The Young Master in the Shadows

Chapter 186: Sell

When Alex returned to the apartment, Victor was busy stuffing Hana into a big bag. Appearing 90% criminal, 9% maniac, and 1% charming

“Young master… What do you plan to do with her?” Alex asked after watching for a few minutes in which Victor even used his foot to stuff the girl inside perfectly. Thatʼs the problem with martial arts practitioners, although it was not showing, Hana had very firm muscles. And a tall body that was not meant to be stuffed in a bag.

“What every sane man does when he gets a pretty girl. Sell her.” Victor said jokingly while panting as he zipped the bag up and looked at Alex who was looking at him with disgust.

“Did the doctor find you a new one?” Victor asked. Changing the subject.

“Now what?” Alex didn’t understand. She looked at Victor and he looked at her… Then she got it and began to blush heavily. “NO… I... I didn’t need anything, the doctor said I am just slightly injured.” She added with a blush. She turned into a woman and walked into the hospital, where they did all kinds of tests. The result was that she was having an early period, nothing major. The doctor told her to exercise less and take care of her diet.

“Oh… Then you are still 100% a man?” Victor asked with an obvious concern...

“... You can count me as one.” She answered ambiguously after some hesitation while looking at the bag. She didn’t want to end up inside one.

“Good,” Victor said as he put his hand on his chest. “I was afraid that I would lose my brothel buddy…” Victor said, making Alex, just for a tiny second, consider the option of smacking his perverted head off.

“Let’s go then,” Victor said as he changed his looks under Alex’s surprised eyes. He was now a pretty woman with long red hair.

“Where to?” Alex asked as she put on a red-haired wig that Victor threw at her… Was he seriously going to sell the girl? She didn’t like that at all, but she chose to remain silent.

“To some very dirty place,” Victor said, making her shiver a little as she looked at the bag in his hand.

…

“Abb abb abababa…” The man said as he drooled.

“Ahh… Sorry, I gave him the wrong dose.” The girl apologized in panic as Alpha hurried to her side and checked on the man.

“Abb Ooooooooooooo…. btha” The man bit his tongue forcing the girl to stuff a fastener in his mouth.

“Oh… That is an interesting condition. The other one your sister handled died… How much did you give him?” She asked.

“I used an entire leaf from sample number 32 added to a glass of normal wine.” The girl said. She was shaking a little. Her mistress was making her do bad things.

“Don’t worry about him. He is an enemy who came to kill us… And I already extracted all of the info he has… Now watch him and see if he can regain his sanity.” Alpha said as she took out a notebook and began to write on it… “Give him to Nora when she returns... The assassin girl wearing a headband, let her try some torture methods and test his pain receptors in this state.” She added as the girl nodded looking at the drooling test subject with some pity.

Those guys were the death warriors who attacked the mansion. After a quick and very efficient interrogation using the spirit whine, Alpha decided to test the herbs she found in the dungeon on them. The blue flower was not the only thing there, and all of them seemed to have some kind of effect on souls.

“Carry on,” Alpha said as she wondered when Victor would return… She wanted to ask him about that girl Hana he mentioned. But his phone had been off since yesterday.

…

That place was dirty, literally, extra dirty. It was in the slums right next to a sewage outlet… It was as if no one bothered to clean this place since… Ever? It had that smell that stopped getting bad after reaching a certain limit and started somehow smelling… Good?

It was a simple shop, made of stone carved in the rock of the riverside cliff.

“You see, every city in the world has one of those. Although Golden waterfall is just a town, it is a major tourist attraction, so it also has a Von Geldstadt shop.” Victor spoke as he knocked on the door… This place didn’t look like a shop.

A burly man opened the door and looked at the two beauties at the door… No! That one was a guy dressed as a woman. The guard got nervous.

“We are here to sell,” Victor said as he noticed the guard was preparing to sound the alarm.

“We don’t buy stolen goods.” The guard said loudly.

“I only sell genuine goods,” Victor whispered the other part of the password, making the guard relax a little and nod, then make way for them to enter… He made sure to keep an eye on Alex though.

A shopkeeper welcomed them inside, then guided them to a spacious clean room that didn’t reflect the atmosphere outside. There was no shop setup, just a couple of sofas and a sturdy table in the middle where Victor placed his bag and relaxed on the sofa as if this was not his first time here.

