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title: "Arc #4 - Fishy Conspiracy"
url: https://deovandski.github.io/HusbandOutWorld/novel/arc-4/
section: Light Novel
spoilers: yes (Behind The Scenes only)
sources: [Legacy/Behind The Scenes/Light Novel/Arc #4 - Fishy Conspiracy.md]
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<!-- BEHIND THE SCENES LAYER: the author's full notes, contains spoilers -->

# SPOILER WARNING! This contains unreleased story notes.
If one day enough people harasses Deo to finish the story, we will base of these notes and alter only what is necessary to keep is as lore accurate as possible... Also, this was mostly written before the full decompression from Arc 1 notes into the published books, so Vols 1 - 4 are the lore accurate version if any conflict are present. There's a lot of stuff to keep track of, like almost someone decided to challenge themselves a bit too much for fun...

# **\--WIP Items--**

* ## When Eori meets back with Harry, she will use something to test his soul, then see that it does not work. She refuses to believe it, while the people surrounding her will use it as proof that she is misbehaving and let Harry free.

* ## Coema will appear more to instigate Eori/Eiri on a “good” path…

  * ?

# 

# 

# **\--Book 12 \- “Missing” People--**

# **Prologue**

* ## Emelia, in the flower shop, hearing from bandits that Sanbi Kingdom reached out to Arukia’s parents.

  * Emelia. So Eiri is pulling the strings now? That’s odd. Either way, keep tabs day and night on every single person Arukia knows. She knows too much\!  
  * Bandits “Do we—”  
  * Someone comes in. Emelia plays along and gives the flower they want. The bandits appear as if checking out flowers on their own, but clearly looking suspicious.  
  * Person approaches Emelia, and asks if she needs help.  
  * Emelia plays it off as those two are interested in the same guy, and they are trying to up one another in everything.  
  * People joke with them.  
  * Bandits are not sure how to react. They wait for the person to leave.  
  * Bandit continues “—kill them all upon contact?”  
  * Emelia. “Do as necessary. Our Madam decided to make an example out of her”  
  * Bandits “Then we are going to make a real example of her.”  
  * Emelia. “Don’t bother me with the details, now get out\! You two are an eyesore.”

# **Chapter 1 \- Pulling Arukia’s Heartstrings**

* ## Arukia on the farmland under the hot sun.

  * On the farmland hoeing around in the sun. She stops for a sec to look at a passing boat, and imagines how long she has been there. Maybe it is for the better. No more Red Winga, No more Harry. No more anyone. Just her.  
  * She can’t even face her own parents, if they are still even alive after what she did to the Red Winga. They knew where they were, and what they could do, but she still pulled through, and fled it all.  
  * She hoes even stronger than before when she hears a cry.

* ## Arukia finding an injured Bruntos

  * Arukia thinks of what to do with it, she then fights with herself and decides to keep it. It hugs her and climbs up in her neck.  
  * Arukia is unsure what to do, but she kinda remains cold towards it.

* ## Arukia, at her quarters, puts the Bruntos to sleep on the ground.

  * The bruntos climb in the bed, she puts it in the ground again. It cries. People around get pissed. She puts it up in the bed to shut it up.

* ## Arukia on the market, selling stuff.

  * A random guy screams advertisements in the background, suddenly he says “Arukia, we miss you\!”, and moves on.  
  * Arukia feels a sway of emotions as she remembers how life was. She cries, and the baby Bruntos hugs her. She hugs him back.

* ## Arukia, getting ready to sleep while holding the baby Bruntos

  * She knows she will be discovered and bring harm to her family if she shows up. Who could she turn to? She fucked with everyone she knew by burning all the bridges. She hugs her baby Bruntos tightly.

# **Chapter 2 \- Discouraged Research**

* ## Eori Researching into the Soul

  * The teacher requests that Eori come with her to fulfill a contract.  
  * Eori says she does not have time right now.  
  * The teacher says she will simply fail Eori.  
  * Eori abides.

* ## The teacher pulls her to assist with a contract. Eori snaps at the teacher, the teacher snaps back at Eori

  * Regarding Soul Research being futile, and dangerous. They argue.  
  * The teacher realizes Eori’s intentions, and tells her “You think you are the only one who wants to bring back a loved one? We all did\! But the soul doesn’t care\!”

* ## Eori Receives letter from Neferteri, telling her to support Maiara’s championship.

  * She also receives a letter from Coema. It tells her to stop being a little bitch, and think for herself once. Neferteri will only stop controlling you when she realizes you’re a lost cause. Rebel, throw a temper tantrum. Have fun\! If you need some investments for that end, get in touch, but be sure to follow through or I will be worse than Neferteri. She crumbles the letter in anger. “I’m not her little bitch\! I’m here because I want to get Harry back\!”  
  * She ignores and reads Neferteri’s letter, and throws the letter away, she is down in the dumps.  She feels like she wants to blow up the room, and kill everyone, but she can’t or she will be punished and humiliated again.

* ## Eori’s friend comes into the room with tickets to Maiara’s championship.

  * Her friend comes into the room with tickets for Maiara’s championship. Eori snaps at the girl, but the girl snaps back at Eori, showing who’s boss. They argue with each other, but in the end the friend wins, and Eori lets her win before Eori flips her shit and kills her on the spot.

# **Chapter 3 \- Magi Blood Blue-Flower-Red-Bone**

* ## Magi waking up by the wall. Old Cruro showing a handwritten note “You Okay?” \*The green bag is not as full as before.

  * Other people are looking at this pink adventurer. She jumps up “I’M SORRY\!” and takes off running. People around look at her baffled, she hears them murmur as she holds her green bag tight.  
  * “HEY\! YOU LEFT YOUR BOW AND BAG\!”  
  * The girl stops. She is holding a green bag, but she left everything else behind. With a shame walking, she makes her way back.  
  * “Lady\! You need to be more careful\! There are bandits around\!” An older lady scolds her as she hands off her belongings.  
  * The girl in pink gets her bow, attaches it to her backpack, and puts it on. “I’m sorry\!”  
  * She bows, and starts to make her way, when she weighs her green bag. She opens, and takes a peek inside. Several small Fostones about the size of a piece of gum. She turns around. “Did I drop some by any chance?”  
  * The older lady looks away from Magi. “I’m sure they are all there, sweety.” She then looks back at Magi. “Unless, are you trying to say we are bandits?”  
  * Magi feels an ominous presence from them.  
  * Someone from the back “What you say? Let’s call it a rescue fee?”  
  * She backs away quickly, and continues walking down the main road. As she walks, her eyes grow heavy again.  
  * She slaps herself, bringing attention from everyone nearby. Thinking that she is crazy, they all let her be.  
  * This girl in pink awakes some, and begins speed walking again.

* ## Magi, at the embassy, turning in her quest.

  * Magi anxiously waits for the Embassy clerk to count the Fost Stones. She sees his hand move each small Fost stone from one pile to the other. Her eyes follow this repetitive motion, and with each motion it grows weary.   
  * She tries to avoid blinking at all costs, but her eyelids fight her tough and nail. She decides to give in to a quick blink.

* ## Guy handed her about 2 pearls. Magi sleeping in a seat with backpack, and bow.

  * The pink adventurer feels a poke in her cheek. She wakes up to the same clerk handing her a measles two pearls. “Hey miss. You did not replace all the stones”  
  * The pink adventurer extends her hands. The guy places it there, then shows the contract. “I’m sorry miss, but you got X Fost stones from us, but you only brought back X \- X.”  
  * Magi grasps the two pearls and brings it close to her chest. She holds in her tears.   
  * The clerk waves the contract. She signs it.  
  * Clerk “Going to sign another? I have XX, XX, YY.”  
  * Magi. “Whatever is safest for the most amount of money.”  
  * Clerk “More Roadwork, I presume?”  
  * Magi nods as she holds the two pearls she had. She pulls out her badge, makes it light up, then hands the two pearls back. “Can you please add these into the Blue-Flower-Red-Bone guild?”  
  * Clerk does not pick up the two pearls. Instead, he smiles “I will get the contracts arranged. Please excuse me.”  
  * Magi seats again, she looks down at her tattered clothes. “I’m sorry, Jonem.”

* ## Magi in front of Yosuke’s restaurant, Harry smiling at her.

  * “Sorry, adventurer, but we’re about too close.” A white-hair stranger smiles at her.  
  * She holds her cold hands against her chest. “Do you offer Breadplates?”  
  * The smile on the white-hair guy disappeared. He looked inside, at some patrons finishing eating. Explain the looks. “We might have some soon. We have lots of empty tables too, so come inside, and warm up.”  
  * The pink adventurer comes inside, and is led to a table in the corner.  
  * The white haired guy looks around suspiciously, then speaks in a loud voice. “I’m Desmond, How can I serve you today?” he then tones down “You’re supposed to at least buy something, but don’t tell anybody or I will be in trouble.”  
  * Magi smiles, but her saddened expression blurs the smile. She sees Desmond, the white-haired guy, help someone with their bills, then grab something to drink, followed by bringing all the bread plates leftover to Magi. *He looks familiar—*  
  * Desmond starts chowing them down as well. The pink adventurer looks at him confused, then angrier. “Are you mocking me like everyone?”

