Augustus watched Arcturus's face change from red to green, then slowly purple, then black. This inscrutable brother of his rarely wore his emotions on his face. Yet now, Arcturus's expressions were as varied as those of a ridiculous comedian.
So Augustus kindly pointed out, "Arcturus, you look awful."
Though he knew perfectly well, he still asked, "What happened?"
"No, I'm fine." Only when Arcturus reached for his empty wineglass did he realize that he had nearly finished an entire bottle. The Mengsk Family all enjoyed fine wine, but no matter what, they never allowed themselves to get too drunk.
But Arcturus Mengsk quickly reined in his temper and became expressionless once more. Even so, storm clouds still gathered in his gray eyes.
To put it this way, Arcturus rarely even got angry. The last time dated back to when the old Confederacy had used nuclear weapons to bomb Korhal. Later, in the cruelest act of revenge, he tied the instigators of it all—the leaders of numerous Old Families and the Confederate military generals who had carried out the bombing—to nuclear bombs and sent them into Char's acidic swamps.
Going further back, Tychus Findlay was the person who had come closest to truly enraging Arcturus—and more than once.
Once, Tychus had been charged with selling state secrets and openly carrying on with a female Umojan agent.
However, after Security Bureau agents took Tychus away for interrogation—the standard procedure usually involved a thorough beating followed by repeated mind-reading—he had no choice but to admit that he had used his status as an old guard figure to make money by spilling—or inventing—unknown secrets and romantic affairs of Emperor Augustus. On top of that, he had claimed that the Empire possessed multiple undisclosed extinction-level military projects, scaring the intelligence officers of the Imperial Guard