Terrible Influences

"You know, I would normally just kill these guys, toss their bodies into the lake and watch the fishes eat them...but this is more fun."

"I told you so."

"MMMMMPH!!!"

"Shut up, or I am actually throwing you to the sea monsters!"

'Mmm..."

...

[Milord, did your side of the family recently provide the main branch with a tamed sea monster?]

'I don't know...'

[Because the alternative is that your tattooed relative just...keeps wild monsters near the manor...in a densely populated city...]

'Let's...let's not think about the implications too deeply.'

...

At this moment in time, Zhen Liu and the kaijin were busy preparing special boxes that were designed to keep people who were Aether Lords and below sealed until a certain condition was met. And as he was building stuff, Matriarch Zhen Xun Tian was currently "entertaining" the Plague Bird assassins that the kaijin had captured.