* ## Harry, confused, & Magi seating across from each other. Harry eats the bread plates with Magi.

  * Desmond “What do you mean?”  
  * The pink adventurer lifts the free bread “This\! You’re eating this too\!”  
  * Desmond “There’s no leftovers, so that’s what I am eating.”  
  * The pink adventurer “Don’t you make like fifteen pearls a day?”  
  * Desmond “Yeah, but I live here too so I pay ten a day, and the rest I am using to pay off this uniform.”  
  * The pink adventurer chows down on more bread. *And I made 2 pearls the past two days.*   
  * Desmond, meanwhile, sees her chewing slow down, and her head slightly bent forward. With the next blink, she passed out cold, and fell forward into the table, spilling her drink. “Hey? You’re okay?”  
  * No response.  
  * Desmond touches her soft shoulder, but there’s no response. *That does not look comfortable.* Desmond grabs a pillow, and as he tilts the pink adventurer back to it she startlingly wakes up, slapping Desmond’s hand away.  
  * Desmond tilts away “You okay? You just passed out cold.”  
  * Magi looks angry at Desmond “Don’t touch me\!”  
  * “DESMOND\! STOP FLIRTING, AND CLEAN THIS SHIT UP\!” Ramir’s screams for the kitchen’s door breaks the awkwardness filling up the room.  
  * “Sorry, pink adventurer. I will grab you another drink. You can stay here until I finish cleaning the floor up.”  
  * Magi takes another bite. She sees Desmond as she eats up, but something seems familiar, and it is not the bread plate she is often eating because it’s free.

* ## Magi, by herself, at an end table of a loud tavern, by the wall.

  * Older lady. “No gonna order anything again, pink adventurer?”  
  * Magi shakes her head.  
  * Older lady “Poor you”  
  * She ends up falling asleep. Suddenly, she remembered the events of Book 1\. “HARRY\!” and the alert that followed that brought several people in the tavern to her attention.  
  * A drunk guy. “Hey baby, throw Harry aside. Come spend the night with me instead\!”  
  * Magi feels disgusted, she pushes the drunk guy aside, and leaves the tavern.  
  * She starts to pace herself towards the Yosuke restaurant, but her steps grow weaker. *What is he running from? Why would he not change himself more?* Magi realizes he was eating with her. *Does he work for food, and a place to live?*

* ## Magi, nervous, at the corner looking at the building. The door is closed, but there is still light inside.

  * Magi feels the tension. She wants to capture Harry, but what if it is just a look-alike? She takes too long to decide, and the restaurant light dims off.  
  * Her heart races thinking of all the money she would receive, but then she remembers a memory back in blood where when she applied to the guild to be a pearl, she learned that she could borrow the badge of the suspected person for up to a week, but if she lost it she would pay 10x the price, or forced work until the debt is paid of, plus other fees if she took more than a week.  
  * She decides she will do it. 

# Epilogue

* ## Yosuke, and the gang are finishing up making preparations for tomorrow. Harry is poking food at wooden sticks, giving to Mimir, who dips them into liquid, then gives to Hanako to put them in the cooler. 

  * Tons of food ready. They celebrate. Yosuke tells them to rest well, as the Wagons will arrive at 6am to get the food. They better be ready\!  
  * Harry sits down, with his backing aching from tons of work. Someone offers the last bit of Nair Refresher, Harry says he is good. He just needs beer, and a rest instead.  
  * Rimir pours one for him “You suck at cooking, but at least you can do the grunt work, unlike a certain someone.”  
  * Mimi “I am helpful too\!”  
  * They banter.

# 

# **\--Book 13 \- A Fateful Day--**

# **Prologue**

* ## Magi, crack of dawn at the embassy. The clerk has a copy of the badge.

  * Clerk “I looked at your contract history, you never done one of these?”  
  * Magi “Why were you investigating me? I didn’t do anything wrong.”  
  * Clerk “Well, you look in shambles, and you are getting all the boring quests.”  
  * Magi does not look pleased. “I have my reasons. Just give me the contract.”  
  * She is hesitant to sign the contract, but she does it. She gets Harry’s badge, and puts it away.  
  * She feels the pressure of how much ? (10,500?) Sapphires would screw her over. She would likely spend the rest of her life working for free for Forway.

# **Chapter 1 \- Catering**

* ## Yosuke woke up the gang at the crack of dawn.

  * Yosuke clashes his metal ladle on a thing to wake everyone up.  
  * Yosuke bonks Dalila in the head to wake her up, Harry looks at the open window.

* ## Harry, folks in a wagon. Magi following them in the bg.

  * They talk about the opportunity. Yosuke tells Dalila to not steal food or he will punish her this time. Dalila feels the stress.

* ## Harry helped them set up shop. Dalila, Yosuke, and Rimir are cooking. Magi somewhere in the bg.

  * They have some banter, Harry is left to menial tasks.   
  * Hanako notices Harry is kinda keeping eyes all around. “Are you expecting someone or what?”  
  * Harry: “Of course not.”  
  * Yosuke “I’m watching you\!”  
  * Dalila “I’m taste-testing the base\!”  
  * Yosuke flips something perfectly. Rimir then pours something over it in unison.  
  * Harry notices Magi in the bg, but does not think much of it.

# **Chapter 2 \- Stocking the fires of love.**

* ## Eori watching the game bored

  * Explain the game, and how intense Maiara’s play is.  
  * Show Maiara scoring a goal

* ## Maiara scoring a goal, Eori still bored.

  * Talk more about the game. People are celebrating. etc.  
  * Eori goes off to buy something.

* ## Eori sees Harry carrying a box as she turns the corner as she goes to buy a drink. Magi in the bg.

  * Eori, after noticing Harry, drops her drink, and rushes towards him, tackling him onto the floor.  
  * Harry, noticing who this is, put his hand on her shoulder, and tried to push her away while Eori herself was forcing herself on top of him for a kiss.  
  * Hanako, Mimi come to the rescue of Eori. She extends her hand “We’re sorry for the trouble he caused.”  
  * “HE BETTER FUCKING BE\!” Eori, realizing she’s in a stalemate of strength with Harry, stops forcing herself into him, and slaps Hanako;s hand as she stands up.  
  * Harry, on the ground, took off running with all the might he had, but as he kept running, he saw Eori quickly making up ground.  
  * Harry tried to go down the stairs, but he tripped, and fell on his hands. Harry tried to stumble down the rest of the stairs, but he felt a tackle pushing him against the wall.  
  * “He’s mine\!” a cutesy voice breaks the lovely—if one can call that—situation.

* ## Magi, with an arrow. Eori, sweaty holding Harry, also sweaty up against the wall, looking at Magi with anger.

  * Eori “What the fuck you want?”  
  * Magi “I borrowed the badge from the clerk this morning\! I’ve been tracking him since yesterday\!”  
  * Eori looks confused “What does that have to do anything? I’m the princess of Sanbi\! Harry is mine\!”  
  * Magi “Step away, or I will shoot him\!”  
  * Eori let’s him go. Harry, feeling the opportunity, takes off running downstairs. Eori, Magi exchange eyesights, and both take off after Harry.  
  * Magi jumps from the stairs to gain air, and with a quick fling of her bow, an arrow flies and screams towards Harry, landing on his left lung.  
  * Harry fell forward but caught his step as he kept stumbling forward, but a trail of blood droplets now followed him as he made his way out of the door, and into the public.  
  * “Princess Eori\! You cannot leave the game\!” A citizen, with a sword on his back. appeared from the stairs. Eori looked at said citizen, flipped the bird, and took off running towards Harry.  
  * Magi cocked another arrow, as she looked at Eori again, and realized that’s the princess of Sanbi. *Wait—the duel was for Maiara’s hand—what’s going on here?*

* ## Harry in an alleyway, resting on one side against the wall , with a pool of blood forming. He is teary eyed. He puked blood as well. Eori & Magi, side by side, watching him cower in fear.

  * “I finally found you\! Let’s go back home, Harry\!” Eori, unfazed by the amount of blood, began stepping towards Harry.  
  * “He’s mine until I turn him in to the embassy\!” Magi was firm as she cooked the bow, pointed toward the ground.  
  * Eori realizes she’s an adventurer. “All right, fine\! Do what you must, but I will follow you there.”  
  * Magi feels the pressure, but she keeps her posture. She approaches Harry with her bow cocked.   
  * Harry looks at her as tears begin to stream his face. “I’m—sor—ry” He could barely say a word, as he tried his hardest to breathe.  
  * Magi realizes Harry is dying, so he isn’t gonna take off again. She uncooks her bow, and dips Harry’s badge in his own pool of blood forming around him.

* ## Magi holding Harry’s badge, not lighting up. Eori mouth-opened. Harry looked at his badge, but did not say anything.

