(Balalaika POV)
'It has been two years since I have submitted to that little girl. Saying that she has accomplished what she promised is an overstatement. In the first moment she literally declared war on every single mafia family in Moscow and, the funny thing, is that we won. After that, we took control of city after city after city. Volgograd, Saint Petersburg and Novosibirsk fell within 7 months, the russian government was afraid that we were becoming too strong, so they started to pressure us, because of that, we had to stay low for another 5 months, however, we managed to turn the tables when a group of insurgents rose up in Chechnya.
The russian government was already tied down with their neighbours in Europe, afraid of an invasion from Europe, they could only send a small army to destroy the rebellion. At first they were successful, but they began to face problems with their military equipment, because of that, the insurgents started pushing them back.
With the support from Turkey and Georgia, they had decent military equipment and good morale. The same could not be said from the russians. When they were at their lowest, we offered them a deal. We would supply them with guns but in exchange, they would let us do as we wish with the underground. The russian government had no choise but to accept, now nobody would stay on our way... or so we thought. But reality was rather different... and a bitch. The remaining mafia families in Russia have formed a united front. While they couldn't stop us completely, they could stall us.
This why, right now, I am in this annoying meeting with 20 mafia leaders.' I massaged my left temple.
"The Volkov are extremely agressive. Killing anyone who opposes them. There are rules in the underground that must be kept!" One of those mafia leaders said while he menancingly glared at me.
"You called us, Balalaika. Saying that you wanted to discuss the future of the russian underground. Here's the thing. We want the Volkov family to retreat from Russia entirely." Other leader said with a smug grin.
I simply took a puff from my cigar and crossed my legs. "Is everyone here in agreement with him?" I looked around the room and saw that all of them nodded. "I see your point." I placed the cigar on my lips and took another puff. "It looks like I will have to make a point in crushing you completely."
*Bam*.
One of them slammed his fist on the table and screamed. "Don't get cocky jus-." However before he could even finish, strings wrapped around their necks and pulled them up, hanging them all up.
It looks like they still can't believe that they are dying. After a couple of seconds of struggle. One by one, the mafia leaders died. Suddenly, Machi appeared from the shadows. "Is that all of them?"
To her question, I just shaked my head. "These are the one who accepted my invitation. However, I send it to around 30 families. At least 10 families are remaining and they are spread all around Russia."
"You can take care of the rest then. You don't need my support." She said
"Hahahahaha." I laughed before I lifted my cup. "Want to drink with me?"
"I have other important things to deal with." She said before disappearing.
"Fufufu. The Volkov family will acquire every single thing you own and I will make sure of it." I spoke to myself while I looked at the bodies that were hanging. "They would be nice christmas decorations."
(Oemitsu POV)
Currently, I am fighting against Akagi and Kaga. Akagi is in front of me while Kaga is behind my back. Both of them are both full of injuries, and yet, I'm completely unharmed. 'Over the past two years, both of them grew two more tails. I also taught them how to use Soru and Shigan, in the hopes of increasing their strength in close combat.'
"Don't die on me Commander!" Akagi said lodly while she casted a huge fireball and threw it at me.
"Something that small can't hurt me." I lifted one finger and a string sliced the fireball in half.
"I'm not done yet!" Suddenly, the two halfs of the fireball, split themselves in multiple small fireballs and quickly flew at me.
"New trick?" I asked while I froze her fireballs.
"I got you." Kaga said as she had managed to get right behind me.
But before she could do something, I backflipped and axe kicked her in the back of the head, knocking her out.
"Huff. I trained you two for 2 years for this?" I shaked my head.
Akagi dashed at me but I stood still, waiting to see what new tricks she will show to me. But she just punched me multiple times, so I dodged without leaving the place I was. "Those are good punches, a shame they won't hit anyone." I told her before I punched her in the chin, knocking her out and sending her in the same direction of her sister.
After this, I took my shirt off. "It was a nice workout."
Kaga got up and looked at me like I was from another planet. "You are a monster. You just keep getting stronger and stronger."
"You two are getting stronger too. As you are, no High Class Devil can fight you." I shrugged.
"We have been sparring with you for two years but you never moved from your initial spot. It doesn't matter how much strenght we use. Just how strong are you?" She asked.
"Fufufufuu. Secret. But I kicked you with enough strength to knock you out for a couple of hours by now, so if you are still talking, then it means that you still have strenght to continue." I said before cracking my neck. "Let's go for round two." But before we could proceed.
"Niiiiiii!!!" Little Shiro arrived and hugged me.
"It seems that we will have to postpone it for later." I said as I hugged her.
"Sis-con." With my acute hearing, I heard Kaga saying this.
