"Mistress Mommy, thanks for Dinner~!" One of my lovely tigers cried out at me, making me smile brightly after tossing them more meat. I looked at Ariel, and I began to shower them with the love they deserved.
Over the past couple of years, I have been spending time with them to gain experience and further train them. They had gotten more powerful, and I cuddled with them often. They loved me in turn but were bored with living in the city from time to time. When I took them out, they would hunt down bandits, which I noticed had become an increasing problem in the Demon Lands. The guards had been doing things about it, but the Bandit issue just seemed to grow.
It took me by surprise that a formidable nation like the Demon Lands had this issue, but I am sure all non-modern fantasy worlds do. It was not as if the world I lived in lacked it either. It was just when it happened in the nation that I lived in that it was ruthlessly quashed. It was a nation that took joy in killing others and putting its nose in the business of others around the world.
Then again, it made it annoying for someone like me who loved to live a life of crime, a series of issues. The number of prosecutions I had to take against the CIA and the FBI was immense, and that was not even including other 'smaller' organizations. For a nation that cried out about how much freedom we loved. We barely rated in the top fifty nations in our world.
It was something that I relished now. This was a world of freedom. With enough strength, I freed myself from being a slave. Although that was also because the Ironstrand family understood my personality. I am still surprised to this day that they understood me well enough to not only release me, but give me their 'son,' now their daughter. Freya was still caged, never to have a kid in her lifetime.
I would not mind truly turning her into a woman. I am sure she would agree at this point.
In fact, I have never used those Sissified headphones again. I wonder if I should make a brothel of sissified Incubi, or just various species of this nation. That might be interesting and fun to do. I could not help the smirk on my face as I thought of it. It was a tool I had at my disposal, and I should use it.
I shook my head of those thoughts, tossing more meat to my cute little tigers who eagerly fought with each other over the extra food. They went into a playful fight without any of them hurting each other, while my mind went to something more important.
The information I got from the Daniel fellow. It was not a lot of information, but it clearly told me one thing. Carl was trying to restrain me to a minimum. Maybe it was not at the point of war, but it was already war in my books. If he wanted me to limit my business dealings, he should have talked to me about it. But he already knows my plans, and he even knows things I would rather no one knew.
Which meant that there was something I had to do, and I did not have a large organization at this point to do it with. That was one of the major problems with dealing in the Capital of the Demon Lands. It was remarkably peaceful with good jobs. I don't know how they pull it off in this city, but most people have decent-paying jobs. The pay for temp jobs is barely enough to live on. Worse, I also contributed to this by creating a fucking for rent brothel where people can just sell their bodies to others with a safe space.
At this point, especially the more sexually liberated species would rather rent themselves out instead of committing a crime.
Which is one of the reasons that Crime is not apparent in the Capital of the Demon Lands. Except for people like me, who enjoy doing crime, most do not want to rob people or commit crimes without good reason. Poverty is the number one reason for crime, and all others usually are because of racism or discrimination. This usually leads to poverty and hence crime.
I ran a damn mafia in my past world. I knew why recruits joinned so I could recruit more people. Which brought me to my present.
How do I recruit more people? Most of my people are law-abiding citizens and would rather keep it that way. In fact, I would rather keep it that way. That way, I would not be shitting around where I eat. No, I could do something better, bring in outside help. I could capture bandits and subdue them. Enslave them to someone, and control one person to control the lot. I would need to separate myself from everything.
I would go full anonymous again as I had in the Kingdom of Arlin.
I wonder how Fluffy is doing?
I shook my head, getting rid of the errant thoughts, and I started to think about what needed to be done first. There was one thing I absolutely understood: Carl would not allow me to act as I pleased. If I started to bring in outside help, bring in bandits and various other people who have fallen to villainy for my ends.
Then he would out me. He would thrust me into the light, and the very reason Iwanted to stay in the dark to begin with. Therefore, War it is.
I would go to war and Kill Carl. I would kill that pet and his organization. I would see what I could loot from them, and now was the time to start. With the Bunny-kin Ambassador, Carl and I would also not want to cause a fuss. Nothing would be more embarrassing than a high noble member of another nation to see their criminal underworld start killing each other out in the open. They would do all they could to smash us to bits if we went in the open.
So now was the time.
I stopped looking at my lovely little cuties, and I turned. "I have work to do, be good," I told my lovely little tigers.
"Yes, Mistress Mommy~!" I heard three cries out in reply.
It was time to start my planning. Although I was already at war, I was looking forward to killing Carl. I could only be happy that I was no longer going to be idle. I would kill, I would move forward, and again, I would be in the shadows once again.
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