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Roberta's Task (II)... [Chapter 55]
🕑 Added 2022-05-30 15:55:05 +0000 UTCRoberta slipped through the window with extreme ease. Roberta couldn’t help but shake her head, the house belonged to Rika Minami and a woman should be careful about her safety. Anyone could have easily slipped through the window, but Roberta guessed that Rika was rarely at her house, so there was a chance that she never cared about someone breaking and entering. The railings around her house were also quite tall, so nobody could slip inside the house, at least not easily.
Roberta grabbed one of the pipes and slid down to the ground with the help of it. Roberta glanced up once before she started to climb the railing. Roberta didn't even need a whole minute to climb over the railing, she was quite good at her job. Without wasting any more time, Roberta made her way toward the house where Mr Maresato was killed. The railings of the said house weren't high so Roberta was able to jump over the fence quite easily.
Roberta walked up to the house and then she started to peek inside from one of the windows… There was not much she could see as the house was completely dark from the inside. Roberta shook her head in disappointment. 'Daichi-sama should have left the killing to me…' Roberta mused internally.
Roberta couldn’t understand why Daichi-sama would want to kill these people by his own hands… He could have asked Kemono-sama or Bella. Roberta was sure that the deranged woman would have made them beg for death before killing them. Roberta had talked with Bella and Roberta had to admit, Bella was way more messed up than she was… So, Roberta couldn’t help but admit defeat in front of the insane woman.
Roberta moved on to the window of another room. She was short on time, so she knew that she needed to finish her job quickly. Once again, the room was completely empty and Roberta finally found all the residents of the house huddled inside one of the bedrooms. There were four people in total. Two of the people were quite old, and the last two people were quite young compared to the old couple. So, Roberta guessed that the older couple was probably the parents of one of the younger ones…
After that, Roberta moved on to the next window, trying to see if there was a child in their house or not. After looking for nearly 10 minutes, Roberta concluded that there was no child inside the house. She didn't have any qualms about killing children, but she still wanted to see if there was a child or not. After all, she thought that it was necessary information… The younger couple was also quite young so Roberta guessed that they were yet to have a child. That was the best she could come up with.
Roberta quickly checked all the entrances and exits. When Roberta was finally done, she decided to return. She could have easily killed the four people inside the house, but that wasn't her task. Daichi-sama hasn't asked her to kill them… Roberta easily climbed up the railing of Rika Minami's house and after that, she simply used the pipe she had previously used to slide down from the first floor to climb up. This time, it took her some time to climb up the stairs, but it only took her a whole minute to slip inside the bathroom through the window.
Roberta pressed the flush with one of her feet and after that, she walked out of the bathroom like nothing had happened. Kyoko noticed Roberta's arrival and she immediately felt relaxed. Kyoko didn't know anything about Roberta's task. Yes, she wanted to know, but she could guess that Roberta wasn't going to tell her anything. Even though Kyoko didn't know anything about the task, she wasn't going to do anything to hinder the said task. In fact, she would have helped any way she could.
Roberta arrived by Kyoko's side and without saying anything, she sat down with the bespectacled woman. Unable to hold back her curiosity, Kyoko decided to break the silence. "So, did you finish the task?" Kyoko asked nervously.
Roberta slowly turned her head to look at Kyoko and after a few moments, Roberta gave Kyoko a curt nod. "I finished the task without any hitch. You don't have to worry about anything… Just keep your silence and everything will be fine. Did anyone come to check on us?" Roberta asked as she dismissed Kyoko's worries.
Kyoko immediately shook her head in denial. Roberta simply gave her a nod before she turned back toward the streets… Kyoko also realized that there was nothing else to talk about, so she also turned toward the streets…
~~With Daichi~~
After only a couple of minutes, Daichi returned inside the shopping complex with Bella in tow, who seemed to be skipping in joy. "This place is huge!! Bella likes it!!" Bella cheered loudly as she clapped her hands.
"Warn your group about her. She is completely unpredictable and extremely dangerous" Yuriko warned Kanae with a complicated look on her face. Kanae glanced at Yuriko, and then she turned back toward the black-haired woman. Kanae had to admit, the woman looked kind of unstable and she easily noticed the madness in the woman's eyes.
"Bella, they are the ones I was talking about. They decided to join our group and they are going to bring all the bags here… You could work on them here, right?" Daichi asked while he pointed toward Kanae and her group members and Bella eagerly nodded her head like a little girl.
Daichi knew that there was a chance that Bella might attack Kanae and her group members. After all, there was no way to know what was going on inside her mind. So Daichi began to tell Bella about their new members while coming here. Bella finally turned toward Kanae and her whole group and a vicious grin formed on her face.
"Good. Good… All of you made a good choice by joining Milord. I will teach all of you how to serve him, but if you try to take Bella's spot, then Bella will flay you alive!!" Bella declared with a proud grin on her face. Kanae and her group members along with Yuriko paled at the woman's words. Daichi simply palmed his face, this is exactly what he wanted to avoid. At least, she didn't outright attack them… That was a good thing. Kemono burst out laughing after hearing Bella's words while Kohta shivered in fear.
"Nobody is going to skin anyone. Bella, don't scare them" Daichi chastised Bella, who started to pout like someone had kicked her puppy. "All of you move out and bring the bags here. We have already stayed here for quite some time and to be honest, I am quite hungry just like all of you here. So as soon as we get it done, we will be able to return to our base, and as soon as we return to our base, we will be able to eat" Daichi explained and he didn't need to repeat anything. As soon as he finished speaking, everyone rushed toward the shops to bring the bags.
Daichi also decided to help them out as he did not want to stay in the shopping complex any longer. It took Bella nearly an hour to shrink all the bags. Daichi took Kanae and Kohta with him to grab all the smartphones from the stores while Bella was busy shrinking the bags. Daichi only needed a dozen smartphones, but he wanted to take all of them as Daichi knew that he was going to need them in the future. After all, he was always on the frontlines and he could easily break his smartphone during a fight. So, he decided to have a few more smartphones at hand. Additionally, he was sure that his group would continue to grow, so he wanted to be future proof too…
Unfortunately, Daichi was unable to raid all the smartphone stores by the time Bella was done with shrinking the bags. Daichi asked if Bella could shrink the bags containing the smartphones too, but Bella shook her head in denial. Bella didn't exactly know what a smartphone was, but she knew that it was something made by the Muggles and she knew that Magic didn't play well with Muggle stuff, so she quickly explained the problem to Daichi.
So, Daichi decided to carry the bags filled with smartphones in the normal way. Only three bags were filled with smartphones while hundreds of bags were filled with food, but Bella was able to shrink all of them, so carrying all of them was a breeze. The minivan Anthony had grabbed was quite big, so Kanae's whole group was able to fit in the minivan, but Daichi invited Kanae to travel with him in the Humvee.
Yuriko felt extremely bad, but there was nothing she could do… Daichi had said that he could wait a couple of hours, but Yuriko knew that they were not going to return, so she told Daichi that she was fine to leave… At that time, Daichi had simply given her a solemn nod as he agreed with her suggestion. Now that she was finally leaving, she couldn't help but feel a pang in her chest…
"Don't worry… it will be fine" Yuriko was brought out of her musings when someone placed a hand over her shoulder in a comforting manner. She already recognized who it was from the voice and after she saw the hopeful smile on Daichi's face, she decided to nod her head. After all, she could not lose hope…
