Chapter 392 392: The Conclave V
It made for quite an awkward scene, seeing as it was his nephew who had made that comment. Cole winced as his mother leveled a massive glare on him, he had quite forgotten that his niece and nephew and quite a few other younger members of the family were here. Perhaps he should have showed a little restraint. His father got up and walked over to the central table that had the elders, he gave a quick signal to Cole and Kaito as they too fell behind their father.
"respected elders of the family, I apologize on behalf of my sons, but I do believe that whatever it is they have to say is something that we all should pay attention to, the world is changing and it is changing mostly for our family. I know there is darkness that has seeped into the foundations of this family, for the part that I have played in not being able to at least protect and raise my own sons properly.
If they have pointed their blades at each other, it is because I have not been a good father, my wife and I, we failed our children. And for that the rest if you have suffered. Please forgive us, Cole…. bring your cousin down." Cole rolled his eyes, but the intense feeling of shame he was getting from his father was enough to let him know that truly his father believed what he had just finished saying.
He would be lying if he said that did not make him feel terrible, his mistakes and his choices were his. But his own father felt responsible for bis own shortcomings for no other reason than he was his son and he loved him. So this was what father hood truly looked like. There was a bevy of murmurs going around before finally his grandfather's elder sister spoke up.
"Nephew every man is responsible for his actions, even your own son. But it is the virtue that this family is built on that the elders look out for the younger generation. A father, a leader's responsibility is to stand for his younger ones, their mistakes are his undoing. The fact that you can acknowledge that, shows that truly you are the best choice to lead this family into the new era. We will hear what Young Kaito has to say."
Their father nodded as he turned to Kaito. Cole watched their exchange, Kaito looked like he was just a few moments away from crying, there was so much in that exchange between the both of them, that Cole wasn't sure he would ever be able to understand, and he honestly didn't think he ever would
And he hoped he never would either, to be inthis kind of situation as a father or a son has to be absolutely terrible, and it was something he absolutely did not want or would even wish on anybody. He shook his head as Kaito turned to face the elders, he took a deep breath and began to speak.
"I know what I have done, I know what you all think about me, and I honestly don't give a shit. Because for one I know my worth as I am sure you all do, you all are hear making noise and clamoring as if a single word that comes out of your mouths mean shit to us. The power of the three branched families combined is not enough to break through my guard much less Cole's…. do you know what they call him?"
"They call him World Breaker! But I am not hear to threaten anyone or make us seem like the assholes you all already think we are. There are ten fucking members of this family on the leaderboard, this is supposed to be a lottery among 65 billion of the human race across the universe. From a pool of 5 million our of 65 million and we got ten spots…..that's no coincidence.
Someone or something has it's eyes on our family. I wish I was wiser and smarter, I would have seen this problem coming and done things a little differently. I am not here to ask for forgiveness, I know what I did, I know why I did it….but with the change coming….it all seems so inconsequential and absolutely useless now.
Some cosmic entity has it sights set on our family, our reality is changing, the world council tried to kill us and as of this moment are imposing sanctions on us for fighting back and escaping their attempts to kill us. The civil war and my brother's arrogant rush through the levels and gain of power has put even more targets on our back. We have no backers as even our allies are scared to even speak to us.
Our enemies lurk in the shadows sharpening their blades, while the rest of the world watches on with baited breaths. The Night family needs to unite, and we need to do it now my brothers and sisters, my uncles and aunts, my cousins, and you my grandparents. In order to survive I am willing to submit myself to whatever punishment the family deems my crimes worthy.
But only until after the crisis we face is over, we need to fight this, all of us. And forgive me everyone but convincing you is not even the top of my worries, in fact what we all need to be doing here is convincing Cole to put aside all previous bad blood and extend a helping hand to his family. Because while we all would be here trying to gain any semblance of power we can, Cole has a sanctuary that exist simultaneously in this universe and the next universe. You all need to tell him, to not abandon his family and help us survive!"
"You fucking Bastard." Cole called out at him with a smile, the entire room was silent, but nothing was more terrifying than the smile on Cole's face or the fact that he had his entire fist stuck in his brother's chest, while his father looked on in horror.
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