Chapter 994: Noble Sacrifices
"Help him? Why should we interfere in the fight? I don’t recall Loimos ever needing help in a fight"
"Just look! He has sacrificed so much of his rot already! If this goes on, he’ll have to use the rot that replaces everything down there too!" explained the vampire whilst still trying to shake the assassin by the shoulders, remaining wholly unsuccessful in that regard.
"And? If he loses the fight, it is what it is, that’s how fighting goes, one side loses and gets murdered, that’s what is fun about fighting-"
"Come on, Maliah! It’s Loimos we are talking about, I know that you are not insensitive to his gloriously, putrid charms... Ever since you conquered the Soul Realm with him, you have been different too! So don’t act tough and help me figure something out so that Loimos can slaughter that golden prick!" One gritted her teeth together, baring her fangs like a true, bloodthirsty vampire would.
Maliah blinked a few times, not quite impressed by the vampiress herself, One was completely harmless to her after all, but the mention of the Soul Realm did cause the manic assassin to glance to the side, thinking for a few moments.
"...Is he really in trouble though? I realise that there is something of a gamble in what he did, but it seems unlikely that he doesn’t have any plan at all, it’s Loimos we are talking about here, so if we do something, do we not run the risk of getting in his way?" replied The Death Dealer, the pure undead could literally consider every possibility available to him after all, it was unlikely that he had no thoughts on how to send Sonnenträger to a permanent grave.
"The fact that he didn’t consult or tell anyone about this is proof enough that there is no certainty in who will win, and the simple fact that Loimos does not have a sure-way of defeating this guy is plenty concerning- Anyways, I doubt that anything we can do could possibly disturb him anyways" the vampire rubbed the back her nape anxiously, drawing a blank about what could be done.
Maliah looked at the sunwalking vampiress for a few moments, One, apart from having a weird name, was a weird person to begin with, she used to a living, and yet, she was clearly incredibly attracted to the rotten and squalid, not to mention that just her regular personality was quite bizarre as well.
All in all, she was rather far detached from the concepts undeads were supposed to embody, if anything, she made for a terrible example of what a scion of death should be like, yet, she was just a fiercely loyal to the empire and to Death than any naturally spawned undead, and frankly, it was not like Maliah was much better, being a living working with the empire she was even weirder.
It was also true that she too, was fascinated with Loimos, he was one who killed en masse, he was powerful, and he had been one of the few capable of interacting with her throughout her entire life, it was only until the events of the Soul Realm happened that she realised that if not for him being a rotten skeleton all of the time, that she would have been in not-so different situation than One by now.
In hindsight, it made sense that the walking embodiment of death, slaughter and bloodshed would be something most appealing to The Death Dealer, she existed primarily to kill, torture and cause misery through violence and killing... So of course, she would be quite fond of Loimos, who was basically the physical manifestation of those concepts.