[center][b][u][i]Four Demon Summit[/i][/u][/b][/center]

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[center][i][b]...Why am I here?[/b][/i][/center]

Throughout the whole summit, that was the one question echoing through Gekido's mind. A rhetorical question, yes, but a question he couldn't stop thinking about.

As the 3rd Upper Moon of four, one could argue him to be not the third strongest of the Chairman's demons, but the second weakest of his elites. The First Upper Moon, the Captain of the Clan, should be the one standing next to Michikatsu as he meets with others just as dangerous. Should anything happen, he's not going to be much help here. As much as he loathes to agree with a jackass like Jinwoo, Gekido [i]really[/i] doesn't belong here.

But at the same time, he already knows the answer to his own question. Unfortunately for both the Clan they run in the shadows of the day, and the demon horde they lead in the bright neon night, Gekido seems to be the only one Michikatsu can count on. And honestly, by all logic, that [i]should[/i] concern him. For all intent and purpose, Gekido is the De'facto "Captain" of Michikatsu forces. UM2 and UM1 are more powerful, yes, but unfortunately for this organization, that's [i]all[/i] they are. They're both so focused on their own passion projects that they can't be bothered to be of actual use to Chairman Michikatsu themselves. They're less his superiors and more human-shaped weapons of mass destruction Michikatsu keeps close as aces in the hole.

Thus, he had little choice.

Truth be told, Gekido had no real interest in the politics of his kind, he has no real loyalty to any single demon so much as to the position itself, and his only ambition in regards of the hierarchy he's in is to rise to the top as a measurement and testament to his own strength, nothing more. In a hypothetical scenario where he'd he'd become a Demon King like these four, replacing Michikatsu, it wouldn't be long before he passes the burdens and responsibilities of such a position on someone else.

All that to say, when he sees and listens to these three other so-called Demon Kings, and at the same time thinks of the two demons leering over him on the food chain, it isn't out of a sense of blind loyalty to the Chairman - or even really loyalty at all - that makes him realize that Michikatsu, [i]needs[/i] to be the Alpha of this little pack, or everyone - [b]EVERYONE,[/b] demon and human alike - is biblically [b][i]Fucked![/i][/b]

Michikatsu sees these three demons and seems to have some trust for Feilian and not much for the other two. Gekido sees these three demon kings, and trusts absolutely none of them.

Park Jinwoo is probably the most obvious demon king to see as an enemy. The Korean Demon King is an arrogant asshat - reminds him of a certain higher-up - practically [i]begging[/i] for the others to just murder him. Confidence in his own strength? Perhaps, but how the other three treats him tells Gekido everything he needs to know; the ones who bark the loudest seldom ever bite the hardest.

To a point where even someone as low on the totem pole as Gekido was is confident enough to spell out how the Saja boy broke their covenant without any fear of retort. The Chairman told him to calm himself, but he was [i]perfectly[/i] calm, merely pointing out the problem child amidst the peers. Still, he knew what the Chairman really meant, and stayed silent, putting his focus on the other two.

Mao Feilian... It's true that out of the three, she does seem the most reasonable and affable to the Chairman's design. The demons of her prefecture has been a tremendous help to the Clan from day one. However, she's still a queen among demons, a progenitor like the rest of them, and as Jinwoo put, they're all older and more experienced in this position compared to the Chairman. In Gekido's eyes, she's the most capable of putting Michikatsu in a bad position and stabbing him in the back. Between her and Jinwoo, she's more the threat to keep an eye on...

But then there's the most threatening one in Gekido's eyes: Alexei Rasputin of Sakhalin. Gekido's heard about that one in particular, a spider in holy garb who all but changed the face of Russia with mere manipulation and whisper. While Gekido would be willing to admit that his suspicions of Feilian is based on conjecture and assumption, one would only look at what happened not too long ago to the "Russian Revolution" to see proof of Rasputin's machinations. It certainly doesn't help that Gekido can't really get a read on the guy and what he truly wants, and judging by the Chairman's interactions with him thus far, he's not alone in that. If it came down to a war against these three, [i]he's[/i] the one they should worry about most of all...

Gekido stood silently and listened to the meeting, hard as that was when Jinwoo's barking kept interrupting the grown-ups.

It seems there was gonna be a war after all, thankfully it was just between Michikatsu and Jinwoo. Good. The sooner they can shut him up, the better. But it's all to become a demon god? To reside over the rest of Japan... Gekido couldn't help but look at the other two progenitors who aren't participating in this Bloodrite battle.

[i]"...What are you two getting out of this?"[/i] He suspiciously thought, ignoring Jinwoo's boasts and rants as static noise.

He then saw as the Chairman pulled them into a dimension of his making, not to mention his Moon-breathing; a necessary show of power, if only for the one that won't shut up about how old the rest of them are over the Chairman.

[center][i]"Let's make a deal. No one will set food in each other's turf for now. I have no doubt that Ryoshu will gain the Blue Spider Lily, if not I have the rest of my Blood Moons as I will deploy them if necessary. I can guarantee you that once we are in possession of the Blue Spider Lily. We can talk about business."[/i][/center]

Of course by "Rest of the Blood Moons", what he [i]actually[/i] meant was Gekido and Gekido alone, a thought that made him sigh under any normal circumstance, and he has no doubt that will probably be the first thing he'll get on as soon as the meeting's over.

After a bunch of brown-nosing on Jinwoo's part due to now being shown up by the Chairman's BDA, and mentioning how the Chairman's predecessor not talking to them back when he was alive - something Gekido can sympathize with - the Meeting ends with an empty threat on the Saja dog's part, with Gekido finally able to let out his sigh now that this intimidating task was over.

But it probably won't last long. He didn't need to say or hear anything, he knew already what he had to do next, giving Michikatsu a shrot bow and an "If you'll excuse me..." before heading out.