  * Eori goes from mouth-opened, to angry. She starts kicking Harry in the ribs, breaking them up. “You fucking piece of shit\! How dare you look like him\!”  
  * A gurgled scream came out of Harry, as his weakened arm barely stopped the incoming kicks from Eori.  
  * “STOP\!” Magi cocks the bow at Eori.  
  * “DON’T FUCK MESS WITH ME\!” Eori, with blood splatters in her clothes, pointed, and started walking furiously towards Magi.  
  * “Princess Eori\! You must stop at once\!” The same citizen as before appears again.  
  * “FUCK OFF\! THIS PIECE OF SHIT IS NOT HARRY\!” Eori had it.  
  * The citizen, looking gravely concerned at his surroundings “Princess Eori\! This is a trap\!” He goes to reach for his sword, but stops as he sees Magi preparing to fire the arrow on him instead.  
  * Magi looks angry “Who are you?”  
  * His hand is frozen. “Morika XX. An adventurer protecting Princess Eori.”  
  * Eori gets on Magi’s side “What the fuck are you doing here?”  
  * Morika slowly grabs his badge “You’re a invaluable target for kidnapping”  
  * Eori looks back at the lit up badge, clearly saying Morika. “Oh\! So you’re gonna kidnap me instead?” Eori remembers what happened when she was kidnapped by Namia & Posaqui. “You know what? You all can go fuck yourselves. I’m not her little bitch anymore\!” Eori walks opposite of Morika (Citizen.)  
  * As Eori walks away, she glances at the Citizen, puts the badge away, and looks at Harry, looking pretty dead, and Magi, with a frozen expression not quite getting how a princess would say something like that. He takes out a pouch of balls, and throws them at Harry’s feet. “Apologies for princess Eori’s behavior. She mistook you for someone she knew.”  
  * Eori, now leaving the scene, felt Morika’s step quickly approaching her. She ignored him and continued walking somewhere, anywhere but facing this fake Harry.  
  * Morika “I will have to report to Neferteri you lost your—”  
  * Eori, anguish. “Fuck it\! Do it\! I fucking dare you\!”  
  * Morika does not respond to her anger. With calmness “Princess Eori, please return to the Nari School with me.”  
  * Eori, on the fence “I will return by myself. Leave me the fuck alone.”  
  * Morika. “I’m bound by a contract to not leave you alone.”

# **Chapter 3 \- A Brewing Conspiracy**

* ## Yosuke looked at Magi, who was pulling out the arrow from Harry’s back, bloodied.

  * “What are you doing to his uniform? He hasn’t paid it yet” Yosuke grills Magi.  
  * Magi, with a fair knowledge of how things work, carefully finished pulling out the arrow embedded in Harry. “I’m sorry, but I thought he was Harry from Sanbi.”  
  * Yosuke “He’s Desmond from Rubela\! Did you even think to ask? Look at him\! You ruined the uniform\! ”  
  * Magi “I’m sorry for the arrow, but Princess Eori was the one who kicked him\!”  
  * Yosuke “So they were not lying when they told me Princess Eori tackled Desmond to the ground”   
  * Magi, looking through her backpack, said “I saw it too.”  
  * Guards appeared “The fuck happened here?”  
  * Magi pulls out both badges, and explains it all. Yosuke pulls out his, and confirms as well. The guards saw Harry had an outfit similar to him, so he’s like “All right, clean this mess up, or we will come after you.”  
  * Yosuke pulled out a key from his robe, and handed it to Magi. “That’s solely on you.”  
  * Magi looks at the key. “What do you want me to do then?”  
  * Yosuke: “It’s obvious. Take Desmond back to the restaurant, and tell him to wait for me.”  
  * Magi grabs the key. Yosuke begins leaving. “Don’t you dare steal anything, or my acquaintances will have a talk with you.”  
  * Magi, holding the key, now looked at dead Harry, and gave him the last bit of Nari Refresher she had.  
  * Harry lost some weight as his body recovered, but the only appearance change was his hair turning black again.

* ## Magi is confused at Harry’s appearance, bloodied.

  * “His appearance barely changed\!” Magi grabbed the badge. *Harry Sanbi.*  
  * She touched the badge on him again, but it did not light up at all. She touches a fully healed, but dead Harry. “What’s going on?”  
  * Magi grabbed the Create Shock spell, and applied on Harry. As Harry came back to life with a large gasp, Magi was quickly getting her bow ready with a cooked arrow towards Harry.   
  * Magi cooks bow at Harry, He cowers in fear.  
  * Magi “Who are you?”  
  * “De—desmond?”  
  * Magi further cooks the bow “Who are you?”  
  * Harry feels as if the arrow is about to come out. He cowers in fear as his hands go up, protecting his face. “I’m sorry\! I’m sorry\!—HARRY\! My name is Harry\!” Harry says the name he has been avoiding for a long while. It sounds strange, almost foreign, but somewhat relieving even though a pointy arrow is ready to tear his flesh. “Tell Dalila, and everyone I am sorry.”  
  * Magi sees how much cowering Harry was doing. She looks at where Harry’s badge is hidden away, and unloads her bow with a given up expression. “An older guy with the same uniform as you gave me the key to the restaurant, and asked me to take you there.”  
  * Harry looks at his uniform, he touches it in disbelief “Oh no. He’s gonna punish me\!”  
  * Magi feels like an asshole. “I’m sorry for the arrow, but Princess Eori did most of it.”  
  * Harry’s memory snaps back. He looks around for her, as he prepares to run. “Where is Eori?”  
  * Magi “She left already. A guy named Morika took her away.”  
  * Harry sighs in relief as his mind clicks. *Wait? Why did my badge not light up?*   
  * Magi extends her hands towards him, interrupting his thoughts “Let’s go already.”  
  * Harry seems slightly hesitant, but she does not have her bow cocked at him anymore, so she now looks cuter rather than freighting.  
  * Magi. “Don’t forget your bag of balls.”

* ## Magi, somewhat resentful, and Harry, disbelief/deep-thought on the way back, bloodied.

  * Harry eats a Nari gel to improve his eyes. It hurts.  
  * Magi keeps to herself.  
  * As the bloodied couple walks, people around give strange looks, mostly wondering what the two did to be in that situation. Rumors in the background “Hey\! That’s a uniform from The Wood People Picker\!”, “That’s one of the servers\!”  
  * Harry tries to hide away the logo of the restaurant with his hand, but his uniform gives him away easily.   
  * Magi sounds frustrated. “Okay, I’m sorry. I didn’t want to shoot you, but you left me no choice when you took off running. I was within my rights, you know?”  
  * Harry looks at Magi as he now remembers seeing her earlier that day. “So you were following me too?”  
  * Magi “Yeah, but you’re not Harry.”  
  * Harry looks back the road he walked plenty of times carrying wares for the restaurant. *Who the fuck I am, then? I clearly stole the name Desmond from that Wozen bandit girl. I clearly remember waking up at Sanbi, and everything in-between—except I have nothing from what happened after I ate the Bagarisa Nari Gel and waking up in Rebula—if I am not Harry, then who am I?*  
  * Meanwhile, Magi glanced at Harry, lost in thought. He was afraid of Eori, *Nari Refresher didn’t alter his appearance by much, and he clearly fled from Eori. There’s clearly something going on here.* Magi touches the pocket where the badge is hidden away. *What if this badge is fake?* She pictures being hanged down for saying that out loud.  
  * They turn a corner, approaching the restaurant. Magi pulls out a key, and hands it to Harry as she looks away. “I did my part.”  
  * Harry sees a bloodied Magi turned around to leave with a saddened expression. “Hey pink adventurer, don’t you want to come inside, and wash your clothes? You did heal me, right?”  
  * “I can’t, or I will wear them further.” Magi, slightly blushed, points to the holes in her uniform.  
  * Harry, seeing her cutesy face, said, “I can make you supper too.”  
  * Magi’s stomach grumbles. She has no choice, but to accept it.

* ## Magi with soaked clothes, cold, is at the table waiting, with Harry (in his \#13 clothing) cooking.

  * Harry, straining his eyes to see, while carefully flipping stuff in his wok “They kicked me out of the kitchen, but I’ve been watching them. I think I am getting the hang of it now.”  
  * “Desmond from Rebula. How did you get that name?” Magi asks him pointblank, as she hides her shivering from the cold.  
  * Harry spills something. He cleans it up, as he replies “I got the name Desmond from someone I knew. Rebula is where I woke up after—” Harry looks to be mincing up words.  
  * Magi “After what?”  
  * Harry “hmmm—nevermind. I don’t remember much.”  
  * Magi looks suspicious “Or you don’t want to tell?”  
  * Harry “Well, I actually don’t remember some stuff, but others I do. Saying out loud sounds weird since I am not even Harry. I mean, I don’t want to make things worse for people now—”  
  * A loud bonk against the table is followed by plate and silverware shaking noise. Harry turned his head to a passed out Magi, likely feeling quite uncomfortable in that position.  
  * “You okay?” Harry asked, but no response. Without wasting more time, he finished up his cooking, placed the meal on the plate, and went to check the pink adventurer. He touched her limp shoulders, and noticed how cold she was. Her cheeks were blueish too. *Well, I told her I could borrow Hanako’s clothes while hers was drying.*   
  * Harry looks at the passed out Magi, her shivering body, bluish lips and nails. *Not so scary looking now.*

* ## Magi, waking up in Harry’s bed, nearing sunset. Food to the side protected by glass, plus a note.

