Quest: Book 4

Extra The Dark Legend--The Big Conspiracy 2

  Miss Deere Merlin walks to the hall, she throws big pile of things which are in her hands to the ground, she sits on a chair by the corner.

  After she breathes out a long breath, her that little head begins to work in a very high speed. First of all, five thousand gold coins, her family definitely doesn't have that much of money, and it's not sufficient enough even she can sell all the things.

  For the now can be called "father" by her that man, she has nothing to say. If suicide can let the debt to be written off, she can prepare everything for him in person, but no, that involves the family reputation.

  The family reputation, it is everyone's, among them, it also includes her mother's reputation... Her mother has nothing left in this world, she just left this good reputation in people's memories. Miss Deere Merlin can do anything not caring the family, not caring her father, or even not caring herself! But, the thing only she can't do is not caring her mother, the only one who is worth her love.

  She sat straight up, wiped the tears off the corners of her eyes, and began to count all the property which they own.

  "Miss," a servant walks in, "here's a letter for you."

  "Thank you," she took it over, nodded her head at him and said, "please inform the others, there's something happened to our this home... We'll move house, ask everyone to be ready. Oh right. Ask everyone count all the items of the house overnight and pack them all."

  "Miss..." The servant was very surprised, "the matter is so serious to this point?"

  "Yes, it’s very serious." Miss Deere Merlin said, "but we still have to face it."

  She opened the letter, it's written by the creditor, this called Otar bastard extends the repayment dates for ten more days, he also said repeatedly that Mr. baron was drunk at the time, he and his friends will forgive consistently his last few sets behavior.

  "Bastard!" Miss Deere Merlin scolded, "I will kill you after I pay off the last copper coin of your debt!"

  But what she now needs to deal with, is all the mockeries by the people not satisfied with her and the pointing fingers of the ordinary people, she also understands that her life in Wanpu is over.

  She stood up and put the letter on the desk, but then she saw a golden blond hair twined on her right hand, oh, it must be that black bandit's, she thought of that funny guy, she thought of that he didn't take any advantage from her even they were twining together, she doesn't know whether she left any fragrance of her lipstick on his hand? Miss Deere Merlin had a wry smile, and then she put the hair away.

  The early morning of the day after, a news spread through the streets in Wanpu, the Ian Merlin family-- went bankruptcy! All the property of his house, including his residence, the luxuries, the furniture, his daughter's clothing store and goods, all will be auctioned in a auction company.

  Deere Merlin held an annatto box in her hands, inside, it is her mother's that set of sapphire jewelry, a necklace, a pair of earrings, and also a ring... This is her mother besides love, the only thing she left to her.

  "I hope that you can help me to sell a good price..." She closed the box, at the moment when she turned it over to the man in charge of the auction, her heart was broken.

  Kone Cada stood at a place far away, he was just watching all of these quietly.

  "Buy that box!" He said to the man next to him, "and the house, the clothing store, buy all the things that can be used."

  "But boss!" Next to his side Jack said, "that is a large sum of money!"

  "Buy!" Kone Cada said, "these can bring us more money back!"

  "Yes!" Jack said, "but boss, the dagger in that girl's hand looks so familiar..."

  "You saw it wrong!"

  "It's not, boss, it looks like the one you have..."

  "I told you that you saw it wrong!"

  "Really? But just only you know that kind of twining way for the thread on the handle... Ah! I know, I saw it wrong, but boss, you don't need to stare at me like this!"

  "Go to do your own things..." Kone Cada's fist was making some sounds.

  "Then I'm going!" Jack left in a hurry, he went to arrange people to buy the things.

  Deere Merlin looked at the dagger which was in her hand, looked at the fine workmanship, touched on the silk thread of the handle, and she finally didn't put the dagger out for auction. She just didn't know, right at this moment, the host of this dagger was looking at her, and he was even more nervous than she was.

  The auction is over, as her wish, all the things were sold in good price, but it's still far less to pay off the debt.

  She asked the man who was in charge of the auction to transfer all the money to the creditor, she really didn't want to face this kind of disgusting people.

