Chapter 803: Roll to Anger
=That’s the idea, yes.=
=Well…there’s this belief that the most baffling thing a person can face in any given situation is an outraged person.=
=No fucking clue.=
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[Is the Director going to be okay? I don’t know how strong this knight and those twins actually are, but the fact that they’re here and they just name dropped the library’s old name…]
[I am certain our lord will be just fine, Razorstella. Despite how he acts, he’s still tougher than he looks and he has Frosttusk with him.]
[On top of that,] Spring Brawler interjected, [Screamira and Hurricroak are already there. They can fight against those twins at length.]
[Hmmm. I guess you’re both right…]
[Cool. Now, remember to tuck in your legs since you’re more aerodynamic than the rest of us.]
‘Aye.’
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Meanwhile, at the arena…
[Do you really think the manager will be able to keep these guys distracted long enough using only an angry rant at the two of them?]
[I mean…yeah? You’ve seen him act, he’ll be fine.]
[That’s why I’m worried. I’ve seen him act.]
[But that’s just the same thing…wait, no…okay, I see your point.]
…
‘Why do I have this creeping feeling of doubt? Ah, fuck it. Just roll with it.’
“I’m just gonna say this once, so listen up!,” Zhen Liu shouted at Malifax and the twins with an aether enhanced voice. For added effect, Zhen Liu had Frosttusk amplify the moment by lightly freezing the ground around him.
From the way they flinched the moment they saw how his little trick played out, Zhen Liu got the feeling he’d definitely keep them distracted long enough for the others to do something.
‘Alright, now that I got their attention…let’s make them angry that I did.’
“To be honest,” Zhen Liu continued from his earlier warning, “I have exactly zero idea who either of you are and I couldn’t give less than a shit about whomever the fuck you’re working for.”
“You dare to insult the Holy-”
“Yes I do, you walking ten ton tin can full of stupid!,” Zhen Liu interrupted. “Not my religion, not my issue. So piss off with all that noise, I’m a man of an entirely different faith!”
“Heretic!”
(Un)surprisingly, the inquisitor was insulted more by the fact that Zhen Liu said he was a member of a different faith moreso than the fact that he had just been called a ten ton tin can full of stupid.
Then again, that might’ve been due to the fact that had no idea what tin was in the first place.
…
[Are you actually a man of faith, minn jarl? You don’t act like it.]
‘I… actually was a touch religious in my old life. Nothing too major, just went to church every weekend and said my prayers every now and then. I wasn’t devout, but I had faith.’
[Makes sense…that still the case?]
‘Kind of,but I don’t think the god I prayed to is present here…’
…
“Oh, would you look at that, sister dear, the zealot is all bent out of shape!”
“He is, dear sister, he is! And here I thought that inquisitors were supposed to be made of sterner stuff!”
The Calamity Sisters proceeded to share a rather sadistic chuckle over the fact that Inquisitor Malifax Dupont was needled in such a manner, but they wouldn’t be laughing like this for long.
…
‘Do you guys seriously have nothing on these two? Like nothing at all?’
=Well…if it helps, we can at least tell you that these two appear to be the type of twins who see themselves as one person instead of two.=
‘I…I don’t think I can make those jokes, since they don’t appear to be Ancient Egyptian or from Alabama.’
<=Gross.=>
‘You said it, not me.’
…
Zhen Liu redirected his focus from the mace wielding Malifax to the chuckling twin sisters, a grimace on his face as he did.
While he had a feeling on what he needed to say in order to piss these girls, he also had the feeling that once those words left his mouth, he was going to regret it for years to come.
Then again, he wasn’t the one who started this shit in the first place so he might as well retaliate with scorched earth doctrine at it’s finest.
‘Fuck it, let’s go for it…’
“Oi! Tweedle Twat and Tweedle Bitch! I wouldn’t be laughing so hard either, since I ain’t letting you guys gain access to the archives either. So please, take your two bodies on soul act back home so you can go and continue to to cuck each other’s boyfriends in front of each other, or do you two like to screw each other and call it self-love?”
“EXCUSE-”
“-ME?!”
“HAH!”
Evidently, the Calamity Sisters and the Inquisitor were smart enough to notice the implications of Zhen Liu’s words, but Zhen Liu decided to drive the point home just to make sure they were focusing on him.
“You both heard me. Take your weird, painfully obvious sibling love act out of my city and go back to whatever freaky hole you two crawled out of.”
After all, the angrier they got and the more they wanted to kill his ass specifically, the less likely they were to notice that Screamira and Hurricroak were sneaking up behind them to nail them both with a harmonized attack.
I mean…none of you noticed.
‘Okay, if these guys are seriously falling for my painfully obvious insults, they kind of deserve getting blasted like this. Godsdamn dude.’
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“Dear sister, did he seriously just-!”
“He did, sister dear, he did!”
“How dare he!”
“He dared!”
As the Calamity Sisters proceeded to get righteously enraged over the implication that they have done things that were frowned upon by most modern societies, the two of them failed to notice that a pair of Kaijin were charging up attacks directly behind them and Inquisitor Tinhead.
“I say we rip his head clean off of his neck, dear sister!”
“But we need to know where the Archive is located, sister dear!”
“Then we’ll rip his head off his neck after beating the information out of him, dear sister!”
“Of course!”
Whether or not they would actually learn anything from this debacle would be something only the divine would know.
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Okay, seriously, who the fuck is this guy?
|Again, not addressing it.|
•You know you can’t ignore me forever.•
How did you get in here?!
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“Hark! Calamity Sisters, was it?,” Inquisitor Malifax Dupont suddenly interjected. “It appears that our goals might be aligned with one another.”
“What?”×2
“I have no desire to find this so-called Archive, but the prophet and council demands that I bring in this conjurer. What say that we join hands with one another to subdue this miscreant. Help me take him in, then I’ll help you get whatever information you want from what’s left.”
The Calamity Sisters were taken aback for a moment on the prospect of working with some religious zealot…but changed their minds once they thought about.
“Two is better than one…”
“And three is stronger than two…”
“Very well, we’ll lend a hand.”
“Excellent!”
“Oh no, you’re ganging up on me, whatever shall I do?,” Zhen Liu cried in the most deadpan voice he could muster.
A feeling of deja vu came over Zhen Liu as he recalled a dream he had a long time ago in regards to a situation like this.
Granted, that moment could’ve also been a memory but he never actually got around to asking Logos and Pathos about it.
Regardless, despite being painfully obvious about his lack of worry about the Calamity Sisters and the Inquisitor teaming up, the aforementioned antagonists still prepared themselves to fire off their own attacks.
The Calamity Sisters proceeded to extend a set of matching palms in Zhen Liu’s direction, gathering a strange type of dark attributed aether that seemed to be more like a curse than anything else.
Meanwhile, Inquisitor Malifax Dupont began to mutter a prayer as he lifted his mace over his head to perform an overhead smash. The mace in question began to glow with the colors of the rainbow as the inquisitor gathered and condensed his aether into the heavy implement.
[Gemini-!]
[Radiant-!]
Unfortunately for the three of them, they were a touch too slow.
[Thundering Roar!]
[Banshee’s Wail!]
Right before the three warriors could fire off their attacks, Screamira and Hurricroak proceeded to let loose their own attacks in a coordinated manner.
A wave of sound that was laced with the power of thunder and death, ripped through the air as it made impact with the twins and inquisitor.
Needless to say, a shit ton of dust was kicked up in the process.