  * Magi startled awake. She does not know where she is. Her head is pounding. She realizes her backpack, and bow are missing, but as she frantically looks she finds it right by her bed. Her clothes are moist, but the warmth of the bed made her feel better.  
  * She notices the note. *Pink Adventurer, I told you I could borrow Hanako’s clothes. I went to an atelier to get my uniform patched up. Here’s a proper thank you.*  
  * Magi notices a handful of Pearls, and the food. Her starving stomach demands she swallows the food whole. With haste, she begins slurping up the food, but the taste is kind of salty, and some of the spices are off.  
  * “HANAKO\! Harry let his new girlfriend into his room\!” Dalila screams at the door.  
  * Magi, blushing red, chokes up in the food as she tries to deny “I’m not—” she ends up with a few coughs to clear the food pipe, but then continues “I’m not his girlfriend\! I was hunting him down for a missing person quest\!”  
  * Dalila “Missing person? Do you know who his family is, then?”  
  * Magi shakes her head. “I thought he was Harry from Sanbi, but the badge did not light up.”  
  * Hanako clears her throat, as she approaches closer “Then what are you doing in his room, drenched in sweat?”  
  * Magi looks at her moistened clothes. Her face gets redder. “It’s not what you are thinking\! I passed out\!”  
  * Hanako “Ohhhhhh—he’s that good?”  
  * Magi stares back, not understanding.  
  * Dalila gasps. “Hanako\! Look\!”  
  * Hanako sees some balls, and a note on the other beds.  
  * Dalila reads the note out loud “I’m sorry. I will tell you the truth when I come back from the Atelier.”  
  * Magi hands her paper “He wrote that to me as well.”  
  * Dalila looks happy counting the money she got.   
  * Hanako “You should leave before Yosuke comes back, or he will punish Desmond.”  
  * Magi does so, grabs a handful of pearls, but as she walks out she hears Hanako’s loud whispers “Desmond got a thing for girly adventurers\!”  
  * Magi acts as if she did not listen, but a rising embarrassment tickles her as she walks out.

* ## Magi, tired, delivers the badge to the clerk.

  * Sweet old Clerk “You look terrible, honey”  
  * Magi. “I just want to deliver back this badge, and deposit these pearls on the guild”  
  * Magi shows her badge next.  
  * Sweet old clerk “Blue-Flower-Red-Bone? Oh\! What a delight\! How’s your father? He was quite the gentleman, even when he was an Amethyst like yourself..”  
  * Magi tries to hold back her emotions, but saddened peeks through. “You know him?”  
  * Sweet old clerk “But of course, my dear. I was at the Blood branch of the embassy for 20 and some years before I got promoted to manage this branch instead. Say, it has been a while since I heard about him. Did he retire?”  
  * Magi. “He—he disappeared.”  
  * Sweet old clerk, now voiding the contract. “That’s terrible. I hope he is proud of you fighting to be a sapphire adventurer as well. Sign here.”  
  * Magi signs the paper.  
  * Sweet old clerk “Anything else, Adventurer Magi?”  
  * Magi looks at her, now reminiscent of her late grandma from father's side. She was just as sweet. “Do you have any easy money quests?”  
  * Sweet old clerk offers quests, Magi accepts a few more boring ones.

* ## Magi, getting ready to sleep somewhere, close to midnight.

  * She thinks about things, her life, her father, etc.  
  * Harry appears in her mind. She wakes up, trying to clear her head. His smile when he invited her inside kept nagging at her brain. Then Morika, and Eori. Did Eori really love a random person from the Sanbi slums?

# **Epilogue**

* ## Morning of the next day. Magi in front of The Wood People Picker.

  * “Miss pink adventurer\!” Mimi flies towards Magi, she speaks loudly “Have you seen Desmond?”  
  * Magi feels a strange feeling as the restaurant workers, and patrons shift their focus to Magi “I haven’t seen him since yesterday.”   
  * Hanako approaches Mimi, “Leave her be. We’re at work right now”  
  * Mimi, now crying, “But Desmond disappeared\! I want Desmond back\!”  
  * Yosuke appears from the kitchen “What is going on? Mimi\! Don’t make a scene\! Go to your room\!”  
  * Hanako: “If you find him, let us know. Mimi, c’mon.”  
  * Mimi hugs Hanako as they leave upstairs.  
  * Magi realizes Harry gave most of the money away, which left nearly nothing for him to flee. They ask her to find him—she replies: Create a search quest, and leave.  
  * “But he doesn’t have a badge\!”  
  * Magi does not respond, she seems dissatisfied as well. She begins to think more about it. Did she just stumble into a conspiracy? What does she do? Could it be the same one that made her father disappear?   
  * Hanako: Fine\! We will find him on our own\!

# **\--Book 14 \- Nari Gel Bait--**

# **Prologue**

* ## Eori having an altercation with Morika as he is basically house arresting her.

  * Eori flips her shit. She comes back to her dorm. She realizes the letter from Coema, and then it clicks her that someone is holding Harry hostage because they are using his fake body. She gets pissed that she did not use heal, or interrogate him.   
  * She uses her roommate as Nari gel to escape.

* ## Eori, with Nari gels to modify her appearance, in a cheap room.

  * Eori opens a bag of balls, and sees an aquamarine and change worth of money. She opens another letter from Coema “Good Princess\! Now wreak havoc\! Have fun\! Light it up fire\! Make Neferteri red with anger\! Make sure to fully change your appearance, and don’t use mail, or anything that requires your badge, or they will quickly find you. My preauthorization withdrawn to you should last you a few weeks if you invest it wisely. Break Free\! Do what you want\!”   
  * Eori changes appearances. “If that’s what you want, mother, then I can play this game as well.”  
  * “Desmond\! Come back to us\! Yosuke, and the team.” The town crier keeps on going.  
  * Eori looks at herself in the mirror, and that’s when it dawns on her that Harry is still out there. She could have found some info out of him of where he found Harry-based Nari gel, but she was too angry to think of it. She breaks something in anger, then grows even more furious. “Now I have to go through every single Nari gel vendor to find where the Nari gel was made..”

# **Chapter 1 \- Unforeseen Allies**

* ## Magi out in a boring quest

  * Describe the quest, introduce more of her. She begins to fall asleep, and goes to use Mind Quicken, but runs out of it, she falls asleep, and falls from the tree. She wakes up with Bagarisas around her.

* ## Magi, dirt, passing by Yosuke restaurant with whatever she was carrying.

  * Mimi, and the gang ignores her, and she feels bad for saying what she said.  
  * She keeps walking until she notices someone following her. She steps her pace, but the person does as well.  
  * She prepares an ambush, and as the person falls into the ambush, Magi releases an arrow at a random citizen.   
  * A girl screamed. “You fucking bitch\! I was trying to talk to you\!” She pulls out her badge which lights up. Magi can clearly see “Eori Sanbi Royal”

* ## Eori, disguised as a commoner, bleeding from an arrow, Magi realizing she just shot a princess of Sanbi.

  * Eori pulls out the arrow, and puts her hand over the hole. “Don’t have to be so fucking jumpy, you know.”  
  * Magi, feeling the pressure of the conspiracy, cocks another arrow “So you made Harry disappear?”  
  * Eori. “Why would I be here then?”  
  * Magi. cocks the arrow further “To Prevent me from spreading the world you were having—intimate relationships with a commoner.”  
  * Eori. “I cared about that at one point. Now I just want Harry back. You’re gonna stand up there all day, or you’re gonna heal me?”  
  * Magi pulls out Nari Refresher. Eori “Not that\! I need to keep my current appearance.”  
  * Magi keeps her distance, she throws a nari stone, and a ring. “Do it yourself.”  
  * Eori does so, “All right, if you don’t trust me, then trust this.” She throws a bag of balls near Magi’s feet.   
  * Magi realizes the amount of balls it has. “What do you want from me?”  
  * Eori. “Help—me find Harry. You know what he looks like.”  
  * Magi looks at the inviting bag of balls. “C—reate a quest, and we will talk about it\!”  
  * Eori. “I can’t fucking do that\! Mom will realize what I am trying to do\!”  
  * Magi. “Mom? You mean the queen of Sanbi?”  
  * Eori. “Who else you dumb bitch\! I’m trying to break free from her grip\! I’m sick of this shit\!”  
  * Magi. “All right. Fine. Let’s go back to the restaurant. Just remember that he was called Desmond.”

* ## Magi, Eori at the restaurant near closing time. Hanako & Mimi at the door telling Magi to get fucked.

