Chapter 161: Buying a Teenage Girl
Elara, meanwhile, blinked. One after the other.
The timid girl had remained quiet throughout the exchange, pretending to focus on the floor, but her eyes crept up toward Kaiden with a look of badly disguised wonder. Her gaze lingered on his hand stroking Luna’s hair, then dropped to his leg, caught between Aria’s, before settling on his face.
And for the first time since they’d met, she looked at him not as an awakened, nor as some controversial streamer... but as a man in control. Her face turned a deeper shade of red, and she quickly looked away again.
"So..." Tessa spoke up all of a sudden. She had a downcast look. "I would like to sincerely apologize for the behavior of my guild members."
Silence descended on the interior of the minivan, save for Bastet’s incessant purring. The members of Valhalla’s Sinners exchanged glances with each other.
"The way your junior subordinates behaved is straight-up unacceptable, Miss Tessa," Aria declared.
Luna had a few words of her own to add. "Yeah, and they not only knew that we were filming throughout the clear, but that blonde bitch herself broadcasted it all. The fact that they acted as they did with that knowledge in mind doesn’t paint the Nova Circuit guild in a good light at all."
"Haaah..." Tessa sighed with dejection, and suddenly, the black, exhausted circles under her eyes became very accentuated. She nodded. "Yes, I’m aware. I don’t expect you to forgive us. All I can do is promise we’ll evaluate this dungeon dive strictly and mete out punishments where applicable."
"That Vaelira woman is giving you a lot of trouble, hm?" Nyx mused with a friendly tone. She liked this guild leader on a personal level quite a lot.
"As a guild leader, I won’t be badmouthing my subordinates. But... If you guys want to have a relatively stress-free life, I can’t recommend becoming guild masters." She chuckled dryly at her own misery.