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‘Alright, well, if I win,’ said Morgunov, ‘then I want the Black Hand and the Demonic Tornado. Everyone already thinks that guy works for me anyway, so we might as well make it official.’

‘The latter is fine. The former is not.’

‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, we just went over this! You don’t get a say! It’s my choice!’

‘If I told Ito that he now works for you, he would commit suicide. In fact, I recall him telling you as much himself.’

‘Oh, I remember! That’s why it’d be funny! I wanna see if he’d really do it!’

‘Of course he would. I will not abide such wastefulness. Pick someone else.’

‘Psh. Fine! Hmm!’ The Mad Demon paused for a snicker. ‘The Monster of the East!’

‘He is not a Judicator.’

‘So demote him! C’mon! It’d be hilarious!’

It actually might, Dozer thought. ‘No. Pick seriously.’

‘The Liar of Lyste, then!’

‘He is not a Judicator, either.’

‘Eh, he might as well be! Promote him! Hell, it wouldn’t even BE a promotion! More like a side-motion! A transfer! C’mon! Imagine the look on his face!’

‘Pick someone you actually wish to use and not kill.’

‘What if I promised to let him live?’

‘For as believable as that would be, you might as well promise to never speak again.’

‘Tch! You’re as bad as Bool, y’know that? I swear I’m gonna find your sense of humor, one of these days!’

‘I am about to move. If you do not choose, the bet is off.’

‘Alright, alright! I want Lucky!’

Dozer might’ve blinked at that if he could have. Lucky? That was probably the least accomplished Judicator in his entire army. His moniker--if it could even be called that--stemmed from his reputation of supposedly failing upward. Why in the world this idiot pick him? Did he know something that Dozer didn’t?

Agh. After all this back-and-forth, however, he didn’t feel like questioning it, nor did he have any real justification to refuse like he had with the others. ‘Fine.’

And he returned the majority of his attention to the present world.

To the avalanche of destruction heading his way.

A torrential wall of mud and water. A dozen spears of jagged ice, all spinning with such force that the wind and water around them distorted with tornadic fury. And of course, a dark beam of crackling energy, cutting right through the middle of everything.

Everything fell upon him simultaneously.