CHAPTER 63

"The banquet is going to start at 6 pm in the evening today.", Shuri came over to their house and said. She had worked really hard for this. Convincing most people to come itself was a hassle, out of the 200 targets, 37 were already killed and the rest were coming to the party. Arata only had the prime minister as his remaining target, so he upgraded all his weapons to legendary level and rested a lot. He had a really fun evening and night ahead of him.

"Good Work Shuri !", Wrath said. The biggest massacre inside the city was planned on this day. The afternoon was uneventful. Lust and Sloth fretted around while the rest of them just took a nap. Mostly, only Shuri and Rachel were going to attend the party, it was optional for everyone else. Besides, they would have to hide around. Sloth and Envy were going to scout around the party for witnesses etc, so that the word does not get out, and Shuri could gain political power by spinning up her own story.

Arata was going to strike when Seok was off guard. The Prime minister resided in the Parliament house during the day time. That building was also in a dome like shape. Arata's goal was to attack Seok when his guard was down and make him disappear. Arata decided to change his form into someone Seok knew very well and was friends with, and so he was to be eliminated first. Sloth had found out the person who fitted Arata's demand and was killed by Arata swiftly in an alleyway. Then Arata asked Rachel to put that guy in her spirit world and then Arata changed his form and went for Seok.

Arata was checked thoroughly at the gate of the Parliament and was only then let in. He went to Seok, after asking some people about his location.

"Hey, Seok !", Arata called out after he met Seok. Arata knew how Seok looked like due to Sloth. She was literally the best scout out there.

"Hey Jiang. How are you? Did you find what I had asked for ?", Seok asked first. Well, Arata was mostly prepared for this. He had thoroughly searched Jiang's body but found out nothing that he could understand. He found a note containing some code language stuff. So Arata decided to take this conversation in his hands.

"Actually, I couldn't. But I might have a way to find them. How about we grab a coffee later ?", Arata asked. Jiang was a good friend. So, he couldn't just go and ask Seok to come immediately with him. So he decided to drink coffee with him later. Except Arata wouldn't obviously.

"OK then. Meet me at Rose's Cafe at 8 pm.", Seok said.

"Yes sure !", Arata replied.

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"The nobles are coming pretty early ?", Lust asked Shuri.

"Hmm… they probably don't have any jobs to do today as it is a Sunday. They must be completely in the mood for a party. Obviously, the more serious ones would come pretty late. You should keep head count properly.", Shuri replied.

"Don't need to tell me. I am actually pretty good at this stuff. Although, I am going to be a new face at the party, I should be able to cope up pretty well.", Lust replied.

The banquet started. First some fried potatoes and Kebabs were served as evening snacks. There were juices of course. Lust had completely taken a comfortable place with the leaders. Rachel had prepared a routine for herself, but she would only last 1 hour with it. So she decided to change it up with nice piano melodies which did not take much stamina and added them in between.

"Who is she ? Never seen her before. You do have some interesting people by your side, lady Shuri.", one of the ministers said. He was one of the serious and honest types and was late to the party.

"Yes I do.", Shuri replied.

At 7:30 pm, the signal from Lust came. The awaited time was finally here, although it was a bit earlier than expected.