The days began to fly by. Yohiro became fascinated with enhancing his body and make it stronger, beginning to follow a small training program from Clous, enough to keep his muscles capable of doing basic work. Together they had received; half a million norai, which was the currency that had begun to spread after the king took his throne, equal to half a dollar as of that time. Of course, most of them were disappointed and happy at the same time; disappointed because they were used to more money and got less due to their needlessly flashy and explosive performance, credit going to Hiona, and happy due to the fact it was money at all. They hadn’t gotten a mission in months after all, and Hiona had arranged one for them after all that time. It was boring to them for the most part - and the base was pretty loud - until Sebansio came knocked on their door on one usual night; all of them playing Edno on the table(Bernie’s favorite card game), with Yohiro in the lead.

‘’You either set a card or draw, Rosa, stop procrastinating!’’ Bernie nagged her, hiding his cards carefully. The timid man was quite competitive at games he was good at. ‘’Shut up, i’m considering my options, calculating the outcome and Yohiro has two cards in his hand! I don’t wanna lose to him!’’ She explained to him, pointing at Yohiro viciously. ‘’Would you bastards shut up already…?!’’ Clous moaned, lying on the couch with his back turned to them, speaking in a drunken daze. ‘’I’m winning…?’’ Yohiro asked them, smiling obliviously and getting them all disappointed as they heard a knock on the base door, causing them to re-direct their attention towards the suspiciously patterned knocking, quickly letting them know it’s Sebansio. Rosa walked over and opened the door, finding the old man standing there in a butler suit, sweating from his silky, messy, gray hair to his very outfit.

‘’Who poured a bottle of whiskey on you, Seb…?’’ Clous asked him as he rolled over, sitting up as the other placed their Edno cards on the table, leaving them face-down. Sebansio, forcing a contained demeanor, inhaled and exhaled, ‘’Your new assignment was delivered to me today, and I think you can already tell that it’s a dirty deal on their part…’’ Sebansio explained to them, inviting himself in and sitting on Rosa’s now abandoned chair, beginning to calm himself as he loosened his tie. ‘’You don’t mean they gave us some shit that’d usually require at least ten people, right?’’ Clous spoke to the nervous man, watching him flinch, confirming his suspicion. ‘’So the fuckers from the division wanna get us disbanded for failing a mission due to bad ratings again… Damn this job,’’ Clous muttered, leaning his back on the couch and crossing his hands behind his back and using them as a pillow.

‘’Indeed, and this time it even involves the king himself. I highly recommend you dec--” ‘’Explain the mission first, Sebansio, then we’ll be thinking about giving up!’’ Bernie told him, raising his fist, wanting to just finish the game. ‘’Ah, yes…,’’ Sebansio got himself comfortable in his seat, ‘’The request was made by a man named Hachikira, and was given to you by the thief’s division, as you already managed to guess,’’ he explained to them what they already knew, irritating most of them. ‘’Um, Mr. Sebansio, who’s this king person?’’ Yohiro leaned over to him, whispering in his ear. ‘’He’s the man who commands everything in this city, Yohiro, now please don’t interrupt me!’’ Sebansio answered quickly, giving off a frustrated feeling, making Yohiro feel slightly ashamed.

‘’See, Hachikira...wants the king’s daughter, Touka, for himself for reasons he chose not to disclose in the form. Obviously, he marked it as the hardest class mission possible…’’ The stressed old man explained to them. ‘’Sick fuck probably just wants to touch up a teenager and then he’ll throw the kid aside after he’s not satisfied. Why should we bother with this?’’ Clous asked, leaning forward again and placing his arms on his legs in a leisurous pose. ‘’I thought you knew that we don’t care what the person wants, we do it because it’s out job. He could go after all the five-year-olds for all I care, but I want my money from it.’’ Rosa stated her view on the subject nonchalantly.

‘’B-but that’s too much of an assumption, right? Maybe he believes he’d be a better parent to he--’’ ‘’That’s retarded of you to say, man,’’ Clous cut Bernie off, handing a reality check to him. ‘’Y-you guys don’t plan on accepting this, are you…?’’ Sebansio asked, his fingers twitching abnormally. ‘’Yeah, i’m in as long as the majority rule applies,’’ Rosa and Clous stated together, scoffing at each other right after. ‘’So am I!’’ All of them turned their heads, finding Hiona standing by her room’s door, walking around in her underwear, which looked so crumpled, it was like she had put it on at the spot after listening in on the conversation, which what she did. ‘’You too, master?! I don’t want to abduct a child, to be morally proud of myself this instant!’’ Bernie announced loudly. ‘’Like it matters; we’ve got three people and Yohiro will always agree with me, no matter the context. Your opinion doesn’t matter and you’d enjoy gunning people down anyway. Got all that?’’ She spoke to him, walking closer, the words leaving her mouth as if it was machine gun, rapidly shooting Bernie down and ruining his confidence and lowering his head depressingly.

