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After your strange meeting, the regal girl introduces herself. “I am Gillian Asturias, rightful heir to the throne of Vacuo, descendant of Malik the Sunderer himself.”
“… okay.”
“Top of my class at the top academy, I have conquered many ordeals to sit here in my regal seat.”
You gaze at the rickety wooden chair. “Cool.”
“And thus, I’ve earned my place as the head of Shade. Among my many duties, I oversee accommodations.”
One of the many armed people in the barracks hands you three a sheet of paper, in it is a price list, showing exorbitant figures to sleep anywhere.
“What the hell? Who can afford these!” Sun exclaims.
“Madness, aren’t huntsman academies supposed to be above racketeering?!” Adam appears particularly insulted.
You are confused more than anything. <span class="mu-i">Is this a joke? Grant never mentioned anything like this. Then again, he never mentioned a giant Komodo either…</span>
“The current state of our once proud kingdom is… precarious, the people refuse to pay their taxes to the powers at be, so we must get our funding somewhere else. This Lien goes to Dust, maintenance, medicine, everything we may need to keep great Vacuo safe.”
“I can’t pay,” you state matter-of-factly.
“There’s always the other option.” Gillian gestures to the window. You can see almost sixty people setting up crude tents and shelter out in the cold yard.
“This is humiliating!” Adam takes a step forward, but is stopped by a couple of Gillian’s guards. “You won’t get away with it!”
“Take him away, the monkey too.”
“What did I do?”
“I wanna speak with your friend, now do be more cooperative than the other faunus.”
Sun gives you a concerned look, but you ease him. “Go, I’ll be fine.” And he’s dragged away.
You look at the supposed queen with cold, silent eyes. “Picaro Calavera. Your name has been making waves around here.”
“…”
“The kid who wasn’t even a huntsman in training yet, and still he carried a Grimm magnet 250 km in the desert on his back.”
“!” You feel alarmed at that. You’ve never considered how you’d be seen by saving Isaac, looks like trying to stay out of sight and out of trouble until graduation is out of the question.
“Not only that, he faced down the Creeping Death four times and lived to tell the tale. Rumors say you cut its tail off, but I believe that one to be an exaggeration.”
You are happy to let her believe that. “Where did you hear this?”
“People talk, gossip travels fast in Shade and it all reaches me eventually.”
“What do you want?”
“Straight to the point, eh? A man of action not words, just what I need. You are gonna work for me.”
“No.”
“I wasn’t asking if you wanted to work for me.” Gillian snaps her fingers and all her dozen guards point their weapons at you. “I was informing that you work for me.”
