Hellbinders Page #2

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What do you want?

To strike a bargain.

I don't bargain with your kind.

You will when it

spares your own.

Besides, you owe me a boon.

For what?

Filling your kingdom

with the weak and the

worthless?

For threatening to empty it

through your own

foolish pride.

What game are you

trying to play?

Not me, Legion.

So they plan on carving out

their own little kingdom

in hell by taking yours.

Taking mine yes,

but the kingdom

they carve is not in hell.

And so we have a

bargain, you and I.

How did they escape?

Escape? No need. They had

nothing to escape from.

I slew the last of their hosts

in the emptiest wasteland.

No one around to possess.

Not around or above, but

you forgot to look below.

You marched off in victory

while the worms beneath your

feet laughed at every step.

Worms. ..

From swine to fish

to man again,

and back to worms

when you left them

nowhere else to go.

They've trod the

Earth since the Fall,

did you really think

banishing them

would be so easy?

No, my kingdom is at stake

and so is your world,

because of what you

have left undone.

You speak the truth.

More of them than you know.

So you see the bargain

is simple.

I help myself by helping you.

Where are they?

Where else would a host

of the fallen roost?

The city of angels.

If you're lying...

You'll know where to find me.

Oh God . . .

Please... help me.

About time you two got here.

Traffic.

Whatever.

It'll wrinkle the jacket.

Remember what happened last

time you turned down a vest.

That was bad luck.

Bad luck?! It's a God damned

miracle they brought you back.

Sorry, God.

Not really , we were

raiding a hospital.

Yeah, but twenty minutes?

Nobody stays dead

for twenty minutes.

Quit worrying.

Besides it's a lot easier

this time.

No innocent bystanders

to avoid killing.

So why don't we just blow up

the whole Godd...

The whole

f***ing building.

Because he's offering

a lot of money for a book.

A lot of money.

You want to blow

up a lot of money?

How much money?

Enough to retire.

You know you say

that every time.

On the moon.

Oh.

Finally come to repent, Ryu?

Have we met?

Not in this life.

Was I a beggar or a king?

Neither, but you

were a better person.

Pperhaps, but then

again I doubt you pray

for the people I've killed.

Only that they find themselves

closer to enlightenment.

You see, I'm just helping

them along the way.

At the price of your

own bloodstained soul.

I didn't come here

for a lecture, priest.

Then why did you come?

To warn you.

There are darker things

than me lurking this

city when the sun sets.

The Oni.

You already know?

How could I not?

So many in one place.

The world cries out

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