The disturbing sound of sharp objects stabbing and ripping through flesh filled the room as the newly formed ice spears impaled Vincent consecutively from all sides, causing his blood to splash out in all directions, some of it even falling on the other people present in the room.

"Vincent Tencent, suddenly overcome by a sudden wave of madness, attacked his superior and was put down," Davies's voice rang out loud and clear while everyone was still frozen in shock by what had happened just over a second ago.

"Now…" He continued, his voice sounding like someone who meted out death sentences to the worst of criminals.

"Who's next…?" he continued his voice sounding like the grim reaper's.

"A-A-AHHHHHH!!!" a woman on which some of Vincent's blood had splashed on her face, lost her nerve and began screaming, much to the annoyance of Davies.

Davies stretched his hand in her direction and ice formed around her mouth effectively shutting her up,

"Hush please, I'd hate for another employee to lose themselves to madness and have to be put down,"

"Don't you agree, Mrs. Wilson," Davies asked, reading out her name from the id card that hung from her neck as multiple ice spears were formed mid-air and pointed in her direction.

The woman quickly began to nod in fear of the ice spears that were pointing in her direction. She shook her head so much that it seemed like it'd fall off. Davies was wondering why she couldn't just answer him but then remembered that he had sealed her mouth shut with ice.

Davies then sighed as if he was dejected,

"But still that weed must have been really strong…"

"... For Vincent to actually lose his composure and attack me because of a joke…" Davies continued with a heavy voice as if he was sorrowful about what had just happened.

As he spoke, he put his phone down on the table, and to the utmost dismay of everyone in the room, Davies's phone just had a bunch of numbers typed in the keypad and he had never actually called anybody.

He had effectively goaded Vincent into making a stupid move and allowed him to retaliate lawfully with just a little prank.

Now that they thought about it, the room had been silent, they were able to hear when he typed in the numbers, but they hadn't heard the phone dial, or even a voice as Davies called, and this was the scariest part of this issue.

Something so simple that they had all overlooked, had managed to trick one of them into falling for Davies's scheme and effectively rushing to his death.

It could have been any one of them, because they all knew that they would have reacted the same way, after all, they had all been fooled.

At this point, an even greater despair filled the room, and they all felt the scythe of the grim reaper on their neck even clearer than when their mind had been influenced by Davies's sliver of murderous aura that had filled the room earlier.

Jessica who was also watching this situation from beside Davies had horror all over her face as well, but she wasn't looking as bad and feeling as much despair as everyone else simply because Davies wasn't targeting her with any of his schemes or murderous intent right now.

Davies also watched the situation carefully as he watched them fall more into despair just as he had planned, but he kept a bored and apathetic look on his face to scare them even further.

At this point, he was giving extra thought to whether he should do something even scarier or worse to them, but after a bit of thought, he decided to end it here… for today.

Davies hated troublesome issues, and having more than one person in a high-ranking position in a well-known business organization die was sure to bring unending annoyance.

He wasn't scared of repercussions from anything he did as he could easily get away with almost any kind of trouble, but he'd rather not have such annoying issues that would cause a lot of annoying people to start breathing down his neck.

Also, the press had a way of making things blow out of proportion.

This was the reason why he had not actually arranged for an accident to befall Vincent's wife and children. If he had killed Vincent and also arranged for his family to follow him into the hands of Hades, it wouldn't be hard for anybody to notice foul play and it would have easily been blown out of proportion and would end up disturbing him at critical moments sometime in the future.

Davies couldn't have that, after all, he had things to do, and by things to do, he meant killing fated protagonists and enjoying the pleasures of the 69th floor.

This was not to say that Davies was letting them off. To him, everybody in this room was already dead, except Jessica.

He was merely allowing them to hold on to their lives for now while he prepared the people that would take over their positions when he was ready to begin exterminating them, one by one.

With this already thought out he looked on apathetically at the Executive Officers and Managing Officers, while continuously releasing his pressure and murderous aura slightly to keep them mentally pressured and have them second-guessing every moment of their life.

He made sure to release just enough to not prompt them into doing something stupid like suicide, exposure to a high murderous aura had that effect on people with weak minds after all.

But as he did this, a wicked thought popped up in his mind,

'Should I just kill one more…?' he thought as a wicked and murderous grin appeared on his face, sending shivers across the room.

[Davies?] Miya called warningly.

'Come on, for insurance purposes,'

'I don't want them to get over their head after I let them go, thinking they have escaped my grasp,'

'I want them to live every day in fear and anticipation of when I will send someone to reap their lives,' Davies explained to Miya. As for him sending someone to reap their lives, they didn't expect him to go around killing small fry, did they?

[Why do I even bother]

[Do what you want, not like I can control you anyway] Miya sighed.

'In that case…"

'Let's kill two more,' Davies couldn't stop the maniacal grin from fully plastering itself across his face.

'... Or maybe three more,'

[...]

['Just say you want to kill them all'] Miya thought.

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