Jade & Latte
Shadow figure

They arrived at a large mansion. A building with medieval design. Complete with pavilions that stand in the middle of a spacious garden.

Mansion that looks old, but at the same time, still looks sturdy. Jade and River walked on dry asphalt leading directly to the master's house. Accompanied by the lights of the garden that glowed brightly on each side of the right and left.

They were both escorted by two people who claimed to be the servant of the master. Suited in a black suit, complete with sunglasses. Jade had a small laugh, according to him which fool wears sunglasses at night.

The two maids brought Jade and River into the living room. There someone was waiting behind a long table. His appearance was in stark contrast to the servants who escorted them.

A man about 40 years old, wearing light blue casual clothes, complete with yellow geranium flowers.

“The last thing I'm waiting for comes too, please sit down, what do you want to drink? Snack out? Have you guys eaten? of course not yet. Do we eat first yes-”

“No-no, thank you, but we don't have much time. After all, shouldn't you introduce yourself first?”

Jade interrupted the warm welcome from that person. River was just mute, he had already memorized the nature of Jade.

“Owh yes, sorry, I'm too happy with your arrival. Introduce my name is Geld Andersdotter, owner of Brave Children company and of course, I sent you guys a letter

“So you're in charge? well tell us in full”

Jade, River and Geld chatted in the quiet and cold living room. A cup of warm pu’eh tea is served on them. Unfortunately, Jade was not very fond of the drink, too sweet, she preferred a cup of warm espresso.

Geld recounts the beginning of the incident. Starting when the sales of their drugs decreased, then Geld tried to make a new herb for his products.

The experiment produced results. In the first month, the new concoction drug managed to reach its highest profit of about 2 million gold pieces. But unfortunately, in the second month the incident occurred.

At two o'clock in the morning, three workers were assigned to patrol the warehouse. After they entered the warehouse, the three men split up and went to each of the assigned places. As they were about to regroup at the meeting point, a mysterious figure appeared out of nowhere.

One worker survived the attack, but the lives of the other two were no longer saved. Almost all parts of his body disappeared being eaten by the fiend. Only the two of them left their uniforms. While one worker survived, he ran away using his teleportation magic.

Jade and River listened carefully, every detail of the words spoken by Geld, directly processed using Jade and River reasoning.

They both know that if a fiend appears, there is an open portal of darkness, and the portal of darkness is triggered by one of the seven accumulated sins of man.

“I want to meet the worker who survived it”

Jade took the initiative to be a little more active on the case this time around. Because all this time, Latte who always communicates with clients and Jade only acts as an executor.

Hearing Jade's request, Geld fell silent. He hesitates to allow Jade to meet her workers.  His brain thought hard to look for various reasons.

“We just want to ask him directly about this case, as a key witness and want to see his condition”

River clarified the sentence from Jade. They both wanted to see firsthand whether there was any fiend aura left behind from the survivor. From there, it can be seen what kind of fiend they will face.

“What can I do. At the moment his condition is very bad, I can't guarantee he can give you guys a lot of information”

Geld escorted Jade and River to the room on the second floor. The grand and majestic staircase is circular as a link between the ground floor and the top floor. On the brown wall, there are several photos of receiving educational degrees and award certificates.

Geld muttered in a rhetorical phrase, pouring all his sorrow over the calamity on his business. Jade is not too interested in the story of the diary of the client, according to him for a businessman, the risk of failure or loss must always be ready to bear.

Competition between companies, unexpected disasters, market trends that are always changing it should all be Geld thought in order to maintain his business. From there we can find out the value of an entrepreneur. If they can go through every obstacle, then that is what is called a true entrepreneur.

“When my business has begun to reach the top, there will always be bad things that interfere, competitors who do not understand about quality and only attach importance to quantity, and, and now a strange creature that makes terror in my warehouse. Complete already”

“…”

“You can try another business right? You can look for sectors that have no competitors. Isn't that not a bad idea?”

River gave advice with the intention of making the atmosphere not so awkward. After all, who else would have chimed in the curses of that middle-aged man other than River? The jade? He will answer with the sentence ‘I am not interested in their story. It's all just a waste of my energy, I work just to finish off fiend’ that's how it is.

“I built this business from scratch, until finally I was able to get the highest profit 5 years ago. This company I already consider as my own son.”

They arrived in one of the rooms on the second floor. There lies a body covered in blue flannel. He hides under the blanket shivering.

“He's Robert, one of our workers. From the moment of the attack, his condition has not changed, he is still traumatized by the creature”

Geld touched Robert's shoulder which was still trembling under his blanket.

“Quiet! now that you're safe, we're here to exterminate the creature, but can you help us tell us about the shadow creature?”

Now it was River's turn to try to persuade him, he hoped that Mr. Robert could ventured out of his blanket. But nil, Robert was still terrified. He did not dare to show his face.

“Bothering..oi uncle, if you don't help us, you can also die, just like your friends loh”

“Oi Jade!! Watch what you say!!”

River snapping.

“…”

There was still no reaction from Mr. Robert. For humans to see the fiend figure is just like they see the angel of death. Their lives seemed to leave their bodies. Disappeared in the cold darkness.

“Waste of time.. I'm tired, it's quite like today. I want to sleep”

Said Jade who had already lost her mood. In fact, he could have gone straight to the warehouse where the creature was. It's just that with the amount of information he can, then the annihilation will be more efficient. It can measure which amount will come out during execution without having to improvise on the spot.

The two of them decided to rest first tonight, tomorrow inevitably Jade and River went to the warehouse and instantly annihilated the fiend.

As Geld was about to deliver Jade and River to the guest room, suddenly the cloth that enveloped Master Robert's body slowly decreased. The figure of a face with a frightened expression mixed with a deathly pale color was enough to describe his horror back then. His mouth slowly moved while saying something.

“M-That creature is huge, ber-ber...wings and horns....”.

Finally, Robert spoke as well.