Chapter 10 Jukebox
Normal POV
Lucian recieved new orders.
He needs to stop the knights of Aetheral from looking for the gemstones while Levi and other bandits look for it.
They still believe that the gemstones might be somewhere in the Barrel Zone.
"So the Warden really allowed the knights to step in here." He sighs in disappointment as he burned the letter that Levi sent to him.
After taking a sip of his tea, he take his mask and go through the pipes.
He wear his mask as the moment he step outside the pipes, the Aetheral knights were already there ransacking the place.
Fortunately, he jump on the roof and hide in the shadows before any knights notice him.
He jumped shadows to shadow, thinking how can he stop the knights from searching for it.
But something made him stop.
One of the knights were holding a wanted poster.
"What's that?" The other knight ask.
"The captain released a sketch of the theif." The other night holding the wanted poster showed it to the other knight.
Lucian's eyes widen, it was Yuu's mask.
He was frozen for a moment, do they already know Yuu?
Do the Warden knew about this?
He immediately disappear from the shadows and run towards the beer house.
He was too late, the knights were already there.
Talking with Zack, the other knights ransack the place.
People can only allowed to watch it happen.
Some of the costumers were clenching their fist in anger as they watch the scene unfold.
Zack is giving his best to denied about the stones and saying he doesn't know about it.
The knights still not believing it.
The smirk on their face are visible as they destroyed the place.
The Aetheral knights are enjoying it.
Lucian cleanch his fist, he tried to stop himself from attacking the knights.
He quickly calmed his self down and immediately go at the back of the beer house.
He opened the small gate leading to the storage room of the beer house.
He crawled just to get inside. He get out of the storage room and go straight to Yuu's room.
He doesn't see Yuu the moment he opened her door.
"Yuu?!" He called out but no one answered back.
He looked around the place.
"Don't tell me..." He picked up the glass shattered on the floor.
Yuu's room is a mess.
The Aetheral knights maybe already look at her place.
...
Yuu is sitting alone in Warden's office.
Warden left her alone when the knights of Aetheral ask him to come with the search of gemstones.
"Everyone in the Barrel Zone is in panic just for five glowing stone.... stupid.." she said while playing with her bunny stuffed toy.
"It's just bunch of stupid gemstones..." She mumbles.
She was spinning the chair while she talk to her bunny stuffed toy.
"I'm bored..." She stop the chair from spinning.
She put her bunny stuffed toy in her belt as she stands up.
When she's about to open the door, she remembers the Warden's word.
"What ever you do, do not go outside until I came back..." He said to her firmly before leaving her.
"Ugh!" she groaned in frustration as she pull herself away from the door.
"It's so boring here!" she slams her fist in the door.
She turned her head as she remembers that Warden kept her jukebox in his office.
She run towards the jukebox and throw her bunny stuffed toy at the table.
The loud music immediately burst out of the box.
She starts dancing around the room without a care about the world.
The music is so loud that some of the Warden's men can hear it outside.
They only shake their heads and be on their way knowing that Yuu is using the jukebox Warden collected from her.
After a lot of dancing, Yuu stop when she hears her bunny stuffed toy say something.
"You shouldn't waste your time here" Momo said making Yuu stop dancing.
"Why do you care?" Yuu only shrugs off and continue.
"Aren't you tired from dancing? You should go out" the bunny stuffed toy suggested.
"But father said to stay here tho" Yuu's defense as she's finally sit down but still leaving the jukebox on.
"What if we go out and come back here before the Warden, he wouldn't know" the bunny stuffed toy mischievously suggested.
"Hmmm~"Yuu thinks of it for a second.
"What about the guards outside?" Yuu asked her bunny stuffed toy.
"Then knocked them out, Yuu... I know you can do it!" Momo encourage her.
"You're right!" Yuu grab her bunny stuffed toy and hang it to her belt.
She left the jukebox on, she ramage through the Warden's closet where he hid some of her 'artworks'.
She pulled out a paint bomb.
She slightly open the door and tossed the paint bomb on the Warden's men.
"What the-" before they can react, the bomb exploded making them lost their sight for a bit making it an opportunity to Yuu to escape.
She hums as she walk away happily from the Warden's hide out deep in the Barrel Zone.
For a while she realize that people around is acting strange.
That's when she saw some Aetheral knights roaming around.
She immediately hid away as she eavesdrop on the knights' conversation.
"Listen up! The Warden gives us permission to hang this wanted poster" The captain said and pull out the poster.
Her eye's widen to see what's on the poster.
It was her but wearing her mask.
She immediately take off the mask off of her neck and look at it.
"Oh uh... someone's in trouble" the bunny stuffed toy whispers.
Her grip on her masked tightens. Just for five gemstones, she's being branded as a criminal?
She tossed her masked somewhere as she hurriedly go to the beer house.
She was stopped in her tracks as the Aetheral knights are already surrounding the area.
When she was about to go, someone pulled her back.
"Wait!" Lucian loudly whispers holding her arm.
"Lucian?" she looks at him as he pull her for a hug.
"What's going on?" She asked.
"You're not supposed to be here! The knights are looking for you" he pulled her away but she insisted.
"Wait, what about Zack?" she asked worriedly.
"Don't worry about him, he's handling it nicely..." Lucian tried to pull Yuu again but they were both startle when one of the knights were tossed out of the window.