[VRMMO] Dead One

[Current location: Oin empire capital city – An conference hall.]

"Well then, lets begin." – said elderly man who was sitting on the throne.

[Emperor of the Oin empire – Alexander Oin]

"Today the issue is regarding the Purple Hyena guild."

"Again?" – said annoyed nobleman.

"What the hell they did this time?" – asked arrogant nobleman.

"...."

"Is it about the recent attack on the Arob kingdom?" – asked the young man with prosthetic hand.

[Erun Oin – The second child of the current emperor and the second prince of the Oin empire.]

"Yes.... Recently Arob kingdom, the kingdom that are our neighbors have been attacked by Purple Hyena guild multiple times." – said the nobleman who seemed calm.

"Not only that, but the messenger from Arob kingdom came recently, telling us to do something about this."

"What? Why the hell we should do something about it?" – said arrogant noble.

"...."

"Is it because of what happened? Because the Purple Hyena declared war on us?" – asked the muscular young man.

[Apollo Oin – The first child of the current emperor and the first prince of the Oin empire.]

".... Yes." – said the emperor.

(Oh god. Why the hell they come? Normally they are too busy to even attend these sort of meetings...... And its not just them.) – though the old emperor as he looked around.

(All 4 of them are here.)

"True. This is an important matter to discuss." – said the woman with an fan.

[Amelia Oin – The third child of the current emperor and the first princess of the Oin empire.]

"Why should we even talk about it? It’s their problem not ours. We are already hunting for the Purple Hyena guild in our own territory." – said the man with annoyed look.

[Simon Oin – The fourth child of the current emperor and the third prince of the Oin empire.]

(Why the hell of all fuking days, all of them are here together?!) – though annoyed and tired emperor.

(Things will get extremely annoying today.)

"....

*Sigh*

"Lets cut down to the chase, shall we?" – said Erun.

"I believe that the attacks committed against Arob kingdom wasn’t Purple Hyena doing." - said the prince, surprising everybody in the room.

"Huh? How can be so sure of that?" – asked annoyed first prince Apollo.

"Well, think about logically." – said the second prince.

"The Purple Hyena declared war against us and they seemed to only target us."

"These guys have shows that they can think and make up some strategies that can catch us off guard, meaning that those guys are not some idiots."

"So then, why would they attack different kingdoms? They should be aware that doing something like that could end up making more enemies for themselves."

"Maybe they are panicking?" – said the third prince Simon.

"We had fortified the entire empire, so now any attacks they would try to make would be much easier to detect and possible stopped."

"Maybe they panicked or something? They were know for plundering the places they have destroyed, so maybe that is why they changed their targets?"

"No." – spoke up suddenly first princess Amelia.

"I had people look into it and there is an high chance that it was a doing of pretenders."

"!"

"The fuck do you mean?" – said annoyed prince Simon."

"Its just how it sounds." – said the princess in calm manner.

"The damage done in those settlements seems somewhat forced, like they were trying to leave as obvious marks as possible even though there was no need to."

"Not only that, but we don’t have anything like witness or anything else."

"Only the damage that was similar to what Purple Hyena had done before."

"Then isn’t this more than enough evidence?" – asked the prince Simon who still seemed annoyed.

"Actual, I believe also that the attacks weren’t the Purple Hyena." – spoke up emperor suddenly, catching off guard prince Simon.

"I also did a little digging and also made some contacts with Arob kingdom, resulting in me finding some important informations odd."

"Some informations didn’t fit in the picture while some others seemed somewhat forced."

"Not only that, but by the look of things one of the attacks that had happened was near our borders and yet we somehow didn’t noticed it?"

"I know that its not our territory, but the fact remains that the Purple Hyena could be somehow and somewhere hiding in our empire, and yet they left the empire without being noticed and even came back with stollen loot?"

"We had straight up boosted our borders as well just in case, but they somehow managed to FUKING get past us and then go back?"

"I’m sorry, but do you realize how stupid that sounds?"

"Not only that, but they somehow went with an total destruction for no reason as if they were trying to provoke an kingdom of Arob."

"And those Purple Hyena guys are not idiots as well, so why the hell they would take such a risk?"

"Not only that, lets just say that they somehow got past our border without us noticing, then what?"