  * Hanako/Mimi tells Magi to get fucked for not helping to find Desmond.  
  * Magi asks that she is now investigating what happened to him. Hanako probes Magi, but she avoids.  
  * The person with her. “She has a crush on Har. Crush on Desmond. Now get over it, and just fucking tell us what you know.”  
  * Magi says she does not as she blushes.  
  * Hanako. “Har?”  
  * Eori. “None of your business.”  
  * Hanako “Damm. All right, fine. Well, we know Desmond fought with someone after leaving the Atelier, then took off running towards a guard post. That’s all we know. We used the money he gave us to make town-crier calls for him. Now you need to get out if you’re not going to buy something. Yosuke helped pay the town crier, but he’s clamping down harder on us.”  
  * They leave. Magi asks what their relationship is. Eori says they were lovers, fleeing from Neferteri’s grasp.  
  * Magi acknowledges it, but something doesn't feel right.

* ## Magi & Eori walking by, they stumble upon a Nari gel stand.

  * They notice Harry’ face. Eori has an altercation with the vendor, and gets the info. They hear the same story. Magi heals the guy back, while Eori spits on him and walks away.  
  * Eori realizes Coema is working with Neferteri as well, and gets pissed. She believes she will use the money she gave, to come back to Sanbi and whoop her ass.  
  * Eori “We’re going to Sanbi”  
  * Magi “What?”  
  * Eori “I’m gonna wipe the smirk on Coema's face.”  
  * Magi “Coema?”  
  * Eori “Previous Sanbi King’s Maid. Let’s go.”

* ## Magi & Eori make her way back to Sanbi

  * They are riding a wagon. Magi falls asleep on Eori’s shoulder. She slaps Magi awake. This creates a further divide as Magi hides the fact she has a mental problem with sudden sleep syndrome.  
  * Magi feels that Eori seems kind, controlling, antisocial. She wonders if Harry running away from her was a sign that something bad between the two happened?

# **Chapter 2 \- Flatland’s latest business**

* ## Ryo, sisters in front of a rundown, old resort with an assistant.

  * Ryo “This is the best you found?”  
  * Assistant “That’s the best I could find. If you had given me 5 more sapphires I could have haggled for something different.”  
  * Ryo “Well, I do like a challenge. Anyways, I guess we need to introduce each other.”  
  * Ryo does so.  
  * Assistant “I heard all about it in the letter. You two are indeed quite cute. With that in mind, here’s what a gift I bought.”  
  * The assistant brings out two kimono-like clothing for both.  
  * Ryo “Actually, I forgot to tell you that only Katsumi will be managing this place. Katsuki wants to travel with me instead.”  
  * Assistant: “You want to travel with her instead. I know how this goes.”  
  * Ryo hugs both of them. “I would take both, but Katsumi also has a dream of her own, and this place will help her. All right, let’s take a tour.”  
  * The assistant showcases the place. Make fun of it.

* ## Ryo, doing budgeting with Katsuki, Katsumi showing off her things while construction goes on.

  * The assistant looks turned on by Katsumi. She teases her.  
  * She looks at Ryo. “Are you asking me for permission? I told you It’s your place, it’s your life. Have fun\!”  
  * Katsumi fakes a kiss, and plays with her more. She rubs her butt on the assistant, and they kiss.  
  * A construction guy comes into the room. He looks turned on.  
  * Ryo laughs. “Damm\! This place is gonna do nicely. How can I help ya?”  
  * Construction guy “We’re finishing prepping the walls. Have you decided on the color schema?”  
  * Ryo, “Crap, I forgot to ask you about that.”  
  * Katsumi decided on a name on the spot, plus the color schemas.  
  * Ryo. “There’s your answer. ”  
  * Contractor leaves. Ryo, “Have you found your girls already?”  
  * Katsumi “I’m working on that. I only have time to review one or two per day.”  
  * Ryo. “hmmm. Can I see the audition?”  
  * Katsumi, “But you can’t participate otherwise I will not be able to review their fuckability.”  
  * Ryo. “In all my years I never heard that. Seems legit.”

* ## Ryo in front of the place finished, Katsumi, Katsuki with Ryo, plus two adventurers.

  * Ryo says that he is going to Blood via Forway.  
  * Katsumi teases adventurers saying she will give them special treatment if they take good care of her sister and Ryo.  
  * An assistant appears from the back with tons of paper “WAIIT\! Can you also distribute those to the boards as you make your way?”  
  * Ryo checks it out. “Damm. Just as hot as real life. Good job\!”  
  * The assistant looks happy.

# **Chapter 3 \- Arukia’s Opportunity.**

* ## Arukia with her baby Bruntos walking down a mountain, rain.

  * They are walking, carrying something, they get hurt. Arukia protected the baby Bruntos, but broke her ribs, and other spots.

* ## Cruro finds them after the landslide.

  * Someone finds them, and offers Arukia Nari Refresher, she says no, but too late it is given to her. She heals. The baby monkey looks at her not quite understanding, but as he smells her, he hugs her.  
  * Cruro smells the blood. Arukia is afraid the Cruro will know who she truly is, but it does not happen as this Cruro has lived here its entire life.  
  * The person. “Were you trying to appear as his first owner?”  
  * Arukia. “Yeah. That.”  
  * The person laughs out loud. “That’s pretty stupid. They recognize you by your smell. You need to do a full body Nari to trick them. Anyways, let’s go have supper, and you two can bathe before heading home.”

* ## Arukia bathing with Bruntos.

  * Bruntos is making a mess. She laughs. The woman of the house interrupts them to bring her a new set of clothes in exchange of the old one. Arukia says she does not have much money. They reply, neither do us.

* ## Arukia, hiding her face, with bruntos on a Nari gel stand. She sees the options, then realizes Harry is one of them.

  * She asks where that one comes from. Vendor says he got it for pretty cheap from a boat coming from Sanbi. They sold it for so cheap that he didn’t even know how they made a profit.  
  * Arukia. *Someone was calling me by name, and now this? Does Eori want Harry back this bad? Could it be my ticket out of Red Winga?*  
  * Arukia grabs her money pouch. She can either buy a Nari Gel to stay on the island, or use the money to return to Sanbi.  
  * She looks at her baby, and then at her ragged clothes. They leave without buying anything.

# **Chapter 4 \- Ryo, Katsuki in a wagon.**

* ## Ryo, Katsuki in a restaurant at lunch north of Forway. Katsuki is devouring even more Barinas. 

  * Ryo is mesmerized by her capabilities of eating Barinas like no other. Katsuki is so focused she does not even offer him.  
  * Ryo. “You like Barinas that much?”  
  * Katsuki, with frog juices dripping down her chin, nods as she keeps going.  
  * Ryo. *Maybe she is pregnant after all. It would explain puking her guts out at dawn, then eating like a Bagarisa the rest of the day.* “Not to dredge up your past, but have you ever gotten pregnant?”  
  * Katsuki pauses for a sec. “One. Nari. Two. Gel.”  
  * Ryo. “Got it. Red Winga would constantly give you Nari Gel to keep that from happening. Well, no more alcohol for you.” Ryo takes away her glass as he raises his finger up in the sky.  
  * “Whatcha you want?” A server comes close.  
  * Ryo “Can we have some juice instead?”  
  * “We have X, T, Y, F.”  
  * Ryo looks at Katsuki, eating with a sad face as she looks at the beer jug. “Anything tickles your fancy?”  
  * Katsuki “One—beer.”  
  * Ryo. “No deal.”  
  * Katsuki. “One—T.”  
  * Ryo begins drinking the beer. Katsuki looks at him with puppy eyes. Ryo puts it aside. “Okay. I will stop drinking it with you.”  
  * Katsuki brightens up with a smile.

* ## Repeat the scene, but add a guy selling Nari gel. From table to table.

  * Guy tries to sell them Nari Gel.  
  * Katsuki realizes one of them is Harry. She chokes on her food. Ryo is about to get up, when she lifts her hand up. With a few more coughs it seems she is back to normal.  
  * Guy in Nair gel says he has a new Nari gel that prevents that from happening.  
  * Ryo. “But she can’t. She’s pregnant.”  
  * Katsuki points at a specific face. “One—Harry.”  
  * Guy: “Oh\! You know the guy?”  
  * Ryo. “We know him. Yes. Can you tell me where you got it from?”  
  * Guy. “I'll tell you if you buy one. I can even BOGO it for you.”  
  * Ryo. “What kind of info is this?”  
  * Guy. “My distributor, of course\!”  
  * Ryo smiles “XXX”?  
  * Guy looks surprised “How the heck do you know him?”  
    Ryo pulls out a couple pearls. “I lived long enough.”

* ## Ryo, Katsuki at XXX.

