Recap
"Want me to come along?"
The mind dragon asked from the couch he chose to rest on.
"Additional help is nice. I will leave it to you, Mieko. You can use your dark elf form should you please."
"Finally. I thought I would have to live my life as another cat. Even the children can change into their human form."
The purple eyed dragon whined.
"If you didn't pull that prank on us, our human would be more li-len- more merciful." Raon declared.
"Lenient, Raon."
Cale corrected him.
"Lenient. Got it. I will learn."
He left instruction for Aster and Hans. Aster to drag Beacrox later after him, while Hans was to teleport to the Capital first, to prepare everything else. As he left with the children and the dragons to the Northwest Region of the Roan Kingdom.
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Cale was in disguised as they finally arrived at Stan territory and got a decent room in an inn. Along their way, Raon and the kittens were all watching the seed and rolling the glass egg it was in.
Mieko took the form of a Southerner heritage knight, which was similar to his Dark Elf form, but with human ears and wearing a merchant's attire. He had memorized the route and is drove the carriage.
They arrived discreetly to meet a certain someone who will help them in their plans to take revenge.
Ding. Ding.
The wind lightly tapped on the window. It was a surprisingly windy night.
The man whose work would only start when night approached the Stan territory was leisurely leaning on his couch as usual. On his face was a gentle smile that he brought out every so often.
"i'm really curious."
That man was curious about what was going on. He tapped the armrest of the couch.
Tap. Tap. Tap.
"You can stop tapping you know."
Another voice echoed and made the merchant snapped his gaze to the window which was being shut close by a cloaked figure. There was 3 cats in the room as the cloaked figure just moved to sit on another couch.
"Huh. Are you the one my nephew told me about?"
The cloaked figure just nodded, as he motioned for the other man to calm down and sit back onto the couch.
"No need to be shocked. I'm here on business. Odeus Flynn, I'm in need of your service."
Odeus Flynn, just looked at the figure with calculative eyes. As he was informed by his nephew that he knew someone who needed specific services. Therefore, his nephew dropped his name. Billos also mentioned that the client is a very special partner to him.
'He didn't mention anything about this.' Odeus yelled in his own head. 'How did Billos know where I was? Or was this client of his watching everyone's movement. Billos, this person is crazy.'
"Ah. I'm pretty sure you are thinking along the line that I'm crazy, am I right?"
They commented, before pushing their hood off, to reveal themselves as the trash of the Henituse County.
"Well, I guess, you aren't completely wrong there. I'm commissioning you for something."
"H-how? What is the Trash doing--"
Cale watches Odeus expression change several time, in this short interaction, before smiling to him.
'He is more surprised that Billos knows me than me knowing about his work.'
The merchant of the underworld, who had experienced almost everything in his 60 years of his life, calmed himself down, and asked Cale a question.
"What kind of commission are we talking about?"
"I knew you would be easy to talk to."
Cale looked very comfortable, as if he was sitting in his own bedroom. Odeus couldn't believe Cale's relaxed demeanor, but quickly stopped a chuckle from coming out, as Hong and On hopped into his lap. With Mieko just laying beside him.
"Don't you want to get rid of Marquis Stan?"
Instead, the favourable smile was firmly planted on his face.
"I'm not sure what you mean?"
"To be specific, isn't Marquis Stan getting in your way of completely controlling the Northwest Underworld?"
Odeus just quietly sat there and smiled. However, that smile was slowly disappearing. Cale was very calm, as if he was talking about the weather or something trivial like that.
"I'm sure the citizens would be shocked to hear about how such an arrogant person like Marquis Stan, who claims to value the proper etiquette of nobility, is actually someone who commits a lot of atrocities in the underworld. Am I right?"
Cale asked with a smile, as this shouldn't be someone a trash like him should know. But the fact that he is very calm, told Odeus something, which sent a shiver down his spine.
'Cale Henituse's trash personality was all just an act... he is dangerous.'
"Young master-nim. What do you need me for?"
Cale easily responded back to the question.
"Your service."
"...Excuse me?"
This finally made Odeus look anxious. Service? Was it what he was thinking about?"
"It is as you heard. I need your service to cover up everything I do in the Stan territory, as well as supply anything I need. This includes a place for me to stay as well as food for me to eat."
Odeus started to smile as he casually asked.
"Are you trying to use my secret identity as a weakness in order to use me as a servant?"
However, Odeus's tone was cold and sharp. Odeus's gaze seemed to get past anxiety and turned into anger.
Cale just tilt his head to the side in confusion.
"Why would I do that? I have more efficient servants. I just need you to clean up after me. But for this task, I need someone who has a deeper connection to the dark side. That is why I'm asking for your service. Besides, you don't even know what I want."
Cale smiled as he explained to the older man.
"...What are you talking about?"
"Do you even know what I am trying to do?"
Knock knock knock.
At that moment, Odeus heard some knocks on the door. However, he could not turn around as Cale started to speak.
"Bu the way, there is a third party coming to this discussion."
It meant one more person was coming.
Creak.
The door slowly opened, even though nobody said anything. Odeus got up from the couch and turned around.
Creeeea-k.
The door opened all the way and someone wearing a robe entered the room. That person removed their hood as soon as they entered.
"Gasp!"
Odeus could not help but gasp. It was one of the people at the center of the information he considered top priority these days.
"Long time no see, priestess-nim."
It was the person who was always by the side of Taylor Stan, who was trying to take over the successor position.
It was a woman who had short hair and was wearing a priestess outfit with no crest for the god she was serving. The priestess outfit was not visible under the robe today.
It was the crazy priestess Cage.
"Ah, right."
Cale modified his greetings.
"You are not a priestess anymore. Long time no see, Cage."
"Yes, Cale nim. Nice to see you again."
Cale turned to look at Odeus who was staring at him. Odeus's eyes were full of avarice.
"So? Aren't you curious about my commission now?"
Odeus sat back down across from Cale without saying anything else. Cage sat down on the remaining seat. It was now the perfect time to discuss the operation.