Brotherhood Bar-Talks

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Pedro entered the bar. He was still carrying the sledge-hammer he used to 'fix' the testing terminal a few moments ago. He put it down next to the table where Ares and Juan were sitting, then he took a beer from the passing bartender, no matter it was probably for someone else and sat next to the guys.

Ares laughed: "So you're now going to crack heads of Rheinlanders with that?"

Pedro smiled at him: "No, I just arrived from Yanagi. I recieved an urgent call from the newest recruit, brother Ricardo. Our automated testing terminal was stuck again and he was waiting there for a long time. But after I used a bit of brutal force, it seems to be working now."

Pedro drank the whole glass of beer at once. Then he sighed loudly: "Ahhh, finally something drinkable. Not like the chicken's piss they serve down there at Yanagi." And he waved at the bartender to bring another one.

Then he turned to Ares again and said: "So what's up, my friend? Are you still taking everything personally? Are you still having troubles with some corsair groups? They fired at Phantoms? I'll talk to them, no need to kill them because of that. They hacked your comms? Heh, I did it several times..."

He fired a long cigar and continued...

"Corsairs always had a lot of proud and uncontrollable rogues. So it's nothing new. But they were always able to get united once a real threat came. Come on! I once knew a different Ares. It was a long time ago. He was calm, decisive and focused on the real target. And he never got distracted by some trifles. He waved his hand instead and moved on. What happened?"

While Pedro was inhaling tastefully, he registered an agreeing look from Juan.