  * XXX and Ryo meet. He introduces his businessmate.   
  * XXX explains it was from Sanbi Kingdom. There’s a random guy mass producing these, and sending them to the four corners of the world.  
  * Ryo, “Do you believe they are turning a profit?”  
  * XXX “If they use Cruro labor, and did not pay this guy, then maybe a pearl per Nari gel? My prices here are a factor of shipping, plus 25%, but it’s barely selling.  
  * Ryo. “What’s the price for knowing who sold you?”  
  * XXX pulls out a contract from his table “It’s on the house. Looks can be deceiving, but LLK looked as if he had zero experience trading. He even looked as if he did not care if he turned a profit.”  
  * Ryo. “Really?” *Then this is a classic case of sending a message, but to who? Red Winga? Could they be sending a message to my girls? This could be the chance to cut off from Red Winga permanently*  
  * Ryo contracts him to spread the new whorehouse flyers on all the villages instead of him. He was gonna find someone in Forway, but XXX proved good in the past.

# **Epilogue**

* ## Laura, Emelia (Madam) talking. Don’t show Laura’s face.

  * Emelia and Madam discuss the appearance of Harry’s Nari gels. Laura says it’s because Red Winga kept from revealing themselves for long enough that Sanbi Royals decided to act more aggressively. Laura says it’s time for the Red Winga to act more aggressively too as the current conservative strategy hasn’t paid off.   
  * Laura: Send all agents to Sanbi, and find all hidden research by all means necessary.  
  * Emelia “Yes madam. I will relay the message to other agents.”

# **\--Book 15 \- A Game of Minari--**

# **Prologue**

* ## Eiri & Sora by a stand. Harry's face (just like how he was fat and all) is one of the available items.

  * The guys say from his distributor, and if you have a problem you should bring it up with him.   
  * They ask who he is. “It’s a round, and hairy dude called Lick, from the guild My-veiny-balls.”  
  * He laughs as Eiri, Sora go away.  
  * They realize that Harry must be alive somewhere, and they need to talk with Coema to find out where he is. Sora argues this is pointless as the search quest never did anything, and that Coema hasn’t found Arukia yet.  
  * Eiri. We must try\! Can you imagine the things Harry went through after he was kidnapped right after starting his job as Sanbi eye?

* ## Eiri & Sora with Coema

  * Coema looks at the Harry Nari Gel. “So that’s Harry?”  
  * She says her guild was contacted by a merchant from Sanbi saying they had a batch of Nari gel, and paid top dollar to get it shipped across all kingdoms.  
  * Eiri “Isn’t that suspicious?”  
  * Coema “A bit, but it’s not the first time this has happened. Usually when someone is trying to book it they would do that.”  
  * Eiri & Sora “So Harry is alive, and trying to free his contract?”  
  * Coema “Exactly.”  
  * Eiri “We want to help him.”  
  * Coema “By doing what exactly?”  
  * THey don’t know. Sora talks about asking around.  
  * Coema “I will take care of that. I have a better job for you two. Give false information to Neferteri, and don’t let her find out I’m behind Eori’s escapade, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she put two-and-two together.”

# **Chapter 1 \- If only I had Bagarisa Power**

* ## Harry leaves the atelier with fixed clothes, near sunset.

  * Someone approaches Harry with a knife on his back. “if you say something I will kill you.”  
  * Harry defends himself, gets his clothes slashed, and takes off running, but then takes off after him, and slashes him. Harry tries to fight himself, but it is all to vain as he feels a paralyzing poison take over. He sees Eori’s face, he wakes up.

* ## Harry had a very similar setup when he was imprisoned by Eori.

  * He looks around. He sees stuff similar to what Eori had. He thinks Eori caught him, he tries to break himself free but he is pretty locked up. *No\! This has to be a dream\!*  
  * Harry now remembers Morika, in full armor, beating the shit out of him, and extracting everything he knew.  
  * Harry tries to use Bagarisa Fire, but nothing.  
  * Harry makes a bunch of noise as he tries to break himself free, until two people come downstairs. 

* ## Harry notices Morika in full armor, and Neferteri coming to see him.

  * Neferteri asks Morika to use Harry's blood, and make Nari gel off his face and spread to the four corners of the world. That way Eori will realize we have Harry, and she will come back to me.  
  * Harry tries to talk.  
  * Neferteri. “Please shut up this monster\!”  
  * Neferteri leaves, Morika grabs a weapon, slashes Harry near his groin, and starts collecting his blood.  
  * Harry, in anger trying to break himself free, tries to use the fire, but nothing comes out. He passes out.

* ## Harry wakes up again, by himself.

  * He imagines what life could have been if he had not lied. He called himself Desmond out of fear, but now look where it brought him.  
  * He tries to get out again, but it does not work.  
  * He screams for help. He says he is Harry, but nothing happens. Harry lowers his head. *I fucked this up.*  
  * Morika comes downstairs with some food. He forces down Harry’s throat. “You’re nothing but a failed experiment. Now do as told, and serve your purpose.”

# **Chapter 2 \- Ex-Sanbi’s Maid.**

* ## Arukia arrives at Sanbi by boat, her heart is struggling.

  * She starts to think it was all a bad idea.  
  * She holds her baby tightly as the boat makes landfall. She walks around a bit. Two cruro starts smelling close to her, then approaches her, and flips through the books, searching for something pre-written. “We've been looking out for you. Coema wants to talk to you.”  
  * Arukia freezes for a second, but then continues.

* ## Coema, Arukia holding her baby Bruntos tightly, Four Cruros nearby.

  * Coema takes a sip of her tea. “That’s quite the story you got there. And Eiri never catched on to your behavior?”  
  * Arukia holds her baby bruntos tightly. “Never.”  
  * Coema. “You know why?”  
  * Arukia. “She’s too kind.”  
  * Coema. “And you know who is not?”  
  * Arukia. “The previous King’s Maid, you.”  
  * The door opens. Eiri runs towards Arukia, and hugs her, and starts crying. Sora stays behind as she notices the disapproval in Coema’s eyes.  
  * Coema puts the tea down. “Eiri, you plan on cuddling a traitor all day?”  
  * Eiri looks in disbelief.   
  * Arukia looks down. “It’s true.”  
  * Coema. “Tell everything again.”  
  * Sora excuses herself, assuming that’s not a conversation for her.  
  * Coema. “Hold up there young lady. You’re gonna listen to everything as well.”

* ## Eiri, crying. Sora consoling Eiri. Arukia with watery eyes holding the bruntos.

  * Eiri “I can’t believe Neferteri also lied to me like that\! Why didn't I catch on earlier? It’s all my fault\! If I hadn’t made Harry sign the contract, none of this would have happened.”  
  * Arukia does not say anything. Coema lets out a sigh, as she stands up, and slaps the shit out of Eiri. “Get your sanbi shit together\! If you’re so sad over her, and this Harry feller, then do something about it\!”  
  * Eiri “But\! But\!—” Eiri shuts up, and swallows her tears. “I need to go and talk with Neferteri.”  
  * Coema “You sure? You do realize what’s gonna happen when Neferteri discovers I am holding a Red Winga bandit that stole Harry away from Eori.”  
  * Arukia “I fled from them.”  
  * Coema “Doesn’t matter. I can’t take everything you said at face value either.”  
  * Eiri. “So what do I do? Should I talk to Itagiba?”  
  * Coema grabs a piece of snack and shoves into her mouth. “No. He will get drunk and say something that will give us away. You two stay unaware of the situation until Eori wreaks havoc.”  
  * Eiri “Eori? But she’s in Forway”  
  * Coema “Not for long. She’s gonna show up back at Sanbi at any point.”  
  * Eiri “How do you know that?”  
  * Coema “Just how you, and Sora saw that Harry feller Nari gels, Eori must have seen it as well.”  
  * Things go silent. Coema looks at Arukia “Arukia, are you ready for your punishment?”  
  * Arukia seems slightly hesitant at first but she stands up, leaving her baby in the seat, aching for her embrace.  
  * Coema gets close to her, and ready for a slap, but puts her two hands and softly slaps her cheeks instead. “Red Winga, perhaps Neferteri as well, will likely not miss the chance to capture you this time around. If you agree to be a bait, I promise a vote from Eiri & Itagiba to exonerate your previous actions when the time comes.”  
  * Arukia “What about my baby?”  
  * Coema “Sora will take care of him, right Sora?”  
  * Sora. “But\! But\! I never took care of a Bruntos before.”  
  * Coema “Arukia, hand him to her.”  
  * She does so. The baby rests his head against her breasts, feels uncomfortable, then taps around, trying to feel where it is. It gets angry and starts crying.  
  * Sora looks at Arukia’s breasts, then hers. Her mood floors.  
  * Coema. “Just add some padding for now, and it will be fine. Nothing to be ashamed of.”  
  * Eiri “But—but I don’t want to put Arukia in harm’s way\!”  
  * Coema “Daughter. Get your shit together. She needs to pay for her actions, even if they were justified in her own logic.”

# **Chapter 3 \- An Old Friendship**

* ## Ryo, Katsuki at a Sanbi bar (both undercover.) Arukia drinking out in the open. Drawn some sketchy people in two of the tables.