  "Please you go to tell him, we have tried our best," miss Deere Merlin said to the man in charge of the auction, "and ask him to please give me some more time, I will not owe him a copper coin."

  Deere Merlin sat in the carriage to return home, there are still many things needed to be deal with. Her father left the house this morning, he went to the villa by the seashore, that's the only place where they can take shelter of, although he has always complained that it’s very terrible over there.

  Now there is a man waiting in that belong to another people house, it's the steward of Mr. Pulet.

  "Miss Deere Merlin," the steward said to her, "I bring you a message, I think that you really need it now."

  "Please speak."

  "It's like this, this message is conveyed to you for my master," the steward cleared his throat, it looked like that he is not the first time to do the things like this, he appeared that he has kept it in the skill order, "of course, you knew who my master is, my master wants me to tell you, he will be very honorable to travel with you together, if you promise him, he will be glad to accompany by your side wherever you want to go. You can buy the house and all the necessaries in any places you like, all the spending will be paid by my master."

  "Do you understand what I am talking about?" The steward said.

  "Very clearly."

  "So, miss Deere Merlin," the steward said, "when are you going to leave?"

  Deere Merlin didn't answer him immediately, but walked to the side of the window, and looked at the street outside.

  "I know that I look very down and out right now, I also admit that I'm really at a very difficult time," miss Deere Merlin held the dagger in her hand tightly, "but I would never put the price tag on myself, to put on the counter to let the people select freely."

  But she knows it clearly, there is a moment she really wants to do so.

  "I still thank your master, thank him that he still will like to spend the money to buy me at this time... But, I am the most grateful to myself," Deere Merlin turned her back around, "I thank for my adamancy! I thank for my belief! With these two things, your master still don't have the enough qualification to buy me!"

  "Miss Deere Merlin, I don't understand what you mean," the steward said, "if you think that the condition is not good enough, I think that we still can discuss about it!"

  "This is not about the money, it's your master." Deere Merlin lifted her chin up instinctively, "your master has nothing which I am worth of my feeling for, he wants to buy me, it is just that he wants to meet his own lust. His personality, is even can't be compared with a prostitute!"

  After she finished this sentence, miss Deere Merlin walked up to him personally, and kicked the steward out of the door with one boot mercilessly.

  Out on the sea surface, a few ships were coming to the seashore this side in fast speed, the draft mark is very deep.

  Seeing the smooth return of the smuggling boats, the had been standing in the castle tower Kone Cada, this sir viceroy of the Darkness city, had his mouth capes warped up, he tapped on Feshert's chest and walked to the wharf.

  "Brother!" Marf shouted at him from distance, "we're back! It’s big harvest!"

  "What do we have?" Kone Cada asked with smile.

>   "Gourmet red wine! And all kinds of the most valuable things!" Marf was beaming, "boss, I think that we should just don't do the viceroy any more, doing this business is promising!"

  Kone Cada watched his subordinates to unload the goods from the ships, load up the carriages and move out of the wharf quickly, he thought of the days of his former life once again.

  "Marf, even though it looks like that we can make a lot of money from the smuggling," he held on Marf's shoulder affectionately, "but this business only can be used for emergency, always can't be put on the stage, what we need, is a really security living space."

  "Ah..."

  "That is to say, doing this kind of business is unstable, as if... You married a wife, but you still monkey about at the outside, it’s very dangerous!"

  Marf nodded his head and smiled haha.

  "Oh right, Marf," Kone Cada said, "when you go to there again next time, you also need to make clear all the things about there."

  "Yes, boss!" Marf said, "I like to get the news the most... Oh, this time we should make about almost four hundred gold coins, but we just don't know what they really need over there, otherwise we should make much more than this."

  Kone Cada nodded his head and said, "so, we need somebody especially to do all the business for us."

  Feshert walked to us from aside, he whispered to us, "I heard that our target are trying hard to identify what the fruit trees or something these several days, and she also read some seasons or what, as if she wants to open a farm."

  "Really? Then we just let her can't open it!" Kone Cada swung his fist, "tonight, go to turn her fruit garden up side down!"

  "Why?" Feshert said very disgruntled, "you have already made her life miserable enough!"

