The Place Where I Belong

Chapter 39

Previously...

"Let me tell you this." He suddenly gets serious that makes the three children lean in to listen. "If you want something, don't hesitate to ask."

The children politely nodded.

Cale smiled at them but internally screaming.

'but please don't ask too much. Ask father instead!' he thought as his hand gripped harder on his drained wallet.

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The weather this day is so warm, not much sunlight, no rain but windy, a perfect day to relax.

Or maybe, a day supposed to relax?

Rock just noticed that his rest day kept slipping on his grasp. 

"Here's your fucking tea, unwanted guest." Lux rudely placed the teacup on the table, in front of their guest. Lux fuming in anger at their guest's audacity to order him to serve tea.

"Come on, Lux. It's been a while since the last time I saw you." Kei whined but vanished after the next second he tasted the tea. "Delicious!"

"What are you here for?" Is what Rock wanted to ask but Lux asked instead.  

"I ran away." He said bluntly. Lux stared at him, looking for another answer but he continued eating cookies before he did. "The tavern is so busy nowadays so I closed it."

"And that's how you are supposed to earn income!!"

"Don't be mad, Lux. It's bad for my heart." Compared to his younger sister, Leon, who is always serious and calm, Kei is the person who is more expressive than her and is said to have a soft and weak heart. 

Rock was actually shocked when he first knew that the man was an assassin. Kei's personality hides his dark secret. Rock found it viciously terrifying.

"Right! Rock, what's with Cale? He has been restless this past week. The exact reason why I have no energy to work today." Kei has the look of someone who is so tired of shit. 

Cale, after challenging his father, would go directly to the hideout of the guild and ask Kei for a mission. That kept repeating for the whole week and Kei had to run back and forth to his job and to the other side of his tavern.

It took a while for Kei to stop from his rambling and seriously stated what he really came to. The two men felt his seriousness and are now paying attention.

"The organization are becoming conscious of our existence." 

"That's our goal." Lux commented that received a confused look from Kei.

"To make them panic and alert?"

"Is it not to annoy them?"

They both look at each other's eyes with a long silence before their eyes glanced at Rock who is quietly munching his cookie.

"Let's stop appearing too much for now. Lessen the mission. We already have the information we need and now, let's wait until they start moving." Until the start of the novel.

"I guess we need to appoint another meeting."

"Let's just send them a letter."

While the three of them are together and casually chatting, their other guild members gather together in William's office. 

Unlike William, who is quietly doing his job as a manager, the other decided to make his office as their playground and go make a mess around. Thankfully, Noah was there to shut them with his cooking talent.

"Why are you all here?" Noah asked what William was dying to know.

Cale didn't answer since he originally had a scheduled lesson with Noah today. He nudges Aldan who is busy playing chess with Leon.

"Hmm? Wait, let me move for a second– there!" Aldan had to make his move first before he fully took attention to Noah. "We coincidentally stopped near here so I decided to pay a visit."

Noah doesn't need to ask Leon as she answered right after Aldan.

"Brother closed the shop and left me alone."

Freesia and Brill.

"We had a mission near here, so planned to eat here after it." Freesia answered without even looking as she was focused on carving a statue. William really wanted to cry on the mess she made.

"Noah-hyung! You don't want us here? If you don't, we can just leave." While Brill dramatically questioned Noah's intention of asking them.

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That sound comes one after another. They are surprised to see a bunch of birds in the window. Brill has to open it right away, afraid that the birds will break the window.

As soon as the window opened, the birds came landing into every one of them. 

It's a messenger bird.

Cale quickly recognized the messenger bird on his shoulder. "Pora, what are you doing here?" Cale squeals from his partner's cuteness. 

Everyone from the guild has their own pigeon while the big boss has his beautiful eagle as his messenger. Cale is quite jealous with that but Cale loves Pora more.

"The guild's mission will be cut less than normal. Limit our public display until the day comes for us to move freely." 

Those who haven't read the letter yet, questioned Leon's words.

"Seems like you all have to focus on your job from now on." William said, as if mocking the others who were trying to escape from their work.

Extra:

"I've been wondering why we are called 'The real arm'." Cale said out of blue. "We should have called the leg since we either ran away or towards them." 

Aldan seems to agree on this but completely has a different idea on what the name should be.

"I was thinking that we are the eye since we keep an eye on them."

The former and the now youngest looked at each other for so long and then made a thinking pose. They are deciding what is suited for the guild and will submit a proposal to the guild master later.

Extra 2:

Not so long after Lux sent the seven birds with the same letter written by Rock when all birds arrived at the same time.

All have replied to messages that are 'okay' 'noted'. All have short replies but Cale.

'Noted, papa. I'll go home before dinner. Ps. Beside you, manager and Kei, I'm with everyone.'

"I know it. We just waste a bunch of paper." Rock groaned. He seriously glared at the vice guild master and said, "Let's create a shit show before we keep our silence."

A week later, one of arm's hideouts was looted by the real arm and was also destroyed by them.

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Information Guild members (-- and their personality)
Rock (the stoic big boss)
Kei (the soft one)
Noah (the terrifying but kind one)
Lux (the tired-as-hell one)
Freesia (the weird one)
Brill (the dramatic one)
William (the silent one)
Leon (the serious one)
Aldan (the cheerful one)
Cale (the curious one)

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