“How can I help you Mrs…?”

“Names are not important. I want to sell a girl.” Victor said feigning an aristocratic accent...

“Oh… What kind?” The shopkeeper asked as he eyed the bag, not touching it.

“A Player, An Alchemist. Level uncertain, but not very high.” Victor said, making the shopkeeper looked at the bag with interest this time.

“May I have a look?” He asked,

Victor nodded, and carefully opened the bag to reveal the unconscious girl inside.

“She is pretty normal.” The shopkeeper said after appraising her beauty. Nothing special.

Victor nodded, while checking Hana’s storage ring, he found an ointment inside that she was applying to herself, to make herself ugly… She is very pretty though, on par with Alpha.

“I am selling her for her Abilities, not her body, I couldn’t identify her background though… Probably some rogue player. She will wake up in about 12 hours.” Victor added,

“I can’t price her like this, you might need to take her to the headquarters to check her class and level…” The shopkeeper frowned and said, If she was pretty, he might take a risk, but she is not.

“I don’t plan to sell her directly, I want you to sell her at the Auction… I heard there will be one next week.” Victor satiated.

“Oh… That is doable.” The shopkeeper said with some hesitation as Victor gave him a card with a bank account.

“Just deposit the profits here… I am too busy to care for such stuff.” Victor said casually.

“I will.” The shopkeeper said, with a slight smile as he crumbled the card in his pocket only to feel the edge of a very sharp blade on his neck.

“No funny business kid… Do this according to procedures, or I will make sure Kolmir hears of this…” Victor said as he drew back his dagger, making the shopkeeper who was going to take the girl and then sell her by himself change his mind… Only a few outsiders knew about the name Kolmir. The punishment hall master of their family. And none of them were easy.

“I… I will make sure to do everything perfectly.” The shopkeeper said as he quickly prepared a token for Victor with a series of numbers. This was a receipt. He cut the sleeping Hana’s finger and made her bleed on it.

Victor nodded, then grabbed the token and turned leaving the shop without looking at the bag or the shopkeeper. The disturbed Alex followed after him quickly.

After that, they quickly borrowed a car and drove out of town and into the highway while keeping silent… Alex who was doing the driving was too annoyed to talk to Victor not realizing that he was suffering from a backlash and was busy adjusting his breathing.

At the moment he left the shop, his fate shield took most of the damage, but he was a still little hurt. But he had a smile on his face, the backlash meant that Hanaʼs or Sebastianʼs fate was successfully changed.

They didn’t talk until they reached some small village where Victor ditched the car and then took a random bus heading to Vein city with Alex... He was much better after stuffing his mouth with healing pills.

“Do you think I was cruel?” Victor, who looked like an old man now asked as he whispered in Alex’s ear just as the bus started.

“Yes,” Alex replied, not caring about his intimate moves. She was really disturbed.

“Donʼt worry, I plan to buy her back. If I took her home immediately, she would know what we did. She would hate us and would want to go get Sebastian back. I just want to distance myself from this and act as an ally for her and Sebastian, who would eventually escape... I donʼt want to antagonize their entire sect.” Victor added. He was using his disguise on Alex too, turning her into a pretty woman. So the other few passengers on the bus were watching in disgust as that old bald man whispered in the young woman’s pretty ears.

“Really?” Alex asked, seemingly relieved a little.

“Yes. Remember, Sebastian is a scion, he would get out sooner or later. So if one day he came knocking on the door, I would have to play innocent as you hide in the basement.” Victor said with a smile making her freeze a little. “I will go buy her at the auction next week, And I can pay a lot for her, as the money would just go from one pocket to the other… She might suffer a little this week, but no matter what, I will get her back... I am telling you this in case something were to happen to me, you have to get Alpha and go get her.” He added.

“Is she really that important?” Alex asked. No longer feeling sorry for Hana, on the contrary, she was feeling a little jealous now.

“Yes. She is an Alchemist… and I really need this girl for a different reason too. She comes from the same family as Alpha.” Victor said.

“Family?” Alex asked.

“Go ask Alpha yourself, everyone has some secrets, I will not reveal anything.” He said, making her look at him with interest. Would he keep her secret too?