After running for a lot of time at full speed, Mino abruptly stopped at the gates of a complex called Maxim. He felt his body burning as superhot breaths came out of his mouth. Completely drenched in sweat, he stopped for a smile. Now his legs were no longer willing to listen... they felt like heavy lead bars.
As he struggled not to fall and keep standing on his wobbly legs, he felt the wind turning cooler and faster. That made him relax, he enjoyed the feeling of the cool wind caressing his arms and face.
"Hey boy, why are you here?" One of the two guards said this in a respectable fashion while approaching him. The other guard didn't even bother to look at Mino before saying, "Hmph! Just screw off! I'm sure you haven't come here to talk with someone, you dumb looking boy?"
Mino's eyebrows twitched upon hearing the sharp words. Restraining the urge to lash out, he declared in a quiet tone, "I'm here to meet Mr. Reinard Hostan. My name is Mino Clair."
"Ooh!" the first guy made an unexpected reaction, as if he realised something.
"Here, write your name and phone number in this piece of paper and submit it to us. We will let you go. You visit Mr. Hostan pretty frequently, don't you?"
"Errrm...err I do..." Mino uttered helplessly. He had mostly contacted and visited Reinard to seek his opinion regarding matters. Reinard always offered Mino advice, he was happy and glad to do so. Maybe the first guard got to know about Mino's frequent visits from the previous gate guards, but the second guard didn't. However he didn't raise his voice and just told the first one,
"If we land into trouble, I won't support you. I will make sure you get fired but not me."
Mino didn't waste time. Using the small notepad and pen offered by the guards, right away wrote the required details, handed it to them and went inside.
The wind was growing in intensity, to the point that he no longer found it to be comfortable. It was whooshing through the trees, making an unsettling whistling sound. After a minute of walking (He was trying to conserve his energy), Reinard's house finally entered his sights.
"What I am trying to do is robbery. I better take precautions."
Mino took out his handkerchief from his pocket, and then opened the bandages covering his wounded hand. He felt a bit of pain when it the bandage was removed completely, The wound had dried and the bandage was only a bit wet, due to the incessant sweating.
At once he crouched down and picked up a handful of sandy soil. After that, he promptly put some soil on his kerchief and tied it up. He repeated the same thing with the cloth used as bandage. Now, he had two pouches of dusty soil which he stuffed in his pockets before going to Reinard's house.
"Tiiiingg tooooonnnnggg"
A doorbell's sound echoed, and Mino felt like his skull was vibrating. Facing the door, he knocked it repeatedly and impatiently. [Hell, why aren't you opening up Sir Doc!!]
"Coming, coming," Reinard's voice could be heard from behind the door. "Who could it be?" He asked.
"It's me, Mino!" Mino literally shouted.
"Woah woah, patience boy. You are scaring me."
*Click*
The door opened with a sharp click and behind it stood Reinard, dressed in casuals. "Oy Mr. Clair! Why do you look so paranoid!"
He couldn't help but exclaim this because the first thing he saw was Mino shaking like a chihuahua while panting.
"I'm coming in." Not even bothering to speak out the request to come inside, he entered the house as if it belonged to him. His eyes darted around the room, earning him strange looks from everyone. Finally, after calming him down, he found out the person he was seeking. The inky blue haired girl. Without hesitating, he walked up to her and told her straight away.
"I have an important request to make."
"Eh? W-what..." leaking out a stupid voice, Yaleena stood up.
"Actually, I would like to talk to you in private."
"Huhhhhhh!!" Everyone said this together. Reinard muttered in an amused voice, "Mino! Learn your limits haha!" Everyone sans Yaleena looked amused, Barnie was giggling loudly.
"Wh-what r-request... c-come talk to me in the second floor."
Yaleena managed to say this as she pointed towards the stairs.
"No, actually, I want to tell you this outside."
"Sure thing. Let's go." She had managed to calm herself down and was back to her former self. [If he tries tricks, I'll not let him off the hook]
Reinard gave Mino an incredulous stare and a thumbs up. Both of them went outside. The wind was extremely strong and trees were swaying low. Mino was barely managing to keep a foothold. Yaleena didn't break a sweat though. Even then, Mino said, "Let's go to the park. I guess nobody is there right now."
Yaleena and Mino started walking towards the park. She didn't seem to mind, her thoughts were preoccupied. [Well, let's get this guy's request or whatever over with quickly, that Gruffold could be attacking any moment. Yaleena communicated the others with telepathy and told them to set off for the park after 10 minutes.
Soon they reached the park. Naturally, it was deserted. Mino stood in such a manner that the wind was blowing in his direction striking his back. At the same time, it was blowing against Yaleena's face who was standing opposite to him, looking at him.
"Well now, please state your request. I don't guarantee that I will accept it."
"You see..." Mino started fidgeting bashfully. After a short pause, he continued, "... I want to feel you up."
"......W-wh-WHAT!!"
Yaleena was confused as fuck. [What did this guy say! H-he w-wants m-me to f-f-f-feel me u-up] Her mind was plunged into a state of chaos. Never in her life someone had made such a request to her, and that openly to boot.
Previously, she was preoccupied with the matter of the hunters, so she didn't notice Mino had come closer to her while voicing out his request.
"I-I'm truly s-sorry, I a-am j-just doing this to e-escape d-death!"
After speaking out a feeble excuse, he steeled himself and put his hands inside the cloak Yaleena was wearing.
".....!!!!..."
Yaleena couldn't make heads or tails out of the situation, but upon seeing Mino hands in the cloak, her face started turning redder and redder while she found herself unable to even speak.
Meanwhile, Mino was living true to his words, he was feeling her up. Her flank, her stomach, her back but couldn't even find something even remotely resembling a scroll. [Fuck! Was this a joke all along! This girl will surely kill me when she gets back her clarity! I am doomed either way!!] As he was running his hands around wildly, he felt a slight hint of a tube like thing.
"That's it!" He shouted joyously when he found a yellow cylinder like thing peeking out of Yaleena's cleavage. Without a seocnd thought, he took it out (of course touched her chest in that process) and jumped back to create some distance from her.
"Let's hope my second phase of plan works..."