After a few minutes of blankly staring off into space, Vanessa started laughing awkwardly.

"Hehe I can't believe you fell for that, I wonder what you were dreaming about me to fall so silent. (How'd I nearly let myself get taken in while he was asleep!? Am I that desperate?)" She said as she did her best to appear smug.

Tibaut quickly snapped out of it and blushed while hiding his face in his hands.

"Y-you heard all that?" He asked with a deathly look on his face.

"I mean I just heard my name and I put together what you were dreaming about."

"Pft, whatever. (Thank God, she didn't hear what I was saying in the middle of the dream. I think I'd have to find a hole to die in.)

She soon explained why her pants were off and Tibaut flicked her on the forehead.

"Get off of me already, you're heavy." He said.

"Can you guess where most of it is?" she said as she pushed her chest into him.

He pushed her off and got up to his feet.

"Why the hell are you here anyway? The only things I know of that harass men in their sleep are succubi and last time I checked you're missing some wings and a tail. Is sexual harassment a hobby of yours?"

"Sexual harassment? Oh, I read about that in a book I have, are you enjoying it when I do stuff like this? I can do it more if you'd like."

"Tsk, you really did wake me up for nothing." He commented in an annoyed tone.

"Oh no, Elizabeth said you're supposed to watch outside the mansion while she's gone."

"Why'd it take you this long to tell me this!?" He asked with a blank expression.

After forcing her to put on back her pants they went downstairs only to be greeted by Elizabeth and Mr. Bentley coming through the front door.

Tibaut quickly grabbed Vanessa and started giving her a noogie.

"You bitch, you really did do that for no good reason!"

Elizabeth looked at them before bringing Mr. Bentley over to the area of the mansion where the girls were located to the girls.

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"Wait, help me out here, Liz!" The short dark woman pleaded.

A few hours had passed since then and Vanessa and Tibaut were hanging out in an empty room.

"You sure you're okay, Tibaut?" She asked.

"As much as I hate to admit it, I kinda get over things like this quickly. The only thing I want to do at this moment is kill that bastard.."

"Just know you can lean on my shoulder if you'd like." She said while lying upside down on the couch they were on.

"Anyway, I'm surprised you're doing fine." He responded.

"Well, it's not like I knew him super well. I'd fix his weapons now and then and at first he wasn't too thrilled with Lily hanging out with me but eventually let it slide. You and Elizabeth are way closer to him than I ever was."

"Really? I'm not gonna lie, you two seemed like you would have been buddies."

She squinted her eyes at him.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"You know exactly what I'm saying." He responded.

They continued their conversation for a while until they saw the old man walk by due to the room's door being open.

"Guess they're finished."

"I guess they are. I'm gonna go check up on Lily. Later." She said while waving her hand.

As Tibaut was leaving the room he noticed Tina walking by with some tear stains on her face.

"Uh, sorry about yesterday."

"Don't worry about it." She responded before lifelessly walking away.

("I guess this isn't exactly the time for this.") He thought as he watched her.

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A day or so passed and adventurers from around the parish were gathered.

"Let's kill the bastards!" One voice shouted.

"Calm down and let him finish Furor." Another responded.

The adventurers guild building, unlike most days, was quite lively today. Over forty people were gathered in it and various hushed whispers and discussions were happening.

In front of all of them, an old man was speaking.

"As I've said earlier I've sent a letter to the capital requesting some assistance though I'm not sure how quickly they'll respond. We have no idea where these people are so I'd like for us to be on the same page. I'd like for those who were involved in tracking them down previously to help us out again. Also, it seems he wasn't their only target."

All the conversations in the crowd stopped and they brought their full attention to the old man.

"Just the other day they targeted Elizabeth."

Various faces turned to her.

"Did you get them?" Furor asked with a gruff voice.

She turned her face away while gritting her teeth.

"Seriously!?" "They fought her and escaped?" "For real?" "Who are these guys?" "Weren't these guys pretty weak?"

"Thankfully she came from it not too worse for wear. But you can see we aren't dealing with the average cult members if they can escape from Elizabeth with none dead." He paused before continuing "However, we've concluded something from this. We'd like this to be wrong but we believe they're targeting other adventurers. Now I don't want to alarm any of you but have you noticed any of your members being missing or taking longer to come back from their assignments than they should have?"

Several faces seemed like they had an idea of someone when he said that. Some looked distraught, others turned to those beside them to discuss and one even ran out the building, as if to start his own search.

"I see. This doesn't seem targeted. On an individual level at least. My guess is, they want to get rid of all adventurers in the parish."

The room began filling up with anxious and angered mumbles and conversations.