Max was in a local park, he never smokes at the residence or near the residence.
Nyx doesn't like the stench of cigarettes.
So Max always comes to the local park nearby to smoke.
He was thinking about what happened at the residence.
'Tsk' clicking his tongue Max smiled, thinking how Nyx confirmed her suspicion about her uncle and 'Death Parade' from him.
Under normal circumstances, he never would've said anything but the tension between Nyx, Max and the others has been awkward for some time.
"Cunning, just like her mother." Max said out loud.
"She sure is." A familiar voice said from his side.
Max turned to his side only to see his dear friend and partner, Rodney.
Rodney sat beside him on the bench.
Seeing Rodney, Max took out a packet of cigarettes from his coat.
He lit up a cigarette for himself and one for Rodney.
"The kid is good, not gonna lie, he sure is talented." Max said, giving Rodney his cigarette.
"Yeah, I saw it. His personality is also not bad, quite professional and formal when he is at work. But he is a bit laid back and isn't overly emotional, confident also interesting." Rodney said, talking about Julian, the 'SHADOW' is quite a talented individual youth.
Julian's skills only lack the experience and need further training but still, he is an excellent fighter.
"You heard it, right? I noticed your presence back there." Max asked Rodney about what happened in the garden, as he noticed Rodney's presence when Nyx was talking to Max at the garden.
"Yes." Rodney replied, he didn't say anything more.
"We thought, no, I thought I knew better. How did it become like this? Did we never understand her, really? Should we have told her about everything? About the Grace, the Aurier's, the Prince's and Death Parade?" Max said gritting his teeth, he took a puff of smoke frustrated thinking about that they have lost the trust of their 'master'.
Nyx has started to take an interest in the Prince industries, she just got herself a loyal subordinate when she has them, Rodney and others.
Who knows and for how long that she has been acting on her own?
"We really did make a lot of mistakes, Max, and there's nothing we can do. This is the price that we have to pay for all our mistakes. We have been watching Nyx all her life, we have raised her ourselves and kept her safe from all the dangers, but we forgot who she is." Rodney said looking at the children playing around the park.
He took a few puffs of smoke before he turned to face Max.
"She is not our child, Max, and we shouldn't have treated her like one. She has proven more than once that she was ready, but we? We never believed her. Our overprotectiveness, our own selfish desire to protect her from all dangers have cost us what we held dear the most in our life, Max. Again there's nothing we can do but support her when she needs us. We will slowly reveal her about everything, her parents, her responsibilities, about 'everything' in time. Even if she somehow finds out about it from a third party, all we can do is wait until she asks us to confirm or ask us to tell her about it. Until then we will do what we ought to to do, and that is to protect her from all danger there is." Rodney said getting up from the bench, putting out the cigarette with his gloves before throwing it into the trash can near him.
Max just stared at his friend, frustrated but what Rodney said is right. There's nothing he can do other than what he has been doing so far, that is to protect her from all dangers.
He took one last puff of smoke from his cigarette before he put out the cigarette by crushing it on the ground, picking it up and throwing it into the trash can.
Puffing out all the smokes he sighed then turned to Rodney and said.
"Yeah, right? We will do our job, the job what we were entrusted to do by lady Rose." Max got up from the bench putting his hands in the pockets of his overcoat.
"That is to protect her from all harm and danger." Max muttered looking at the children playing around in the park.
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"So, you called me here to kill people?" Sabastian said staring at Aaron, who was holding a black ninjato in his hands.
"No, I'm gonna kill people. Where you, my friend will injure, disable, incapacitate whatever it is to them before I kill them." Aaron said it, in a matter of fact tone staring at Sabastian's ocean blue eyes.
"So, yeah TO HELP YOU kill people?" Sabastian said shaking his head.
He turned to look at the people who are talking with each other, playing cards and pool inside an abandoned warehouse.
There are not many people inside, only 15-20 people.
Only a few of them have guns on them.
"All of them are criminals, Basti. That guy, that guy and this guy over here are r*pists, those nine killed people and the rest have some criminal records except for that guy who's playing pool with the bastard who r*pes young boys of 10-12 years olds." Aaron said in a monotonous tone, without a hint of emotions in his eyes, his face was also neutral.
But Sabastian can feel a dangerous aura emitting from Aaron.
He is extremely familiar with the aura as the person who Aaron used to be in his past life also had the same aura when he was about to kill people.
"I see, well I guess I should help you with this as you are a weak and a frail idiot. Who knows what will happen if you go alone, might as well kill yourself before you go fight all these people by yourself." Sabastian said shrugging his shoulders.
"Bruh! Really? You had to go that far, you s*ithead! Go die b**tard!!!" Aaron rolled his eyes hearing Sabastian and replied cursing him.
"Why not ask, Aurora? I'm sure she would've done this for free, not like me who wants payment for this job here." There's no way in hell Sabastian is doing this all for free.
"You want payment for this s*it? F**k you!" Aaron flipping Sabastian off took his phone and checked the surroundings as he has already set up infrared x-ray cams around.
He doesn't want anyone to barge in here when they are sending people to the deities under the 'God of Death' for judgement.
"Four days of lunch at school and free ice creams for five days." Aaron said checking the cam feeds to see if the cams are properly working or not.
"One week of free ice cream and 2 days of lunch." Sabastian looked at Aaron in all seriousness. Though he is quite wealthy and all but free food is always welcome.
"Done, deal!" Aaron replied, accepting Sabastian's counter offer.
Sabastian was stumped hearing Aaron.
he made a grave mistake, he should've asked for more.
A king like him to fail a trivial negotiation?
"Dammit!!!" Sabastian slapped himself, falling for Aaron's trickery.