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CHAPTER 113 PART 1
As the light of destruction dissipated, the scene came into focus across the ruined garden.Thomas held the Blood Holy Sword with both hands, straining against it, his palms pressed flat against the blade's edge. Marco's other sword, the dual half he'd kept in his right hand, had already pierced clean through Thomas's chest."Quite a pity," Marco managed, forcing a smile that cost him considerable effort.Neither of them had simply survived the singularity. They'd kept fighting inside it, trading blows while the sky above them tore itself apart in purple and crimson.Thomas looked down at the blade in his chest with something close to genuine respect. "I didn't expect the Human Race to produce a young powerhouse like you. This time, my victory is unearned." He coughed once, blood at the corner of his mouth. "I shall seek guidance from you again in the future.""Do it sooner rather than later," Marco said, "or you might not catch up to me."He said it like a man with the upper hand. Th
CHAPTER 112 PART 2
"Help me or lose everything you came here for," Victoria replied. "Your choice."Marco felt it coming before Thomas moved. The quality of the air changed the way air changes before something committed arrives.He didn't wait. He activated Lion King's Descent with full weight behind it and threw the first punch himself, covering the distance between them in a burst of movement that left the ruined hall floor cracked where he'd pushed off.Their fists met in the center of the room.The air made a sound like something being torn open.Marco went back seven steps, his heels digging furrows in debris. Thomas went back eight and stopped himself with visible effort, one hand finding a wall briefly before pulling away from it.Thomas's expression recalibrated fast. "I didn't expect Rex to have underestimated you that significantly.""Rex overestimated himself," Marco said, settling his feet. "Different problem.""Fair distinction." Thomas rolled his shoulder where the impact had landed. "You'
CHAPTER 112
The dining hall went quiet in the way places go quiet when a body hits the floor.Thomas stepped over the pieces of the man he'd just killed without looking down. The man had been in the third row, had stood up when Thomas asked his question, had taken too long forming his answer while fear worked through his body.Thomas had twisted his head off while the words were still being assembled."You answered too slowly," Thomas said, setting the head down on the nearest table with the care of someone placing something they didn't want to damage further. He looked across the rows of Whitmore family faces with a patient expression. "Let me ask everyone else while there's still time to answer quickly. Years ago, Kenneth secretly removed Victoria's father from the position of Family Head. Victoria has discovered this truth. Knowing the clan was coerced and that no one could seek justice, she came to me for help."Victoria nodded with the fierce enthusiasm of someone who had finally arrived at
CHAPTER 111 PART 2
"Then how do you dare defy him? Walking into my estate and destroying my walls and killing my people in front of my entire family?""This isn't defiance," Thomas said, the pleasantness never leaving his voice. "The Nathan family cannot remain indifferent when the rightful heir of the Whitmore family suffers injustice at the hands of a usurper. My father's protection extends to the legitimate family leadership. If the legitimacy is contested, the protection requires review.""The legitimacy is not contested," Kenneth said sharply. "One girl saying words she was given by your brother does not constitute a contest.""One girl saying words that every family member just heard," Thomas replied. "In front of witnesses. At a formal family dinner. With the full ceremony of nine bells." His expression carried something that was almost sympathy. "These things have weight once they're said, Kenneth. You understand that."His eyes moved. Smoothly. Purposefully. Across the rows of stunned family me
CHAPTER 111
Victoria's hands gripped the table edge, her knuckles pale with the pressure of someone who had committed to a direction and was now holding onto it with everything available."Brother Davis told me," she said, her voice carrying the specific conviction of words that had been practiced. "You took what wasn't yours. The position. The estate. The family name. I am the true heir of this family and everyone in this room knows it."Kenneth's teeth came together. The warmth that had been his default expression since Marco arrived was entirely gone, replaced by something that had been waiting behind it."Someone has been coaching her," Kenneth said, not to Victoria but to the room. His voice was very even. "Someone has been putting words in her mouth and sending her in here to use them at a family dinner in front of every member we have." He looked at Victoria for a long moment, and what was in his eyes was not the anger of a guilty man and not the patience of an innocent one. It was somethi
CHAPTER 110
Two days passed in the intelligence chamber. Meals arrived on schedule, different wilderness delicacies each time, delivered by quiet hands that didn't interrupt the reading.Marco ate without tasting and returned to the documents.Every single record began with City Lord Nathan. Not decades. Not centuries. Thousands of years of entries, all catalogued under the same name, the same reign, the same living ruler. Marco sat back from the table at the end of the second day and let that number settle properly.Nathan had been alive for all of it. Every sighting of the Eye. Every battle over it. Every dead end. Every generation of hunters who'd come to demon territory certain they'd finally worked out the trail, and every generation's subsequent disappearance from the record.Marco thought about the assassination attempt. The attack during the ceremony at Northgate. The convenient injury that had inflamed demon hostility toward every human in the territory. He turned it from a different ang
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