Chapter 152: Daddy Issues

She would have liked to smite him, but I held her back. We might need him, after all and despite her raging fury at him, I recalled her liking him once, ever so long ago, when he was her father and she was newly made. She refused to admit it, though and I hardly blamed her considering what he'd done to her in the name of protecting Creation for her very existence.

I wasn't the only one with daddy issues, it turned out.

"Maut." Nero held out both hands, face contorting, the persona of the Grim Reaper rising to the surface, the skull face overtaking my brother's handsome visage. "This belongs to you."

Had he completely lost his mind? I watched my brother fight the persona within, knew the host's suggestion wasn't the power's choice but positive if Maut decided to accept Nero would force the issue.

I was going to strangle him for doing something so stupid and Chaos was going to help.