You don't even want to call me godfather

"It looks like you've already started the 'cleansing'."

Koshei drank again and lit a cigarette for himself.

"Yes, no one can escape," Lappland said, holding the wine glass tightly with some disgust. "Although this will be a long time, I will wash away the shame with blood sooner or later."

"If you need any help, you can always come to me. I have a wide network of contacts," Koshe said, puffing out smoke. "Of course, the premise is that you don't point the tip of your knife at the Cascade family's followers."

"Cascade, you are already the largest family in Syracuse, and your father is the recognized godfather. Are you still worried that someone will threaten you?"

Lappland asked playfully.

"People in high positions are most likely to get into trouble, especially when the power of the family overshadows that of the government," Koshe said after finishing his drink. "I will also try to investigate the incident with your family. As for the Texas family, I will try my best to find out more for you."

"So what about the return? Such a great favor can't go unrewarded, right?"

"Repay?" Koshe thought for a moment and replied, "Just treat me to a good meal when the time comes."

"I like this about you," Laplander patted his back and said, "Okay, okay, don't worry about me all the time. It's you—"

She drank the wine in her glass in one gulp, slammed it on the bar, and snatched the cigarette from Koshe's mouth.

"Hmm? Give it back—"

"You should smoke less and worry more about yourself, idiot."

Laplande ignored Koshe's resistance and put the stolen cigarette into his mouth.

"Ahem - it's choking me to death. Why do you always like to hold something so hard to smoke?"

As expected, Lapland, who had never touched tobacco before, choked so badly on the first puff that he cried and complained.

"Even though you have become somewhat capable now, your reckless character has not changed at all," Koshei said as he took the cigarette back. "You will definitely get into trouble in the future. You should be more careful."

"I know, I know, ahem - why are you acting like an old woman?" Lappland put a few gold coins on the table and put the pocket watch in his pocket. "Okay, I have to get down to business soon. There are a few wolf hunters in Syracuse recently, so you should be careful."

"Oh, I see."

After witnessing the various dangerous things that had happened in Syracuse recently, Koshe realized the chaos in the country.

He doesn't want to do things he doesn't like, nor does he want to hurt others because of it. He knows that every year he spends is very important.

Wolf hunters, he had heard this name from his father, they were all extremely dangerous killers.

"Wolf hunter...?"

Maybe I should go around and get some information these two days.

He thought so.

Chapter 3: Heresy

The air by the river is extremely fresh. It is hard to believe that there is such a peaceful place in Syracuse. The glow of the sunset on the horizon not far away is shining on the earth.

A butterfly came from nowhere, flew slowly past Koshei's eyes and landed on the back of his hand.

"Hey! You're so brave to leave me alone!"

He heard Lappland's shouting and the butterflies were scared away, but he ignored it.

This is my favorite time of the day, incredibly peaceful and quiet.

"Hey! Cascade, I'm talking to you!" Young Lappland stood up, threw the fishing rod in his hand to the ground, and shouted, "Didn't you say you would bring me out for training? Why are we fishing here?"

"Hush, be quiet, Lapland," the young Koshe stared at the buoy on the river, his eyes never leaving it, "Fishing is also part of training, don't be so impatient."

"Huh? You call this training? It's obviously boring as hell!"

Laplande complained. They had been sitting here for more than an hour, but the buoy didn't move and no fish was caught. She had no idea what training Koshe was talking about.

"We all get carried away easily, you, me, and the gang members in the family, all of us are like this," Koshe said. "The world is getting more and more complicated, and there are more and more things to think about. Sometimes you just have to let your mind go blank like this."

"Tsk, but this is even more boring than I thought. I don't feel calm, but even more irritated."

Laplander sat down gloomily, gnawing on his fingers unhappily.

"It seems that you have not yet experienced the joy of leisurely killing time. Peace of mind is also a kind of training. You really need to change your reckless personality."

"Hey, Cascade, why are you always like those adults, saying things that I can't understand? You are exactly like your mother."

"My mother?" Koshe stared at the buoy, silent for a moment, and asked, "Speaking of which, did you really listen to your godmother's words?"

Koshe's mother, the future godfather's wife, and godmother to many of Syracuse's children.

The Lappland family and the Cascade family have a good relationship. Even Lapland happened to be educated by the godmother of the Cascade family, who taught her how to behave in the world. But at present, it seems that Lapland does not seem to listen to her godmother very much.

"Listen, I remember every word she said. Even though I don't understand it very well, I am trying to understand it."

Laplande said.

"Really? But you don't seem to even know how to address someone," Koshei pointed out a problem with Lapland. "You always call me Cascade, but that's not my first name. It's my last name. I usually don't address people like that unless it's a respectful title."

"Alright, alright, I got it. Why are you nagging me like that?" Lappland quickly interrupted Koshei and said, "It's just a name. You and I are no match for each other. Why do you care so much about it?"

"So according to what you said, can I ask you to pull the dog?"

"Huh? Are you kidding me?"

Lappland clenched his fist and made a gesture to hit him.

"Just kidding, hey, the fish is hooked."

After Koshe's reminder, Lapland realized that the buoy connected to his fishing rod thrown on the ground had sunk.

She quickly grabbed the fishing rod before it was pulled into the water and pulled it upwards with all her strength.

It seemed that she had caught a big fish. Lapland was unable to pull the fish up for a while. She was in a stalemate with the fish for a long time, but failed to pull it out of the water. Instead, she was slowly dragged into the water by the fish.

Her feet slipped and she was about to be pulled into the river.

At this time, Koshe also held the fishing rod and supported her body. The two of them worked together in tacit understanding and lifted it up suddenly. The big fish was finally thrown out of the water.