  * Katsumi “One—Arukia.”  
  * Ryo looks. “She’s pretty hot. No wonder Red Winga recruited her.”  
  * Katsumi “One—Deserter—Two—Why?”  
  * Ryo “Right. This seems pretty fishy, and it’s not the Kingdom. I think someone might be baiting us. Look around, see anyone that stands out?”  
  * Katsumi is unsure.  
  * Ryo. “The Cruros. See that percentage of Cruros at the bar is higher than what you see in the street?”  
  * Katsumi begins noticing it, and sure enough, once you pay attention to it, there seems like a Cruro festival going on.  
  * Ryo. “Lesson of the day, you need to know people’s tactics, and that will allow you to realize what’s going on without raising a question. Granted, it’s a bet, but I am fairly certain who’s behind this one. Follow after me.”  
  * Ryo stands up, approaches the bar, and asks for five froffy beers. He grabs three, and Katsuki grabs two.  
  * Ryo goes to a large group of Cruro, and lands it at their table.   
  * Cackles of interest, surprise, etc appear. Ryo “Choose one”   
  * The Cruros are unsure. Someone smacks their lips and chooses a random beer.   
  * Ryo grabs, chugs it, making Katsuki pissed.  
  * He lands the empty glass back. A loud burp that echoes around ends with him tapping his chest, and saying “See my friends? Totally Safe\! This round is on the House.” He lowers his voice. “Tell Coema Ryo is back in town, and he has info on the bait.”  
  * Ryo grabs Katsuki’s hand, and leads her back to where he was seated. “ Sorry babe, but I had to prove a point. I had no choice.”  
  * Katsuki sighs. “One—Tell.Two—Next”  
  * Ryo. “Will do baby. Now let’s hang out here until a Cruro takes us to her.”

* ## Ryo, Coema hugging, Katsuki on the side (both in normal appearance). A few Cruros around.

  * Coema, Ryo hugs. Coema “And who might you be?”  
  * Ryo “My lovely assistant, Katsuki.”  
  * Katsuki does not speak.  
  * Coema “Did a Cruro eat your tongue?”  
  * Katsuki embarrassedly says “One—no.”  
  * Coema “One?”  
  * Ryo. “It’s how she is able to speak,give it a few minutes, and you’re gonna understand what she means. By the way, it looks like the Newland expedition turned out pretty rewarding.”  
  * Coema “Ryo, it’s not too late to take up on my offer.”  
  * Ryo laughs as he brings Katsuki closer, embracing her, then rubbing his hand on her belly. “Tempting, yes, but I will have to pass.”  
  * Coema observes his hand. “I see. Well, I assume you came here to see me for something other than hearing my stories?”  
  * Ryo looks at Katsuki. “—Go on.”  
  * Katsuki explains that she wants to buy Harry from her.  
  * Coema “I see. So you two thought the Half-Cruro guild was creating Nari Gels out of him?”  
  * Ryo “Then who else would go through the lengths of using Cruros going all over?”  
  * Coema “True dat. It is our guild distributing, but we are not making it.”  
  * Katsuki cries. She wants to help Harry. Ryo explains that she and her sister had a falling out with him, and she wanted to repair bridges.  
  * // Reprise story of what happened.  
  * Coema “Arukia filled in some of the other details as well.”  
  * A loud bang in the door follows. The Cruros prepare for battle.  
  * Coema “Well, someone was smarter than us.”  
  * The door opens. A stranger jumps inside, towards Coema, she does not flinch as the Cruros protect her.   
  * The stranger screams “You fucking bitch\! You lied\! You used me\!”  
  * Coema “Who are you?”

* ## Eori (impatient) as she flips off Coema with one finger, and eats Nari Refresher with the other, Magi holding her badge, with a few more Cruros separating them from everyone else. 

  * Eori. “YOU SET ME UP\!”  
  * Coema chuckles while the room is silent. “The plan was for you to do that on Neferteri, not on me.”  
  * Eori. “THEN WHY DID CREATE NARI GELS OUT OF HARRY\!”  
  * Coema puts one of her hands up. “Again, we distributed it, but did not produce it.”  
  * Eori. “IT DOESN’T MATTER\! WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME?”  
  * Ryo. “Excuse us Princess Eori—”  
  * Eori. “WHAT? The fuck are you?”  
  * Ryo clears his throat. “Ryo XX. Guild XX, and this is my lovely companion Katsuki,of—”  
  * Eori looks pretty impatient.  
  * Ryo. “—okay, then.”  
  * Coema “Eori, You’re not the only one looking for Harry.”  
  * Ryo “We all have our reasons, but we want to help him as well.”  
  * Eori feels tears coming up. “Harry is mine\! He was mine from the beginning\!”  
  * Coema “But does he want to be yours?”  
  * Eori feels anger kicking, she tries to take a step towards Coema, but Cruros does not allow it.  
  * Coema “You're not making this easier. Will you settle down and listen if I tell you who took Harry from you?”  
  * Eori opens her eyes. She holds herself, as she clenches her firsts. “Fine.”  
  * Coema. “Agent Arukia from Red Winga.”  
  * Eori. “Where is she?”  
  * Coema “Putting herself as bait as we speak. She is trying to redeem herself as well, just like Katsuki.”  
  * Eori “What did you do to my Harry?”  
  * Katsuki fumbles. “One. Took. Two. Care.”  
  * Eori “What’s she saying?”  
  * Ryo. “She took great care of Harry after Arukia took him away, even helped him escape as well, but they ditched him at the last second.”  
  * Eori “Where?”  
  * Ryo. “South of Forway. She and her sister were imprisoned by a Black Magina camp. Luckily I found her sister who escaped as she was dying on the roadside.”  
  * Eori. “So what are you all doing then?”  
  * Ryo “Using Arukia as bait, and then taking action from what she finds?”  
  * Coema smiles. “Indeed\! We likely have a few more time chunks to exchange what we know from him\!”  
  * Ryo. “By the way, can I ask how Princess Eori got involved in this?”  
  * Coema “I gave her the means to free herself, and plan to do the same for Harry.”  
  * Magi raises her hand. “But why?”  
  * Ryo peeks his ears. “I don’t see how you are making money out of this either.”  
  * Coema “You think I only care for money? Honey. You really don’t know me after all.” Coema stands up and puts her arms out. “Money is a tool for me to drink the tears of my enemies. Now, let’s feast on Neferteri’s tears.”  
  * Ryo laughs. “Fair game. I’m in.”  
  * Eori smirks.  
  * Magi does not look pleased. “Do you all think this is just a joke?”  
  * Coema understands where she is coming from, she acknowledges her. She says it’s Neferteri playing games, but this time she took it too far by playing with matters she does not understand.

# **Chapter 4 \- It’s a Trap\!**

* ## Arukia leaves the bar, being followed by 2 people. 

  * Arukia walks out of the bar. She imagines something similar that she did before. She takes off running, and the people following do suit.  
  * She ran looking as if she was in desperation, but she ran to a predetermined place.  
  * She acts like she is fearing for her life. “Please don’t hurt me\! I give in\! I will do as the Red Winga contract tells me to.”  
  * The bandit “You had your chance. Now you’re gonna be used and abused by our worst clientele.”  
  * A whack to the back of the neck of one of the bandits makes him fall forward, then soon after the other bandit.  
  * Cruru gives a thumbs up with a small grunt, but then one of the Cruro squeals in pain. An arrow perforated its long. It turns back but they can’t see anything.  
  * Arukia jumps forward and uses one of the bodies as a shield.

* ## Arukia using body as a meat shield. Two Cruros also share the other guy as a meatshield, but they are dying. Four agents are running towards them.

  * The Cruros realize the smartness of the idea, but as they try to do so, they are inflicted with another arrow.  
  * Arukia, with no weapons, and stuck at a dead end, desperately looks around for a way to flee, when one of the Cruros now dying at the floor, regurgitates blood. She sees it is carrying a small knife.  
  * Arukia “Give me his knife.”  
  * The cruro does so. Arukia peeks out from the shield to grab it as he throws a bit always from her, but immediately notices a moonlit flash in the distance, and she returns her head, an arrow screams by, and cuts her hair, and scratches her skin.  
  * Arukia feels a burning pain in the scratch, it begins to open, and bleed more. Blood begins to warm her face as it makes its way to drip down in her chin.  
  * The meath shield protecting Arukia suddenly woke up. It turned around, and pushed Arukia into the floor. Startled, her hand let go of the knife.   
  * Arukia squeezed the life out of her. The knife is just out of reach.  
  * She struggles some more. The bandit says Emelia is gonna fuck her up the ass. Madam is really pissed off, and will search and kill both her and Harry.   
  * Arukia was about to pass out when the guy suddenly went limp, and fell forward striking his head close to her.  
  * Arukia gasped, and she pushed the limp dead body to the side.   
  * Four more cruros appeared to come to her aid, they looked like they were battered in fight.

* ## Morika in full body armor ready to fight the four Cruros defending Arukia

  * It all goes to shit, and ends up with Arukia trying to fight Morika, but getting her head bashed instead.

# **Chapter 5 \- Choose and Lose.**

* ## Ryo, Magi, Eori, Coema (only Magi is ready to fly) with Nari Gel with a few more Cruro helping them, while looking from above, far away as Morika and Arukia fight.

