231 The Hunting Lis (1/2)

Military trucks were used to shuttle captured Halfdeads and Jun sat together with them as he was brought back to the outpost. He had no time to test whether the item works as intended but the thought of someone giving him a mystery gift surprised him. Though he knew who gave him the gift, he doesn't understand how and why.

What he doesn't know was his mother made a deal with Yetu. Since she knew that Jun would never be able to accept her decision, and Yetu appears to dislikes her son, she bargained to get the most possible outcome.

She did her best and even made sure that Jun wouldn't be able to chance upon her. After some time, Yetu confirmed that Jun stopped looking and their part of the deal had to commence.

Jun looked daze and kept staring down the truck's aisle. Fortunately, none of the Halfdeads in the truck new him but his skin color was making him the center of attraction.

A few Halfdeads didn't care about him but the rest repeatedly glanced on him. He could hear a few whispers but did not pay them any attention.

”Quiet!” the soldier on board shouted. The man sat on the exit together with his partner.

The journey continued and they arrived at the Rotunda Tikling Outpost without a hitch. The trucks parked at a nearby parking space. Soldiers were already positioned at the area and were only waiting for them to arrive.

As everyone got off their trucks, the Halfdeads were ordered to form two lines by gender. Jun who had different skin stood out among the crowd when everyone was forming their lines. The soldiers on board his truck pulled him over to the side and headed somewhere else.

Moments later, he could see a familiar multi-storied building, a police station. It was the Outpost's prison. He was brought to a cell and he could see Carl looking at him with a smirk on his face. Several minutes later, Christian's group arrived together with the jail officer. Carl was released and he mockingly stared at Jun as he passed by.

Time passed and Jun was contemplating life. There were no guards at the prison room. He could escape by activating the Teleport Rune and these people won't even know what happened—but he chose not to escape because he still had something to do, a grudge that needs to be settled.

His first target. the old bald man from his childhood. The one person who caused trouble at their own house and had his security guards scare his mother by toppling their table.

Retired-General Basilio Mestreet. He was the top influencer on the misfortunes that happened to his family according to Evo's report.

At first, he had no idea where to look for him, but lady luck smiled at him. The a—hole came knocking on his own and now, he got a lead on where to find him. He only wanted to see Marianne but he got some unexpected intel from Carl. If he catches Basilio, he could politely ask where the other people on the list were. Some of the people in the list were politician together with some businessmen. It was because of their vast network that caused his family to suffer.

Jun spent about half an hour detained in the prison cell before a scholarly soldier arrived. He introduced himself as the Commander's secretary and took him out of his cell. He was still thinking of ways to get out of the situation when an idea popped up in his head. He then allowed the secretary to lead him to the Commander's office. He knew that something was going on but didn't shy away from it.

After the secretary urged him to enter, did only he chose to enter.

The outpost commander was sitting on his swivel chair looking outside the window as if contemplating about something. When the door opened, he turned around and looked at Jun.

Corwin went directly to the point.

”I heard of your deeds, the good and the bad. To be honest, I don't know what to do with you. I know what you did was for your mother but at the same time, I have the duty to punish you. Christian also gave a full report on how you helped the rebel leaders numerous times. He also reported that you killed the leaders one time which is making me really confused. Whose side are you really on?”

Jun shook his head before taking a seat in front of the commander. ”Are you asking me why I saved my own mother multiple times? Why I didn't kill her when I had the chance? Are you really asking me that!?”

”Do you usually talk like this? This is probably why Paul hates you.”

”Paul?” Jun asked himself on where he heard the familiar name.

”You probably don't know him but he's Marianne father. He's a friend of mine and he's a bit over-protective of his daughter.” Corwin said.

”Ah, that sh*tface who likes to threaten people. Yeah, he's a real bastard who can't keep promises. I met him one time. He had this small group of lackeys with him. Hah! Pussies. I managed to smack that Carl in the face though, so it worth it. You know him?”