Mr. Lawyer – The Advocate With A Demon Inside.

”But mom— ” Helen tried to argue but gasped in mid-sentence after she saw Stellas fierce eyes. The argument was going nowhere for Helen.

The current lady chief of the Mat family, Stella Mathews, was getting fed up regularly with her daughters lack of ambition and her increasing habit of laziness. But Helen, the first-born daughter of Bohem Mathews and his late wife Arizona, was not without ambition, but rather not willing to have an aspiration that suits her familys image instead of her own desires. She was trying to shape her own destiny.

”I may not be your actual mother. But listen… This is for your own good. I mean no harm… Trust me on this one. Just trust me… OK? OKAY! ” Stella left the room as soon as she told what she wanted to tell. She didn even bother to look back and see what Helen feels about it. Cause Stella has a very poor temper and if she stayed longer, she might have spilt words she couldn recollect.

Its for her own good… Hope she understands it, Stella said to herself in her mind, as she walked with her scary stoic face across the hallway, unintentionally intimidating the maids.

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* All this ruckus was because of the election. The Kingdom Dorm of Justice has a very elaborate and competitive process for electing the ruling party. In this kingdom, the government was meant to be ruled by one royal family for a five-year term if they were deemed worthy. For each term, two top royal families with impeccable social records such as charity, involvement in social reforms, family status and behaviour of the younger generation, will be selected to compete in the elections and the one with the highest number of votes from the public will be elected to rule the entire kingdom for a five-year term. And there are over fifty royal families worthy enough to compete in the kingdom, which has twenty cities under its jurisdiction.

* The Mat family (Helens) was one such royal family in the kingdom living in the capital city Thesaurus and has built a very strong reputation over the past twenty years. And it proved fruitful enough to bag them a spot in the top three royal families in the kingdom. With two years left for the elections, all they had to do was to outperform the other two in the top, and bag a chance to directly compete in the elections. But for that, it is a must for at least one person from their family to work as a government employee in a distant town for at least five months. And their rank will move depending on that individuals performance as a temporary mayor.*

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”They treated me like some trash for all these years, but now I should go and work as a good-for-nothing mayor in some nasty town for this Lovely family… What the hell are they even thinking? ” Helen vented out in front of her bathroom mirror. Soft bubble tears spilt from the edges of her eyelids. She was genuinely terrified. Because she has to serve as a temporary mayor on behalf of her family in Gehenna – the most barbaric and unruly town in the entire noble kingdom of justice.

”How could they zero in for mayor when they could choose any government job that is a lot safer and easy? ” Helen fumed. But she knew she will never have a say in this.

And as time went by, she realized that pondering over it was a waste of time. So, she manned herself up and moved to shower to get ready; she has to leave the town within five hours. She quickly disrobed her clothes and turned on the shower.

Simultaneously, on the other side, in Gehenna, the cause and effect of Helens and her familys decisions started to blossom into a hot mess. Tony Crook, one of the most powerful drug dealers in Gehenna, was informed of the new temporary mayor plan and also the arrival of Helen, the daughter of Bohem, a guy he deeply detests but also sealed a deal with.

”Well, we got our money… So, let us allow the royal princess to have her time to shine and… tell our boys to lie low for a while. Got it? ” Tony, with a cigar in his mouth muffling whatever he says, ordered his assistant, Thomas Baker, the nerdy accountant.

”Her mother is quite wealthy, isn she? To go this length to secure a chance in contesting the elections— ”

”Power gives everything, Thomas! And both men and women will do whatever to taste it. Well, thats it for today. Just wrap everything up. And instruct our fellow felonies to do the same. Lie low, take a rest… let Stellas fake little princess enjoy our peaceful town. Over and Out. ” Tony instructed his assistant, Thomas. And Thomas obliged.

But a fragile thought kept lingering in Tonys mind. How could the clean Mat family even think of doing business with him, a high-profile criminal, and how far Stella could go for her husband since it was she who was throwing her daughter under the bus? But Tony was not desperate for answers, though. He quickly shrugged it off.

”Hmm… Women, I guess, ” he sighed.

