"Oh, what a good plan. I'm really shocked at how generous our dear friends are. "Seeing the live broadcast of their conversation, Roxanne's expression didn't change much, but the aura around her that is constantly breaking space speaks volumes about her feelings right now.
Everyone in the Shadow Garden organization, from the executives to the simple soldier, was invited by Roxanne personally. And although many don't know this, Shadow Garden is divided into two groups. The light shadow and the dark shadow.
Those who are part of the light shadow faction are only in charge of collecting information. At a glance, they look like ordinary people, and that's exactly the situation. Each of these people goes about their day-to-day life and would only have to report if they saw any information worth noting. These guys are the majority of the shadow garden, and they directly report to Roxanne, more specifically, Ciel. Also, it is the light shadow faction that manages all the companies and businesses Roxanne owned.
And then comes the dark shadow faction, which also likes the main headquarters of the whole shadow garden organization. This faction is only a minority and is in charge of the mercenary business. One could say this is also the combat unit. However, not all of the members in this faction have combat capabilities. Heck, their skills may even be inferior to those in the light shadow faction. But despite all this, there had never been someone who got demoted to becoming a light shadow faction. And there is a very big reason for this. For someone to be a part of this unit, they need to have one thing in common. And that is that they must gain the approval of Roxanne herself. This meant they needed to be a part of Roxanne's family.
And as we all know, becoming Roxanne's friend is extremely difficult, much less becoming a part of her family. And those who are considered family by Roxanne enjoy one other privilege. And that is that they are now protected by Roxanne until they die of natural causes.
You could see how furious Roxanne was when she saw Issei getting injured and almost dying. And at that time, she killed those two evil dragons and almost crippled Loki due to anger. Heck, even during the Asia incident, she had created a new type of ruin just to protect Asia. And this is the protectiveness she has for those she considers friends.
And now Cao Cao and Georg are scheming to kidnap someone from Roxanne's family; one could imagine how furious she is right now. The fact that she hadn't gone to torture these two right now can be considered her barely holding back her anger.
"Um, Roxanne, can you calm yourself down a little, or else I fear I would have to create my house again. "Suddenly, a slightly tense voice spoke, interrupting Roxanne from her chaotic thoughts.
The speaker was none other than Scarlet, who is now sweating profusely. The reason why she was like this is that she is constantly trying her best to block the overwhelming aura that is gushing out of Roxanne.
But even though Scarlet is considered the ceiling of this world's power ranking, even she has to use all her might to mask Roxanne's rage and killing intent. Otherwise, with this level of killing intent and aura, a large population of humans and supernatural beings may lose their lives due to madness.
After all, there are only a handful of people who could keep their minds clear when they are faced with true death.
Hearing Scarlet's voice and seeing her sorry appearance, the anger in Roxanne's heart calmed down considerably.
She took a deep breath to calm her raging emotions and spoke to Scarlet with an apologetic expression, " Sorry about that, Scarlet. Here, let me fix the damage I caused. "
Saying so, Roxanne looked at her surroundings. Right now, she is inside Scarlet's house, inside the Dimension Gap. Originally, she came here to talk about the situation in Kyoto and wanted to hear Scarlet's input for the plan she and Amaterasu made. But when she saw the live broadcast about Cao Cao's talk with Georg, she was curious and decided to see what these two were planning. And hearing their genius plan, Roxanne's calmness vanished.
And this results in the demolition of Scarlet's house. Right now, Scarlet's house looks like a ruin where a grenade had been launched. Everything, including Scarlet's precious limited-edition vehicles, was turned to rubble. Thankfully, Scarlet had limited the damage to her house, or else the dimension gap might also be torn to shreds by Roxanne's aura.
Though seeing the damage done to her own house, Scarlet felt her heart bleeding. If possible, she really wanted to protect her house, too. But unfortunately, Roxanne's aura was too domineering, and Scarlet was too powerless to keep it in check.
Thankfully, not all hope is lost.
And the next moment, Roxanne stretched out her hand in the next moment, and an hourglass appeared on her hand. And the moment the hourglass appeared, it was like time was being rewound; all the rubble began to float backward towards their original position. And in no time, the house was back to how it was originally intact.
"There, done! just as good as new. You don't need to thank me; this is the least I can do. " Roxanne spoke as she put the hourglass away.
"Well, thanks, I guess, " Scarlet, with a dark face, said, gritting her teeth. For a moment, she entertained the thought of teaching this bastard a lesson, but remembered she is now no match for Roxanne Scarlet and had no choice but to swallow her anger.
At this time, Scarlet felt the helplessness Ophis felt when she was messing around in the Dimension Gap. Is this the famous retribution that those novels talk about? Had she known about such a thing happening, she would have done fewer bad deeds.
"Hey, Scarlet, what are you thinking so deeply about? " Roxanne asked as she looked at Scarlet, who was deep in thought.
"Oh, nothing, by the way. Why did you come to meet me in the first place? " Scarlet asked, changing the subject.
"Oh, right, I almost forgot. Hey Scarlet, it's like this…." Roxanne then began to talk about the plan she and Amaterasu had discussed before.
"So let me get this right, you want me to make an appearance with my true form when those brats open the Dragon Gate. After that, you will let someone attack me, and after dealing with that small fry, I will then declare that, 'For disturbing my rest, I will kill all those who declare themselves as heroes.' " Scarlet asked as she looked at Roxanne with a look of doubt.
It's not that she can't; it will happen when she does it. It's just that she doesn't get what Roxanne would achieve after doing this boring play. Sure, after her declaration, all those hero descendants and hero-affiliated factions would face immense pressure from everyone. After all, some people might go on a rampage and kill everyone due to fear. And most of the time, the ones who get affected by this incident would be those innocents. And Scarlet knew for sure that Roxanne wasn't so foolish that she wasn't able to see this point.
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