At the main base of The Four Horn Mercenary Guild, where only the four main Leaders of the guild gathered whenever their main leader, Marius, asked them to.
In a dark room where, there is a round massive round table at the middle, along with 5 chairs with four horns as it's design.
But there's a one specific chair in the middle that has a little bit different to it's deaign. It also looks a little grand compared to the rest of the chair.
On that specific chair, there is a man sitting. His hands clasped together on top of the table. It is non-other than Marius, The Main Leader of the Four Horn Mercenary Guild.
From his left, there's also an occupied chair. The person is wearing a dark gloves, along with one wrist guard on the person's left wrist. It has a dark-green color, with one design of colorful flower under and a red heart on-top.
On the person's right feet, there is a bag of arrows while the bow are on the table.
"Main Horn, May I asked why did you ordered us to gather?" The person asked, covering the wrist guard for some reason.
"Yeah, is this an important meaning? If not, then I'm going. I've got village to pilla-- I mean business to attend to." Angus said, his long sword lying right beside him.
"By the way, where's Gaba? The bastard is always here even before us. Why is he late now?" Another one said.
The entirety of his face are not noticeable because of the dark room, where barely light even linger inside but–He has a vertical scar near his mouth. It extend to his chin and probably up to his forehead.
Infront of him–On the table, there is a dual dagger. Put in an X position.
"The Cave of Fang. Starting tomorrow, we are going to clear the cave and take all of it's loot." Marius started,
"What? Isn't that so massive that even if we explore it for over a month already, we still can't find the end?" Angus asked, even having a confused look even though it's dark.
"That's right. I think we needed more time to decide whether to finally clear it when we know what kind of beasts reside there." The person that has a wrist guard said, the voice is a little feminine–Perhaps a tomboy.
"Are all of you questioning my decision?" Marius's aura suddenly changed from calm to a very intimidating force.
All three of the horns flinched and can't move an inch.
Even though the gap between each and every one of the horns–including the fourth horn, is huge. When it comes to all out brawl and even if the four horns decided to team up against Marius, not only would they lost–They will be defeated devastatingly.
"N-no, Sir Main Horn. It's just that we think we needed more time to think and scrutinize every single detail we can get." The person that has a feminine voice stated, breaking the intimidating atmosphere caused by the Main Horn.
"I agree. We didn't know much of it despite exploring for over a month. Acting hastily won't do us any good." The man who uses a dagger added.
"...."
Marius still didn't answer foe a few seconds but instead, remained quiet–As if examinng his decision on whether to continue the raid for the Cave of Fang or not.
But in the end, he is not the one who should decide it. He was just acting as the Main horn of this mercenary guild. The real person he is following orders to is the noble women, Luna.
So in the end, he break the silence by being stagnant to his decision.
"No. My decision is permanent."
His voice made them to remain quiet for a few seconds and by realizing that they cannot do anything about it, they just agreed to it.
"Yes. As you command." They all said in unison, expressing their answer.
"Tommorrow, at 6 o'clock at the morning, gather every single man that you have infront of the enteance of the Cave of Fang."
"And First Horn, where is Neev?" He added.
Angus paused for a moment and think, then after that–He asked,
"I'm sorry, Main Horn, But i don't know where he is. He is always with you and barelt converse with anyone so i don't know anything."
"...."
By the answer Angus gave, it made him quiet and think for a few minutes once again. The last message he got from Neev is that he would go to Angus to receive an order because the thing he was interested on is in the area of where Angus is managing.
He says that he found an interesting thing, and would like to test it as a way to measure his current strength. Neev actually just started to train for about 3 months, mostly because research and information gathering always took up every minute of his day and he has no time for training.
"Main Horn?" Angus speak, uneasy by the fact that their leader isn't saying anything.
".....Forget it. Just remember what i ordered you guys. And inform Gaba about this too."
"Yes, sir!" they all said, once again in unison.
All three parts of the horn immediately dissapeared.
Now, inside the dark room, it only now leaves Marius. Still thinkibg about on where Neev might have been.
"Hmm.... There is no point in pointless worries. I am sure he can take care of himself. I am just really growing old." He said with a small smile on his face.
***
SLASH!
Back in the small shop, the knife's blade is cut, and the man that was about to stab the old man has a big woubd on his wrist.
beside him, there is Yuri. His katana already unsheathed.
The man with a strapping physique just stand there, lookibg surprise whike lookibg at Yuri, who's eyes was still at the old man.
"Hey, old man." He started, looking at the okd man with a stern face.
"I am going to pay the 90 golds. Any more than that us you just tryibg to rip me off." Sfter sayibg that, Yuri just dropped a bag with 90 gold coins in it.
The 90 gold price was actually already a massive rip-off for Yuri but he wanted to solve it with peace this time instead of his sword, which can obviously make the old man's blood splattered to the floor within seconds.
After that, Yuri just walked towards the door and no one manges to muttered a word. Until the leader holds his shoukder and told him to stop.
".....And if i don't?" Yuri asked, looking beside him to match the leader's eyes.
"Isn't it obvious?" The leader says.
"You're dea--"
STAB!
When he was about to finish his sentence, Yuri quickly unsheathed his katana the struck from the under, stabbing the the leader's wrist from under.
"Bastard!!" The man said, lifted his other hand then punched towards Yuri.
BAM!!
He put a massive crater to the ground but Yuri was nowhere to be found. Or so he thought.
"!"
STAB!
Yuri suddenly appeared right behind him then stabbed him from the left shoulder.