CHAPTER 89
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ARTHUR WATTS POV
He looked over at the information Hazel had brought him.
It came as a surprise to him when the Dust prices in Vale began to settle down far faster than they should have.
Even if Vale managed to buy more Dust from the SDC, he knew Jacques Schnee well enough to know that he wouldn't sell his Dust to Vale for cheap.
No. Something else was going on here, and it seems like he finally understood what that something was.
"Council Member Rosa Fisher managed to buy the Dust taken by the Night Walkers at half it's initial price." He said and looked at Roman, noticing how the thief clenched his fists in anger at the mention of the group that Neo betrayed him for. "Now isn't that a surprise. Tell me Hazel, do you think we'll be able to steal this Dust from the City of Vale."
"No." Hazel said, not offering any more words.
"Well, why not?" he asked.
"The Dust is being carefully guarded by two different teams of Hunters." Hazel said "Nothing we couldn't take care of. But defeating them will take time. Enough for every other Hunter in the city to arrive at our position."
He nodded "Looks like the Council members don't want to lose their Dust anymore. And stealing that Dust from the shops once again will not only be harder but it'll also take more time."
"Didn't you say that you have enough Dust for your new plan?" Roman asked.
"I do. But having more will be better." He said and started to hack into the encrypted files of the Council Members.
It only took him an hour to find out how much Dust has been sold to the City of Vale and realize that there will be one last trade before the opportunity is lost.
"It looks like the Night Walkers trade with the Council Members outside the city." He said
"Wise of them in case the Council members decide to betray them." Roman said "But this also leaves them open to attack from outside forces."
"Exactly what I was thinking." He said as he slipped in a virus inside Rosa Fisher's scroll.
A virus that'll send him the messages and calls that she receive, allowing him to learn where the location of the next trade.
It was as he was closing down his last systems that he got a message from Tyrian. Which in itself was strange as Tyrian never ever used his scroll. Unless it was to a command from the Queen.
Which means that this was important.
He opened the message and saw that there was nothing written on it but it had an attached file with it. A video to be exact
He opened the video and frowned in confusion as he saw Adam, some of his other Faunus followers, Hazel and Tyrian confront Sienna Khan.
It took him a moment to realize that this was a forgery as Hazel and Tyrian never went to Menagerie.
"When did this happen?" Roman asked as he glanced at the video from over his shoulder.
"Never." He said "Hazel and Tyrian never left Vale in the first place. This video is a fake."
"Seems pretty real to me." Roman said "Just as it'll look like to any other person that watches it."
That… was reasonable.
After all, just because he knew about Hazel and Tyrian's locations and knew that they never left Vale didn't meant that others won't know it as well.
In fact, if he had not seen Hazel and Tyrian in the video then he would've easily believe it all to be true as well.
Whoever made this did an excellent work.
He and Roman watched in silence as the Adam Taurus confronted Sienna Khan a coward for not taking a more aggressive stance against the Humans.
It wasn't long before the arguments broke into fights and soon after that, Sienna Khan was stabbed in the back by some of her guards and assassinated while the Faunus who were loyal to her were slaughtered to the last.
"Put the blame on Human Hunters." Adam scoffed upon being asked what they'll tell the world "The members of the White Fang already hate the humans as it is. They'll easily believe such lies."
After that Adam went on to say some pretty incriminating thing about how White Fang was not about 'Fighting for Equality' but for taking revenge and gave a speech to his followers about 'Eradicating the Filthy Humans'.
Anyone who knew Adam Taurus as a person would probably realize that he was acting oddly and that this was probably staged but very few people actually knew Adam so personally. And… this wasn't looking good.
"Looks like Adam and your two subordinates have been framed." Roman said, as if it wasn't the most obvious thing in the world. "How many people have watched this video?"
He checked the net and… "The video has gone viral." Fuck.
Despite the White Fang's recent aggressive stance, many of the Faunus joined it because they wanted to fight for Equality.
Now that Adam Taurus has declared that the White Fang was all about eradicating the humans… he had little doubt that even the Faunus community will stop supporting them.
He checked on the cameras he had set up to keep an eye on the White Fang Camp and saw that a large fight had broken out between the Faunus there.
It wasn't a lethal fight as no one was using Dust or Weapons but if nothing changed then he could easily see the fight over escalating.
He also knew that quite a few Faunus were deserting the camp and…
There goes his plan.
He rubbed his nose and looked at Roman who didn't look too happy with what was happening in the White Fang camp either.
"Any idea on how this could've happened?" he asked.
Roman hesitated for a moment before speaking "Neo could use Light Light Illusions but she could never make the illusions of so many people and she never did sound either. Her Semblance was just not that advanced. Maybe Emerald could've done it but her semblance only worked on humans and not on cameras so… no. I don't know who could've done this."
"Wanna bet that this was done by our dear friends Night Walkers?"
Roman didn't say anything and they watched in silence as Banesaw entered the scene and… executed a few Faunus.
Instead of scaring off the others, it only served to inflame their rage and soon enough, the two Faunus groups were at each other's throats.
Yeah… so much for his plan.
"FUCK!!!"