NEMESIS

terrifying woman

“Did you see it too?”

Tristan nodded weakly, his face still showing that he was in deep shock even though it had happened about twelve hours ago. They arrived at The Orphic's residence an hour later, pale and shocked.

Neither of them saw a ghost, they saw a monster in the form of a female human and, for them, the most abnormal was his accomplice, his confidant, Sebastian. “He swings his sword swiftly, plays the gun with agility and dexterity, as if he was born to be good at it — his abilities are beyond expectation and I can guarantee you we'll be dead bodies if we deal with any of them.”

Sebastian killed at least fifty people with his own hands, and Giuliana, she just watched with a smile and a face splattered with a lot of blood — she seemed to be watching the action doll she had with such pride.

What a terrifying woman.

The more Sebastian killed, the wider the smile that graced his face.

“I understand very well why Giuliana Alderidge became Consigliere at such a young age, especially since she is a woman.” he murmured, thinking that her real ability wasn't her true ability but Sebastian's. “She's cunning for admitting other people's powers to be hers.”

And luckily, he knew it before he put his plan into action — if he went through with it without knowing about it, his plan would probably go to waste and, worst of all, his uncle would find out.

He will be dead meat.

“We have to be careful, plan something to keep Sebastian and Giuliana apart — make sure they're separated while the plan is going on.”

Yes, his eyes couldn't help but see the fierce battle that was taking place between Sebastian and the street thugs - whatever problem Giuliana had with them, as they seemed to recognize her at a glance. Unfortunately, he couldn't ask them that because most of them all died with broken necks and the rest were taken by Sebastian and Giuliana. But Elias told him that they took one of them all to The Orphic's residence and placed him in the dungeon.

"Not only that, she is a special package brought by them. I heard about it from the guards guarding the main gate - Giuliana gathered everyone because she managed to bring the person who beat up Paolo." Elias said as he entered his study, he had just returned from The Orphic's residence and returned to Lorelai's manor, which is in the same area as The Orphic's residence. "Actually, I have to admit that Paolo is a little embarrassing - he gets beat up easily by street thugs when his status is the Consigliere of all of us."

Accidents on the streets are not easy to predict, but if you hear mafia vs street thugs, then it's clear who will win, right?

But Paolo is the opposite of that.

He was defeated, battered and lost a bit of his pride.

"There's no way he just lost, maybe he just didn't want to fight back and let himself get beaten up?" Tristan asked, his head turned to Elias, who was now also looking at him in confusion.

"But for what? He didn't get any sympathy after doing that, instead he was threatened to be removed from his current position and, ah, he was even called a disgrace."

There's really no benefit in doing that. Then if it really isn't profitable for him and he's not faking it, then why would he do that?

If that was the case, he thought maybe Paolo could manipulate it a bit, right?

But he is not and by doing so, it would be tantamount to tarnishing his own name, because news like this would quickly spread and was inevitable. After that, his name will be damaged until he dies and there will be no way he can do so that his name can be restored to his previous name.

"We don't know. Should we find out?"

He was silent after Elias said that. His mind felt something was bothering him and he didn't know what it was.

But if this is just a game, then it's best that they all don't need to know and interfere or they will be dragged into it.

"This could be a conspiracy between Consigliere, it looks like Paolo intends to shift Giuliana's position and wants to be the only one."

It is unlikely that Paolo would happily live up to his position and accept Giuliana gracefully, let alone the leaders insult. Of course, Paolo felt that it was all worth it compared to all his goals, it was nothing. His body shuddered in horror, imagining such a thing filled him with an unimaginable horror. "So for now, we should all focus on eliminating Giuliana."

This time, he had better not do anything weird, like meddling or revealing Paolo's secret objectives. Simply because his goals are so important and, after all, his thoughts on Paolo are just guesses.

Because such a thing would never happen, right?

"Theo, are you sure about this? It's possible that if we find Paolo's hidden purpose, we can get a helping hand - we'll easily eliminate that f*****g Giuliana, right?"

Elias was right, but he couldn't be in the same boat with someone who wasn't from his family. Especially when it comes to The Orphic Consigliere, because Paolo cannot simply be trusted for the position unless he has the ability. Or in other words, Paolo is not that simple.

"No, it would be better if we did this alone and without being spotted by anyone - only the three of us should know about this as well as the person we'll be working with in the future."

Just now he was thinking about not being in the same boat with someone who wasn't from the family, but after thinking about it maybe he also needs someone else and he can be sure that he still won't cooperate with Paolo because it's too risky.