Chivalry of a Dark Knight [Batman x Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry]

CH16: No more (prt 2)

Bruce stopped a few feet away from the cashier counter. He watched the queue of players lined up to either collect their winnings or to dump more their money in the misguided hope of recuperating their losses.

It'd be logical to assume that his briefcase was somewhere behind the 'cage', so to speak, but what he needed was a way inside without being seen; it wouldn't be somewhere just nearby, not when you consider the size of their bank, aka the amount of money they wished to horde to themselves.

So he continued on, with Nene clopping after him, until he came across a lone corridor. Standing by the side of the wall was a guard: a tall and muscular man, though not as wide as the Bouncer they had dealt with, sporting styled beard and his hair tied in top knot. A kind of modern samurai look. Behind the guard was a single door decked with nothing more than a no entry symbol and a card reader above the handle.

"In there." Bruce kept his voice low and subtly gestured.

Nene grinned in a haughty fashion and unfurled her fan.

"Ku ku ku, leave this to me. I'll just use my feminine wiles on him."

And with that, she trotted off before Bruce could stop her and left him to only groan and shake his head in exasperation.

"Well, well. What do we have here?"

The guard looked to his side and found the source of the voice. Nene sauntered up to him, hiding the lower half of her face in a mysterious and sensual way as she spoke in words laced in honey.

"You look like quite a stud. Nice big arms and I dig that beard. Did I mention that I like my men rugged and wild?"

She slowly lowered the fan from her face, making sure her lashes were low and her gaze in a way that could only exemplify the term 'come-hither'.

"What do you say you and I go some place private? Where I can show you the time of your life!"

The proposal was accentuated with a slow drag of her tongue over her lips.

"..."

There was a long and stilted pause before the guard finally spoke up.

"You lost or something, kid? Can't find your mommy and daddy?"

"UWAH!"

A crack of thunder echoed in Nene's mind like she had in indeed been struck by lightning and she felt herself reduced to nothing but a monochrome sketch with her eyes being white dots and vertical lines drooping on the sides of her head.

"Ho-how dare you!" she rounded on him in fit of outrage. "You wouldn't know the meaning of 'sexy' even if it crushed your skull into an unrecognizable mush! Which is exactly what I'm going to do to you, you ignorant gorilla shit!"

Luckily for the guard, he wouldn't get to experience the wrath of the Yaksha Princess. For at that moment, Bruce had knocked him out from behind with a well placed strike at one of his pressure points.

"Hold him up." Bruce told her he held him upright by his armpits.

Nene got the picture and used her gravity powers to force his body upright and freeze him in his place. With the guard immobilized, Bruce searched the man's pockets and fished out an access key-card which he promptly held over the card reader. The door opened with a beep and Bruce and Nene slipped inside with her keeping as long of a hold as she could on the guard.

The inside was network of rooms inside a long hallway. Bruce had figured that doors to the right would lead to the caged counter, which meant that what he was looking for was either in one of the rooms to the left or it was further down the hallway.