Assassination Through the Netherworld

Valentine raised up quickly and accepted her reasoning.

"We have to take the carriage." He coughed up slightly and walked towards a particular spot where a now calmed blade awaited him.

"You didn't use it?" Fayette glared at the knife to the side, it didn't have even a single drop of blood.

She had Miki hook up and replace the corpse of the deceased and burned bear that had been pulling the carriage before, they have to leave ASAP, either due to the worms or searching forces that might be coming here now, if they have badges, it's safe to assume that this bastard has one as well and communicated the happenings in here.

'Don't cause trouble now...' He growled inwardly and took the Rose Eagle Thorn, whose voice resonated in his mind immediately afterwards with grief and pure ire.

'WHY DIDN'T YOU USE ME... USE ME...!' 

'I'll make sure to unsolve whatever you are, why do you have memories of my sister!' He needs to know why he witnessed Christine's face at that moment.

'I DON'T KNOW WHO YOUR SISTER IS! USE ME!' Once again the countless women, likely previous users of this knife, started to yell at him with desperation craving for blood and he growled before letting the knife fall to the ground.

It immediately started to crawl his way and Fayette noticed this as well.

"J-Just what is that thing?! it emits such a sinister aura as if it's a parasite." Fayette commented from the side with a flinching expression, now understanding to some extent why no one had bought this knife back then.

"I don't know, but... Faye, I could see the image of my sister."

He told this to his girlfriend not intending to conceal anything from her.

In fact, he needs to chat about this with Vera too once they settle down in their fortress, how is this even possible? was his sister a user of this blade in the past? how long ago...? does this mean that she is dead!?

He needs answers and this knife doesn't have them...

"Y-Your sister? Christine? h-how is that... do you think your sister would be the type to come to hell?" The question is clear, she's asking whether Christine Wagner was a sinner, an evil wench.

"I'm sure she is..." He'd not deny this, she had inherited their father's mercilessness just as he did, the two of them engaged in wanton incest and cheated on their respective partners for more than twenty years... such a person can't possibly be in heaven, but... he didn't expect that she would have come here already, and is no more...

"We can talk about this later, right now; look I can feel the ground shaking, come quickly!"  Fayette had her doubts as well, anything that regarded any of his exes was of deep concern to her, especially that 'sister'.

"Um." Valentine didn't mount Miki straight away, instead, he started to search for something.

"f you're looking for his crystal, it's right there..." Fayette pointed him of the direction where she had previously seen the crystal and he found it.

"It's silver... who could have believed that a bloody serial killer is a silver soul... could he have evolved like Vera?" He didn't care; moving back to their location he mounted on Miki's back behind Fayette, this mission had been a success, partly.

...

'Warcroft.' The man began communication through the Badge's channel.

'Report to me what happened, did you get the objective!?' The hurried voice of the demon resonated from the other side with more anxiousness than his rank as a Marques should ever bring forth from him.

'That boy that Sandmortelle showed us wasn't here... instead, there was bloody Charles Manson... what is the meaning of this?!' Valentine started to believe they were set up, the convoy had been too strong, were it not for the excruciating plans that the trio had laid down, it would have been a pipe dream to defeat these demons.

Together with the appearance of the worms, they managed to fend them off... in retrospect, Charles Manson hadn't even been a difficult opponent, but that's because he fought him one on one; otherwise, he'd not be able to tell whether he could defeat the latter or not.

'That bastard; he's Sinclair's protector of the Burning Wrath City... could it be that he removed his son from the entourage? did he know what we were planning, fuck...' Valentine could literally feel warcroft rubbing his head in annoyance.

'What are the implications of this to me, I don't want trouble in my land.' Valentine expressed his concern straight away, they were clearly set up or something didn't go according to Warcroft's plans, the last thing he wants is a group of a hundred demons coming to hunt him and his girls to the forest, even with all the traps in the world, he'd not be able to fend off such an army, that is... until he carried on his original plans.

Fayette and Vera who were already in the city listened to the entire conversation across the channel.

