Loki had always had multiple plans especially about the Broker. The room full with runes that he had given to the head Keeper of the palace is one of his plans.
Riana, is also one of his cards to seek the Broker. It is a card that he had never used and did not want to use.
And precisely because he did not want to use that card, he prepares several contingencies plans.
Because like Riana thought of him as her father, he thought of her as his own daughter.
Of course, right now, his true age is just right of being barely legal if one follows the logic of this world before the Fall.
There are only a few people on this Earth that knows his true age. Jean might also suspect him and so will Hikigaya.
But now, since he is Number Two, his abilities and his knowledge also enhanced in every way. While he could not erase the memory of Death Monarch who knows his true age, he could still have the capabilities to hide in front of Jean and Hikigaya.
As long as Jean could not see his true age, his suspicions would only remain to be that. And as for Hikigaya, he was never a nosy person
In the original timeline, at this age, he was just barely entering Energy Disperse Stage.
The energy of the world at this time had been monopolized by the World Government and the Revolutionary army.
Of course because of the change that had happened, the World Government and the Revolutionary Army is not the only world powers at the moment.
He sighs because he had hoped that Riana would stay in the Nowhere Land and did not have to be involved in what he is about to do next
It is not personal. It is…. necessary and practical. The fastest way to get inducted into the criminal underworld is to kill the Broker and claim his Book of Secrets
In the past, the role that Loki is about to take belongs to Azief.
Azief after breaking out the prison of the World Government would then take refuge in the criminal underworld and become one of the most fearsome enemies and disruptor of the world powers.
He facilities trades of criminals, brokered deals, supplies weapons among other things. But he had his own code of conduct.
It wasn't until he is strong enough by himself, that he shed off the title of the concierge of crime.
That is the role Loki is about to take.
And if he were to take such a role, he need enough information. To be more accurate, all the information he could get.
When you have enough information, you would become a force unto itself.
If there is one information that could shake the world that alone would put you in many death list of many great powers.
But if you have enough information that could start a world war, then you are no just longer some simple crime lord.
It is also the only role that would enable him to still move freely while having enough power and influence to shake off the dogs that the world powers would send for him
Azief method of declaring his support for him does help him a bit.
But the great powers of the world had always had secret forces that could not be traced back to them.
There would also be personal vengeance that individuals would have against him seeking his head.
He needs to be ready for it.
Loki look at Riana and Riana look at him.
As Loki also had his own feelings looking at Riana, Riana also had her own complicated feeling looking at a man she regarded as her own father.
Since the moment Loki picked her up, her fate and destiny changed.
She would probably be dead on a ditch or some dark street in Berlin if not for the fact that Loki pick her up.
She was younger than Trisha but older than Greisha among the Three Sisters. She could be considered the middle sisters.
Trisha, Riana and Greisha all came from different fathers and mothers, and they did not even come from the same country but they do have similarities.
They were all abandoned to die. And they were all picked up by Loki. He offers them a deal. He would offer them power.
But as most things with Loki, everything has a price. Loki had given them two choices when he had saved them
The three of them were not the first children that Loki had saved in his journey.
But the three of them were the only few that chooses the second choice.
The choice was either safety or power.
They could have chosen safety. If they had chosen that, Loki would have given them a warm home, a chance to strike it out there and after they could stand for themselves they could leave him
He would even help them to look for their parents.
As for a warm home, the three of them find a warm home beside Loki. A chance to strike it out there? They were too many dangers. And as for looking for their parents?
Trisha seems to hate her parents. Greisha on the other hand did not remember much. Like she repressed her memories. And as for her? She is an orphan.
They all choose power when given the chance. They have felt powerless and as such the know the importance of power.
But by choosing power, there is price to be paid.
And it is a price that she had gladly paid. To her, in the beginning, Loki was like a teacher. He was her savior and then her teacher. And then a father figure she never had.
Unlike most men that she had met after the Fall, Loki was not interested in her body. She was young but she was not na?ve.
The World power would have led you to believe that the monsters were the sole cause for the fast pace of how civilization fall.
It is as much as the monsters fault as it is human dark desires.
She had never been raped.
But she was almost raped many times in her journey. That alone should send chills
And while men were the majority that tries to rape her, women are as bad. It one would think that men and women were so different in their dark desires, one would be mistaken.
In a world where energies could be absorbed by anyone, strength is no longer so disproportionately given
At the same time, women who had no way of realizing their dark desire as before, now have powers and just like men, now have the same playing field
Riana had once captured a woman who were using little boys as her playthings. And since it is playthings, they would be discarded after she is done playing with it.
There are women serial killers that is even more brutal than man.
There is even one that uses the skin of men to decorate their houses. A Witch somewhere in the wilderness of Siberia
Riana felt very satisfied when she was throwing that witch into the dark prison of the Nowhere Land.
The difference between a serial killer and a normal person is sometimes only because the serial killer could kill and the normal person could not.
Riana had seen dark things. And as one of the Wardens of the Nowhere Lands, as there are as many men in that prison, there is an equal women prisoners are there
Darkness and evil lies in everyone. Power corrupts. And it corrupts equally.
As for her feelings for Loki, she had never blamed him. This is the result of the choice she had made and until today, she felt happy for making that choice.
She still remembers that day like it was yesterday
She was sure that she would die before she reached Berlin.
There was snow that keep falling. She was cold and shivering the broken street leading to Berlin. Every once in a while, she could hear the howling of large beast in the distance.
Along the road she would see corpses. Some of them had no heads and some of them rises up from the dead, appearing like zombies.
She hides most of the time. And each time she hides, she prays. She was always afraid, trembling in fear.
Each time she survives, she takes a step forward. She had no destination but at that time she heard there is help in Berlin.
And then one day she was unlucky. She met a band of criminals. They were about to capture her.
But Loki appears and like those painting of angels in churches she had seen when she was in the orphanage, that is how he had appeared.
A savior. A teacher and a father.
Loki treated all three of them differently. But always with affection. She seems to reminisce the past as she looks at Loki
This 𝓬ontent is taken from f(r)eeweb(n)ovel.𝒄𝒐𝙢