Story of Guilds

Chapter 27: Goodbye, Abbadon

Now that we have seen others' perspectives of the finale for others, we now turn our attention towards the main negotiation of this all, the battle of words that could turn the tides of everything... Kronos is surrounded, Haruto holding a chain up to him from behind to his neck, Mehkit to the left of him and Ren and Quentin facing in front of him, with Ren guarding Quentin with a loaded gun so if anything bad were to happen he would die instead of Quentin. Not to mention, a perimeter around them where magic is disabled, and a curse that was casted upon Kronos before to speak only the truth...

Kronos> "The perfect trap, how clever. So you waited all this time to confront me?"

Quentin> "It was the safest option to be fair."

Kronos> "If I were in your shoes I would have just gotten this over with the first days of the games with no hesitation. If you could expose us to some sort of criminal act we did we would get kicked."

Quentin> "You were under the name of Rosalia, and the council doesn't have the time to pay attention to who is in what guild. So no matter what, we couldn't exactly tell them you were Abbadon since you were already qualified as a Rosalia member. You even have the emblem to prove it, since Abbadon isn't an existing guild you could just join one to avoid it being illegal. Wouldn't have worked."

Kronos> "Yes, I calculated that all pretty geniusly, didn't I? I made it so we had control of this all, and that nobody could do anything to us. But why didn't you risk getting disqualified? It's not such a big deal."

Quentin> "It would ruin our reputation in the capital and people wouldn't trust us. Satisfied with your answers? Satisfied with how this all worked out wonderfully for you?"

Kronos> "Oh very, but it seems you ruined a singular part I haven't considered... the finale game could be intruded on. And you wouldn't be disqualified for it because technically you could rule yourselves out by not being in the finale. Even so, for it to be this easy for us to make it to the finale, you are all a bunch of weaklings."

Ren> "Not so weak now, are we?"

Kronos> "I suppose not."

Haruto> "Stop making pointless small talk... Tell us why you're really here."
Haruto put a bit of pressure on the chain around his neck, so that it would slightly hurt his throat.

Kronos> "I was originally planning on winning the games, that's why we came."

Ren> "But why???"

Kronos> "We needed to be seen by the people, we needed to be recognized."

Mehkit> "You did this ALL just to be popular...?"

Ren> "I find that hard to believe... That just seems silly."

His throat was a bit strained saying this...
Kronos> "It seems you misunderstood, yes, we needed to become popular in the eyes of the people in the capital, however, not just to simply be popular."

Quentin> "What was your plan after you won then?"

Kronos> "To have the opportunity, to say my part, though it would be a great risk. But it seems that part of the plan has been spoiled now..."

Kronos elbowed Haruto in the gut and Haruto took it like a pro and started to choke Kronos with the chain a bit. Kronos kept elbowing Haruto hard until his grip would loosen and the chain wouldn't choke him, but Kronos heard the click of Ren loading ammo into his gun, so he knew the gun was armed with bullets. Ren aimed the gun at Kronos and Kronos decided to remain still for now.

Ren> "Escaping won't be so easy... You have a trained assassin and an ex-bodyguard on your ass."

Kronos> "Noted. Unfortunately, I'm nothing special without my powers. Even if I do have muscle, it stands no chance in combat against that... I don't know why I just said that out loud. I have some truth curse casted on me, don't I?"