Chapter 229 - 227 ~ Rescue
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Sir Furt could hardly believe his ears.
He sat on a couch, stuffed thick with goose down over velvet and ornate decorative engravings of flowers that he had just bought using the gold Arche had brought a few days ago.
The softness that the luxury he enjoyed thoroughly since then, and had been the source of his newfound happiness and pride.
But now, he sat upon it with an ashen pale face which was rapidly going ghost white.
"W-What did... you say?"
His voice trembled, his own nerves, fear, and anxiety betraying him as he spoke before the moderately built visitor who sat on the opposite side. A tall, hulking brute with muscles seemingly more dangerous than even the heavy looking pace behind him stood behind the visitor. He was silent, yet spoke more words through the sheer weight of his presence and his equipnt. A promise of pain and suffering.
"I said, your debt is being called in, Sir Furt."
The lender said and held out a hand graciously. His lips curled into an understanding yet helpless smile.
"A question has been cast upon your ability to pay, and I'm afraid we require a substantial sum of the total now."
"M-My daughter is out on a job! She'll pay when she gets back!"
"That may be fine then. But we require sothing now. You can't simply borrow more again today as you usually do, not without paying sothing."
"B-But..."
'Damn you, useless girl! If only you'd just gotten that old goat's rod up, this wouldn't be happening!'
Furt silently cursed his daughter.
And the lender, having heard the surface thoughts of the man before him, decided it's ti to extend the prettily disguised olive branch.
"We can extend you additional credit if you were to offer... sothing of high value."
"What?"
Sir Furt's eyes bulged out beyond his control.
"There has been... a premium on young blonde girls right now. You happen to have two of them. They're quite fashionable in certain... circles."
The lender scrunched up his face in sowhat of a sour look, clenching his teeth, displaying his obvious distaste and disgust.
"Give them up, and we'll be willing to extend you a little more since they're... pristine, well bred and well behaved, in addition to their other qualities."
"I-I see..."
'T-They're my girls. I can't... Wait no, that'll solve the money problem now. At least for now. I can acquire so fine things to show off to other nobles, and regain my prestige in high society! Then, when the bloody emperor dies, i'll beco an integral figure in nobility once more! By then, who wouldn't want to be arm in arm with
again?! Then, I'll be able to find them again!'
Bitterness struck him, cursing the situation he ended up in right now.
'I just need ti... Ti to get my status back.'
"Wait here..."
Sir Furt ordered, and left the room.
And soon, he returned with two little identical golden-haired girls.
"Go see Mister Luca."
The girls, seeing the familiar person who had visited their ho nurous tis before, walked over to the rchant without hesitation.
They curtsied elegantly, like the good, well bred, little noble girls that they were.
""Hello, Mister Luca. It is nice to see you again.""
The man smiled softly.
"It is good to see you as well. Have you been good girls?"
""Yes, we're good girls!""
They said in unison once again. Their sister seed to love it when they say things in unison, and they've also co to think of it like a fun ga whether or not they could say the sa things at the sa ti.
The man smiled softly and put a hand on their shoulder.
"You're going to be coming with , for now, okay?"
The twins looked at their father and saw him nodded.
Then, without saying anything, Luca removed a small pouch from his inner pocket and slowly set it down on the table. The re sound of it tantalizing Sir Furt's ears proven by the smile that imdiately curled up on his face.
"Do you want to count it?"
"No, I'm sure it's all there."
"As you like then, my lord."
Luca stood up from his seat, nodded at Sir Furt, then led the little girls out of the mansion as the hulking brute followed suit.
And upon exiting the mansion, the man, cold hearted as he was, could not help but feel disgusted and disdain in his heart.
'Truly, a fool. This must be why many of us have a distaste of humans.'
"Luca" led the group to a silent alleyway far from the majority of the populace. He produced a scroll from inside his pocket, and threw it up to the air. There was a flash, before blue flas consud the scroll, instantly disintegrating it.
Then, a few monts later, a whirling black void appeared, and they entered.
And the mont they walked past it, the little twins widened their eyes in shock.
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Lakyus knocked on the wooden door of the guild's private eting room twice, and an answer ca quickly afterwards from within. A familiar voice.
"Co in."
The door opened and Lakyus entered with the rest of Blue Rose following closely behind.
Inside, sitting upon a chair with a large table before them, they saw Alexander, for the first ti, without his armor, and Lilith without her robes, though her fox's mask still concealed her face.
A look of surprise flashed across the young noble lady turned adventurer. While she knew how young these new yet formidable Adamantite ranked adventurers were, they looked like regular young n and won just having reached adulthood, too young for a life of an adventurer, marred with danger and death.