"Fufufufufu. How funny, dead people can't talk." I said with a smile.
"Huh?" Kaga was confused but for a short time since I threw a rock at her head, knocking her out again.
'How dare she call me a Sis-con.'
"The opperation was a success." Shiro whispered.
'Balalaika sure is an interesting woman. She is the face of the volkov family while Shiro and I rule behind the scenes. Soon enough, the entirety of Russia will be under our control.' I thought while caressing my dear Shiro.
"Nii, it is time for the meeting." She said.
"Yeah. It has been 2 years already. I spent most of the time with Akagi and Kaga, so I barely noticed the time passing." I commented.
(It is really wise to train your enemies?) Nyar questioned.
'Akagi and Kaga are not my enemies. They are spies. As long as I find their weakness, I will be able to bring them to my side. Or, at least, I hope so. If I can't, then I will kill them. They are not a threat to my interests, on the contrary, they are already helping me more than expected. Feeding them false information about my abilities and my movements is keeping their master on the dark. Besides, now I have a huge amount of free time.
Akihiko has annoyed Grayfia, so now, she rarely passes by. He thinks that I want her attention, so he did everything so that she couldn't come to our lessons. She ended up choosing him instead of me, as always. Thanks to him, I now can do whatever I want. What an idiot.' I grinned while I entered in the meeting hall with Shiro and Neon sitting on my coach.
Shiro sitting on my left, hugging me and Neon on my right. 'I will never let Akagi or Kaga get inside this room.'
Right after, Ponzu arrived. "Am I the first one?"
But instead of answering it, I let someone else do it. "I was already here." Machi said as she came out of the shadows.
"What a shame." Ponzu said before she sat down on her seat.
Machi also took her seat after Ponzu.
Suddenly, Menchi opened the door. "I am the first!" And yelled.
"Energetic as always, huh." Machi commented.
"Ohh, you two were already here. Tch." She sat on her seat, clearly bothered by the fact that two people were here before her.
After a few minutes, Vergo entering in the room through a teleportation spell.
"It is rare for Vergo to arrive late." Machi said.
"I got held up running an underground empire in the underworld. It is harder than it looks." He said before sitting on his seat.
"Can we start it already?" Menchi asked.
"Not everyone is here though." Ponzu answered.
At this moment, Pakunoda and shizuku arrived through the door. "I'm sorry. I'm late." Shizuku said.
I simply nodded while they sat down. "Good. Everyone is here, let's start this meeting. Ponzu, how is the research department going?" I turned to her.
"I have managed to create a lot of new drugs. If you want, I can start the production of methamphetamine and we will beat any competition in terms of product quality." She suggested.
"Hmm. Producing and selling methamphetamine is not something I want to do. I would rather sell chemical gases or torture drugs." I placed my hand in my chin.
"I have a lot of drugs that can get the user addicted or that make them go crazy. I also have a lot of chemical gases that are lethal and useful in warfare." She said after thinking for a bit.
"Good. Now we just need a network to sell them in wars. How about the Phoenix Tears? Have you managed to produce them?"
"I don't understand much about magic so the guy that you hired, Sebastian, is the one in charge of that. However, he is struggling. According to him, he needs a living member of the Phenex family to conduct further researchs on producing the Tears." She said.
'Sebastian is a Magician that I hired. I made a contract with him, I would fund his research, but in exchange, he would help me researching the data that we got from the Nebiros clan.'
"We also needed a scientist to help us in certain areas. I am a chemist. If it is drugs or gases, I can help but I have no experience in creating new weapons or enhance current ones if they are not gases or drugs." She shrugged.
I nodded. "Okay. I will get you one."
'Hmm. I will need a scientist to help me create SMILES.'
Then, I turned to Pakunoda. "How are our finances?"
"We are wealthy. Really wealthy." She smiled.
"Balalaika has just finished destroying our opposition in Russia, sooner or later, the entire country will fall in our hands. This will allow us to sell guns throughout the world. Do we have enough money for such an operation?"
"Hmm. We don't. Sending guns throughout the world will be hard. We will have a lot of barriers, and getting pass those will cost money. Without counting the money spent on producing the guns that is." She quickly said all of the problems.
"I will get you more money then." I told her before I turned to Machi.
"There is no threat of an uprising. I have kept an eye on Balalaika and her subordinates. They know that if they try anything funny, they will be hanged."
"Good. Everything is falling in place." I told myself while I turned to Vergo. "What is holding our progress in the underworld?"
"Huff. The lack of supply, the massive amount of requests for Sacred Gears and the Satan families are stopping our progress in expanding. We only have 5 houses in the underworld supporting us. Well, they only support us because we sell Sacred Gears to them." He looked at me.
