Chapter 25: Please, Hayden..
"If you wanna have a drink, Your Highness, my palace has a great taste of wine and alcohol." General Abi whispering to King Hans. They are now at the entrance of the bar.
Smiling to him, Hans just pats on Abi's shoulder. "No, this one is better." He then bobbed his head to his Adviser, Lord Albert.
Lord Albert took a black card inside his pocket and give it to the man who guarded the bar's entrance.
After verifying the card, the guard opens the door for the three of them. "Have a good day, gentleman."
Hans smile, while Albert did not show any expression at all. On the other hands, Abi looks a bit confused. He never knows to enter a bar would require someone to guard at the door. The wooden signage in front of the bar looks like it just a regular bar. This somehow makes him a bit curious. But, he did not voice it out and just follow the two of them going inside.
Once they're inside, again, he was surprised to see such a big underground operation. His eyes turn dark to see all of this. If he is not in disguise, he might be already run an amok and move his soldier to act right away. But he is now with the King. He needs to consider the King's safety. Furthermore, to let the King see this kind of place, he is so ashamed of himself.
"Relax, we're in the middle to finding the truth. Meanwhile, we should enjoy what they show us." Hans notices the scrunch on Abi's forehead. Thus, he tries to calm him down and do not disturb his plan.
He wants to show Abi about the current situation of his Province under his care. He already knows this operation a year ago. But because he did not have any authority to engage with this kind of thing, he just keeps it silent. Now, he has full authority. He is the king, after all. But, before he does something, he wants to show to his General first.
"But, Your High.."
"Shh.." Hans reminds him to not address him as 'Highness'.
"I understand. I will deal with this later." Abi lowered his head a bit.
"No need. My shadow and soldier team already on the move." He then diverts his eyes to the grand hall entrance.
The three of them went inside the hall. There are so many people inside. From all over the province and even from another kingdom. This is like an auction hall.
There's a huge stage facing the stair-like seat. The seat is almost full of people of many ages. Most of them wear fancy attire and some of them just look like a pirate or mobs from other regions. This attracts Hans attention. After finding their sit, the three of them sit silently watching the stage while waiting for other people to show up and fill the hall. The auction is soon to be started.
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At the other side of the hall, Hayden, Kyra, and Zane sit in the middle area where's Kyra is in the middle of them. She was a woman and she needs to be protected from the lewd eye from other men beside them all.
Kyra did not turn to look at the flirty man around them. Since she was in disguise, she decides to wear something that is a bit expose around her belly and let her hair loose. She still had a nice figure and her skin is not too bad for a village girl. Well, at least she needs to wait until the auction started first before she took her action.
Hayden could not wait to leave the seat and run to behind the stage. However, he needs to hold his urge to tear this place down. He did not bring his sword, that makes his movement a bit limited this time. But, he did have a backup plan, hoping for it to be successful as what they have been plan last night.
Not long after, one man wearing a weird costume come out from the back of the stage. The background light starts to dim and all of the audition eyes focus on the person on the stages.
"Ladies and gentleman, thank you for coming to today's auction. We promise you to give the best item you ever wanted. Please don't shy and raise your number to bid. We will start at any moment now." The man on the stage said with his loud and sharp voice. He did not use any speaker since his voice is incredibly loud and clear.
"We will start with the rare item first. A piece of rare collection from our archeologist team. Special for the junk collector today." He continues again.
This time, a few people already grinning, showing that they are the people who like to collect those items. In this auction, they did not only sell woman, but they also sell anything that is quite pricey and cannot be found at any normal market.
As the auction begins, Kyra and Hayden start their move. They slowly went out from the sitting area and with the dim light as their advantage, Kyra passes Hayden a needle where she already dips it with poison.
Both of them just need to touch the edge of the needle to the skin of the man who guarded at the side of the hall near the exit way without being noticed by anyone.
Pap. One man down with the touch of the needle. Kyra pulls his head to her crook of the shoulder, making it look like that man try to make love with her. She then drags the man to the exit way near them.
Once they were out of the hall, Kyra pushes the man to the side of the corner. She brushes off her shoulder like it has been stained. She waits at the corridor for Hayden to come next
Follow Kyra's action, he makes a gesture like he wants to ask something before he pricks the needle on the man's neck. Before he falls down, Hayden supports his body and patted on his back, facing the door. Act like they were talking and out from the hall.
Once he was out, he also tosses the man to the side and looks at Kyra. She nods her head and Hayden reminds her, "Don't get caught."
Kyra smiles at him and raises her eyebrow. "Got it." They both then separate in a different direction. Kyra went to backstage while Hayden went to others area behind the stage. He needs to find where they hold the prisoner and find a way out of here.
While Kyra task is to find the princess and get her out immediately. Zane will be helping her in the process. He still sitting in his seat. Waiting for a good time.
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At the other side of the backstage.
Maria keeps busy doing her fingernails a brush. She likes to make sure her nails is glow and beautiful. It is to make sure she can use it while servicing her customer. Some of them like to get a blow job from her.
While she was busy, her eyes still fixed looking at Yuina at the side of the room. She looks pale from yesterday. Maybe she was nervous and scared at the same time.
"Don't ruin your make up with your pale ghost face. If you can't find a buyer, you'd be sorry. I warn you." Maria said with a cold voice.
Yuina did not reply anything to her. She was actually waiting for Hayden to save her. Her time is ticking. If Hayden fails to rescue her, she doesn't know what will happen to her future anymore. Will she need to be a prostitute like the girls in the alleys? Did she need to satisfied a random man's need? This is something that she can't do it. She rather dies than done that dirty thing in her lives. She was a princess for god sake! How can she allow herself to lower her dignity like that?
'Hayden, please...I swear to god, if you rescue me now, I will learn how to raise a sword. Fight and train all my might so that I will not be put in this kind of situation again. Please, Hayden..' She keeps praying for him to rescue her.
Knock! Knock!
A knocking sound makes Maria standing up in instant and went to open it.
Looking at the man in front of her, she asks. "What?"
"Boss said, this girl needs to transfer to a new box of glass. Where the audience could see her clearly." The man said.
Nodded her head, she turns to Yuina at the corner of the cage. "Hey, come on. Let's get you to transfer to the new cage."
Yuina looks at her with a disgusting expression. She couldn't believe a woman would happily do this kind of job. She notices that Maria is the only woman in this organization. She some kind of goddess among these men.
"Now now, don't curse me like you are a good woman. You better don't rebel!" She pulls Yuina's hair and drag her out from the room and let the man chain her wrist and ankle before they put her into a square high-box of clear glass. Alone inside the box where she couldn't move freely. Just enough for her to stand and turn around her body.
The box is on some kind of palanquin where there are six big-size men ready to lift up the palanquin. She feels like she was a display item. This makes her heart pounding hard, squeezing when the person she hopes to come still not come.
'God, please..just sent someone to save me.' Yuina's eyes already starting to bloodshot a little.
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"Hold on, princess. I will get you out of here soon." Hayden mumbles while sneaking around the place. He knocks down more than thirty guards now, but he still not find any prisoner yet. This place is huge as the city on the surface.
While on the mission, he also notices something is off. He could sense that he's not the only one who does the rescue mission.
A few strange things caught his eyes where he could see a few royal shadows or he should address it as a well-trained soldier also on the same side as him.
But he did not mind it at all. They did not mean any harm to him as they just pass by him and does their job.
'Well, whether he's here or not, I better hurry and get the princess out of here.'
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