'So you have already claimed the forest as your 'land'... brazen indeed; fear not, this is my concern and I shall pay for it dearly... your mission is accomplished, you can come to the Mahogany Devilish City at any time, I'm going to send Sandmortelle to sort out the loot that you have obtained... you can keep half of the currency, but all of the weapons are mine, understood?'

'And what if I don't want to?'

'Then you can go and die in his hands!'

'Is that how you answer to an entourage that was able to fend off such a convoy successfully? A protector, four demon soldiers and twenty common demons... moreover, the worms, I think I deserve more Warcroft... my girls almost died and I don't like anything bad happening to my girls...' Valentine growled and both beauties blushed on their respective ends, even Fayette curled up her lips.

'This bastard is getting too used to the Netherworld, when were we about to die?!' He's shamelessly scamming a Demon Marques.

'...' Warcroft almost gasped on the other side of the communicator.

'So?'

'You can come to the city anytime you want to collect further rewards, but... I must still keep the weapons, armours and explosives... half of the treasury is yours, don't be greedy, bastard!' 

'Very well, we shall go later and see what you have for us.' Valentine smiled with contentment, they can no longer be the little pussies they were before, if they don't extort those shameless demons once or twice a day, they're going to be taken advantage of at any turn.

"We're going back, Vera!" They informed the lady from the other side of the communicator.

"Okay, I'm already here and waiting, Lolo and Lola are here too, it seems they cooked something for us!"

"Perfect!" The couple smiled, what could be more perfect than this? right now they don't even feel like cooking, truly the best neighbourhood.

The communication cut down and the pair found themselves going back to the city.

"Faye..." Valentine placed Manson's crystal in his mouth and called for her.

"...?" She turned around softly while they rode Miki.

!!! 

When their lips met, she initially believed it to be one of his great romantic moments and answered the kiss with plenty of love from herself, but when something slipped inside her mouth, she swallowed instinctively and nearly coughed!

*PUAG!*

Their mouths separated and she coughed slightly, but slapped her back softly and deepened the kiss, making sure she swallowed it.

"Y-YOU!!" She pushed him away and touched her throat, that thing tasted horrible!

"I'm sorry, if I tell you what it is, you're not going to swallow it, I know how you are Faye..." He embraced her tightly, now he can sigh in relief, she's going to be better, stronger or at least that's what he hopes.

They have progressively become stronger by eating cores, it's almost imperceptible at each instance, but there is no doubt that they have become physically and mentally stronger, capable of decimating enemies faster, thinking rationally, so on and so forth.

All due to the fact that they have been devouring the enemy's crystals, the demon cores.

Even if she doesn't manage to get Manson's blazing powers, at the very least it should represent a dramatically increase of strength for her, he was a silver soul... one rank in the same category as Fayette.

"What did you give me!?" She never believed it was something to harm her, just something that she'd not take under normal circumstances.

"You just ate Charles Manson's crystal... he's the bastard I was fighting and If I'm correct, you should get that weird firepower of his." From what he could understand it's some kind of odd blazing power that allows him to use fire in his attacks and also, increase his physical strength over time, perhaps Fayette could give great use to this ability, but he has already thought of what he wants for himself.

!!!

"CHARLES MANSON!? YOU ACTUALLY HAD ME SWALLOW ANYTHING THAT CAME FROM THAT DISGUSTING GARBAGE!?"

How could she not know who this person is? in reality; back in her time Valentine's reputation had come to be worse than Charles Manson's with the passage across the rivers of history, she doesn't have a way to tell if either of them were done injustice, but just regarding the bloody countenance of the man when he came, which clearly indicated the slaughter in which he participated; possibly for the sake of pleasure.

It's more than evident that history did that man justice in having every single person know that he was a wicked being that deserved to go to hell, and he did... sadly, he had a better time here than he did on Earth.

"You just kissed a mass genocider, have you forgotten?" He asked with a snicker.

"...." The woman wasn't able to utter a single word afterwards.