"Family?"
Milluki's laugh was completely uninhibited, his eyes full of mockery.
He slowly stood up from his chair, his obese body looking like a slowly moving mountain in that moment, making the air in the room heavier with every step he took closer.
"Camilla, did you spend some time with us in Sankara and start thinking you know us inside out?"
He walked right up to Camilla, and in those small eyes hidden behind layers of fat, the fanaticism he usually held for machines vanished completely, leaving only a pure, unadulterated indifference.
"Threats? Using family to threaten people?"
Milluki grinned, laughing even harder.
"That kind of tactic might work on some people, but do you think it works on someone who's already gone mad?"
"Goodbye, and don't bother seeing yourself out."
With that, he couldn't even be bothered to look at her again, turned around, and walked back to his terminal to sit down once more.
It was as if everything that had just happened was nothing more than shooing away a buzzing fly.
Camilla's face turned pale, and then a rush of humiliating flush followed. The guards behind her wanted to say something, but she stopped them with a look. She stared hard at Milluki's back, her chest heaving violently, but in the end, she didn't say a word and turned away to quickly leave the room.
"Tch."
Until the door clicked shut, Milluki irritably ruffled his greasy hair.
Because of this woman delaying him for just that short while, the red dot on the screen representing that researcher had completely vanished into the intricate network of underground pipes.
He lost him.
Annoyed, he slammed a fist against the edge of the control console, switching all mechanical reconnaissance units to passive search mode, before finally cutting the main screen