Criminal X : Epitome Of Evil

There were one hundred and ten criminals at Ground 2.

Among these, fifty of them were rapists who raped girls who hadn't awakened their Ego yet. The criminals did this because they knew the girls wouldn't be able to fight back.

After that, another fifty criminals were also rapists and they also did their crimes with girls but only dead girls and women. They did that because they also didn't want their victims to fight back.

These hundred criminals, Pablo called them weak as they were afraid of harming those females who could fight back. They were afraid of getting hurt.

That's why the soldiers who got these hundred criminals as their opponents were able to win easily and doing this, the soldiers also got some confidence too. Because the soldiers didn't know these hundred criminals were cowards, they believed that every criminal was strong and dangerous and hence, when the soldiers would win the fight, they would feel confident about their strength and it would only help them in Hollow.

However, apart from these hundred criminals, Pablo said that the last ten criminals were the ones whom he could respect a little.

And if Pablo respects someone, it means business.

The reason he respected the ten criminals was that these criminals had nothing else in their mind apart from killing.

They were not rapists, they were not thieves, they were not ruled by any of their emotions. They only wanted one thing and that was murder.

And unlike the hundred criminals, these ten chose their victims at random. It didn't matter whether they could fight back or not, they just wanted to kill.

All in all, they weren't cowards.

They were brave enough to ask the guards to arrest them just so they could kill the killers. They wanted to see how it would feel like to kill those who kill others.

That's the only reason they were in prison. Otherwise, no one would have been able to capture them. Well, some strong people would have been able to capture them, but why should they bother?

The only problem was that, since these ten men were only adamant on their bloodlust, they comprised their brain and logical thinking. If they were also smart then they would have become a lesser version of Pablo.

Pablo told all of that to Cupid too and the Angel understood it well enough.

And after hearing that, one important and dangerous question popped into her mind.

She knew Pablo was close to telling her to shut up but she still went on and asked her question.

"So the soldiers who got the hundred rapists as their opponents are the lucky ones. But those remaining ten criminals, the ones you respect a little, who are they? Which soldier got them as their opponent? Has any one of them died yet? Are your soldiers strong enough to fight against those blood hungry monsters?"

Pablo opened his mouth and he would have answered, if not for Cupid opening her mouth wider the next moment.

"Don't tell me," She said, gasping. "The four slave girls with no Ego of theirs got those criminals? They would die right away. They would think that they would be raped but they would have no clue that their opponent only wants to kill them. The girls wouldn't know what to do, Pablo. That's not a fair match up. You have to do something! You hav-"

'Shut the hell up, dammit!'

Pablo yelled and launched a glare at the Angel as well.

He was also surprised at how well he could shout even inside his head.

Nevertheless, he couldn't be amazed for too long as Cupid begged for an answer. And in order to not make her throw questions at him again, he decided to answer as well.

'First of all, don't worry. The four girls didn't get anyone among the ten criminals. After all, the criminals who ran towards them were drooling to get their hands on the girls and the ten criminals I mentioned aren't perverts who would run like that.'

"Then who got them?"

Pablo gritted his teeth.

'I am telling you. Don't ask in between for fuck's sake!'

Cupid raised her hands in surrender. She didn't even say sorry, afraid it would annoy Pablo more.

Pablo let out a heavy sigh and carried on speaking.

'Among those ten criminals two of them are already dead. In fact, one of them was the first one to die today.'

Cupid recalled her memory and when she figured it out, she snapped her fingers.

Pablo nodded. 'Yes. The one whom Gerald killed. That criminal belonged to the list of those ten. Gerald could be the only one to do something like this. He had lived long enough to know how to kill.'

Cupid nodded and showed two fingers to Pablo. She didn't speak as Pablo had told her not to do that.

Pablo understood what the Angel was asking so he said, 'The second criminal who died. Well, you will be surprised to hear it. It was Nike who killed him.'

Cupid heard it and as Pablo expected, her brows shot up.

Pablo smiled. 'Yes. Nike was unlucky enough to choose that criminal as his opponent but in the end, he used his brain and the criminal was dead. That's why I told you. If these ten criminals had brains, they would have been unstoppable. Alas, they only chose to quench their desire of murder, not anything else. Nike was calm so he won easily.'

Cupid nodded a couple of times in understanding and then, before she could ask it, Pablo answered himself.

'The remaining eight criminals are alive and four of them are fighting my four different soldiers—Sirha, Girck, Ronnie and Taryn. Of course you don't know who these soldiers are so I will show them to you later. For now, I should tell you about those who you do know about.'

Cupid frowned.

Pablo smiled.

'The other four criminals are paired with people you know. And you will like the pairings too. You will like it because, well, it will allow you to do the one thing that you love doing the most.'

Cupid stared at Pablo and while keeping the smile, the man answered:

'Pity.'