He started to search thorough every thing , he even searched the pouch of dead but all he found was some silver and copper coins.
Night was already at its end and golden rays from the sun seems to be trying to emerge from its long absence. He hurriedly ran to books pavlion and collected the record containing seer art.
"At least I can sell it , Lets just scam some unlucky soul once " or so he thought, and hurriedly hid his identity badge near the tree roots.
As he was making his way out of compound he saw numerous guards encircling the compound. Surprised and afraid guards might link him to murderer he slowly reached the in front of guards , who were waiting him to reach closer to them with some vigilance.
Guard A shouted : Boy who are you ? And how did you get inside the compound ?
Which brought concentration of guards towards him which nearly terrified him out of his wits. He brought up the pale look with terrified expression which he was proficient in making after honing them for 3 years of serving young master, and started calculating his response.
Guard B added ,"boy what are you thinking answer quickly"
Mentally lamenting his luck and cursing at their their perceptive eyes " He kept up his terrified expression and slowly mentioned that he just woke up and found every one dead"
Guard C : Boy don't make excuses do you think we are retarded , it has been almost 2 days after the massacre and you are saying you just woke up ?
Surprised he blankly stared at them
Sensing the commotion all guards around the compound seems to have come closer to investigate , which really made him nervous. Bust instantly getting hold of his mind he decided against disclosing his identity as member of the family even if it was countries guards that was questioning him.
So he hurriedly mentioned he was captured when he offended young man and when he woke up he found himself inside the beast farms servants shade .
Guard A with seriousness : Boy do you think we are idiots?
For which all Kaal could do was look dumbly, disbelief at them for not believing his well made lie . Coldly snorting Guard A asked his friends to capture him.
To which all Kaal could do was obey as trying to make another lie was nothing but making it obvious he was trying to get out of his situation. So he let himself be man handled by guards where they searched his everything including his underwear.
After half an hour of searching and interrogating , to which all he did was stare at them dumbly which was solution he got after after all the mental calculation he had done . As they knew he was making lies even if his lies were perfect without any means to verify.
After they were done they started laughing at him "Alright boy we are done but that was the best lie we have heard even if you look dumb '' hahaha he just woke up hahaha
which was accompanied by other guards where guard B added "and what did he get after whole night of search after hard work of bypassing us ,scammers seer art which asks to make hole in eyes " hahaha
Only now it clicked in his brain they knew I was inside they might have even seen me going inside . Why was the gate left open , how could i powerless person get inside the compound where massacre took place and no killers were left behind and why there was nothing left for him to collect.
With depressed look Kaal asked " you knew i went inside ?"
Guard A laughed " Boy not only we knew we left for you to go inside to try your luck , and we even controlled our presence so that u bring out all wealth you gain" hahaha but boy did you really think anything will be left behind when you are whole day behind.
But i haven't heard any thing about scarlet sword household being destroyed, i just came to visit my friend Rak who works in beast farm of the family last night to ask for money.
Finally every guard made their face serious with some coldness hidden behind them " boy normal citizens doesn't know anything since but how can nobles not know they are just keeping words from spreading in case it creates panic among citizens , and order from royal family "
They already sent their men to divide all the wealth , fuck them we got nothing but some scrap brought by some surviving servants and guards of scarlet family, but you are one hell of idiot you haven't even collected one gold coin worth of materials .
Only now everything was clear so these guards let me get inside without me knowing to collect wealth for them. ," and i was thinking about collecting all wealth and living life of luxury , so even if every thing was left behind and i brought all wealth i could bring out i would have been looted by these guards" Fuck how unlucky can i get.
Umm sir so can i get back my money they weren't found inside . I cant do without my money.
To which Guard B kicked him obviously trying to just tease but he felt immense pain spreading from his stomach. and spoke " Boy do you think you can go inside the compound in search for wealth without even paying any thing in return ,these money are charge for going inside"
To which Guard A replied with hint of mockery on his face" tch you cant do any thing but bully a child , loser " with no hint of pity for kaal but only potraying his dissatisfaction at guard B because guard B was the one who found the pouch as he was in charge of searching Kaal and the money he got wasn't going to be shared among them as there wasn't much to begin with compared to money other servants brought out .
To which guard B did nothing but laugh and he added " well boy now take your treasure seer art that you got from glorious scarlet sword family " and get lost . hahahah " I'm not bullying you, you see, you paid for this seer art as we would have taken the treasure and let you go but for you I'm going to take it as my loss and sell you this record for some of your money. hahah
and there was this disgusting laugh again and justifying himself for looting my money
With nothing but dissatisfaction Kaal slowly went towards the direction of road when he heard some guards threatening him not to disclose about the massacre of scarlet sword family or he would be caught and punished like previous servants who dared to disclose it. Any way his royal highness the crown prince was coming so nothing would happen even if words got out was all he heard before he couldn't hear anything.
Slowly he seems to think about all action he took during past nine hour and seems to have been frozen with weakness on his knees and fear gripping his heart. He realised how greed took over him after seeing that terrorizing scene how can he feel greed in front of that many dead. If there were people still around he would have been killed just for the sake of collecting all wealth for them self.
He was obviously used as scavenger to collect wealth of dead family without being noticed by authority by those guard, were those surviving servants that brought valuable treasure still alive or were they killed after all collected valuable's seized? He wasn't optimistic in a sense him not finding any thing seems to have saved his life.
He was terrified just a day after not being part of scarlet family has led him to becoming salted fish ready to be chopped by anybody. Just thinking about how guards treated him made him realise he no longer has mighty scarlet sword family as a umbrella. Just thinking about looting wealth made him feel how vulnerable he was to greed ." How can i act stupid " when i was saying life first "but searching around without caring if there was anything dangerous around. I should have acted scared shitless and run just after seeing that scene but no i got greedy unlike my real self"
Did those guard use some emotion corrupting talent , thinking he felt chill in heart . It was better to live life of a farmer in village and growing food for lord .