Assassination Through the Netherworld - Chapter 87

Amidst giggles and smiles, the trio finished their dish and responsibilities were laid down the table.

“I’m going to keep building the house foundations, hopefully, finish the ceiling by today, you two can go with Miki and Teddi to look around and see what you can find, not so far away I encountered this puma, be careful… if anything happens… hmn…” Valentine thought about something interesting in front of the bewildered ladies.

He drew off the badge and spoke.

“Warcroft…”

“…”

“Warcroft, this is Valentine.” He said again, and this time, there was a response.

“What’s the matter?” A voice answered from the other side and the trio gaped like awed monkeys.

It works!

“Can we use the badges to speak between one another?” It was only a hunch initially.

“For that nonsense… you’re contacting me?! I’m in the middle of my important moment, human!” The demon’s outraged growls resonated from the badge, lacking the might that would otherwise be released by his presence.

…

“Are you jacking off?” Snickers became the norm.

!!!

“I’ll kill you bastard! Yes, you can! Now don’t contact me during the first five hours of the morning!” If not for the name ‘Lucretia’ he’d be already flying all the way to the forest, to do what? self-explanatory.

“Hey! Tell me how to do it!” Before the demon could retreat, their snickers ended and this time he asked seriously.

“Just focus on the badge you want to contact, that person must have the badge close enough to them as well.” The enraged demons restrained from coming all the way here to break Valentine’s legs and ‘hung up’.

“He’s a little irritated.” The girls smiled and took out their respective badges, Vera saw the ring in Fayette’s hand, but she didn’t say anything.

…

“Can you hear me?” Vera tried while focusing on Valentine with her sight.

“No, nothing is coming out.”

“Can you hear me now?” Rather than focus on Valentine, Fayette closed her eyes and focused on him holding the badge in his hand.

“I can hear you, Faye…” Valentine confirmed this is going to be extremely useful.

Let alone the fact that they can speak to Warcroft indicates that the signal can travel through wide distances.

They ran a few tests and all of them were positive,  only a single test remained.

With a wicked smile planted in their contours, they separated to do their respective responsibilities.

“Yesterday when we just escaped from the demons, it was so scary… that was until I saw that demon’s face, I wanted to laugh so hard!”

“Yeah, Warcroft looked like shit, I expected more from a Marques.”

“He’s such a hopeless beast!”

“YOU MOTHERFUCKERS! IF YOU DON’T SHUT UP NOW!”

“…”

“As expected you can hear our messages!”

“!!!”

“Demons are so easy to mess up with… why didn’t you say this to us? did you think that we would divulge important information through this channel without being aware of whether you were listening or not?”

“…”

“We can’t trust in any demons… you’re all scumbags” He had purposefully avoided this detail just to spy on their conversations, disgusting prick.

“Hmph! You know now, so what? I’ll still hear everything you say, so keep the channel clear.”

Warcroft hung up in his office with an irritated expression, his pen broke and the tense atmosphere in his office was highly palpable.

“Those bastards are clever, from the start they already suspected I could hear their words, now they’re going to use the badges only when it’s convenient… it matters not, I’ll be aware of their movements either way.”

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“Don’t worry, it’s not like we have anything to hide, just conceal the badges within the ring when we’re in our ‘private’ sessions…” Vera shivered at the thought that someone had been hearing them all this time.

“Hmn, I don’t want anyone else hearing us… do you think he?” Fayette agreed.

“It’s not that simple, I believe we still have to activate the badge before it transmits anything until this is cleared, however, we won’t use them for our private matters, I’ll start in the house.” Valentine asserted such, it seems only to work once the person is focusing on it, but he can’t be sure.

…

“Then we will be off, alright? see you later Vale.” Fayette mounted Miki and said that heading south, with her knives and bow.

“See you!” Vera also mounted Teddi with her trusty knife.

Both girls departed to chart the area further, hoping to have fruitful encounters, something Fayette wanted to get was animal skin for the furniture, like leather or perhaps even some lion’s skin, the girl has her priorities clear.

Valentine remained to build the house, using the sword to cut timber to the perfect measurement, he had built mini-camps on the battlefield before, it’s one of the training his accursed father gave him, let alone he and Christine had built a house together with Francesca back in those days…

Those days are long gone and the world is not even the same.

