Operation

Midnight...

Ban stood at the rooftop of Special Abilities Bureau building. His eyes surveyed the happenings in the Capital.

Beside Ban stood Veronica who's holding a stack of document and her face was filled with worry. Her confused eyes darted at Ban and then the bustling midnight life of the Capital.

After hours of discussions and preparations, Ban's clean-up operation is no ready to be executed.

"It's about time." Ban muttered and his body began to levitate higher together with Veronica by his side.

*Swish!*

"Ah!" Veronica was caught off guard as she felt the weightlessness on her body. Soon, she became used to it and marveled the feeling of being able to fly. She stared at Ban with trepidation and awe.

Ban took a stack of documents on Veronica's hand. The documents contained profiles of old and new gang members situated in the south capital. Every gang member has a listed detail about them including their pictures, crimes, gang name and more. Not just gang members, there are also people whose crimes were henious, yet very slick for the authorities to catch. Even foreign people were included in the list that were in the hiding, but the bureau were keeping tabs on their actions in the country.

Ban read those information as if he was casually browsing from a book and his eyes are flickering nonstop.

Veronica suddenly said,

"We only have three hours. My agents won't take action this period of time. You better hurry. Also, where are your troops?"

Ban ignored her urging and burned the documents on his hand into ashes which made Veronica puzzled.

"A total of 6,560 targets in the south. I've marked most of the list from the south capital."

With more than fifty million residents of a hundred kilometer radius Capital, more than six thousand are said to be quite a number for criminals on the loose from the south.

He closed his eyes before saying,

"Start."

...

South of the capital...

Less civilian roamed around the streets while a new wave of people littered around.

Gang members with heavy crimes, Drug lords/addicts, Human traffickers, Murderers, Rapists, Assassins and more.

However, if one was to notice, those people are headed to a same direction, outside of the Capital.

Their eyes were lifeless like they were just sleepwalking on the streets.

*Swish!* *Swish!* *Swish!* *Swish!* *Swish!*

Flashing in the shadows were Alice and the girls. They carried orphans from the streets of the slums or kept by those gang members and other mad people as the girls headed outside of the Capital where a huge warehouse was located.

Just like that, Alice and the girls returned back and forth to fetch the orphans on the street while they blended in the dark.

There are four warehouses ouside of the Capital to receive the kids. Managing the kids were mercenaries from the James family that Ban contacted hours before the operation.

...

Ban stared indifferently at the people heading outside of the Capital. He doesn't care much about their life and death.

"What are you going to do to these people?" Veronica was horrified seeing how Ban easily manipulated those people outside the Capital. Such a mysterious means can lead to a chaos everywhere.

"Nothing much." Ban smirked and he shifted his vision a few kilometers to the south.

He continued, "I'm planning a nice event for them."

From above, Veronica glanced at Ban with a puzzled look. She somehow felt something more bigger is going to happen in the Capital later tonight.

Ban smiled faintly and grabbed another stack of document from Veronica's hand.

As soon as he read the contents, he then turned towards the East. Just like what he did from the South, he controlled the people from the East to go out with the same quantity as the south.

After dealing with East, he did the same to the West and North.

While Ban was busy manipulating those targets, Alice and the girls doubled their efforts on rescuing the orphans around the slums and sending them to the four warehouses.

They searched every nook and cranny in the slums. They even found a few storage that impounds those kidnapped orphans, ready to import outside the country.

"Lastly." Ban received the last stack of documents regarding the prominent family members whose involved in the shady business of the Capital.

"Hmm? There are more than fifty prominent families involved." Ban browsed through the document and saw many familiar family names.

'Even Davies and Mist families have bad seeds in them. Lawrence family got a few too, especially their family head, Elvis. However, Elvis hasn't been in the country right now.'

Ban rubbed his forehead, not knowing where to start. It could be said that his clean-up operation will not be successful if he can't get rid of those bad seeds from those families.

'Kill some of those bad seeds, Control those Patriarchs involved.'

Ban's eyes became sharp and began his operation in silence.

A Flame Needle skill danced around the Capital as it turned its targets into ashes upon contact.

Ban didn't fully cleaned the targets, but it was enough to instill fear to those other bad seeds.

The remaining bad seeds have lesser crimes than those who died from Ban's skill.

"Get me down now." Veronica urged Ban anxiously. She continued, "I'm ordering the lockdown personally. I feel this will be a sleepless night for the Capital. And I might not be able to lead the bureau in the future. Our discussion about orphanage will only turn into waste."

"It's alright. If necessary, I'll sort the governments too. Including the prime ministers and other higher ups if I must. Do your job well and you'll be fine." Ban waved his hand. He then brought Veronica down without waiting for her reply.

Veronica stared at Ban for a while before returning back to her office. Her expression was a little complicated.

Soon, several agents rushed towards her office and were anxiously reporting the strange happenings in the Capital.

...

Two hours after the operation...

One of the warehouses...

Orphans ages ranging from seven to fifteen years old huddled around. Their eyes looked at the mercenaries with horror and despair. They didn't know what just happened. When they woke up, they found themselves surrounded by armed people.

"Why does brother didn't want us to fight with those bad guys?" Lucy placed a newly rescued orphan down and glanced at her sisters. She let out a confused look.

"It's okay this way." Alice turned to Lucy as replied calmly. She continued, "If we occupied ourselves in dealing with those people, we might attract more attention from others. In addition, moving these orphans will be delayed if that happens."

"This is the tally, madam." A mercernary broke their conversation and gave a note to Alice.

Mercenaries from James Family stared at the girls with wary in their eyes. However, receiving the warning from their boss that these people are dangerous, they didn't pry any further and did their job well.

Alice received the note and was about to read when she heard Ban's Telepathy.

"Come to my side."

Not only Alice, but the girls also received the message. Their eyes light up and disappeared in sight.

"Tend the needs of these kids, but don't let them escape. Make sure not to harm them, or else, you'll know the consequences." Alice narrowed her eyes at the mercenaries which made the group unconsciously shivered. Then she also disappeared along with the girls.

"What the heck was that? They're always so flashy. What kind of monsters are they?" A mercenary asked with a shaking tone.

"Hush! Less talk. Do your job well." A mercernary that seems to be the leader scolded the mercenary. He then contacted the other warehouses leaders and spread the command of Alice.