The last two days had been peaceful. So he really should have expected something. But he really was not expecting this. This was completely out of left field so he did not even know what to say.
"You heard me! I said hand over payment or we will demolish your place." Now this was just sad. It was a trio of gangsters from Penguin's gang. He could tell because they were wearing heavy fur coats in the middle of summer like a bunch of idiots.
"Why would I do that?" Ricky asked with a chuckle as he stood at his door. He was in a pair of gym shorts and a black t-shirt. He was in the middle of his workout when they knocked on his metal front door.
"Because you run a business, doncha?" One of them responded. Clearly from the slummy part of Gotham with the way he was talking.
"No, I am repairing the gym and might run it once I am done. But…" He opened the door to show them the state of the gym. "This place is definitely non operational. If I was actually running something here, I might pay the protection money. But as it stands there would be no way for me to make that money back."
"Oh…" One of them scratched his head and looked at the others. They shrugged in response.
Another of them spoke. "In that case. Sorry for interrupting you when you are in the middle of whatever you were doing." They then started moving away. He stepped out of his place and watched them go to the empty warehouse next door. They stayed for a few moments before moving on to the next business.
"They are new, usually it is black mask coming around for collections." He heard a voice and turned around to see a white haired woman with a pale complexion. She had black eyeshadow around her eyes and ruby red lipstick. She was wearing a corset and seductive white outfit.
"I could tell." Ricky answered and then nodded at the building he assumed she came out of. "You run the massage place?"
"Oh yeah," She then leaned forward. "It also doubles as a brothel. So feel free to come over and make a woman scream like you made them do the last few times." Ricky raised an eyebrow and she nodded at the wall. "We have a rooftop resting area, since your sky light is broken we could hear you having sex. I will say some of the women, myself included, are curious what exactly you did to them."
Ricky smirked as he nodded at her building. "I tell you what, how about I come over and show you what I did to them." Ricky offered adding a seductive wink at the end.
"Oh… Sure. Come on over in an hour. I will personally treat you to a massage and an additional service." She looked down at his crotch and bit her lip. "Name is Alice by the way!" She called out as she walked back to her massage parlor and entered the building.
Ricky hummed to himself and then walked back into his place closing the door behind him. He then spent the next few minutes finishing up his exercise. So then afterwards he took a shower and dressed in his Kevlar jeans, which smelled fine after being put in his inventory for a bit, and a basic white shirt.
He still had half an hour left before he would drop by. So instead he went around to check on his other neighbors. There were half a dozen buildings on each side of the street. Two of them were apartments. Only one was an empty warehouse shoved in here. The rest had various businesses.
Starting on his side there was a corner store on the literal corner of an intersection. It was run by an immigrant. He had a shotgun behind his counter in case someone tried to stick him up. Then there was an Electronics store, the ground floor was the actual store but in the floors above they made fake identifications that were good enough to fool a bouncer but that was about it. Then there was the massage parlor. It did do its massages, but there were some 'special services' that could be bought by some wealthier clients. Which actually consisted of some pretty wealthy clients, most of them were from the city's one percent and some of the wealthy spoiled kids of that one percent. Then in the upper two floors were the workers and owners room. With the roof having a nice lounge area.
Then the next building was his gym. After that was the empty warehouse which was overgrown with weeds growing through the concrete. Then on the corner at the next intersection was an apartment building that was five stories high. There were about four apartments on each floor.
Across from the corner store was another apartment, this one was only four stories high. But it had three apartments on each floor. Then the next building is a toy store that is creepy and definitely has something running out the back of it. But he was not going to stick his nose into it. The next building is a record store, it sells literal information as an extra source of income.
After that was the adult store, which sold an array of sex toys. It also sold a number of illegal goods that could not be found in normal stores. Like an assault rifle or a stolen gun. Then there was the old tailor shop, the above floors housed the family that ran it. But the tailor shop itself did not seem to have anything shady hidden out of the back as far as he could tell. Then there was the last building, a pub. Apparently one that everyone on this street working went to when the night arrived.
After looking around the street he walked to the massage parlor. When he walked in there was a cute and bubbly young blonde standing at the counter talking to a black haired woman. "Hello there!"
"Hello, Alice told me to drop by." Ricky smirked at them. They both blushed as they understood what was going on.
"Indeed I did." Ricky looked over to see the pale complexion of Alice but she was dressed in a skimpy set of lingerie that did nothing to hide her breasts and hardened nipples. Nor did it cover much of anything. "Come this way." She waved him over.
Ricky followed her out of the front office. They went up a few floors to the third floor. She then pulled him into a large apartment. Sitting in the center of the apartment was a massage table. With a smaller table that had an array of lotions on it.
"Well this should be fun." Ricky mumbled as he looked over the confident Alice as she swayed her hips while walking ahead of him.
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