"What better reason to fight can there be aside from my own brother's life?" the younger brother with the handle mustache says in a slightly annoyed voice.

"Yeah, there's literally no reason better suited to fight than the fact that I was disturbed in giving this beautiful lady company." The doctor with the stupid mustache then says, in a slightly more annoyed voice.

"Hah!" I sigh in mockery when,

"Give them a reason to fight is not what we have to do." Danny says, in an ever more annoyed voice.

"You idiot!" I say to Danny, "The whole scene was perfect for me to say my next line to the doctor and you just ruined it all."

Danny looks at me in confusion as I continue, "See, this is why you never are able to get much protagonist privileges. And because, rarely, anyone other than protagonists gets the girls, you remain out there with 99 rejections, unable to put 'in a relations.h.i.+p' in whatever 'book' the author decides to call that top social media platform to avoid copyright."

"Now, Irium," he starts shaking in anger as he replies, "You're going overboard!"

"Oh yeah!" I only smirk as I say, "Overboard in what!? Telling the truth?"

"You take that back, Irium." Danny says as he looks at me as if he's a yandere whose boyfriend is being 'taken away' by me.

"I won't." I look back at him like I'm some stubborn shota who wouldn't listen to anyone but the one he is a shota for, ahm, "I am a man of Gandhian philosophy; I won't betray him by lying in his own country."

"He isn't even born yet." Danny says to retort but I,

"Doesn't matter!" I say that to retort, "The soul is eternal, not bound by time or s.p.a.ce."

And all the while we are discussing philosophy and all, the rest of the people there look at us with their mouths agape. No one dares to speak anything, until finally,

"Could you guys get back to the topic?" the doctor says with a haughty att.i.tude, which breaks pretty easily after both of us show him our glares and he says, "I mean, only if you want to."

That said though, we should definitely get back to the topic sometime soon. It's not like discussing philosophy with Danny of all people is going to help me anyway.

"The topic, huh? What was it?" I ask in an irritated voice.

"It was something like giving them a better reason to fight." Danny says with hands at his waist looking away from me.

"Oh yeah, hey doctor," He jumps as I call him. "Repeat whatever you said as response!"

"I … well …" having realized that he was talking in a bad tone to the wrong person, the doctor now seems to be at a loss for what he should do. That though, doesn't really make sense because he should just do whatever I tell him to.

"Do I need to repeat myself?" I ask, asking less of what I actually did and more of 'Do you dare to make me repeat myself?' and I ask in the best Gilgamesh voice I could, only the 'mongrel' part was missing.

"N-No, well, I said something like there's no better reason to fight than the fact that I was disturbed when I was keeping company to that beautiful lady."

"THAT WASN'T ALL, MONGREL!" I realize now how important 'mongrel' really is. I respect you 'mongrel'. I mean the word, of course.

"Yeah, I then point my hand towards the side where the lady is-"

He trails off as he looks at the side he was and is pointing to have no 'beautiful lady' there. Yeah, telling them that fact was the perfect retort I had planned to give, and this idiot spoiled it all once again by looking there by himself. What's wrong with these people?

"Hah!"

However, it's not like I can change things now that this has happened, all I can do is make a mental note to take revenge when I can and for now, proceed with what I was saying, "So, where is Adonia Evans?"

I ask in a calm, collected and humble voice. They all then start turning to all direction and looking everywhere for where Adonia is but no one is able to find her.

Even Danny, as he notices that, starts getting nervous because of him being a Danny. Then, as the valiant leader of men, I speak up the words that everyone required to hear the most,

"WHERE ARE YOU, ADONIA!?" I yell at the top of my lungs in the hope that a response comes back … and it doesn't.

*****

"DUES!!" I hear an angry sounding female voice calling my name as the owner of that voice enters my hideout, not by the elevator, but by literally breaking through every floor.

"Would it kill you to not do that every time you come here, Aknin?" I ask begrudgingly knowing she's not going to listen.

"That's not important!" she says while shaking in fear and yells at me, "Is it true that you have let that man escape from here?"

I don't reply, which only brings more frustration to her as she continues, "Why would you let him escape? Do you want to be a hindrance to me?"

She says while gritting her teeth, however, I reply calmly, "He hasn't escaped."

It's the truth. And there's no reason to not tell this truth, "He has just gone back in time, with all intentions of coming back to the present … with Roswaisa."

"Tsk!" she tightens her fists and runs towards me to give a punch on the face, too bad she can't do that because the whole place we are in is my playground. I can control anything in here, even going so far as to make the ground melt and capture her leg in it as if it's a bog.

"There's something you need to know, Aknin."

She looks with irritation but does look as I say that, and so I continue,

"I didn't give the prophecy I gave for you to be able to change it." I say with a smile, no, a grin, "The demon race IS going to die, and they are going to be the one to kill all of you."

*****