The next day Theodore wakes up at 6:32 am, a bit late for the military. He gets out of his bed and his clothes smell like dead rats. "I have to change my clothes." He looked in his huge garderobe but everything was too small for him. Some knock at the door. Theodore opens it. It is one of his servants. "Oh you're finally awake." She was repulsed by the smell, but still maintained her professionalism. "Mr. Ulfric is waiting for you downstairs in the meeting room."
Theodore said, "Say to Ulfric that I won't come out until I find myself some good clothes." She understands and leaves hastily. Theodore calls Ghost. "Come to my bedroom, you and Rinehart. And bring some commoner clothing we are hitting the nearby city."
Rinehart and Ghost appear in an instant at his door. "That was fast" They enter the room. "Here!" He takes the clothes and changes in front of them. He looks at them. Both of them felt a bit awkward. "What? It's not like we never changed in front of one another." The clothing was nothing fancy. A white clean shirt with some workers pants alongside a cloak that hid his arm and face. Theodore grabs a knife. "You guys are loaded" Both of them nod their heads. "Let's go!"
They sneak down stairs and take one of his old vehicles. Ulfric enters his master's bedroom and sees that he's gone. He panics and calls him. "Yes, Ulfric?" "My lord, where are you?"
Theodore looks at a sign before entering the city. "Alverg" "Are you ashamed of your clothes that much." "Indeed I am." Tehodore ends the call. "Stop here from now we go on foot."
They enter the city to see what they can work with. Theodore is followed by his friends, both questioning in their heads why they walk and not go with the car further? Rinehart dares to ask. "Theodore, why the hell are we walking?" Theodore stops, turns and looks at Rinehart. "Ghost probably knows this, but I also came here to solve the bandits problem in one."
After an hour of walking and no talking they arrived on a busy street. Many lights covering diverse shops, Floopy, Derska, Mileni, are one of many brands around here. Theodore ignores those shops and arrives at a private tailor.
They got inside and they already felt a bit unwelcome. A man, with a shiny name plate that was written on it Edgar D. Rotter comes to them and says with a smug expression all over his face:"Excuse us, but we don't accept common folk."
Theodore slaps the man, looks behind him and takes off the hood of the cloak. "Do I look like a common folk to you? Yes I must've been gone for 2 years but this is unacceptable for my own shop to not even recognize me!" The smudged man widens his eyes and sees his lord. "Forgive me my lord!" He puts his head and hands on the ground. "Please forgi~" Before he finished the sentence Theodore kicked him. "Where is Lorance?"
The man points in fear towards the back "Rinehart, Ghost you stay here." He gets in the back and knocks at the door. From behind the door a woman's voice is heard. "HOPE THE GODS IS NOT YOU EDGAR!" She madly opens the door. "M~My lord!" She is shocked "Forgive me I thought it was~"
"I need lots of new clothes, by tomorrow I need at least one good set. Let's take my new measurements." She didn't care that she was interrupted and brought him in. "Take your clothes off sir." Theodore takes his clothes off and now is fully naked.
"Not even a single wrinkle of shame, love to see it." Also you 'grew a little in size', Do you have a girlfriend?" Theodore looks at her with a dead stare. "I can always find new tailors, you know?" She chuckles. "Why so serious? What happened? Did someone make you mad?" Theodore sighs. "Everyone at the castle hates the idea of a handicap to be their lord."
"How do you know?"
She takes some measurements of his legs. "I know my way with people and none seemed happy to work for me. "How should we make up for the lost hand?" "You're the genius not me, think of something." She takes some waist measurements. "And do you think that or you know that?" Theodore sighs. "Sadly I know. I wish is just speculation"
She started taking other measurements of the body. , after 20 minutes of calculations. "Done!" Theodore takes his clothes back on him. "So when will the first one come?" She starts working already on a navy blue lord suit. "Tomorrow, next morning at 6 it will be up at your doorstep!"
