Dungeon Competition (1)
Looking at the night sky, in the balcony Ray and Laila were reminiscing the past back at Earth
"Remember the first time we met?" (Ray)
"I remembered, if im not wrong we were doing a random duo boss raid" (Laila)
"Yeah, it's been 17 years huh" (Ray)
"I remembered you tried to show off" (Laila)
Scratching his head, Ray said
"I was a kid back then, It's natural to show off in front of a pretty girl" (Ray)
"Pfft.. You did get my attention, not in a good way but how old were you back then?" (Laila)
"I was 12 at the time, how bout you" (Ray)
".....the same" (Laila)
"..." (Ray)
"..." (Laila)
An awkward silence envelope the two of them
"You know, back then I thought you were an idiot why would you use a stick in a raid?" (Laila)
"Im handicapping my self, that was a C ranked boss an I was already an A Ranker" (Ray)
"You were an A rank?!... Back then I just got promoted to B- rank. How are you so fast?" (Laila)
"Uhhh... 24/7 Quest and Hunt?" (Ray)
".....that's insane, don't you go to school?" (Laila)
"Ahh that, the highschool I was attending has a self study program that allows their students to learn by themselves all I need to do is to pass the written exams. So I abused this program to play AO'' (Ray)
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Note: AO (Arcana Online)
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"Highschool? I thought you were 12" (Laila)
"I skipped" (Ray)
I looked at Ray with a ridiculous face and said
"I really thought you were an unemployed uncle back then, to think that you were an actual genius" (Laila)
"How about you? Did you skip like me?" (Ray)
"Well....I was educated at home, so I just need to reach a quota before allowed to play AO" (Laila)
"I consider my family to be quite well off financially, But you're a rich missy aren't you?" (Ray)
"I was the only daughter and the heir of an E-Commerce group" (Laila)
"That's explained why you're good at dealing with people, even I was amazed back then" (Ray)
Sniffling her nose, she showed a proud expression as she said
"Yes I already manage some sector at the company when I was 16" (Laila)
"Yeah... yeah... stop boasting already" (Ray)
"Hmph... Didn't you boast first?" (Laila)
"I did not" (Ray)
While the two were arguing like usual the door to their room was knocked
Knock Knock Knock
"Excuse me~ Im coming in okay" (Mina)
"Okay" (Laila)
Walking in Mina looked around the room, the room they were in had a nice woody, and tranquil feeling. The large glass window allows us to see the stars in the night sky that's decorated with bright stars. In the middle of the room there was a 70 inch TV and a big sofa in front of it.
The room has two bed and wardrobe, one for Ray and the other is for Laila, looking at the room Mina snickered
"To think the miss got assigned the same room with the Prince" (Mina)
"That was your fault!! Why did you even tell The King 'that' you know that was unnecessary" (Laila)
Hearing this Ray look away and Laila blushed
"The King said 'If they both are already that close, assign them in the same room', the Duke made a strange face when that happen" (Mina)
"AAh!!! This is all your fault... Your Fault!!" (Laila)
She screamed while hitting Mina's back
"Ouch! I'm sorry okay, I didn't expect the King to do that either" (Mina)
"Hmph!" (Laila)
Laila Pouted she jumped towards her bed then buried her self with blanket
'Cute!!' (Mina)
"Ehem.. ehem.. So Mina, why did you come here? (Ray)
Waking up from her delusion, she said
"Ah right! The King told us to go with you to a dungeon" (Mina)
""When, what's the dungeon rank?"" (Laila & Ray)
Saying this Ray stood up and Laila opened her blanket showing only her face
After gathering both of their attention Mina said
"A week from now, and the dungeon you will be participating in is an F ranked dungeon!!" (Mina)
Hearing this their excited face turned into dissatisfaction
"That's boring... Father saw our fight right? Why would he assign us to that dungeon?" (Ray)
"Because that is a noble gathering dungeon, you and other kids your age will be entering there in group, of course you both will get an handicap" (Mina)
"Can we refuse?" (Laila)
"Nope, you can't refuse. But if you win the King will give you an Elf tear and an Ancient Dragon Essence as the winning prize" (Mina)
""!!!"" (Ray & Laila)
"The King said that he need a good pretense to give these to you two so the other nobles don't complain, so he decided to make this little competition, so what do you say are you two interested now?" (Mina)
Ray and Laila nodded vigorously and then looked at each other
"If the reward is that precious we need to watch out for sabotage and use a handicap at the same time right?" (Laila)
"Yeah we should spread rumor of our strength to bait the other noble to sabotage us" (Ray)
"Wow.... You wanted to use treason squish loot from them?" (Laila)
"Yes you right, while doing that we could use this as pretense to erase some pest from the Kingdom" (Ray)
"Hehehe... I'll make them bleed out dry, I'll handle the public opinion while you do the groundwork" (Laila)
"Of course" (Ray)
""Hehehe"" (Laila & Ray)
Looking at the exchange of the two kids, Mina got chill down her spine while pitying the noble that will be their victim
'I blessed thou poor soul to have a better life after reincarnation" (Mina)
"Mina!! You were an ex-assassin right?" (Laila)
"Uh... yeah?" (Mina)
"So that means you are specialized in stealth, is that correct?" (Ray)
"Yeah....." (Mina)
Looking at each other for a moment, Ray and Laila nodded then said
"Can give us a list of every noble participating and look for movement from the demons, for them this is the perfect time for assassinating us" (Laila)
"Tell this to Anna too, she will help in some task task that I will assign later" (Ray)
After thinking a bit she thought that their word are somewhat correct
"Okay, but what is Your Highness going to do with the list?" (Mina)
"I'm gonna look in to them and hack their system to find some clue" (Ray)
"You could do that?" (Laila)
"I just learned how to do it 2 years ago, remember a year ago where every TV around the Kingdom displayed a picture of a peanut for a full hour?" (Ray)
"That was you?" (Laila)
"Yeah Anna found out and stopped me, I got scolded after that and was not allowed to touch the computer for a month" (Ray)
"Idiot..." (Laila)
Hearing this Mina was quite surprised, she an ex-assassin know full well about the difficulty of hacking such corporation, and to maintain control for an hour is almost impossible even for professionals
"Mina you should tell Anna about this and Laila you should go to my mother and tell her how you would move tomorrow. I will start looking into the nobles" (Ray)
"Okay, I'll do it" (Laila)
"Okay Your Highness~ Good luck on your work" (Mina)
the next day they started to do their own task