Chapter 285 - THE PEACE HAS ENDED 03 (2/2)

'That we are not ready. We are too unprepared to play with the big leagues' Then he added

'We need more time'

Azief looked at Hirate and then he nodded. He also seems to agree with what Hirate is thinking.

He taps his finger on the handle of his throne. Then he said

'That is true. We are not ready. Humanity as a whole is not ready to compete with the many races in the Universe' as he sigh and look at the sky.

Then he added

'Out there, there are millions of races of aliens. Not all of them are powerful but those that are….they are not something to be underestimated'

Hirate nodded in agreement.

Hirate then ask Death Monarch about one of the topic they agreed to discuss before.

'Death Monarch what is your purpose of the World Distribution Event? Is it to divide up the lands between our three forces?'

There are many meanings in Hirate words. This is one of the questions Hirate wanted to ask the Death Monarch the n most.

He did not mention any other faction. He said the Three Forces.

'Are you intending to restore the détente? To restore back the status quo?' Azief look at Hirate with disbelief and then he snorted.

'Status quo? I admire your optimism. Hahahaha' he laughed and then he look at Hirate and said

'Almost three years ago when I fall in battle in an attempted assassination, the status quo has already been broken'

Hirate eyebrows creased. He put down his tea cup. He no longer had any mood to continue drinking.

He then look at Azief eyes and said

'You are back. We could restore back the status quo. If we work togeth-' But before Hirate finish his sentence Azief interjected and said

'The floodgates has already been opened Hirate. It is too late to do anything now. The so called balance you and your organization pursue is no longer viable. You have to make do with what we have now.'

Then looking at Hirate defiant expression Azief added.

'We could not close it because it is already broken. The best we can do is containing it' Then sighing Azief spoke

'In the years I am not here, there seems to be many organizations that sprouted up all over the world'

Hirate nodded.

For a while there is silence between the two men. They could hear the birds chirping not far away from them.

The butterflies around Hirate flaps it wings and purple dust falls down from their wings. Then Azief remember something.

He laughs a little as his gaze look down on Hirate

'Hirate, do you think I don't know one of yours scheme involves me?'

'What do you mean?' Hirate asked.

'You might seem to dislike me, but you surely have no qualms in using me in pursuing you Great Plan . The Three great Powers. Hah'

Azief scoffed.

'You think I didn't know it is also one of your plans? When I first began to be well known you exaggerate my achievements and spread it all around. You make me out to be this fearsome warrior. An object of fear. Heh, a common enemy'

Hirate face darkened

'You made me the common enemy to unite you people together. I mean there is no easier way to unite different types of people other than giving them a common enemy to fight'

Azief eyes sharply look at Hirate, the pressure is slowly rising on Hirate body. It was truly like a ten feet God is trying to kill him with just his gaze.

When Hirate look at that gaze, it was almost like he hallucinated the image that Azief body and his presence growing larger and larger.

From ten feet tall to twelve feet tall. With each sentence he spokes he seems to grow larger. Azief continue speaking

'Of course at that time I think you have a different plan. You held me up as an unstable force in the world, an obstacle to World peace'

Then Azief smirk.

In a way because of that there is a pressure on him to improve himself. It was a heavy pressure. But he never shows it to his friends and Sofia.

In a way Sofia was right. Thinking about it, he never let her in. She did not only want the sweet things. She wants everything.

The bad, the good. The happy times and even the sad times. She wanted to share all of that with him and she wanted him to be able to share those things with her.

And Azief remembers how Sofia shouted at him

'When will we truly love each other? When will this man opens his heart to me and truly let me enter? When will that happen?' And he saw how tears fall down from Sofia eyes.

And remembering it still hurt him.

She wanted everything. And everything scares him. He sighed and then he continues looking at Hirate and said

'What you didn't probably expect is that I am too much for you and your organization to handle. In a way, I grow too much and too fast for you to react sensibly. If am not wrong, you intend to defeat me when you first capture Will and show off your power to the world. The fact that Will spies for me is secondary. You just needed a reason'

Hirate did not say anything but he did not denied it either

This matter happens a long time ago. Nothing he said or do now could change the past. Azief then continued speaking

'You intend to defeat me and capture me, and planting the idea that you are the one that have the right of hegemony and then you would defeated the weak Revolutionary Army that was based in Russia'

Azief just laughed when recalling of this matter.

'What you couldn't possibly predict was that I not only survives your schemes I even defeated you and break down that image of invincibility of the World Government. From then on, your organization was always regarded second below me. Your well-crafted plans to strengthen the image of the World Government with my defeat ended up helping me create the image of invincibility.'

Hirate just smiles bitterly.

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Like I said this chapter is meant to be read in one sitting and is hard to cut since it would also cut the conversation.

Anyway, I promised you an announcement right? I am thinking of putting Age of Adventure here. For my original readers they know all about Age of Adventure.

So, what do you think about that?