Chapter 114: I just Realized I’m Fire Proof.

~Tatsumi POV~

Seeing that Viper was done as I began to gather the two of his men over my shoulder as the Kaina, Saeko, and Ruby followed suit while the said man was getting himself together, "Now then Viper. Care to show us where your so-called base is now? We don't have-"

That was when I was interrupted by the Avatar Korra as she clearly spoke out interrupting me like a protagonist does best, "Hey! What do you think your-"

Screw you I play the Uno Reverse Card!

Interrupting her I responded with a slight frown as I gave a good and reasonable answer before she begins with her spouting nonsense, "If you must know interloper. I'm asking where his base is so I can take these two of his men to get better. Plus, I don't want this guy leaving from my sights."

Korra looks like she has no words to respond to that as it was indeed logical. And since I knew at least this portion she gets arrested because of public property but it didn't happen.

That was when Saeko asked oblivious to Korra's situation as she spoke to her in a confused voice, "Hey… not to rain on your parade or something. But don't you have like anything else to be doing about now?"

Korra looks at herself before she realized it as she mumbles to herself as I can hear her through my heightened senses, "Shit. I forgot I have to get to the Air Temple here to get Tenzin to train me. At least they won't keep into trouble but… no I have my own problems to deal with."

With that, she took her weird… dog bear thing ok what the hell am I looking at here?

I mean in the Empire Danger Beast was the norm but what the literal fucking hell am I looking at Korra's pet.

It looks like a bear portion on the front of its body but the hind legs of a dog as well as the head began to move away taking Korra with her as I question this world biology of that thing. No seriously what fucked first.

The bear fucking the dog? Or was it the dog fucking the bear?

Shaking my head at this I got Viper to lead us the way to their so-called headquarters to meet their boss as Kaina spoke what kind of person he was curious, "Now then Viper-san. Can you explain some info about this Zolt person? From the way he works, he doesn't sound like a very… what's the word to describe him…? Oh! Yes, would this person Zolt be described as prideful perhaps?"

"Tch."

A scoff from Viper was what he got as he sarcastically began to explain about his boss's personality to us almost pitying us even, "Heh. Prideful huh tuts? Yeah, that's about one thing to call the boss. Da Boss Lightning Bolt Zolt is known to be a blunt and often merciless man who does not hesitate to cut down his enemies. Self-confident, he is unconcerned about what others think of him. So yeah Prideful would be the word."

Nodding at this I was actually happy.

Before I just wanted to bully the man but I'm somewhat curious about his record so that I can judge him my time torturing the man to give in. And to make it better his one of the prideful types as well.

Breaking people like him is the easiest once you go all in of course.

My history against Bandits, Danger Beasts, Fishman, Generals, and Overhaul feats speaks for itself.

Ruby also chipped in somewhat curious about the criminal underworld acting all cuties with Viper with her puppy dog eyes as she asked innocently, "Uh… mister Viper sir. Can you tell me more about your gang and history? I was wondering what a criminal underworld was like if you don't mind?"

What the fuck.

The man did a complete 180 change as he became submitted to Ruby's cuteness and glanced at her body with a blush on his face, "You know it baby doll~ Anything to help a cutie like you out. This guy is just plain scary!"

Oi!

…

No, wait he has a point here. He has a right to fear me as he should.

But why the hell is he suddenly succumbing that easily to puppy dog eyes like that? I mean they aren't that powerful right?

Right?

For now, though ignoring those thoughts Viper began to give us the details about the Triple Threat Triad how it began to the current times. The history he spoke about was honestly interesting to hear how their leader formed his criminal empire.

Impressive even.

As the leader, Lightning Bolt Zolt worked to make the Triple Threat Triad one of the most prominent organized crime syndicates in Republic City, using fear and violence to extort shopkeepers, steal shipments, and blackmail public figures. Around some time in the past, the crime boss met Mako, who was working for the gang as an accountant and taught the young boy lightning generation and redirection.

According to Viper words in 167 AG, Zolt, along with Shady Shin, Mako, and Bolin, watched a pro-bending match featuring the Black Quarry Boar-q-pines, inclusive of legendary competitor Toza, whom Shin had paid off to dive.

However, after the pro-bender completed a knockout, Zolt glared angrily at the ring while Bolin revealed that he had told Toza not to throw the match. Outraged about this revelation, Shin stormed off, chasing the fleeing siblings.

Zolt followed the group and eventually found his recruiter facing off against Mako, Bolin, and Toza in the latter's gym. Slamming his fist into the wall, the crime boss angrily put a stop to the fight.

Zolt proceeded to chastise his associate for fighting kids and the pro-bender for costing him money and not acting honorably. Zolt grimly watched as Toza offered the young brothers a chance to live in the Pro-bending Arena and walked away after they accepted the offer.

Apparently, that made Zolt's day worse for losing such promising recruits in his gang because of his flunky mistakes.

Hell Viper even managed to give us some info about him in the process of what Zolt could do if he was given the chance.

Zolt was very skilled in the art of fire-bending, having mastered the difficult and dangerous techniques of lightning generation and redirection at a high level, and was one of the few known fire-benders to be able to rapidly generate lightning. Zolt also proved to be a capable teacher, as he passed his lightning techniques down to Mako.

Later on following Viper we all finally met at the entrance of their HQ with some questionable gazes at the gangster as Viper began to speak offended in his voice as he spoke, "Huh? What? You didn't expect us to be living rich in this part of Republic City, did you? Geez. Now I know for sure your outsiders."

No need to point that out captain obvious.

With that, we entered the first-floor building the first floor of the building's interior has many wooden tables and chairs. The tables are circular and have four legs. There is generally at least one chair to a table, although they are often of differing sizes and designs. This floor has a back entrance that opens to an alleyway sidewalk.

The walls and ceilings of the building are filled with grand and ornate designs, typically of orange, green, or brown color. A rectangular design pattern is common on the walls of the first story. The design patterns of the ceiling are more squared-off and simplistic, consisting of brown lines and orange background.

Although most patterns are geometric and have symmetry, some tend to be more circular, wavy, and irregular. A large circle is painted on the wall of the first floor, and a curved line is above it. This floor has at least two mirrors

The further we went inside more members gazed at us with hostile intent as I can't help but ask about this place to Viper with some curiosity, "Say between you and me. How often does this place get burned down by fire-benders here? I mean everything is made and wood and all could get burned ya know?"

Viper stifles a laugh at that as he responds to me in a light heart manner knowing that he can feel safe as I can sense it from his emotions, "Haha… trust me kid it happens. But usually, the da boss has enough dough to pay for his tantrums. Something I wish to see you get burned."

Ha!

Jokes on you asshole I'm practically immune to fire… oh shit I'm immune to fire.

I'm literally every fire-benders worst nightmare.

And their boss is a fire-bender…

[Hell Flame Dragon Slayer Magic] for the win against fire users. Oh, I'm really going to enjoy this too much than I should with him. Prepare yourself lightning bolt da Gay.

Your natural counter has come.

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A/N: Yeah, I just realized that Fire-Benders are screwed against Tatsumi with his dragon slayer magic and against Saeko because of Silver Chariot. So yeah… they are OVERLY prepared against the fire types in Avatar.