The Demolish This Story
07. Bad Apple's.

Aaron walked alone through a dark alley. Black mask was worn, covering his face.

'Wall with a picture of strawberries, turn right.'

Aaron traced his memories, making sure the path he went through was right.

It's a lot earlier than the first time Aaron came here, the road was a bit different than he knew.

Aaron looked around. His sight caught something from a distance.

3 People were sitting at the end of the alley. Shaded hair, piercings, tattoos, cigarettes and scattered bottles of alcohol. They're obviously thugs.

'Are they?'

He was a little hesitant to see their appearance, but decided to approach the three thugs.

One of the thugs realized his presence.

"Hmm? Oh, looks like there's a visitor who got lost here."

He scanned Aaron, then his gaze was fixed towards the bag he was carrying.

"I'm looking for your leader."

Aaron spoke out loud. One of the thugs stood up from sitting down, then walked over to Aaron.

"Well, don't be so dong, shouldn't we get acquainted first?"

The thug put one hand on Aaron's shoulder, and the other held the bag he was carrying.

Aaron took a breath. He held a thug arm on his shoulder, then–

Bruk!

–bringing his body violently to the ground.

"You-you?!"

Seeing his friend being dropped, another thug picked up a knife, then ran towards Aaron.

Aaron casually tilted his body, avoiding the knife stab. He lifted his knee, and ended up with the face of the thug that had fallen on his knee.

The one remaining thug just stood still, frozen to see his two defeated companions.

Aaron wrapped his durin with mana, emitting an aura of intimidation.

"I want to meet Green Apple."

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Not all hunters work on the word truth. There are some hunters who choose to work underground, either because they have personal problems, or their personalities that can not be improved.

The existence of a guild that contains a group of people like that indicates that the number is not small. They are called underground guilds.

Unlike the guild hunters in general, the underground guild does not always deal with monsters. They do dirty work, such as assassinations, illegal raids, information sources, and black markets. There are even some who do terrible things such as drug trafficking and human trafficking

Aaron's main goal right now is to sell the Taratect monster he defeated last time. Since Aaron was not a licensed hunter, he had to sell his hunting proceeds to the Underground Guild.

[Bad Apple], the place that Aaron is heading to right now is one of the biggest underground guilds in Southeast Asia.

Just like the other underground guilds doing the dirty work, but at least the Bad Apple guild did not do any evil activities like the last 2 mentioned things.

Aaron had borrowed the guild's services several times in the past. Of course, not to perform such a terrible task.

"Through here, sir."

After a few minutes of walking, Aaron managed to arrive with the guidance of the previous thugs.

When viewed from the outside, the place was like a hut that would collapse at any moment. But the inside is different.

The inside looks luxurious, dominated by gold and black. The smell was also smelling all over the room.

"Welcome, customer."

Sitting on the sofa, the man greeted Aaron with a smile on his face. A middle-aged man, with gray hair and a mask covered the top of his face.

"Green Apple?"

"Oh, it looks like you already know my name. Introductions don't need to be done." she smiled kindly, guiding Aaron to sit on the sofa.

Customer secrecy is closely guarded, so Aaron doesn't need to mention his name.

'Ah, this is right he.'

"I came here to sell this."

Aaron pulled Taratect's body out of his bag. Each piece was neatly cut, Aaron spent his entire week day on it.

"Oh, E-class Spider monster, Taratect. Hm... The quality is excellent and the cut is neat."

Green Apple looked at the corpse of Taratect with an interested look. Aaron smiled at that.

"There's still a lot back there. I even have the queen."

"Oh really?"

Green apple replied in an excited tone. He went back to check on Taratect's body.

"Hm... Judging from high quality, I will get it with $700." Green Apple raised two fingers.

"Don't joke with me. Taratect may be at the lowest rank, but looking at its quality, I'm sure it can be sold at around $900."

"No, Taratect himself was not a monster that was so in demand. In addition to the Core which is of course useful, the other parts are really not much to ask for. Only alchemists who used taratect as an ingredient of potions and craftsmen used Taratect leather to make low-level armor."

Aaron clicked his tongue. He certainly knew of this, but the price obtained was far from expected.

"$800"

"$700."

The conversation turned into a bargain. Aaron bit his lip.

"$750, last offer."

"Okay, I'll take it." Green Apple smiled happily.

"Haah" Aaron sighed. He never won against this guy.

'Basic cunning man'

Green Apple flicked his hand again. A piece of paper floated towards them. It was a contract, half contained about keeping the guild secret.

After making sure the contents were fine, Aaron wrote his signature on the paper.

"There's actually something else you want to do for me."

"Of course, customer sir."

"I want you to get this." Aaron took a piece of paper from his jacket pocket.

"Hmm, [Empyrean Predator], [Dagger of Clown Laugh], [Nightdoom Crystal], [Mask of envy], then Teapot's entrance?"

"You can't get it?"

"Of course I can be a customer master, but that's not the case here. You must know what I mean."

"it's expensive. Yeah, I know."

Aaron breathed in before continuing he said. His red eyes looked straight at the Green Apple

"That color I want to create a Green Apple opportunity."

There's one Bad Apple guild secret that Aaron knows.

Green Apple is the nickname of the guild branch bad apple in the city. Of course each city has a leader with a different nickname

And the man in front of him is not the Green Apple.

"Green Apple– shouldn't I call Richard Brown?"

Richard Brown, the main leader of the bad apple guild frowned. He squinted his eyes, staring at Aaron.

As the guild leader, he was a very busy person. He was more often in the Philippines, the main headquarters of the Bad Apple guild.

But only every last week of February will he be in Indonesia.

"Anna Brown's diary, I know where that thing is. "

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