THE KING OF THE UNIVERSE 230 Stingy Pavilion

"Money?" , Moeen asked, " What do you mean by that?"

Arjun said with the serious face, " You hired me. I did your job. And when you were supposed to pay my money, you are playing innocent. This is not good for your Galaxy Pavilion."

Moeen shouted in anger, " What the h.e.l.l are you talking about? I never hired you for anything. Don't try to scheme with me. Do you understand?"

"Wow!" , Arjun said with a complete disbelief expression, " I accepted your job. I didn't even take the advance payment. I accepted for the payment when the job is completely done. Do you know why? I didn't do it for your face value. I did it because of your powerful background. I accepted for all your terms and conditions because you were the member of the Galaxy Pavilion. I thought that if I make a friend out of a member of the Galaxy Pavilion, I would get concession for atleast one of my products charges. But things are different than I have expected."

Arjun continued, " First of all, you are trying to make everyone believe that I'm the maatermind. And now you are refusing to make the payment for the completion of the mission for which you hired me. This is definitely not good for the reputation of the number one pavilion in the Windspread City."

"You..." , Moeen calmed down and asked, " Alright! Tell me then. What did I hire you for?"

Arjun asked, " Are you sure about this? Because if I reveal it, then you might die."

Moeen said, " I didnt do anything wrong. I had no reason to fear."

Arjun said, " Are you sure?"

"Just speak." The Fifth elder said, " Don't drag the things."

Arjun said, " I'm ready to speak. But what if he refuse to pay me back after I speak?"

The Fifth elder said, " This is the Galaxy pavilion. Don't worry. Our pavilion will pay once you speak the truth."

Arjun said, " Fine. Since it is the elder himself who promised me, I'll speak."

Arjun took a deep breath and said, " I do odd jobs in order to fill my stomach. I take a mission from my clients. After completing successfully, I would be paid according to the agreement we made before the mission. One day this Moeen met me secretly. He said that he looked at how I made a deal with some random person and was impressed. He said that he came to hire me."

Arjun continued, " He said that there will be three delivery boys who would be delivering a painting to it's client. He said that he hired a bandit group to destroy that painting. He said that I had to make a brief friends.h.i.+p with these three delivery boys. Then the bandit group comes and destroy the painting. Later I had to kill those bandit group and earn the grat.i.tude of these three delivery boys. And my final mission is that these delivery boys would try to escape. But I had to stop them. I had to use that grat.i.tude as a medium and bring these three delivery boys back."

Arjun said, " I did my mission perfectly. But when it came the time for payment, he is playing innocent. Infact, he was trying to frame me as the true mastermind behind all this. Well! I would have thought about it sooner. How could a person who hired me to kill a bandit group whom he hired beforehand to destroy the painting wouldn't betray me too."

Arjun then looked towards the three delivery boys and said, " No hard feelings guys! You guys are really good. You guys are someone really worth making friends. But for me my business comes first. Relations.h.i.+ps and other issues are secondary. So don't take it to the heart."

Arjun said with a smile. He even blinked in between when he was saying all this to them. The three delivery boys were not some idiots. They understood that Arjun was framing their enemy in order to save them. They felt even more grateful towards Arjun for his help.

But Moeen was stunned. He didn't know how exactly things turned out like this. He tried to frame someone by calling him the mastermind behind the painting incident. But the other party has framed him to be the true mastermind. The worst part is that he even put a situation in front of him, where he had to pay the money for free. How cunning and scheming other party could be to turn the table in his favour instantly.

What's worse is that, he had a deep enimity with Ben's group. People would definitely believe Arjun over him. Because judging from the relations.h.i.+p between him and Ben's group, people would definitely believe what Arjun said is true. Moeen sensed that his life might be in danger at the moment. If he didn't do anything, then he would be definitely the goat of offering for other party's schemes.

Moeen said, " You talk bulls*it! Show me the proof for our deal in the first place."

Arjun said, " Well I have no proof. Even if I have, I would be lazy enough to give it. All your elder asked me is to tell them the truth. And he would pay me in your stead. I told him the truth. Now it's time for your elder to fullfill his side of deal."

"Deal?" , The fifth elder said with a mocking smile on his face, " You don't have the proof for your accusations. How would I pay you. You accused one of my pavilion member wrongly. Even if you are an outsider, it is a crime punishable to death. Executioners! Kill this man."

"Don't!" , Ben shouted, " Fifth elder! don't do it. The big brother might be young. But he is much more powerful. You are....."

"Shut up!" , Before Ben could finish, the fifth elder shouted, " You traitors do not have the rights to speak. Just you wait. You people are next after I deal with him."

"Traitors?" , Ben said in shock.

Seven guards with heavy axes in their hands came out from the main gate. Moeen looked at the executioners and smiled. He looked at Arjun and smiled. He was looking at Arjun as if he is looking at a deadman. He then looked towards Ben and his group and he smiled inwardly. He was certain that today his biggest enemies are going to die. He claimed that today is the lucky day for him.

The seven executioners were walking towards Arjun slowly. Their terrifying aura has ignited the fear in the hearts of the people. Moeen was confident in Arjun's death because he knew how terrifying the executioners are.

Arjun didn't even look at the executioners. His eyes were on the fifth elder. He could see the smile on the face of the fifth elder.

Arjun said, " Even though you are a prestigious elder of the number one pavilion in this city, you walk back on your promise. Then I'm not going to show any respects to you or your stingy pavilion anymore."