Intruder called death

The Queen pondered, seemingly knowing what that name is while simultaneously being oblivious, but she clenched her swollen face

The Queen: "That face seems familiar; I wonder why?"

In the background, Granny P. squeezed her nose, trying not to grow.

Granny P: "Yeah, I wonder why."

The Queen turned towards the former general as she asked.

The Queen: "You said something."

Granny P chose not to reply to that as she turned to Shotaro Mugyiwara, who was looking at the captured Dark Elves intruders.

Granny P: "Ummm...Mugyiwara?"

Shotaro turned back to her, and in a serious tone, the messiah asked.

Shotaro Mugyiwara: "What?"

Granny P stumbled upon his tone as she noticed something in his eyes, but before she could say something, the silver-haired man spoke.

Shotaro Mugyiwara: "Who will dare break an eon-long treaty like that? & that also to kidnap the queen; if they wanted to kill her, they wouldn't kidnap her from the castle, nor will they let her live hours in the abduction; they knew the risk was big. But what if they want a ransom of sorts?"

The Queen pondered upon his reasoning as she asked.

The Queen: "What are you on about?"

Shotaro looked back at her, thinking about his words.

Shotaro Mugyiwara: "Maybe they wanted freedom & the upholding of the treaty; I mean, you're the queen; if someone has the power to grant them the liberty from the years of oppression they experienced, it will be the queen."

"Or maybe it wasn't an act of revenge, as I first thought...terrorism is more like it."

He turned to Granny P. In a voice of command & authority, he said,.

Shotaro Mugyiwara: "They won't be executed; I need them alive & well."

Suddenly Paliv Ellarion jolted up with such demands as she exclaimed.

Paliv: "But they kidnapped mother they should be--"

Shotaro gave her the look in the eye; she shut up. The Queen wanted to say something seeing her daughter like that, but even she knew better than pissing off Shotaro, so she passed the order.

The Queen: "OK then, as you wish."

Shotaro looked at the intruders; they were muzzled, but one of them tried to say something to him. He knew if she said something that she shouldn't say to him, she would pretty much get killed by the queen's assassin, since even he knew a thing or two about politics, so he gestured for her to keep quiet, assuring her with a look in his eyes. The girl, understanding it, went with the guards, and suddenly he heard a familiar voice.

Kazam: "All courtiers are safely at their residence, Mr. Mugyiwara."

Suddenly Shotaro had an idea—a fix for Kazam's situation—as he turned back to the Queen.

Shotaro Mugyiwara: "I want that whore boy as my squire."

He said, pointing at the boy, but that led to a lot of exclamations of surprise.

WHAT?
WHAT!!!
HUH??!?!?
THE FUCK?????

Shotaro gave a confident smirk, knowing he could have his way.

Shotaro Mugyiwara: "You said you want to fix this city, right? That means I must be a temporary resident of the green tower, close to the workspace, & everyone in the green tower gets a squire, right?"

The Queen: "Actually, that makes sense... but why him?"

Shotaro scratched the back of his head, not knowing what to say, yet he answered.

Shotaro Mugyiwara: "I will answer it straight up; if he is one of the employees of the green tower, maybe he can have access to the royal medic & find the medicine for his father's sickness; that way he doesn't have to sell himself for basic temporary relievers."

Hearing his thoughtful words, Kazan can feel his eyes watering—a hope he saw igniting in the form of Shotaro.

Kazam: "Thank you, my lord; I never met a greater hero...& I dare say I never will."

Shotaro Mugyiwara: "That sounds cheesy as hell Don't say that again. & you're welcome, BTW."


Granny P smiled in silence before turning towards the feminine boy.

Granny P: "You may as well take your oath here & now, my boy."

Kazam nodded as he kneeled in front of Shotaro, putting a palm on his chest.

"From this day to your last, from dawn to another, I will be thy squire, the upmost loyal, for you are my lord, once & always; my name is Kazam, son of Alaka."