  * Eori “It’s him\! It’s Morika\! But why would mom allow him to use full armor while doing her bidding out in the city?”  
  * Coema “Because she is baiting us as well. She wants us to follow him.”  
  * Morika delivers the final blow.   
  * Magi looks at the gory and gets irritated, she breaks out of her shell. “Why don’t we just capture him instead?”  
  * Eori “Morika would never tell. He is her perfect pawn to blindly follow her around.”  
  * Ryo eats the Nari Gel and begins transforming. “He’s taking her away\! Let’s go.”  
  * The others follow suit.  
  * Coema is the last one to take off. She turns to the 7 Cruros with her. “Get all the bodies back in the guild.”  
  * Cruros acknowledges, and takes off after the gory scene in the alley.  
  * They clumsily take off while Magi & Eori instruct them, and begin to tail Morika as he only places a half-assed white sheet over Arukia’s mangled body in the wagon.  
  * Magi looks at Eori. *She knows how to fly just as well as me. Did not expect that from a Princess.*  
  * Morika stops by a run down building, and takes the body inside.  
  * Eori “Let’s go\!”  
  * Coema. “Hold\! This is too easy\! ”

* ## Ryo, Magi, Eori (jacked), Coema sitting on top of a building, four more carts with five Morikas leave out of the building.

  * Coema “She’s trying to thin the herd\! Everyone, pick a cart to follow, and follow until the destination. Try to peek from afar, then return back to the meeting spot for us to decide which place to invade.”  
  * Eori swoops forward towards a cart going towards the right.   
  * Ryo. “I guess I will take left.”  
  * Coema “Magi, let's follow the ones going North?”  
  * Magi “Sure”  
  * They follow suit. Coema “So you’re hired by Eori, but do you have ulterior motives as well?”  
  * Magi imagines her disappeared father, she then glances at Coema, a matured woman that likely experienced a whole lot in life. “My father disappeared, just like Harry.” Magi sorrows her brow. *A conspiracy that now I think a rich piece of shit was just laughing it off.*  
  * Coema “Sorry to hear that. What was your guild again?”  
  * Magi “Blue-Flower-Red-Bone”  
  * Coema “I see. The name sounds familiar for some reason. Once this is all said, and done. Come see me for tea, and we can look through the Half-Cruro guild books.”  
  * Magi. “Are you part of that guild?”  
  * Coema. “But of course. XXX created it wanting to enlighten the lives of the smarter Cruros coming from Cruroland. Why wouldn’t I want to support that great cause?”  
  * Magi “Sure” She looks back at the carts. *While making a buttload of money. I bet you would not care if the guild was not as rich.*

* ## Eori, close to break of dawn, jacked, flying above the same house she was once before.

  * Eori *I can’t believe she is taking that bitch’s body to my house\!*  
  * Eori feels anger. She swoops in, clashing through a window on the upper floor.  
  * Morika (actually is XX) climbs up the stairs.  
  * Eori and Morika fight. She gains an upper hand by using the environment against XX. She then kills the guy.  
  * She ties his hands and feet, and uses Nari Refresher on the body, which then transforms to XX.  
  * Eori, in fury, steps on its brain, exploding it on the floor.  
  * She then goes downstairs to search for Harry, but only sees Arukia’s body against the wall.  
  * She feels the anger building up towards her for all that she did to Harry & her. She drags the body downstairs, adds more Nari gel, then tries to revive her. Nothing. Eori punches Arukia in the chest, breaking her ribs. She continued punching as tears flowed from her eyes.

# **Epilogue**

* ## Magi, late morning following another wagon cart, but no more Morika. Now it’s a random guy with a sword, and wagon with multiple things.

  * Magi feels sleepy, her arms are sore. Her body is cranky, but her mind is strong willed. She continues following the cart as it makes its way to a solitary home in a small village.  
  * The cart stops, and so does Magi into the branch of a nearby tree as the person looks around, drawing its weapon.  
  * Magi keeps silent. She notices the person taking the body inside. She looks around for anybody else, but finds no one.  
  * She flies again towards the chimney of the home where she hears a distinctively familiar voice, a voice of a queen saying “Were you followed as I expected?”  
  * Morika “Yes my queen. We split up into different hideouts as requested.”  
  * Neferteri. “Thank you. Now let’s find out what happened.”  
  * Morika. “My Queen. I apologize for my question, but are you sure you want to participate in the interrogation?”  
  * Neferteri “I want to see this matter resolved quickly, so yes.”  
  * Magi needs to decide if she stays, or she comes back to alert. She takes off

# **\--Book 16 \- Pursuit of Happiness--**

# **Prologue**

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# **Chapter 1 \- Going the Extra Mile**

* ## Magi, looking wiped out, at the spot back with Eori (fake body), Coema, Ryo, Katsuki, Magi, plus a few Cruros.

  * They ask her why she took so long. She explains that Morika was being extra careful, but she confirmed Neferteri was inside the building in XX Village.  
  * Coema plans an assault to rescue Harry & Arukia. She relays the message to Eiri & Sora to declare Eori Missing with an emergency reunion, while we divide up and get both Harry & Arukia out while imprisoning Neferteri.

* ## Magi, Eori (wearing a fake body), Ryo, and a few Cruros on the road.

  * Ryo: “I knew Queen Neferteri liked to steer the conversation her way, but all of this is news to me.”  
  * Eori. “Try living under her then.”  
  * Ryo. “I pass—by the way, don’t mind me asking, but what will you do if Harry does not want to come with you?”  
  * Eori looks ticked off. She doesn't reply.  
  * Magi, on the other side, looks at Eori as well.  
  * Eori. “Harry is mine, and he knows it.”  
  * Ryo, and Magi look at Eori.   
  * Eori “He—he even said he loved me.”  
  * Ryo. “He did? Wow.”  
  * Magi looks suspicious. “If he loved you, then why was he faking his name?”  
  * Eori gets angry. “That is between me and Harry\! Arukia was the one who separated us\!”  
  * Ryo “I think she’s coming. Talk about something else.”  
  * Ryo, and then pass by Neferteri (but it's someone else.) Eori makes profound eye contact.

* ## Magi, Eori (wearing a fake body), Ryo, and a few Cruros prepare to ambush the house.

  * Ryo: “I 

# **Chapter 2 \- Falling Apart**

* ## Neferteri, Morika, Arukia in the hideout.

  * Morika has a prod heated up by fire. Arukia is chained with stab pains in their bellies.  
  * Morika gets ready to stab again, when Neferteri puts her hand to stop him. Morika holds himself, and carefully places the prod back in the fire.  
  * Neferteri approaches Arukia “Your disappearance wasn’t coincidental. If you simply cooperate with me, I’m willing to put this behind us if you simply cooperate.”  
  * Arukia spits on the ground. “I served you for months\! I know what you are capable of\!”  
  * Neferteri “Enlighten me.”  
  * Arukia “You’re gonna torch me up once you have what you need, so fuck off\!”  
  * Neferteri slightly smiles.  
  * Arukia “You only care about yourself\! If you hadn’t done what you did to Harry, I wouldn’t have to do the things I did\!”  
  * Neferteri. “So you were forced by an outsider. Who?”  
  * Arukia looks at Neferteri, and does not respond.  
  * Neferteri looks back, she sighs as she sits down. “I am the Queen of Sanbi. I protect my people. Harry is not one of us. You’re not one of us.”  
  * Arukia “What are you saying?”  
  * Neferteri “This failed experiment was supposed to be a shining example of a warrior, and help us defend against Forway, and the likes of you.”  
  * Arukia looks at Harry, then back at Neferteri “Why are you trying to defend against Forway. The prosperity treaty is a thing for a reason.”  
  * Neferteri. “Until it is not. It’s a piece of paper, backed by promises of men and women that becomes backstabbing over the simplest arguments.”  
  * “My Queen\! I have urgent news\!” someone calls to the queen from the door.   
  * Neferteri continues “Whoever ordered you to attack my daughter did so over a petty argument. I am simply exercising my leverage to protect my daughter, and the citizens of the Sanbi kingdom against the likes of you.”  
  * Arukia. “And I’m gonna protect myself from the likes of you.”  
  * Neferteri “That’s unfortunate. Morika, please continue.”

* ## Neferteri and Y.

  * Y: “My Queen, safehouse X has been invaded by someone. On the upper floor. The invader fought with X, and killed him before leaving, and not taking anything.”  
  * Neferteri look. As I expected. *Eori wouldn’t be capable of doing this all alone.*   
  * Z “My Queen. You also been summoned by an emergency call”  
  * Neferteri breaks her thought. “What is the reason?”  
  * Z “Eori’s disappearance.”  
  * Neferteri “Who is summoning the meeting?”  
  * Z “King’s Maid, my Queen.”  
  * Neferteri. *Someone in the Forway school must have leaked the info to her—or are they acting according to a plan?*  
  * Z notices Neferteri grown pale. “My queen?”  
  * Neferteri breaks from her thoughts. “”