3 Months Later…
The Capital City.
As the gate to the city opened up, the carriage lined behind it moved forward. This carriage was abnormally expensive. But its design was quite weird.
The design of the carriage was much large than one would expect. It seed as if the carriage was the combination of three others. But the strangest and extravagant thing about the carriage was that it was completely made out of silver.
But as the carriage moved inside the city, a guard stopped it imdiately.
The guard who stopped the carriage gulped. Seeing the richness exhibiting out of the thing itself, he knew that whoever inside must be soone pretty important.
Because the guard had never seen soone show their money in such a wasteful way.
Probably a greedy guy with low patience.
"What do you want?" The driver of the carriage spoke. The driver himself had an ego that the guard wanted to bark at but stopped.
Who knew what would happen if the man inside would get angry suddenly.
"Well… you see, today is the inauguration day of the royal academy."
"Yeah… and what the hell does it have to do with us?"
"A- Ah… today's an important day and because of that we got word that bandits and thieves might co to the capital. That's why we have been ordered to take a look at anyone new or suspicious coming in."
"Ahhh!" The driver angrily said, "So you're saying that we are suspicious huh."
The soldier backed off in fear as he tried to calm the man down, "Si- Sir, please don't take my words to heart. Please go on… I made a mistake, forgive ."
The driver snickered before pushing the rope and was about to go forward.
"WAIT!"
Suddenly from the small office room of the guards, a man ca out. He was smaller than the guard who was scared. But the man was a bit older and had so fat on him.
The guard ca before the carriage and asked the young guard, "What's the matter here? Why are you letting this people off?" His eyes glead at the silver in greed, "This is definitely suspicious, you guys might be terrorist."
"What!" The driver yelped, "Are you fucking with right now?"
"No, I'm not." The guard pulled out a baton and threatened the guy, "You are talking nonsense and restricting us royal guards from our investigation."
"Do you know how big of a cri that is? I can arrest you right here in the na of the majesty and get all that arrogance out of you!"
"You fucki-"
"Shut up Jacob!" From inside a large gruff voice ca out that sohow scared both the guards. "Let the man do his job."
The guard who showed his courage smiled, "See, your master's much more intelligent than you."
The driver had such an angry look that it seed like he was ready to bite his head off.
The older guard quickly went away from him before coming towards the window and knocking on it, "I need to see your identification and you also have to open this up, I need to see what's inside."
No voice or confirmation was heard from the carriage. The silence was becoming so long that the guard felt there really was sothing wrong here.
"Phat"
He was about to strike the carriage with his baton and scream for the man to co out when sothing hit his face.
"Damn! What the hell di-"
"It's my identification."
The guard grumbled before seeing that it was a furled scroll.
'Let's see who this rich prick is! If he's soone with a criminal record, I'll make sure he knows what it feels like to ss with .'
With wicked intention, the guard unrolled the scroll and read it. His haughty look imdiately plunged down as he stamred, "He- He- Henry Van Tax?!"
The young guard didn't know who exactly this guy was and as he was about to ask until he saw the courageous older guard get down to his knees and apologize, "I'm Sorry, My Lord!"
The guard felt shock course through his body, especially when he heard the ego of the man inside the carriage, "Oh?... didn't you want to see my identification?"
The guard sweated imnsely, "I'm sorry for not recognizing that it was you, my lord."
"And about checking on the carriage?"
"How can I ever intrude upon like that! Forgive this lowly squat whose worth is nothing to you."
"Please forgive just this once and let live. I'll be sure to enact my life upon your ways."
A low chuckle ca from inside the carriage before sothing was tossed out.
"I like it when worms know their worth, it makes life… more pleasant."
"Take this from and rember."
The guard imdiately took the silver biscuit and clutched on to it like his life depended on it. "Thank you for your benevolence, my lord. I will rember this until the day I die… N- No, I will even make my children and their children rember this too."
The driver leaned back with a smirk, "So can we go now, Mr. Exemplary Royal Guard of Her Majesty?"
"Huh?" The guard looked up in doubt before seeing that the young guard was still standing in the way. He imdiately scread at him, "What the fuck are you doing, you numbskull! Move away from his lordship's carriage!"
"Ye- Yes!" The guards shook in fear before slamming away to the wall.
The young guard saw the carriage move on and the driver give him a sly smile.
Both guards stayed frozen in their specific positions until they were sure that the carriage was long gone.
The young one side, as he felt relief overco him, he laid back on the wall. Looking around, he saw the older guard get up as well. The man's right hand tightly clutched on to the silver biscuit, hard.
"Mr. Organo."
The guard called the man but Organo went inside the office. Wanting to know what it was about, the young guard followed him and saw Organo sitting in his head chair and looking at the biscuit.
"Mr. Organo, what happened back there?"
Organo clicked his tongue hearing that and put the silver biscuit in his drawer. Then he sternly looked back at the young recruit, "Don't ever ntion what happened here, you understand."
The guy nodded, but he still wanted to know. "Mr. Organo, at least tell what happened there?"
"You really want to know?" Organo said, giving a serious look to him as he nodded.
"Alright then, take a look at this." Organo said and brought out a poster from his desk.
The young man took the poster and as he took a look at it, his eyes widened so much that they were about to fall out.
"This… This is.."
"Yeah…"
"But this would an he's a criminal, shouldn't we have arrested him then?" Organo said only to be hit with the baton, "Are you stupid? Why do you think I didn't arrest him huh?"
"…Why?"
"That guy runs the biggest gang in this kingdom, even Pen Dragons people don't try to ss with him. On top of that he also is a renowned noble that has a lot of business in our kingdom."
"Arresting him would have been our deaths." Organo said lighting his cigar, "Well… that would have been the lightest outco."
"Huh?"
"Kid, don't you have a little sister at ho?"
"Ye- Yeah"
"A man like Tax is not soone who forgets stuff easily," Organo took in and slowly exhaled the smoke, "It's our best interest that we forget this stuff and if… by so chance we ever see him again, we either bow our heads or run for our lives, you understand?"
The young recruit nods his head in fear as the poster slips out from him. The poster turned and revealed Henry's picture with so information.
Na: Henry Van Tax
Cri: Smuggling, Arson, Bribery, Murder, Manslaughter… etc.
Location: Leonidas Kingdom
Bounty Level: RANK ONE
Bounty Collection: Sekai Kingdom
Bounty Price: One Billion Ryo
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