Marriage of convenience.

His cold eyes seem to pierce you right through, and his speech, although calm, fills you with horror, foreshadowing an impending disaster. There is not a drop of compassion in him for life's values, and he moves towards his goal with cold calculation, like a puppet moving towards its fatal prowess. Makarov is a genius of intrigue, a skilled manipulator, he plays on people’s weak points, forcing them to serve his purposes.