As the moon was high in the dark sky, at the gates of the North Star City, two guards were inspecting entering travelers.
"You're new here?" casually asked one of the guards to a person in front of him.
The man with a hood nodded, "Yes. I plan to stay in the city for some time."
The guard nodded, "The entrance fee is 1 silver."
The hooded man took 1 coin and passed it to the guard.
The guards casually took it before his eyes shifted to the hooded man's luggage, "You have to go through property inspection before entering. This is mandatory," the guard said with a meaningful look.
The hooded man inwardly cursed and took another coin, "I think that's not necessarily."
The guard took the coin and smiled, "On the other hand, the luggage is not big enough to go through inspection. You can enter. Have a nice stay in the city."
'Greedy bastard,' thought the hooded man as he passed the guard and the gates.
Meanwhile, the other guard on the right had also finished on his side with another traveler.
The left guard was in a good mood as he tossed a silver coin in the air and casually caught it.
As the gate guard, though he can't take the entrance free for himself as all of it goes into the city vault, there are no rules that force gate guards give away money from those who entered the city and decided to pay instead of going through luggage inspection.
This feature has made the gate guard positions most sought-after in the enforcement corps as it lasts 2 days each rotation and one guard can earn quite a sum for himself if lucky.
"Nice," the left guard was joyous. Today he earned almost the entire gold coin. Sadly, tomorrow another duo will replace them and his next to the gate guards will be only 2 months later.
*Swoosh*
As the left guard casually tossed the coin again, he suddenly turned towards the gates with a narrowed yet confused gaze as he spotted with his side vision a shadow quickly pass through the gates.
'...what was that?'
The guard carefully looked at the empty entrance and at the night road behind it before shaking his head before stopping caring.
'Must be tired.'
…
Though it was a deep night, not all of the city was sleeping.
The Fragrant Summer was one of few such places. It was especially active at night.
The first floor was for more basic services such as tea service and music.
The second floor was reserved for a bit more closer contact service such as a massage and private dances.
And the third floor was for the customers that ordered the highest level of service while the fourth floor was a living floor for the girls and the pleasure house master.
Currently, on the fourth floor, the middle-aged woman sat at the table with a mirror on it and was slowly fixing her hair.
"Does he think he can come here and order me to like one of his toys or something?" the woman quietly spoke with an angry tone.
"Son of a bitch… If you think this place is just a common pleasure house that you can take advantage of, you'll soon understand how gravely wrong you are," she slowly spoke mysteriously with her eyes on the small perfume bottle beside the mirror.
'No one will ever find out how you've died while this place will continue to flourish.'
*Knock-knock*
"Come in," he calmly spoke and turned towards the door.
The young woman in a blue dress entered, "Madam, someone from the Graywind clan arrived and asked for your presence."
The woman narrowed her eyes a bit, "Who is it?"
The girl shook her head, "He didn't introduce himself, but he said that it was a serious matter."
The woman became silent for a moment before nodding, "Fine, lead the way."
Shortly after, the room became silent.
Suddenly, from the dark corner, a humanoid-like shadow walked towards the table and picked that exact perfume bottle and looked at it curiously.
'You've made quite a few enemies, George.'
It calmly looked at the closed door in silence.
'So be it…'
Soon, the shadow jumped out from the window onto a nearly empty street without disappearing into the dark corner. Those few that spotted it, didn't understand what they just saw and after a short pause, went on their way without giving it too much of a thought.
…
In the elite district, a man with long black hair in luxury clothes was casually walking on a road with a bottle of expensive wine and mumbling some nonsense while taking a gulp from time to time and looking in a certain direction.
…
Inside one of the luxury houses, a man with a scar on his chin was sitting beside a window under a moonlight, naked. On a bed was a young naked girl, snoring. Fresh bruises on her neck could be seen.
The man looked outside the window.
An uneasy feeling just doesn't leave him the entire day for some reason.
'They still didn't come back… Are they having fun somewhere or did something happen to them? Finding one girl shouldn't be very hard for them, especially with a cautious person like Greg with them.'
George sipped his tea before going back to bed.
'Tomorrow will be a long day.'
If those 3 still don't come back, he'll be forced to go look for them himself. If he doesn't find them, he'll be questioned by higher-ups in the enforcement corps and he might be removed from his position as a captain.
He doesn't even think about Alisia as much anymore as he has bigger problems on his hands. Only once they're resolved can he focus on her once again.
With this in mind, he tried to fall asleep.
But after 15 minutes, he was still unable to do so.
He got annoyed as those previous thoughts didn't leave his head.
'Need some release,' as he thought this, he looked at the snoring girl and lust within him began to burn with new might.
He removed the blanket from her and got on top. The girl was too tired from previous acts and was still sleeping.
He turned her to face him before casually spreading her legs and positioning himself.
Looking at her big breasts that had his markings, his lust finally exploded and he penetrated her with force without holding back.
"Aaah~" the girl's eyes suddenly opened up in shock as her body was suddenly violated without her consent once again.
When George heard her moan, he got annoyed and placed his hand on her neck and started choking her as his thrusts intensified.
The girl's eyes rolled back as her face became red from blood unable to flow freely.
'Just when will this end…!?' She was in complete despair as her consciousness was slowly fading away.
It has already been half a year since she was forcefully brought here to his home from her village after it failed to reach the monthly tribute quota where she was chosen as a payment.
Never did she think that her life would become like this.
As her consciousness was fading and George's thrusts intensified, no one noticed a faint pair of calm eyes in the dark corner.