Shotaro: "Funny language I don't have a hint of, but thanks."

Shotaro got an idea.

Shotaro: "Does this make me a knight?"

Paliv: "Of sorts...I guess."

Shotaro, even though he is the more stoic one, can't help but feel a surge of excitement in his heart; he can't always be the brooding big guy with a sword, can he?.

Shotaro: "Damn...all I need is a cape."

Paliv: "You have a cape."

Shotaro: "This red shroud around my waist? It's not a cape; it's just a dirty red piece of cloth around my waist."

He took a sniff out of his waist cape thingy before groaning in utter disgust.

Shotaro: "I forgot to clean my attire in the 1 month of getting them, & this waist is dragged around all kinds of shit I walk around off."

Granny P.: "You should go & take a bath, stingy-ass savior."

Cuts to next day
Queen Mellirion was wondering how to sort the shit her ages-long descent into alcoholism created as she had Kazam, Shotaro's newly appointed squire, explain to her the horrors of slums as he clenches the armrest of her golden throne, for she failed her dead love, the once & always just king that Luthor was.

Shotaro, however, was learning politics from Granny P., as he needs to have an idea about how the system works for its own salvation. He was great in political classes back in school, so he already had an upstart, weirdly conventional of him to just know shit when it hits the clock; he wonders why.

Paliv, however, was observing her mother's state; she still wasn't fully out of her previous, eggshell-like state of mind, but there were some improvements.

Paliv: "It's only natural for her to slowly come out since she has been like that for ages."

She reassured herself as she lay back on her bed, wondering about what exactly happened to the dark elf captives.

Paliv: "I wonder why he will save those intruders."

She looked outside her window as her eyes wandered towards the garden where she found him.

Paliv: "It's only been a while, & he had done so much; I wonder what more miracles that dude performs in the following years."

While she was thinking, Shotaro was with Granny P., learning many Drakastradorny languages from Granny P.; he is learning Elvish, a rich one with 300K alphabets, and Rakhsassi, spoken by the demonic races, one that makes his throat go rough due to all the sounds he needs to make; he would soon follow with mountain speak, spoken by Dwarves, Gnomes, Orcs, Barbarians & other mountain & cave-residing beings, & desserti, the language of the desert cult; maybe the drowned language is great too.

Shotaro: "Ye Ni Guaye no Shotaro."

Granny P.: "It's Ye Ni Guahe, not Shotaro; what you said meant 'you will be Shotaro,' not 'you ARE Shotaro."

Shotaro slams his wrist on the table, accidentally destroying it.

Shotaro: "Damn it, me & my suspiciously inhumane strength."

Granny P.: "You can turn a diamond into vapor with that arm strength; learn to control yourself."

Shotaro looked back, then again tried to justify it.

Shotaro: "I mean, what the fuck is this kind of language? Can't it be more like Japanese or English, like one misspelling here & suddenly my sister is an anteater?"

Granny P.: "I mean, the above order granted the aetherion beings the way to communicate by languages a million years ago; it's only natural for it to be a little overdeveloped."

Shotaro: "Still, 300 thousand alphabets, & it's only elvish."

Granny P.: "It's not my fault elves are born with more developed voice boxes, so they can make sounds you can't even comprehend, resulting in such a large number of letters."

Shotaro: "Then why am I even learning them if my voice box can't pronounce, like, 70% of them?"

"Waste of time"

He said before walking out of the room

Granny P. humped

Granny P.: "Kids these days."

Meanwhile, Shotaro saw Kazam, who stumbled upon his 7'11 stature.

Kazam, "EKK!! My lord? Sorry, I...fell asleep after cleaning your bowels."

Shotaro only asked one thing

Shotaro: "Your father?"

Kazam: "Umm...he is still in a coma, but his jade corruption is fading little by little; it may take a year or two, though."

Shotaro: "I am glad."

