Criminal X : Epitome Of Evil

Pablo was going towards Malvador. For the final fight. It was high time.

But before he could reach the Vampire king, Harlia landed in front of him, stopping him.

Pablo told her she can't do shit to Malvador but Harlia didn't listen to him and even said she wanted the glory of killing the Vampire King.

At that, Pablo finally snapped. All the acting he did that he respected the Admiral, that he feared her, he let all of that go and gave it to her straight.

He told her that he wasn't fighting for glory, that he was just a criminal and most of all, Malvador wasn't doing all this for glory as well. In the end, he struck the final nail on the coffin by saying that Malvador…

Was the second Pablo Castillo.

All the soldiers, all the common people, even Harlia was taken aback at the manners of Pablo. And a woman like her, she won't hear all that shit.

"Mind your tongue, Pablo. I am not your soldier."

"I know you are not my soldier. That's why we are having this discussion in the first place!"

"I am your Admiral!"

"You are just a woman! And I am not being gender biased or sexist here. You are just a woman who thinks she is strong and who thinks she can tame any man. Even Malvador. Even me!"

"I am the protector of this Kingdom, Pablo!"

"There will be no kingdom left if he doesn't die!"

"That's why I will kill him!"

"And I am saying you can't kill him! He will slam you again and that's if you are lucky. If he is in a bad mood, he will kill you this time and if you really piss him off then he will fucking rape you just like he said he would for god's sake! Why can't you understand this simple thing inside your thick head?! I am trying to save you!"

"What if I win? What if I kill him? What if you are wrong this time? What if, the great Pablo Castillo, the mastermind, the narcissist, the man brimming with superioriry complex, is wrong for the first fucking time?!"

Harlia stared at Pablo. Her eyes brimming not with anger but logic.

Pablo did the same and he just couldn't understand Harlia's obsession with killing Malvador. Has no one ever threatened her for rape before? Or was she never slammed? Or Malvador was the only one who threatened her and lived to tell the tale?

Pablo faced many questions inside his mind and since Harlia stared at her with no intentions of backing away, he hollered:

"Malvador!"

He called for the Vampire King.

Malvador surely heard that and he replied:

"That's me!"

Pablo didn't averted eyes from Harlia and hollered again:

"Are you ready to fight this woman? Are you done having dinner?!"

"No. I won't fight her yet. I am not done yet. But if she comes in front of me, I shall kill her this time!" Malvador hollered in return.

"Hear that, Admiral? Do you want to die?" Pablo asked.

"Just because he said he will kill me, you want me to not attack him? He is our enemy and this is war, Pablo!"

"I know! That's why you can't die yet! The soldiers need you!"

"You think he will be able to kill me?"

Pablo sighed. "Yes."

"Why? Do you think I am weak?"

"No. You are strong. Very strong. But that man is like me and if I were to fight you then I will make sure to do everything, no matter how vile or cowardly, to kill you and win. And I am sure, he shares the same notion as well."

Harlia gritted her teeth. She stared at Pablo in silence.

Eventually, she broke the silence.

"Then death it is."

Pablo rolled his eyes.

"But I shall pay him for threatening me like that." Harlia added.

By this, Pablo figured out one thing.

Harlia was too far gone to be healed.

"Fine." Pablo said. "If you want to die then be my guest. But kill him after you are done with all the vampires. He shall be the last vampire in the Crucible the moment you fight him."

"Why is that? Why not now?" Harlia questioned.

"Do you want to get backstabbed during your fight with him? I can protect your back but do you think I will be enough for that? There are still thousands of his soldiers left. At most, I can hold back one hundred. And our soldiers are already becoming less as that bastard is killing them for the past ten hours! Do you understand?"

"Do you want me to kill these thousand vampires alone?"

"No. I will help you. We will kill five hundred each and after that, I won't stop you from fighting him. You can do as you please."

"You want me to get tired fighting these soldiers and then fight that King? Is that it?"

"You won't be the only one who will be tired. The king is tired too. It will be a fair fight and I didn't know that you worry about tiredness when it comes to vengeance."

Harlia seeped a deep breath. Her clenched fist loosened and Pablo finally found some relief.

"Alright. I shall kill these midgets then."

The Admiral turned her head at the first Vampire she saw and dashed at him.

She raised his fist and punched the head of the soldier.

The head exploded and Harlia didn't look back after that. She started her mayhem again.

Pablo heaved a sigh of relief and like he had said, he dashed off to help Harlia in killing the Vampire soldiers.

Both Commanders wrecked havoc on the Crucible as heads exploded one after another.

Pablo would sometimes throw Colt and his trusty partner would slice heads clean and come back to him.

These two fighters killed more than one Vampire in one second and with such a pace, after only forty-five minutes…

All the Vampire soldiers were dead.