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Chapter 7 - Suspicious Letter

Cersei's residence in the Black Phoenix guild town fortress.

~bang~

"The supervisor envoy of the Black Phoenix guild is here to investigate!" Jon entered the residence by kicking the door open.

"Welcome back home, my dear." Cersei was sitting with Alice standing by her side to welcome him, they weren't suprised even a bit. She even had refreshments on the table for two.

'It seems news travels fast around here!' Jon deduced judging by their response.

'At first, I wanted to play the same old trick to set her up, but she kept such a low-profile that I'd better come up with something else' Jon thought while Cersei served him tea after dismissing Alice.

"Enough don't waste my time with pleasantries. I'm here to investigate the case of the recent trend of pornographic book; not to have tea."

"My dear, if you'd like to inquire to me about something, then by all means, please do so. I'll be more than happy to tell you everything that I know." Cersei responded calmly sipping tea.

"First question: what is your '3 sizes'?" Jon asked bringing out a book and a fountain pen.

"3 sizes? What's that?" Cersei asked genuinely confused.

"Naturally, it's the size of your bust, waist and hips." Jon said trying to fluster Cersei.

"My dear, why don't you use your hand to measure my '3 sizes' inch by inch?" Cersei asked in a seductive way.

"Preposterous! The guild leader charged me with the heavy responsibility of seeing this investigation through! Please, show some self-respect!" Jon shouted, banging on the table acting furious.

"If you dare use your feminine wiles to obstruct me again, I'll have you hanged!" Jon threatens Cersei.

"To be honest, I don't really understand what these '3 sizes' have to do with the current case?" Cersei was having a hard controlling her temper as evident by the veins popping up on her forehead.

"Then I will change my question. This book is so painstakingly detailed that it's impossible that it wasn't written by someone close to you, isn't that right? So, how many people have you taken to bed? That is counting both men and women." Jon questions.

"Just... one" Cersei answered loosing her cool by the second.

"Oh, I see 10 males and 1 females. So 11 in total." Jon said writing it down.

"I said just one man." Cersei corrected furiously.

"What 10 males and 21 females. I see, so you prefer women more." Jon said changing the numbers on his book.

"Don't play dumb! I only ever had one lover! And that was you! The one who I gave my virginity to, and that was you!" Cersei yelled loosing her cool.

"What? 71 males and 69 females!" Jon shrieked faking shock.

"Jon! you've gone too far!" Cersei shouted, gathering mana in her hands about to attack Jon.

"Whoa there, Cersei. could it be that you're trying to defy me?" Jon asked showing the golden token. That stopped Cersei in her tracks.

"There is no one else here, so let's not beat around the bush." Cersei said turning away from Jon.

"Clearly, it was you who wrote that book!" Cersei stated glancing backwards at Jon.

"Be careful, my lady, you don't have any proof; I'll sue you for slander." Jon said with a sly smile on his face, still holding up the golden token.

"Earlier, I was just having a little fun with you, my lady. Now we get down to business." Jon announced adopting a natural expression. "Of course, you can refuse if you don't want to help me, but then don't blame me if the investigation records where to become public." Jon informed, tapping on the book he previously wrote on. This left Cersei at a loss for words and complied with his request.

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'There are a few guys at the 5 stars and 6 stars of the initial stage who I still haven't acted out my revenge upon. If I fought them head-on, I won't even leave a scratch on them, but with Cersei by my side, I don't need to be afraid anymore.' Jon thought looking for them, with Cersei following behind him with a pouting face.

"Jayson, Rayle and you guys are really shameless! With a single glance, I can tell that you aren't good people! So it must've been you who wrote that book! Cersei, get them!" Jon say's pointing towards a group of guys.

Cersei defeats all of them easily, leaving them unconscious on the ground.

After that he took her to printing house run by a guild member, where they pirated his novel.

"How dare you pirate 'romance' novel? Cersei smash it."

This continued many more times.

"Where are we going now? You are not going to force me to beat up everyone in the guild are you?" Cersei yelled in anger.

"How could you think such a thing?" Jon asked putting on a hurt expression, annoying Cersei.

"I only have your best interest at heart. Regardless of what it is that you're doing now, it's all on the 'guild leader's instructions'. You know where I am going with this, right?" Jon explained with a wink.

"As for where we are going, do you remember chief enforcer Carl Wilson?"

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Enforcer Carl Wilson's residence. He was in meditation inside his room when he heard some one shouting.

"Enforcer Wilson! get your ass out here!" Cersei shouted outside his residence.

"Cersei I never came looking for you even after the incident with your boy-toy but now you've come to provoke me?!" He came out angry at being disturbed.

"Carl Wilson! This is all your fault, you where the one who broke the guild law by pushing Jonathan into the ancestral crypt, because of that my husband was punished! Today I am going to bring you to justice." Jon heard Cersei's shout as he entered Wilson's residence through the window and started looking around.

'Cersei managed to draw him away without a hitch. I hope there's something valuable in this guy's room. I will swipe it all away and give this guy a heart attack.' Jon imagined Carl getting a heart attack.

'No one would be stupid enough to disguise the switch if a secret compartment as a trinket on top of a bookshelf right.' Jon thought to himself as he pulled on the trinket on top of the bookshelf.

~Click~

With a clicking sound the bookshelf splits into two, opening a hidden compartment in the middle.

'What? there really is a hidden compartment!'.

There were many valuable things inside the compartment such as: shiny equipments, rare books, potions, rune talisman, antique items, an expensive looking women's underwear, etc.

'This guy is so vulgar that he even keeps women's underwear here! Even if I grab everything here, that guy wouldn't dare tell anyone. I would be a fool not to take everything, now!' Jon decided filling everything inside a bag. That's when he came across a letter 'Why is this letter kept along with all this other valuable items, in a secret compartment?' Jon was suspicious. So he decided to read the contents of the letter.

"This is...?!" Jon was shaken to the core.

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