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"So, what do we do?", Ida asked. "Well,we can go back to headquarters and get an official mission,or we can just go hunting",I replied. "I'd rather we took an official mission,they pay more",she suggested. "And what's the point of working if the whole world can't find out how amazing you are",I completed for her pointing at her true intentions."Who,me", she smiled guiltily. "No matter, you're half right. We do need emergency funds, I'll go and get the mission, you prepare for us to leave".
I headed to headquarters and showed my coin to the receptionists. Where can I get a mission?,I asked. Here,the unusually chipper receptionist replied. "Well,Mr Wyatt said to give you a special mission of you ever came". She took a piece of paper from the drawer and handed it to me. "Isn't this a little bit too complex",I complained to the receptionist. Weell, she stretched,"It depends on how you handle it. Anyway,Mr Wyatt promises the pay will be worth your while". I sighed before leaving the hall.
"So, what's the gig", Ida asked as I got back. "Bounty hunting",I replied. "Seems fun", she said excitedly. "The best is always the most fun",I replied sarcastically. "I don't think it's even legal to give a novice this kind of mission",I said as I turned the poster for her to see." I thought to myself hey,why don't I do some pre-mission digging,but every single citizen I asked about these guys ran away, even the ones in the fancy suits". I heaved a loud sigh as I sat. "I expected them to be cooler than that. The brave ones were the ones who said Oh we don't talk about that here",I said with mimicked voice. "So,are you scared",Ida asked. "Meh, the true bad guys are never the popular ones. I can bet he's either the lackey of some guy in the shadow or he's not that big a deal,but there are problems",I said as I took out a world map I got from the market. "First,I don't think we're finding them in any of the big cities". "What makes you think that", Ida asked. "A surplus of novels",I replied. "Anyways, they are in Or". Ida let out a chuckle."How creative,did you manage to track them down in this short span of time too?", she asked. "No,the receptionist told me I'd find them there. Which brings us to our second problem he's running some kind of syndicate garbage,which tells me there shall be a lot of fleeing wild geese",I stated. "On the bright side, since the eight cities have been eliminated ,that takes more than seventy percent of the world off our radar",she commented. The syndicate will definitely be in the fallen,I tapped on the poster,our mission is the leader and he could be anywhere",I replied. "Guess you can't lazy around anymore,we don't have the time or resources for constant public transport",she said. "I realise that,so we leave tomorrow",I said as I took the bag with the food items I bought to the kitchen.
After eating our supper of rice cakes with fried quail eggs and crisp venison,I went to bed. After six hours of sleep,I woke up to think of how this mission would go."Ugh,this is what I hate about bounty hunting,it requires actual thinking,but to make this fast,we need to find out this douchebags trade first, a prison would probably be the best place to start",I thought inwardly.
After arriving at Or at eight o'clock,I looked around, I didn't expect it to be a wonder like Serbik,but I certainly didn't expect the place to be this run down. Since dictatorship wasn't really something a syndicate could do without intervention from the octad,this already gave me a solid guess of what this dudes did. "Come on,we need to find the main station in this place",I said as I motioned at Ida to follow.
I gave out a loud laugh. "Penitentiary for the truly deranged,the head of this station must be a real jester, come on Ida". As we got in,we saw an officer pass by. "Excuse me, you wouldn't mind helping us get to the head enforcers office, would you?", Ida asked with a luscious smile. "Sure, head right in,walk straight and you'll find his office",he replied with quaking knees as if he was talking to his superior. Let's go,I said as I grabbed her hand and pulled her away. "We are looking for someone,not trying to get into a brothel",I said,"but it was fun seeing his face,I guess respect isn't all about age",she replied. "Forget I said anything,move along".
We got to the head enforcers office after minutes of walking and listening to septic words from the mouth of inmates. "Jorge Weshault,rather fancy name",I said as I opened the door.ssh,I said to the fat man behind the desk with my right index finger on my mouth as I tossed my coin at the man. He clumsily grabbed it and looked at it. "It's diamond, don't pretend you need any more information than that". "I still need to verify it's authenticity",he replied. "Look at it this way, even if it is fake,I'm stronger than you,and every other person in this station,so you can't do any thing to me either way,and if you don't realise how strong I am,you truly don't deserve your position more than you already don't,and",I smirked,"I know your secret", I said slowly."Or not so much a secret since I believe every enforcer here knows",I said still whispering. "Anyway, I'm a rather selfish person,so I don't actually care what you do with your position here,considering when I'm done, your secret will be moot anyway",I said. "How dare you come in here and start throwing accusations". I raised a brow. "Even if you outrank me, you have no right to disrespect me",he said after probably summoning all the courage his ancestors left him obvious from how fast his heart was beating. I gave a short laugh, "really, what was the point of what you just did, you're scared of me and we both know it. Accusing?,I didn't accuse anyone,I raised my hand in surrender. I could mean any secret,like you put a match in your mouth to get a smoke in,or you're actually forty nine,bit forty eight. I don't think those count as accusations. But no matter, it's your real secret",I said as I passed my hand across the desk and pushed him back to his seat. "You are a conniving piece of rotten garbage. It's rather obvious to anyone with a little bit more than quarter of their brain intact. Every single detainee here is so weak even you could beat all of them,I didn't even see any enforcer on my way here,and only a handful are on ground. Either ninety percent of them fell sick,are on a day off,or they don't have anything to do here,the only ones here are probably those righteous ones,or your main partners in crime. The fact you're committing such a serious crime this stupidly proves you're one of them quarter brains". I shushed him again as he was about to speak. "No you mistake me, I'm not here to bring you to justice,I haven't really seen the condition of the inhabitants of this place yet,so to me, you're not a criminal, you're just a fat man playing a risky game. Now, a nod is all I require from you. Do you work with corvus aurum?",he nodded in affirmation. "Perfect, now I don't really need anything from you,one of them probably just came to your house and offered you loads of money for your cooperation, which you shamelessly accepted,what I need from you is to immediately call every enforcer breathing on this town back to this place".