Honey : The Empire's Treasure 138 Underestimated

Does making a fool and scheme a person out of their money make them friends?

"Though we haven't seen eye to eye on things, that doesn't mean we are enemies. Isn't it better to have a good relationship with one another rather than a bad one?"

"...but that still doesn't make us friends, at best it makes us associates, correct?" Ailwin pulled out the extra chair at the table and sat down.

"True...but even associates have there used."

"What kind of benefits can a thirteen-year-old give me...?" Ailwin couldn't believe that she was making a proposition to him.

"Are you looking down on my offered hand because of my age? Hahaha...Prince Ailwin I think you have it backward...you should be telling me what benefits you can offer me, correct?"

"Oh really, how so?"

"Hahaha...Prince Ailwin, have you forgotten? That every time we've met, you have lost to me! Even almost losing your general...hahaha." Mika smirked at Ailwin as she reminded him of their past meetings.

"Ugh...Just because you win today, doesn't mean you'll win tomorrow!" Ailwin said, pointing his finger at Mika.

"True...and allow me to throw those same words back at you." Mika pushed his finger aside, offering her hand, "since that is the case why not, gain more associates."

Ailwin looked at the Mika outstretch small hand, her words and actions amazed him. His gut was telling him to take the waiting hand, and as a commander of an army, your instincts can be the deciding factor between life and death.

With his gut telling him that this was a chance he should not miss, Ailwin's big callous long-fingered hand encased Mika's small soft slim-fingered hand as they shook on their alliance.

Mika turned her head to the side to see a soldier coming in with a tray of food. Pulling her hand from Ailwin grasp, Mika licked her lips salivating at the food placed before me.

"You should eat, we have a hard day ahead of us," Mika said as she puts a piece of spiced-honeyed sausage in her mouth.

Ailwin, who was watching Mika eat heard his stomach growl and realize he also didn't have breakfast, so consumed with reading the reports he had forgone his meals.

"En."

With two foodies sitting at the table, the once full table was half gone in seconds.

Where does she put it all? Ailwin wondered as he watched Mika finish dish after dish of food.

When all the plates were clean except for one honey cake remaining, Mika looked at Ailwin as Ailwin looked at Mika.

Both had their forks ready, this was gradually becoming an age-old battle between them.

"Wait, how about I cut it? That way we both get a piece." Mika suggested, picking up her knife.

"Okay..." Ailwin waited for Mika to cut the honey cake and placed it on his plate.

Taking the other half, Mika placed it on her plate.

Ailwin looked down at the minuscule slice of cake on his plate, then looked at the large piece of cake on Mika's plate and slammed the table.

"You call this half!?"Ailwin said, pointing at the small portion on his plate.

"No...I call it a piece."

Swiftly putting her whole portion into her mouth, Mika smiled as her mouth tried to contain the food.

"Tsk...why do I even bother?" Ailwin said before eating his slice.

Patting her lips clean of oils and crumbles, Mika looked at Ailwin, "Shall we discuss what I need for you do?"

"En. Let's get this over with."

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Meanwhile, at the same time, Kaze, Saavi, and Jonas were all sitting in the Vlacca's jailhouse.

"So what do we do now, just wait?" Jonas looked at Saavi and Kaze as they sat on the dirt floor.

"Yes. we have done what young miss wanted us to do." Saavi closed her eyes, and rest her head against the wall as if to go to sleep.

"Jonas sit down. Miss Mikaela wouldn't do anything to hurt us." Kaze pointed to space at the corner for Jonas to sit.

"Sigh, fine." Jonas joins Kaze and Saavi on the dirt floor.

As per Mika's instructions, Kaze, Saavi, and Jonas snuck into the Vlacca clan's estate in the name of finding their young miss. Mika wanted their search to cause a lot of damage to the Vlacca clan estate without killing anyone. She also wanted them the record everything before getting caught by Lord Kendel's men.

The hard part about the whole situation was getting caught without dying in the process, the easy part was destroying the property.

Saavi, in particular, found this part enjoyable as she blew up the main hall of the Vlacca clan with the weapons took from the Udava clan.

Kaze recalled the look of euphoria on Saavi's face as she watched the building crumbled to the ground.

Looking through the small window in the jail cell, Kaze estimated that it was around noon.

"Miss Mikaela should be here soon."

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Ailwin sat staring at Mika, wondering how she thought this plan of hers would work.

"So you want me to take my army and seize Lord Kendel and his men on the grounds of abduction and hostage charges?"

"Yes." Mika sat back a quietly sipped her tea.

"Not possible." Ailwin was sad to burst her bubble, but he just couldn't take his army to arrest a clan leader without proper procedure.

"Why not?" Mika put down her cup, looking at Ailwin perplex.

*Sigh*

"...one, there is no reports of your kidnapping nor evidence of you being taken by the Vlacca clan. And two, the most important, how am I going to claim they abducted you when you're here with me?" As Ailwin pointed out the flaws in Mika's plan, he was disappointed that he overestimated her talent.

"Aren't you sure there are no reports...?"

"Yes.....*sigh*, but I'll check again if you don't believe me..."Ailwin walked over and got his tablet from where he left it on the bed.

From the time Mika claimed she was kidnapped, Ailwin went into the courts' system looking for any reports filed for Mikaela. Thus, he very sure there was none.

"What the hell!?" Ailwin's eyes zoomed to where Mika was sitting. "How did you do this?"

"Do what?"

"Get I report into the courts!"

"I didn't," Mika said, breathing a sigh of relief at her mother's quick response.

"No, you didn't, but there was clearly no reports filed last night, now there is a report. How did you make that happen?"

" Prince Ailwin, why are you so shocked? Of course, a report should be filed...my parents love me."Mika said confidently.

Dropping the tablet on the table, Ailwin stared at Mika's waiting for answers. "You're not going to tell me?"

"There is nothing to tell."

"....what about the evidence?" Just as the words left his mouth, his tablet dinged, alerting him to a new message.

Ailwin looked down at his tablet then at Mika sipping her tea.

"You're not going to open it?"

"What am I going to find?"

"How am I suppose to know, it's your tablet..."

"Hmph...fine." Ailwin opened the message to find a recording of Kaze arguing with Lord Kendel about abducting Mika from the Udava clan. In which he admitted to the assault on the Udava clan with his sisters and taking Mika for ransom money. At the end of the video, it shows Lord Kendel apprehending Kaze, Saavi, and Jonas.

Closing the message Ailwin looked at Mika, "how will you get back inside the Vlacca clan's estate?"

"Walk in."

"You think they are not going to notice you walking in?"

"They didn't notice me walking out."

Ailwin had no more words to discuss and just told Mika he and his men will leave in thirty minutes.

Chapter end