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Coming back to Helen, she joined her newly appointed assistant, maid, butler, and all-in-one, Jessica Frech, a female half-demon of age 20 dressed in a black and white maid uniform.

”How long will it take, Jess? ” asked the bored Helen, who was already suffering and sweating from wearing the tight double-layered blue gown, which got even worse because of the train travel.

”Well, according to my calculation, it will take about three more hours to reach Gehenna… But if the train stops again due to the echnical issues, it will take another seven— ”

”Don say it, please… Just don kill me with your accuracies. ”

”Well, if you insist, ” said the ever-smiling Jessica, whose bright teeth shined brightly, overshadowing her entire body of green.

And finally, both the ladies stepped out of the train after it reached the glorious Gehenna, dubbed the city of chaos and misery.

”The Sun is scorchiiiing♪ Like literally, ” Helen snarkily said, to which Jessica nodded as they both walked out of the station and faced nothing but a big land of sand and cactuses.

”Jess? ”

”We have to walk at least five miles before reaching the town mam… ”

”Can we take a taxi? ”

”Theres no road. And vehicles cannot be driven on a pile of sand… ”

And together they started their two-hour walk to the city. But things were already heating up for Helen to face in the town and it was not looking good.

”What? Pattisons son? Where? ” asked the Sheriff, shocked and alarmed by the recent incident. Pattison was the towns ex-mayor who was caught red-handed when receiving a bribe and was forced to resign as a result. But all of these were possible only because of the mystery do-gooders of the city – The Vigilantes.

From the information collected by the police and special investigation team, the Vigilantes were a group of rare species of superstrong demons and highly trained humans, who live secretly as normal citizens in disguise during the day and fearful crime fighters at the night. Though they might sound like some half-assed superhero groups from comics, in reality, they come off as serious villains to the government and the public. Cause they hold no bars in delivering their brand of justice – Mutiilation and Death. If they ever found anyone in power committing a crime, they will go all out and mow down the mans or womans life to the very end.

Now, coming back to the happenings in the city, the vigilantes have targeted Pattinsons son, Varghese (19), as their next target. Varghese, who was missing for the past 26 hours, has been found strapped to a traffic light pole, in a severely beaten state and naked with all his items of clothing stripped off. Soon, he was taken to the hospital.

”Hows he? Hows my son? ” asked Pattinson, who arrived at the hospital after learning what happened.

”Hes… fine. But the vigilantes did some pretty nasty job today. He was… He was… I don know if you can take it, sir, ” the Sheriff kept beating around the bush to which Pattinson gave a fumed reply.

”Just say it! ”

”Oh, okay… He was repeatedly kicked in his… nuts. ”

”What? ”

”Testicles. Testicles, sir… you know the two round-shaped— ”

”I know that, moron! But what WAS that? Why my son has to go through this? What did he do wrong? ”

”What did he do wrong? Come on, sir. You can be better than that… He has his fingers snapped and his penis kicked. I mean, the Vigilantes could have killed him for what he did— ”

”But WHAT DID HE DO? ”

*Crickets* An obscure silence between the two ensued.

”You really don know? ” asked the Sheriff, oddly surprised.

Pattinson frowned at his question. He really doesn know. For real.

While these two different yet connected scenarios of Helens arrival and the Vigilantes action finally seem closer to getting entangled, another seemingly distant scenario was coming into this mix.

On the outskirts of the Gehenna, there was an abandoned three-floor apartment located close to the dump yard, resulting in no takers for the building. At least thats what a common man would think.

The half-drunk beggar sleeping near the apartment opened his eyes and was startled to find a five-foot young man standing before the entrance dressed in what looked like a black business suit.

”Hey, what the hell are you doing in a place like this? While dressed like that? ”

A card fell out from the mans pocket and by the winds blow it flew all the way towards the beggar and got slapped onto his face. The beggar picked the card and read it.

”Gehennas genius advocate. If words are swords, he is a samurai. If the law is a gun, he is a gunslinger. Have this in mind, you ARE innocent until you admit the CRIME. And you WILL be innocent since you are under the care of MINE. Have no fear, keep your head high, Advocate Raguel Themis to your rescue—What kind of cringe shit is this? ” vented the beggar after reading the horrible business card of our amateur lawyer.