And then Nico Roccoli, Boss Roccoli, the undisputed Don of Missouri and Illinois...
broke down into tears. Tears fell down his cheeks, and he wrapped his arms around his torso, as if in pain.
"Okay, that's fucking it!" Guido knew nothing but total rage. He screamed at the soldiers, "FUCKING KILL THIS BITCH! NOW!"
Nico cried out, "NO!" He looked at his son. "Nobody...nobody touches her! Put your guns away...all of you." Guido and the enforcers could only look at him, stunned.
"I fucking mean it, PUT AWAY THE GODDAMN GUNS! Nobody hurts her...
NOBODY!" Guido began to break down again, but he repeated, "Nobody...no-nobody..."
Guido looked at his father helplessly. Reluctantly, completely confused, the enforcers holstered their guns. They didn't understand...they couldn't, not at that moment. But that would soon change.
Yuki, who knelt with Nico, gently prodded the sobbing Don's chin to tilt upward, so
he would look at her. She said, "I require you. I need you. Will you serve me?"
Guido could only look at his father as he said with desperation, "Y-yes...anything for
you, anything. Anything you want, I'll give it to you. I-if you want me to, I'll die for you. I-I'll die for you...I..." He fell to sobs once again, overwhelmed.
Yuki then embraced the most powerful organized crime figure in the American Midwest as he wept.
Her next words were spoken softly: "I believe you."
into shadow.
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