While speaking, the few people arrived at the bar counter, and after sitting down one by one, Revy forcefully slapped the wooden bar counter and shouted, "Three glasses of whiskey, on the rocks, don't add any other weird stuff."
Then she asked Aiden and Rokuro Okajima, "What about you guys? Want to drink something? Order whatever, it's on me."
Aiden had no research on foreign liquor and didn't like drinking. He originally wanted to order a cup of green tea, but there wasn't any here. After thinking a bit, he said, "I'll have whiskey on the rocks too."
"Same for me," Rokuro Okajima raised his hand and said.
"Very good, a wise choice," Revy again slapped the bar counter, "Five glasses of whiskey on the rocks."
Soon, five glasses of whiskey with ice cubes were placed in front of them.
Revy raised her glass and very boldly drank it all in one gulp. She let out a long breath, wiped her mouth with her sleeve, and shouted, "Nice! On a hot day, one should drink something that lifts the mood."
Aiden lightly sipped a mouthful, feeling a different taste from what he was used to, shook his head slightly, and then swallowed the drink.
"This place doesn't look like a bar." Rokuro Okajima also took a big gulp. Today's experience made him urgently need this thing to numb himself, and under the effect of alcohol, he started talking more.
"Everyone here carries a gun, it feels more like a saloon in a Western cowboy movie."
"Appropriate metaphor." Dutch crossed his hands, supported his chin, and looked at the glass in front of him as he said, "This place indeed isn't a proper bar, and the owner isn't a proper bar owner either. But due to operational issues, rather than calling it a bar, it's more like a den serving villains."
"So, do you hate it here, Rock?" Somehow, Dutch was surprisingly friendly to Rokuro Okajima and even gave him a new nickname.
Rokuro Okajima thought of a small bar in Japan, and said with a dazed look, "I prefer drinking in Japan, where the smiles of people around me were so sincere, without any threats or vigilance."
"Heh heh!" Hearing this, Aiden couldn't help but let out a low chuckle, but his laughter displeased Revy, who was already starting her second glass.
"Hey hey, if you're gonna drink, drink properly. Why laugh so creepily?" Revy slammed her glass on the bar counter, one hand naturally wrapping around Aiden's neck, and the other grabbing his glass, ready to pour it into his mouth.
Luckily, Dutch stopped her in time, sparing Aiden from her forced drinking.
"Sorry, Revy's drinking habits have always been bad." Dutch very politely apologized to Aiden. It was obvious he'd done this more than once.
"I can tell." Aiden nodded understandingly and took another small sip.
Just like that, after drinking for a while, Aiden couldn't drink anymore. It wasn't that he had poor tolerance, in his current physical condition, a few jins wouldn't get him drunk at all.
But drinking in a bar, especially overseas, came with no snacks to go with the alcohol, it was just pure drinking. He barely managed to finish the glass.
Before he had time to rest, another glass of whiskey was pushed in front of him, and then he heard Revy laughing loudly, "There's plenty of alcohol, don't be polite!"
"I'd rather you be a little polite." Aiden muttered, then thought to himself that with Revy's personality, that kind of situation would never happen.
He sighed, held the glass, stared blankly at the liquid inside, and hesitated whether to continue drinking.
At this time, Dutch, who had been chatting with Rokuro Okajima for a while, suddenly stood up and said to everyone, "I'm going to make a phone call, you guys keep drinking."
After finishing his drink in one go, he got up and walked toward the public phone inside the bar.
Rokuro Okajima curiously watched Dutch's back. He could feel the goodwill shown by the other party, something he hadn't even felt from his coworkers at the company.
"I can tell you're very curious about him," said the blond man Benny.
"Wha…what? How could I possibly be curious about him?" Rokuro Okajima shook his head and denied it.
"Relax, I'm not questioning your sexual orientation. I'm just saying, like you, I'm also very curious about him," said Benny.
"But aren't you guys partners?" Rokuro Okajima asked.
"We are partners, and we've known each other for years,"
Benny swirled the drink in his glass, "But what I know about him is just that he's big, knowledgeable, and a very strange guy."
"Anyway, I've already decided to give up on understanding him." Benny continued.
"I see." Rokuro Okajima nodded. He carefully looked at the blond man in front of him and suddenly asked, "By the way, you give off a different vibe from them. What did you do before?"
"Me? I was at the University of Florida. Later, I played too hard, messed with both the local gang and the FBI, and then..."
Before Benny could finish, Revy—already a bit drunk—cut in, "Then he got stuffed into a car trunk, and when he was about to be dumped into the lake, I saved him."
A flash of embarrassment passed across Benny's face. He muttered, "Revy, that part could've totally been skipped, right?"
"But you brought it up first," Revy glanced at him, "Besides, you shouldn't be at the age of reminiscing about the past yet."
"Of course not," Benny shook his head.
"Exactly. Since you're still young, then talk about something cooler, or things adults are interested in. Then drink another good round."
While talking, Revy opened a bottle of rum she just ordered and poured each of them a full glass.
