Chapter 120 - 116. Stairway To Heaven
"How can you fail to take care of even a simple guide?!"
The Moonlight Princess yelled at a group of espers in black suits, prancing around the guildmaster’s office while fuming, stomping her feet to the floor.
"With due respect, I don’t think he’s a simple guide," one of the espers opened his mouth, only to pause at the Princess’s glare, and then added politely, "...Ma’am."
"Hmph!" Senia crossed her arms and continued berating the espers with furrowed brows. "He’s still just a guide! And you tell me you can’t even secure one opportunity to talk to him?"
Just talk--they couldn’t even corner the man to talk about recruitment. They didn’t even need to kidnap him or anything, just securing the man a bit for a talk without Bassena Vaski around.
It was such a good opportunity with the Serpent Lord trapped in a shoot, and yet they blew it off just like that. And now people were whispering about how silly their sudden appearance in the studio was.
So much for wasting her precious time!
"He was there for hours! With only one guard!" she stomped her feet in frustration.
"No, I don’t think that’s the case," the guildmaster suddenly interjected, tapping on the desk in contemplation.
"You’re right, Sir," the leader of the group of Esper responded. "We dispatched a lot of people, even esper with infiltration abilities. But somehow, all of us never manage to find him. We’d suddenly end up in different sections, even bumping into each other,"
Another esper nodded and added in support. "I think it’s some kind of bewildering skill,"