The Protector Novel

The Four Basilisks were quite enjoying the attention they were receiving, but were at the same time, restless as none of them would be safe until the thirty-nine were found and killed.

And so, the Four Basilisks pooled all their resources to locate them, and the relative powerlessness, deference and sense of duty toward the Four Basilisks meant that thirty-eight members of the Suicide Squad were rounded up fairly quickly.

“We’re not deserters! We’ve thwarted the Avengers’ ambush, and one of us even killed the Northern Demon himself!” they remonstrated.

But their efforts were only met with derision. “In the whole of Erudia, who does not know of your desertion? How dare you even try to defend yourselves?”

“Would you listen to that? That it was one of them who killed the Northern Demon? Have y’all bumped your heads so badly?”

“Killed by one of y’all? Do y’all have any idea how formidable the Northern Demon is? What a joke! He was defeated by the combined efforts of the Four Basilisks!”

“That it was your guys who killed the Northern Demon? Can’t you at least come up with a cover story more credible than that?”

The captors, who had witnessed the prowess of the Northern Demon for themselves, naturally did not buy into that version of accounts and continued to lambast the men from the Suicide Squad whom they thought little of.

then began to protest furiously. “No, we saw it for ourselves that one of us landed the killing blow. And

other nine hundred over men into holding off the Northern Demon in order to facilitate their own escape! Over nine hundred

shameless! Claiming credit when it’s clearly someone else who defeated the

all of the prisoners of war who have borne witness to

to defend their own honor, their attempts at persuasion fell

Show us what else

Northern Demon isn’t dead

say it. See if

captured them began to guffaw, and looked upon

anything which came off the tongue of a bunch of

lot closely! Our jobs will be done as soon as the Four Basilisks

Squad started to fear for their own lives when they heard that the Four Basilisks were on the way, as their arrival would seal

It was

believe them as anything they said would be dismissed