"I am not like you," Emlyn said flatly. "I value people who are close to and I will never let them go if I can do sothing about it. Tell ... what is your price?"
"My price?" Kira looked at Emlyn with an amused expression. "What makes you think you can buy ?"
"Because I know everyone's got a price," Emlyn replied. "If I want to get my friend back, what is the price you ask? I know you can find out what happened to him if you are really the boss's daughter. Unless you are lying about it."
"Hmm... I don't know what I should charge you," Kira chuckled. "I have all the money I would ever need in this lifeti."
"There must be sothing you want," said Emlyn again. "I know everyone desires sothing in their life. You are no exception."
"Even if I do, I don't think you can make it happen," Kira replied.
"Try ." Emlyn looked at Kira with a challenging expression. She crossed her arms on her chest to show her seriousness.
If there was anything she learned from her experience in Draec, it was what Mars told her that everyone's got a price, even if they were a crown prince of a big empire... they would still need or want sothing.
"Well... okay, if you insist," said Kira who seed amused by Emlyn's persistence. She smiled broadly and tapped her slender fingers on the table. "I want to experience falling in love. If you can give that, I will find ways to bring your friend back."
Emlyn almost spouted her wine when she heard Kira's unexpected request. The pirate lord's daughter's life must be so boring that she wanted to experience how it was like to fall in love, she thought.
"That's it?" she asked Kira in disbelief. This seed easy. "You just want to fall in love? What kind of man are you interested in?"
"If it's so easy don't you think I would have had it by now?" Kira asked Emlyn in annoyance. "Obviously I am not interested in an ugly man like yourself."
Emlyn realized she did look ugly with the huge 'birthmark' she put on her face. So, she was not surprised that Kira looked down on her.
"You sound so superficial," Emlyn retorted back. "Well, this ugly man is not interested in you either. Don't be so full of yourself."
Kira chuckled when she heard Emlyn's words. "I just have high standards. Is that so wrong?"
"Fine. So, you are into handso n?" Emlyn decided to just follow along. "I know a few."
That's right. She had t so many handso n over the years. If she could make them seduce Kira and got her to fall in love with them, there was hope that she could find Regan and her teacher.
"But I won't fall for just a pretty face," said Kira smugly. "The man also has to be stronger than ."
Her words sounded really arrogant in Emlyn's ears. She thought this woman truly thought so highly about herself.
Emlyn could fight and beat average n or thugs who were harassing her, but she could definitely find many n who were stronger than her.
Even Gewen who looked so well cared for and people would think he had never used a sword in his life was actually a tough general.
He only looked weak, but Emlyn had sparred with him in the past and, if he wanted, Gewen could easily beat her up.
Who else? Edgar was another handso man who was definitely much stronger and more valiant than many, many n out there. Surely, it was not hard to find n who could et Kira's standards. Handso and strong.
But, would they want a woman like her? Her background was violent and shady, she also didn't seem to be the type of woman that n, in general, would want as a wife. She was not timid and obedient. Just look at the way she carried herself.
"What? Do you think I am not that strong?" Kira chuckled.
She looked offended that Emlyn seed to look down on her. Before Emlyn could say anything, Kira suddenly stood up and took out a sword from the table. She waved it and shouted at the other patrons in the diner.
"Aye! Anyone who could beat in a fight will have a chance to sleep with tonight. Any takers?"
Emlyn spouted her wine when she heard Kira's blunt words. This woman was really bold, she thought. She cast her glance around them to see who would take the offer.
Surely, it was not that difficult to beat Kira in a fight, wasn't it? She was a woman, quite beautiful, and had a slender physique. She was not a scary giantess who could break a man in two with her bare hands.
Emlyn heard about a tribe of giants in the deep jungle of Blanzona, far away in the other end of Atlantea. They had such won and she was sure those were hard to beat.
However, Kira was not them. She was a normal woman who was probably trained in fighting from a young age, but that didn't make her much stronger than most n.
Right?
Well, Emlyn thought wrong!
Many n in the diner seed to know who Kira was, because they whispered among each other and secretly tilted their chins at the tattoo in her right arm, while she was waving her sword to get their attention.
Their gesture made Emlyn notice that tattoo and realized it looked quite scary. Along her right arm was the tattoo of a snake, wrapping her arm from her shoulder down to her wrist.
If she had made a na for herself in combats, most warriors or knights for hire would know who she was from that tattoo.
So, judging from their reaction, Emlyn could assu that Kira was famous. Maybe it was not solely because of her status as the pirate lord's daughter?
This made her respect grow for that woman. So.. maybe Kira was really as formidable as she claid to be?
This was so interesting.
Emlyn was lucky because she was about to watch a really good show. Even though most male patrons of the diner seed to know who Kira was and respected her enough not to ss with her, a few didn't.
Around six n at one table got up from their seats and walked toward her with a smirk. Their leader was an ugly burly man with an over-the-top outfit to show that he was rich. He approached Kira followed by his five n and stopped right before her.
"You seem so confident that nobody here will call you on your bluff," he said with a chuckle. "Honey, I would love to sleep with you, but I don't want to hurt you. If you wanted to be fucked so badly, you don't have to make a scene like this. I will give you what you want."
Emlyn wanted to vomit when she heard the man's disgusting words. Secretly she was rooting for Kira, hoping that she could really beat up this man and his henchn. If not, Emlyn would not back down. She would help Kira.
However, she hoped she didn't have to do that. She was not in the mood to fight.
Emlyn really hoped Kira was as strong as she claid she was.
Kira didn't flinch. She looked at the burly man with a smirk too. Obviously, she was enjoying the scene. The more arrogant the opponent, the more painful and embarrassing their loss would feel like.
"Ah, surely I want a good fuck every now and then, but I only fuck n who are stronger than . Weakness turns off." She moved one step closer and now their front bodies almost touched each other.
Her lips curved up in a crooked smile and she looked very sinister when she continued her words. "You little mouse think you can beat with your five mice? Poor thing. You don't stand a chance."
The burly man was dumbfounded when he saw her reaction. Instead of looking scared, this woman actually insulted him?
He was called a mouse and his henchn mice???
"You..!!? Wench!" The burly man was flying in a rage. He raised his hand to slap Kira but the woman was so much faster than him. Before he knew it, Kira had moved to the side, took his other hand and twisted it, and suddenly put him on a chokehold.
"Aaaahhhh!!!" The man's scream pierced the air and prompted his n to jump on Kira and attacked her simultaneously.
They didn't care that they were ganging up on a young woman. Nobody thought about pride anymore. All they had was fury and they wanted to teach this wench a lesson.
"Sorry about the furniture, Elora!" Kira shouted as she jumped on top of a table and made a swift round kick toward her five attackers.
She was so fast and strong. Her kicks all hit a target and the impact was strong enough to send them all flying, one by one.
She had not even used her sword.
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