"What do you mean?" Duan Ru Feng asked as he calmed down from his episode
"What do you mean by that? Why we are saying you can't kill him or why we're saying you should cripple him? Cause I thought the answers were obvious." Hakari relayed with a grin on his face.
Duan Ru Feng gritted his teeth and growled in an attempt to not fall into Hakari's blatant attempt at mockery. Hakari held back after seeing Ru Feng close to losing his shit again as he said, "Alright calm down I was joking. But look at it like this, if you kill Zantar you're fucked. The Valareians would investigate the entire academy from head to toe and will find the culprit. Zamir would not spare you, even if he has to go to war with your Duan family he would still not hesitate to kill you, even I would not be safe from him if I killed Zantar in broad day."
I tried my hardest not to laugh from the bullshit that just came from his mouth. Not about what he said about the consequences of Duan Ru Feng killing Zantar, No those were all one hundred percent true, what was funny was Hakari saying that Zamair wouldn't spare him if he killed Zantar, the emperor wouldn't do shit even if Hakari fucked his wife.
Although I don't think Hakari has the balls to do that
"So what do you have in mind? I know you have a scheme in your mind you fucking trickster, so get on with it."
Hakari smiled and leaned forward as he said, "Listen to everything closely as I will only say this once since there will be a lot of shocking details in here for you and Kellian."
"Zantar is actually the bastard son of the emperor, I'm sure you've had your suspicions of that already so I don't think that this is surprising for you two, his mother is actually Duke Valareian's first wife and she is still alive, she's the cum dumpster of the royal guards," Hakari revealed shocking me and Ru Feng immensely.
I always knew about Zantar's true origins, in fact, I knew before Hakari found out and I'm sure Duan Ru Feng had his suspicions as well, but the thing about his mother being Duke Valareians's first wife I thought it was just a sick joke. Turns out it was true.
"So the emperor actually did that to his best friend...man this is foul." Duan Ru Feng said and I had to agree, betrayal is something that I despise with every fiber of my being, I don't care but traitors to me are in the same league as rapists, they don't get or deserve second chances. That's just for normal traitors, but to betray your best friend like that is just low...far too low.
"Fucked up isn't it?" Hakari said with a smile, "But there's more, Zantar knows about his true lineage as do the royals, they just refuse to accept him as one of theirs due to his personality and actions, the crown prince doesn't even acknowledge his existence."
"So the only reason why Zantar can get away with the things that he does is because he has the support and protection of the emperor and Duke Valareian."
"Pretty much, but those are the only people who are supporting him and that can only go so far. As you know the emperor is not the strongest in the Federation and the empress hates him to the core so Zantar doesn't dare go too far in fear of drawing her reforms, what is your plan with dealing with Zantar?"
"Simple. Zantar is so desperate in getting noticed by his elder brother, that we will make sure he gets an invitation from the royal parliament. When he gets the invite he will pull up to the meeting place and when he gets there he will meet you and after that, you can beat him half to death and cripple him, but don't kill him."
"How are you so sure that this will work?" Duan Ru Feng asked
Hakari just smiled and said, "You came to me for help because you know I get shit done so you know that this will work, so why ask me stupid questions and have pointless doubts?"
Ru Feng sighed and then said, "You're right. When do we do this?"
"At the end of the week when all the elites of the Federation gather for the meeting, this will be right before everything about this place goes to shit so you attacking Zantar could be considered the kickoff. Also, I know you want to know why we are doing this on the royal factions turf, that will be explained later but for now, don't worry about it."
Duan Ru Feng sat up from the couch and stared at Hakari for what seemed to be the longest minute of my life, there was no tension or killing intent. It just seemed that Ru Feng wanted to see what goes on in Hakari's head, how someone who is younger than him could think and act on such a level. He reached his hand out and smiled as he said, "Shake on it?"
Hakari smiled in response and shook his hand and said, "A pleasure doing business with you."
Duan Ru Feng snorted as he dissappeared back to his dorm room I assumed, I turned to Hakari and we gave each other a dark smile.
"You think we will be fine when everything goes down?" I asked. This was a serious matter, a lot of people were going to die in the academy and if you didn't have strength then you were fucked, people were going to have fates worse than deaths.
Hakari sighed and said, "We should be, I'm about to break through to Nascent Soul and you should too, Rizen told me that it was the bare minimum that one had to be at in order to survive the storm that will hit the academy."
I nodded my head and we poured ourselves another drink. I was at the peak of Core Formation so I was good and didn't have to worry, I just had to sit back and enjoy the chaos.
Hakari and I looked at each other as we raised our glasses and clinked them as we gave each other a smile full of untamed evil as we both said,
"To us."