“You know I ’t do that, Orb piething else.”
Rubbing against Suzuka's tails I say, “Ahh. how heavenly this is, it is such a pity that a certain mean woman will never get to feel this in her lifetime,” I say with a smirk.
She tiruggling until she sms her head oable, and says, “Ok, my head is clear now. I accept your offer, but I will like to know how much quality time I get with her.”
“How much do you want?”
“I would like to take her home with me for three months and give her lots of head pats and hugs.”
Giving her a look of disgust I say, “You touch her tail for three seds.”
“Let me spend two days with her, with unlimited head pats.”
“You get to spend two minutes with her, with three head pats.”
“Let me spend seven hours with her, with unlimited hugs and head pats.”
“You get to spend one hour with her, you get one hug and three tail rubs, take it or leave it.”
Grindieeth she says, “Five hours, unlimited hugs, iurn on top of all the info I am giving you, I will spread anyone false rumour you want.”
“Three hours, you rub her tail all you want, and any other form of tact will only be allowed if Suzuka lets you.”
“DEAL!” she screams grabbing my hand.
As she jumps for Suzuka I hit her in the face, saying, “The information first.” I ’t believe this weirdo is the same woman who was just destroying me seds ago.
While Ai is recoiling from the blow, Suzuka says, “Orb this woman is givihe creeps.”
“I am really sorry Suzuka, but I am relying on you, you are our only hope.”
“Our only hope,” Suzuka says with a face of shock. “Then it ’t be helped, I will do my best!” Suzuka says extremely giddy.
As Ai has finally reposed herself, she says, “Ok, to begin with, I don’t for a hundred pert know where your friend Cyrus’s sister is, I remember a rumour that there were twons in the sve market, but I was never able to track them both down, the only thing I knew was that Man Elia had one of them, which turned out to be Cyrus.”
“So you lied to us,” Suzuka says while enraged.
“How cute, even when you are angry you're adorable, I 't wait to be your friend.”
“Don’t be mistaken, I will never be friends with you old dy.”
Under my breath I mutter, “I doubt that, sidering how easy you are oneone gives you a few pliments.”
“What was that Orb,” Suzuka says direg her a me.
“Nothing. Now Ai, I am assuming there is more to that.”
“Yes there is, retly, I have heard word, that a certain mert by the name of Viktor Anwunta has been looking for a dragon named Cyrus Damavand, that’s how I first heard your friend's name.”
“But how would he know such a thing,” after giving it thought for a sed, I say, “The only answer could be if Cyrus’s sister told him.”
“But that alss up a problem; Viktor is one of the richest and most well-ected men currently on the ti, so he wouldn’t be doing this unless someone has paid him quite a rge sum, and there is no way that Cyrus’s sister could have that amount, especially without people knowing, and outside of you guys little debacle at Seirei there hasn’t been any news ons on Terrafide.”
“So that brings us to a dead-end.”
“Not quite, if you think about it, maybe someone has somehow gotten Cyrus’s sister to tell them suformation. There are quite a lot of ways that could happen, but we all leave that to our imagination. So that means any number of people could be the ones looking for Cyrus. But if you want my guess it would have to be Ahmed Abrahams.
“For what reason.”
“Simply because, he happens to be the biggest sve buyer I know of, he loves colleg rare races and bringing them into his kingdom. Sounds like the exact sick fuck who would buy Cyrus’s sister doesn’t it.”
“So how do we reach him?”
“That’s the issue, he currently lives in the kingdom of Jedidiah, and that happens the be ranked wo on the list of pces you never want to be no matter what, right behind Fimbulwinter.”
“Is it that bad?”
“The issue isn’t as impossible as Fimbulwinter, but still quite bad, you see the entire try is surrounded by aremely harsh sand storm round, that only ever eases up about once every year. But if you're not able to escape within twelve hours the sandstorm will start again. So you see you’re not going to be able to do an iigation for one specific sve.”
“You said he was one of the biggest sve buyers on the ti, how could that be if he is only able to leave for twelve hours a year.”
“There are a few wonderbeasts that pass through it, but they have all been tamed and are kept by Ahmed himself.”
“Then how are we going to get through.”
“The easiest option I think of is that you could send dragon boy through the storm by himself, he could probably live it.”
“That’s way too dangerous for him, Cyrus has been through enough.”
“Then the only way to get to him would be to sell yourselves to him, but that could also go very wrong. Especially sidering that Viktht find out you’re the ones who caused the issue at Basileia. He happens to be the leader of the people issed.”
