Chapter 121 – Invitation – Part 2.
"Look. I know that you find it annoying and everything, but can you at least here are some things before you truly say yes, or no?" – asked the prince.
"…."
"Sure." – replied Phantasia.
"Well…In short I need your mana guns and a lot of it."
"…."
"What for?"
(I don't like where this is going from the get go.)
"Well…... Ah screw it."
"Did you heard about the Doctor?"
(SHIT!)
"Yea…. Met him 3 times and he fuking killed me 3 times when I was just minding my own business." – replied Phantasia.
"Oh really?"
"Yea."
"First when the first plague appeared. He just said "Hi" and then decapitated me."
"Then I was just doing some delivery and I was surrounded and stomped to death by the horde of some sort of centaurs."
"And the last time happened when he attacked that capital city."
"I managed to punch him very hard in the face…. But then he tore me shreds with claws."
"So, yea… Not very fun time with getting extremely brutally murdered each time."
"…."
"Yea…. Anyway, the news I'm about to say to you is about the organization that is supporting the Doctor from behind, so make sure not to tell anybody about this." – said the prince.
"!?"
(Wait, what?! But there is no organization supporting me!)
(Okay! He is bullshiting!)
"…."
(Wait…. What if there is some sort of organization and he is thinking that the Doctor is part of it?)
"Do you know of the story of what had happened to my father? The king?"
"…. I heard the monster bear that spread the plague and diseases was killed by him, but it managed to mortally wound him and infected him with something and now 3 of its children's are battling for the throne."
"Correct. All 3 children's are battling for the throne. Meaning me, my brother and my sister are at each other throats."
"Pretty much, everybody knows that."
"However, I don't think any of the sides that would lose would take it lightly."
"If anything, both my sister and brother have been lately strengthening their forces."
"…."
"Okay… But what does that have to do with Doctor or the organization that is supportable supporting him?" – asked Phantasia.
"Let me explain."
"Its my brother. The first prince."
"Honestly, even though he is the first prince, his position in terms of power and influence is dead last and some of his support is only because he was the first born."
"Even our youngest sister has more influence than him as well as support."
"Like I said, he was strengthen his forces and everything…. But something was off on how he managed to increase his forces way too fast as well as his influence in short amount of time."
"So I decided to spy on him."
"And surprisingly I found two different things about him…. Black market."
"As you may or may not know, the black markets are illegal organizations that specializes in selling and trading illegal products, like drugs, exotic species as well illegal slaves."
"In our kingdom, the black markets are completely illegal, but that bastard has been working with the black market and was even covering up for them."
"He has been buying an illegal slaves and them selling them for somebody…. And that somebody was a weird organization that we had never seen before or anything."
"My men tried to spy on them, but these people had discovered something…. They were brining in monsters as well as slaves."
"These monsters weren't reported or anything like that, nor some of them lived in our kingdom."
"Captured monsters and illegal slaves…. That sounds fishing like hell, right?"
"However, why is my brother working with some sort of unknown organization…. Then it hit me."n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om
"That Doctor has an ability to combine different species in monsters, right? He created an chimeras made out of different monsters OR PEOPLE!"
"Not only that, there is also the question of the unknown origin of that plague bear that attacked the kingdom."
"There was straight up no traces or anything like that, that would point out to its point of origin."
"It's as If that bear just appeared out of thin air out of a blue."
"And here is another fact."
"That Doctor wields plagues, right? And he posses an ability to create monsters, right?"
"So that would make the Doctor the main suspect in all this."
"However, according to my informations, the Doctor was growing stronger and at the start he wasn't any real threat."
"In order worlds, it couldn't have been him, since the plague bear appeared way before the Doctor made its first official appearance."
"But, there are theories that the Doctor received help from somebody and what if that somebody is currently in this kingdom?"
"…."
"Are you saying that the first prince is trying to forcefully take over the kingdom in case he loses?" – asked Phantasia.
"That or he plans to go to the war after becoming the king."
"There is also the question regarding the sudden and unknown increase in influence."