"Why would they aim for the destruction beside robbing the settlements?"

"The answer is simple, they wouldn’t do that since they would just rob them and run away as soon as possible in order to not deal with any trouble."

"So, with all of that combined its easy to say that the it was some sort of pretender who had tried to do crime while putting blame of Purple Hyena in order to cover themselves up."

Upon finishing his statement, the entire hall broke into an confusion.

Some people talked, wondering about the current situation while some other people thrown questions and theories regarding the current situation.

(DAMN OLD FART!) – though the angry third prince.

(How the hell he found out?!)

(I though it would take sometime for him to figure it out that the attacks weren’t real Purple Hyena doing, but he straight up blown it up like that?!)

(This isn’t good!)

(If he finds even slightest traces leading back to me or those guys, I will be fucked!)

(I need to murder all of the border guards that I had bribed before they start talking!)

(No!)

(First I need to change the topic and make them split their focus!)

(I’m going to ask about hunting-)

"....?"

"Father?" – said third prince as he noticed something off with the emperor.

"FATHER?!" – shouted the third prince, causing him to gain attention of other people in the room as well as cause some people to look towards the king upon seeing the prince weird reaction.

"?"

"!?" – one of the knights approached the emperor body and noticed him having some sort of struggle as he grabbed onto his chest.

"Healer! CALL THE FUKING HEALERE NOW!" – shouted the knight.

The conference talk have instantly been put on hold as the knights and the healers arrived at the scene before taking away the king.

Few moments later, all four of the emperor children’s have found themselves waiting in front of room where the emperor was taken.

"!" – the group noticed a doctor walking out of the room.

"How is he!? What happened?!" – said princess as she approached the doctor.

".... It was an heart attack, but he will live." – replied the doctor.

"...."

"Can you stop beating around the bush and just tell us the real situation?" – asked the first prince while glaring at the doctor.

".... Sorry, I was not allowed to tell anybody." – said the doctor.

"Now please excuse me." – said the doctor before walking past the group.

"...."

(He says that he isn’t allowed to say anything.) – though the first prince.

(But the answer is obvious.) – though the first princess.

(The father is dying and considering how he plans on keeping it’s a secret means that he doesn’t want us to fight.) – though third prince.

(This is an chance!) – though the second prince.

"...." – all four children’s looked at each other menacingly before walking off in different directions.

However, while that was happening, an figure from shadows was observing them all.

*Sigh*

(This isn’t good your majesty.) – though the butler who was observing the emperor children from shadows.

(Your body won’t hold out for much longer and you will die soon.... And once you do, the massive conflict between your children will arise...... And there are also those terrorist called Purple Hyena.)

(They have not acted for months already.)

(Did they gave up?)

(But the problem is that we don’t know that. Meaning that they could have gave up.... Or they are preparing for something as we expected before.)

(The citizens have somewhat calmed down, since Purple Hyna haven’t made move for long time and we had made special reinforcements here and there, increasing security of the entire empire.)

(But obviously that did costed a lot of money.... And even worse, if some of those locations are under some of the emperor children control, then we straight up gave them "ammunition".)

(If the fight between all of them breaks out while we still don’t know about current situation regarding Purple Hyena or where they are.... All of it is too dangers and all chaos will break lose with the 4 factions fighting each other while there is also an terrorist organization going randomly on rampage that isn’t some random weak bandits, but deadly bunch instead.)

(Not only that, it’s not like either me or the emperor can do anything right now.)

(I’m right now neutral and people want me to be this way.)

(And the king cannot name successor or all chaos will break lose way too early since picking an successor will provoke the other factions to rebel and attack.)

(Right now the only thing keeping the empire in control is the dying life of the emperor.... But once it’s no more....)

*Sigh*

"I hate it.... I hate it all."

"...."

(I won’t be able to stop the four of the emperor children, but what I can do is look for the Purple Hyena.)

(If I manage to find them where they are hiding and expose their plans, I could possibly minimize the damage the empire and its citizens.... But that is "If".)

(We still have no clues where they are and after we straight up fortified the entire empire, they had made no action what so ever.... Unless they doing something behind the scenes.)

(Either way, I need to hunt these bastards down and expose them even if it means using this old life of mine.)

(For the empire and for my old friend.)