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‘’Actually, why is taking this girl with us a bad thing? If the Hachikiba - I think - man is that bad, why don’t we keep her with us?!’’ Yohiro suggested, standing up, silencing them. ‘’Uh… That’s not an option; we won’t get money if we do that,’’ Rosa knocked on his head, making a circular sign with her fingers with her other hand, confusing him. ‘’No, actually, why not take the brat?’’ Hiona asked, smiling gleefully. At that very moment, the room became filled with the shocked and confused screams of four people, sounding like they were singing in unison. ‘’Master, please, let’s not have an intervention! This is NOT a good idea!’’ Bernie shouted, trying to knock some sense into her, while also not wanting to have to kidnap a young girl for reason that seemed obvious to him, but apparently not to her. ‘’Ow, that kinda hurt… Also, why were you two yelling?!’’ Hiona turned towards Rosa and Clous with curiosity.

They didn’t answer, since their worry wasn’t the kidnapping, but the fact that it was Hiona who agreed to Yohiro’s suggestion, meaning it was pretty much already decided that that’s what they were going to do. ‘’Fair enough then. Since you already gave your ‘’yes’’, we’re doing it!’’ Hiona jumped up, happily humming and muttering ‘’Woo~~’’ under her breath. ‘’We gave out vote to the initial mission, not this shit!’’ Clous yelled at her, standing up. ‘’Mr. Sebansio? Do they always yell at each other, or did this begin happening after I came?’’ Yohiro asked, unable to break his smile. ‘’Oh they’ve been like this since Hiona recruited the second member of the group; nonstop yelling and arguing. It honestly drives me to bully some of my friends from the bar sometimes…!’’ Sebansio explained to him. ‘’I wonder, though,’’ Yohiro shouted, stopping Clous, ‘’do you have a glyph set up at the king’s castle already, master?’’ Yohiro asked her, clapping his hands together.

‘’Nope, we’re doing it the old-fashioned way!’’ She declared to them excitedly.

‘’Burning the castle down?’’ Rosa chuckled mockingly under her breath.

‘’Get in there and steal the girl while flipping ‘em off?’’ Clous added right after.

‘’Bomb them?!’’ Bernie also joined in, suddenly closing his legs shut, not surprising the other two.

‘’We’ll just get in there, right…? And kill them. And then we get the girl. And we run.’’ She began slowly explaining what she thought was a plan, slurring her words to entertain herself. ‘’I quit this team! I’m actually gonna quit, I tell you!’’ Is what Clous attempted to say, ending up with, ‘’That’s not a smart idea, master!’’ Hiona snapped her fingers. ‘’I’m kidding, i’m kidding! We’re gonna sneak in somehow. I’ll figure it out on the way there. But Bernie’s staying behind; he’s too large and this time we won’t be freely murdering everyone.’’ She gave them her actual plan, making Bernie both sad and happy as he looked down. ‘’While on that subject, Bernie, don’t think you’re on a higher moral high ground just because you don’t want to kidnap kids. You’re a thief anyway,’’’she laughed at him slightly, watching him drop from the chair, beginning to see in a fetal position as he accepted her words and took them to heart.

‘’That being settled, we’re gonna be accepting the mission today and leaving tomorrow. I kinda don’t like that predator myself, so let’s fuck him over, okay?!’’ She cheered, whistling something that made Rosa blush slightly. ‘’You? You, master, are gonna complain and call people predators? Are you serious?!’’ Clous shouted, again, quite loudly, jumping from the cough to the floor. ‘’Yeah, i’m a hypocrite, burn me alive, right? Sebansio, please accept this person’s request at once! We’re storming the castle!’’ She declared, striking a pose Clous recognized, resembling a certain main pointing his fingers like a gun and smiling with his crooked teeth, only she made it looks pathetic. Sebansio sighed, leaving the room, planning to head towards the registry so he could mark it as accepted.