Mark of stars

Chapter twenty-nine

"You killed him?" Sabu asked calmly as if he had already expected this to happen.

I nodded.

Sabu gave (y/n) a questionable look. "And now you want to kill the rest of them off?! For what? It's not going to change anything."

I shook my head slightly, "It could change things, no more innocent lives will be taken away due to another animals hunger."

Now it was Sabu's turn to shake his head, "By sacrificing many more innocent people?" he asked in a cocky tone.

"Those people were working for an awful person just think-"

He cut her off then, "You were working for him too, no matter the circumstances it won't make you a better person."

I sighed then as I continued to focus on the road, I needed Sabu alone to tell him my plan that he clearly didn't approve of, "But it can better the black market and the people living here."

"How? By taking away the markets most popular resources? Their leader is already dead, what more do you want." At this point he needed to be brutally honest with her, but how could he possibly change her mind? After all, she was raised by a mafia boss.

I took his words into thought before speaking once more, "They've already have many chances to better themselves, besides if word gets out a member of the Shishigumi killed him they'll come after all of us."

"It was so hard for you to simply walk away that you had to kill their leader, now imagine how hard it would've been for them to leave?" Sabu turned to me from his place in the passenger seat, she continued to watch the toad being mindful of other cars, "Don't do this, it won't make you feel better and it most certainly won't help us in any way."

With those words spoken I began to take them to heart, he wasn't wrong maybe I wasn't thinking clearly. "But it could protect us."

"We can protect ourselves, everyone in the Shishigumi has been trained since birth to defend themselves, I'm not sure what you did was out of self defense but you were able to kill a bear." Sabu continued to say, clearly she was not thinking straight. From what she's told him, currently she had suffered through a concussion who knows what's going on in her mind?

Part of him began to feel bad for being so harsh on her when she sat quietly in the drivers seat focusing on the road with a blank face. He refrained from saying anymore or apologizing, there truly were things that she had to take in consideration. Sabu looked away from her sitting straight in the passenger seat, "They won't come after us, I promise." was all he could say with the slightest intention of bringing comfort to her.

I didn't believe it, not a word he told me in a sorry attempt to bring my mind ease. I know he was trying to convince me otherwise but sort of me still thought I had to do this. But there was one thing he was right about, I left that place to in attempt of being a better person. Someone who was trying to better themselves wouldn't kill others for no good reason. Even as we drew closer to the hideout I began to try and convince myself that my reasons were valid, I was being a good person by trying to protect my only family.
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"You seem stressed." Louis said as he rested his head in the crook of my neck while sitting behind me, his arms wrapped loosely around my waist, while being mindful to not hit my face with his antlers.

I smiled a bit as I tried to focus on reading the case file about the ivory for the millionth time, I admit he was making it harder for me to focus. All I could do was think about his chest pressed against my back and the warmth he gave off. "How so?" I asked rereading the same line over and over until I could even process the information it provided.