Reysha demanded an explanation about what’s happening. She stares at Spoof with half-closed eyes like he is a culprit. No, he is also a culprit for being a bandit himself but she really can’t point that out since she is letting them as they please.
“Let me explain it to you, madam!~” Said in a suave voice.
Hearing such cringing tone that made Reysha jolt in disgust, she slowly turns around to witness Falikh leaning his arm on the doorway with a loose shirt with necktie hanging around his neck. His golden hair is lavishly loose down and the ambiance of his stare is a seductive one.
It gives a bad boy vibes that fit in his image that complimented his handsomeness from a lean and gentle atmosphere to an aggressive and flirty one.
Falikh boasts to be the most handsome and attractive among the bandits and his actions are over the top. He have a face, charm, and charisma to attract women to be his lover and men to be his companion.
“You’re too full of yourself. You’ll see yourself fainted if you don’t stop that.” Reysha plainly said.
However, for Reysha, none seems to be effective. Given her very core and being is a man inside that has lived a fulfilled life that dies naturally at age of seventy plus, she even grew up in a strict upbringing and troubles about men has broken her patience.
“Well, of course, I’d be full of myself. My dashingly good looks are on a level that a compliment is nothing but a given grace to me. Narcissism aside, please don’t hit me…” Falikh immediately bowed down in apology as he saw Reysha raising an eyebrow.
“Like what I said, give me an explanation already.” Reysha hurried Falikh to say what he intended to say from the start.
“As you can see, we started a new business!” Falikh declares so that made Reysha tilt her head quizzically.
“I was hoping for a decent answer. I ashamed myself to even hope for it…” Reysha said as she shook her head left and right while holding the bridge of her nose.
“Take a look for yourself then! We are making tons! By the way, I am the manager and half of the members are staffs and the other half are the hosts.” Falikh explained.
“Hosts?” Reysha repeated such words she is unfamiliar. Not exactly unfamiliar but she doesn’t know what Falikh is referring to. “It’s nothing new but I feel really bad about this…” she thought to herself.
Reld and Spoof look at each other and made a light shrug of what’s going to happen. They closely followed behind Falikh and Reysha who are now going to take a peek back at the guest room.
“There, there, look at Amadeo!” Falikh quietly exclaimed and pointed Amadeo for Reysha to observe.
“Huh? You want me to take a look at that scandalous act you call business?” Reysha sarcastically asked.
“No, you will understand once you see it.” Falikh said with confidence.
Upon Falikh’s suggestion, Reysha glued her eyes to Amadeo’s group of fangirls. She looks at them like she is gulping a bitter pill because of too much unnecessary flirting and all cheesy lines that sounded so out-of-date.
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However, that only applies to Reysha’s mindset who think those are extremely lame. The girls of this world are simple and easily swayed by this kind of words if said by someone of Amadeo’s caliber. Meaning, it’s the most effective if the person itself is good looking.
“Ah, Sir Amadeo, I have something for you!” One of the girls rubbing to Amadeo said. She brought out a jewelry that looks expensive but nonetheless, something a noble can easily spend for.
“Ah…this is…how wonderful. Oops, I meant you you adorable cake.” Amadeo said as he took the pendant from the flustered girl who received his compliment. He then casually put the jewelry in his coat pocket and continued flirting.
Sooner or later…the girl who gave Amadeo the jewelry suddenly garnered hostile jealousy. They also offered Amadeo lots of gifts ranging from jewelry to expensive magical artifacts.
As Reysha knitted her brows, she also noticed that the other bandits, even Victoria, are also receiving the same treatment from the girls that flock them. The place becomes rowdy as girls try to hog their attention.
“Business is booming as usual!” Reld exclaimed that his eyes glittered in a greedy manner.
“Business?” Reysha repeated those specific words.
“Urk!” Reld freezes on the spot upon realizing that Reysha caught his words. He became pale from head to toe and sweat started dripping from his forehead.
Reysha snaps her head towards Falikh with half-closed eyes full of suspicion.
“Hey, this business…would you…kindly explain it to me?” Reysha asked with a default non-expressive countenance. Her half-closed eyes are the only thing that defies that default expression.
Even with her inquisition, Falikh’s face never faltered towards despair. In fact, he is more than happy to give Reysha the details and keeping a high and mighty smug.
“Like we said, it’s business! Rather than raiding carriages and travelers in the road of this forest, we decided to make rich young ladies and some rich merchant daughters go here. We might have gone overboard with suddenly kidnapping them and taking them here in the mansion but we do it with their eyes blindfolded. In the end, they seem to like the entertainment and the excitement of being taken away from their secluded world to this princely and dreamy place!” Falikh explained without taking a breather.
“I can’t…what? That’s simply extortion. It is still a crime.” Reysha simply said with another sigh.
“Our contract said that as long as we don’t hurt anyone, it’s fine, right? Also, they are voluntarily giving those stuff and we won’t turn away from anything that could give us profit!” Falikh made another argument.
“The way you put it…I feel like you are trying to block any incoming arguments from me. You really thought this well…I just can’t believe that you rascals have the guts to do this to those girls…” Reysha said with a slight discomfort on her face.
“This is simply nothing more than entertainment. Every girl here is aware that we are a bandit, yet, they obediently came. The reason is, of course, our looks. Second is our performance that drew them further. Think of it as a theater where people pay to see orchestras, acts, performance and etc.” Falikh brought down his final hammer towards this discussion that made Reysha speechless.
Reysha knew that Falikh, or rather Camille was always a master of reasoning and even deceit. Reysha holds no hard feeling for him this time as what he said is undeniable. The only thing that keeps Reysha bothered is the lack of morality for leeching from this people.
“It’s something a real bandit would do and this is much easier…But don’t overdo it. No shameless stuff in this place and nothing sort of explicit, okay?” Reysha simply warned Falikh with a defeated expression.
She just simply can’t believe that she was overthrown with reasoning even though everything was against her morals.
“That’s something we are going to prevent. At least, from those girls…” Falikh said with a troubled expression.
“Yeah. It’s a little prejudice of me to judge that the men will do the first move. I fear that Victoria will do something beyond those moral boundaries.” Reysha simple thought. “By the way, who thought of everything. I can’t believe that you alone figured this out.” Reysha then asked Falikh.
“Oh, Mika, Teth, Eiru, and I are all in agreement and planned this since Autumn.” Falikh answered Reysha’s question with a smile.
“All of the people that I expected to keep the peace in this place…” However, Reysha deeply despaired inside.
“And so, the four of us called this…Bandit Host Club.” Falikh declared.