Pov Elsaris:
After Zenos gave permission we left to go to the Black Market for the night, who is coming with me are Kira and Jay, I hope we get everything we need today, I don't want to go to the Black Market too often.
One thing I'm sure of is that I'm blacklisted, the only reason I'm not hunted down and killed is because the Black Market knows I've joined the neutral faction, but that doesn't mean I'm still welcome as a customer.
The only reason I dare go to the Black Market branch of this place is because I know the person in charge here very well, she wouldn't dare plot against me after all the times I've helped her, but still, I'm leaving Kira to take care of everything this time.
I lead everyone to the brothel street, I go to a mid-level brothel which was quite full, it was a very large two-story building, as we enter we are greeted by a human-looking woman with long blonde hair, her hair has a fringe that hides the eyes, her skin is a little dark and my body is young and has many curves.
"(She's a little pretty, but she's still a long way from my sister's body perfection.)" (I)
"Welcome dear customers, I'm the receptionist tonight, what kind of girl or boy would you be looking for tonight?" (receptionist)
"I'm looking for 2 dark-skinned men, 5 young blonde women and you." (I)
"Then we will have to find a new receptionist to take my place at the entrance, but first I must inform you that payment has to be made in advance." (receptionist)
"It will be 70 silver coins." (receptionist)
"Here they are." (I)
The receptionist holds out her hands and I put in two silver coins first, then I put in five bronze coins and finish by holding a gold coin in front of her for her to take, then she snaps her fingers and another girl comes to the entrance.
"Follow me to your room." (receptionist)
The receptionist guides us forward down a hallway of rooms, we enter one of the rooms in the middle of the hallway where the door is locked after we enter.
The receptionist walks over to a decorated statue that is in the room in a dark corner, the statue was of an armored knight holding his sword up and with a shield strapped behind his back, the receptionist pulls the shield back which triggers a mechanism that makes the bed rise showing that there were stairs under the bed.
"This way." (receptionist)
We continue following the receptionist down the stairs to a door which the receptionist opens and points us in, after we enter the receptionist closes the door with her outside.
Inside the well-lit room, there was a table with a banquet, a drinks cabinet, pictures of beautiful landscapes, and some sofas, on one of these sofas sat a girl with short black hair who looked to be about 10 years old.
"It's been a while Elsaris, the last time was 15 years ago." (Nazai)
"Hello Nazai, I'm just here to guide people, I'm not the one doing business with you today." (I)
"You're so brave to come in here after quitting, you should be glad we left you and your kids alive." (Nazai)
"We both know this has nothing to do with me being left alone, the people in charge wouldn't do anything to provoke the neutral faction." (I)
"It still doesn't sit well with me letting you in like this, I needed to say something." (Nazai)
"But I'm glad to see you again, even if it's different, I congratulate you on your evolution." (Nazai)
"(Even though I'm hiding my Aura and my appearance she's noticed that I'm different but still confused it with an evolution it seems.)" (I)
"You can sit down, we have a business to attend to, right?" (Nazai)
We're all going to sit on the couch in front of Nazai, her piercing red eyes betray her innocent childlike appearance, this thing is older than me.
"As Elsaris was with you I preferred to come in person, so what kind of business do you want to do here?" (Nazai)
I exchange a look with Kira and nod, then she starts talking.
"We are looking to buy some items and some information." (Kira)
"First we want the items on this list." (Kira)
Kira delivers the list with all the forbidden books that Irina and Érica asked for, the master also added but a few books.
"We have all of them, they're all copies, but keep in mind that many of these books are hard to come by." (Nazai)
"Just say the price." (Kira)
Nazai pulls out a reading crystal and a storage crystal, after fitting the two crystals together she spends about ten minutes doing something before speaking to Kira again.
"390000 gold coins or 39 crystal coins." (Nazai)
The price is a little higher than it should be, but it is probably because of me, this is a way of punishing me to show the superiors that I was not well received, I think she was very easy, if it were me in her place I would have charged twice the price.
I had already told Kira that this sort of thing could happen, so no one was surprised, Kira and Jay have placed several leather bags on the coffee table, Nazai stares at each bag.
"That's the pay." (Kira)
"The books will be delivered tomorrow afternoon on your boat." (Nazai)
"Anything else?" (Nazai)
"We want to buy all information about the Makari Kingdom and the Crown Prince, Henrique Makari." (Kira)
"…" (Nazai)
Nazai's gaze changes for a second as she keeps silent, as usual, she doesn't let anything show on her face, but the sparkle in her eyes in that second was enough to give away that she knows something, Nazai looks my way.
"So I was right, your friend discovered Prince Henry's true identity." (Nazai)
"…" (all)
Sigh
"It took us decades to figure it out and you found out in an instant." (Nazai)
"Are you sure you want to get into this mess?" (Nazai)
"Yea." (I)
"Of all the people I know you were the last one who would expect those types and answers in this situation." (Nazai)
"…" (Nazai)
Nazai is silent for a few minutes while keeping her eyes closed, when she opens her eyes her face changes to a smiling expression, her appearance could be cute if it wasn't for her sick eyes.
"I will give the information about this Demon for free, the same for the information about the Makari Kingdom." (Nazai)
"You want to use us…" (I)
"All I hope is that they create a big mess." (Nazai)
"That will probably happen." (I)
"So you can take this information for free, it would be great if we didn't have to get directly involved as there are enemies around." (Nazai)
"Is the demon faction here too?" (I)
"Yeah, I don't know how many, everything we know is in this storage crystal, you can take it, I already have a copy." (Nazai)
Nazai pulls out a storage crystal and throws it into Kira's hands.
"I don't know what you're going to do, but if it's something big, you can contact me and I'll help, as long as you don't involve me directly." (Nazai)
"I'm sure yes." (I)
I look at Kira and nod, then me, Kira, and Jay stand up.
"I'm glad to see Jay, but it's a shame I can't see young Beatriz, she's a wonderful girl, I'm sorry she has such a troubled mother like you." (Nazai)
"You're just jealous that my daughter is more talented in spying than your sons." (I)
"Stop teasing people mom, we're leaving, nice to see you Miss Nazai." (Jay)
Nazai has always been like that, she acts straightforward without hesitation, but she is also always up to something, half the girls and boys in this brothel must be her children and grandchildren, for the human men and women shouldn't be good enough or like toys, but they have no better time to extract information from men or women.
"Thank that strange boy for stopping the Fairy from killing my son, he is young and still in training, I would be sad to lose another son." (Nazai)
"I'll say, see you later Nazai…" (I)
We all left the way we entered, the receptionist was still there, she is also a Vampire daughter of Nazai.
After we leave the brothel we go straight to the boat, we have no need to go to the Assassins Guild to buy more information, if the demonic faction of Vampires is involved then the Black Market information will be more accurate as they used everything they have to get as much information as possible.
"What happened in there? Why didn't she want to collect this information?" (Kira)
"Because she knows we're going to get into trouble with this Prince and the Kingdom he comes from, it will give the Black Market opportunity to gather more information from their enemy." (I)
"From what Nazai has told the demonic faction is also here, so it's no surprise the Black Market is preparing like this." (Jay)
"They want to use us to force a wrong move on the other side so they can learn more about them." (I)
"It doesn't really matter, it's actually been helpful to us, a little collaboration with the Black Market is something we can consider." (Kira)
"Let's take this back, there must be a lot of information here." (Jay)