Moonlight After Sunset's
Preparation

"Show the world that you are alive and thriving in it, don't be afraid to look wrong because that is the starting point of your success."

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The 3rd floor Moonlight Guild looked calm despite the state of the lower floors being so boisterous. This was the first day that black market hikers realized that a new guild was opening up.

Usually the guilds would promote their skills openly by holding a big party to invite all the people into it.

Yet this new guild did not even say anything. They grow like a new mushroom if it has grown large.

Surprisingly the servants in the guild were wearing strange masks with special clothes that made them look like a perverted cult.

"This new guild looks strange" one of the hikers said as he looked at a young man with a fox mask and a moon symbol in his ear.

"Hey, what is this place?" asked the burly man who followed the curious gaze of the other pedestrian.

"Sir, we are Moonlight Guild, where you can rent or buy our services in getting information.If you need any information, please visit us."

"Is the information you provide valid?"

"of course. We will provide information according to the level and cost provided by the client. And sir, you can also sell us information, but on the premise that the information is important and worth buying. "

"Then, what price is set?" ask one of the curious walkers.

"The price will vary depending on the level of difficulty of the information. In addition, there are special conditions for clients who want to hire our services."

"Special terms? What's the condition like?" ask the burly man who has been silent since.

"Special terms that apply to that client are twofold. First, you must wear a mask to cover your face. We treat these terms so that neither the tenant nor the client is mutually biased with each other, and for us confidentiality is of paramount importance."

"Then, what's the second?" ask the pedestrian.

"Secondly, the Client shall pay one gold coin for each request. That is beyond the cost of the client in hiring our services. If you feel confused, just think of that one gold coin as money coming in whenever a client makes a request."

Dennis explained the entire rules and what the Guild had. He is like a sales professional who has been in this field for a long time.

"How's mister? do you guys want to try it? But of course you have to meet both conditions."

"What if we don't qualify?"

A woman in casual clothes and a sweet gaze approached the place. He seemed so interested in the offer that Dennis said before.

"Sorry Miss, it's already the terms of this guild. If you do not meet both conditions, your request will be rejected. No matter how rich and honorable you are, that doesn't apply here" Dennis replied unequivocally.

The woman seemed to like Dennis's assertive attitude. He felt the need to try at least once the merit of this guild.

"All right, I like that."

The woman then left, she seemed busy with the gift box behind her servant. To be honest, the concept created by the Moonlight Guild was a perfect fit for nobles and other upper classes.

Sometimes they tend to be closed off to personal matters. And the presence of this new guild made them not have to worry about identity leaks.

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The twilight that had just woken up from his sleep started to hear the rude rant outside the building. He lazily glanced at the window and found Dennis arguing with the pedestrians around him.

"Is it time to open?" tanya Dusk confused. Because he was told that the Moonlight guild would be inaugurated three days later.

"Not Miss, Dennis is currently promoting the guild." Dian replied as he placed a bucket of warm water on the table.

"Only Dennis?"

"Yes, Miss, just Dennis. He was so good at promotion that this task was given to him."

"Dim..."

"The others are working on gathering information, Miss. They are now being spread out in various busiest places of this kingdom."

Dian quickly cut off the twilight words before he could finish his question.

"That's great." shrieked Dusk after wiping his face with a warm towel.

"Miss, it's time for you to return." exclaimed Dian who was answered nodding his head by the miss.

20 Minutes later Dusk descended from the 3rd floor towards the basement. By the time he was in the lobby, Dusk saw Dennis who was still busy with his promotion.

"I like him,"

After being satisfied to see the state of the lobby, Dusk again continued his mission. He immediately went towards the basement along with Dian.

"Miss, the portal was ready since 10 minutes ago." exclaimed Dian as they had just reached the basement.

"Good," Dusk casually stepped his foot towards the magic portal.

In a split second, a magic portal came into action. Instantly the sight of Dusk and Dian started to blur. They experienced a slight shock before finally disappearing from the room.

"Miss, why are we here?" dian asked puzzledly as he looked at the familiar-looking white wall.

"..."

Dusk did not answer, nor did he have any obligation to answer all of his subordinates' questions. Dusk then went from the basement to the first floor of this building.

When opening the door, the first thing that Dusk encountered was the sweetness of the smell of roses and the freshness of mint leaves. He felt revived after a long night of stress.

"Miss, you're here." exclaimed the male servant wearing a black apron on his body.

"Where is your manners?" asked Dian who had just appeared from behind the door.

"Sorry Miss, sorry. I'm stupid and I don't know myself." The waiter looked nervous, he lowered his face hoping to be forgiven.

The twilight that saw it was only silent as it stepped away towards the second floor. He did not have to bother in taking care of this because it was not his obligation.

"Other times, greet your master before asking." explained Dian before following Dusk towards the second floor.

Upon the arrival of Dusk on the second floor, he saw Rima struggling with the decoration of the room. He was not even aware of the arrival of Dusk and Dian there.

"Rome..."

Not yet Dian had time to finish his sentence, he saw his miss turned her eyes while telling him to shut up.

