Third person POV
Later for the next 7 hours, Russell and his group went on their route for the day with good times and moments, including a quest at a dungeon in southern Zale Valleys Kingdom given by the Emerald Guild through a branch in Carelis. At the same amount of time, Jaria was tortured by Nicholas and some of Rossley's city guards to extract a series of confessions from her. Keeping her mental promise and turning it into action, Jaria fully and openly admitted everything behind her attempted assassination of Russell May as Aren's order to her. Upon hearing that, Nicholas and the city guards were shocked, and Nicholas was angry at Aren. "That crow bastard!"
Jaria was taken aback by it while she was chained to a stone wall but didn't say anything about it.
Because of this, Nicholas solemnly thanked her and told her that she will still be chained there until a decision for her fate had been settled by his royal court.
Jaria agreed with his decision, not caring whether she would be executed or not.
And then, in the afternoon, while coming home from his route in the Zale Valleys Kingdom, Russell began to think about Jaria and herself, especially her possible future fate for her attempted assassination on him this morning in Rossley's streets. So, concerned for her, he said to his bus's navigation screen, "Navigacion, reroute my destination to Rossley, the Southern Plains, please."
His bus's navigation screen, which he called Navigacion, did so. "Rerouted to Rossley, the Southern Plains: 21 kilometers left. Estimated travel time: 20 minutes at this current speed."
It didn't have a keyboard to type a destination or route or search anything in it; instead, it had a voice, speech-to-text way of receiving commands from Russell.
The reason why is that is that typing on it is essentially like texting while driving.
And so, Russell and his group and passengers arrived at Rossley at 5:02 p.m. There after all of his passengers paid their fares and got off, Russell said to his group, "Okay, let's search for that assassin girl."
Leon, Sierra, John, and Adrian were stunned and shocked upon hearing that.
"What?"
"That shady girl?"
"Why?"
"Well…" Russell replied back while thinking deeply, "…I was particularly worried for her. I don't know if she was told to kill me or not."
He then looked at them seriously. "Let's just search for her."
But then, just in time, Cassius came to them and stood in front of the bus's doorway. "Mr. May, Sir Adrian, you are on time. Your Highness wants you guys to come to the Barracks West."
Russell and the others heard that and looked at him.
"Oh, Cassius-san, is that the place where she was held currently?" Russell asked him.
Cassius then nodded. "Yes, let me board this. I'll show you where."
Russell granted it, and Cassius boarded and took a seat in the front.
Russell then closed the door and left off, going to the capital's Barracks West according to Cassius' directions.
There Russell parked in a vacant spot and opened the door, before turning off the engine and standing from his seat. All of them then got off and went to the said barracks as Cassius guided them. Along the way in the corridors of the huge barracks building, Cassius revealed to Russell and his friends about Jaria's identity and agenda, including who she was working for. Russell and his friends were shocked to hear all that. Russell couldn't believe that Aren's hatred for him was so much that he ordered an assassination against him.
"No way…" Sierra gasped in shock.
"This must be an act of war!" Adrian shouted angrily.
"That's too far!" Leon added.
"I know," Cassius responded while all of them arrived at Jaria's jail cell on the underground floor.
At this point, Russell couldn't believe that the culprit was also a half-lancanthrope. That reminded him of an anime he had watched in his previous life. And then, Cassius looked at Jaria in her cell through a window. "This is it. This is her." Russell and his friends then looked at her. Jaria was sitting on the dirty floor while slumping against the stone, cold wall. She had bruises on her arms and legs due to being tortured for confession. But despite her downward sadness, she was happy on the inside that she had done the right thing. Now Russell was concerned for her rather than angry at her for trying to kill him.