The Great War (4)

“So that means you’re no longer useful.”

So I should just sit back and eat popcorn...

No, wait.

“It also means there’s no need to keep you alive.”

In fact, keeping him alive would be a liability.

No matter how much power he’d lost, he was still one of the Twelve Gods, and if he betrayed us, he could become more trouble than we could handle.

As clever as Hermes was, he thought it over briefly and seemed to reach the same conclusion.

“...I’ll do as you say.”

He’d suddenly become very compliant, but...

“Well, looking at your attitude, you seem like the type to stab me in the back.”...