Everybody looked at Olivia as she whispered it, as an agent for one of the most powerful agencies just said that something is impossible… it was telling that something bad is going on, or moreover that Joseph did something impossible.
"What is that?!" Jelena shouted at her, but Olivia was totally frozen, looking at Joseph who was just smirking… yeah he knew all the fucking time, all the ten years he fucking knew what happened… "Tell it before I kill everybody you love!" Jelena shouted again as she pushed the gun barrel to her head.
Olivia slowly looked up at her, with still that lost expression.
"It was a… special force back in the day…" She whispered to her.
Silence again.
"A special force?" Jelena asked and she just burst out laughing. "A fucking special force killed everyone?!" She shouted as she punched her once with her left hand, and then again and again. "Lie once more, you little bitch! Tell me that fucking special force killed our families, you—
"It's true…" Gabbana interrupted her as he stepped beside Vincente and looked at his phone. "Direct Action Group, was a multinational special operations unit tasked with the targeted elimination across multiple countries and regions worldwide." He read out one of the hundreds of articles that was about them, all of it dating back a decade.
There was even a picture that was attached to one of the articles with at least 30 persons with military gear and censored faces.
"The whole government was in our families' hands! It is impossible that they killed them!" Jelena shouted once again. She was now over the line, all these lies about everybody, about what exactly happened, these fucking made-up stories.
There were so many questions about the whole thing, where were all the guards from the estates, why was nobody there where they were supposed to be, how could they do it so silently and so quickly?
"My fucking god…" Gabbana whispered again, but now his voice was very low, like there was a hint of worry in him as he read the article.
"Yeah… I was shocked too." Joseph suddenly chuckled as he looked at Gabbana's expression.
"What?!" Jelena asked as she stepped up to Gabbana.
"It was officially disbanded in 2007. Several influential individuals had corrupted members of the unit, using DAG operatives to carry out assassinations and hits on presidents, prime ministers, and competitors across multiple countries." Gabbana looked at her. "This operatives hunted down Michail Orvicth, the drug lord in Lordia, eliminated the most influential cartel bosses in Bimiria, and also killed the Prince of Hasna, as well as the president and vice president of the Central Union… look." He showed the phone, and there were photos of what they did, there was just blood everywhere and an inhuman thing that, even just looking at it, was on a whole other level. "But not just that last part," he pointed his finger at the screen. "Six of the fourteen bribed operatives were never captured, even despite an extensive manhunt, including the DAG leader."
Silence fell over them again, and only Joseph's low chuckle could be heard while the agent just realized what the fuck they were dealing with.
The most important word from that page was not the special force, not the drug lords, but one name, the Prince of Hasna, the prince who was called the Oil Prince, whose family had so much money that no one could even estimate their net worth. And for that, it meant they held so much power that nobody said a word to them.
At that time, the family was the number one oil supplier in the world. Their power didn't just come from controlling energy, they had deep connections in nearly every government. Slowly, it became clear that this wasn't just about oil anymore. They were involved in everything, black markets, surveillance, and most importantly, the military.
One by one, they started buying up every single military and defense company they could get their hands on. Ammunition factories, arms manufacturers, private military contractors, nothing was off-limits.With that, they didn't just control oil. They controlled weapons. They controlled war. And when the government needed to buy weapons... they had no choice but to go through them. That's when people realized, this family wasn't just rich. They were untouchable… at least, everybody thought that.
But how can a world operate in peace when one fucking family can crush economies and even make governments step down?
Something needed to be done against them and well, came the DAG. They were perfect for the job. It wasn't bribery, it wasn't corruption, it was a well-planned action to kneel the family down, and they did exactly that. They didn't just kill the prince, but also killed his most trusted man, and with that, the DAG operatives crashed the whole family. And not long after, the whole system was crushed by an uprising… that's how the Democratic Party was formed in Hasna.
With that, they made a deal with world leaders to create a balance to not let only one country rule over the military companies and, more importantly, the oil.
That was the Economic Balance Agreement.
Yeah, the assassination of the prince was planned by world leaders to balance out the scale, but what came after was the greed of these influential people. They started hiring the DAG operatives, giving them money to kill those they couldn't touch.
When it was discovered through one of the largest joint investigations by agencies, the DAG operatives scattered, leaving behind the money, leaving behind no trace so they wouldn't be found… well, 8 of them were found because the money they had in offshore accounts was too much. It was tempting, and that's how they were caught. The money fucked them up.
Of course, the story was never reported on a bigger scale. All the governments were extremely cautious about anything coming out about the DAG, and even if something came out, they did what they thought was best, they silenced those journalists, as well as the operatives… but there is always a leak somehow. Somebody is always going to tell, to snitch, to leak out information. That's why they came up with the bright idea…
The DAG was never a special force… no, they were actually terrorists funded by rich people, this was the way the world leaders defended themselves from accusations. That's how the story finally came out.
There was only uproar in Hasna by the people who still supported the prince and his legacy, but Hasna became a democracy and nothing else happened. The others who the DAG killed were all criminals and warlords… well, the Central Union VP and president's deaths also caused uproar, but that too died down quickly, especially after it also got leaked that those two laundered billions.
So yeah, these are the kind of people that Joseph gave the card to. The people he thought were just homeless persons, a family, were actually the last 6 DAG operatives. Yeah, for years they were hiding as homeless persons, but as Joseph handed them the card, they took that opportunity to finally get out of that life… and they did, pretty much.
With that, Joseph, who just wanted to leave behind the Cassian name and just throw away the card, became a light to those operatives, and well, they owed him.
He had no idea that those six were on their way to help.
Help me once, I'll help you twice. They followed what they believed in, even though they were bribed by millions. They always killed the ones the governments said and agreed on but… when they killed the drug lord, they felt that they actually helped. So when more bribes came to kill drug lords, the criminals of the world, they acted on it swiftly, because that's what they saw as justice.
But their own turned against them. Justice turned against them. Justice didn't help them. Justice didn't want them… but that day when Joseph gave them the card, it seemed like justice was still a thing… that they got what they deserved.
Help me once, I'll help you twice.
They put that on their heart, and at first, they just wanted to thank him… but they couldn't, and the news broke that a young man was put in jail for life on charges that were just unbelievable to do that young… and his name was Joseph Cassian, Don of the Cassian family, the head of it, the genius, the mastermind… yeah, but they immediately saw what was happening, that even though he was arrested, the family was still operating, and they were so happy without him… like nothing happened. It was crystal clear that justice was not served, rather, justice was corrupted once again.
Justice was served once, with bullets and with a saw… yeah they took revenge in Joseph's name, but years passed since that happened, and who knows where they are now… definitely not outside of the warehouse where they already killed off most of the guards yeah, that would be impossible…
But maybe it was possible… maybe they were ready to serve justice the second time.
Help me once, I will help you twice.