Criminal X : Epitome Of Evil

Harlia Dagarus. The Admiral.

The woman ruling over the ten Marshals was laughing her ass off on the table.

The other Marshals watched her with no expressions and seeing Harlia laughing at Pablo’s joke about Luther’s wife and mother, Luther lowered his head.

Pablo, however, had no idea what to show on his face.

Should he also laugh? Should he just smile? Or should he just act like the other Marshals?

In the end, Pablo decided to remain nonchalant and let the Woman finish her laugh.

Eventually, Harlia calmed down.

She had tears in her eyes.

"That was good. Really."

Pablo bowed his head. He didn’t know what else to do other than that.

Harlia finally became normal to have a conversation and darted her eyes at Luther.

"You want me to punish him?" She asked, standing up on the table.

"Yes. He insulted my family." Luther wanted Pablo’s punishment.

"But didn’t you start it?" Harlia asked.

Luther frowned. "I never said anything about his family, Admiral."

"But you started the confrontation right?"

"That’s… because he asked us to introduce ourselves before introducing himself. He is cocky with no respect for us!" Luther retorted.

"He seems pretty respectful to me." Harlia said.

"It’s because it’s you. He doesn’t respect us. The Marshals. Just because he got in here by the King’s recommendation he thinks he is hot shit. We have to show him his place, Admiral."

Luther was not in his seat anymore. He was riled up and all he wanted to see was Pablo in pain.

"So you are saying being recommended by the King isn’t hot shit?" Harlia asked.

"Ugh.. I don’t mean it that way.." Luther stuttered in his words. He paused for a while and after thinking of a proper answer, he opened his mouth again.

But he was interrupted.

"I get it. Shut up."

Harlia stopped Luther.

She walked around the table and stopped between Pablo and Luther.

"Did all of you see what this man did two months ago?" She asked.

The Marshals were silent.

"He defeated a fucking Demon. Alone!" Harlia yelled.

Pablo inflated his chest.

"The High Dukes, the Commanders, even the Abyssal Butchers, they all perished under the Demon but this man killed that bastard! Can any one of you confidently say that you can kill something like that all by yourself? Huh?"

Everyone remained silent.

"There are only two people other than Pablo here that can achieve what he achieved. Me and this masochist bastard, Fozier."

Harlia pointed at the First Marshal.

’Masochist Bastard, huh.’

Pablo knew only Harlia had the audacity to call him that. If anyone else tried, they would die.

Harlia looked around at each Marshal and her eyes stopped at Luther.

"There is a reason the King recommended this man for this position. Heck, he should be lower than tenth if I was the King."

Harlia stared at daggers at Luther but Luther kept his head down.

"Look at me." Harlia said.

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Luther instantly raised his head. He was afraid to do that but he couldn’t refuse her order.

"He needs no permission to sit on the chair. He needs no introduction. He needs no fucking approval from you. He insulted your wife and mother because you dived right onto that. He may be the tenth Marshal but treat him better than that. Because just like you said…"

Harlia crouched down at Luther’s eye level.

"Respect the hierarchy."

Luther gulped.

"Yes, admiral. I understand."

’She is a feisty one. Can’t say I dislike it.’

Pablo found Harlia interesting. She had the authority and she also must have the strength to be able to rule all these men and they were afraid of her as well. Well, leaving the masochist pervert aside. He was obeying her for some other reasons.

"Now, you can start the meeting." Harlia sat crossed in the middle of the table.

’She will sit here?’ Pablo thought.

No other Marshals were surprised so Pablo figured his thought was right. She would sit in the middle of the table.

"Ahem." Fozier, the first Marshal cleared his throat and stood up from his chair.

"Everyone. First of all, let’s welcome our three new Marshals."

Fozier looked at the three new faces.

"The Eighth Marshal, Graham. The Ninth Marshal Diablo and the last but not the least, the Tenth Marshal Pablo Castillo."

Everyone did slow claps for these three. The slow claps weren’t a sign of mockery but that’s just how things worked around the military. No clapping in uniforms.

After the welcome, Fozier carried on.

"Now that the welcoming is done, let’s introduce ourselves in ascending order of authority. You speak first, Pab- No. Let’s do the introductions in descending order. I will speak first."

Fozier changed his speech midway. If he asked Pablo to introduce himself first then he might also get targeted for the Admiral’s wrath. But Fozier would have liked Harlia’s humiliation.

However, Fozier violently shook his head. Such thoughts weren’t needed at the moment.

’This man is nuts.’

Pablo only saw Fozier changing his sentence and then shaking his head like a sideways fan. He certainly met a deranged human.

"My name is Fozier. There is no need for surnames. I have been the first Marshal for fifty years now."

After Fozier, Luther stood up. He didn’t look at Pablo and introduced himself.

"I am Luther, the second Marshal. I have been here for twenty years."

Pablo saw Luther’s hands and his clenched fists. He didn’t like introducing himself before Pablo.

’Too full of himself.’

Pablo ignored the man and the process moved on.

One by one, the Marshals introduced themselves and other than the first Marshal, all the old ones were Marshals for twenty years.

Graham’s turn came and he stood up as well.

"I am Graham, the Eighth Marshal. I just joined."

The old man kept it short and Diablo stood up next.

"My name is Diablo and I am the Ninth one. I killed the previous Ninth Marshal and now I am here. Why, you ask? Because Pablo was a candidate and I was kind of his instructor. After his assignment he got such a high position so it would feel awkward if he suddenly became my senior, so I challenged the ninth Marshal and killed him, taking his position and now, I am still higher than Pablo. So it’s all good. That’s all."

Diablo gave a full ass speech but Pablo only heard one thing.

’You can kill other Marshals to take their position?’