![]() "That's not how offering a service works, we're not selling limited-edition collector's items we can jack up the price of because we made a smaller number than usual, we're selling a service so we're only being contracted based on need and all those customers are constrained by their own financial circumstances and are operating their own cost-benefit analyses which determine whether they consider our service to be worth the expense. "But, but that's garbage!" The Mist Officer complained a little plaintively. Their shifts in facial expression and Flames as they took the various points on board made their respective opinions explicit. A thing which was most evident on those rare occasions when Mammon lost control of their temper.īel reached over and pulled the scattered pages towards him, Maínomai and Sumu leaning in behind him to read as well. ![]() Xanxus knew he and Squalo moved in lockstep in how they thought and reasoned, but under all the masks, emotional scars and behaviour required by their respective positions, he and Mammon shared extremely similar personalities. The swearing continued as the cup reformed in midair, only to succumb to gravity and shatter again as it hit the marble floor and people wondered how he and Mammon had enough spiritual compatibility to form a proper Guardian bond. Complete with emphatic gestures and picking up their cup of tea, flash-boiling the liquid in seconds and tossing the fragile porcelain across the room to shatter against the wall between Luss and the shark. "Of all the financially irresponsible, professionally inadvisable, overly-moralistic and utterly insulting–" the file was thrown down on the table as the Mist's coherence dissolved into vehement polyglot swearing. "That manipulative, self-righteous, judgemental, lazy-minded scum," the apparent six-year-old hissed, glowing faintly indigo around the edges as the file in their hands started smoking slightly. Mammon then breathed out and visibly compartmentalised the worst of the anger away, but the raw emotion could still be felt in the air all around them and would have already seeped into every nook and cranny of the castle this would be obvious to even the most oblivious of Latents. It was possible to feel the miser's opinion of the old fart's latest orders the entire building seemed to flex and quiver around them as the former Mist Arcobaleno's fury eroded their control of the Territory the Varia was contained within. Far too long ago for him not to feel half-starved, for all he'd just been sitting and explaining every little detail thrice over to Chew Toy he'd not exercised anything except his patience but his metabolism and appetite hadn't got the memo. The Varia's treasurer caught the file, opened it and swiftly skimmed the orders contained within as Xanxus dug into the meal Tyrant had considerately brought along to the meeting it was three o'clock and he'd not eaten since breakfast, which had been at seven so he could arrive at the Iron Fort for a quarter to eight this morning. ![]() ![]() ![]() Xanxus tossed the folder at Mammon's face he wasn't going to repeat himself, not after the morning he'd had. ← Previous Work Part 3 of Pick Up The Pieces Stats: Published: Completed: Words: 129710 Chapters: 9/9 Comments: 43 Kudos: 282 Bookmarks: 46 Hits: 3437 Original Mafia Characters (Katekyou Hitman Reborn).Xanxus (Katekyou Hitman Reborn) & Original Female Character. ![]()
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