alcohol wasn’t really his thing. While the bartender went to go make his drink, he turned slightly to the woman who sat next to him and began to speak in volume that would not draw attention to them. ”Hi, my name is Tatsuya. What’s yours?” he asked in hope that she would reply. He did not want to ask any questions just yet, wanting to ease into it so if she did know anything, he didn’t want to scare her off.

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After realizing that sitting next to a complete stranger and then asking their name would seem a bit suspicious, he noted this as he saw the woman blush, her body tense and the mood in the air change around her. Seeing the small twitch that appeared in her lip after he spoke to her as well, maybe next time he would have to rethink his tactics on approaching someone but for now he had to go with the flow and continue with what he had started. However he knew his intentions were none of the impure kind, so he felt that things should go well. It took a few seconds but the woman would tell Tatsuya that her name was Valkyrie and while it sounded more like a question than a statement in its general nature. ”It’s nice to meet you Valkyrie” he said with a smile and right as the bartender brought over his order, a delicious chocolate milkshake.

As he took a sip of his drink, she would ask him how could she help him and a small smirk would appear on his face, it seems that the woman didn’t want to waste any time beating around the bush. ”Well I just wanted to know if you knew anything about this bar he said to her before stopping and looking around, seeing several of the bars patrons staring over in Tatsuya’s direction. ”Anything that might so happen be related to .. salves? he would say in almost a whisper to her, making sure that those prying eyes that watched them didn’t get to hear much of what he was saying. He hoped again that she might know something as he knew from the looks of it if he asked anyone else in the bar he would either be turned away or worse, outed to the head of the operation ruining his mission.

Everyone in the bar would come to stare at her. Especially the people in shackles, as if she had just sealed their fate. “I suggest you leave from here girl unless you don’t want something bad to happen.” said a man staring at Freya. The Kuja had only just arrived in Baltigo. So, she didn’t really want to cause a lot of trouble just yet. If that meant leaving the bar and coming back to handle the problem later. Then that was what she was going to do.

Slowly, she would rise up from her spot on the stool. Even now she was still a little tipsy. Freya would wobble out of the bar and down the streets of Baltigo. Maybe she would come back tomorrow night and explore the district. Whether that meant meeting new friends or not she didn’t know. She felt like something important was about to happen in that bar and she could help stop it. But a drunken girl couldn’t stop anything just yet. The male she had encountered was weird. Just approaching a female and asking her name out of the blue. Most people didn’t do that and most people would be responded with a rude remark from Freya.

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