Chapter 7: Vega

I immediately unwrapped my hand from the waist of Altair as I slowly back up for about a step or two as I look at the husband of Altair.

Oh man, this is bad, I feel gross, I didn't know she already have a husband, I mean, No one told me!

Well, I may be a womanizer and I admit that my case cannot be altered anymore no matter how much I try to change, well though I embraced it and is an honest person (in case only of my wives) and make my first wife Vanir know that I got another wife and then a third and a fourth and so on so I don't have any qualms about myself being a horny fuck.

However, I can proudly say that I didn't steal someone who already have someone and all of my wife are, or well, most of them are not brainwashed, mindbroken or got NTR'D because wife stealing is what I despise the most.

Why? Well simply because your wife cheating on you is traumatic and I am honestly scared of that thought so even though I am someone who doesn't believe in god, I still don't want karma to suddenly stab my ass. That probably is one of my very few moral integrity because, surely you won't expect someone that have the "Devil King" title and is known by the world as "The Devil" to have that many morals right?

But yeah, what should I do, I feel rarely guilty right now that I want to apologize but seeing her partner's face , I would bet my life that he wouldn't take sorry as a viable situation solver now.

Altair's man have a red hair, the same with his red colored eyes, he wears a red sweater with white complimentary designs and his belt hangs two scabbards of knives that he is currently holding in his arms.

His face is handsome I must admit, but he is currently gritting his teeth while several veins is protruding out of his forehead and is about to explode, and he have to have an anger issue (though anyone would be angry if they saw what he saw earlier).

He also seem to be an assassin, though his appearance is flashy and will attract attention so he is either very confident of his skills or very stupid and I bet it is the former given that he blatantly went in front of me without hesitation, even though I know this mess is my fault, I can't help but be interested in him.

"V-Vega!? You're in the assassination unit though! What are you doing here!?"

Altair suddenly hopped two times while making up and down motions in her hands making a harmony of her bouncing breasts and her hands.... I would not do anything I swear...

"Y-you Don't know!? G-grr! As clueless as ever! Well, just don't glomp your breast into people who only thinks with their cock!"

Hey, that's rude! Is that how people perceive me!? I am not like that at all you know!?

Well, of course I cannot say that because this people are interesting in more ways than one, they are young (for a Vampire and a Devil), they have untapped potential and I just have to shave of this person named Vega of his anger issues and... I don't know what flaw Altair have yet but yeah, you can rest assured, they will be good subordinates.

And they seem to have a very young relationship too, in what I can see they are childhood friends that turned into lovers given that Vega knew that Altair is always dense.

Hmm.... Damn, I just realized that I am so bored I started to analyze an entire love story which is a bad thing so I will be sure to find a way to get Guinevere after this recruitment.

Well, going back to the lover's quarrel.

"Huh? Why would people think with a chicken? Are you stupid?"

Everyone deadpanned as they heard Altair's retort, even Vega changed his demeanor to an angry husband and to a helpless one, oh man this is really interesting I forgot this thing was all because of me.

"Wha...? No, that's not... GODAMNIT! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!"

Vega gave up on reasoning with Altair and once again clenched his brows as he pointed his red colored knife that he is holding in his right hand towards me, man this person sure loves the red color huh?

I looked at him with a smile as I started to bullshit my way out of this situation, though I can coerce people into becoming my Subordinate, I prefer to talk to them properly first, I am a kind prince you know? Well, not really, but who cares, I have to think of a reason why would another man suddenly wrapped his arms into another man's woman, and as you would expect I can't think of anything.

"E-err... Y- you are mistaken... This is uhm... You see..."

I tried to make up an excuse by formulating all the experiences when me and my sister suddenly disappeared in our classroom and will be found by the teacher having ladies in our embrace, but yup, no, nothing helped at all, what should I do, I don't want subordinates that only joined my ranks because of force and lacks any kind of loyalty towards me.

Unfortunately, this people are not beast who have a straightforward law of " the weak serves the strong" so even if I beat them into a pulp, they will obediently obey me afterwards, that's not the case and it is very complicated to touch a Devil's heart because they live longer the above average of other races making them someone who "already saw every kind of riches and luxuries"through their entire lives.

This thing of them resulted in me having very few subordinates coming from my race, and right now my (soon to be) subordinates will probably have to be blackmailed by me before cooperating and joining me to make my future biddings work.

But hey, this is interesting to say the least, my two subordinates left are people in the same threshold of power as me and just Didn't became a Ruler either because they don't want to or because they just choose to become my subordinate after a fight of supremacy with me.

But right now I am recruiting someone below me, someone who is actually still young and arrogant and didn't know how to measure himself and thinks that he can defeat all people he choose to defeat, though because he is trained by a training regime devised by me then maybe he really can defeat most people he wants to defeat.

Even then, even though I know that I will win, I am the protagonist after all, I have to still deal with him because of my almost non-existent conscience and because there is no other choice because like I said earlier, Vega have a big anger problem that I have to slash off his system and he will never take sorry as a proper way to apologize.

