52. Before He Arrives…
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Armond Theocleus White was a man of small stature and a bit above average in his weight class. He was the head of House White.
A devout believer of faith and believed that matters of such divine nature should only be allowed to be preached by a learned man of good lineage. Because only such a man can change the hearts of fickle men.
For a few days now Armond had noticed that his beautiful wife had surrounded herself with various strange looking tools and things. They were as strange in their mechanism as their functions. Something called a heada-pho-nea was always on his wife's head making her hum and giggle like a young maiden in love.
Armond being the learned man that he was immediately understood the true nature of these strange looking things.
Armond - Those are the gifts of the devil !
It was made to corrupt his beautiful wife's pure heart and soul. He refused to believe that such complex mechanisms could be made by a human and a commoner at that. He had seen one of the paintings that she brought and it was an art of exquisite work of raw talent. The creator of such things must be the devil's advocate.
Armond tried his best to make his wife understand the true nature of such vile gifts and she dismissed him without even listening a word.
Tonight It was their time of holy union of the month. Armond always thought that the act of this ritual was barbaric and uncivilized. It did however produce children which were a gift from Goddess Artula. But since they already had two beautiful children Armond missed the point of why they had to continue doing such barbaric activity. His wife insisted on it strongly though so he had to comply to appease her.
Armond had received an injury on his tailbone once when he fell off his horse in his warring days and had trouble moving his waist excessively and yet he tried his best to make his beautiful wife happy.
However even after waiting for an hour his wife did not join him in their holy union ritual room, thinking that finally the woman had come to her senses and realized what a waste this was, he arose and walked towards their bedroom to meet her.
However his steps froze at the entrance of his bedroom door. His beautiful wife, the love of his life, the mother of his children was bending down on the bed in doggy style and moving a big white rubbery object in and out of her holy hole at a speed that for Armond hurt simply by just watching.
He felt a strange sensation in his heart that he could not describe. But it was enough. The devil had started eroding her elegance and grace now. Such... Such acts of vulgarness cannot go unpunished.
The devil was controlling the mind of his beautiful wife. He had a thought of yelling at his wife to stop it but then he remembered that there was no such prohibition on touching oneself in the teachings of Goddess Artula. On the other hand the trend of young kids nowadays was to admire and touch each other's privates after engagement as an act of love. It was plain blasphemy according to Armond but the church never spoke on the matter so it was just accepted as something that was allowed. So Armond could not order his wife to stop it.
And he realized the problem was not his wife but the strange toys she had in her holy hole and other things that had occupied her time of late.
So the next day he called for his knights and went to confront this devil that had a shop in his city.
The crowd gathered around the unique new shop that had just opened up recently watching a fat man drabbed in noble attire shout at the glass door.
The staff immediately came out with Ava, Jace, Hermon(old man cashier) and the guard of the shop Irene. The rest were ordered to look after the busy shop.
Armond - Who is the devil among you that is crafting all these cursed items ?
Jace - My lord, is there anything wrong with our product, may I inquire about what this is about ?
Armond - Answer the question, wench.
Ava - The owner of this shop is currently out of the town sir, we respectfully ask you to come after 2 days. Our boss will be back by then.
Armond - The bastard is hiding away ! He must be in the shop ! Knights !
The knights started walking forward but Irene just casually started walking and stood between the glass door and a group of knights. The knights stopped but Armond shouted at them to just push her away.
Of course entering someone's property without permission was against the law even for nobility. So she was perfectly in her right to defend the establishment, the city guards also arrived at that time, late as usual. However the late arrived guards just stood on the side and watched. Since the matter involved nobles, they won't be much of a help.
The bulky Armored knights tried to push Irene but all who touched her were sent flying by her immaculate sword technique mixed with strength that superseded every knight present.
Even after 10 minutes of struggle the knight still failed to enter the shop, Armond was pissed and bit embarrassed by the performance of his house knights as he stomped away in anger. However the tense atmosphere remained, the old noble was rich and with authority, he could easily hire as many men as needed to ground the whole shop. And the shop only had one fighter who was bruised and battered by the constant harassment of the heavily armored knights.
After everyone left the employees held a meeting in which everyone was low on spirits.
Ava - It's alright guys ! We just need to hold on for a day and Hikaru will return.
Hermon - Should we use the weapon Hikaru gave us for emergencies?
Jace - No, Hikaru said only to use it if we want to kill the person. If we kill the noble or his guards we will be held against the law for harming nobility. Right now at least we are in a morally high position of defending our property.
Mimi - She can't fight any more men than she did today, I might not be at my best but I can help a little...
Ava - No, your injuries are too severe for that.
Hermon - How about we close the shop and lock it down for a day?
Jace - It will be a loss for Hikaru but this seems like the best option for now.
Ava - it can't be helped. Okay, let's do that for now.
And the next day came and so did the angry noble with twice the men as yesterday but after shouting and cursing at the locked iron shutters he had to give up and leave once again. Of course they also tried breaking the shutters but the lock system proved to be too tough for them.
The next day a powerful adventurer came with the angry noble who could bend the shutters with his bare fists so a fight took place in the middle of the street that everyone witnessed.
It was tough and unfair as knights were supporting the adventurer but Irene somehow managed to win. Of course she was forced to use the handgun Hikaru had given her to end the adventurer but at least that helped in repelling the nobles minions once again.
The strange weapon terrified Armond and he left the shop alone for now until he could think for another way to enact justice on the wretched fools.
The battle injured Irene greatly as she was resting and was being looked after by Ava and kids. The shop however they left open since the noble was gone for the day anyways.
And then the person they were all waiting for finally came back making them truly sigh in relief.
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