Make Our Family Great Again – Chapter 16

Giovanni and Sarina leading the Wolves.

Along with the seasoned Vanella, who had risen from the bottom of the organization to become a Caporegime, and his underlings.

From the protesters’ perspective, it was like a bolt from the blue.

“Aren’t we going a bit overboard?”

“Then we shouldn’t have sent the Wolves, right?”

“No, it’s fine as long as Giovanni is here, even if it’s Sarina.”

Somehow, Giovanni and Vanella ended up going together, but I felt reassured with Giovanni around. If Sarina was a runaway car, Giovanni was the braking system.

But there was one thing I didn’t anticipate.

That it wasn’t just one runaway car, but two.

Ding dong—

As the elevator reached the first floor, the three people descending from the restaurant moved with their subordinates.

“Do these damn bastards think this is some kind of amusement park?!”

Vanella was the first to shout.

His face looked fiercely intimidating, as if to inform everyone just how rough his journey had been.

With the appearance of Vanella and the Wolves, the protesters had no choice but to falter. Even though they were armed, they stood no chance against criminals who were seasoned in killing.

More than anything.

“What are you all doing! Break every bone in those bastards’ bodies! Make their mothers scream!”

“Wait a minute!”

Sarina, who was even more intense than Vanella, started to move.

“Don’t use guns!”

Giovanni set a condition to prevent the worst-case scenario. But it didn’t hold much weight.

As Sarina had mentioned, she and the Wolves aimed to break every bone in the protesters’ bodies using baseball bats, knuckles, and various knives—except for real guns.

“Hahaha! Where do you think you’re running to!”

“….”

As Vanella and his underlings joined in gleefully, the tide turned instantly.

But Giovanni was now troubled over how to explain this situation to his boss and brother.

Of course, it wasn’t really necessary.

Me and my two wives were watching this entire scene through the windows of the restaurant.

“Are they going to end up killing all the protesters?”

“No, they’re not that clueless.”

Felicita acknowledged my words, yet it seemed she had some doubts watching the Wolves’ actions.

“This much is acceptable. We need to teach those idiots a lesson.”

Elena mentioned one of our Felini Family’s operations and those of other crime organizations.

Area protection.

In exchange for receiving protection money from our people within the area, we provided services to ensure they felt safe.

In this case, since the protesters had come barging in, it was about protecting our people in the port.

“If we hesitate to teach such bastards a lesson, who will trust us?”

Right, they needed to learn the lesson that if they acted like rabid dogs in our territory, this is what would happen.

“….”

Felicita seemed to find Elena’s words reasonable, so she stopped arguing.

After all, the boss of the Felini Family was Elena, so it was naturally her prerogative to intervene.

“Elena, I have something to discuss.”

“What is it?”

“The Wolves. If I take charge of the Academy, I can’t just bring them all there.”

“…So what do you propose?”

“I’ll take only Sarina and the Wolves under her. Giovanni and Carso’s Wolves will remain at the port under your orders.”

“Is that going to be alright?”

In response to Elena’s question, Felicita looked at me without saying a word.

As I gazed into her deep eyes, I couldn’t quite ascertain what she was thinking.

“Luke.”

Of course, Elena had no intention of letting me keep my gaze on her.

“Now that you’re the boss, that’s only natural.”

“Luke, so how many Wolves are under Sarina?”

Suddenly Felicita aimed to confirm the detailed number of Wolves I intended to bring to the Academy.

As the eldest daughter of the Marinelli Family, I questioned whether it was appropriate to divulge this. But she was also my wife.

“Altogether, around thirty or forty.”

“Isn’t that a bit too few?”

“That’s right, Luke. That’s too few.”

It was rare for the two of them to agree on something. Naturally, I didn’t intend to control the entire Academy with just that number.

“Therefore, I also plan to bring some others along. Elena, I’ll take all the Wolves currently in training too.”

I know it’s confusing with all the talk about Wolves.

But the Wolves I’m referring to are the orphans originally bred by the five families to be their executioners in this city.

Ever since my father began ruling over the five families, our Felini Family has specialized in training Wolves.

“How many of those are there?”

“About thirty.”

“…Alright. Let’s do that.”

“And I’ll also take some useful guys from the Gollymen.”

“You’re taking Gollymen?”

Due to my naturally small stature, I had to learn many tricks to overpower those who were bigger and stronger than me.

But there were those who needed no such things.

Especially among the members of the Gollymen were those born to have monstrous physicality.

“I don’t know how many useful ones there will be, but if I count the staff of the Academy, we’ll probably exceed a hundred.”

“That’s almost a family’s worth of strength.”

Elena’s comment made me tense for a moment.

I was worried she might think the scale of the force I intended to have at the Academy was too large.

“….”

Felicita seemed to think that Elena wouldn’t permit me such a scale of power either.

“Alright. Let’s do that.”

“…Really?”

“Only, there’s a condition. You need to pick me next Sunday.”

“What, you want to win against me that much?”

“No. I just want to be with Luke. What happens to you is none of my business.”

“Actually, I feel the same.”

“….”

Elena had a knack for passionately countering whenever she lost her temper, while Felicita would smoothly brush it off.

“Both of you, stop.”

I held their hands together to prevent Elena and Felicita from hurting each other.

“….”

“….”

At moments like this, they would avoid each other’s gazes but focus on my touch, remaining silent.

It felt like the fragile peace of tense moments, but peace is still peace.

Maybe now I could understand a little of how a British Prime Minister felt when he signed a treaty with a German mustachio, exclaiming ‘Peace in our time!’

