Chapter 244: Released
"Hhkssss!!" Bastet hissed and yelped at once.
But Luna didn’t let go, having no mercy in her heart to give.
She looked down instead. Whispered softly—so softly that only she could hear it.
"... I’m so glad to have met her."
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Three Days Later
Elysia released the girls from care, officially declaring them "battle-ready with mild restrictions." Just like that, the team was whole again.
A little over ten days had passed since the vampire battle, meaning there was less than a week left to clear the dungeon before Talia and her guild would be marked as incapable.
That was the exact reason why a meeting was called where Talia and Diaz, her guild’s sole representative in the clear, Tessa and her four guild members, and Valhalla’s Sinners sat down to talk.
Talia had elected to bar her guild’s higher management from attending despite the meeting’s clear importance. She wanted it to feel less like corporate negotiations and more like old friends solving a shared problem. Having a bunch of stiff suits around would’ve killed the vibe.
Though, to be fair, the fact that she hated most of the management also might’ve played the smallest of roles in the decision. Only the smallest, however.
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