Cutting baina, she has only just reached back to the inn and was sitting down in thought as she waited for a meal from the hostess. He knows....HE KNOWS!!!! Fuck what do I do, run? But I have nowhere else to go. Calm dowhink about this rationally. Phew, First off, he doesn't see me as a threat, sed he seems like he wants to make some es however, I t see through his thoughts as he has clearly revealed that he knows in watg him through the spider.

  After spending some time in thought, Lumis served dinner and she eats it absentmindedly as she es up with a solution. Hmm, I could meet up personally but ideally it would be in a setting that everyone see but not hear. After making that outline of a pn, she order the spider to reveal itself before An, wave at him aurn to her shadow. Ohat was done she felt her shadow feel heavier with the spider returned. After this she went back to her room to fall asleep and prepare herself for a new day.

  After an unknown amount of time, Lumina woke up and got bato routine of the usual but started thinking about going on a few missions as she only has four more days at the inn before she has to pay again therefore, she figured it best to head to the hunters guild to find suitable missions to take to increase the amount of money she had on hand.

  Once she got to the guild, Lumina headed straight for the mission board looking around before she found a suitable mission about hunting some magic foxes which amouo five rge coppers per fox and found this suitable for the D rank. Ripping the mission off the board, Lumina headed to the receptionist and handed in the mission and doted it in the quest log.

  When that was done, Lumina headed to the forest in which they were found, halfway there she called upon the elk ahon to get there faster.

  O has been a while, after looking for the foxes from Aethon's viewpoint they were found a little while aroximately being five of them. Unsummoning the elk shadow, he called upon the rest of his shadows being the basilisks, spiders, bats and rats and got them to attack.

  The suddenness of the attack shocked the foxes and before they could get a teratta, Lumina struck like lightning with the knife ensuring that they were dead. ing to a quick resolution within the hour, Lumina pced the fresh corpses into the magic bag and headed back to the hunters guild. However, on the way back she was stopped by An who looked as if he were waiting for her. Stiffening up, Lumina briskly walked to An and said "Lets talk." In a stiff tone before heading to a nearby café on the side where it was busy.

  Otling in their seats, Lumina ordered a simple sad to the waiter before fog a nervous yet steady gaze on An. Taking a deep breath she then says in an accusative voice "So 'Knight ander' what is it you want from me?"

  "Well, after your dispy through your intermediary I assumed you heard what I had to say already but I thought it best to make some crifications and give you reason to trust me."

  "Oh? and how will you be able to prove that I trust you? How sincere are we talking?" Being a little snappy, Lumina wao get the point across that she felt rather untrusting at the moment.

  "A mana oath sworn before the gods that must be strictly followed and those who don't follow the terms will be stri with death." Donning a serious face, An revealed one of his cards to show his siy by pulling the paper out and handing it to Lumina to read through.

  Lumina thhly read through the oath to see if there were anything wrong with it but she furrowed her brows in fusion as she found most of the terms ridiculously good for her. Looking back at An, she opened her mouth "Are you sure about this?"

  "What's the problem?" After quirking his eyebrow up and giving a disarming smile Lumina answered in disbelief.

  "This oath forces you to pay me for my needs such as lodging and csses while giving me direct training in the knights training ground, it also stiputes that you are to iure, help me gairust of the people to ensure my rule and iurn all I o do is ehat I am fair and just in my ruling. These are serious cession, why are you helping me so much? what are you truly after?"

  After a brief moment of silence, Aually made a respoh a question. "Did you know that some of the residents here were unfairly exiled for crimes that they didn't it? I was one of them." An had a faraway look in his eyes before training them bato Lumina. "I used to be part of the holy order of padins, serving faithfully but was victed of a crime I didn't it. A crime that someone else did but used me as a scapegoat. Due to this I no longer really believe in the faith, or their system but I still do what I even though I do not know how to rule."

  "..."

  "I ot leave this pce of exile to learn to rule either as it would put me in unnecessary danger. Also, there are internal aernal threats that o be dealt with and I do not have the power to make the ge, thus I require someoh power to fill the vacuum that they leave ohey are dealt with."

  "What do you mean by internal aernal threats?"

  "We deal with monsters just fine, but it is rather the monsters disguised as humans i am most weary about. The sgers are bandits that we normally send punitive forces out to deal with as they rob and kill any who leave the capital, the hawks which are gang members who rotective fees and trol the drugs and brothels withiy and then there are the puma's who are a group of assassins in the slums whet anyone for a price."

  "..."

  "I want help dealing with them making the fight more even as their are three people on my level and I need someone on the pying field to break the status quo."

  "An, just so we are clear, I have never killed another person before and I do not know how I'll reader such circumstances... Don't push a situation on me where I'm forced to do so, don't scheme or plot this under your and. So long as you don't do so and they still e after me we'll se what happens then. Add this to the mana oath and I will sign it."

  Handing back the oath, An grabbed a quill and made the ames befhting his signature on it and pg a drop of his blood and handing the oath in Lumina's dire. She followed An's lead and did the same before letting out a breath of relief and rexed in this teuation.

  "Thank you, happy cooperation."

  "Happy cooperation."