"good job Hanna"

Mars walked over and gave her a pat on the shoulder while Jean shoot her a glare from the side which he ignored and gave a glance at the only a.s.sa.s.sin that was still alive stuck to the wall

'hurry up dude...'

"d-did I do well Mars?"

Mars gave her another pat on the shoulder

"yeah you did well, way better than expected"

a little collar returned to Hanna's face as she gave a weak smile and pa.s.sed out as Mars quickly caught her

"got you, sleep well"

Mars pulled her up in and carried her in his arms and gave a look to Jean that was still glaring at him

"what?"

Jean gave a sigh and looked away before she spotted something at make her grin and gave Mars a poke as she spoke in a sarcastic voice

"oh no! looks like you prisoner escaped"

Mars looked over and gave a sigh before he looked at Jean and spoke in a equally sarcastic voice

"oh no! whatever will we do, if only we had someone to follow him back to his hiding hole"

"you... nice one"

"did you just praise me?"

"nope"

Jean gave a huff and turned away

"well then let's put the princess back to her castle"

Mars carried Hanna back to the mansion while Jean followed and soon they reached the mansion where Mars handed Hanna to Jean as a thought popped up in his head as he called out to Jean

"hey Jean, come over here for a second"

"what?"

"just come here"

Jean walked closer to Mars while she carried Hanna in her arms where Mars reached up and patted her on the head

"good work"

Instantly a blush spread on Jean's face

"w-w-what are you doing!?"

"hmm? i'm praising you"

"s-stop that!"

"ouch, ouch! don't kick me!"

"...humph!"

Mars rubbed his sore s.h.i.+n while he watched Jean walk into the mansion and sat down next to the gate and waited for some time before Victoria appeared in front off him as she jumped out of a shadow

"did you find them?"

"yeah... but there's... a lot"

"a lot huh... well we need to hunt them down tonight since they saw Hanna and Jean... bedsides I have a date tomorrow... yeah let's do this now, lead the way"

Victoria stopped, sat down and tilted her head to the side before her horns flashed

"what's... a date?"

Mars paused

"well... it's when 2 people that might be romantically involved go out and have fun?"

"2 people... then... who are... you going... out with?"

"Elsa"

"...okay, follow... me"

Victoria ran off into the night while Mars followed after her though complex routes that gradually led out off the town center towards the wall and soon they arrived in area with a lot off storage buildings

"over...there"

Victoria pointed with her paw towards a storage building that looked kind off shoddy

"okay, let's go get this over with..."

Mars sneaked up to the door and found it unlocked and went into the building where a maze was formed by stacked wooden boxes

"be careful there might be traps..."

Mars drew his sword and led the way forwards down the path that had the most ware on the floor and soon spotted a thin wire that crossed the pathway

'that's one...'

Mars stopped and looked around the wooden boxes and crates before he looked up and saw a net filled with metal junk was suspended above the trigger to the trap

"watch out Victoria... see this wire?"

"yeah...?"

"it's a trap"

"...why did... you... do a... strange voice?"

"...never mind"

Mars steeped over the wire and walked continued on his way until he reached a seemingly dead end and sheathed around before he stopped and looked at the wooden crate in front off him and walked over to it

"...surely it's not so simple?"

Mars lifted the top off the crate and saw a ladder that led down to the bas.e.m.e.nt inside the crate

"sure was... it's down here Victoria"

Mars vent down the ladder as silently he could and looked around a empty narrow corridor with a reinforced iron door at the end

"bingo..."

deciding he had been silent long enough Mars walked up and kicked the door with almost all his strength

*BANG*

the door flew off the wall and clashed into a wall with a loud clang

"HONEY I'M HOME!"

Mars walked through the now empty doorway and saw a man that seemed to have nearly fallen over form shook sitting in a chair near the door

"who the f.u.c.k are you!?"

the man reached for a loaded crossbow as he yelled at Mars with fury in his eyes

"I wonder that myself sometimes!"

not feeling like talking a crossbow bolt to the face Mars kicked off the ground and delivered a stab to the man's neck with his sword and after the light disappeared in his eyes Mars picked up the crossbow with a sparkle in his eyes

"neat..."

Mars wanted to admire the crossbow some more but picked up some hurried footsteps and soon more men with swords this time burst through a door and after they saw the dead man on the floor they slashed at Mars with their swords, their swordsmans.h.i.+p was even half decent not that it mattered for long as they were almost instantly nailed to the wall by some well placed shadow spears

"nice shot!"

Mars ran through the door they had come form and came face to face with another 3 men which he quickly kill with his sword before he scanned the room and saw 2 doors, one was a normal wooden door and most likely led to a barracks of some sort while the other was reinforced like the entrance door

"I leave the other way to you!"

"okay..."

Victoria shot a few shadow spears and broke down the wooden door before she ran through it and soon some anguished screams sounded out form the broken door as Mars faced the other door and took a deep breath before he took a stance and raised his sword

"BREAK!"

Mars slashed down and cut though the iron door and the hinges on the other side before he kicked the door in and stepped through the now empty doorway into a office like room and looked around before he gave a sigh and turned around with a grin on his face

"looks like this is empty!"

Mars took a few steps back into the other room before he suddenly turned and fired the crossbow

"ARRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!"

Mars raised the crossbow and gave it a quick kiss before he turned around and saw a fat man clad in expensive clothes that had been hiding under the desk clutching his shoulder where a bolt had hit him a second earlier

"you really should get better at hiding dude..."

Mars stepped back into the office room with a grin on his face as the fat man half collapsed down on the chair that stood behind the desk while he glared at Mars and yelled

"do you even know you're f.u.c.king with!?"

"nope---"

Mars walked up to the desk and stabbed his sword though the head off the fat man that looked at him with wide eyes

"---sure don't"

Mars pulled out his sword and walked back out the room and yelled

"Victoria, you done?"

half a second later another anguished scream sounded out from the behind the broken down door before Mars received a telepathic message

"now... I... am"

about 30 seconds later Victoria jumped back though the broken door where Mars kneeled down and gave her a few pets on the head

"good job, Victoria... now let's loot the place"

"okay..."

Mars walked back into the office and cut the expensive looking carpet into a makes.h.i.+ft sack before he decapitated the fat man and stuffed his head into the sack and kicked his headless body off the chair and sat down

"now if I were a 150 some lard a.s.s where would I hide my coins... in here for sure..."

Mars doubted the fat man would hide valuables outside off his office and opened one off the drawers

"now what do we have here?"

Mars digger through the drawers but besides a couple off important looking doc.u.ments which he rolled up there was nothing in the drawers

"well that was disappointing... I'm sure Reimund can use theses doc.u.ments though..."

not having satisfied his greed for loot Mars looked around the office one more time and stopped his glance on a painting that hung on the wall and walked up to it

"please be a safe.... YES!"

Mars did a fist pump as soon as he removed the painting where a steel safe was hidden behind

"now to crack this big boy open..."

Mars took a couple of steps back before he raised his sword and took a deep breath

".....HA!"

Mars gave a low shout as he slashed down and though the safe with his sword before he quickly walked up and opened the safe

"...jackpot"