Theodore nods and leaves the room. He puts his hood on. "Sorry guys, It's just different measurements and stupid calculations that I won't get through. Are you guys ready for step two of the day?" They both nod. The trio exits the building and Edgar is still on the ground.
"Where do we go next?" They go through alleyways and shortcuts and they reach the other part of the city which is filled with tourists, scammers, pubs and taverns. They head into a tavern. The tavern was filled with people dancing and happy to just be there. The three go in a more secluded part of the tavern and sit there. Theodore messages both Rinehart and Ghost. 'I want those bandits down, they caused enough damage in war, I don't want to let them do more post war, when I am here.'
The music was loud. Theodore also sees one of his servants, he gets up to hear what she is saying. "Yes so, the little lord Theodore now became THE lord Theodore, and he looks like such a waste of air, he is a handicapped person, he is a war veteran also is filled with red flags. I mean who brings his whole war party to your own lordship? Did the war end? I think not!"
Soon after the music stopped. "Listen to this everyone!" The holo tv turns up. "This is important international news. Peace has come! Drink and celebrate because peace has come!" Everyone in the tavern jumped and hugged one another. "My child is coming home!" Some of them screamed, people started crying, others were chanting, Theodore was going back to his place.
"At least we found out you did a good job my lord" Said Ghost whispering. "No one will come here." Theodore prepares to leave and pay for his friend's consumption. A man points a gun at the keeper. "Money in the bag. Everyone!" Other people rose up and pulled out weapons, ranged to melee. Theodore sighs.
"You dare do this after such good news." The woman recognized the voice of her lord and figured the other men with their backs turned are his friends. "And who are you?" "A guy with more combat experience than you. 1524!" After Theodore said that Rinehart pulls out his blaster pistol and shoots down one of the long range gunners. Theodore turns around grabs his knife from the pocket and stabs the guy in the neck. Another bandit from behind grabs him.
Theodore hits his own head in the back to hurt the enemy, he dodges a second attack, kicks his leg and slides his knife into the man's head. He pushed him away and took the knife back. Ghost charged at the guys with swords and cut one of them down with two sword movements, blocking the attack of the other. "Save" Theodore shouts. The last bandit tries to run "Legs!" Theodore shouts and Rinhart shoots the bandit in the legs..
The keeper, shocked by the actions, asks Theodore: "Who are you people?" Theodore pushed a chair forward. "Ghost, tie him up!" Ghost puts the bandit on the chair "Yes my lord!"
Theodore takes off his cloak with his left hand. "The lord of this land, who else?"
Everyone looks at him with fear and respect.
"Do you know who I am?" Said Theodore to the bandit "I am Theodore Bloodhearth. And you are doing bullshit on my land!" He goes down to his level and punctures the bandit's leg with a knife. "I've had a bad two years of ongoing war, while cowards like you hit the innocent. So I can torture you to death, or you can spit the beans of the other bandits?"
"Law protects me! I am not Highlandian!" Theodore gets the knife out of the man's leg and slices his eye. "I don't give a shit! Law protects you when you are a good citizen, but when you are a son of a bitch caught by me. YOU'RE FUCKED!" He aims the knife at the bandits' last eye. "So how good is a man with both his eyes taken out of order? Yeah not pretty good…" The man screams in fear. "YOU ARE NUTS! I tell you please take away the knife."
The woman working for Theodore, got scared of his personality, she looks intrigued at the scene unfolding before her eyes like everybody else in the tavern. The keeper called the authorities. "The place you're looking for is the old mines, we took it as our hideout."
"How many are there excluding you and your other team members?" The man stops to calculate. "23-28 people"
Theodore slams his knife again in his leg "Concrete information please!" "28!" Theodore takes out the knife, cleans it on the bandits clothes and pushes the chair down. "Safety!" Theodore leaves the tavern. Rinehart shot the man in the head, and both Ghost and him left the tavern after. "Tonight we are going to the mines. Let's rush home and freshen up our troops!"