Sympathism Act II

Hours after I joined the mafia I feel like nothing much has changed, the feeling after something "great" has happened is kind of suffocating, the weight that is on my back now I will really have to bear, Derogatory situations disappear and appear in a matter of seconds. I get up and go up the stairs with scarlet carpet, Thinking how much I have evolved as a person and how much I can do, and the result is minimal but even so I feel that I have changed a little and every day I learn something.

As I walk up the stairs I come across Leonard and Lana talking in a tone that doesn't impress me much, knowing just from this unimpressive tone I know it's directly from the Mafia, moments later they both look directly at me.

"You're right on time Johnny, we're going on your first mission" Lana says

"But already?" I say in a doubtful and nervous tone

"Yes, the mafia is a cog that never stops, besides it seems we have some rats from other corners that need to be exterminated" after Lana speaks in a more determining and intimidating tone, Leonard puts on black leather gloves and takes from the hallway drawer an M19013 a pistol used by the French in WW2, while the only thing Lana takes is her umbrella.

"Take it young Johnny, you might need it" Leonard holds out his hand and hands Johnny a Colt 1911A1, a pistol used by the United States in WWII.

"M-but I have never even used a gun in my life"

"Just hold it, point and shoot, and at the end give a smile" Leonard speaks with a dry smile and a calm face, at the same moment I didn't understand what he meant by that so I just accepted it and put the gun away in the pocket inside my blazer.

After we get into the car Lana starts to explain the situation that is taking place in Northwest London:

"to reports around the Southwest zone is having varied forms of murders against women and young people, People have been found butchered and the locations found are among the area near the Mother Teresa Catholic Church, People say they have seen the face of the killer and swear it is the dreaded Jack the Ripper"

"WAIT DOES HE EXIST?! I thought it was just a legend to make people stay at home" I say in a nervous and confused tone

"No youth, he really exists, besides being a cruel person he is also one of the vice captains of Sisyphus, that's what the informants of the group say, however we have to be very careful with this guy, he is totally psychotic and attacks by surprise without pity or mercy" Leonard speaks while looking with a serious and contemptuous face

"Yes, our mission is to capture him, get information from him and then.... Kill him" Lana speaks with an intimidating tone of voice

"Wait... Kill? I don't think that's necessary, let's turn him over to the police.

"Johnny... understand 3 things I already told you, Sisifo is the leader who practically runs all of London and then some, second, Jack Ripper is a psychotic who only follows Sisifo because he lets him kill and torture whoever he wants, and third, We are not the good guys" Lana speaks while looking directly into my eyes, so I lower my head and get thoughtful.

Hours later, we arrived in the Southwest zone, the air and the atmosphere in that place were heavy, the street was dirty and everyone was looking at me funny, At that moment I knew that because of the zone I would not be treated cordially.

"Okay, we have 2 weeks to find Jack, interrogate him and kill him, so we will stay at the hotel on 27th Street near a famous bar in the area, there we will get information and also because it is busier we will be more protected and hidden, we will leave the car here on account of not drawing too much attention, come on" Lana speaks direct and precise words, like an order, I start to follow her, so I begin to analyze that neighborhood, everything was very sad, the people didn't smile, the houses weren't painted, the children were hidden inside the houses, as we walk I begin to think how was the childhood in my neighborhood, the children well dressed and perfumed, playing and playing, the people smiling and playing sports in a healthy way, at that time I lived inside a wall where I lived happy and without any worries, but when these walls were broken I discovered a world of sadness and suffering.

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When I get to the front of the hotel I look across the street and see a girl working as a waitress, her hair tied up with red strands and a bow on top, her lips thin and eyes as dark blue as the deepest sea, her skin a little tanned, she was really very beautiful.

"GIRL" 

"Coming" shouts the girl carrying on her tray a plate of Spaghetti Alla Puttanesca and a glass of red wine

"Waitress where is my NewCastle?" shouts another customer sitting outside the Restaurant

"I'm coming, wait a po... aah-" Before speaking, the girl steps on her shoelace and falls, thus dropping Spaghetti and Wine to the floor.

"AGAIN? THIS IS THE THIRD TIME IN A WEEK!" shouts the angry chef and goes towards the waitress with an empty pot

"A thousand apologies Chef, it's just that I couldn't sleep properly because of Wor-"

"And who says I care?!" the cook with a dirty apron and a look of contempt speaks looking at the girl and throwing the pot on the floor

"Congratulations, I hope you enjoy Spaghetti."

Getting her hands dirty the girl starts to pick up the dusty food from the floor, the Spaghetti doused with red wine and sautéed with salt and dirt from the floor, would be her menu for the day. Holding back her tears the girl thinks to herself with her eyes closed as she picks up the food:

"Tomorrow is another day"

Looking at that situation I feel confused about something, I don't have any connection with that girl and I don't have any kind of connection, I don't need to get involved in other people's situations that are not of my interest, I don't need to... but still... I feel an immense desire to protect her. At that moment I didn't know, but that tightness in my chest and anger, was passion.

"Johnny, won't you come in?!" Says Lana with the key to the room where we will sleep, Hotel' Mirage London room 357, an apartment with 2 bedrooms, 1 kitchen, 1 living room and 2 bathrooms and 1 shower, as I enter the room I am surprised at how small the apartment was.

"Right, let's spend this afternoon resting and think about how we will go about getting relevant information to find this killer" says Lana as she opens a bottle of white table wine, while Leonard goes to the window to watch the movement.

"Right, to find someone in a large area first we will map the points, so for that we need 3 simple points, LPS, Location, Position, Suspicion, we need to know the location between the information, the positions where the victims were killed and the Suspicion of the people by the locations, by mapping these 3 points we will find the killer and catch him" says Lana while looking at the white Wine.

"Exactly, so far there have been seven murders, but all of them are in distant places to make it even more difficult, while we were coming people didn't say a word, it's going to be difficult" Leonard says while looking at the city through the window.

"I think we should first look in the restaurant next door, it's a place where there are a lot of people so there must be precious information there"

"The only valuable information for you there is that clumsy waitress, Focus on the goal Johnny" Lana speaks directly to me with a sarcastic and malicious tone

"Don't say that... it's just that since it's a commercial point where a lot of people go, it may have important information" I speak a little embarrassed and blush

"That's right young man, so you can go there tomorrow, while Lana and I look elsewhere" Leonard speaks with a determined and enthusiastic tone

"Really, this way we cover a larger area, right then... tomorrow Leonard and I will go to other places and you, Johnny go to the Restaurant, but go a little undercover, if they notice you are from a wealthy family it will make it harder to find" Lana speaks as she finishes her white wine.