A cavalry of ten rushed through the forests in the west of the Schwarz.
With a loud neigh, their horses stopped running through the rugged paths. In front of them, lit up by the rays of the morning sun, was the scene of a disaster.
A cave system that had previously been occupied by dozens of people and items worth a dozen times more than all of their lives had collapsed.
Clenching his fist the commander of the cavalry stepped down his horse and moved toward the rubble that covered the entrance of the gate.
There were zero signs of giant road-blocking frogs, and even fewer signs of outside intervention.
"Open this place up," the commander said. His voice grew louder as his scream ripped through the air. "Open it all up!! Tell me what bastard did this!!!"
The cavalry unmounted at once and saluted to their silver-haired general. All of them ran toward the rubble at once and started clearing up the entrance.
Away from the sight of a large boulder, the general sat.
His men took their time, but they finished clearing the entrance and all of them entered the place one after the other.
The general's patience ran thin, but thankfully he didn't have to wait too long.
"Sir!" came a knight to him, ready to report the matters. He curtsied on his knees and bowed his head. "We have entered the cave system below, sir!"
"What happened in there?" Asked the general.
"It seems the workers and the supervisors started fighting between themselves. We found a few gravely injured survivors from both groups and they blame the other. It is a hellscape down there."
The general hummed.
It.
Wasn't that impossible.
"What happened to the manager?"
"We're still looking for him—"
The general stood up and kicked the soldier's jaw, sending him reeling back. The others watched their white-haired general as he started stomping his foot down on their comrade, none of them said a word.
"Stupid! Useless! Fuck! Do you think my father will be happy with all this?! Huh!? Why haven't you found the manager bastard! WHY!"
Right then, another soldier emerged from the cave and bowed in front of the general just like the first had. Even though his comrade was being beaten to a pulp, he didn't as much as bat an eyelid as he spoke up.
"Sir, the manager is not underground. We have scoured every nook and cranny—"
The second soldier was kicked too.
He fell on his back, his lips ruptured. The general raised his foot above him, but the soldier swallowed his blood and spoke his pain.
"All the final products are also missing. Not broken but missing!"
The general stopped.
"Missing?" he asked.
"Y-yes sir…"
The general looked around.
"All of our special drugs are gone? All of them?"
"E-every unit… sir…"
"HAHA!"
The general placed a hand on his head.
"FUCK! I knew it! Those hell rats, we should have never trusted them!!"
The general kicked the soldier that had just reported, and started smashing his chest in.
"Fuck! Fuck all of them! Fuck! We're going to every single plant! The rest go and find a tail, anything! I want that fucking manager!"
"""SIR YES SIR!"""
***
I woke up early in the morning, my eyes fluttered open as the faint light of the rising sun touched my face.
Titania was asleep atop my head, deeper into the cave we had taken refuge in was the demon with his horns and limbs broken, completely knocked out of his wits.
A soft sensation pushed on my shoulder.
When I turned to the side, I saw that the person who was supposed to be on watch had fallen asleep on me.
Normally, I would have stayed still.
"The fuck this bitch think she doing?"
I yanked my body away as fast as I could. Irina lost her balance on fell to the ground, smacking her head on the cave floor.
She woke up right away and turned toward me.
"Ow… bastard…"
I then spat on my hand and rubbed it over my shoulder.
"Ew, what do you think you're doing?"
"I don't remember…" Irina said, pressing her head. "I was going to tie you up with sorcery and then fell asleep…"
As if announcing themselves, a few tiny spirits laughed around her, their faces turned into bright smiles as they giggled out loud.
Ah, it was these punks.
They thought this would be funny, huh?
"Whatever, you were supposed to be on watch. And here I thought YOU were the teacher."
"Cut it! For all I know, you must have done something shady!"
"Ahak!"
Our argument made the knocked-out demon wake up. Both of us stopped and face him.
Irina had quickly decided to take this bastard along after we wrecked his ass in the cave. If he was defeated or not found then things would have gotten worse anyway as anyone would have been suspicious of outside intervention.
No one in that place was strong enough to defeat a demon. So, taking him with us was the best option. That didn't come without the problem either, though.
Then what if we made it so that the demon escaped himself?
The drugs that we saw the flasks of were with him. He had clarified that the Fonias were helping them with this stuff. So the demons had enough of a motive to steal the drugs.
And that's exactly what we painted it as. Usually, this would not work.
Anyone would think a plant as a long-term investment is much better than stealing the drugs immediately. And that would be especially correct if there was only one such plant.
But that wasn't the case, there were other plants.
And just like that, there were other demons too.
We had two spots to divert the attention to. In a way, we had set the managers and the workers against each other once more, except this time it was going to be the Fonias and their suspicious drug plants.
And while they were busy fighting each other, we would handle the buyers once and for all.
We had already extracted all the information from the demon, after all.
Of course, we couldn't finish this by setting off just one side. That was no better than making it seem like a massacre.
"The furthest plant huh, hard to believe we traveled all the way to the east for this."
From Apollon to Mirxa, from Mirxa to the Fonias Duchy's drug plant in the North , and now, with the demon in our hands, we had come to the Nerveras territory in the east of the kingdom, and the place where the furthest drug plant was erected.
"Alright, let's finish this and get to our work."
***
The manager of the Nerveras' drug plant had received a call from his guards. In great haste, he and them stepped out of the plant and entered the forest behind their caves.
There, stuck to a tree, was the mangled body of a demon.
A demon he was familiar with.
The manager of the plant back in the Fonias' territory, and a brother in arms for his cause of keeping the demons on the surface safe.
Below the mangled corpse.
[Consider this a warning]
Were words in crimson red blood.
[Traitors]
Words, for his kind.
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