Cocktail Prince, Main story, Part 3, Chapter 24

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Chapter 24: Equal Value

*door opens*

Henchmen Leader: Huh? What is it now?

???: Would you please take your hands off my granddaughter?

MC: Huh? Grandpa? And everyone else!

Moulin Rouge: How strange. Shouldn’t you be picking out some white lace right about now? I wonder what you’re doing in a place like this. Both White Lady and I were looking forward to seeing it.

Salty Dog: Why did you lie to us and say you were going to go shopping! Why, why did you come to this place all by yourself….

Tom Collins: Calm down, Salty Dog. We can give her a lecture later.

Henchmen leader: What the hell are you doing here? Bursting in all of a sudden, disturbing the place

Tequila Sunrise: We are that little lady’s guardians. We don’t have any business with you. Just give her back to us.

Grandpa: Mr. President, I have the real deed to the property right here. The deed you obtained is a fake. So now what sort of things do you plan on doing to my lovely granddaughter?

Yabai Group President: My deed is… a fake?

Grandpa: Oh, you have such a puzzled look on your face. You thought it was the real thing.

Henchmen Leader: Hey old man, you done talking shit!?

Emerald Mist: Hey, don’t get violent with us. I have a camcorder here for taking evidence.

Yabai Group Member: Huh?? Who gave you permission to record in here?

Moulin Rouge: Hm… Are you an idiot? You’re the ones dangling a fake deed over our heads and blackmailing innocent people. And everything’s being recorded right now as evidence.

Tom Collins: It’s in your best interest to not stir things up. Mr. President, you understand, don’t you?

Yabai Group President: …

Henchmen Leader: President, what do we do?

Emerald Mist: Blackmailing with a forged document, attempted assault… If the authorities look closely at what you’ve done, they’re sure to find evidence against you.

Moulin Rouge: Come over here. I can’t say if they’ll do anything to us.

Yabai Group Member: Your videos don’t matter! Let’s kill these guys!

Emerald Mist: Do you really think we’re scared of you? Primitive unevolved beings are truly comical people.

Tequila Sunrise: Don’t provoke them. We can save her for now, so isn’t that enough?

Grandpa: Now, here’s the deal… We’re going to go back home unharmed, and you will stay away from our bar. If you can do that for us, while this is small, I will offer you this.

*tap*

Yabai Group President: What’s that?

Grandpa: This is my most treasured wine. The grade of my own car is meaningless compared to its value. Or, maybe we should take all the evidence we have to the police?

Yabai Group President: …tsk, I’m being manipulated by a small piece of paper. These bastards… Fine, go back home. Sorry for bothering you. Because of this drink, you have yourself a deal.

Grandpa: I’m eternally grateful. Please excuse us.

Moulin Rouge: You’ve got quite the nerve lying to us and going out by yourself like that.

Tom Collins: How could you do something so reckless?

Salty Dog: Yeah! It’s too dangerous!

Tequila Sunrise: I’m glad you’re okay, but you need to take care of yourself a little more.

Emerald Mist: Why do you not think about the consequences!? Do you have any brains in that head of yours?

Grandpa: It was wrong of you to run off by yourself like that. Think about what you’ve done.

MC: I’m sorry… But the deed was a fake after all, huh? I guess there was no need to worry about it.

Grandpa: It’s the real thing. The one we have is a fake. We were bluffing earlier. But I am glad we could get away with it so well.

Salty Dog: And we were able to recover the real one!

MC: What? When did that happen?

Salty Dog: I picked it up when the president threw it away!

Moulin Rouge: Even if you did decide on going after it on your own, you should have come together with Martini if you were so worried.

Tom Collins: Heheh, we even brought expensive wine for this.

Emerald Mist: Something as expensive as that wasn’t worth it.

Tequila Sunrise: You sound just like those guys back there!

MC: I got it… Thank you, everyone.