The Second Life Of The Mercenary
Chapter 70 Black Mark

After 9am the noble ladies began to arrive at Vanessa's tea party, Vanessa welcomed them along with Albert.

Each of the noble ladies brought gifts for Vanessa, they heard news of Vanessa's abduction so they were inspired to bring gifts because they thought maybe Vanessa would feel a little comforted.

"ah! you coming too?" vanessa asks Charlotte, Charlotte herself is surprised because it turns out that the invitation Albert gave was an invitation to attend Vanessa's tea party.

"I invited him. Wouldn't it be nice if your spirit is also present, he can accompany you," said Albert.

"Come Charlotte! sit comfortably" said Vanessa very kindly. After all the noble ladies came they started the tea party by telling me a lot of things.

Vanessa happy. But Charlotte's presence makes her unhappy, she doesn't understand what Albert's thinking until he invites Charlotte. 

The party ended at 11 p.m., all the noble ladies who came bidding farewell to Vanessa. They seem to want to be with the woman for longer. But stymied by time, Vanessa drove them to the train.

"Miss Charlotte!" call Liliana when Charlotte's still with the other ladies.

"Geez isn't this Miss Liliana, what an unexpected guest, isn't it a little strange that the fiancee of the Prince of Babylon came here" one of the noble ladies quipped.

"Do you not know if the Prince of Babylon has not loved Miss Liliana all this time? I heard that Prince Babel will call off the engagement" added another.

"Just take care of your business" said Liliana, "I want to have a one-on-one conversation with you Miss Charlotte."

"Mother said I should avoid talking alone with her," said Charlotte.

"What do you want to say? just talk here, I don't have much time," Charlotte's reply upset Liliana.

"Do I have to say that here? if you insist then I will say. Why did you take my fiancee? I'm your best friend, right?"  liliana's question attracted the attention of the noble lady to Charlotte.

"I didn't take anyone's fiancee. Moreover, your fiancee, you also do not need to tell yourself you are my best friend when you yourself do not treat me like a best friend."

"You're really outrageous. I don't want to know, you have to refuse the match that the empress proposed. The Prince of Babylon is mine."

"Please take care of your attitude. I never got a marriage letter with the Prince of Babylon if I did, because I had no right to refuse. Prince Babel is also not your husband so you cannot claim if the prince is yours. Excuse me." Charlotte went into her carriage leaving Liliana who was insulted by the noble ladies because of her haughty attitude.

"It's good news, I'll tell my sister" Vanessa thought. After all the horse carriages belonging to the noble lady left, Vanessa asked the maid to clean up everything in the garden and she also prepared to go home.

"Vanessa, where are you going? I just wanted to take you to lunch together" Albert said. He quickly finished all his work to come to see Vanessa.

"I'll have lunch with Isabella. I'm sorry, maybe we can eat together next time." Vanessa took her fan and intended to walk away. But Albert blocked his hand, "What's wrong?"

"Can't you think about Isabella later. You live with him, you can meet him every day. But with me how? if not today maybe next week we can eat together again. Please just this time," asked Albert with a sad look..

Seeing Albert sad made Vanessa feel so bad. He sighed softly and said, "Don't beg me. Let's have lunch together and then have dinner together."

Albert smiled happily and then they went hand in hand to the dining room, this time Albert's lunch menu specifically asked his palace chef to make all his favorite Vanessa food.

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"You still accept requests?" isabella asked looking at the requests they got one by one.

"Yes, so we came here to see you. We want to go on another mission, which good mission do you think?" ask Bara.

"What matters is not a murder request. The extermination of monsters is even better, as long as the payment is enough for all members" replied Isabella.

"Whoah! there was a special request in the guard tower, he said lately a strange monster appeared in the south tower. Pay 20,000 gold pieces for extermination, take a look!" Fil gave the paper to Bara.

"But there's a special request for me, see from the research center. Researching the ingredients in the poison that is not treated with a fee of 10,000 pieces of gold for 1 day," said Aisnley.

"Alright then we split the team. Fil, me, and Bara are going to the guard tower and then you can go with Luca to the research center. The result can be you for two because Luca could be very helpful to you," said Isabella agreed by them.

Isabella decides to return to her residence, entrusting the preparation of the mission this time to her three male members.

"Let's lunch soon. What if we stopped by your cake shop for lunch" Aisnley suggested. She misses Audrey's great cooking.

"All right me …. Akh!" a child who was running accidentally hit Isabella. But instead of apologizing, the boy continued to run.

"Why with the kid? he's not even apologizing to you. Are you okay?" ask Asnley. Isabella just nodded, she did not know when the boy hit her earlier leaving something that would put Isabella in trouble.

"Let's go!" take Isabella to Aisnley into their chariot

The boy who had hit Isabella hid in a small alley, his body trembling in fear because far behind him was a chanting holy knight.

"Hey! what are you doing here?" ask a woman to pat the child who is hiding.

The boy was surprised and turned and looked at the woman behind him with a smile and then he thrust a small pouch at the woman, saying, "Miss, I have been looking for the lady ever since. I've brought what you asked, can you free me?"

The woman smiled as she took the small bag and replied, "This is enough. I want more of that poison powder to create more monsters, you have to add this poison."

The woman was playing a bag in her hand. But suddenly the powder from the bag fell on the woman's hand and left a black mark.

The woman was shocked and immediately put the bag in her bag. Angrily the woman asked the little boy, "Why is the bag hollow? you don't know that's why I got hurt. Damnit damnit! you have to add 5 more bags to make up for that hollow bag."

The upset woman just left, she had to quickly remove the black marks from the poison powder.

"Is the bag a hole because I hit the older brother? must have been the poison powder about the brother. What am I supposed to do?" the little boy was worried.

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