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“No, MY BABY!!” Uriel screams in the shrrill panic inside her room out of nowhere and Metatron can feel an oncoming headache if one of the men she declared as her babies will really die.
And a few seconds later there is screaming coming from Michael's room, his voice just as loud.
“What the ■■ is that ■■! That can't be legal! ■■. Someone get ■■ assessment on their ■■!”
At the same time as Uriel and Gabriel at the same time make a loud "Kyaaa~" sound. Just as piercing, this time with a delight, double force.
Metatron slowly flicks from screens he was observing to the channel he just knows is the reason for the loud cheering from… now Raphael's voice also joined in. This is getting out of hand.
The screen is right there and a few seconds earlier what happened…
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Yoo Joonghyuk tilts his head looking at the scenario screen and his eyebrow twitches before he reaches out hand holding a black flag towards the petite man by his side.
“Out of time.” He declares simply and the camera zooms in to the requirement of a king candidate needing to conquer at least one station a day or die.
Kim Dokja shakes his head simply, pretending to not see the worry on the face of Yoo Mia, a little sister of the man about to be killed by the scenario.
And then he peacefully opens the representative screen and selects an option to transfer control of a station to his fellow king.
Yoo Joonghyuk looks shocked, frozen in place for a long moment as the last seconds of the daily timer tick down. Until they reach nothing and still, both kings are fine standing side by side.
“It works.” Yoo Joonghyuk sounds a little bit dead inside as he is still staring at the screen.
“Of course it does. Your first time?” Kim Dokja on the other hand seems just amused by the reaction of his companion.
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Metatron flicks the stream away and pulls out the important business. Of course those two would take advantage of a loophole since they were already working together as two kings. And Metatron just knows that, no matter what Michael says, the move is perfectly legal. Blocking it would also remove the chance for kings to give up a station in negotiations. Which would remove a lot from the complexity of the game.
But Metatron will have to admit that Uriel has a point about those two incarnations being quite unusual. And one of them doesn't have a sponsor. To take note of.
And as he does another duet of screams floods Eden.
“Let's gooo!!! ■■ bless them!” mixing with “What the ■■ is that ■■?! They can't just do that!”
If it keeps going there is a risk that he'd need to send in Jophiel again to stop them from trying to fight.
Metatron pulls the screen back into his vision to actually know what it is this time .
Ah, two kings are instructing their team to pull the other flagpole from the home station as well.
Too bad they are very liberal in use of the team chat which would require premium subscription to see. And Metatron is not curious enough for that.
The amount of loudly cheering angels is already frustratingly high.
***
Yoo Joonghyuk stabs into concrete again and again to break it up, then nods at Lee Hyunsung who pulls the second flagpole out of its location in the station.
“We take Lee Jihye, Lee Hyusung and Jung Heewon with us.” Yoo Jonghyuk declares, seemingly out of nowhere. Isn't he the only person in the station without access to the same chat everyone is using?
“Hey, what about me! Why aren’t you putting me on the attack team?!” Kim Namwoon might not even realize yet how terrible his sponsor is. Por lost soul.
“I can’t trust you to do as you are told.” Kim Dokja responds instead of the man it seems to be aimed at, but Yoo Jonghyuk nods, clearly just accepting whatever decision the other king made. Well, at least they know how traitorous that dragon's influence is.
“He is right and you know it~”Jung Heewon sounds like she is having fun.
Metatron takes a moment to consider her Still no sponsor, despite how impressive this woman is. With so many archangels checking on their channel, one of them is bound to notice her potential. One good thing might come from that excessive engagement.
“At least you won’t need to see master and Dokja-ssi being a shameless couple the whole time.” Lee Jihye comments, playfully poking at Kim Namwoon.
“Ugh, don’t remind me… You win.”
And in the background of the bickering Kim Dokja sits apart, with Yoo Mia glaring at him intensely.
He seems to be reading on his phone, but there is nothing stream records from his screen. That's strange.
The child gets up finally, clearly losing her patience to wait for being addressed. She approaches Kim Dokja and pushes his phone out of the way.
“What did you do to my brother? He is acting all weird. He ran to me like he was afraid. And he is touching you so much. And… he smiles. It's all strange.”
“Would you believe it if I said it's the power of love?” He isn't really trying hard to sell the idea. Just shrugs a little when the girl glares harder at him.
“Unfortunately, he has been acting like that since I met him and I don't know either.” Kim Dokja is sending a long, wistful look towards Yoo Joonghyuk who now seems to have entered the staring contest with Yoo Sangah. “He isn't quite the man I expected when I watched from afar and admired him. But I can see he is afraid of losing people in the apocalypse. Maybe that's the reason?” He sounds soft as he returns his gaze to Yoo Mia, with just a little smile towards her.
“Oh. You don't look like a guy who watches gamer streams.” She was following his gaze to her brother and then met Kim Dokja's eyes with less of a frown. “But why is he grabbing on you? ”
“No idea either. He just looked at me and declared I'm going to be his companion. And I'm a weak man who can't say no to his pro– perfect looks and unyielding attitude. And… he's just even more perfect in person. While I'm just nothing special.”
Metatron can hear from Uriel the cry of "Baby boy, no!" And then there is a donation coming right towards that man who probably is at the same time coordinating the whole team and probably also the reason why Yoo Joonghyuk grumpily is pulling out his sleeping bag.
“So you realize you are a pathetic squid. But… brother seems to really like you so I'll let you stay. For now.”
And, huh, Raphael is sending coins to the girl. Why not? Eden is a complete mess anyway.
***
Metatron flicks the screen away again, not really wanting to be any part of this. Really, Uriel made a mess again. But at least she's taking care of the sheep lately. And even made up a little stories to tell about them to add to the nebula.
And a lot of angels are trying to figure ways to gather some more coins for the sake of feeding their hobby. So if it was quieter and less messy he would be grateful to those incarnations.
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FanfictionStart of the 4th regression(allegedly). If KDJ was there again after the irregular 3rd ended when Yoo Jonghyuk failed to resist activation of his stigma. He might be a little bit feral about that. Not going to let Kim Dokja go ever again. almost eve...
