Chapter 10: Instructions

[Loki's POV]

Hello, Loki here.

It's been a few days since I coerc-, I mean convinced the husband and wife Altair and Vega to be my subordinates in which I succeeded in doing so, though I have to put up for an hour worth of earful from my sister because of the ruckus I did at that time.

Ophiuchus also made a fuss about it and almost want to fight me and I honestly can't understand, she seem to just laugh that time when I got scolded but suddenly became angry when she realized that her former students just got extorted so that they will become my subordinates.

Man, that was scary, another battle of supremacy for the title of The Devil King is about to unfold but good thing our resident Wheelchaired Cinnamon Roll Chrysaor stopped Ophiuchus from rampaging.

In any case, good thing all of that is settled and right now and I am currently helping my sister with her work as a queen, this thing serves as a punishment for me in which I can't understand why am I being punished in the first place.

Should I punish her too because she sleeps with the maids in her palace all the time? I can't? Well, I guess it's fine because right now I am contemplating on what should I do to fetch Guinevere back to my side without causing trouble for this Kingdom and all of that thinking burned me out so I took a break and now, I am here giving signatures to the proposed laws and anything like that.

Good thing I am kind of bored and as of right now, Guinevere is still not here so I can't have fun yet at night (Hehe) and I want for Guinevere to go back at my side before I get a new wife because it would feel wrong if I just get a new wife after most of my wives died right? So I would like to atleast look for one of the two survivors before getting a new one.

Well, what do I say, even playboys have values.

Good thing, I have a lot of self-control so I can put up with the "frustrations" of not having my wives at my side, yeah I didn't caused a big ruckus in my visit in the training grounds because of my lack of control, not at all.

If you think that I ever did, well it must be just your imagination.

Anyway, even though I am saying that I am doing half of my sister's work, I actually have engagement meetings that is on hold. Though it is not that of love or anything but because of pure diplomacy and because it is diplomatic I have a very good reason to put it on hold forever. Well, I don't actually dislike diplomatic weddings or the such because I am confident that I can make the other person fall for me, one way or another, however, like I said, I want to atleast meet one of my two surviving wives before getting a third one.

So right now I am just escaping from them because my desire will sure to go through the roof and obliterate the roof out of existence when I ever meet one of the candidates at this time that I am trying my best to hold off my kinks.

In any case, I am not here to talk about me holding back my horny but because I am currently about to instruct my new two subordinates, Altair who have an excited smile on his face even though I just gave her some emotional damage a little while ago and Vega who already recovered from his shattered ribs.

After their recruitment, it seems like Altair just forgave me because I make her dream come true, and that is to become my subordinate. In which I found quite strange, I mean who would want to be a subordinate of someone who basically forced them to be one even if they are a fan or something of that person right?

However, it seems like she is not lying and I can tell that because I can detect lies. I already said this ability of mine about the time when I met Ophiuchus, so if you don't know how it works. It's really nothing special and is just like and instinctive thing, and it's not like this ability is all seeing, however, there is atleast ninety eight percent accuracy rate of my lie detection ability so I am still pretty confident on it.

The only person I can't detect wether she is lying or not, is my mother and I cannot still detect it no matter how much I try in my three hundred years of life (100 if you don't count my time being sealed), and it is really frustrating. But my mom is really strong, I mean super.

Ahem... Going back to the main topic Altair is like that and she also said that what I said to her about waking up from her dreams is true.

She said that she always see me as someone kind or a peace loving person, but then she realized that it was really all just a delusion that she is trying to push into me and take responsibility for it, so she decided to look at reality and accept it. So in the end she became loyal to me without any side motives whatsoever.

The problem is her husband.

I mean, he changed.

Even though you say that because he changed , that means he is not already hostile to me so it's good in the end. Well, no it's not good for me.

When, I visited him from his hospital room the moment he recovered, he immediately kneeled in front of me without hesitation and ask me to give him orders.

What did I do?

Did I brainwashed him somehow?

No, I would never brainwash people... Yet.

A-anyway, that's not all, he started to act regal all of a sudden as he calls out to me "Your servant has arrived, Loki-Sama." or something and it's goddamn creepy so I confronted him immediately about the matter and asked him if why is he suddenly acting like a loyal lap dog.

"Nothing much, I have just come to realize how great my lord is to spare my life and to enlighten my foolish self in which I am grateful and pledge to repay such debt by serving such a great person."

I paled to his regal answer as I gulped some saliva at that time.

... What did I do? Did I do something wrong?

Did I break his spirit when I mopped the floor with him at the time of our little fight in the training grounds?

What's going on!?

Where is his usual high strung self!?

This is creepy!

Well, of course I didn't showed all of that conflicts in my mind and immediately fixed my paled face that is being held by my two palms in the forehead as of now, luckily I am in that position at that time so he didn't saw how shocked I am.

