Thief

So, how should I describe the next scene? My dear audience was enthusiastic, but more than that, they couldn't stop looking at me with big eyes filled with awe.

Well, I guess I did many tricks on them. First, the escapist's trick, after I closed the doors with the little ropes I managed to hide in my bag, the guards tried to get me. I shoved cards and fought them with mastery. Then the guests, most of them were lords without any combat skill, and their guards were outside. Heh...

"Well, my dear people," I said after I finished kicking a man in a place where he might need to curl up on the floor and cry for a while. "This is the end of the show, good job everyone, don't forget to cooperate with some of your coins if you still have, after all, this is the one and only Eli Viel, the great magician!"

*Puff*

***

That was tiring, but that was the distraction, heh...

The next picture I can recall is many girls running from the cages, many men fighting with their swords and killing those bastards slavers, and Bruno and his people sneaking away from that Willowy House, and going across the walls of Maliburne.

However, for me, fate has some other plan.

"Hey little girl," I disguised myself again, now I was a black-haired girl, the same as the one who was auctioned in the first place. "Let's go to you owner."

I didn't say a word, but I let that guard take me into some cart with two horses. Then he shoved me on the back while my legs and arms were tied with a rough rope. Poor man, he should know he will be used and discarded in the worst way.

First, I will eat his food, I am hungry, you see. Then I will steal his gold, though, I am now wealthy with all those coins my little squirrels managed to steal. I gave them a space magic bag, though, I don't know if it can resist that much weight and for so long. Hopefully yes.

Again, this man will...

"Little girl, the man you were sold to is a big shot in Maeve Guild, though, it is a bit far from here, he will give me good money for you."

"How much?" I asked him. I was already munching his bread.

He caressed his chin for a while and looked to one side, "One thousand, maybe."

"That is so little, you should ask for more, after all, you managed to capture me," I drank the wine in the back, it was good.

He laughed, "it was not that difficult, little girl, you were so easy to... wait, why didn't you run like the others?"

Oh, he finally noticed.

"You are not injured, are you?"

That would be a problem, no one wants a defective product.

"I am not, but..."

"But..." he stopped the horses and looked behind. Then he saw.

The cheese, the bread, the cookies, and the wine. All of that was opened and I and my colleges were eating them. Even the soft blankets and the pillow in the back were used as Lily's bed. She was so tired after running like crazy to catch the cart.

"What?!"

"I told you, you should ask for more, after all, you managed to catch me," I changed slowly my hair, then my eyes... "me... the great Eli Viel..." then the rest of my clothes. "Bu!"

"Ah!"

The lightweight of the man suddenly fainted, poor guy. We had to take the reins and shove him to the back with a rope around his legs and his arms. My little squirrels were back to their children's figures and identities, but something strange happened to them. I don't know about children, but they seemed to have grown up.

Matty, who was the oldest of the trio, was taller, even his clothes didn't seem to fit well.

"Master, can you make them bigger?"

"Do I have the face of someone who knows how to sew?"

"Aren't you a magician? Can't you just enlarge them?"

"..." that would be true if I had the correct spell to create fabric from nothing, but that is not how magic works. Even more, I am not good at sewing, or I wouldn't have ordered someone to fix my cape and clothes back in Eisen. "I will buy you new clothes in the next town."

"..." he is giving those eyes that show disappointment. What the?

"Anyway, how much did we win? Tell me about the coins, tell me about the coins..." I am not greedy, I swear, but sometimes the gold takes the best of me and hides it away.

"Twenty thousand golden coins," he shoved me the bag.

"What?! So little?" I looked inside. I had fixed this thing to at least contain more than a hundred thousand, how come... "wait, I can see at least eighty thousand."

"Twenty thousand for each of us, Master," Matty smiled at me with his wide innocent face, but guess what, I smiled at him back.

"I understand, however, you should pay a fee for safekeeping it, and this is not an ordinary magic space bag, but the only one in the world," my teeth were showing from how hard I was trying to laugh.

"Are you trying to rob us, Master?"

"I am not, little Matty, I am teaching you. When you use someone else space bag, you should be prepared for the consequences."

"You!"

"Me?"

"..." he puffed his cheeks and looked the other side, and I pocked him.

"Are you angry?"

"..."

"Matty, answer me, are you angry?"

"You are a thief!"

"I am, and you too, hehe."