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CHAPTER 53: One-Sided Pact

  Wu Akura, PA: Sir, there's another high priority command. It's from the Directors.

  

  Thomas Bone, Manager of D24: Well, go ahead Mr. Wu. What do they want now?

  Wu Akura, PA: Um, right, it seems the Directors have called a board meeting, the third this month, to discuss our Doorway. . They want us to halt the Man-Spirit projects. To remove and... delete any remaining Fae experiments.

  Thomas Bone, Manager of D24: Of course they do. What's the rationale this time?

  Wu Akura, PA:

  It's the Lykaon-- uh, sir, maybe you should read this yourself?

  

  Wu Akura, PA: ...Right, apologies sir. I'll carry on.

  It's the Lykaon Family, the acting COO--um, Etan Lykaon? Who is that--?

  I see. It appears the former COO was replaced sir, and the new one is an unknown.

  Sources say he married in to the family, later appointed to his position by Triopus Lykaon, the reigning CEO himself. It seems this new COO is thorough, far beyond his predecessor. He has directly requested the Sybahware Board of Directors for a visitation with regards to the work being carried out in our Doorway. The Directors cannot refuse.

  "But if Triopus Lykaon learns of the wolf spirit, using it for experiments... the symbology is not ideal. The Lykaons might see it as rebellion.

  Thomas Bone, Manager of D24: I see. The Directors fear the ire of who may be their new masters. Cowards, the lot of them.

  Is that it, Mr. Wu?

  Wu Akura, PA: Uh no, no, sir. Um... the Directors state their gratitude for your years of service and, uh, wish that you will sign an enforced NDA and accept a transfer from D24. One month. That's the deadline.

  Thomas Bone, Manager of D24: ...I see.
Very well, Mr. Wu, you're dismissed.

  Wu Akura, PA: Sir, what should I--

  Thomas Bone, Manager of D24: Dismissed.

  

  

  (Presumed) Thomas Bone, Manager of D24: The Lykaons have not completed the acquisition and still they are looking into this...

  I still remember what old Anton used to say.

  'Lykaon, the prideful and honorable wolves, the only just rulers ever known, and never known once Arcadia became Capital.'

  ...If, if they had come earlier, if they hunted these bastards... Silver, could you have--?

  Maybe.

  Maybe things would not have ended like this.

  But it's too late. I have no choice now. What happens next is retribution. It is all on the Sybah Family. I know you will understand Silver.

  #!?Unknown?!# : Then what of that poor child, Mr. Bone? The adopted kin of the Wolf spirit? Was she not unrelated to your just retribution? Was her ruination so essential? Tell me, do you truly believe your old love will believe your lies?

  


  (Presumed) Thomas Bone, Manager of D24: ...Devil of Mine. Why-- No, there are no lies in my words. No child of a monster could be entirely innocent. That was its fate.

  I did no wrong. My Silver knows this. Her family knows this. I did everything right. I made sure her brother and his family got what the Sybah's owed them. My Silver will understand. This is retribution. She will understand.

  Unknown : Whatever you say, Mr. Bone, whatever you say.

  (Presumed) Thomas Bone, Manager of D24: Then prepare yourself, Devil of mine. We push our plans forward.

  The Sybah's that sent my Silver to this wretched place, none shall survive. The Fae Wolf that took her, Lykaon related or not, shall pay in blood. And so too shall its child suffer, fot the crimes of the parent.

  

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