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.

“No, we saw it for ourselves that one of us landed the killing

holding off the Northern Demon in order

Basilisks are shameless! Claiming credit when it’s

of war

to defend their own honor, their attempts at persuasion fell upon

there? Show us

you going to say that the Northern Demon isn’t

on and say it. See if

who captured them began to guffaw, and looked upon the thirty-odd members of the

believe anything which came off the tongue of a bunch of deserters,

be done as soon as

they heard that the Four Basilisks were on the

deserters! It was

as anything they said would be dismissed