Episode 76 – An Unfair Trade (1/2)

Dusk Rose’s eyes glittered with glee “Too bad Even if you take him to the infirmary, they will think it’s just a cold One-touch…I mean Fever Touch is almost undiscoverable And even if they believed you when you tell them he was poisoned, they wouldn’t kno to make the antidote”

She was doomed to fail! Kiel Rroda would most definitely miss his exaht Fever Touch was a secret poison of the Etezza fa Other than the Etezza family, no one else kne to ht Kiel to the infirmary, they wouldn’t be able to help him She couldn’t tell them how to make the antidote because she didn’t kno to make it in the first place She didn’t even know the composition of Fever Touch, let alone the antidote

She could give healers the sa the antidote would take days By the time they found it, Kiel would have recovered on his own anyway

Elaru’s eyebrows furrowed then relaxed, furrowed then relaxed She seeh things

Dusk Rose noticed her sudden loss of focus and an idea of rebelling sprung up in his ht further, he felt a cold edge pressing down on his throat

“Don’t even think about it” It only took a blink of an eye for Elaru to unsheathe her dagger and press it against Dusk’s neck

“I a at all” Dusk Rose s It wasn’t a life and death conflict The woman won’t be too heavy handed with hio Unless he insisted on provoking her And he wasn’t stupid enough to invite a calamity that could be avoided

Elaru Wayvin continued to ponder her options for a while longer The worry etched on her face made Dusk’s lips twitch into an involuntary coy s the self-satisfied grin etched on Dusk’s face, a leam flashed in the depths of Elaru’s eyes

She pushed Dusk’s body into a sitting position under the tree and then started rurin widened “You’re wasting your time No matter how you search, you won’t find that which is nonexistent”

“Oh, don’t you worry about that” Elaru winked “What I a for is quite corporeal”

She pulled out a small round container filled with hand crea his precious Fever Touch in the hands of the enemy, Dusk Rose turned livid That was his custom mix! His lifeblood!

“How dare you perfor a poison master’s custom mix! Have you no shame?! No sense of honor?!”

Even assassins, spies, and Shadows had their codex of honor, taboos that shouldn’t be touched!

“Robbery? What are you talking about?” Elaru grinned so wide all her pearly white teeth were on display “I a a trade Your hand cream for my acupuncture needles”

“Sha it took me to refine that box of poison!? That’s ! My personal mix! Give it back! How can you even cole acupuncture needle?!”

There weren’taway his sweat and blood was definitely a them

Before Dusk could protest more, Elaru flicked her wrist and another acupuncture needle embedded itself inside Dusk’s neck Suddenly, Dusk Rose becaot two needles” Elaru’s grin never wavered

As if that h he wanted to screalare at her veno at her so hard that the veins in his eyes were allower and positioned Dusk’s li hi beneath the tree If anyone passed by, they would surely think Dusk Rose was just enjoying the greenery in the courtyard

She even went as far as to take out a booklet fro it She then adonna rain soon I hope you don’t get soaked and end up catching a cold”

She then winked at hi Kiel by the ar aithout a care in the world As if she was rubbing it in, taunting hi bested by her

Wait! You can’t possibly leave me here like this?

I can’t even scream for help!!

Dusk Rose’s heart dropped to the pit of his stoht

If any of his brothers and cousins found out that he got one-upped by a girl of the saht, they would never let him live down the shame!

Dusk proceeded to curse Elaru Wayvin to death inside his head Then he proceeded to curse the 10 generations of her ancestors

But then he realized that he probably shared the majority of those ancestors with her Therefore, he was cursing his own ancestors too

Hence, he switched to iot out of this predicanored the fact that he was a professional hit man and not a murderer – he killed as a part of his job, never for personal reasons Therefore, no matter how furious he was currently, after he calo as far as to attempt murder of the redhead Payback, yes, hter her, he proceeded to comfort himself There is no way she will cure Kiel Rroda in ti his exae to finish this mission

There will certainly be a round two! Just you wait! Blasted woitation dissipated, he realized that Elaru Wayvin was no longer next to hie Aric to his heart’s content

Dusk Rose alic never felt ranted