61 The Quicksand Drowns The Struggler Down (1/2)

”Well, I expected that'd be the case.” Trevor said, seemingly unaffected by Priscina telling her that they won't back down. ”I guess I'll have to knock both you out then.”

”You can try, human!” Priscina said with a grin and pointed at the part of the floor Trevor was standing on. It immediately started to shake and cracks started to open up on it. ”But you'll fail.”

”Tsk!” Trevor merely clicked his tongue and …

”What the-” Priscina said but couldn't finish as she fell on the ground and felt like something had hit her neck. ”W-what happened?”

”I did what I said I'd do.” Trevor answered her. And only then did she realize that he was standing there completely safe and sound and had chopped her on the neck to put her to temporary sleep.

”Tsk! I … lost.” She said as she looked at him walking towards Grimma.

”Yes, you did.” He answered her. As soon as he did, Grimma tried to run away but fell down after being chopped the same way and fell unconscious.

”That should do it.” Trevor said as he looked at the two identical girls knocked out on the ground, ”Better take them out of here before anyone troublesome comes.”

”Yes, that might be bad for you, wouldn't it?” then a voice came all of sudden making Trevor gaze towards it in shock.

”Dues!?” He said the name of the person this voice had come from, ”What the hell are you doing here!?”

”Just watching things play out, as usual.” She said with a smile.

”Tsk!” It was safe to say that Trevor wasn't the biggest fan of her. And so, seeing her there was, in no way, anything to feel glad about. But, it wasn't just that he knew of usually cunning and mischievous this deity is. By that time, he had come to know something more about her, courtesy of looking into the brains of particular 'assassins'. ”Why did you try to distract us by hiring those idiots to act as assassins?”

”Well, it's simple. If I hadn't done that, there was a good enough chance that Grimma wouldn't have been able to cause all this destruction.” She said as she spread her arms at the mess Remedy Corporation Headquarters were in.

”And why did you want to cause this destruction?” He asked.

”No, no! Causing this destruction wasn't my goal.” She said with a smile. ”Grimma causing this destruction was my goal.”

Hearing that only made him more frustrated on her. Even so, he tried to keep it in as he asked, ”Why?”

”To make the Glice family enemies of Remedy Corporations.”

”AND WHY DID YOU WANT THAT?” seeing how all of her answers were still leaving the question of 'why' around, Trevor had gotten irritated to the point of raising his voice.

However, Dues' voice was as calm as ever as she answered, ”Now that they are enemies of Remedy, that leader of yours had no choice but to teach his family mage-craft. And THAT is something I wanted to happen, and I knew for a fact he wouldn't have agreed to do it no matter what else happened.”