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is his motto, in short.

I looked at him as he looked at me with pure anger and a bloodlust like no one has ever seen, I also gave up on reasoning with him as I also gave out some of my bloodlust. Of course I restrained myself, if I didn't, every person in this place will asphyxiated and faint from lack of oxygen in their brain and further exposure into my unfiltered killing intent will lead into an accidental kills in my part, but of course people who is strong enough can survive.

Even so, no matter how much I filter myself into his level, though because of things like pride I made myself a little bit higher than him, the bloodlust was still mine and people within fifty meters of our zone started to sweat like crazy as they breathed heavily and moved backwards instinctively.

Everyone of them have horror and worry in their face, a young and arrogant brat is challenging the King of his own Race (Though the King is mostly at fault), their King who is known for his ruthlessness and his malevolence, who would not flinch and cry for the life of an unfortunate soul who even tried to challenge him right?

Well, however, they do not know that I am planning on humoring him and is not like will go serious at all, I don't want things to wrap up in an instant after all so I have to hold back a lot, like a loooooot.

"Hey, boy, is there no other way around this? I'm sorry all right."

I folded my arms and smiled calmly emphasizing my absolute confidence towards myself as Vega gnashed his teeth with my statement and pointed his weapon towards me.

"Yeah, if you suddenly got a heart attack somehow or died of natural causes, then there will be no fights that will unfold."

He said as he started to assume a pouncing position, his legs are stretched so that his butt is up in the air like that of a professional sprinter while his chin is just a little above the ground, his right arm who wields a knife is in the very front and his left that is also wielding a knife is in his back.

He is in short in a semi feral position and it seem like he is quite adept to it and I can conclude that he is the type who's targets are people who have a good touch in fighting because he have to, most of the time confront them.

Which is really quite impressive given that assassins are sneak killers and Ophiuchus' family are a special case, as to why are they a special case, that would be a tale of another time.

I then, with his gesture of immediate battle stance, also made my move, I made my nails grow blades pitch black in color that is knitted tightly together, and then placed my palm three inches away from my chest making my blade to go a little slant with my shoulder.

Looking at my stance I only intend to defend, of course if your are holding back it is obvious that you should not attack as long as your opponent didn't finished attacking.

Looking at my stance and understanding the meaning of it immediately, Vega immediately became more angrier making his anger at peak of his very emotion yet.

"Y-you idiot! You'll die!"

"Vega! Loki-Sama doesn't mean it.... I think! Think rationally and become calm for once!"

"Loki-Sama! Please forgive him!"

Every single soldiers of this place including Altair shouted at him and pleaded for him to stop my challenge and given that I am not really that "ruthless" they think that I will probably forgive him, which is a given, first of all it's all my fault that all of this shit happened and all persuasion attempts possible became impossible and the only way to recruit subordinates is through coercion is because of me.

However, he can't hear such plead or even though he can, he probably is ignoring it or just misinterpreting it as the people makes it so that it's his fault just because I'm their prince which is of course will make people go sour, more so that Vega have an anger as bright as his hair, so he just shouted.

"SHUT UP! SHUT UP! THIS BASTARD OF A DICKHEAD TOUCHED MY WIFE IN FRONT OF ME! SO I WILL MAKE SURE THAT HE WILL PAY FOR IT WITH HIS BLOOD!"

He said as he charged some of his power into his legs and his knives started to have a dark crimson glow making him look like the bearer of blood.

Oh? Now, now, I didn't know that his blade is enchanted, I wonder what kind of enchantment is used their, and the enchantment is quite strong to say the least and only a little touch of the enchantment master of the seven rulers, Idun will probably make this knives of him deadlier.

Will he reveal the power of his weapons I wonder? Haha! What am I saying of course no-

"[Fibonacci Strike]!"

He went and revealed it. He made a long shout with those words as he suddenly disappeared out of sight, or atleast out of everyone's sight except me as I made my blade made of mana intercept both of his knives as a crackling sound of two sharp things intercepting and having a battle of supremacy was heard the very same second.

And then, I confirmed it, my sword... Or blade started to crack little by little as I made (faked) a surprise face making Vega make a wide smirk out of his face thinking that he just made me, someone considered as one of the ancestors of the Devils open his eyes wide in shock.

But yep, he is wild and free, all right, his knives and it's ability is simplistic but still deadly, though because of him shouting a very good (in terms of naming sense) name yet also at the same time a very bad one (in terms of being secretive), a very obvious weakness of his whole battle system was just revealed.

It was so obvious that your math teacher will commit suicide if you didn't understand the rationale of the attack, and I am serious.

Looking at him who is triumphantly making a grin, I made a wide smile, my usual ear to ear smile as I muttered simple words.

"Fufu~ Quite the interesting knife you have huh? Then let me humor you for a bit and give you a lesson in naming sense at the same time! Heheheh..."