"Well then at least one of you has manners Mr. Hunter and Miss Izumi..." Toyori said rolling his eyes at how fast his companions were so quick to jump down his throat. "Is this REALLY how your mothers taught you to act to rich businessmen? Sekirei withholding since well from what my girls tell me they didn't have 'mothers' per say more of baby sitters." Toyori said plainly as he calmly poured himself a tall glass of water and drank it after which he quickly penciled down something and typed something up on the computer before turning back to his companions. "Sorry you caught me in the middle of a work session I'm afraid however I will gladly answer your questions." Toyori said nonchalantly as he tapped a pencil against a table very slowly and methodically. "Yeah well thanks for the compliment boss but the moody women have a point in all of this you're clearly richer than the average bear so you're clearly not in this for the money. Izumi darling are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Brandon asked his sekirei who still was rather tense and uncomfortable. "That I should break everyone's legs in here to prevent them from hurting either of us?" Izumi said impatiently as she glared at a corner of the room. Brandon looked at what she was glancing at for that brief moment but nothing was there. "Besides the murderous thoughts yeah I mean that-" Brandon started to say but Toyori cleared his throat, "No leg breaking please...." he said after which Izumi chuckled, "No promises my 'friend'." she told him as he chuckled. "Nice attitude I like that. Now to address the big elephant in the room that our lady friends over there are wondering about. It should be obvious isn't it? Numbers. I'm already an established figure two weeks into the sekirei plan and am code named, "The Prince" by HMTAI Incorporated. There are four of these figure heads who have already brought themselves up as MAJOR problems. First off myself....I'm a man with only a few sekirei handlers backing me with the exception of you guys. However I have many resources and my sekirei are extremely dangerous. I've already wiped out two pairs without actively searching and have beaten ten more into running away. This plan...it sickens me and I hate to be a part of it but I have no choice. Now then to the competition of mine in this city. There's the Mastermind a man who's exact name and origins are unknown hell even his eye color and skin tone is unknown. He's known for his small collection of under powered sekirei.... the thing is....the way he uses them is inhuman....he has next to no followers but he has nearly wiped out half of the known competition in the west and would have likely gotten you if I had not stepped in. His primary sekirei is number 102 a young girl named Izumo. She only can use her fists as fighting tools and she is often assisted by the screaming sekirei number 93 Tsubasa. I got this information from a sekirei's ashikabi who managed to get away. That's all I know about him and the fact that his other sekirei are sabotaging me in the west are not exactly comforting. He's not taken any active steps outside of the west. But don't you DARE underestimate him....the mere fact that he took down number 29 in the northern sekirei hunt is....disturbing. To give you an idea number 29....she had the power to control her bones....and she was taken down by a screaming girl and a fist fighter....that makes me worry." Toyori stated as he looked out the window. "The next is a chump....a man by the name of 'The Warlord is controlling the North through fear and has a horrid way of hiding his position it's as if he doesn't care who knows where he's at. But he's a crime boss of which triad or Yakuza I have no clue but he has non-sekirei combatants to take care of his business if he needs to get something done quietly. He won that sick Northern Sekirei Hunt that happened yesterday. He also controls most of the north. He has no eliminations but that's because the survivors from what I heard are only survivors because he orders his sekirei to let them to and that he enjoys prolonging his fights. In other words a modern barbarian with mercy tendencies. He's dangerous to the extreme but he is less likely to outright eliminate you compared to the Mastermind." Toyori said as he breathed in heavily. "The final major player is the man known as 'The Rebel' who refuses to play the game outright unless someone tries to hurt his friends or sekirei. I consider him a annoyance at this point and he will only get hunted down by the other two or the discipline squad if he does something stupid. Consider him a threat at your own peril." He said plainly simply shrugging off the man as an annoyance. "Now after saying all this the question should be a simple one to answer by yourself? But if you understandably got lost in all of that the simple question is this: Do you like working by yourselves and risking alliances going after you? Or do you want to work with me and prevent the mobs from going after you? I will offer you a place here in this tower which also serves as my family's personal home away from home and my family is rarely here since they mainly work overseas. So in other words free dining, and bedding. In exchange you do as I say, you don't leave this tower without me knowing, and you fight when I say you fight however you're free to go and actively do the sekirei plan if you wish. I have a personal disgust for it but that's just me not you. I want numbers and I want them so that they don't overwhelm the tower and kill all of my beloved companions. And of course my employees as well. I'm not a man who enjoys watching people suffer. Though I warn you I wouldn't trust everything I say. I am a business man after all though if you don't like my offer, you can try to go and offer your help to a unknown who deals in actually winning this game, a mobster who might just kill you, or offering your help to a man who is doing literal NOTHING until it literally breaks down his door. It's all on you now." Toyori stated plainly as he turned around in his chair at least and faced them. The man brought up a convincing argument he had to admit. Brandon breathed in deeply and Izumi still was unsettled and clearly uncomfortable. "Hey did you even listen to what he said?" he whispered to her as she looked at him like he was a bug. "Of course I'm just busy making sure your sorry butt doesn't get kicked because last time I checked you assumed that a man in a white automobile was a trustworthy person just because he knew about the plan you dolt." Brandon grimaced and noted she did have a point on the other hand..."Bite me." Brandon stated plainly to his sekirei as she grunted. "Yeah I see where you're coming from I'm with you and besides I needed a new place for me and the lady friend over here." He stated as Izumi stayed quiet. "If your sekirei was glaring any harder at me she'd cave in my chest." Toyori said tensely. "I won't actually do that to you if you don't give me reason to. Right now I'm questioning myself if you really haven't given me a reason to do that" Izumi responded cryptically.