& the hero of saving walks away, for some sunlight & stretching as he walks around hearing gossips from the maid

Maid #1: "Have you noticed a decline in rapists walking around the slums?"

Maid #2: "Yeah, I was even able to return home to give my family the money they need AT NIGHT; usually I sent a squire or something for that job."

Meanwhile Shotaro was standing far away, his heart swelling with pride, as he knew the reason

He & granny P went wild & castrated most, if not all, the filth that Shotaro witnessed when he entered Olive dale

Shotaro: "It was fun last night."

As he walked away more, he wondered if he should go back to the library and continue his studies, but a thought entered his mind about those dark elves he ordered to not harm

But his thought process stopped when his nose was hit with a horrifying stench of dead & cold flesh

He looked back at Kazam, who was still there.

Shotaro: "Where are the captives held???"

Kazam was surprised by his sudden outburst of shock, horror, desperation, & rage, but he answered his knight well.

Kazam: "In the storage room near the garden...I think, my lord."

Shotaro wasted no time before jolting like Usain Bolt; he...ran, he ran & ran as in his stride of the ugly realization, his crimson eyes drifted across a dude, one of the Jade ministers, Ova, walking in the opposite direction he was running in. he didn't have much time to analyze the doubtful look on the man's face, so he kept running as he opened the door to the storage room as he saw the thing

Shotaro: "Shit."

The dark elves are dead

Shotaro: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!"

Shotaro screams in shock & horror as his voice is felt across the realm. Last time he screamed like this, he was getting eaten alive by insects.

Granny P.: "Is that... Mugyiwara's voice?"

She closed her book & ran out of the library towards the source of the noise; in her way, she saw Paliv on the way, so she stopped for a moment.

Paliv: "Why was Shotaro screaming?"

Granny P.: "IDK...but it seems serious considering who exactly is screaming."

They reached Shotaro, saw the scene, and immediately joined him.

Shotaro stops, looks around, and facepalms himself.

Shotaro: "DAMN IT!!!"

Paliv: "Mugyiwara, what happened???"

He finally noticed her.

Shotaro: "Paliv, I just came here, & they all we..."

Granny P finished the sentence.

Granny P.: "Dead?"

Shotaro's sixth sense was tingling; he immediately began to inspect.

Shotaro: "There are cuts on the wrist, indicating suicide, but..."

Paliv chipped in.

Paliv: "Maybe they all didn't want to snitch on their tribe."

Shotaro: "If they all committed suicide, where's the knife?"

Shotaro checked the dead, cold eyes of the corpse & turned their heads alone.

Shotaro Mugyiwara: "Blunt trauma, so it was either this or bleeding."

Paliv: "Is someone trying to fool us?"

Shotaro: "Someone hit them all in the head & slit their wrists to make it look like suicide."

Shotaro's gaze seemingly wandered off to thin air; he wondered what exactly was wrong here until he got it.

Shotaro: "There are seven corpses."


Paliv: "Yeah, so what?"

Shotaro: "We took in 8 captives; where is the 8th one? the chick?"

Granny P.: "No, we took seven; I counted myself."

Shotaro Mugyiwara was stunned; were there really seven? His doubt only deepened when Paliv added,.

Paliv: "Yeah, look, there are only 7 plates of food."

Shotaro: "Are we sure?"

but something was wrong He was sure there were 8 dark elven intruders, so he asked.

Shotaro: "How do you know?"

Paliv: "Well, I was the one managing the intruder's food & hygiene."

Shotaro: "Hmm..."

He was confused, bewildered even.

Shotaro: "How can it be?"

As He ran maid to maid, helper to helper, all said there were seven. After the queen got the news, she was horrified too but instantly ordered the seven coffins to be sent back to the dark elf valley, to which Granny P spoke against as the advisor.

Granny P: "It will only rile them up even more if we send the body; they might mistake us for the killers. This will cause war."

