With war,
"detectives, did you take another asylum patient out?"
A doctor, seems to have high hand eye coordination, along with a gun, threat level high.
"I am not from a asylum. I am a construction manager"
Sunless, his threat level is higher but as he is currently mundane killing him wouldn't be hard, speaks up a false tone of indifference masking his deep sense of worry and slight fear
"well yeah, their not another one of your patients. Maybe they should be"
the biggest threat here is Morgan as a result of her flaw. Take her down then the stone saint after that Athena and sunless would be easy pickings
"hey not thinking of murder right ■■■■?"
I look at Athena
"I am."
She frowns
"not us right?"
Right arm then left leg
"of you all."
Morgan sighs
"somehow you're so much worse then I remember"
With Storm I arrive at the ivory tower with a very large piece of paper. I knock on the door
"uhhh hey neph. I know it may not be the best time but I have the map to the snow death zone!"
The door opens to neph looking ever so tired.
"Just got back from fighting?"
She nods with a long sigh. She's always overworking herself on the battlefield. I lift the massive piece of paper
"well i got the map. It has just about everything! So making routes should be a piece of cake"
I wander into the ivory tower
"and I also brought some stuff that was made for you"
she nods not in much of a talking mood it would seem.
With war I sit on a box watching the group.
"Wait, hold on. Wait a second. We are not seriously planning to kidnap the CEO of the Valor Group, are we? That... that would be insane."
The stone saint seems on edge and in disbelief
"Don't worry. We'll only kidnap him a little..."
they stay silent for a few seconds then Athena speaks up a light tone in her voice
"What about that spider echo"
I keep looking at the knife in my hand
"arachne, the owner of the weave casino."
Sunless stays silent then gets a alarmed expression
"Damnation you mean the boss of the spiders? That means she's a gang leader"
the stone saint becomes alarmed. The spiders is the only gang that hasn't reduced in power since the valor take over. Its threat level is still quite high.
"I have some connection to her. I will go and get her myself."
The group all glance at each other. Morgan sighs
"if it gets you to go away"
With beast I flinch as I'm healed
"oh come on its not that bad."
Healer promptly slaps the back of my head quite hard. She then grabs her hand in pain
"look here you fool, you nearly died. Now your all cut up. Someone else is going to have to sub out for you"
I nod. I glance over at a very odd group. The versions of my first cohort and noctis are talking, like friends too. More so their like his minions, how am I not shocked. I would have liked the real versions to meet.
"Are you even listening?"
I slowly look away
"sorry. I got distracted"
she huffs to herself. We both slowly turn our heads at the sound of crunching. Awakened Archie is happily eating a bag of chips. Healer sticks out a hand, he frowns, she does the give me hand and he sighs as he pours some chips into her hand.
With War I arrive at the massive casino. I slot my umbrella into a holder. I take out some paper work handing it to a guard
"im here to see miss arachne"
he takes the paperwork looking it over
"I'll call about it"
I'm quickly lead to a back room, its made to look comfortable, all of the materials in it dont absorb liquid. After about a hour she finally arrives in the room.
"I see you have something important tell tell me manager"
she sits down, she's without her body guards this time. Her fingers start tapping on the table between us.
"Yes i do."
I put the papers down
"i would say last night someone tried to assassinate you"
her face turns sharp, being a mob boss her threat is quite extreme.
"I'll take it in some way you are connected"
I nod. She suddenly moves forward climbing on the table putting a fancy dagger to my throat. Her face is a few inches away.
"One chance, i would hate to ruin my outfit. How connected are you?"
I don't flinch at her threats
"the same thing happened to me. We both know we have little reason to trust the other, but we both have reasons to think the other didn't send the assassins"
a sharp cruel smile graces her face the dagger makes a small cut on my throat
"I would say that is true. So what are you suggesting in this situation?"
"Come with me. The devil detective is helping me after all."
She studies my face finally leaning back
"is that so? Judging by that this is all connected to the nihilist"
I arrive at the abandoned church. My eyes scan the interior. It would seem mordred as been kidnapped smoothly. I sit down in my corner. Spider queen looks around, smirks and walks over to the stone saint.
"Oh I've heard of you, doctor saint is it? And the valor siblings two. One must wonder who orders so many people dead"
mordred, threat is minimal. The stone saint looks up at spider queen
"oh. I really should be shocked. Do you believe in what they've been telling you?"
The spider queen sits down next to the stone saint
"what, that someone is planning my death? And apparently those two as well, I would have to due to the assassination that I faced."
The stone saint studies the spider queen
"nothing else?"
She huffs still grinning
"what else would I believe darling?"
The stone saint says nothing about the nickname, spider queen has always been quite flirty and more then a little sadistic
"the whole demigod deal"
I turn away from the two echos conversation I slowly get up walking over to mogan and mordred. Morgan looks me over with clearly forming irritation
"so. Are you planning on asking anything"
clearly she thinks she's more dangerous then me, use that to my advantage
"no. I already know everything"
mordred looks up at me blinking in confusion
"you knew... everything? He talked about me?"
I nod taking off my construction jacket. I throw it over his shoulders. He's lived a life of luxury, he's most likely to be affected by the cold so best deal with it now. He looks down and he stats holding it, almost like a abused puppy
"yes. Soul stealer did mention you. Quite a bit, only to me. The other Plagues didn't talk to me or him unless necessary"
Morgan's face turns into a full on scowl
"so you are unrelenting storm. And he told you everything as well, im not surprised considering how similar you two are."
Mordred pipes up
"What did he say about me?"
I dont glance over
"he was hateful, jealous even. He felt a lot of things about you. Out of all the plagues, he changed the least, I was jealous of that. In his broken state he mentioned wishing both you or himself dead, so he could finally be whole again."
Morgan leans forward listening intently, trying to find his weakness. Mordred looks away.
"Its not regret"
"im aware."
Mordred seems to be contemplating, it will slow us down if he goes into depression. I reach out and in a mimic of normal behavior I squeeze his shoulder, he looks over at me now surprised. Morgan sighs knowing i am not going to speak about it much more
"well. You know both of our flaws, why not tell us yours"
"I can't feel warmth"
mordred reached out touching my hand
"you dont feel cold"
I take my hand back
"hm. It would appear my physical cold is because of my aspect and not my flaw. How odd"