Episode 94 – Extortion (1/2)

Episode 94 – Extortion

Previously:

Elaru gives Kiel the ring she had o Rhur visits his father, Alaric, in hopes that he would give hih money to pay for his Black Pearl restaurant tab

Rhur Rroda didn’t need to continue with his story Alaric had already caught on to the main point Nice try Alaric barely contained hi Rhur’s tear-jerking play “A man’s debt has to be paid by his own hands What is the point of you taking your brother out for a esture of brotherly love less”

Brotherly love? Rhur’s eyebroitched The oldhim

Rhur smiled wryly Of course you wouldn’t help me out You are always on his side

But I expected as much

Rhur’s eyes flashed with resent It was so sad that anyone’s heart would bemore than to couess you are right, father” Rhur sighed sadly

Then, surprisingly, he nodded politely to Alaric and declared “Then I’ll be going back to Ashar, father It was nice seeing you”

Rhur didn’t wait for his father’s response, and he turned his back to hi several steps towards the door

Alaric sipped his tea leisurely, his eyes following Rhur He aiting for Rhur to stop and say a few ive up this easily

And indeed, before reaching the door, Rhur stopped and turned his head sideways towards Alaric “Oh, I alot I’ot hiirlfriend A fine lady, if Iwith the suddenly ca out of his mouth, the soleirlfriend?? “You are not lying to me, are you?” Alaric couldn’t help but exclaier son was gay than he would believe that he got hiirlfriend In fact, Rhur had even tricked Kiel into co to a brothel once, yet he still walked out without asa woman

Rhur looked at Alaric with such a pained expression, as if saying “How could you even ask that, dear father?” and exclaimed “Father, of course, I wouldn’t dare lie to you!”

Seeing that Rhur seemed to be sincere, the cold aura of Alaric suddenly turned mild This news seemed to have improved his mood considerably Excellent! Best news I’ve heard all year! I randchildren yet!

“Well, then Until next ti in his eyes However, as soon as he turned his back to Alaric, the pained expression was replaced with a sht away

“Wait!” Alaric stopped hiirlfriend’”

Rhur internally snorted, but outwards he still looked like a pitiful child “Ah, I am not really in the mood to talk about it…”

Alaric’s eyebroitched, and his gaze turned colder once again “And let uess… you’d feel much more talkative with a sack of mythril coins?”

“Who do you take me for, father? Money can’t buy happiness” Rhur denied it quickly, as if insulted by Alaric’s words

Alaric’s eyebroitched again “And ould make you happy?”

Rhur looked at Alaric shyly, as if unsure whether he should say it or not Unlike Venric, ould have slammed his hand on the table by now and demand him to speak up, Alaric was much more patient He just sat there and watched the show, not playing along at all

When Rhur realized that Alaric wouldn’t play along, he decided to speak up “What would make me the happiest is the love of my father, of course That sack of mithril coins would be much more valuable than its monetary worth Such a sincere show of fatherly affection would surely warlared at him icily “Money can’t buy happiness” my ass! This is blatant extortion! You little brat! So, this was your plan all along!

Alaric ground his teeth, his te The brat dares to extort his own father for soood! I’ll rened, Alaric searched his pockets discreetly, pulling out a platinum key He then used the key to open up a drawer inside his desk

The draas filled with several heavy looking pouches He grabbed a seely random pouch and threw it on the table

His careless throw of the pouchloudly on the wooden table

Rhur, as the dignified noble he was, deerab that mythril coin since the whole sack was filled with antly picked the pouch and inconspicuously weighed it before pocketing it

By his estimations, there should be around 90 mythril coins inside the pouch To cover his tab in Black Pearl, he needed 70 mythril coins Which meant that he even had an excess of 20 coins That was almost as much as his monthly allowance!

And Rhur’snobles Several gold coins could feed an entire fale mythril coin orth 100 platinuold coins, old coins

Instead of losing ally for a while, Rhur even made an extra money out of this whole ordeal! To say that he was thrilled and self-satisfied would be an understatement

“Thank you, father I appreciate your kind intentions” Rhur’s feigned immense sadness vanished into thin air replaced with a wide smile

“Her name is Elaru Wayvin She is quite beautiful, comparable to the Arites standard of beauty Red hair, teal eyes A voice that is raceful Quite a powerful aura too Apparently, she is currently taking the Muni exaht Excellent If she becomes a student of Muni, her status would instantly rise Then it wouldn’t be a problem to marry a noble

Rhur smirked “Oh… did I mention she is an elibu?”

Alaric’s face instantly fell And here I was thinking about grandchildren… darn it

His change of lee Serves you right, old ?

“And personality wise, what is she like?” Alaric gru for a while before responding “A good actor Calot so far”