I arrived at the team Rewlong's base, as soon as I reached it I saw a little girl running towards me.
She was cute, had a dark complexion and looked to be around the age of 6.
Cheerfully, while jumping occasionally she asked me with a smile, " Are you brother Henry?"
What an active girl.
She still had the innocence of her childhood, sometimes when I see children, I wanted to go back to my childhood again.
"Yeah, I am "
I replied.
"Hurry up! Hurry up!"
"Follow me"
"Uncle Juan ling is waiting for you"
She began to run back.
Following her, I saw her moving here and there, plucking the leaves of trees.
Every time she plucked a leaf, She would dance with joy and happiness.
Seeing her, I remembered the famous word "Happiness is the state of mind, does not depend on external things"
While I was lost in thoughts
"We reached"
I arrived at Juan ling's home, I did not know why all homes here are similar including the captains, I thought of asking about it to Juan ling along with Battle of Woods, but it was not the right time yet.
"Uncle Juan, I brought Henry"
"I am going to play with my friends, see ya"
I saw her leaving as fast as she can.
"She is the daughter of Rewlong "
I heard a murmur in my ears, I turned right.
Finding Juan ling too close, I backed a little.
"She was adopted by Rewlong when he found her in Junk Yard "
"Haha brother Henry, it is not the time to talk about the past,
come inside. Master Khush has been waiting for you for a while"
I went inside the home,
In the hall, a blackboard was placed, and two chairs were facing the board.
In one of the chairs, Master Khush sat while Juan ling on the other.
I picked a chalk piece, approached the board and I wrote the following words on it
Potatoes, Rahul's wine shop, Kavya, Ivar, Ashley, Frasher Morris.
"Henry, we are planning a robbery of a Skill stone, not potatoes or wine"
Master Khush said sarcastically.
"Master let me explain"
I replied.
"Hope you won't disappoint this Master"
Master Khush said.
"ahm.. ahm.."
I cleared my throat as I began to speak
"Our goal is to steal the Skill stone from the most guarded place in the city, basically it is impossible"
"Henry!, I should have known you could not come up with anything, let's go back"
Master stood up as he interrupted.
"Master, please sit down I did not even start my explanation"
I urged the Master to sit down, I realized Master would be a hell of the problem,
he is just like the guys who wanted to prove someone wrong in speeches.
"but I could do it, with my plan we can steal the Skill stone from there"
" As you already know, the Skill stone does not belong to the Prince, it belongs to team Righteousness, and it is heavily guarded by battle masters of team Righteousness"
"It is not possible to steal it under so many guards, so our first step is to separate them, also we should divert the Prince"
I paused, and took a look at Juan ling and the Master,
Juan ling did not say anything
so I resumed
"To do it so, we need to make a big incident capable enough to keep the Prince occupied"
Master nodded in approval, but he said: " What it has to do with the potatoes ?"
"Everything"
I replied as I continued
"To cause a ruckus big enough to move Prince into action is not an easy thing, we would be fools if we hire someone else or to send our people to do it"
"It should look more natural than artificial, we can do it by using big sister "
I pointed at big sister Kavya's name as I said.
"but still it does not explain the potato thing"
Mater interrupted again.
"Master, can you please let me finish"
I knew it was going to be hard due to continuous interruption, but there was no other way to transfer the plan from my mind to the other.
"So let me talk about potatoes, my sister Aloo loves potato chips"
"I know about it too, but what it had to with the robbery?
Master became impatient again.
I ignored master as I continued
" She buys potatoes daily out of the fear of running out of stock, she used to go herself to the market to buy but now she started sending Ivar "
"Now let me introduce you to a couple, Frasher Morris the husband and Ashley the wife,
they are poor, Ashley loves potatoes too while Frasher Morris is a drunkard "
Master Khush again erupted with "Henry!, stop the crap, why these small fries matter to us ?"
I know this would happen, I explained
"We will make use of them to infuriate big sister, you will understand once I complete my explanation."
