Clashed dignity
"Now, You have the guts to ignore my call that long" the president questioned after Azrail answered it.
Azrail stood still as she tightened her grip at the phone, almost leaving a scratch. Nevertheless, she took a deep breath and answered with politeness
"I apologize president, what is it?"
While the president discussed various plans she was stuck in the middle of flashed memories of the game. Azrail, a pitiful character who rode along what the president desires and after all of it ; Hence, one end shall come forth, where every missed opportunities of her shall only be achieved in her next life. Death was her only destiny.
Her foul strength that came out as a weakness. It must be transcended in order to survive. It is a zany advice from a weakling who can't even stood up for herself.
"Do you understood?"
Azrail poked to reality that she was at the phone. She should pay attention to more details however she didn't.
"Can you..... repeat it again..,.. please?" She asked as she bit her upper lip. Then she heard a short sigh from the president and her anxiety was put to an end; as he ended the call.
She was dumbstruck for the false hope and recognized that the president's sanguinariness is impossible to be erased.
Her nostrils flared as a red bull charging to it's enemy, with the eagerness to call him an old bast*rd.
Even so, before she could growl, the word abandoned appeared into her senses.
She compared her life before and now. Athena who is always being left out and betrayed by those who supposedly demonstrate the word love. Azrail is no different. She was cast out by her own father, secretly killed to wipe out a person that could dishonor their family name and died without anyone weeping for her death.
The most sorrowful enemy are the ones you treated as a family.
But a poke of a finger struck her to wake up to reality while her forehead wept in redness. She recognized the direction it came from and with that she glanced as she snarled.
""You dimwit?!!! What did you do that for?!!!!!"
That meandered silence as the other soldiers took a blink to one another.
Athena is rather confused for the shook of each soldiers heads as they met her eyes. She raised a brow.
Yet, before she questioned them a sudden realization knocked her head.
"What's the problem, I just called him a dimwit?! ....Right... He's a Lieutenant..... A dimwit, I'm so dead." Her inner thought babbled.
Everyone didn't make any volume of whispers for the claws of a tiger shall soon befall.
Lt. Kylo reached his hand out closer to Azaril. No one dared to stop him for the soul of a grim riper had rose between his eyes. His strength is unmatched by none of his comrades, no wonder he is the head of the army.
Anyone who defies what he wish to do will face death in a split gaze from him.
Athena sit still as a frozen ice cube once his hands is under her neck. Still, her body and mentality beats an overflowing fight to face him head-on.
She won't allow herself to be the Athena who anyone can step foot on her easily. Spikes of poison must burst out from her.
"Go on and kill me if you're ready to face death after this" she hissed and curved a smirk between her lips.
The heavy aura inside shut the mouths of every soldier as they watched the two argue with only those intimidating eyes.
Although Azrail was overawe, the Athena inside her still has a trembled mannerism. The intimidating sarcasms is a trait she never did once in her whole entire life. She'll only get nervous and sweat at the very start but know it's rather only a mild side effect.
She and the soldiers as if watching a killing scene at a theater waited the response of Lt. Kylo. He released Azrail and let out a sigh.
That almost jumped everyone from their seats and concluded that Lt. Kylo may have a high fever. Athena knows he had a habit of letting out a sigh often times but when it comes to an irritating event, not to mention a mockery to his honor, she expected to be thrown out of the car window.
"You can yell at me but not at the president." He spoke as he went to his seat while fixing his eyes in front of the car.
"Geez, what the president tries to say is you'll be participating at the Mafia's Assassination. Where 7 dukes and 7 dutchess are chosen as the participants. But this year appears like the rumors of a supposedly hidden competition swarmed everywhere and other unchosen royalties insist on joining. So there's a change of policy. But still the same goal, the last pair will be the next emperor and empress" Lieutenant continued.
Athena recalled no events of Azrail having a person to person conversation with Lt. Kylo. He talked with the Mc only since that's how the game works. That idea not only puzzled her but the duke and dutch competition took over her curiosity more.
Such competition never came to life in the Mafia's assassination game and she acknowledged that it's only from the Deities of the Sevens. Where their arguing for the throne and Lt. Kylo mentioned it before.
She draw a conclusion she herself didn't expected. Then turned her memories back from the moment she woke up earlier.
