Free Legendary Detective at the World's End (Volume 1) by Kaye Wagner

face of the Representative as he gritted his teeth at his words. He looked over at the shocked faces of his crew and Davos as they looked on at disbelief at this child’s piercing words, but nonetheless held onto every letter he spoke.
       “The name’s Kray.” The Union Representative said lowering his head, feeling the pressure of the room overwhelming him.
       “Are you serious?” Davos said in shock. “You can’t be serious, are you telling me we’ve been working with a fake this whole time?” as he spoke out those words, a disquieting look arose on all the faces of the gambling crew inside. It was as if all the broken promises that Kray’s lies had built, shattered in an instant, along with a river of dreams that only children could imagine.
       “You liar!” Davos shouted as he lunged for Kray, but as he did, supporters of the fake Union Rep. jumped forward to protect him.
       “What are you doing?!” Davos said as they pushed back the force of his anger.
       “Sorry.” Kray said. “I won’t be able to keep my promises about introducing you to the Union, but I did keep you guys alive during hard times, didn’t I?” He said proudly. “Didn’t I give you a place to work under a banner worth fighting for?”
       “Shut up!” Davos shouted as his own men pulled him away. “You gave us nothing of the sort. We did this all on our own, you just sat by and collected all the money, and for what? Your promises?! Well, it turns out those are as worthless as the locks on your safes!”
       “H-Hey,” one of the confused crewmembers said. “Doesn’t the real Gambling Union have a zero tolerance policy for fakes using their name?”
       “Exactly.” Davos scoffed as his raged boiled over. “Especially those that taint their name with successful robbery. We’d be lucky to survive the end of the night once they hear about this. And it’s all this cockroaches fault!” Davos said attempting to lunge forward again at the bleeding Kray.
         Kirin, watching their internal dispute grinned for a moment. “If the house always wins, tear it down.” He said pleased, however, the pleasure was fleeting for Kirin, as his smile quickly waned along with his interest. He then turned around and headed for the door. Exiting the room, Jake watched alongside Lee the playful psychological mastery Kirin held over the room vanish with him as he exited in great haste. Jake, Lee, and Karl reluctantly pulled themselves away from the argument brewing inside the office and headed out the door as well, all of them holding an unsettling feeling in the pit of their stomach at what just happened in there. Passing by the empty chairs, Jake wondered how the thieves pulled off their robbery. How exactly did they get everyone to quietly exit without a sound? Kirin must have been right, they must be professionals, Jake thought.
         Exiting out the front door, they found themselves in the middle of the sparsely crowded sidewalks and streets of the evening stalking hours. Some mopeds zipped by alongside horse drawn carriages under the brightly lit streets of the opulent city of Teigen.
         Lee rubbed his knuckles over his eyes for a moment. “I can never get used to the new evening lights. Where are my dim paths and creepy alleys?”
       “All gone with reconstruction.” Jake said.
       “Yeah,” Karl nodded his head. “What a little zoo money can do for a town still amazes me.”
       Jake laughed. “And haunts the rest of us with not enough coin to see the damn thing… You know,” he said looking at the absentminded stare of Lee. “You’re taking all this well.”
       “Am I? I’m just confused right now and a little disappointed.”
       “Why?” Jake said intrigued. “You’re out of debt.”
       “Yeah I know, but I really believed he could win that game.”
       “You’re an idiot.” Jake smiled. “And me too.” he said glancing at Kirin standing tall by the