Behind the Curtains (New Babylon)

[Shay Cormac]

As both Agnès and Shay remained silent throughout this entire introduction, Shay tried his best to hide his very uncertain feelings towards this Victor individual. The mere mention of him and his supposed proficiency in assassinations left a bad taste in Shay's mouth, not only that, but everything about this man just seemed eerie, to put it lightly.

The way Victor described Agnès no less made Shay a bit concerned, as well. Surely, he meant it in a positive light, but again, the way this man looked, talked, moved, and reacted made Shay irked anyways, so perhaps he was a bit biased. Even if Shay had not known Agnès for a long time at all, they went through a life-threatening mission together, as much as life-threatening meant to a Prime in the Omniverse, there was still some symbolism behind it.

Turning to Agnès, Shay saw she did the exact same thing towards his direction. She blinked, not sure exactly what to do here. In all honesty, Shay didn't either. He could already tell Victor wasn't anybody he'd want to be around for an elongated amount of time, and that was him not associating with his job as a traditional assassin, but for the exact same reasons Shay didn't like most of the Assassins back at his home world. They loved killing, too much. They used the Creed as an excuse to ruthlessly kill, to quench their lust for blood.

Even with all these thoughts bogging Shay's ability to reason down a bit, he spoke up, this time not being interrupted.

"Fine, as long as he makes it out alive, I'll do it. I will tell you this though, I--... We did not drag this man all the way over here to have his life ended immediately," Shay went off, in a more serious tone of voice than Victor expected. Although the concept of violence wasn't at all unfamiliar to him, he wouldn't be a very happy man had all that effort to keep that Captain alive was for nothing at all.

Though Victor would most likely oppose this, looking at the expression on his face already, Shay already knew Agnès would at least agree with Shay here somewhat, albeit for different reasons. Trying to keep the Captain alive and... perhaps not 'well,' but certainly alive, was going to prove a bit difficult to convince those like Gilgamesh and Victor. Despite this, even Shay thought it would help send a message that New Babylon would not approve of corruption within their ranks, or at least they hoped Gilgamesh wouldn't.

Then again, Shay thought, Agnès wouldn't like the idea of interrogation at all, would she? Looking down at Agnès, both Victor and Shay awaited for her say on the matter, though they both knew that she wasn't the type to be up for this at all, as painful as it was for Shay to admit, remembering the words Victor had used to describe her.