Shotaro, meanwhile, was thinking about the situation in his near-aloof state until he suddenly stood up.

Shotaro: "What did you say?"

Granny P.: "even"

Shotaro: "No, before that."

Granny P: "dark elf valley"

Shotaro: "I meanhe in-between."

Granny P: "Ummm...war?"

Shotaro claps his hand in realization.

Shotaro: "I got it."

Granny P: "You got war?"

Paliv: "I mean, who doesn't get war?"

The Queen: "The people promoting it."

Paliv: "That does make sense, mother."

Shotaro stopped them from continuing.

Shotaro: "No, idiots, I got it. The person who did it... maybe he wants war between the two kinds, like a third great Elvan civil war."

Paliv, ever being the child, pondered upon his words.

Paliv: "Why would anyone want war? What profits can he get?"

Shotaro: "Mercenary merchants, slave traders, medicine sellers, & MORE IMPORTANTLY, the arms dealers."

The Queen stood up as she got his point, as she was the one to get his point, in shock, followed by others.

The Queen: "Wait...that makes sense; why didn't I?"

Shotaro: "Not your fault; you're a monarch, not a merchant."

Paliv: "That means you're a merchant."

Shotaro: "That's not what I meant."

Granny P.: "So what now?"

Shotaro: "Just send letters to the tribe, acting like one of them; it will take a while for them to get it. Until then, I & Kazam will go & find her."

The Queen: "Who?"

Shotaro: "The 8th one."

The Queen: "But there were only 7---"

Before she could continue, Shotaro Mugyiwara ran out of the room to the training ground.

Shotaro: "KAZAM!! Where the hell are you?"

Kazam, who was training in the ground, heard its voice, and in his ever-present timidityhe ran towards Shotaro

Kazam: "I am sorry, my lord, I was... I was training so I can make use of you on the grounds."

Shotaro: "I don't think squires go to war but OK, I guess."

His eyes went across the boy's body; he could clearly see there was a growth in the muscle mass, & he thought Kazam was looking a bit manlier than before.

Shotaro: "You're not a femboy anymore, damn."

Kazam: "What, m'lord?"

Shotaro: "Nothing. I need your help."

Kazam: "Yes, my lord, I was just waiting for an order since you don't ask for shit besides cleaning your toilet."

Shotaro: "And washing my clothes."

Kazam: "Yeah, I know."

After telling him everything, he figured out Kazam was surprised as shit finally settled in his brain, but he knew he needed to help Shotaro find the 8th girl.


"Let's Go"
[after a while]

Kazam: "M'lord, are you sure there even was an 8th girl?"

Shotaro Mugyiwara didn't answer the question, as he was busy going through the kitchen logs; his elvish numericals were still not very proficient, so he asked Kazam to read it for him.

Shotaro: "Read the log for past weeks or some."

Kazam quickly took the logs from him.

Kazam: "Yes, Lord."

His eyes wandered off the paper, analyzing all the data in it.

Kazam: "The captives were given the food, enough for the sustenance of 7 people."

Shotaro can feel his doubt even darkening as he takes the log.

Shotaro: "The head chief did sign it. Damn, the hole is just getting deeper."

He sits on an armchair of his room, made with crystal sandlewood, as he puts it.

Shotaro Mugyiwara: "How do I make them believe the existence of a girl that never even existed?"
He shouted as he kicked the chair out of the window in frustration as it shattered through the barrier around the jade tower & into the sky.

Shotaro Mugyiwara: "Damn, it previously took me a while going through that thing.".

Kazam: "M'lord, you should calm down."

Shotaro Mugyiwara's eyes widened in irritation.

Shotaro Mugyiwara: "Should I?"

Shotaro Mugyiwara suddenly had an Eureka of his own, one that led to him freaking out.

Shotaro Mugyiwara: "FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK I GOT IT!!"

He threw his hand in the air, in a victory pose.

Shotaro Mugyiwara: "I got it!"