"It's all too sudden."
"…."
"So… What do you want from me?"
"…."
"I want your mana guns."
"I want a lot of your mana guns if not just the crafting method itself."
"…. You want to go to the war, don't you?" – asked Phantasia.
"Yes."
"If those people are really the same people that made the Doctor who he is, then the first prince will definitely will try to cause chaos and destruction and I cannot have that after that whole plague bear incident that straight up caused way too much damage."
"So…. I want to have you either work for me, sell me mana gun crafting method or just sell me mana guns in secrets."
"Obviously, you will be paid for any option chosen."
"Hm…..."
"…..."
"…."
"…."
"Sorry…. But I got to say "No" to your request prince."
"!"
"But why?!"
"Evidence."
"Do you have any evidence or anything like that would point out to the first prince being the traitor to his own kingdom? Or at least confirmed that the shady organization he is supposable working with is really the same organization that had helped creating Doctor onto who he is?"
"I heard those theories and everything, but there was no confirmation of that organization even existing."
"It could not exist and be completely made up or maybe just 1 person is just using Doctor as his pawn."
"Do you have anything, like ANYTHING! Any form of leads or evidence? Words alone are not enough."
(And I don't fuking trust you mate.) – though Phantasia.
(The fuking organization that shouldn't even exist is now supportable exist now?)
(He is either talking about another organization that he confused for the made up one…. Or he is straight up bullshiting right in my face and trying to gaslight me.)
(There is a HUGE chance he is lying to me… ESPECIALLY WITH THAT FUKING TALK ABOUT CRAFTING METHOD!)
(That guy raised my suspicious way too high if I'm being honest.)
(What if the first prince isn't the traitor, but the second prince is? And he is currently planning the rebellion or war?)
(Not only that, what if that bear monster wasn't really created and was really an wild monster.)
(I can infect my own monsters with the plague, but it's not like I can straight up fuse them with it or made them some sort of permanent plague host, that is just now how it works with it.)
(That bear was something completely different than my plague.)
(Not only that, there is also the fact that I use CORPSE and not living beings to create monsters.)
(However, obviously nobody really knows how exactly the chimeras and the plagues are produced, so I can't blame him for thinking that.)
(But there is an fuking fact that if he had any evidence that the first prince or his faction are really working with the black market, then what the fuck I'm here for? He can expose him and have the whole kingdom deal with it and stuff.)
(I'm not needed in the picture one bit.)
(Maybe he is scared of that unknown group…...But even so he should have let his father know.)
"Does the king, your father knows about the first prince relationship with the black markets?"
"N-no." – replied the prince.
"Why?"
"…..."
*Sigh*
"I don't want to be disrespectful or anything like that, but we won't be going anywhere like that." – said Phantasia.
"This talk is over.
"?!"
"Wait! I'm not done!" – said the prince.
"But I'm done."
(You lying son of a bitch. I don't fuking trust you one bit.)
(If anything, just talking with you put me at huge risk that I rather avoid.)
(I don't know if you are good or bad guy, but I don't care about it.)
"Sorry prince, but the accusation you are throwing around are too heavy and without any proper evidence or anything like that straight up puts you in the bad light."
"All I can say, that I don't wish to join any of the other factions either way."
"I'm sorry, but can I go already? You won't be able to convince me with how things are right now."
"!"
"Wait!" – said the prince as Phantasia tried getting up.
"I can offer you a lot of money! I can even offer you a noble position once I become a king."
"No means no." – replied Phantasia.
"I'm sorry. But the risk with associating with you or any other heirs straight up put me under too much pressure and risk."
"So no matter what kind of reward or position you or any other prince or princess offers, I will decline and keep trying to be as neutral as possible."
"And I'm sorry, but also making mana guns in secrets for you would straight up expose me instantly or selling the method to craft them would also put me in huge risk."
"…."
In the end, the prince wasn't unable to convince Phantasia, resulting in the craftsman leaving the major mansion as the prince observed him leaving through the window.
"…."
"Fuking dammit!" – said the prince.