"Then she could live." Stephanie calmly uttered the bloodiest words. "Knowledge had to be controlled. We couldn't let those without the ability know too much, or it would bring us danger."
She glanced at her still-immature secretary. Her gaze was so terrifying that the blonde girl beside her could not help trembling. Dr. List's granddaughter, Diana List, had once believed that the City of Immortals was merely Hydra's superior organization, a deep state that manipulated finance and governments for profit, doing exactly what Hydra, JPMorgan Chase, the Rothschild family, the Rockefeller family, and Warburg did. For a Hydra agent, it offered decent career prospects, and since Hydra's industries were deeply intertwined with the financial conglomerates, such work was equivalent to working for the family business.
Yet because of Stephanie's secrecy, Diana List had maintained that understanding all along. Even after seeing Catherine and the Chainsaw Sword at the White House, she had not realized how terribly wrong she was until she entered the interrogation room. In places she knew nothing about, wars beneath black curtains raged on. The City of Immortals fought multiple terrifying enemies alone, both sides drawing daggers to bleed each other dry as they waited for the chance to strike a fatal blow.
Compared with those financial conglomerates, the City of Immortals was even more vicious, to the point of disregarding its own survival. Nearly all profits were poured into endless war for the sole purpose of killing its opponents, with no consideration for anything else. The master of all wars nodded in agreement with Stephanie. "You're right, but don't scare Diana anymore. She's frightened enough already."
"Unless you plan to throw her into your bed, you should maintain your cold and impersonal style of rule as much as possible." Stephanie had become increasingly sharp-tongued lately, especially