"Lord Daniel don't believe their words; they are trying to use your loyalty to the Baron as a tool to fool you."
"Yes, yes, lord Daniel… my butler is correct, this girl might be trying to fool you, but don't get trapped in her words."
Carl also used the opportunity to sugarcoat Daniel while cornering Misty.
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"To think my hard work and loyalty would be taken advantage of by a brat. You listen here, I came here on the orders of the Baron, and will only go after I have resolved the issue, if you try to resist anymore, I will have no choice but to think of you as the thieves." Daniel did not let go of the opportunity found by the butler to turn the tables around.
Misty and Hira both fell silent as Hira looked at the butler.
"Hmph… what are you looking at, go and bring your potions so that we can check if they were stolen from our shop or not."
The butler raised his voice and snarled at Hira.
"And why should I believe that you would not claim our potions as yours." Misty pointed out.
"Hmph, who do you think Lord Daniel is, we will be giving all the potions to him to check, he will drink the potions and see if they are legit or not." The butler pointed out.
"Okay then… who will be paying for the potion." Misty did not back away either.
"Hmph… who do you think you are… asking Lord Daniel to pay you, when he is actually trying to find justice. Lord Daniel can drink as many potions as he wants until he is sure if they are really not stolen." Another employee said as she raised her voice.
Both Daniel and Carl were stunned. Especially Carl, he did not know his employees were so intelligent and hard working. Hell, how can they be so loyal to him, right after he abused them before coming here.
Daniel on the other hand… was stupefied, he just came here to mess with Misty, he did not give a damn who was the culprit here, and he knew that Misty was in no situation to be able to hire thieves, not to mention her little 'good girl' attitude won't allow her to do something like that.
But to think, now he will get to drink Misty's shop's magic potions for free. This was just too good an opportunity even for him.
"You guys…" A tear fell from his left eye as he looked at his employees who looked like angels, praising him for his hard work living is life.
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"That does not make any sens…" Misty stopped as Hira held her hand firmly and smiled mischievously.
"Boss… it looks like we have no choice but to adhere to their demands for now. You wait here, I will go and bring our potions."
Daniel thought something was not right here, if the boy went to get the potions, won't he end up bringing some cheap potion.
"Wait…" Daniel was interrupted as the butler shouted
"You think you are very smart don't you… you think you can fool Lord Daniel by bringing some cheap potion and getting off easily. Lord Daniel, I don't believe they will be bringing their best potion for you to check. Please allow me to go with him to make sure that I get their best potion for you." The butler came to the rescue again.
"Chk… Fine come with me..." Hira clicked his tongue as he led the Butler inside the shop.
As the butler went with Hira, Daniel could not help but look at Carl while thinking 'To think that such an intelligent young man is working for this fool. I shall take him under me and not let him rot with this idiot.'
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A few minutes later… Hira came back with two potions.
As soon as Carl's eyes fell on the potions. He shrieked.
"That's my potions… You bastard… how dare you steal my potion." He immediately jumped at Hira.
"How dare you… are you taking Lord Daniel for a fool." Misty immediately shouted.
Carl looked at Daniel who was looking at him with a frown.
"Lord… Lord Daniel, those are the enhancement potions, they are the costliest potion from my shop. They are specially made by frontier mage Helga. This girl can't even afford to keep her own mage, forget about asking Lord Helga to make such a potion. Please let me take them back…" Carl was cut by Hira
"What? Are you taking Lord Daniel for a fool? Do you think he is an idiot, dumbass, loser, pig who would believe anything you say? Huh? You just want to hag the potions for yourself without letting Lord Daniel check them, don't you? We already had a deal… Lord Daniel will drink the potion and he will decide whether it belongs to us or not."
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For some reason, Daniel did not like it even though Hira was taking his side.
"That's right boss… please let Lord Daniel do justice to us. Lord Daniel, please show us your unbiased justice." The butler said as he raised the potion with both hands his eyes glimmering with passion.
Daniel felt a sting in his eyes as he looked at the young butler.
"Sure…" He said as he looked at Carl.
"I will drink the potion and decide whether they are your potions or not. Do not try to get in the way of justice." He warned Carl.
Carl felt as if the world was failing him, these two potions were the costliest possessions he had. It didn't matter if it had been any other potion that had been stolen, but these two potions together will make more than 70% of all the amount that was stolen from his shop.
Not to mention Lord Helga was not so easily pleased. He had to work so hard to get her make him two vials of enhancement potions.
To think that one of these enhancement potions was about to be devoured by that idiot Lord Daniel. His heart bleed just thinking about it.
Misty came to Hira and held his hand tightly, her eyes were teary as she looked down, he raised her chin and gave her a reassuring smile.
Daniel, he gulped down the potion.
"What a waste…" Hira muttered as a drop of blood fell down his index finger.