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Lucian received 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 burns the letter that Levi sent to him.
After taking a sip of his tea, he takes his mask and goes through the pipes.
He wears his mask as the moment he steps outside the pipes, the Aetheral knights were already there ransacking the place.
Fortunately, he jumps on the roof and hides in the shadows before any knights notice him.
He jumped from shadow to shadow, thinking how he stopped the knights from searching for it.
But something made him stop.
One of the knights was holding a wanted poster.
"What's that?" The other knight asked.
"The captain released a sketch of the thief." The other night holding the wanted poster showed it to the other knight.
Lucian's eyes widened, it was Yuu's mask.
He was frozen for a moment, do they already know Yuu?
Did the Warden know about this?
He immediately disappears from the shadows and runs towards the beer house.
He was too late, the knights were already there.
Talking with Zack, the other knights ransack the place.
People are only allowed to watch it happen.
Some of the customers were clenching their fists in anger as they watched the scene unfold.
Zack is giving his best to deny the stones and saying he doesn't know about it.
The knights still do not believe it.
The smirk on their face is visible as they destroy the place.
The Aetheral knights are enjoying it.
Lucian clenched his fist, he tried to stop himself from attacking the knights.
He quickly calmed himself down and immediately went to 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 gets out of the storage room and goes straight to Yuu's room.
He doesn't see Yuu the moment he opens 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 may have already looked 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 stones.... stupid.." she said while playing with her bunny stuffed toy.
"It's just a bunch of stupid gemstones..." She mumbles.
She was spinning the chair while she talked to her bunny stuffed toy.
"I'm bored..." She stopped the chair from spinning.
She put her bunny stuffed toy in her belt as she stood up.
When she's about to open the door, she remembers the Warden's words.
"Whatever you do, do not go outside until I come back..." He said to her firmly before leaving her.
"Ugh!" she groaned in frustration as she pulled herself away from the door.
"It's so boring here!" she slams her fist in the door.
She turned her head as she remembered that Warden kept her jukebox in his office.
She ran towards the jukebox and threw 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 are on their way knowing that Yuu is using the jukebox Warden collected from her.
After a lot of dancing, Yuu stops 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 continues.
"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 sitting 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 for her bunny stuffed toy.
"Then knock them out, Yuu... I know you can do it!" Momo encouraged her.
"You're right!" Yuu grabbed her bunny stuffed toy and hung it on 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 opened the door and tossed the paint bomb on the Warden's men.
"What the-" before they could react, the bomb exploded making them lose their sight for a bit making it an opportunity for Yuu to escape.
She hums as she walks away happily from the Warden's hideout deep in the Barrel Zone.
For a while she realises that people around is acting strange.
That's when she saw some Aetheral knights roaming around.
She immediately hid away as she eavesdropped on the knights' conversation.
"Listen up! The Warden gives us permission to hang this wanted poster" The captain said and pulled out the poster.
Her eye's widen to see what's on the poster.
It was her but wearing her mask.
She immediately takes the mask off of her neck and looks 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 mask somewhere as she hurriedly went to the beer house.
She was stopped in her tracks as the Aetheral knights were 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 pulls 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 startled when one of the knights was tossed out of the window.