96 Calm Before The Storm (2/2)

(MT) ”Did you expect this result?”

(BM) ”Well no, I had really expected Li Mu to be the one to deliver your brother to us. Turns out that that assumption was wrong.”

(MT) ”But, there was a distinct possibility in your mind that it would go down like this?”

(BM) ”Yes…” Baron started but he was instantly on the floor gasping for air. Meng TIan had given him a mean punch to the stomach.

(MT) ”Don't you EVER use me or my brother as one of your chess pieces ever again.” Meng Tian said and stomped away.

Silence ensued.

(YF) ”You know Baron, I hope what you did today is a one time thing. Personally, what you did could be considered admirable of sorts, but going down this path will surely lead you to become someone on Bai Qi's level, perhaps even lower.” Yue Fei advised Baron.

(GY) ”Yue Fei and Meng Tian both have a point Baron, what you did today was impressive, but you did go a little overboard. You must consider it from the perspective of those that you had executed today. They were killed bysomeone many times their junior, even if they lost to vastly superior strategists originally. This puts them in a very awkward position, in fact the amount of face that they have lost is by no means a small amount.” Guan Yu lectured.

(BM) ”Not to worry, the both of you, I have thought everything through the moment I came up with the idea of trading prisoners of war. Though I didn't want to resort to torturing those 5, we couldn't let them get away with killing our comrade could we? If we had instead kept them, wouldn't they just find a way to escape? There is a 99% chance that they would never accept superiors as weak as us.”

(GY) ”That may be true but we could have had other uses for them.”

(BM) ”I didn't want to take the chance that they were listening on to us and would somehow manage to get a message to their comrades as soon as we had our backs turned to them.”

(YF) ”Alright, but you need to promise me that you will never do anything that twisted ever again.”

(BM) ”Do promises even have any bearing in the afterlife? Whatever, sure I promise that I won't unless I have a very good reason to like I had today.”

(GY) ”Enough of this, it's time we met back up with Meng Tian. We still need to strategize for tomorrow's battles. This will now be extremely difficult to survive now that some of the best will be coming for us with all of their ability.