Dusk did not want to disturb the activities of his subordinates, he casually sat on one of the sofas in the room. Dian who saw that immediately came out of the room to prepare tea and snacks.

5 Minutes later, Dian returned with a tray containing black tea, macaron and sus cakes. It looks simple but that is what Dusk likes the most.

"Please Miss," Dian shrieked after pouring black tea into the cup.

Not long ago, Rima who was still in focus now began to be distracted by the thick aroma of black tea. As she turned to look at the origin of the scent, Tania realized Rima had fallen from her decorating chair.

"Gosh, is Miss here? I didn't realize how stupid I was."

Rima immediately got up, he quickly faced the front of the Twilight table while putting on a smile full of guilt.

"Good day Miss, have a good day." exclaimed Rima with the sound of her feet.

"Good morning," replied the twilight indifferently.

"Just continue your activities back," continued Dusk before sipping his tea.

Rima who heard that was scared, she thought that this lady of hers was already furious about being ignored for quite a long time.

"Sorry lady, forgive me. Next time I'll welcome you well."

Looking at the frightened Rima, Dian slowly whispered to Rima. He explained that their lady meant nothing else. He deliberately did not call Rima so as not to interfere with his work.

"really?" ask Rima lirih.

"true."

After hearing Dian's words, Rima was relieved. He immediately stood up from his seat and again finished decorating the room.

"Dian, next time tell them not to greet me if there are customers in this place. I don't want them to know that I'm the original owner of this store."

Dian clearly understood what her lady meant. He immediately informed his colleagues and other subordinates of their lady's request. After informing the order, Dian then returned to the side of Dusk with a letter.

Dusk then took the letter and read it. A mysterious smile emerged from the lips of Dusk. He seemed very happy with the news that was written on the letter. Dusk then took out the scent candle that was in front of him and burned the letter without any residue.

"I've got the whole plot of the game."

"Prepare the horse carriage, I will stop by for a while to the house." exclaimed Dusk who answered Dian's nod of the head.

*****

Duke Ari Mansion Tulip Pavilion

"This place is still the same as the last time," grumbled Dusk annoyed when he saw the unkempt pages of his.

"It seems we need to advise them a little. Dian, you know what to do, right?"

Dian nodded her head before disappearing from the sight of Dusk.

"I have to say hello to Duke before I leave here."

Dusk then got up from his seat and immediately went to the main house. There he saw the concubine of Reliza having a light conversation with one of her servants before staring at Dusk cynically.

"Basic ja**ng." shrewd concubine Reliza ketus.

Twilight could hear*******Reliza's concubine before she disappeared from the end of the hall. A few minutes later Dusk was already right in front of the Duke's office door.

Unlike usual, now Dusk can enter the room Tania had to wait first. There Dusk could see how busy the Duke was this time.

"What do you need to do coming here? Do you need money to buy equipment to support your exams just like Sarah and Arina?"

"So apparently, they also came here for support tools. I think they're really preparing for war."

Without the Duke realizing it, he had already leaked Arina and Sarah's important secret. With this twilight felt he knew what to do next.

"What tools did you buy?"

"Anti-magic." replied the Duke indifferently.

"Then, what tools do you need?" asked Duke while taking off his glasses.

"No dad, I don't need that."

"All I need is money, money and money." continued Dusk in his heart.

"..."

Seeing the silent Duke, Dusk immediately gave a valid reason. He told his head to look at Duke's eyes before smiling warmly at his father.

"I just wanted to thank you for giving me the east, that's all."

"Is that? Do you still think that I won't give you the same thing that I gave to your other brothers?"

"It's not that dad, it's just that I don't need anything in the exam this time. I believe in my own abilities."

The Duke simply stared at Dusk with a look of disbelief, even Noah who was known to be strong even though bought some equipment to support him during the exam.

"Huh."

Duke let out a long sigh with his stubborn attitude Dusk. He pulled out one of his desk drawers and pulled out a black bag the size of an adult's palm.

"Take this."

Duke threw the black bag towards Dusk, with twilight reflexes took the bag and when he managed to catch it, immediately the body of Dusk shook in shock.

"Is this dad?"

"It was a high-quality magic stone that I got as a banquet gift in the neighboring kingdom."

"This, it's amazing."

"Because you're a witch, magic stones can support your mana power. I'm not very good at using it because I'm a knight, even so you'll definitely be able to use it better than me."

"Thank you dad. I'll use this well."

"Good."

It was unexpected that the meeting of Dusk with Duke gave a good result to his plan. Of course he would not use such high-quality magic stones on the test this time.

"The test will be played according to the original plan and for this stone, I will use it on other occasions."

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After his affairs were completed, he immediately went towards the academic through a magic portal that was connected directly to his room. When until Dusk saw Vanilla who had grown bigger than its initial form.

"Lily, what did you get this time?"

"Well, that looks really funny, as you might expect that the fake waitress is working with your half-sister, Sarah."

"Then?"

"They plan to make you sick at the beginning of the game. Funny thing isn't, they don't even know if you can control the poison with Ristia's help."

