'Possum, I love you. More than anyone else in the world, but you can't be this fucking stupid, can you?'
'Uhm…I apparently am,' I confessed.
On the top of my head, I had planned to do a simple trade. I would clean his Reapers and his malice; in exchange they join my army for Antarctica. It was simple direct to the point and had little room for error.
'Husband, what everyone is concerned with is that you would be held captive against your will. This is the land of Africa. They are incredibly powerful. If we co to blows against a Revenant, we would not be able to protect you.'
'But isn't Hannibal dying at the mont? That was why Amari asked for our help in the first place. Once we clear his malice that he would be grateful and help us out. I could even ask for the 24th floor of Africa, since technically NA got it because of us.'
'Darling, you saw what I just did right? Vela needed less than 5 minutes to clear out all the Demons in not just here but the neighboring cities too. Even if he is dying, Hannibal would still be dangerous. Why are you so sure he would listen to you? He would only need a minute to kill us all.'
To be honest, I wasn't sure. Right now, I just planned to throw out that idea. But when I learned that Blanche didn't tell to stop, I knew it was going to work. But the girls were also correct.
While it was normal to assu that Hannibal was a wise king. It was a fact that all sorts of people existed. And Hannibal in particular was not actually a man but a {Fate}. However, even though his style of succession was fucked up, the Revenant did his duty.
'It seems that Shujin really didn't consider any resistance. Anata, royal families are quite complex. Especially those who have a lot of heirs from different clans like Africa. Depending on the wives or maybe even the children, they might even wish for Immortal-sama to die and pass on.'
'I agree with my sisters, Beloved. As soone who cos from a family with more than a hundred mothers, such underhanded tactics is the norm. The clans behind the Revenant's spouses normally try to seize more power as ti goes on. It is inevitable, such is the avarice of even Reapers.'
'As soone who ant most of the Princes and Princesses of Hellsgate, I can attest to this. Prince Kaziema Lulendo, and Prince Tshilumba Mubanga are for lack of a better word conniving liars who are all too eager to beco king. Oh! and I need to remind everyone. Our task is not yet done.'
'Huh? What do you an Lilly?'
'Anata, Amari's request was not to kill the Hellsborn. It was to kill his brother who turned into a demon. Thus, from his standpoint we still have yet to do anything.'
'Yeah, compared to Andromalius, these cunts were far too weak. I knew that was too easy. Then, lets focus on that for now, then deal with Possum's stuff.'
The other Sirens expressed their agreent and my matter about cleansing the Immortal was shelved. I truly hadn't considered that they would reject my help. But there were still people in today's words that still believed the Earth was flat so what did I know.
'Okay, thanks everyone. Can you all help figure out a way to do the deal? It will help us a lot. You are the only people I can rely on my previous Kindred. Please, I need you all,' I requested earnestly.
The Anvil team in response all blushed scarlet. As my emotions of gratitude and adoration flowed through my links, I could sense that the Hamr team was in similar states. None of them said anything further than that but I could tell, they were already brainstorming.
'How adorable.'
It was better to ask my girls who were knowledgeable about politics. If I was the one who thought of an answer it would at best, threatening Africa into submissions with nukes. And sohow, I did not think that such tactics would be the best way to establish alliances.
I was just a guy who liked to shoot shit. Thankful that my girls were around, I walked towards the other people in our group. Amari, Mia and the Mauritian were still recovering from the interrogations they just had. Pierre in particular looked like a scared mouse.
I would have felt sorry for him. But when I saw that his first reaction was to be happy that he survived, I grew disgusted. And when he only rembered his dead family several monts later, he lost my respect.
I turned to Amari and got down to business, "Amari, Mia, forgive my girls for being adorable earlier. Let us get back on track. Regardless of what has happened, the Hellsborn are gone. Where do we go next? Was your brother among those who died?"
"This man is fucking insane. How the hell could anyone call that cute! He is daft, I tell you!" Mia murmured under her breath.
Amari glanced at her to shut her up before answering.
"I do not think he was. He was quite big, and he was gray in color. His clan should be hiding him. As he doesn't have any full siblings, I volunteered to be his silent witness. That is the term we used to the ones who euthanize us when we succumb to demons."
For them to even have a term for such a thing was sad. But such was life. There were only problems unique to so cultures. I an you didn't hear of school shootings in any other country except ours, so we also had our share of unique situations.
"I see. There where is he? Let's go to him and get this over with. As you know there is soone I must not et."
"I truly am sorry Limitless. I will ask my mother if she knows what a Successor is after we deal with my brother. Give a minute to find my brother," Amari requested.
Pulling out a GRI, the prince made his call. Amari's call connected and I heard a woman on the other line. Neither she nor Amari were speaking English, but they were basically sharing about each other's situation. As the girls were around, I didn't focus on the conversation and wandered.
I eventually ca up to Pierre who seed to be reciting so sort of prayer. As I didn't know shit about other faiths other than Christianity, I kept silent. When he finished, he looked up and saw . the mont he did, Pierre started backing away.
"I won't harm you," I declared curtly.
"Then what do you want? You and your wife had already almost killed nurous tis. I will stay quiet. Can you please give ti to grieve? I just lost my entire family today."
"I am sorry for your loss."
"Yeah well, thank you. I fucking hate you, especially now that I know that you could have saved us if you just ca earlier. Why? Just why didn't you? My wife, my children. All dead."
"Then why didn't you save them?"
"Huh?"
"You and I are both Reapers. Why didn't you get stronger to save them yourself?"
"It's not like I didn't try! And I am not so savage who kills anything that displeases him."
"Yet you bla the sa savage for not saving your family. How did you think I beca this strong? My family is alive and yours is dead. Your mistake was trusting soone else to protect what you cherished. You still think like a human despite being dead."
Sohow, I could see the clarity and understanding form in Pierre's eyes. Tears began to fall down his cheeks as he wept bitterly.
"I-I am sorry. You are right. This is my own fault. If only I was stronger, I could have saved them. I know it's wrong but it's hard to accept. There were plenty of tis, those around encouraged us to learn how to fight. It's my fault. But what do I do with this pain?"
"XM7." I pulled out a spare XM7 from Hellsend's armory. I casted basic {fates} on it to make it newbie friendly. Pierre was puzzled and even stepped back at the gun, but then I presented it towards the grieving man before .
"Butcher the demons with it. If you want to never feel this way again. Follow . I will give you the strength to fight them."
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