Chapter 3 - The Beginning Of The Plan (1/2)

”What took you so long?” John, while clenching his eyes, asked Luke who had just arrived in the kitchen.

He saw the half-wolf coming up to take his daily shower and shortly after, he noticed Meredith's disappearance. For a moment, he was shocked at the idea that the two were dating, however, he decided to remain quiet.

”Ann... I was brushing my tail.” Luke replied nervously.

John had decided not to say anything, but that didn't apply to the other four, who now stared at the half-wolf with dirty looks.

”What is it?” Luke questioned, trying to play dumb. At the same time, his racing heart almost came out of his mouth.

”You... and Meredith? Since when?” A short, handsome man asked. He had a beard and large hair. Among his brown strands, there was a considerable amount of white hair. He was also missing his left arm because he lost in a tavern bet.

”Me and Meredith? An... What are you talking about, Matthew?”

”Forget it, guys. We have more important things to discuss. And you guys know that Luke is not like us.” Ynosuke appeased the situation for Luke's side.

”True.”

”Makes sense.”

”Could be, right?”

Nevertheless, Ynosuke whispered in Luke's ear afterward: ”Just avoid having sex in the bathroom, bro. It must be uncomfortable.”

Pretending not to hear Ynosuke, Luke asked Matthew: ”What happened? John said you had good news.”

For a few minutes, Matthew recounted his entire day. He is the kind of person who doesn't spare even the smallest details when he is going to tell some story, so everyone listened patiently.

”Then, around six o'clock, I was discouraged that I hadn't found any useful information, so I went to buy a moon muffin to try to distract myself, and next to the stall were two guards. While buying my cookie, I overheard one of them say that the Strogueher family has requested a gene supply for three months from now.”

”Really?!” yelled big Zack.

John stood up and tapped the table. Tum! ”No fucking way! A gene pack here for Oukiwa?! These guys are underestimating us!” John said excitedly.

Luke and Ynosuke remained quiet.

”What about the handsome guys over there? Do you agree with this robbery?” Meredith, who had arrived at the end of the story, asked the two.

Ynosuke stood up, looked at the girl, and said: ”In my experience, the wagons are protected with five or six guards. That factor triples because we are talking about the Strogueher family. This will be a gene supply, meaning we can take the tripled amount and triple it again.”

”That is, in the best-case scenario, we would have to deal with forty-five guards at once. And at worst, it would be more than fifty-four.” John said.

Luke still tried to count multiplication on his fingers, however, he was easily lost. He never had the chance to study mathematics.

”Each of us would have to deal with at least nine guards. Since I can't fight, I would only go to open the carriage locks.”

”Wouldn't it be easier if we robbed the whole carriage? Then we'd get all the genes.” Zack proposed.

It was common knowledge that stealing an entire wagon was dumb. Outside the city, most of the roads are dirt, and inside, the only streets that could hide the wheel tracks would be the main ones, which are always packed with adventurers.

What Zack had big, he had dumb, so he was ignored.

”Nine guards is too much stuff for any of us except Luke.” Meredith said as she pulled up a chair at the table. ”We can try working with another gang. But the last one didn't work out, because you guys betrayed them when you found out they were slavers.”

Silence hung over the room. All six of them knew that they didn't work well with other gangs, which was also why they opted for smaller robberies.

”What if we infiltrated the family by being bodyguards?” Zack said as he put a spoonful of the stew into his mouth. Everyone looked surprised at the big guy as if for the first time in his life he had a good idea.

”How would we do that?” Matthew asked, confused because he knew that bodyguards were difficult for noble families to hire.

Usually, the security for these families is done by retired knights, and when many security guards are needed, they hire some outsourced security service.

However, as if by fate, a messenger from the Strogueher Family had announced that they were looking for someone capable to become a bodyguard.