I'm not sure what his part in all of this is. It's funny, just the other day my Captain and I were sparring with the Merovingian's redpill operative, <I>Insertion</I>, and his friend Crieses. Well, I don't particularly like how the past has come back to haunt me. I regret being unable to call in more of my own resources to take care of him then... But perhaps it's better this way, knowing that he and I are somehow tied together in this and that it couldn't happen then because it is bound to happen to one of us later...
As an Agent of System it's not all peaches and cream. The fruit isn't always ripe, whether it be peaches or not. And the cream's spoiled. I'm trying to preserve a system riddled with loopholes and backdoors. It's no wonder Cainine was able to predict the setup and use Pitiscus to aid him in the Professor's liberation. The Agents are not as efficient as they once were; the Machines resorted to former bluepills like me out of necessity. It may be true that The Initiative, Systematic Chaos, and yes, Ronin, are the Machines' last defense against internal errors resulting in Exile programs and threats of system failure by the actions of E Pluribus Neo who shed more of their kin's blood and tears than we ever could...
But now I am left feeling a lack of efficiency, and it's because of this man having something to do with it... Insertion... I'd like to stick him with one of my knives, perhaps empty a few clips of kill code into him. But it may be my own frustrations talking there, when I don't know quite how deep the puzzle goes. When I was coppertop I worked to create puzzles for the newspaper's entertainment section and now I've gone from being a JoKeR solving the puzzles to a part of the Ronin network, where we choose to solve intricate quizzes and enigmas in order to solve mysteries that catch us by our own human curiosity. Perhaps my foe and I aren't so different if I consider that while I serve the Honor presented by the Code, he wishes to learn of the Merovingian's deeper, darker designs by way of blackmail and deceit.
Fine.
I'll work my way through it...
I have much more to pay attention to before I can decide who is responsible, ultimately. Is it Lucite? Is it Cainine? It isn't who holds the cards that interests me. It's the dealer. From the dealer stems all of the probability and chance. The one in charge is the one who is holding the entire deck and right now I'm not sure who that is. I have my suspicions, but if I am to start getting answers I'll need to start my way from the bottom and work my way up, listening to each and every word before sorting through the bull and getting down to the bottomline. I want the Professor back in our custody for deletion, but even more so I want to make them hurt. I just need to find the right people to start hitting. Eh, I'll work my way through it like I said. I just may need to apologize to a few innocents along the way, if they're still breathing. Then again they're Exiles and mercenaries, so how innocent can all that many of them be?
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