……

"So Lappland actually goes fishing?"

At the bar, Jill was wiping the wine glasses that seemed to take forever to wipe while listening to Koshei telling stories from the past.

"Ah, to be precise, I forced her to go there in the name of training," Koshe said, extinguishing the cigarette in his hand. "During that time, she kept pestering me to train her in swordsmanship and other things, because the Cascade family is famous for its swordsmanship, and I happened to be a child of the Cascade family, so she thought she could learn a lot from me."

"Isn't that good? You two seem to have a good relationship."

Jill said with interest, leaning on the bar with her arms crossed.

"Lappland is good with a sword, but her physical skills are terrible. Every time we practice close combat, she gets exhausted and ends up having to let me carry her back. It's really..."

"Ahahaha, I didn't expect that she, who looks crazy now, would have such a past."

"Well... after all, something happened in the middle..."

Koshe looked up at the dim light on the bar and took a sip of his drink in silence.

How long ago was that? It doesn't seem that long ago.

At that time, the Cascade family was not the most powerful force in Syracuse. Like many other families, it divided the territory of this country.

But one day, the government suddenly broke out into the biggest conflict in history with the various families of Syracuse.

During those days, Koshe was hidden by his father in a safe place, like an air-raid shelter, along with his mother and sister.

Only when the struggle between the government and the mafia ended did he, his mother and sister come out from underground.

It was also during those days that Lappland disappeared, and about a year later, she reappeared in front of Koshe.

But at that time, she was covered in ashes and blood, and she was carrying the only daughter of the Texas family.

He didn't ask, but he knew what was going on.

His father told him that in the struggle with the government, many families in Syracuse were completely wiped out, and families like the Cascades, which had defeated the government and survived, also gained greater power than before.

In less than a year, the Cascade family took over the majority of Syracuse families with an overwhelming advantage and naturally became the largest family in Syracuse.

And his father, Ulysses Cascade, truly became the godfather recognized by the world.

They offered their loyalty and respect to the Godfather, and he became the person that the world paid the most attention to.

In contrast, the demise of families such as the Texas family and the Lappland family has received little attention.

The impact of the demise of several small families is far less shocking than the rise of a large family.

Lapland has changed since then.

She no longer pestered Koshei to accompany her in training, nor did she fish by the river with a fishing rod in hand.

She and Texas became partners, and all she had left were two swords and coins.

In Syracuse, money was considered a symbol of sin, so he knew that Laplander was destroying everything that symbolized religious morality and replacing it with its opposite.

She ignores the rules and is rebellious.

Then one day later, Texas also disappeared, and Lapland became lonely and desolate, but also became crazier and crazier.

And Koshe could feel that Lappland now extremely hated the Syracusans.

Hated all Syracusans.

Chapter 4 Angelina

Her name is Angelina, she is 16 years old and is a messenger.

At an age when she should have been studying in school with her peers, she had dropped out and became a messenger in Syracuse simply because she had contracted oripathy.

This was her second month as a messenger, and also her second month of being infected with oripathy.

She gradually got used to the Originium crystals on her arms, and when delivering letters and express deliveries, she would deliberately use her long sleeves to cover up those black crystals.

Syracuse's attitude towards infected people is much better than that of other countries. As long as they do not live with non-infected people and do not infect others, they can work normally.

So she chose to become a messenger, because when she delivered goods at night, she could always see many unique scenery of Syracuse on the road.

"It's so beautiful."

Standing on the roof, looking at the river of Syracuse's only port, the night view fascinated her.

If possible, she wanted to take a boat away from there, go to the outside world and find her own freedom.

The stars in the sky had not yet dimmed, and the entire city was hidden in darkness. Angelina saw that the street lamps on the streets of Syracuse began to light up one by one, and night fell.

She stood on the rooftop of a tall building, holding the express delivery that needed to be delivered in one hand and a magic wand in the other, and jumped down from the building.

"call--"

Angelina took a deep breath, and the tip of her staff flashed an orange light. Her falling speed also slowed down rapidly, and she floated towards another building.

She landed steadily on the roof, her toes touching the ground, then she pushed off, using her Originium skill to control gravity to make herself jump high, and continued to float towards the next building.

Girls also have heroic dreams.

This magical power fascinated her and she tried to integrate it into her life, such as using the convenience of gravity to allow herself to transport goods quickly.

She was a happy Syracuse, and even though she was a messenger instead of a student, it would be nice to continue living this carefree life.

But she would never have thought that her ordinary life and every ordinary day would change today.

In the dead of night, she glided alone between the buildings, feeling the wind blowing past her in the quiet night. Soon, she was about to reach her destination.

This order was very strange. She went to pick up the goods at the scheduled time, but did not see the deliveryman. There was only a sealed box of express delivery, an address, and a note requiring it to be delivered to the recipient personally.

But she didn't think much about it. In the past two months as a messenger, she had encountered various strange events.

For example, when a box of particularly heavy items is delivered to the delivery point, there are two groups of people exchanging fire there. After the consignee signs to receive the goods, he directly pries open the box, grabs a firearm from it and goes to fight.

She found it a little difficult to adapt at first, but now she is used to it.

The destination was just downstairs. Angelina could already see the recipient standing at the door waiting. She stood at the edge of the low building and took a step forward.

But at this moment, a gust of wind suddenly blew and she tripped over the edge of the house. She hurriedly used the Originium technique to stabilize her body in mid-air, but found that the goods in her hand were gone.

"Boom!"

With the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, the box of goods fell not far in front of the consignee, and the contents of the carton were scattered all over the ground.

"Ah! Yes, I'm sorry!"

As soon as Angelina's feet touched the ground, she hurried forward and tried to pick up the scattered goods.