Looking at the drink that was filled to the brim, Rokuro Okajima helplessly glanced at Aiden and found he looked just as depressed.
"Mr. Aiden, looks like tonight we're going home lying down," Rokuro Okajima said, then suddenly laughed and raised his glass, "But that's okay. I was just thinking of thanking you. Only pity is, this time it's not my treat."
"Don't worry, you'll have plenty of chances." Aiden clinked glasses with him and smiled slightly.
"That's more like it, drink!" Revy also leaned in for a toast, then finished hers in one gulp.
"Drink it all, don't act like a little woman." She wiped her mouth without care. Seeing that Aiden and Rokuro Okajima had only taken a small sip, she shouted in dissatisfaction.
Aiden and Rokuro Okajima gave a wry smile and followed suit.
"That's more like it." Revy nodded in satisfaction.
To be honest, with Revy around, there was no worry about a dull atmosphere. Under her mix of taunting and goading, even Aiden drank several more glasses. But because of his strong physique, he didn't get drunk like Rokuro Okajima, who was already getting tipsy and started drinking contests with Revy.
Soon, empty bottles started piling up on the bar, and quite a few people came to spectate the drinking contest between Rokuro Okajima and Revy.
This allowed Aiden to escape unscathed. Watching the two compete, he handed Benny a cigarette and watched the match together.
But this was destined to be a drinking contest with no winner.
Just as the atmosphere reached its peak, a gunshot suddenly rang out in the bar.
Immediately, everyone's attention was drawn over. Even Revy, who seemed totally drunk, calmed down and glanced back.
But in Roanapur, gunfights were far too common. Except for Rokuro Okajima, no one showed a surprised expression, in fact, some curious ones even walked to the door to peek outside.
"Something's not going wrong, right?" Rokuro Okajima, after all a normal person, asked nervously.
"Should be nothing. Maybe just some drunk guy," Revy said calmly.
"Better be careful," Only Aiden, who knew the plot, gave a reminder.
Suddenly, a few more gunshots were heard. Those few who were looking out the door were all shot in the head simultaneously.
Then, a few grenades were thrown inside.
Seeing grenades, everyone in the bar instantly sobered up, letting out screams and curses.
Aiden directly grabbed Rokuro Okajima and Benny, throwing them behind the bar counter, then pulled Revy over too. This girl was still drunk and had drawn her pistol, ready to fight back on the spot.
Boom!
Just as Aiden pulled Revy behind the counter, the grenades finally exploded.
The resulting shockwave, inside the sealed bar, was maximized. Countless wooden tables and chairs were blown to pieces, and under the shockwave, those fragments became grenade shrapnel, harvesting the lives of those who hadn't reacted yet...
"Alright, boys, party's starting."
Outside the bar, several powerful jeeps and SUVs were parked. A commander-like mercenary gave the attack order.
As his voice fell, the well-prepared mercenaries started firing wildly into the bar. Many who survived the explosion were mowed down under the intense gunfire.
Behind the bar counter, Revy somehow found another bottle of alcohol. She bit off the cap, took a long sip, then shook the bottle at Aiden and said, "Want a sip?"
Aiden just gave her a glance, shook his head, pulled out his katana, checked the magazine, and then said, "You should ask Rokuro. I think he needs this more right now."
The explosions and gunfire had completely sobered up Rokuro Okajima. Without the numbing of alcohol, he was now hugging the ground, pressing tightly to dear Mother Earth.
Revy glanced at Rokuro, curled her lips, "Forget it, giving him alcohol would just be a waste."
At this moment, Dutch's voice came, "Revy, you alright?"
"I'm still alive, oh!" Revy took another sip.
"Benny?" Dutch called the other teammate.
"Same here, Aiden saved me."Benny, also holding his head, replied.
"What about Rock?"
"He's fine, just emotionally unstable." Aiden answered for Rokuro Okajima.
"That's fine, as long as he's still alive." Dutch was relieved and shouted.
"What do you mean just alive? What the hell is going on?
I finally graduated university, just worked for a few years, and now I run into something like this!" Rokuro Okajima was driven into a breakdown by Dutch's words, "Why is this happening? Why all the fighting? Can't we just live peacefully?"
"Shut up, idiot!" Revy, annoyed by his noise, threw away her bottle, shoved a pistol into his mouth and threatened, "If you keep screaming, I'll blow your mouth off."
But even with a gun blocking his mouth, Rokuro Okajima still didn't quiet down and kept groaning.
Seeing Revy already starting to press the trigger, Aiden advised, "Forget it, Revy. He's just an ordinary person. It's normal to be scared."
Only then did Revy move her finger off the trigger, snorted coldly, and pulled the gun out of Rokuro Okajima's mouth.
"Revy, have you rested enough? It's time to show them how strong the Black Lagoon Company is." Dutch's voice came again. He had just tried to fight back but was pinned down by bullets the moment he peeked out, so now he could only place his hopes on Revy.
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