Kazam was shocked, surprised, & concerned about him.

Kazam: "Got what, Lord?"

Shotaro was sprinting towards the courtroom, chanting.

Shotaro: "I got it, I got it!!"

Scene cuts to courtroom meeting where Shotaro was asked to report on his finding.
The Queen: "Tell us, Mugyiwara, what did you find?"

Shotaro: "I found out that..logs are fake; someone fabricated all the registeries of the captives so good, making us convinced that there were only 7."

The Queen was surprised; she stuttered as she was bambozed.

The Queen: "if that's true, it's a delibrate scheme to cause a war, Mugyiwara; do you have a proof?"
Kazam freaked out; he realized Shotaro Mugyiwara hadn't found much evidence...or did he?

Shotaro: "The evidence is right here."

He throws the paper to the ground & stabs it with Alaksmi as it glimmers black & crimson, as the magic used for the fabrication is annhilated, returning it to it's original form.

It did have registration given to the 8 captives.

Shotaro: "See"

"Fabrication magic is a type of spell used to fabricate information."

Shotaro: "Someone used it"

Paliv: "I never knew your sword had anti-magic properties."

Shotaro: "It doesn't; it just anhilated the layer of fabrication from it."

Paliv: "So an anti-everything property."

Shotaro Mugyiwara: "Seems like it."

The Queen: "If this was fabrication & there is a 7th girl, where is he?."

Shotaro: "I don't know."
the entire room gasped

Granny P.: "Fuck you mean you don't know?"

Shotaro: "As in, I am unfortunate enough to not possess the tangeble knowledge about such business."

Granny P.: "I know what I don't know means, cheeky fucker."

Shotaro: "Who does possess it?".

Shotaro points to the minister of magic, Nyrebo, son of Lettram."

Who just shook his head in an aloof manner seems like he doesn't care much.

Nyrebo: "Hmmm..me?, that's intresting how so?"

Shotaro: "Why rush, Let's start a trial; I, as a knight of green tower, demand it."

Nyrebo: "Such impatience, great hero; ok then, my name is Nyrebo, son of Lettram, one of the 15 golden witches."

Shotaro: "No surname?"

Nyrebo: "Surnames are a royal luxury, I am afraid."

Shotaro: "You use your mother's name, though?"

Nyrebo: "My father wasn't much; it's my mother's name that earned me whatever I have, so why not use that for introduction?"

Shotaro Mugyiwara: "Makes sense, so Mr. Nyrebo, or should I say magic minister?"

"Why were you there when the bodies were found?"

Nyrebo's face didn't falter, but Shotaro did hear his heartbeat increase slightly; knowing that he hit the right spot, he continued.

"What happened? a dick got stuck in your mouth?"

Nyrebo: "Hmm..good observation; you did see me moving away from the place, right?"

Shotaro: "Yeah"

Nyrebo: "I did it"

Shotaro: "I knew i---wait what?"

Shotaro was dumbfounded; why would he do it & confess right away?

Nyrebo: "Then what is it?hanging, electricution, I am ready."

The Queen: "Well, if you have confessed, then I--"

Shotaro: "Hold the fuck up."
The Queen: "A fuck is intangible. you can't hold it, Mugyiwara"

Shotaro rephrases his words.

Shotaro: "I mean, stop it, whatever you do to that man."

Nyrebo: "Oh, I didn't remember you being such a carer of mine."

Shotaro Mugyiwara: "No, I am not gay; I just meant if you wanted to confess, you could have done it on the spot; why do it now, in front of everyone?"

Nyrebo: "Maybe I just liked myself some dignity before death."

Shotaro Mugyiwara: "Yeah, you were protecting all rights, just not your dignity."

Suddenly the composed facade brock, as Nyrebo's eyes widened.

Shotaro Mugyiwara: "The girl, you know where she is; you try to save her?"
"You did all of this fabrication, this gaslighting, to save the 8th one right".



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