Chapter 4, part 5:Disturbances
Lina winced, clenching her fist and gritting her teeth standing at the entrance in a cold sweat. Another figure joined them, following the bony cheeked butler. He was frail with thin bony hands which looked as if they would turn to dust any moment. He was clad in a robe which covered him head to toe, with a steady stream of breath flowing from the mouth of his hood. Labored breathed with a slight hunch, it seemed as if this man was not long for this world. He threw his arms up and with a raspy voice addressed them all. " Welcome Skips, to my humble abode. You may make yourself feel at home in the dining room, I will be there shortly". The butler went ahead, bowed and gestured with his arms to move along in their direction. Lina gulped and moved ahead, finding herself standing before a 50 foot table with 30 or so seats. She randomly grabbed on and flipped it around, resting her head on the head of the chair.
The little hunchedback man leaned over the table, looking in the direction of Lina while his servant was standing to his left and the fighter seated to his right. Lina cleared her throat with a small cough and stood up. " before we begin nameless, I want to discuss my pay before anything". The frail figure sat back and rubbed his chin. He snapped his fingers and waited for his servant to instinctively walk into the back of the room. He picked up a lamp and began rummaging through a bunch of name cards on a roll.
There a safe with a 15 foot steel door solemnly stood before them, whose shadows danced in the flickering lamp light. He swung the safe's turn dialed like a ship's wheel. Then with a lightning fast hand stopped it, then again and again. Each time with a calculated hand motion set it in the correct place every time.
From within the faint lamp's light revealed mounds of gold coins, beli bills, coins, statues, art, and last but not least a mound of chests. " Servant 1, grab the simple girl one of the small ones. Perhaps ma---no that won't do. Just a chest okay"? Lina grit her teeth and resisted the urge to growl under her breath. Servant 1, his boney cheeked butler dragged the chest with him and slammed it into the table without concern for it. It was 4 feet long and 3 feet wide. In it were neatly wrapped beli bills worth 1,000 beli held together by a band in the middle of a stack of em. Servant 1 held one out and bent the stack, letting it make a ruddering noise to show just how many bills were there. "100,000 beli here, your pay will be 25 million when your job is fulfilled". He placed the beli back into the chest and slammed it shut.
The Nameless Baron wrapped his fingers together and gave her a nonchalant shrug, " Okay see there's your money skips. Ready t---". A loud bang interrupted fragile man, it was hard and stronger than any human could muster. From a pipe jutting out of the corner of the room, a screeching woman's voice rang through the house. " Sir brace yourself! Do not tell it anything"! Servant 1 in turn placed tape on the frail man's mouth without showing his face and used his body as a shield.
The manor trembled, the windows rattled...a loud thump from the opposite side of the house made itself known. Lina coated her right hand in jetblack haki and ran to the disturbance. It was similar to what she felt before, a tickle feeling if you will. The other fighter trailed behind her as she found herself lost in a hallway of endless doors. Another loud thump,but it seemed to come from every direction. Not just because it echo'd, but because the force seemed to come from multiple directions. " young lady you're on the right track! feel it! Feel the evile"!
Lina cleared her mind and stared out in front of her, letting all else disappear from her psyche.
Naaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeee
She smirked and jet toward the left, looking up to find an empty room, with but one window. Etched into the frost were scribbles, illegible at that. She slowly approached it, with each passing moment the scribbles looked more legible. There in a spiral pattern were names...alongside one word:
Naughty.
- haki and skills stuff:
Haki Stamina 4/6
Haki cooldown 3/3(this is the 3 turn rule needed to replenish haki stamina)