"You are the Bereginya," Nobu spoke, while one could hear teeth gritting against each other.

    "I never gave that name to myself, nor do I like it. It was these two who came up with it," Liam replied through his helmet. He didn''t need a voice changer here. None of them would escape anyway.

    "It was you who caused us such a nuisance at the pier?" Madame Gao asked as she held her crutch more tightly than ever. She was ready to pounce on this guy at any given time.

    "Why ask when you already know the answer?" Liam replied. There was an eerie silence that followed, and one could feel the chill slowly creeping in this late autumn weather. The wind was quite high today, making everything extra creepy.

    "Why did you attack us? Who are you?" Madame Gao asked.

    "It''s funny that you ask. I mean, I have always known of your existence—Wilson Fisk, the mobs, the Russians, and you, the Hand, the traitors... Oh, why are you looking at me like that? You think I don''t know what you two are really after in Hell''s Kitchen? I never bothered with you because you didn''t cross my path—until one of your people kidnapped one of my bullies. And then I had to take action," Liam said.

    His words felt like a bomb to both Nobu and Madame Gao. It was fine when he used the name Wilson Fisk—even though his name had slowly become taboo in the neighborhood, it wasn''t to the extent of invoking fear among people yet—but the name Hand, and the fact that he proclaimed the real reason for their presence here, sent them off the edge.@@@@

    Nobu didn''t hesitate as he took out a knife and lunged at Liam, only to see a sword suddenly coming out of his chest, spraying blood all over the place. He didn''t even realize that a man was standing behind him, and then, in front of him, Liam appeared and thrust a sword through his chest, a few inches away from the previous sword.

    Liam didn''t utter more words of high morality—he simply used his sword to separate her head from her body. She was unwilling as she felt all her long years of work had gone down the drain, and an expression of utter regret was written all over her face.

    Blood spilled all over the place, but Liam''s armor looked immaculate, just like before. The armor had runes—of course, Liam had used magic to ensure it remained clean always. Seeing that two of the criminals were finished, he moved forward to dominate Wesley.

    It was time to take an empire down.

    "Are my instructions clear?" Liam looked at the two brothers and Wesley, who was now his new subordinate.

    "Yes, sir."

    "Make the process slow, and also expose the Steel Serpent. If the Hand comes after you, inform me," Liam said.

    "We will follow your orders, sir," the three men spoke in sync. Liam also needed to take care of the ninjas if he wanted his assets to come out fair and square. And that''s what he did.

    There were a dozen ninjas hidden in the shadows as guards of Nobu and Madame Gao, and he hunted each of them down, killing them by separating their heads from their bodies. Normally, he would have called the police to take care of the bodies, but SHIELD wasn''t clean yet, so he directed the Russians to take the bodies and burn them.