Since this the first time she heard about it, Reysha became curious about the mountain bandits that Teth spoke of.

“So, what are these mountain bandits that I heard of? This is the first time you mentioned them.” Reysha said as she sipped a tea on an elegant tea cup.

“So as you said, Miss Einhart, this piques my interest further.” Aspara said she served a cake with a fork to her lips. She chews slowly and elegantly while letting out a mumble squeal from the delicious strawberry filling of the cake.

“You are always as curious as a child, Miss Aspara. You should better start exploring things yourself rather than asking people. With that, maybe you can gain more humility.” Meriyal said she stares at the beautiful rose that was placed in a vase.

“Humility? Me? Hardly. Aren’t you the one who needs such thing Princess of Breille.” Aspara answered with a cheek twitching.

“Oh my, still can’t get over that you lost to me? Miss Aspara, even as someone as a beauty like you can rot too. However, I guess it’s not just appearance that rots, even your personality reeks.” Meriyal said as she makes a smug face.

Reysha just listened to the exhilarating exchange with a furrowed eyebrow. She only wanted to enjoy her tea and get her answers from Teth who is standing beside her. Teth, on the other hand, feels a wave of pressure from the three persons sitting at the table.

From the doorway of the mansion which they call Mousseux, there are Falikh, Eiru, Spoof, Mika, and Hansen peeking as they hide.

How did it come to this?

Everyone asks why the two, Princess Meriyal Breille of the the Breille Kingdom and Aspara the Councilor of King of Kerias of the Kerias Kingdom is here.

Since such question cannot be conveyed by the bandits themselves, Reysha takes the initiative to do so as she becomes a little annoyed.

“So I shall ask, why are the two of you here?” Reysha inquires nonchalantly as she took another sip from her tea.

“The same could be asked to you, Miss Einhart from the Einhart Household. Why such as you, a renowned genius and master of magic and sword, is here?” Aspara raises an eyebrow as she directs her sight to her with a questioning gaze.

“What a coincidence. I have the same question in my mind as Miss Aspara. I do wonder what you are doing here, Miss Einhart.” Meriyal said as she also directed her eyes to Reysha with a cold gaze.

“What reasons do I have you asks? Should I speak about and the two of you will voice out your reasons? I have to be certain.” Reysha replied as she brings down the tea and glare at the two.

An atmosphere of pure hostility dominates the place. For Teth that was directly bathed in such atmosphere, he slowly loses that vigor in his face as it pales.

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“Should I say something stupid and I am good as gone, huh…” Teth said inwardly with a forced smile as he trembles.

Hansen from the onlooker side shivers as he remembers how that atmosphere felt and he was dragged in the meeting that felt endless. He feels so bad about Teth, that’s it. That’s all the sympathy he could give as he doesn’t want to be involved again.

As elegant and beautiful the three women in the table appears, one could immediately tell upon contact with them that it is shrouded in pure bloodthirst filled with rage, revenge, and a violent torrent of a pure displeasure of a woman that a man should never pry on.

None of them could give out their reasons as it is for their personal purposes and desires. None would crack because of their pride as the strong sense of defeat would hover over their hearts if they speak first.

The rose filled garden of Mousseux has been infested with crippling anxiety from the bandits mixed with a violent surge of the women who seem to just enjoy their teas and cakes in peace.

However, while all this impending disaster was only about to come, a strum a musical instrument disturbed such scenario.

“Oh!~ I have come home!~ Morio at everyone’s service!~ I have brought back our guests from the far side of this forest, the mountains!~ Let’s the party for the completion of mansion begins!” Morio sang with a candid expression.

The reason they are all here is that of a specific occasion. The band of bandits is celebrating the completion of the Mousseux that earlier, was on the verge of being destroyed solely because of irritation.

Reysha immediately noticed the three figures together with Morio, the people who helped in the construction, or one could say, did almost all of the work.

The reason becomes apparent as soon as they were identified.

Three girls…

Three girls who look no older than sixteen years old that dresses in a barbaric way as loincloths only cover their most important parts and some leather armor in their wrists and shoulders.

However, that was not the thing that caught the three’s attention. It was the horns protruding from each of the girl’s head.

The first girl who seems to be the leader has one horn that grows from the middle of her head. She is not taller than Morio but surely she is just slightly taller than Reysha. Her black hair is tied in a low ponytail and her fierce eyes are yellow in color. Also, she wields a magic sword in her back.

The second girl has two horns that grew side by side of her head. She is slightly taller than their leader and has a messy red hair that could be laughed at as bed hair. Her eyes as crimson as her hair that gives a courageous feel to it. She has a magic bow on her shoulder.

The third girl is completely shorter than Reysha with three horns as her only saving grace for the height difference. Her hair is brown and cut short up to her armpits and seems like it is cared for a little and her eyes are gentle violet. She wields an astounding battleaxe in her shoulder like it’s weightless.

“Those are…Oni?” Aspara said as she stares at the three girls.

“We, hailing from the territory of the demon, are indeed Oni!  We are here in the invitation of Falik for a drinking party! I am Salis from Igeniu Oni family, I am honored to be invited to such feast!” Say by the first girl who introduced herself with an excited smile on her face.

“I am Lisb from Exeri Oni family, and I look forward being your acquaintances! Can you guys hold your liquor?!” Lively said by the second girl with a straight and serious face who introduces herself as Lisb.

“Ury, Meki Oni family, nice drinking with you.” said by the last girl meekly who introduced herself as Ury.

These are the three mountain bandits that Teth talked about, but contrary to Reysha’s expectations, they are just three girls. But girls as they may, they have the outstanding outset of a bandit from the looks to their posture.

“Unlike these shiny fools, these girls look more of a bandit!” Reysha sadly exclaimed in her mind as she sinks again in contemplation of what is life.