" The plan begins with decreasing the price of potatoes, seeing the dropped price of potatoes,
Ashley will surely send Frasher to buy them, Frasher as a drunkard will go ahead and buy a bottle of wine instead, or we make him do so"
"As far as I can predict, the amount Frasher got would not be enough to buy a bottle of wine,
so we will be dropping the price of wine as well enabling him to buy it"
"After buying the wine, he will go ahead and drink it"
"Henry! How can you declare he would buy wine for sure? and how can you say that he would drink it immediately ?"
the trouble maker interrupted me again.
"Master, It is general knowledge a drunkard is addicted to wine, so he would buy it,
and having it in hands is tempting itself, he can't be able to control the temptation and will drink it"
I answered.
"Good, good I know it, I was testing you"
Master Khush closed his mouth.
"Spending all the money for potatoes on wine, he will not dare to head back home,
he will be roaming at the same place where he bought the wine"
"Now assume that a child carrying potatoes appears in front him, what Frasher would do ?"
I raised the question.
"Such an easy question, he will snatch it by scaring the kid"
Master Khush responded.
"What if the kid won't be scared?
I thew another question.
"He will use force "
Master Khush answered.
"What if the kid is too stubborn ?"
I raised another question.
"He will beat the kid after snatching the potatoes"
Master Khush answered.
"Now assume the kid turned out to be Ivar"
Finally, Master Khush understood the outline of the plan as his head was sweating.
"Master, you know more than me that is going to happen next,
can you tell us?"
At last, I got the chance to question back, it felt good.
"Kavya would go on rampage"
Master Khush opened his mouth as he was shaking.
"Yeah, I know the place where it will happen, the public bathhouse"
"How so ?"
Juan ling who was listening in silent finally asked.
"Frasher had a weird habit of visiting bathhouse after drinking wine,
he will deliver the potatoes at home, then will leave to the bathhouse"
I cleared his doubt.
"The guards of bathhouse will try to stop big sister, but as far I know big sister, she will not halt
leading to a mess, how big it would be I don't know yet"
I said.
"Brother Henry, there are still somethings you haven't told us, how are we going to decrease the prices of wine and potatoes?"
Juan ling asked.
"About that, I will be depending on you "
I replied.
"So are we going to bribe the shop keeper and the officials ?"
Juan ling raised the question.
"No, no we won't do anything like that, we will be using the law of demand and supply"
I said.
"Brother Henry, can you elaborate ?"
Juan ling asked.
"In simple, I would like you to bring as many potatoes as possible to the farmer's den from nearby villages before the early morning of the next day"
"When the Essential Manager sees a huge stock of potatoes, for the sake of profit he will sell as many potatoes as possible which would only happen after decreasing the price "
After researching for a while I came to know that a city in Assassin domain has two powerhouses Prince handles military affairs, Financial minister handles things related to finance and development.
Essential Manager is an underling of Financial minister, he handles essential things.
"Brilliant, absolutely brilliant brother henry "
Juan ling praised.
"then are we going to use the same method to decrease the price of wine?"
Master Khush joined as he felt being left out.
"Nah we will do the opposite, I chose Rahul's wine shop because it lies exactly
in the route of farmer's den and team Sahara's headquarters"
"There's a regular customer called as Gohan, he is quite old and lives alone"
"I would like you to kill him using poison before the evening"
I said.
"Henry! what are you saying? we have to kill an old man "
Master Khush raged.
"Master, there is no other choice, killing is inevitable"
I said.
"After Gohan dies, there will be rumours stating that he died due to the wine he purchased from Rahul's shop"
"Forget about the customers, even the loyal ones won't buy wine from the shop,
forcing it to drop the price"
I took a deep breath as I explained.
"Haha brother Henry, I did not judge you wrong, you got the same abilities as Rewlong"
"Brother Henry, If you don't mind, tell us how you do know too much these no bodies when it hardly been three days since you came to the city"
Julian asked.
"Haha brother Juan, I may not be here for long, but their neighbours are living with them for so long"
"The neighbours especially the women like to talk about each other behind one's back when they meet at a shop or something like that"
Juan ling understood.
Master Khush Understood.
"We haven't discussed robbery yet,
the plan has not done yet"
I erased the names on board and wrote Jordan, Rita, Julio, Berlin.