57 Chapter 56. (1/2)

When I finally managed to calm myself down, I had made it to the meeting point. It looks like three of us made it back safely, but one of us was still missing.

It looks like Bravo 1 was here as well. I thought he said he'd be waiting at the police station for us. Didn't this traitorous swine sell us out and already backstab us, maybe I was wrong. I guess because he got his money from the person he planted there, he came to drop off the crown prince after all.

That or his plans changed when we managed to all escape successfully. Perhaps his plan was initially to capture us himself and gain all the credit. He could then use that man he planted back then to smuggle out the money from under everyone's noses.

When we escaped he realized that he couldn't stick with that plan. Perhaps greed got the best of him when he realized we made it away with all that money. After all if we actually escaped he could get more money out of us like that. This man is a true schemer.

”So, where's the crown prince?”

”What are you talking about? I'm here for the money first. Your crown prince will be released once I have the money.”

”What are you talking about? We already handed it over to your accomplice you hid in the crowd of people at the bank.”

”Accomplice, what are you talking about?”

I frowned as I felt my fears had come true, he was definitely not planning to release the crown prince and was just trying to get as much money as he could out of us.

”Don't mess with us. We already gave you your money. Release our crown prince now.”

”I never got any money!”

”Deals off. Scram, you ant.”

”Should you really be saying that to me? Aren't you afraid of my gun?”

”There's four of us and one of you, why would we be afraid?”

”You really think I'm alone? Hehe.”

Bravo 1 snapped his finger and I could see four people stand up from on top of the roofs of four different buildings with the same long barrelled gun that person on the flying object had. Cold sweat broke out on my back when I thought about the close encounter I just had.

When I looked over at my minions, two of them managed to keep their money, but there was a rotten stench coming off of them. When I looked over at them the two of them said they got lucky and fell into a random hole in the ground and were swept away by the currents and managed to escape without much effort.

I was curious about the brown stuff smearing their robes, but I decided not to ask.

Like hell I'm not going to ask!

”You say a hole in the ground, but you morons really fell into the sewers right?”

”Don't ask boss.”

”Come now, come now, your boss had a hard time escaping. You can't try to not talk about your grand escape, right? While I was busy fighting for my life, you guys were swimming around in shit, right? You can just be honest. No need to hide it, I'm not stupid.”

The two 9th realm mortal lunged towards me to try and pull me into a big bear hug. Naturally I dodged their attempts. Yes, I dodged their attempts. The brown outline shaped like two people on my clothes was always there.

”Geh. Whatever you no good cop, take your stupid money and scram. Just leave us alone.”

The cop took three of the four bags of money reluctantly. It looks like he actually didn't really want it anymore when he saw the condition it was in.

”Damn it! Money is money. Even if it smells like ass, it still makes the world go round.”

Serves you right you rotten cop.

He quickly left after he got what he wanted, but he made no mention of releasing the crown prince like I thought.

Anyways, thanks to these two clowns, we managed to avert a small crisis. Unfortunately I smelt as bad as them now. I can only curse their mothers and my stupid mouth that felt the urge to taunt and provoke them.

”Damn it! You morons, we need to go get a change of clothes because of you two idiots. Well it was bound to happen anyways. Looking around at the crowd now, we really do stick out like sore thumbs. We really need to blend into the crowd if we want to survive in this pocket realm.”

It was a good thing the two morons still had one bag filled with money left. I grabbed a stack of nasty cash smeared in shit, pinched it between two fingers, and held it far away from me while I searched for somewhere to clean it off.

I found a public bathroom nearby and washed it off the best I could. I got rid of the dirtier looking ones as I doubt anyone would accept those if I tried to pay with them.

This is really too embarrassing though. I was a person who stood above the crowds, yet right now I'm cleaning off shit stained paper in a public restroom. I want to go home. Now that I think about it… where is the exit to this pocket realm anyways?

Well, now that I think back to before entering this pocket realm that mysterious beauty blocked our attacks like nothing. She then snapped her finger and we found ourselves within the pocket realm. Perhaps if I find her, there will be a way to leave.

Wait, I didn't think about it till now, but could that beauty be the reason behind our missing interspatial storage rings? Was she actually just a petty thief the entire time?! So it's her fault I've had to suffer like this without any weapons?!

Ugh… forget it. I'm not her match. No point crying over spilt milk.

Anyways, there should be another way to leave. There is always the chance she didn't enter after all. Then the key would probably be the inheritance that should be hidden within this pocket realm. That must hold the secret to leaving.

Haaah. Where am I even supposed to begin searching for it though? This pocket realm doesn't seem to be small either. It even has a boundless sky with a sun up above. Who knows how far away that sun is. What if the inheritance is not even on the land we are on presently?

Wait… if there is a sun… there is a starry sky.

Then a moon as well, right? What does a pocket realm need that for? If there are people living here, could there also be an ocean? What the hell?!

It could be anywhere, can't it? The bottom of the ocean, on the sun, the moon, a random asteroid floating in space. Where am I supposed to start? Could we have severely underestimated the scale of this pocket realm?

Then, my only hope would be to find that mysterious beauty to at least get a hint, right?

Ugh. Even finding a single person is an extremely difficult task.

What do I do?

Whatever, first things first. Rescue that idiotic crown prince. Escaping this pocket realm can come after that.

I left the public restroom after I managed to get rid of most of the brown stains on my clothes.

I still smelled horrible and I wanted to quickly get changed so I could blend in more naturally with the crowd.

I took my three remaining lackeys with me and we found a clothing shop nearby. When we were about to enter we were barred at the doorway. They said the three of us stank too much. They said the only one they would let enter was my minion who had managed to escape the clutches of the two smelly clowns.

He had a cocky look on his face when he stretched his hand out towards me. I begrudgingly handed over the dirty money and he strut into the store proudly with his head held high.

After keeping us waiting for two hours he still didn't come out. This son of a… he's really putting on airs. Are you having fun knowing you're making me stand outside waiting on you while you take your fine time picking out clothes?

After another hour, when I was just about to lose my mind, the arrogant peacock came out looking very different from when he entered. He had a disgusting tacky rainbow coloured tie, with a long white jacket with white fluff popping out of it everywhere. He was wearing long blue pants with some black shoes. He had some pink shades and a stupid looking cowboy hat on his head.

I really wanted to slap him silly when I saw how confident he looked with his horrible fashion sense, but I decided to learn from my past mistakes this time. I don't want a repeat of the two shit brothers over there.

I didn't notice at first, but there was some ugly woman grabbing onto his arm showering him with praises like, ”valued customer you look so good in anything you wear. I'm so wet again, shall we have another go? How much money do you have left, handsome big brother?”

Y-y-y-y-you incompetent piece of garbage! You kept me waiting because you were playing about with this ugly gold miner? How lonely were you? Actually, is something wrong with your head?! I started to get concerned and I wondered if he hit his head on his way into this pocket realm. Could it be a cop managed to catch him and he got a good whack then?

Absolutely not!

”Give me the clothes now.”

I wasn't in the mood banter with this idiot after waiting three hours for no good reason.

”Boss, what do you say?”

”Huh? What are you talking about? Just hand over the bags with clothes in your hand.”

”Boss, you're supposed to say please.”

”Yeah, don't you know any manners you ugly old man? When the young rich money bags… I mean handsome man asks you to show manners, you should be getting down on your knees and begging.”

”Shit brothers.”

”Eh? Are you talking about us?”

”Yeah.”