"I can do it myself without anyone's help" exclaimed Dusk proudly. Kun who saw that could only snort.

"You, why?"

"It's none of your business."

"Basic lazy cat."

Kun did not even care about the scream of Dusk. He simply turned his body back and fell asleep like nothing had happened in that place before.

The next morning, according to what Lily said last night that Amel and Sarah were planning to disturb her this morning. Seen from the aroma of tea is still the same but tastes slightly different from the mules drug mixture that is deliberately placed in it.

Dusk just smiled looking at Amel's behavior this time. He slowly looked at the invisible Lily before drinking the tea to the end.

"It's delicious."

"Thank you Miss."

"Amel, for now I'll release you. Dian's back, now you can rest as you wish."

"Thank you very much Miss, thank you."

Dusk just nodded then told him to come out. When Amel was no longer seen, the expression of Dusk's face immediately turned tangled, he looked annoyed while slamming the tea cup onto the floor.

"Vanilla are you ready to work for the first time today?"

"Ready. I'm ready," cried Vanilla repeatedly. Today is the beginning of real revenge.

"Hmm, I think cutting a little bit of them is better. Didn't you?"

*****

After Prof Xei finished conveying his appreciation to the students who were about to take the exam. All participants were then given each one among a single roll of paper inscribed with ying and yang.

The paper scrolls had to be balanced against each other, which meant that they had to snatch another student's scroll to be able to pass the exam this time around. Not only will they fight monsters in the forest, now they also have to fight each other.

"It's lucky we get different reels from them, so it'll be easy for us to give a reason why they got hurt in the fight this time," exclaiming Dira sharply while glancing towards Luna and the others.

Basically it had been arranged from the beginning by Dira and also the fifth prince in order for them to get a different scroll from the Luna group.

"It didn't take long for them to die" Mari shrieked as she licked her lower lip.

Sometimes Dira feels strange with the crazy nature of his best friend Mari, but he also does not hate that nature.

"Don't lose control at the beginning of the game. That's not very good."

"Okay, I'll remember."

Before leaving for the hall to attend the welcoming ceremony as well as the release of the exam. Twilight had told Lily to hide Vanilla and Kun's energy.

It was because Kun and Vanilla's too great energy would cause the people around him to panic. Dusk could not make his enemy panic and leave him without any reward.

"Kun, you can stay in the body like this until I ask you to change later, and for Vanilla. You and Lily can remain invisible above me, and remember don't show yourself no matter what happens there. Only Kun will come with me this time to play," exclaimed Dusk indifferently.

"All right."

"Good, and Lily please hide Vanilla and Kun's energy during the game. I don't want any enemies to escape before I can attack."

"All right, no problem for me."

****

"Senja, what are you thinking?"

Dusk gasped in surprise when Muna lightly hit his shoulder.

"No, I'm just a little tired."

"Don't worry we'll be okay."

"Muna's right, we'll be fine this time. I won't let anyone between us get hurt."

Luna who just arrived beside Dusk then gave her mineral water to be able to make Dusk a little calm. Basically Dusk is not nervous at all. He was even very happy until it felt impatient to beat them all up.

"Well, she's funny, this is Kun you said back then, isn't it?" asked Zakila gently while stroking Kun's fur.

"That's right, now he's sleeping, even though he's basically a sleepyhead anyway."

"Soft as a feather. I brought Miki, too."

Zakila then lifted Miki into her arms still with a warm smile at Dusk.

"We also brought the others."

"It seems like they will become close friends" exclaimed Luna when her Armi was infested by Poni, Maya's magical beast.

"I think I'm going to have a new friend this time too."

Now Ami, Muna's magic animal who perched beside Poni on top of her body Armi.

"Hahahaha, they're so funny."

Zakila could not help but laugh when she saw Armi's indifferent facial expression as Miki leapt to her feet.

From far away Dira and his group sneered at Luna and the others. Even so Dira was happy to think that they did not know what would happen in the forest later.

"They look happy. You stupid people."

"Let it be, they only have time to laugh now because they will cry for forgiveness."

Dira and his group then left the place. They were too busy to see Luna and the others at this moment.

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"Students, you only have 7 days in the forest before the test is completed. For those who have a complete scroll then he will be declared a pass but for those who only have one scroll do not worry because you will be pitted back here with other students who also only have one rolls only. From the results of the fight that won it will be graduates while for the losers, you will repeat this exam next year along with other new students."

All the disciples stiffened hearing that in the end they would also still fight each other to be able to obtain the graduation label.

After completing the examination procedure, the gate to the forest was immediately opened. It looks so bright and calm inside. That calmness could even make one suffocate, without a second thought the group began to enter the forest.

The spectators who saw both the nobles and the common people cheered with their departure.

"Huh, it's so noisy in the back," grumbled one of the students who looked very nervous as he entered the forest.

"They are very happy to see us fighting and getting hurt, even dying in there" another sibir with a stoic expression on his face.

Dusk and the others then entered the forest after Dira's group disappeared from behind the big tree in front of them.

"Today, the real game is about to begin."

Dusk smiled indifferently as he entered the forest area along with Kun who was in his arms.