But he has no regrets, everything happened the way it had to, and this is the best result.

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*FIIUSSHH!!*

Vera’s Rose Eagle Thorn impaled the third goblin, she’s trying to look where these creatures conceal and come from, they must have some sort of cave, so long as they could round it up and raid it, who knows what kind of goods they could get, those creatures are smart and hence, think rationally and amas goods, be it food or treasures.

Another thing dwelling deep in her mind was the in Fayette’s finger, the one she knew from the beginning doesn’t belong to her and even tried to constantly remind herself of this fact and still… it made her feel uncomfortable even if just slightly.

“I know it’s you that’s doing this, stop messing around!” She yelled inwardly releasing a small bloody growl, not liking that her mind is being constantly influenced.

‘HE’S YOUR MAN AND NO ONE ELSE’S THE SOONER YOU UNDERSTAND, THE BETTER!’

The Rose Eagle Thorn, a part of her doesn’t understand why this knife is so obsessed with Valentine, at first she believed due to the first time he used it to fight Bellcroft, but there must be something else, just… this accursed knife won’t answer.

As she made her way with Teddi through the channel, she heard some rustling and gaped eventually.

There she saw something that resembled one of those goblins, but way bigger!

!!!

‘What is that thing?!’

However, she didn’t see it doing the regular ‘goblin-like actions, scavenging with a furtive demeanour, instead… the ‘big goblin’ was taking some water and putting it in containers!

A part of her felt reluctant for some reason, while the other part, the bloody vera seeking blood, convinced her to slaughter this troll.

The latter side won the bet.

*GROWWWLLL!!!*

She held Teddi’s reins and commanded her with her knife in hand!

Teddi charged with a bloody Vera regarding this troll deeply and the troll immediately grew alert and took the club that was laying on the ground.

*BOOOOMMMMM!!!*

Teddi crashed heavily on the riverside, producing a great splash of water as the Troll managed to dodge just in time… her second surprise arrived when she saw the troll start to flee, rather than fight… all of the goblins fight regardless of how bad the situation is.

“TEDDI! GET HIM!”

Sadly, the troll was too small to escape the callisto bear’s charge.

*BOOOMMMMMm!!!*

Teddi landed heavily on the troll’s back and crushed it, they were roughly the same size, but the bear seemed to be heavy.

The troll struggled and elbowed Teddi on the head with Vera jumping to land on the Troll’s neck as it struggled.

“…”

‘Why? why don’t I want to kill it!?’

‘KILL IT!! EAT ITS CORE!!’

The Rose Eagle Thorn’s voice grew frantic.

‘…’ She bit her lips further and her shivering hand held the knife while Teddi kept restraining the no-longer struggling troll.

The sad and desperate creature turned around and they locked gazes for a moment, there was despair in there.

“Go… Teddi, let it go.” She jumped from its back and Teddi followed orders as well.

‘NO!!’ The yells from the knife didn’t make themselves wait.

‘SHUT UP DAMMIT! I’M IN CONTROL!’

Ignoring the Rose Eagle Thron’s babbling and just like what she did with Sasha, Vera followed her heart and allowed the troll to leave, it didn’t look back at her, rather… it ran away as if his life depended on it, the bloody aura of the Rose Eagle Thorn certainly causing nightmares in the untold future.

“Let’s go, Teddi…” She sighed and held her itching tight, she’s by now aware that there are foreign forces in hell controlling their feelings, this itching and the dark thoughts, but for her, it seems to become more difficult to control her impulses every time.

How long will it be until her will is corrupted by this knife?

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“You’re back, Vera, took you long enough…” Valentine was starting to get worried, she didn’t answer from her badge and also, she took longer to come here, Fayette arrived several hours ago.

“Sorry, I was… thinking… something happened, there was a monster that I didn’t kill and perhaps, I should have…” She kept thinking about the incident, even if her heart told her to let the troll go, what if it came back with bad intentions afterwards?

Valentine hugged her and the two of them listened to her story, looking at one another with a complicated gaze, certainly, none of them would have let the troll go…. but, Vera is just not like that.