Silence.
It was death silence as they realized they fucked up, but most importantly, it was Olivia herself who just realized she fucked up on a whole other level because now it isn't just about that she let Joseph out, the last fucking Cassian, but the bigger problem was those six, the DAG operators.
She studied them. Every single agency had hundreds of pages of study on them, and actually taught how they were able to assassinate well-protected people, how they were literally all special forces in one,like spies, snipers, explosive experts, and everything you can think of.
They were and are literally super soldiers… and she knew that if that is really true, that they are who helped Joseph, then except Joseph, everybody is going to die, herself too, because the DAG doesn't leave behind any trace and she is a trace and that's where the problem came from.
Olivia was okay to die. She was trained to die since she joined the agency. She knew that her job is to die with silence, to not say anything, but if those operators come, then they wouldn't just kill some people, but fucking kill and erase the literal godfather families of the country, and it will cause massive shit, and it can even start a war all over again.
There are too many dots connecting these families. They have a legacy. They didn't need to fight anything because their father and mother already paved out the way, the power just fell on them… and if they die, all the power, all the assets and markets they are controlling, the bribed officials will just go berserk, they will have a party with what they left… and one of the most important in this is Olivia.
If the government, if the agencies found her body with them in one place, without the trace of Joseph, without an investigation it will be clear to everyone that Joseph is the most influential man in the fucking nation, and what would happen then?
She couldn't even think about that, a war, or maybe they will be too scared to even act on Joseph, or would Joseph act on his own? Will he become the Don of the Cassians, the new way, the mastermind of the criminal underworld?
Her thoughts were all over the place. She couldn't think straight. Her mind was just focusing on the future, what will happen, what he will do?
But to her surprise, it wasn't what she was thinking about. Joseph had no hunger for power, had no will to take place as a Don, because he never was and never wanted to be one… yeah, he just wanted to finally rest after all this bullshit. His life was over the minute when he was arrested, he was judged, he was fucked up.
There is no life for a man like him, there is no easy way out, and even if there was an easy way out, how could he live with the thought about his family?
That their heads got chopped off? That dozens of people's heads get chopped off because of him? That his family died because of their own greed but still it was close to him… yeah, sometimes he even thought about… what his purpose was… why was he even born to a family like that?
Why did God allow something like this to happen? Or moreover, why did the veil choose him to suffer?
No, he had enough of it. He had no life purpose. He had nothing left, not even the human will to live… that everybody has.
"...J-Just kill me before it's late…" He whispered as he looked up at Jelena who was still stunned and focused and didn't understand what it really meant, what was really the DAG about. "Do it, Jelena… it was me… kill me fast." Joseph said it with the intent that finally she got the answer from him, that he said it with his own words that it was him, even though he knew it wasn't true… he still hoped it would help the situation before this all goes to the worst.
On the side, Olivia was now thinking that if Joseph dies then everybody is going to be shit, but if she somehow manages to live through it and arrest him again, she can be the hero of the nation who just stopped a disaster, yeah… the greed of the people, but she had something too, the love of the nation that finally was stabilized… yeah, she needed to live as well as Joseph… to finally end it all and tell the truth to the world.
It would be a jackpot, they die, she arrests Joseph, and finally tells the world what really happened, finally the most influential family falls, and with it the last one too, the Cassians.
"Shoot, you bitch…" Joseph said again to Jelena but it wasn't what she wanted now. She wasn't looking like somebody who is going to shoot, she didn't have that satisfaction in her eyes… because it wasn't him who did it and ordered it. No, it wasn't him…
"You said they will help twice, yeah?" She asked with a maniac smile that was just inhuman, like she was losing herself. "Then… let them come."
Let them come…
"Y-you're going to die…" Joseph spoke again. "Kill me before they kill you… get your revenge and just finish it." He looked at her but she wasn't getting the point, she wasn't fucking understanding what was truly about to unfold if they wait more, if they go against those men who have decades of experience… but it wasn't just her.
"Let's see if it's true or not." Vincente said. "If they come, then I will kill you first and then them."
Why are they this fucking dumb… he thought, and he smiled a bit because it was their greed, it was their misconception about their power.
There is nobody who is untouchable, even if you have all the money in the world, all the connections in the world. There is a crack, there is a solution that can kneel you down in a second.
A bullet to the head.
Not just that, but they were still revenge seekers and if it wasn't Joseph, then they'd revenge on those operatives. There are only six of them, and they have at least 50 guys outside and hundreds on standby. If something happens, they can flood in like water and fuck them up, even if there are more people behind Joseph… yeah, more people… like, much more.
The only one that seemed to understand what the fuck is actually happening was Gabbana.
He was the genius between them, and well, what Joseph said caught his attention… the money that disappeared from the account, the hundreds of millions… where is it? What did they do with it? And more importantly, it isn't about that fucking quote "I help you twice." No, it is loyalty… because there is no fucking way that after receiving hundreds of millions they would just come back and kill for him without even knowing him.
Yeah, why the fuck would they even be loyal to him? Why would they help him… and ten fucking years passed… what did they do in the meantime?
He had so many questions in his mind that he, without even knowing, already had the answers that seemed unbelievable.
They had ten years without the government or anybody even knowing about them… building up a family… the new era, the new generation of the Cassians, and the puzzle was finally complete.
Gabbana finally got it, why Joseph wanted to die. Yeah, he wants to die because there is already a family waiting for him, to sit on the throne… the same exact throne that he was running from.
Yeah, but it was too late to realize that Joseph had been a Don all this time… the Don of the Cassians for nearly a decade. The moment he stepped into that jail, the moment hundreds of millions disappeared from the account, that's when he became what he always hated.
Joseph Cassian, the Don of the Cassian family.