"We will have to deal with this stalemate later on, not right now. We can't afford to spend more resources in it." I shaked my head.
"Okay." Vergo nodded.
'If only we had a Sacred Gear remover. Instead of just selling the Sacred Gear, we have to the sell humans that have the Sacred Gears. The base of our current empire is selling humans. Unfortunately, some of them resist and die. Also, humans with Sacred Gears are really hard to find, in these two years, we have only sold 50, which is a small number. Luckily, we have the Slave Seal, so they can't refuse their masters, or else, this empire would be impossible to exist in the first place.' I clenched my hand at these troublesome matters.
"Huff. For now we have other thing to focus, and that is travelling to another world."
"So we are finally going to another world?!" Ponzu had a bright smile.
"Finally, I was getting bored." Menchi leaned on her chair.
"Ehm. Wait a minute. You still haven't told us about the reason. Why do we need to go to another world in the first place?" Pakunoda inquired.
I heard her question but my mind was on another place... precisely, lost inside a big pair of bouncing jugs. 'This is getting more and more troublesome. Puberty hit me like a truck. Whenever there is a hot girl nearby, I can't resist and end up looking at their breasts or ass. I never thought that having a family full of women would pose such a threat to my mind. It was a lucky shot that I didn't had to meet them for 2 years. But now... looking at Pakunoda's breasts, Shizuku's breasts, Machi's thighs, Menchi's legs or Ponzu's ass, it is really hard to control myself and not have a boner. This all together with the fact that Neon is on my left side is crushing me. While I treat her as a little sister, she is 19. The only reason why I treat her as a little sister, is because she has the mental age of a child.' I took a deep breath and remembered about the times where Old Man Zeno would torture me until I was half dead. This somewhat calmed me. "Ahem! I need certain crystals that exist in those worlds."
"Crystals?" Menchi tilted her head.
"The crystals have the capability of immensely increasing my power. And they also help Nyarlathotep increase her abilities."
"So we are working to make her stronger?" Machi asked as she squinted.
"No. We are working to make me stronger and, at the same time, Nyar gets stronger." I said.
"I will do it because you want me to do it, however, I am against getting Nyarlathotep stronger." Machi crossed her arms while Menchi nodded, but for some reason, Machi seemed to really hate Nyar.
"Oemitsu treats her as a older sister, so she can't be that bad." Ponzu tried to reason with them just to Pakunoda ruin it. "From what Oemitsu told us. The reason she helped him was because it benefited her." Pakunoda followed Machi and crossed her arms too.
"Huff. You have the right to doubt her. But you don't have to worry. Nyar is not someone who would betray me. I trust her with everything I have." I told them.
'Open the portal.' I told her.
(I'm so mad!) He loudly said.
'You don't have to worry. My family members are just a little bit over protective.'
(That is not it! You awakened you sexual desires to another woman! If only you had seen my body, this wouldn't have happened!)
At this moment, I sighed and facepalmed. 'It was a mistake to him to worry about her.'
(I don't give a shit about their opinion! The only thing I care about is you! If you hated me, then I wouldn't be able to live! If they hate me, fuck them!)
"Fufufufufufu." I laughed. 'Just open the gate for the other world.'
(Do you want two worlds or only one?)
'What do you mean?'
(You already have a family that is big enough to split into two groups and get two crystals in the same time it would take to get one.)
I looked at the others. "Very well. We will split into two groups."
"It is really wise to split our fighting strenght?" Machi asked.
"There is nothing to worry about, I trust in your fighting prowess. I believe that everyone on this table can deal with any world you face. Okay, Group 1 will contain Vergo, Ponzu, Menchi and Neon
and Group 2 will contain me, Machi, Shizuku, Pakunoda and Shiro. Vergo will be in charge of the Group 1 since he have been with me on multiple worlds and he knows how the crystals looks like. Besides, with Neon there you guys are going to be able to predict the future. Remember if you feel any danger run. Your lifes are the priority." I warned them.
"I dont wanna split up from you big brother!" Neon protested.
"I will get you anything you want if she do a good job." I proposed.
"Really?! Then I want the wings of a 4 winged Angel!" She excitedly said.
"I will get them." I smiled. 'Neon has picked up the hobby of collecting the wings of Devils, Fallen Angels and Angels. I have gotten her the wings from a 2 winged Devil, a 4 winged and 6 winged one. The same with Fallen Angels, however, I only managed to get her a 2 winged Angel's wings. They are quite rare since they rarely leave Heaven.' I petted her head. "Let's get this show started." Right after I said that, two portals opened. "Remember, take anything you want. If you see someone interesting, worthy of joining our family, bring them if you can, if you can't then kill them. We don't want strong enemies on our asses, the ones we already have are enough."