Noctis looked at the intreguing couple walking in to the hall.
"Welcome and please enjoy your stay."
Noctis then looked back to hangman.
"Sirius isnt filled up with evil people my friend. Theres good souls and bad ones. Just got to find the one that shines the brightest and they will have the answer to Sirius's problems."
Hangman had to suppress his laughter but kept smiling.
"You're right, emperor. Unfortunatelly, for most people, the answer for Sirius' so called
"problems" are guys like me. I think you guessed it already what im doing for my living...i'm a merc." he added.
"Well...My life consists of protecting, hunting and fighting things for anyone who pays me."
Jack noticed an unimpressed look in the emperor's eyes. It's time to play his ace out of his sleeve.
"Don't worry, emperor. I'm one of those rare mercs in Sirius which actually have a sort of
morale code. For example, someone lived with the cliche that mercs are ruthless and fulfill their tasks what
ever may come. He hired me to destroy a transport. When i found it, i scanned it.
It was full with refugees."
Hangman stopped to take another gulp of this tasty green liqeuer.
The couple answered the greeting with a well-timed bow, then exchanged a few of words with each other on a just as spooky tongue as themselves were. Then the woman with a distant smile on her lips stepped closer to the host and briefly examined him
- We have heard rumors about your highness - she spoke on a mmelodic yet somehow plain voice - but nothing further, sadly
Hangman put his glass on the table.
"The most generous..." Hangman leaned back thinking about his experiences.
"Don't know...i don't want to brag, but the most generous thing i did was let that transport to continue
with his flight. I could easily vaporize it, but there were several hundred refugees. I think by letting it
be, i gave those people the opportunity to believe in their hopes for a new life. It's one thing to fight
against another ship, which can defend itself, i kill people for money, yes, but not scared...despaired families.
I let them go."
After he took another sip, he starred at his half-full glass and smiled grimly.
"And another generous thing i've done was...returning to my client, and helping him awake from his world
of cliches...he had to pay for being such darkhearted. Two teeths for the hopes of over hundred families."
It seemed that Hangman liked this memory of this bleeding man very much.
"But if you ask me what the most generous thing i've ever done for my own life was... sorry i can't answer to
this."
"This feast is for all to indulge themselves in. Im planning on setting up a mobile base around Tuvalu soon. Need to get some samples from the area. You know after the battle we had. Theres some remenant material i need collecting. Could make a fine weapon to use against the Nomads."
Jeremy reapperead, the damn Order Spec Ops he was. he was again in his white attire, same strange weapons on his back. Rika was again beside him, another strange weapon on her back.
"I got time to kill Noctis. Might as well rejoin the feast."
Jeremy grinned and took his seat back. Rika plopped down and started to type on a small handheld computer. Whenever someone looked, it was gibberish of line coding and really complicated mathematics. Jeremy sighed.
"Braniac. IQ's so high it broke the scale."
Jeremy helped himself to more food and drink.
"And overhearing your conversation Noctis...good weapons against nomads involve a Mortar and a target. ladies like heavy armro" Jeremy grins.
Rika sighs and types more code.
"And yet you got yours by being a charming idiot."