Chapter 162: Fugitive Crab
“Excuse me, coming through,” a girl’s voice said from around the corner. “Don’t mind me letting myself in.”
Pulling on the iron bars with his pincers, Balthazar stretched his eyestalks out of the cell to see Olivia Marquessa joining the young guard and his commander in the dungeon corridor.
“You can’t be down here, young lady!” the commander exclaimed.
“You’re absolutely right,” the mayor’s niece responded. “And that crab over there shouldn’t be here either, so let’s get him out of that cell and we’ll be out of your dungeon in no time.”
The tall man in a cape scowled and stretched his neck forward at the young woman. “Get him out? That crab is under arrest at my command, and in this place, I call the shots.”
Olivia stretched her own neck up at the commander and placed her hands on her hips defiantly, despite being much smaller than him. “Arrested under what charges?”
“Multiple!” the commander said. “Disturbing the peace. Trespassing on private property. Breaking and entering with his accomplices who are still at large. And above all that, assault on two innocent citizens!”
“You mean two bandits?” the girl said, crossing her arms.
“Do you have any proof to back your slander, Ms. Olivia?” the spiteful man said with a snarky smile.