  "Not me! You are her creditor..." Kone Cada said, "and, to make a person be dead set on following you, you will get to strike on her once and once again repeatedly! Find out her psychological bottom line which she can withstand in the countless times strikes. I'll show up to save her at the moment when she is about to collapse, make her to have the endless grateful heart and remember me in her heart forever! So, she will know that I'm more severe than she is, I am the man who she can rely on! She will be willing to work for me... And she will be no more selling me three clothes for fifteen gold coins!"

  The people around were standing further and further, everyone felt that it's cold, very cold. And at the same time, they felt they are lucky that they were not taken a fancy by this guy.

  "No need to be like this?!" Feshert complained, "that somebody else was just selling you three clothes for fifteen gold coins..."

  "No nonsense, my brother," Kon Cada said, "I think that you can help me to decorate the room, I will be living over here from today on, thank you!"

  Feshert watched Kone Cada walking away, he said to everyone, "you hear what he just said? He said "thank you"!"

  "Maybe because boss listens at the corner too much lately..." The these few days been with Kone Cada together Jack said, "you see you see, boss are going to there again..."

  "Oh! Miss Deere Merlin..." Feshert said, "please forgive my sin!"

  The day after, miss Deere Merlin got up early, ate her breakfast in a hurry, and then she brought her servants to the orchard.

  The orchard is built up by her with the only little money she left, she planted all kinds of the rare fruits trees in the orchard. If the harvest is good this year, there will be a large sum of earning. Whether she can get back to the normal life, it'll be all depended on these trees this time!

  But, the orchard was destroyed... She can tell, the destroyers are all the abnormal people, because they chopped all the fruit trees down, and then shelved them neatly, as if the lined up soldiers are waiting for the parade.

  "I can't cry, I can't cry..." Miss Deere Merlin warned herself like this, "this is just an accident, I can handle all of these, until yesterday, my plan had gone well smoothly, and I have even learned how to recognize the fruit trees..."

  But, the tears still flowed down, miss Deere Merlin knew that she had already had not too much money left.

  "Alright!" Miss Deere Merlin turned around and asked a servant, "you tell me again what you have seen yesterday."

  "Smuggling, miss!" That servant answered her, "they contacted at the seashore, I saw it with my own eyes!"

  "Forget all the things what you have seen!" Miss Deere Merlin turned around and left after she finished this sentence.

  The servants looked at each other in speechless despair, they don't know what their miss wants to do.

  Later at the night, inside of miss Deere Merlin's room.

  Miss Deere Merlin dressed up herself in a wide robe, she tied the waist belt tightly, and then she put all her hair into the cowl.

  "Smuggling, it's not that difficult to do it!" She put the black iron dagger into her bosom, "I will know how to do it if I just can watch it once."

  Opened the window, and then miss Deere Merlin disappeared in the night.

  "Keep silent and jump down from the window... You want to scare me to dead?" Under the window, a just almost stepped by her black dress man kept patting on his own chest, "you owe me one more time again!"

  The black dress man followed behind miss Deere Merlin.

  Miss Deere Merlin didn't know that there is somebody following behind her, she was walking in the bushes carefully, she was getting closer and closer to that abandoned castle which was built on the seashore.

  "I must be very careful..." Miss Deere Merlin said to herself, "they take here as a stronghold, they must have some people around here."

  She got to the dock slowly, she found a dark corner to hide herself up. She just didn't know, in order to let her can get into the dock "smoothly", not only the black dress man behind her jumped up and down to give out all kinds of gestures, but also the people in the castle had to pretend not "seeing" her.

  When miss Deere Merlin's feet were getting tingling, the smuggling she has been looking for finally started. More than ten fully loaded carriages arrived at the wharf, the people began to load the smuggling goods onto the ships.

  Miss Deere Merlin wanted to laugh, because she felt that she is still very excellent, if she were them, she will be not that stupid to go to smuggle the heavy and lack of profit items. These people seems like the bumpkins, although their moves are very professional.

  It's not that easy to wait for these guys sent the ships off, the dock also put the lamps off, then miss Deere Merlin could dragged her almost completely numb legs to get down the dock slowly, she had begun to calculate in her little brain how many ships she should use in one time, which servants should go with her, what kind of goods she should bring with her, even she had already thought of how she supposed to dress up like.

