Sadao laughed. "I don't mind questions, don't be embarrassed. I'll answer your questions in order since there are a lot of them. Yes, I did. There was a weather influencer there. We only got to half the school, it's huge! This school that trains kids to be heroes. Bleh, it's so cliche."
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"A school that trains kids to be heroes?" Peran laughed. "That's hilarious. And sorry about only getting half. Did you not bring enough explosives, or did the kids stop you?" Peran looked more closely at Sadao. "Also, are you… good? I mean, getting hit by a lightning bolt doesn't sound too fun."
"We didn't need explosives. Tsukuda blows things up. Sadly, the kids were being mentored at the time by four of the most famous and greatest heroes of all time." He rolled his eyes. "And I'm good, I-I think."
"Who are the greatest heroes? They sound terrible." Peran grinned and scooted his chair closer to Sadao. "Why do you sound so unsure of yourself? I'm sure you're great. At least, you haven't tried to kill me yet. But that's pretty good for me." He sighed.
"Aw… do people really try to kill you that much?"
"Well… yes." Peran sighed. "First, it was because I was 'that one crazy wizard guy who lives in the woods', then it was because I was The Shadow King, then it was because I was trying to take over various places, then it was because I was mixed up with the Caligo magics." Peran laughed without humor. "I'm number one on a lot of people's kill lists."
Sadao looked at him with sympathy. Back before he joined 'The League', he was one of the most sought after villains in the whole country. "You have this place now and us! We'll support you. Or at least, I know I will."
"Whatcha writing?" Sadao said, appearing next to Kara. He didn't look at what she was writing, that would be weird.
"I am mapping out where our next targets will be," Kara explained plainly. "And here is a place where I can do that without having those damn ninja showing up and ruining things."
"Aww, thanks!" Peran smiled happily. "You're my new friend! I kinda sacrificed my only other friend to the rebel Lumen, but she was kinda okay with that. But she's also a sort of sentient crown now, so…" He shrugged. "You're my only fully here friend," Peran amended. "Congratulations!"
Cassowary seemed to have moved to have some die in their hands now. They played with the dice, by keeping one in their palm and throwing it from side to side.
"Awesome!" Sadao said, grinning like a madman. He'd never had a friend before. Only colleagues and illegally adopted brothers.
"Awesome!" Peran echoed, clapping his hands together. "Don't worry, the same fate probably won't befall you." He grinned and shrugged.
"Hopefully" Sadao said grinning wider
"After all, in order for that to happen, I would need a Lumen or Caligo prison. And there's none on hand. I have one, and Laurel has the other." Peran spits out the name Laurel, as if it hurt him to say.
"I'm guessing you don't like Laurel all that much?"
"Um, no." Peran shook his head passionately. "She's the hero Alina chose to stop me. She's the worst, Alina's the worst, Endor's the worst, I'm glad I killed Vesper, and you're a nicer person than all of them." He looked at Sadao. "In fact, most people here," he gestured around the room, "are turning out nicer than that lot."
"Yet we're villains. Weird how the universe works, huh."
"Yeah." Peran nodded. "I think it's cause we're all sort of on the same side, you know? All the others are on the other side, and they don't see things the way we see them."
Sadao looked at the floor. "Yeah… We want freedom for people to use their powers, but the heroes want to regulate that. Why give us powers if we can't use them?"
"See, I don't see how that is bad," Peran said, gesturing at Sadao. "You just want the freedom to be who you are, and the people wanting to restrict that are considered the heroes?" He shook his head with a little laugh. "The world is strange."
"Very." He froze and stared forward as if contemplating life. He was actually thinking of what to say to the Heroes next time he saw them. (Sadao.exe had stopped working)
Lilith looked at the ceiling. "Do you think murder is a good way to introduce yourself to someone? Like hi, I just killed your grandmother, you wanna go out with me?"
Tyson raised an eyebrow "seriously?" he looked at lilith shocked "no. Hell no. That is not a good way to get a date"
“Heard of people doing that, don’t know how it worked out for them though.” Cassowary commented.
"Huh. Probably explains why I didn't get a call back from her." Lilith muttered, biting her lip. "Does it count when the grandmother is an asshole?"