Purple’s Tower

Silence fills the tower as each of the five Knights along with several other Class V Guardians and several chair holders of the Governmental Council watch a large purple screen showing Scarlet in the middle of a wasteland of red ash. And the silence only stretches on when she moves on to a new location one time after another, leaving nothing but a wasteland in her wake each time. All the way till the nearby demons around her begin running as fast as they possibly can simply from the mere sight of her.

Black feels conflicted as he watches the screen. Since while he is glad that the pup got a new and powerful skill that can defend her, he also knows that soon enough, his other side may start… shifting… its views on the girl.

She’s becoming a real threat. Not just to me but to the world at large.

“I’ll go ahead and say what we’re all thinking,” the PR chair holder for the council says, breaking the silence as the man walks up to the screen and points at it with a scowl on his face. “This girl is a threat to the safety of Earth as a whole and must be kept on a leash.”

Before the man can say anything else, a white glow radiates around his body, and he finds himself losing all sensation within his body and collapsing. Then White simply walks forward and says, “Sorry. Just taking care of the trash.”

The other Knights including Black all nod their heads, not having any disagreement with her actions. Meanwhile the council members tense up in fear, knowing that they’re only in their position because of the chairman, the Purple Knight, and Black himself. And even that relationship has grown strenuous over the war, threatening to break at any moment.

“Understandable,” Jacob states, the chairman of the Governing Council seemingly uncaring of the councilmember. Likely due to knowing full well that the man was biased against Scarlet for her blatant disregard of him before her operation.

If Black’s being honest with himself, he might’ve done much worse to the man if the man had treated him that way. And Red or Blue would’ve simply killed him without a second thought.

Why he thought he could get away with it just because Scarlet was a newly ascended Class V is beyond him.

Only possible reason I can think of is that he believed the government would shield him from all consequences.

A belief Black believes to be the height of idiocy.

“I vote we have someone keeping an eye on her at all times in case the Princess loses control of the Red Plague,” the General of the Military states, the man also being a part of the council. Albeit one who rarely attends meetings.

“Seconded.” “Agreed.” “I agree.”

Agreements run through all of the councilmembers, but Black can feel the anger radiating out of White, even if she is holding it back.

“Amelia, what do you say about this?” Jacob asks while focusing on White.

White stares for several seconds before eventually answering, “Keeping watch over her is unnecessary. I will always be by her side and will be able to take care of the Red Plague should it lose control.” Her eyes narrow as some of the council members begin to open their mouths to retort. “And I won’t allow anyone to object.”

Everyone goes silent at that, either too afraid of the White Knight of Humanity to object or from being in agreement with her in the first place.

Black glances at Jacob and the general as the two share a glance and then turn back to White as Jacob says, “Very well, but know that if she loses control, you will be the one to bear the public responsibility.”

That has Black raising a brow.

At this point there isn’t much that could hurt Amelia’s public reputation after all of the public bashing she’s gotten already. This does at least mean that they’ll cover up the pup’s responsibility in it though.

“I’m fine with that,” White says with a nod of her head. “So long as Scarlet doesn’t take any of the blame.”

The only reason that may be possible is because no one knows what the Red Plague is outside of those of us here who were told by our royal fae partners. Most likely just assume the Red Plague part of her Title is for show.

Black frowns at that thought before sighing. Then he turns his attention to the screen again as silence once again befalls the tower.

Several minutes pass with each of the Guardians in the room simply watching the screen, only for the Guardians who aren’t Knights amongst them to suddenly find themselves kicked out of the tower. But Black ignores that as he continues watching the screen. Watching Scarlet run around, trying to teach herself to control the most powerful corruption in existence.

“She has the power to destroy the entire world with that plague,” Black decides to point out now that the interlopers are gone, without looking at the other Knights in the process.

Silence fills the tower again for several seconds before Blue says, surprisingly defending the girl, “She’s also the only one who can save the planet from the approaching Red Plague.”

True.

Black concedes that point without a word, and the silence continues to stretch on once more.

All of the Knights simply stare at the screen, watching Scarlet while she struggles to hold the Red Plague in place. While she goes back and forth between demons and non-living things alike, infecting them and taking the infection back out again.

Eventually Black hears Red mutter, “She might need new armor.”

All of the Knights nod their heads in agreement as they look at the glowing red cracks in her armor.

I can’t help but wonder how much her armor would be worth here on Earth. And despite that, it was damaged that severely in just a single instant by the Red Plague.

Black feels a faint chill run down his spine at the thought of an entire planet full of the stuff heading to Earth.

She really is our planet’s only hope. In more ways than one now.