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Adam looked at Robert in disbelief before asking, "You're seriously trying to cover it up after you just revealed it?"
"Fine, FINE!" Robert retorted before asking, "How the hell did you figure it out when we only communicated using that secure app?"
"Unfortunately for you, that app isn't as secure as you believe," Adam replied.
[Whostolemyduck (Earth): Actually, it is, as long as the one hacking it is from Earth.]
"What?" Robert asked in shock.
"I have read all the correspondence you and Nada exchanged. I must admit that you're an obedient pet… or should I say that you were an obedient pet." Adam replied.
"What do you mean?" Robert asked as he suddenly got a bad feeling from Adam's choice of words.
"Nada Keita is dead," Adam replied.
No," Robert replied in disbelief.
"Yes," Adam replied.
"I'm afraid it's true, young master. You may not have seen the recent news," Benson said before continuing, "Nada Keita's death was recently reported on the news. It seems she fell to her death."
"No, no, no," Robert repeated in disbelief before asking angrily, "Did you kill her?"
"She really did have you wrapped around her little finger, didn't she?" Adam remarked before adding, "Even now you fail to realise how she was just using your feelings towards her for her own benefit."
"Shut the fuck up," Robert cursed before adding, "We had something special, and now she's gone. Someone like you will never understand."
"Never understand?" Adam asked with a frown before saying coldly. "Viktor Morose killed my girlfriend right in front of me before trying to kill me. But you're right, I could never understand."
"Viktor Morose? Wait, Adam Spencer?" Robert repeated as he realised something and said, "You're THAT Adam Spencer, the mass murderer."
"Mass murderer? I thought the Flemming family didn't buy into that?" Adam asked with a frown.
"It was my grandmother's decision not to join the other families in using the media to spread your crimes," Robert replied before adding, "But many in the family didn't agree with that decision."
"Then I suppose it's a good thing she's the head of your family and not anyone else," Adam replied.
[Noobkiller9000 (Earth): Yeah. If it were anyone else, then they might be in as much trouble as the other families.]
[Celebrityhunter69 (Earth): Lady Flemming certainly seems to have left a good impression on the streamer.]
[Handsome3horns (Vinox 2): I wonder how the streamer plans to deal with the other four families after they continue to spread stories of him being a mass murderer.]
[OfficialKasumi (Aqua Primus): I wonder how the Flemming family's punishment will differ from the other four families.]
[Handsome3horns (Vinox 2): You think he still plans to punish them even though the Flemmings didn't spread those rumours?]
[OfficialKasumi (Aqua Primus): They may not have spread them, but they also didn't attempt to stop them. Also, Robert Flemming was a key member in the plot involving the kidnapping of Miss Hopkins.]
[DeverinianLordMalacoss (Deverinian 9): You seem awfully interested in this, @OfficialKasumi.]
[OfficialKasumi (Aqua Primus): Well, yeah. It's incredibly similar to how the nine families rule Reginhart Alpha after all.]
"How could you, of all people, do this? How could you take Nada from me when you yourself had your girlfriend taken from you?" Robert asked.
[StealthAssassin9 (Earth): He makes a good point.]
[Gunlovergirl (Earth): No, he doesn't. The situation is entirely different.]
[Celebrityhunter69 (Earth): Agreed. For one, the streamer didn't attempt to kidnap or kill anyone when his girlfriend was killed; they were minding their own business camping in the woods.]
"Well, you planned to kill Emma Hopkins, so how is this any different? Or are you saying that as a member of the five families, you live by different rules?" Adam asked in return.
"Adammmmm, Can't I kill him already?" Tephe suddenly whined, causing everyone to look at her before she asked, "This is boring, I want to go see Revi, and we still have those Russians or whatever you called them to deal with."
[Superhearofangirl (Earth): There she goes, acting as if killing is natural for her.]
[DeverinianLordMalacoss (Deverinian 9): That spoiled side of hers is more like the Tephe I know.]
[NonpareilRaphilia (Aaru): True, but in the past, she would have just killed that guy instead of asking Adam for permission.]
[Whitehorn (Darah 5): White Dragon Tephe asking someone for permission. 😳What's the universe coming to?]
"When did you learn to act so spoiled?" Stacey asked in surprise.
