Chapter 179: More of stupidity than dense

Chapter 179: More of stupidity than dense
Third Person POV 

"Yea," all bowed and left. In a few minutes, the seven brothers were the only ones there, well, eight. Vlad was so still caught up in his sorrow that he pushed everything happening around him to the back of his head while staring at the cold body of Edward, probably reminiscing of the good times he had with Edward because that's all the scenes that flashed in everyone's mind in time like this.

By the time he looked up, he was taken aback as he found out that he and his brothers were the only ones left, and they were also all staring at him. "Why did you kill him? We could have sorted things out. He is your father, for goodness sake!!" his voice turned louder and louder, but he didn't care. He never thought that the first time he met his brothers, the greetings would be a confrontation. "You are right,", Ace said, his voice cold. "He is our father, but you are forgetting one more thing, which is he is our arch-enemy" he paused and snorted. "Do you think that he will let us off if we pardoned him just now? You have been with him for years, so you know the kind of man he is; what do you think would be his reaction when he finds out that none of the abominations he sent assassins to kill died? I know you are a little dense but I never thought you would be this stupid. Do you think that people who he has tried for years to kill will just give up like that because of what? Because of your brainless self-proposed reconciliation? Did you think he didn't know what that word meant for years now?" The more Ace spoke, the more he was getting irritated inwardly from how stupid Vlad was behaving while the urge to bury him with Edward was increasing. If he was a lunatic mafia he would have done so.

Having had enough of Vlad's tantrums, he turned towards his other brothers. "I have nothing to do here anymore. The man has been killed. Eliam already has half control of the country and no power would dare to disturb his time of taking full control of the states. You guys can come with me if you want," he paused and turned back to Vlad. "Once you are done mourning the death of your beloved father, you can choose to come to Italy and meet with your mother. You can also choose to stay here and leave the life of a civilian with no worry of having a gun over your head; after all, that is the life you have always wanted. But for a reminder, once you choose to come to Italy you will be furthering your training and once you are strong enough I will be sending you to a new country which you will conquer and become an overlord of, of course by yourself alone, as you won't be occupying Italy with me at all" Ace said and without wasting any more time he left the scene.

The five others immediately followed, but Asher stared at Vlad. "He is not the one that killed Edward, as he still has that level of conscience. Of course he won't stand idle either if Edward was to try and escape with no other person present" Vlad gulped "What's the difference then? He will still be dead whether Ace shot or not" with that he closed his eyes. "Are you really dense or do you really want to have us die later from the mistake of not killing Edward?" Asher asked, and Vlad's eyes immediately snapped open as he never expected the question. After a while, he sighed and looked up. "Of course, I know the kind of person Edward is. I planned to propose peace with him alone and not with his men, which means you guys can still clean up his men, cutting off his wings totally. And then Eliam will take over here making it impossible for Edward to retaliate at all. I want to force him into being a normal person for once so that he would see that everything is not all about killing and manipulation. These were the plans I had earlier, and I plan to implement them once I'm strong enough; until he bombed your guy's castle three years ago, making the plan to die away as I know that Ace will never let him go for killing his brothers. But it rekindled the moment I heard that you guys didn't die" he paused and looked back to Asher. "But it's already too late now," he added. Asher was surprised for a while before sighing, too. "Although your plan is not bad, but it's totally based on your own personal point. What made you think that we will take the plans that you made for us? Not to mention even if we would take it but Edward would definitely not take it" Asher said.

"What is your plan now? Coming with us?" Asher asked after a few minutes of silence, but Vlad shook his head. "I never had the intention of ruling the United States, not to mention ruling a country I know nothing about. If not because I have been destined to be stuck with Edward for life, I would have left and looked for a peaceful life," Vlad said. "I won't be leaving here, and I won't be a nuisance at all; Eliam won't even know that exists. Tell Ace that he should take care of my mother well, I might be visiting any day," Vlad added, and with that, he left the place, walking towards the distance and disappearing from view, leaving only Asher and Eliam there.

"Well..." Asher started, but Eliam waved him off. "Thanks for talking to him more; although he might not feel it, it changed his mood a lot which would affect his mind in the future" Eliam paused. "My men have started, and I will soon have full control of here. Edward's bases will also come in handy. The only work I need to do is to recruit new blood to fill in the dead ones" He added.