In the Capital of the Clover Kingdom, a meeting is being held, where, along with the Wizard King, Julius himself, all of the Captains of the squads are taking part as well.
On the head of the table sat Julius, while the captains sat on either side of the long table. As soon as the last person arrived, who was none other than William, the meeting began.
With his diplomatic smile plastered on his face, Julius addressed the meeting.
"Thank you all for coming on such short notice. I know due to the King's announcement, all of you are going to be very busy, so I will not waste much of your time and begin today's meeting."
At his words, Yami spoke.
"Well, I was not very busy, you know, with my squad being first and all. But others might be."
While his words seemed harmless, they managed to rile up most here.
Nozel and Jack looked at him with a sharp glint in their eyes, while Mereoleona gave a dismissive snort. Charlotte kept her impassive face, and as for Rill and Dorothy, both of them were not offended at all. One was sleeping, and the other was like a happy-go-lucky child. As for Kaiser and William, they remained calm due to their amiable and gentlemanly temperament.
"Huh, whatever do you mean, you filthy ape?" Nozel said with an oppressive atmosphere surrounding him.
"Kekeke! It seems you need a bit of slicing in your life. Kekeke!" As for Jack, he threatened in his own peculiar way.
"What did you say? I cannot hear your voice from mediocrity over my own greatness." Yami replied with a shit eating grin.
His dismissive tone caused them to rile up further.
"It seems a small victory from happenstance seemed to have gotten into your monkey-like brain."
"I would like to see you talk without your mouth when I cut it. Kekeke!"
But who was Yami? He was a person that Wilhelm himself did not like to argue with, and that says something.
"Heh, don't be jealous. Work hard instead…
…to try to bank a position after us." He ended with a smirk that grated on Nozel's smirk and made Jack want to turn that smile into something truly vile,
Seeing that everyone's throat could not help but be filled with bile.
Which cause them to run away from him with a pace truly agile.
"You are right. It would take real hard work to be placed behind you." Nozel bit back, but Yami gave a mocking clap and said.
"Wow, that was nice. For how long were you practicing it in front of the mirror when your maid made your hair?"
"Pfft."
This caused Rill, who was watching it like a game, to chuckle a bit, which immediately made him the target of Nozel's infamous 'You should have never been born' stare.
"Eh, Noseless?"
"What?"
Nozel immediately said, annoyed at Yami's words, which only later made him realize what he had responded to.
Seeing that the conversation was not going to die down, Julius interjected to end it.
"It is good to see all of you being lively, but I would like to get to the matter at hand first and foremost." He said, at which Nozel grumbled but, out of respect for Julius, held back any comment he had in his mind, and faced Julius pretending that Yami was not present.
This brought a brief moment of respite to all who were getting tired of the bickering and turned their attention to Julius. Seeing that every eye was on him and silence surrounded the room, Julius began.
"Good, now, we have as of now identified the location where the head headquarters of Eye of Midnight Sun is located." This caused brows to shoot up when Mereoleona commented with a tone of incredulity, leaning back in her chair.
"Oh, so King was not spouting nonsense as usual, huh?"
"Precisely." Julius commented, looking in her direction, before he expanded upon it.
"We only found out that day, and I reported it to him.
I initially intended for it to be kept a secret but…"
"Rolly-Polly told everyone about it and decided to hold a competition instead to show off." Yami added dryly, which caused most at the table to sigh at the stupidity.
Then Julius continued once again.
"Anyways, we have to deal with the issue somehow, so here is my suggestion." He straightened his back and appended to his speech.
"We will allow everyone in your squad to participate in the competition, but have a list ready for the members you think will be important. The list is to include people with excellent abilities, like Asta and Wilhelm from the Black Bulls, and Langris from the Golden Dawn. I will leave it up to you.
Send me the list by the end of this week, and I will give it to create the necessary items for them to wear.
Train your squad, even those who are to be left behind, because there is a good chance that Eye of Midnight Sun can attack us in the absence of most of our knights.
That is all for the meeting today. I don't want to waste more time. This meeting is dismissed, and Yami..."
"Hmm?" Yami hummed in question.
"Stay back." Julius said, at which everyone threw the pair an inquisitive look, but they left the room.
In a few minutes, the room was empty, and there was only silence in the room, along with Julius and Yami. In that small time, Yami had lit a cigarette, taking a puff from it, and asked, "They are gone. What do you need me for?"
Immediately, the smile on Julius' face was replaced with a serious look, and he said, "What do you think about Vangeance?"
"Me? Fishy.
Wilhelm? Very suspicious."
Hearing this, Julius's frown deepened.
"How do you treat his suspicion?"
"Mr. Creepy is not one to randomly name anybody. He is quite sure about it, and you can read how he came to this conclusion from this report." Yami said as he passed the report that he was keeping under the table to Julius, who took it and started to go through it.
As he flipped through pages, his expression continued to sour, and when he was finished, he placed it on the table, staring into the air, then he turned to Yami and said, "Yami, I have a mission for Wilhelm. Tell him to just…exercise secrecy and caution. We don't want Diamond Kingdom to launch an attack right now."
Hearing this, Yami's eyes shone with an unhidden amount of curiosity, and he discussed the mission in question.
But Julius merely closed his eyes and prayed, because he was about to create a monster.
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Volume 2 finished!!!
I will update Volume 3 when I finish writing it, which will take me between 2 weeks and a month, so no updates till then.
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As for next volume, we are going to explore Diamond Kingdom properly that is not done even in Manga. He is going to get crazy strong, and will show a major link for how am I going to proceed with the story. UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN!!!