The two sat together on one side of the table, along with Momonga and Lupu on either of their sides. And on the other side of the table were five empty chairs.
Blue Rose entered the room and locked the door behind them. The twins, Tia and Tina, as well as Evileye observed the room closely. Then, only after they nodded that Lakyus spoke.
"We're surprised. We didn't expect for you to send us a ssage to et privately."
Yuuji raised from his seat and smiled in return.
"And we appreciate you coming despite the abruptness of the invitation. Please, take a seat."
Lakyus approached the chairs on the opposite side of the table and sat down at the center, right before Yuuji. Gagaran took the seat on the outermost side, nearest to the table, while Tina sat in between her and Lakyus. And finally, to Lakyus's left sat Evileye and Tia.
"Now then. We're here. What do you guys wanna talk about, eh?"
Gagaran leaned forward, placing her muscular arm on the table and smirked as she eyed Yuuji and the rest of Providence.
But Yuuji simply smiled, and instead spoke to Lilith and Momonga.
"Before that... If you will, Lilith, Momonga."
The two nodded, and soon, a myriad of spells were cast upon the room.
"[Dispel Magic], [Fake Cover], [Counter Detect], [Lesser Protection from Divination]."
"[Alarm], [Magic Lock], [Secret Rendezvous]."
A look of shock flashed across all mbers of the Blue Rose, especially Evileye who stared at the magic, so she never heard of, with widened eyes and gaping mouth beneath her mask.
And noticing the nature of the spells, a grave look appeared on her face, which was reflected in her voice.
"Seems like what you're about to tell us is of the utmost importance and secrecy."
Yuuji nodded at Evileye's words.
"We have received a request from the crown to dispose of Eight Finger's top fighters, the Six Arms."
The air imdiately tensed as their eyes all sharpened at Yuuji's words. Even Gagaran, who had worn a wide grin on her face since she arrived, frowned at the ntion of the dark, underground organization.
"I see now why you would go through all this trouble to ensure we're talking in private."
The Eight Fingers were notorious entities. They were criminals, by every aning of the word, but wielded a wide network and influence in the kingdom. Not to ntion regular nobles, there were even high ranking nobles under their influence or had dealings with them.
With such influence, they would have eyes and ears everywhere. Perhaps even in places they'd least expected such as the adventurer's guild.
Anything could happen, and they wouldn't want plans and information ant to take them down to be leaked to the Eight Fingers.
"So you want us to help you fight them? Is that it?"
Gagaran voiced her question. It was a natural response, and a question that all Blue Rose shared.
The top fighters of Eight Fingers, mbers of the so-called "Six Arms" were all extrely powerful.
Their leader possessed the power of a powerful Adamantite, while the rest wielded similarly dangerous and lethal powers. In addition to outnumbering Providence by two, it would be extrely difficult for even Providence to defeat them unless they could break them up and take them down one by one, which was too idealistic to be done in real life.
It'd make sense why they'd request for Blue Rose's help to balance the odds.
But to their shock, Alexander shook his head.
"No. We will handle Six Arms by ourselves. However, most heads of the Eight Fingers are all scattered around the kingdom. I want you to raid their hideouts, burn their fields, and smoke those vermin into one place, where we can cut them down in one fell swoop."
Their eyes all widened in shock, their mouths opened in disbelief.
As if he was speaking a different language, Blue Rose could hear him say the words, but simply could not fathom what he ant by it.
How utterly ridiculous! His words were too unbelievable?
Was their initial impression of him wrong? Was he, in fact, a delusional person who could speak such idealistic and fantastical things as if they were actually probable?
If it was that easy, then they would've done so years ago! Eight Fingers would've been just another small-ti evil organization they crushed!
But before they could voice their disbelief, they saw Momonga produced a scroll from within his robes, and unfurled it onto the table, revealing drawings of squares, rectangles, long winding lines with familiar words and nas, and Xs.
It was a full map of the royal capital, with X's drawn upon a few of the buildings on the outermost districts, farm fields, and so even in the districts near the inner circle of the capital.
"These are the locations of their hideouts, brothels, distributors, and fields within the royal capital. We've managed to pinpoint them with the help of divination magic and the Golden Princess. I would like for Blue Rose to conduct a raid onto most, if not, all of these points in quick succession."
A fully, thought-out plan, perhaps concocted by the Golden Princess for quite a while, but only enacted now with the arrival of another Adamantite ranked adventurer.
The figure of the seemingly innocent, yet prodigious princess she called friend appeared in Lakyus' mind.
She had always been smart, kind, and had dread of culling these cancers from the kingdom. Unfortunately, she was born as a princess, who was "only good for political marriage
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