Chapter 12

The Town Mayor's residence was the biggest building in the town, defeating even the Town Hall itself.

If there were honored guests, the mayor would invite them to rest in his house, even though there were two lodgings in this town, but he considered them unfit to serve these honored guests.

The mayor spent his time more at his house than the Town Hall, he only went there for special events. Any official businesses are also handled from his house.

At the moment, he had a meeting with the neat guy, both men had a bright pleasure adorned their expressions.

"Finally, one down, three more to go, and I believe it won't take long before they sought me out," the neat guy grinned, on his side was a matured woman, wearing a 'killing' dress, enough to fuel a man day and night.

"Haha, no problem, Master Lorik, I know these three very well, as long as you hold their weak point, consider it done," the mayor nodded.

"Of course, your contribution will also be rewarded, Love&Lucky will not forget the hard work of their people, including our affiliation," the neat guy glanced toward the matured woman, his eyes were fiery, his hand was even wilder.

The matured woman didn't reject the naughty hand encroaching her body, she giggled, even traced the neat guy's chest.

"Ah, thank you, thank you," the Mayor said in a hurry, "but, Master Lorik... regarding our deal, I feel like my share is still a little too small..."

He quickly replied, "But of course, I am still happy, I mean, to be part of this project, I can't imagine how much money, at least three times larger than my current wealth."

"I just want to ask for a little bit... maybe 2%, 5%?"

Lorik scowled at the Mayor, but his expression quickly changed, he said, "I'll consider it, but the decision is in the hand of my boss."

"Ah, yes, but..." the Mayor wiped the sweat from his temple, he shifted his gaze to the matured woman, signaling her with his eyes.

"Master Lorik... it's a little hot today, why don't you relax at our swimming pool? Oh, by the way..." she leaned closer and blew into his ear, said, "I just bought a new swimsuit, even my husband has not seen it."

Lorik sneered, from the physical attribute, this woman was undoubtedly sexy and plump, but her face was ordinary and couldn't even match his taste.

As a businessman, Lorik had seen many types of women, they were not ordinary people; extremely quality in appearance, talent, status, wealth, or all of them.

For example, the magic councilwoman named Ultear.

Magic Council was the authority who controlled the Magic World, with a bunch of powerful wizards at the top of its hierarchy, and this Ultear managed to be one of the top brass despite her young age.

And of course, her beauty did not lose, Lorik once saw her and easily scored her to be 10 times more beautiful than this matured woman.

Also, one of those women was the boss' wife, it's a shame that she had passed away, in past, every time Lorik saw her, he would be charmed by her elegance and gentleness, despite her sickness and fragile appearance.

Oh well, at least the boss still got a gorgeous daughter, unfortunately, she was a spoiled brat, running away from home because daddy couldn't play with her.

Hmph, children, what did they know about our struggle anyway? They could still live and eating well because of the boss' hard work, had she was his own children, Lorik would have spanked her until she squealed.

Anyway, this matured woman might not be so attractive, but Lorik still a man, who would be so stupid to reject free meat like this? Besides, fooling around with a man's wife had its own excitement.

"Well, it does hotter than usual..." Lorik loosened his neckline, smiling toward the matured woman as he pinched her full ass, making her winced a little, but still maintaining a gleeful notion.

"I guess 2-3% won't differ much, alright, I'll consider," Lorik said.

"Thank you, thank you, God bless you, Master Lorik!" the Mayor jumped with joy, he almost wanted to rush and kiss Lorik's foot.

"Yeah, whatever," Lorik waved his hand, he already impatient to go to the swimming pool and played 'guns' with this woman.

"Ahem..."

At this moment, three men entered the room, the one with long-brown hair snickered, said, "Oi, boss, have you forgotten us?"

"Well, it's unfair to play alone..." another man with a silver jacket leered at the matured woman.

She flinched at his unfiltered gaze, adding up with his rough facial line, she could feel a sense of fear crept up her neck.

The woman might have a seductive nature, but she wasn't lustful, she didn't want to company all of them, her poor life couldn't be guaranteed.