"Humph," Tephe pouted before saying, "I just want to go see my friend and then head to the beach."
"How does such an innocent-looking young beauty talk about death so easily?" Greg asked quietly from the doorway where he and Jimmy had been watching.
"That innocent looking young beauty is actually a five hundred year old fire breathing dragon," Jimmy whispered in reply.
"GREG, JIMMY! WHY THE FUCK DID YOU LET THESE PEOPLE IN?" Robert roared angrily as he noticed the two sneakily looking into the room.
"Because we don't wanna die," Greg replied.
"Noisy," Tephe said while covering her ears with a grimace.
"Too loud," Stacey said with a frown.
"You don't know when to quit, do you?" Adam remarked before turning to Tephe while saying, "Go ahead."
"What!" Robert asked in shock
"Yay," Tephe cheered before taking a breath.
"WAIT, WAIT, WAIT," Benson yelled before adding, "Please stop destroying the furniture."
[OfficialMuriel (Aqua Primus): Kek. This guy and his furniture.]
[AlamoMatador4thewin (Earth): Technically, it's the Flemming family's furniture and he's just doing his job as a butler.]
[OracleRomy (Elysium): He certainly takes his job seriously.]
"Eh?" Tephe remarked as she let out the breath of air she had just taken.
"Thank god," Robert said in relief.
"Just use your force lance, you did ask Adam for one after all," Stacey advised before she noticed Benson's looking away and asked, "Too much for you to handle, old man?"
"A butler's duty is to serve the family he is assigned to. I am currently failing in that duty by allowing you to kill the young master," Benson replied.
"Even though Lady Flemming ok'd it?" Stacey asked.
"Young master Robert is still a member of the Flemming family," Benson answered.
"Well, you can always attempt to stop Tephe if you want, but you saw what happened to Emma when she attacked me," Stacey stated with a smirk.
Benson didn't respond and just kept looking away.
Tephe nodded before pulling out her force staff and pointing it in Robert's direction, after which she pressed a section on it.
A red light flashed from the tip of the force staff before a blaster bolt hit his arm, making him scream in pain.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH."
[Justiceistruth (Earth): Wait, he's still alive? 😵💫]
[Emojisonly (Earth): 😵💫]
[Beinglittleisnotadisadvantage (Strathorp 7): She must have used a weaker shot that doesn't kill and instead injures.]
[HackerSu (Trillion): Well, he is now missing an arm, look.]
As the red light of the blaster bolt faded from Robert's arm, everyone saw that a large part of his arm was now lying on the couch next to him, leaving only a stump just below the shoulder.
"Oh fuck, that's nasty," Greg cursed as he saw the scene.
"What on earth is this? I thought you were trying to kill the young master, not maim him?" Benson asked in disbelief.
"Huh, huh?" Tephe reacted as she looked at her force staff in confusion before asking, "Why isn't he dead?"
[HackerSu (Trillion): Aww, she looks so confused.]
[AlamoMatador4thewin (Earth): It's a good question, though. Why isn't he dead?]
[Handsome3horns (Vinox 2): Did she use it wrong?]
[RealOtaku (Earth): Maybe she didn't read the instruction manual?]
"Silly girl," Adam said as he pointed at the force staff before continuing, "You pressed the section that makes it fire a weakened blaster bolt."
[Noobkiller9000 (Earth): Weakened? He calls that weakened? She blew the guy's entire arm off.]
[Gunlovergirl (Earth): Well, considering the force staff normally kills or disintegrates when the streamer uses it, I guess it can be classified as weakened.]
"I did?" Tephe asked in surprise.
"You need to press this section here," Adam said while pointing at a different section of the force staff."
"Oh ok," Tephe nodded before saying, "I will get it right this time."
"No… no…. No, please no," Robert begged as tears streamed from his eyes due to the fear and pain.
"That's kinda messed up," Greg remarked.
"Agreed, I thought they just planned to kill him, not make him suffer first," Jimmy replied as Benson, who couldn't watch, looked away.
"Here," Tephe said as she pressed the section Adam indicated while Robert was still begging for forgiveness
"No, no, no, please. Someone please save me, I will give you anything, please."
Another larger and brighter red flash to erupt from the force staff's tip that shot out before hitting Robert square in the chest.