"Two video games were soaked under a glass water must have glitched the game and fused the two to form a unity. " She apprehended.
Still the fact that even herself was dragged didn't made sense to her. She hoped it's just a dream and may end once she woke up. On the contrary every feeling and every senses is felt as a reality.
As if she was transported to another realm.
Lt. Kylo observed how strange Azrail behaves. She became valiant on anyone no matter how terrifying people nor events passed. She was weak like a rat easily squashed and pinned down to control. Now the leash has been cut and she had her free will to fight back.
Now he watched Azrail being spaced out as she held her chin, having deep thought of something. That took him as a surprise that Azrail can think after all.
Although that arose suspicion. No weakling can gain such high confidence in a limited time wherein she became a weak puppet of cowardice in her whole life. No facts can support an abrupt change.
Soldiers around detected the strange attitude of Lt. Kylo awhile ago and now they saw him looking at her closely like she is to Nyx.
A woman that they hunched as the only living beauty that caught the coldness of Lt. Kylo, now they concluded change is inevitable.
Lt. Kylo bore a nerve under his forehead that grew a heart attack to every soldier and looked away. He perceived that many eyes are observing him.
He turned his head to face the window instead. Yet a single tap from Azrail surrendered his decision.
"Are the seven dukes are possibly the Sevens?"
Instead of an answer, he blinked owlishly for this matter was confidential. The ones who knew about this matter were him, the secretary and the president only.
He glowered as he suspect something odd from her and it might be a trap.
She possibly overheard it from the rumors, a little impossible. Yet, she might as well acts as she knows something and tries to confirm by asking innocently. He won't lose to someone as pathetic as her. Her valor trait before was just a mere coincidence. It doesn't change the truth the she was a pushover since the day she was born.
Athena sensed a stern look around his eyes that suggest not answering to her question. She thought that Lt. Kylo may changed his perspective at her and it's was only a thought all along.
But giving up is no longer the only key for her to end things. With that she locked her eyes at him with no hint of fear seeing a daggering pupil at him.
Her knees began to shake but she slapped it and blurted as fast as she could once she stood. For them not to notice the anxiety that cloaked around her.
"Hah! How rude not to answer a simple question. Is it because you swore an oath not to whistleblow it or.... Perhaps..... You were a dimwit.... You know nothing and just hides it using that stern look of yours. How sickening. I didn't know President's so called Lieutenant is a good for nothing knuckle head." She scoff that raised the guns of every soldier for the respect for their lieutenant is incomparable. They pointed it out to someone who disgraced him.
She gritted her teeth to stop the quivering of her body system. She had gone to far just to attain information.
Lt. Kylo stood up, possibly to threaten Azrail then a grin formed between his lips as he took a step closer to Azrail.
Azrail clenched her fist just to showcase a zero percent of fear to be perceive at her despite the fact that she wishes to run away already.
He noticed how Azrail fixed her eyes to the car window instead of his presence, that pissed him more that what he heard from her.
He hypothesized that Azrail isn't interested, that only defines that he is nothing to her. Those definition is meant for weaklings.
He held her chin and pulled, that made an inch distance between their gaze.
"This is the first time someone mocked me right in front of my face."
"Wow, I'm so honored~" she wished to stop her own mouth but somehow she can't control her emotions, as if there's someone who operates her body.
This was Athena's other side. The side of her who wants to attack those ill-mannered beings but her other side is also the one that halted her to do so just because of the fear of consequences.
"Yet this is also the first time I've stopped myself to crush someone not by the orders of others. But because, I don't want to. You should definitely be honored."
"Is that so? Then this is my first time also.... To take some honor that's too unamusing receive"
He chuckled, to her surprise.
"Some rats do know to squeak nonsense. As a token for your entertainment, I'll answer your question"
After that he went close to reach her ears and whispered that tingled her her.
"As I recalled, they are from what I saw at the list."
Athena snapped out of himself to focus first on the information
"Are all of them there?"
"I'm still uncertain, on the contrary three Sevens already signed the contract. Now they're constantly waiting for the four responses of the remaining dukes."
"At least Zeus, Poseidon and Hades are possibly not coming. Phew"
"Unfortunately no, I'm referring to the three of them."
"WHAT THE F CK?!!"