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"But if I went and offered a bag of money, you know that most people would just take it, right?"
She wasn't oblivious to how her appearance influenced people, and she knew that most would likely trust her because of how she looked. That was the case at school, at her deals, in the devil world…
The entire recruitment plan to get Issei Hyodou to her side was to basically seduce him, and considering the reputation he had, she was sure it'd work.
She chewed her lip. She heavily miscalculated with him. What would've normally worked on anybody else simply had no effect.
"I didn't even get his name."
Her frown deepened at the realization of how deeply she messed up her first conversation with the potential new piece.
Throughout the entire conversation with him, he, not for a single second, looked anywhere else besides her eyes.
He kept his focus trained entirely on her face and nowhere else, and although it could be considered a bit depressing, that was something that she wasn't used to receiving from anyone that wasn't from her peerage or family.
It made her want him on her peerage even more.
However, this interaction highlighted a glaring problem with her, specifically.
"Akeno."
"Yes?"
"I have no clue on how to recruit someone to my peerage."
All of her pieces became hers due to simple circumstances. She saved them. True. But even then she never had the necessity to do an actual recruitment of pieces on her own, they were just… handed to her.
She shook her head. That was a bad train of thought.
She loved each and every member of her peerage, and she didn't regret saving them in the slightest, but it was a fact that she had simply been lucky to have such wonderful pieces with her.
And luck wasn't going to cut it if she wanted to get him on her peerage.
Normally, she would've retreated for the day and made plans for tomorrow, but after he told her that he was a traveler, she knew that she had little time left.
Any moment he could go and disappear forever, running off to who knows where and leaving her with not even a name to track him.
She needed to recruit him today.
"Koneko, Yuuto. Start searching for him again, you can use your familiars if you have to, but look for him. Akeno, look for him from the sky, maybe he went to a rooftop or somewhere similar. Use a minor veil to cover yourself from any onlookers. The moment you find him, call me and I'll teleport there. Clear?"
The three of them nodded dutifully, quickly leaving her side and following her orders.
As for herself…
Well, he ran, but he must've attracted some attention while doing so. She'd try to piece together where he went by asking any passerby that was near his path. If he never stopped running, then she would inevitably find him.
"I'll make you part of my family, and I'll make sure you never spend another night sleeping on the street."
He'd lend her his power, and she'd give him a home. A family.
…Hopefully he'd be willing to accept her help.
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"YES, YOU PIECE OF FUCKING SHIT, COME HERE! I'M WAITING FOR YOUR HOT PIECE OF ASS, COME HERE AND LET ME SHOOT YOU, YOU FUCK- AGH!"
I coughed as the vitriol made me choke on my own spit. With a few punches to my chest and some painful coughs, I managed to catch my breath.
The wait was driving me a bit insane.
Sitting on the rooftop of a lone apartment building, cigarette on (a most definitely steady) hand and a loaded gun in the other, I was waiting for the- the fucking DEMON TROUPE to come knocking.
I was fucking livid. A perfect redheaded goddess and it turned out she was a fucking demon in disguise.
Oh, she'd fucking pay for that, and she'd do so by taking some lead right in her fucking brain, and if I could help it I'd fucking take the scooby gang she had down with her. They were all going to PAY.
…For clarity's sake, this vitriol was more for the crime of being a filthy fucking man-eating demon, not pretending to be a hot redhead, but still, it did anger me. She had tried to take me for a fucking FOOL, and I wasn't going to let that slide.
I took a deep breath. I didn't choose the rooftop as my battlefield for any random reason, there actually was a strategy.
FIRST: the rooftop could only be accessed from one door… if they couldn't fly, which considering they had bat wings, was quite possible.
HOWEVER, even with those, having them flying in the air made it easier for me to hit a vital organ on their spine or neck, so it was beneficial in the end.
SECOND, and frankly, the most important right now: If shit went south and they wanted to capture me… I could kill myself.
I was right beside the ledge, it would only take one little jump and I'd fall straight through fifteen stories until hitting the pavement and dying horribly.
I'd made sure that I would throw myself off into a dumpster though, because honestly I wasn't sure if after reviving I'd even keep the clothes I had, let alone my precious gun.
But why not kill yourself with the gun?
Because if I killed myself with a gun, then it'd be piss-easy to steal all my shit before reviving. If the demons ate my body and ignored my things, it'd still be a pain to get them back because they'd be located on a fifteenth floor.
I swallowed spit. Fucking hell, I wished those fucking things would come knocking soon so I could fucking die fast and return to HUSTLING again.
As if answering my prayers, Eyes Everywhere suddenly picked up something. A group of people climbed the stairs up onto the rooftop. It was the redhead and her troupe… but there was one missing, the black haired one.
Paranoically, I look around my with my own two eyes and-
She's flying. The piece of fucking filth was flying above two buildings besides me, way too far for either Eyes Everywhere or Sharpest Shooter to do anything about it. She was the one who spotted me.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
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