47 Webs of stupid plotting (1/2)
Armand coughed softly as he paced around the waiting room. He was flanked by two of his elders, the other two had gone to fetch another eminent persona who was imperative to this meeting.
His angular face had its own shade of grey overtone that had been cast by the scanty lighting of the room and his shirt had for once, been properly buckled in and completely covered his wide chest.
”Sir, the lord will see you presently!” a squeaky voice rang from a dull part of the room that opened out into a wide meeting hall, with racks filled to the brim with parchments that had to be at least a generation old.
A diminutive man with a graying forehead and smoky features led the trio into the room, within which on a lavish couch sat the head of the San Juan family.
His lavish robe glinted in the yellow light of the lamp that hung from the side of the room. His pencil thin fingers ran over a crack line in the armrest and his face was well endowed with a loony expression of self pomp.
”So, little Armand, why did you immediately call this triumvirate meeting?” He enquired with a ghost of a smirk on his lips.
”Alferdo, this is to do with the guest I had introduced for the auction, the one who sat in room 4” Armand began, exhaling with joy as he beheld the white hot rage that flowed through the man's features.
”He belongs to the crew of that esteemed individual who had graced this island barely a month ago, to whom the triumvirate had delivered the mystery devil fruit. He arrived barely a week ago and immediately came to us, with what he assumed was the case of familial discord, bringing with him the head of the traitor Farren.
He then allied with us to fulfill the quota of the auction and helped allow the family to loot the Colombo motile treasury. There if his words are to be believed, then he ended the executive of the Colombo, the 'Hound' Darcy, bringing back the two Meito swords.
Further, during the auction he extravagantly bid and came through with his bids.
Accompanying him was an old man who looked like a character from the esteemed Doflamingo's official crew and a child that looked too huge to be his own. The man can be considered moderately powerful with the boy contributing nothing to the whole group.” He reported, before making his way to the room corner and giving the dull headed San Juan the space to contemplate another of his meaningless tirades of personal glory.
With a swinging sound, the duo where pulled out of their musings by the hasty entry of the third member of the triumvirate, an organization of alliance that had been formed by the first three heads of the families, with each successive family head being a member.
The newest entry to the room was the head of the Colombo family, and the only female within the three families. Her name was Carla Colombo, and she had been the best star of the matriarchal family.