[Onyx]
She was a feisty one. Petre took a drink from his glass as she scolded him and went for her jacket. He just sat there with little reaction to her words. He sat like a man who knew better.
"I do not think you understand my words, so I will clarify them for you again." He looked at her with his eyes being a lot more narrow than before, displaying a hidden form of seriousness within them. He tapped some of the ash into the tray on the table before he spoke again.
"I do not doubt that you are here for peaceful reasons. Being Japanese is also something we do not hold against you. We get Japanese customers now and again. But there is something you must realize, madam, before you decide to leave this room."
He settled back into the couch, placing an arm over the top of it.
"Normally, I would have let you leave. But after telling me who you are, I can't just let you get up and walk out of here. Let me ask you something. You say that you are a seller on the black market, right? It is a rather bold thing for you to reveal here, especially in the business of the Renshu. You see, you are not the only one who operates in that line of work. And with you present, it makes you look like a competitor to us. Do you see where I am getting at so far?"
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[Boat Party]
"Ko Yuen, huh? Ha, well, I guess it makes sense for a man like him to get a broad like yourself."
She was bigger than your normal woman. Something he wasn't use to seeing in his line of work. Chinese girls tended to be on the small size in many departments. You did get your lucky ones now and again, especially ones who augmented their busts with silicon. But to see a natural was a good sight to him. He smiled smugly, taking another drink of his glass.
Then muttering began to move from the crowd. One man shouted to everyone.
"Can I have your attention, please. Mister Tan Fa Rong has arrived."
Everyone began speaking up, taking their attention away from their conversations and looking toward the ramp, awaiting his arrival. Ko looked, as well, pulling on his collar as he stepped toward the area where other higher ups were going, as they had to be the ones to properly meet the head formally. The fat guy who was feeding his face got up quickly, using a napkin to wipe his face then moved himself through the crowd to go join the other heads of Renshu. Cale would see up to twelve people, including, Ko, form a line on each side. Ten of them were men, and two were female. One female in the old age, and another who looked around Cale's age, her hair long and white. And then there was a man among them that didn't look quite so Chinese. He looked mixed. His eyes held a sort of slyness to them that asians normally did not have. His black hair was worn on his head styled back, and yet, it was wholly different from the norm in that it sat atop his head almost perfectly. It was no one other than the man Shen told Cale about. Enlai, a man who had a face that was handsome, and yet...somewhat untrusting to those with enough wisdom. Guards stepped up, walking past the created corridor of leaders before the man himself made his appearance.
He stood at 6' 3". In addition to the black suit he wore absent of a tie, he wore another suit coat over his shoulders as if it was a cape. A cane set in his left hand, placed against the ground as he stepped up the ramp and onto the deck of the boat. Hair of pepper and salt color flushed his head with only little balding occurring just past the forehead crest, the style more wavy and upwards than the typical Chinese straight strands of hair. Walking behind him came another man. A lot shorter and younger with
round glasses and a schoolboy haircut. The leaders bowed their heads respectively as the man walked forward, then met him with handshakes from each of them. The party began to loosen up as the music slowly came back on, this time being a slow Chinese melody with ukele, piano, and a woman singing in Chinese over at the stage.
The short guy standing next to Cale chuckled. "It's not everyday I get to see the head man himself. But hell am I going to try to talk with him. This night is going to be nothing but a** kissing to him."
