The number of threats I passed through the bodyguard appeared to do a good job. However, before I could even get bored of waiting, the sa man that rushed to report my words to Jeff returned with a conflicted look on his face.
"Mister Jeff invites you for a talk," the rcenary said while averting his eyes.
"Great, lead the way then," I instructed, not paying any mind to the state of the man's soul. Whether he received scolding, praise, or was just trying to confuse with his actions, it didn't matter.
Because Jeff had no way of knowing what I was going to propose to him.
Soon, not only and the rcenary I tasked with guiding to Jeff, but the entire group that was sent to get arrived before the doors.
One of the rcenaries knocked on the doors.
"Co in," Jeff's voice sounded, proving that he wasn't anywhere else but in his office.
A proof of how honest he was with when we suddenly stood on the opposite sides of the barricade.
"Don't mind if I do," ignoring the rcenaries, I pushed the doors open and waltzed inside, "after all, this entire place belongs to , so why should I wait at soone's doors?" I asked, ignoring Jeff's slightly annoyed face and sitting in one of the guest chairs.
"Guys?" Jeff said while sending a aningful look at his rcenaries. "I don't think bishop will try any funny business. You can wait outside," he inford. If his soul was full of annoyance when I waltzed inside, then he was now seeping with fury at just how incompetent his people were.
"Yes, sir!" Standing at attention, the rcenaries shouted before leaving the room and closing the doors behind them.
"What a show of incompetence," I threw my observation in the air before putting a broad smile on my lips. "Are those people the ones you want to use to hold power over this place?" I asked with irony seeping through my voice.
"The hell do you want?" Jeff asked, clearly unwilling to play along with my bullshit. "Don't tell , you ca here to joke at the level of... so of my retainers," he stated, putting my intentions into a doubt.
"Don't worry about it. I'm not soone as petty," I replied, pushing back against Jeff's accusation.
"Why did you ca here, then?" Jeff asked while squinting his eyes. "Are you going to beg for rcy now that I lost my patience with you?" he added, trying to hide a threat in his words.
"Oh, who do you take for?" I smiled in response, genuinely amused by how he was wriggling.
Jeff's situation was not one to be jealous of. While I could see his reasons for making such a drastic move, it didn't an it was an intelligent decision. If I were to put myself in his shoes, the act of going against likely appeared as sothing inevitable, sothing that Jeff couldn't wait any longer to do.
After all, with my recent acts at the Town Hall - sothing that was ancient history for but recent news for Jeff - it was only a matter of ti before my authoritarian influence would sideline him completely.
"If you are not here to negotiate, then why should I waste my ti on you?" Jeff asked, clearly infuriated by my relaxed and laidback attitude. He even removed his hand from his desk, clearly reaching for sothing underneath it.
"I wouldn't be so hasty if I were you," I gave my advice while crossing my legs to reinforce the image of total relaxation. "While what I ca here with is beyond your ability to understand now, it doesn't an it's a bad deal for you." I smiled before suddenly standing up and turning my back to the man.
For a mont, there was nothing but silence between the two of us. I couldn't see the man, but my other senses were sharpened to the point where I could quickly tell that his hand froze. And it didn't take a genius to figure out that there was sothing he was reaching for.
A panic button? Or was it a gun, maybe? A Sander's stone? While I could track Jeff's movent with my hearing, I couldn't judge what he was reaching for with just hearing.
"Tell if anything that I will say now is wrong," I ordered before turning myself back towards Jeff again. "You crave power. Not an administrative one, but an absolute one," I said and imdiately turned silent, allowing Jeff to protest.
But he didn't.
"You believe to be smart enough to induce a rapid growth into any community you will be in charge of," I added another point, only to turn silent again.
Yet, Jeff didn't protest.
"And lastly, you can't bear having soone ddle in what you consider to be your affairs, am I right?" This ti, rather than turning silent, I asked Jeff to directly confirm my guesses.
"What, are you trying to find a new position? I'm sorry, but that won't..." Jeff attempted to ridicule my attempts at calming down our private war, only for to raise my hand and stop him in his tracks.
"Can you answer my question first?" I asked politely with a gentle smile on my face.
For a mont, Jeff simply stared at with apparent enmity, unwilling to follow my order. But then, he ca back to his senses, released a heavy sigh, and nodded his head.
"You are right, but what about it? It's not like..."
"like I can find you a princedom of which you would beco a prince, right?" I asked, trying to finish Jeff's words in advance.
Once again, a mont of silence ensued. Jeff took this ti to relax, sit back in his chair and take a sip of the drink he had saved on his table. "You are correct. Our expansion into this city already brought the patience of the higher powers to its limits. Even if you could carve out a place for to have an absolute rule for, the governnt wouldn't allow for it to happen," he explained before shrugging his arms.
"For now, they consider us just an annoying pest. That won't be the case if we keep irritating them, though," Jeff added, proving that his coup d'etat wasn't sothing he decided on the spot. For him to pay so much thought into the situation, his actions were sothing he most likely felt pressured to do.
"Okay then, I understand everything that you said," I said, nodding my head to reinforce the image of accepting his words. "What if I were to tell you, though, that I CAN give you a whole princedom to rule?" I said with a smile before pulling out a map that Dearie gave to before I left for the earth.
"This is slightly problematic land as it's a part of the empire at war, but I believe you could beco a prince, not in the act but also in the na there," I added.
I spread my arms wide. "When you said that there is no place on earth that you could rule, I couldn't agree with you more," I acknowledged Jeff's words, only to make my smile even wider. "The thing is, I didn't co here to offer you a princedom in the earth, but in a world that only two people in the entirety of our own world know about."
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