Anyway, I should somehow revert him back to normal because even Altair is having all of her blood flowing from her face drain and her already white skin turned into the palest of white you can ever imagine.

She seem to not be able to mutter even a single word out of her mouth because of the shock of seeing her husband being in a very troubling and creepy appearance right now.

So I immediately confronted Vega before my brain fries up from this... Whatever is this situation right now.

"Hey, do you desire revenge? Do you not desire to reestablish your pride? Do you not want to end me to erase the living evidence of your one sided and shameful defeat? I can always accept such feelings you know, you can come to me at any time."

I blurted out a direct attack for his facade to crumble, though that's the troubling one, his actions is not an act, facade or a lie at all. That's what makes it more unsettling on what the hell did I goddamn do to make him have this three hundred sixty degree personality change out of a sudden.

"I would never dare to think of such insolent actions towards you, My Lord."

My expression turned from one that is creeped out to someone who is in the peak of his annoyance as several veins started to pop out of my forehead and I started to grit my teeth.

End this creepy act already.

"Godamnit, just stop being regal already."

I finally gave up on fixing this situation in a roundabout way and became straight to the point and said that I don't like him being a regal character because his teenager appearance doesn't suit that personality at all.

Regal people should have beard in their chin and have brows that is always in clench alongside a burly musculature and always shouts "LOKI-SAMA!!" Everytime they see me, and not an assassin brat who have a very handsome face and is not a burly dilf at all.

Well, of course, I am quite unique for I am not quite a regal person and all people here have the deep words encrusted into their vocabulary, but not like this, and not like this just after I see him being someone who tried to kill me (even though it's partly my fault for touching his wife's waist).

So I have to really clear this up or my shit will really not get settled as soon as possible, even though I said that I have confidence in my lie detection ability and the accuracy of the said ability is almost one hundred percent being at ninety eight, there is still this chance that the two percent inaccurate part of my ability is kicking in right now so...

Sigh, anyway, in short I just want to make this creepy Vega disappear into nothingness right now and the usual one, or atleast a more calmer version of the normal one to appear.

And thankfully it seem to work as he suddenly twitched his right eyebrow and then let out a sigh and loosen his somewhat stiffened muscles all over his body.

"Ah, I seem to get nervous, forgive me because this is the first time that I have been subordinated into someone and I am honestly nervous because I am a superior in the assassination unit just until recently. But rest assured, I am now completely loyal to you because of my enlightenment of your magnificence and will serve you and will not ever stab you in the back."

"O-oh... I see, well okay... I hope you serve me well (And he's back to normal, damn how creepy that was)..."

I made a sigh and then started to state my reason on calling them because I actually pulled an all nighter right now because of this works that should be for my sister and is just about four or five in the morning so they are still quite sleepy, though they brewed coffee, the dark type without any sugar or sweetening agent so they have their eyes wide open right now.

Seems like they are not used in waking up early even though they are former soldiers huh? Well, I will fix that soon and will surely make them a morning person.

By the way, Ophiuchus and Chrysaor are still not here because they are yet to find a substitute to their job, actually, no, they now have a proper replacement but the paperworks will still take until later this day apparently, so yeah, I am the only one right now to give them the rules.

But of course, the rules I am talking about is just like how the rules in the military are.

So I immediately make them sit down on two chairs and they sit down having proper and straighten backs as they intently looked at me with excitement and nervousness in their eyes.

"Ahem... All right, let us cut the chase and just get straight to the point. There are only two rules in this superior subordinate relationship between the three of us."

I put my elbow in the table and then pointed out my index finger.

"First, formalities is a must. Well, this is just a matter of professionalism and you should refer to me as 'Master' or 'Loki-Sama'. I don't want anyone of you calling me by my name casually without formalities, well Ophiuchus is different because she is as arrogant as me... In any case, into the second rule..."

I then also raised my middle finger alongside my index finger making a "two" sign as they nodded silently while waiting for the second rule.

"Second, missions and commands are of utmost priorities. Meaning that, in missions, you two shall make optimal decisions, do not act recklessly and be sure to report everything that will go amiss if the time comes, and for commands, as you all know. As long as I didn't call for retreat, you will not retreat. Even if you have missing limbs, missing arms or missing dic... Ahem, well, you already know my point. But don't worry, I will sure to call for your safety more than anything, you two are my subordinates after all."

I made a wide smile as I was about to say something that they may found exciting or not, depending on them.

"Well, for your first mission, you two will..."

After hearing the word "mission", their ears seem to gain some size and then are about to jump out of their seat because of anticipation.

"... Be training with me in the Valentine forest of death."

Silence, complete silence that even sounds of crickets can be heard even though there are no crickets in my palace as they gave me deadpan eyes looking at me with eyes that is saying "Are you serious?"

"Eh?" (Altair)

"Eh?" (Vega)

"Eh?" (Me)

I knew it, they will not like this.