  Watching miss Deere Merlin humming the tunes climbed up the window, Kone Cada felt the serious crisis, he turned his head back and looked at Feshert who was by his side.

  "Brother, the situation is not that well, our plan must be put advance!"

  "But..."

  "Not but! There's no but! We'll be finished if let her to play some tricks!"

  "Alright! Then all the consequences has nothing to do with me..."

  "What do you say?"

  "Alright alright... I'll be on your this side..."

  Two black shadows turned around and went away.

  The returned to her room miss Deere Merlin didn't have the light on, but she took off the robe and got into the bed directly, then she released a small lighting magic in her bed.

  In the cloudy white light of the magic lighting, she took the black iron dagger out of her arms and played it in her hands, she touched the silk thread on the handle, drew the blade out of the scabbard a little bit and then pushed it back. The game like this she has been playing for a long time, but she never felt a bit tired of it.

  "Let me tell you! You this creep, clumsy bandit," she spoke to the dagger proudly, "I have found a good chance, I'll soon be aboveboard to go back to Wanpu! At that tim
e, I will take hold your right hand, and seal your mouth, and then withstand your left hand with my head... If you dare to grasp my hair, I'll let you to regret for life!"

  Thought for a long time, but she didn't think of a good way which exactly she can let him penitence for life, so miss Deere Merlin decided to go to sleep first. She took out a box from under the pillow and opened it, she wanted to put the dagger into the box, but she found out that the rolled into a ball golden blond hair is gone.

  "Ah? It’s gone?" She slanted her head and thought for a bit while, "you won't run away from home, right?"

  The next moment, miss Deere Merlin opened her eyes widely and took a ball of black hair out of the box.

  "What's the matter with you? I just complained you a few sentences, I still don't think of a way to make you regret for life yet, you have already gotten angry and become black?" She thought of that veiled guy took away her hair ribbon before he left, "your character is same as stingy as your master's, it's really causing me headache!"

  The lovely miss Deere Merlin has never thought about it at this moment, in the whole continent, there is only one person has the hair this kind of color. And this man, now is nervous to death in his own room.

  Maybe because she was too tired last night, miss Deere Merlin overslept, she was awakened by the servant until it's almost noon.

  "What's the weather like today?" She jumped out of the bed right away, walked on the floor barefoot, and then asked her maid, "where's my father? He is seldom this quiet."

  Indeed, since they moved to live here, baron Ian Merlin has been cursing all the time every day, he used the extremely vulgar words to curse everything.

  "The baron has guests today," the maid answered her, "they are talking very happily in the garden."

  "Guests? Also very happy?" She shouted, "now they are still in?"

  "Yes, they are still over there." The maid looked at her miss "pa" opened the chest, took out a clothes randomly and put it on, and then she took out a dagger from the box under the pillow and put it into her arms, she "pa" shut the door and walked out of the room.

  "Oh... God," The maid said, "only the God of Brightness would know what she wants to do, put that thing under her pillow..."

  She knows clearest about what kind of people her father would talk happily with, thought of this, miss Deere Merlin got very angry, this ridiculous man! Just owed people a bottom of debt, he now turned around and mixed with these gamblers together again.

  Walked down the "Babble" sounded stairs, passed through the wrecked hall, passed through the corridor, and turned a round again, it will be the door to the back garden, miss Deere Merlin decided to give these people a good lesson!

  When she walked to the front of the door, miss Deere Merlin saw a comely looking girl, the girl was looking at her with her curious big eyes, and she held a lovely white dog in her arms.

  "Who are you?" Miss Deere Merlin asked, she felt that this girl is very familiar, "the puppy is very lovely, does it have a name?"

  "How are you, I'm Lily, my young master asked me to wait over here," the girl said to her, "this is a magic beast puppy, it's the pet of my young master, it's name is Abu."

  "Your young master?"

  "Yes, he's in the garden." The girl said.

  Miss Deere Merlin felt that this thing is very tricky, it's very wrong, she wanted to go into the garden to take a look even more so...