"Relax, I have no interest with you," long-brown hair snorted, he said, "don't forget our extra payment, this is not part of our deal after all."

Lorik also had tensed up a little, must know these three were from powerful Magic Guild, Phantom Lord. The boss had a contract with them to look for his daughter, but Lorik required their assistance to complete the task of seizing Maple Town.

If they wanted to snatch this matured woman, Lorik would have no power to reject, helplessly watching the three of them played guns with her instead, he didn't care about her wellbeing, he cared about his own pleasure.

After listening to his words, Lorik eased up, money was not a problem, he nodded, "Of course, each of you will receive a bonus."

"You better be," the long-brown hair said.

"How's the progress of finding the boss' daughter?" Lorik asked.

"That's our business, not yours," the silver jacket coldly said, Lorik trembled upon receiving his glare, he quickly shut up.

"Relax, we have nothing to hide..." the long-brown hair patted his friend's shoulder, said, "last time I heard, she was at Hargeon."

"Hargeon?" Lorik wrinkled his eyebrows, then he said with a worried tone, "the harbor with the Slaver Guild's incident a few days ago? Had she possibly been kidnapped by the slave?"

This was a disaster, who knew what the slaver could have done to her, simply losing her purity alone would enough to reduce her value by a lot!

"As far as I heard, no, but I did catch the news that she once board the ship, fortunately, it's the day where the slaver was caught," the long-brown hair said.

"I heard a rumor someone has defeated the slavers alone, and it is very clean, no big fight," the third person finally talked.

"What clean, the ship next to it was demolished, burned into a pile-up trash," the silver jacket laughed.

"That's good... what happened to her now?" Lorik said.

"We don't know yet, but you don't need to worry, soon she will turn up again," the long-brown said, earning a nod from Lorik.

"Alright, we won't bother you any longer, just find us after you finish and pay up, we'll soon resume our search of her," the long-brown hair turned around, followed by the third person, but the silver jacket threw another wolfish-gaze at the matured woman, making her trembled.

...

The young woman curled on the floor beside the bed, with a pair of dried tears made a line on her cheek.

She couldn't stop sobbing, feeling scared and guilty, she couldn't believe she actually made mistake like this and caused trouble for her father.

Since a child, she never met her mother, only her father that was around, caring for her with kindness and patient.

She only knew her mother from his story, but every time he talked about her, she could sense the tone of loneliness, she often had the urge to break into tears and wanted to hug him.

She always said 'it's okay, dad, I will never make you sad, trust me...'

She's been obedient, whatever her father told her to do, she would comply with no hesitation, she even would offer herself to do something before he asked her, for example, cleaning the shelter for their cows and goats.

She tried to be matured earlier than the other children at her age, while most of them played on the field, she would learn to cook so she would be able to take care of her father and helped him with his business.

Helping her father, making him happy... was her only goal, even if she had to take care of him the rest of her life.

But now, what she had done?!

She almost killed someone, she had definitely caused a problem for her father.

How her father would look at her now? How the other would say about her in front of her father?

Would she be thrown into jail? Would she be executed?

Who's going to take care of her father then? Who's going to help him with his business?

"Dad, sorry... hum..."

How could this happen? She always made sure to check on the quality of the food before she served it to the guests, most of them always received it happily and satisfied, however, it's all due to her father's policy, so the honor went to it.

What mistake she could have made that morning? What procedure she had missed? She couldn't remember, her mind was in a jumbled mess.

How long would it take for someone to be freed from prison? Was it 5 years? But the guest's life was rescued, shouldn't her punishment be shorter then?

Even the idea of being separated from her father for a day already making her nauseous, what would happen if it were 5 years?

No, she can't be like this, she must find a way to free herself, she would do anything, anything to stay with her father...

But what to do... maybe she could offer herself to be the guest's slave for a year, it was much better than had to be imprisoned for 5 years.

Ah? What stupid idea she just thought? The guest fell ill due to her, why would he accept her as his slave anyway?!

"Dad... what should I do..." the young woman depressedly grabbed her head, it was aching terribly.

Meanwhile, outside of the Mayor's residence, Sasuke stood right on its doorstep.