“Young lady, Luke.”

At that moment, the family’s Consigliere, Anthony Salmo, approached us.

‘This is criminally good.’

Salmo’s quick call for me and Elena felt almost like a song.

“With Botari dead, the lady’s subordinates caught at the Academy will soon be released.”

“Right, that makes sense. I need to put them in charge of the port as soon as they return.”

“Yes, I’ll prepare that then.”

Salmo knew exactly what he needed to do. And he never overstepped his boundaries. Even when he defended our family, he still showed his quality, just like Salmo’s son.

“Luke, once my men return, I think there’ll be more room over at the port. What do you think?”

“What do you mean?”

“You could take more of your men from the port.”

“….”

Are we really pulling more manpower from the port? I wondered if Elena was serious.

“Elena, weren’t around thirty of your subordinates caught?”

“Yes, I’m talking about that number.”

Then, she was saying she’d take around twenty of my subordinates from the port.

“Is that all?”

“Elena. It’s good to secure the Academy as part of our territory, but you need to worry about the port too.”

My father had passed away. And it was done by one of the five or, no, four families.

There was no guarantee the same thing wouldn’t happen to Elena. Vincent Lumini, Russo Family. Several forces could conspire to target the port from within and outside the family.

“Yeah, that should be enough. We still have plenty of guys in the Academy who cooperate with us.”

“Got it.”

Thus, our rough direction regarding the Academy was settled.

The protesters daringly crashing into the port received a significant lesson. Despite the Godfather’s death, the Felini Family was still very much alive.

“Enough! Everyone stop! Withdraw now!”

Sarina and Vanella, having vented their fury, obeyed Giovanni’s command.

And I asked Kambara, the boss of the Gollymen, if there were any suitable members among his organization to bring to the Academy.

“Luke, how about my younger brother?”

Coincidentally, Kambara mentioned that his brother was downstairs, so I asked him to come up to the restaurant.

“….”

“It’s an honor to meet you.”

I never expected there’d be another crocodile-like humanoid just like the original Gollymen’s boss, Nierere or whatever.

But the feeling was entirely different.

It felt more intelligent, perhaps? He was dressed neatly and even wore glasses, which might have contributed to that.

“What’s your name?”

“Kambara Zakaya.”

He seemed to handle accounting duties within the Gollymen.

“Accounting with this body?”

“Luke.”

Elena was worried my comment might come off as discriminatory.

“Actually, it’s a bit tough. It’s not easy to find things that suit my kind.”

“Right, I get it.”

I asked Zakaya to hand over his brother and other subordinates.

It was about giving an opportunity to those who had played in the city’s outskirts to make their mark here, in the Academy.

Zakaya agreed to that, and I shared a few conditions. Obviously, Kambara’s brother passed the requirements.

*

The next day, Monday.

Today was the day Elena claimed me for herself.

“Get out quickly.”

“…Really, isn’t that a bit too much?”

From the morning, the first thing Elena did was shove Felicita, who had been sleeping in our shared room, out of the way.

It looked like they were about to fight again from the start of the day, so I quickly got up and hugged Elena and Felicita.

I couldn’t quite remember what happened afterward due to still being half-asleep.

But that evening, Elena started leaving her mark on my shoulder as she fell asleep soundly there.

“Elena, if you bite that hard, it’ll leave a scar.”

“…That’s the point.”

Elena had very complicated feelings. While she didn’t want to hurt her brother and husband, Luke, the desire to leave her mark on me was stronger.

Of course, it was nothing for me to handle such pain.

After all, I had undergone various trainings under my father, which included lessons on not divulging information if caught by enemies.

Elena, not being a Wolf, wouldn’t know about those parts.

Thus, Tuesday rolled around. Felicita woke me up early, wanting to take me to her room.

“….”

Sleepily, I was guided by Felicita’s touch to her bed once again.

“….”

“Heb, come here.”

Felicita looked at me contently lying on her bed before suddenly calling for Heb.

The enormous silkworm moth flew over to my belly as soon as it heard its name.

“What’s up?”

“Luke, what’s this mark?”

“Nothing special.”

“Did Elena do this?”

“….”

My silence was almost a confirmation to her question.

“Well, I don’t care. I’m the one who likes Luke the most anyway.”

Felicita said so, then used Heb to heal the scars left by Elena on my body.

“…Felicita, you just said you don’t care?”

“….”

But on Tuesday evening.

Felicita completely forgot what she said in the morning and left a similar mark on my other shoulder, just like Elena.

She was a descendant of the Golden Dragon, a dragonkin, to put it simply. Naturally, her teeth were even more fearsome than those of the elf Elena.

And so Wednesday came along.

Elena, seeing the more severe mark left by Felicita than her own, seemed ready to do something about it.

“Elena, wait.”

“Let go! I’m going to rip that bitch’s mouth apart!”

In a beautiful moment when I held onto Elena who was about to leave the room, the phone started ringing loudly.

“Brother, are you available for a moment?”

With Elena still in my grip, it seemed Karso had something to say.

After hearing the situation, it turned out a famous movie actor wanted to request an interview with me for his upcoming film.

“What’s that crazy guy up to now?”

I felt the same as Elena did.

“Alright, just set up a schedule for me.”

But this was not a bad opportunity.

It was a way to disguise me not just from the five families, but from the entire city as someone strange rather than just a child seeking vengeance for his father.

Understanding my intention, Elena finally seemed convinced.

“Still, Felicita will get mad.”

“Oh, Elena, stop.”