As I sit there ruminating over this decision, I feel my head start to throb, there is just too much I don’t know that could seriously affect this, what the hell am I supposed to do.”
Giving me a head pat Ai says, “You don’t have to decide right now, just go pn it out, while I start my time with the little princess over there.”
“I guess you’re right.”
So, as I get ready to hand Suzuka over to Ai I say, “So where is my somethira?”
“What do you mean?”
“I said, you have to give me what I want, plus a little bit extra, now where is my extra?”
“You really don’t have to be so greedy.”
“How did you put it, oh yeah you said adults will use all their knowledge and influeo extort kids but don’t worry we kids learn to do the same, so hand my gift over.”
With some blood trig down her nose she says, “Even whe me kids are still adorable, here you have this.” She then hands me what I believe is a e.
“What is this?”
“It is the outfit members of wear when they are looking for information, it has a bunch of tools and surprises stuffed away in it.”
Looking at the clothes, I think to myself; isn’t this a ninja outfit, I guess this makes some moniker of seh them beiers. It is also dark blue, which I guess is to blend into the sery of Elpída.
Going over to Suzuka, I say, “If she gets too annoying, knock her out then go to the gravity police.”
“Alright Orb,” Suzuka says as she prepares to head over to the woman.
As they stand side by side, Ai says, “Think long and hard about this before we e back, I know it will be difficult but you will have to make a decision.”
“I know, and regardless of how off-putting you are thanks for all the help.”
“Don’t worry about that, but just as a reminder being my son is still oable.”
“Never in a million years, now get out of here.”
“That was my pn.” Holding Suzuka tight she throws something on the floor which creates smoke and when the smoke clears their gone.
“I guess she really was a ninja.”
After she leaves the bar, cheers erupt with people screaming, “WHERE SAFE!” I guess she really did abuse all the people here quite a bit.
Walking out of the bar, I put the clothes on over my current clothes. but I have to still wear my scarf. These are really fy, but I ’t be distracted about such things right now, I should head back to Avaram and discuss what I learned with everyone.
I then suddenly realise, I ’t tact them without Suzuka, I am an idiot. I guess I have no choice, I have to sniff them out. Going to the bar we got Cyrus from, I sniff around for Avram’s st, and after getting it I head off in the said dire.
-Break-
After moving for a while, I realize that they must of went on a bit of a detour. They walked from the third all the way to the fifth ptform, instead of taking the short way, I guess they had some shopping to do.
As I tiowards the end of the fifth ptform, I see Iancu walking arouhe entrance of the sixth ptform. He is carrying a rge bag of stuff with him, so maybe he is taking some shopping home.
Instead of asking him for dires, I e up with a better idea, “If I am dressed as a ninja I should at least act the part.” So, using my stealth skills, I follow him around until we reach the sixth ptform. Would Avaram really be living in the sixth ptform? Especially since Avaram didn’t want him going anywhere near Iaea.
As my curiosity gets the better of me, I tio follow him around. As I get closer to him I start to get an ity hand, so I scratch it, but when I do tiny spherical objects fall out of my clothes. When they nd on it causes tiny explosions, which made me freak out a little.
After reposing myself I look for Iancu, but I ’t find him. “What are you doing following me,” I hear someone say behind me.
“Oh, well I was lost, and I thought I would follow you back.”
“We live on ptform two Selene so just go over there.”
“Thanks for that, so then what are you doing here?”
“None of your business.”
“Guess I will just have to ask your dad.”
“Is that a threat?”
“No, it’s a promise. So, just tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, as long as it is not illegal, I will help, so e on tell me,” I say running around in circles.
He gets very visibly angry, but Iancu calms down, and says, “Ok then, but you ’t tell my dad, if you do I won’t let you leave this try unscathed.”
“I promise that as long as Fimbulwinter is cold, I won’t break this promise.”
“You told my dad earlier that you ’t feel the cold, so what meaning would that kind of promise carry.”
“Just stop pining and tell me.”
“Ok then follow me. To be ho I am lucky you’re here; I needed ara hand.”
As we walk through the sixth ptform Iancu says, “Since you will need some text, I would like to know if you uand the reason why Iaea is currently like this.”
“No idea.”
Letting out a sigh, Iancu says, “Ok then where should I begin, remember how I told you we only have enough crystals to keep this pce funing.”
“Yes.”
“Well, the people in charge of this try, saw all the profit that was being made by Basileia over the years and devised a pn to try and do the same. So they started to slowly but surely make policies which all basically amouo destroying the sixth ptform Iaea and using the crystals that would power it to deepen their pockets.”
