Next day, afternoon.
Mike was reviewing the documents about his judgment and other such matters, especially the thousand Ethers fine.
It was supposed to be paid in a month or the fine would increase.
-The fuck with this country's laws, one month to pay a thousand Ethers, crazy - Mike was not worried anyway.
-Master, in normal circumstances, they should place three times more the time. Their intention here is clear. - If it wasn't for Claire, Mike would be struggling to find out how to pay the fine.
Claire paid the fine just now, she made all the paperwork for it and prepared everything.
If Mike could not pay the fine, many future operations could not be done.
But the most important topic was,
They now had very little cash to spend, what was left was for emergency.
Luckily, the house had no need for money, he had already enough supplies and some emergency cash, and Clair had no need for it either.
But still, the problem relies on there.
If the one aiming at Mike tried to chase him again, they could easily find more opportunities to ruin him.
And by being chased he would need to spend more, or he would end up forced to work for almost nothing.
In Aether, people that don't pay the fines and debts end up in something worse than prison;
They are taken to do forced work by the government, day and night, and getting miserable pay and few bad foods.
It was better for some people to just stay in prison and work their souls there.
Law worked for Aether in the past, but with so much corruption, who knows if those forced people still have something to eat? There are many dead each year and nobody announces a shit.
The people fear that if they spread the news the politicians don't want to be spread, they will end up in prison like the ones who tried before them.
But going back to the topic; Mike was discussing his possibilities with the android.
Nothing seemed to work for him, maybe just staying some days in the house training.
He decided to do so, first train, and then going to find work, if not, then he could risk his fate and ask "Male" about that work.
He finished his day training, and the next day started, but exactly when the next day was starting, some trouble arrived.
02:00 o'clock, the android got up from its "sleep", reason? There were people outside, and it looked like the story was repeating itself, one of them was shocked by the electric fence on top of the garden wall while touching it.
Claire identified each person, 6 persons in total, 2 ability users, both armed with guns, the other 4 having a gun too, 2 of those guns were not just pistols, those were assault rifles.
She quickly identified the weapons and each person, one of them was the one last from that day Mike arrived home the first time.
There were four people in the garden that day, two arrived soon and 1 arrived when Mike was out in a travel.
Now the last one was finally here, but he wasn't the one leading the people, it was another person, specifically a female ability user.
Claire studied the situation and in a second reached the conclusion to tell this to Mike, it took her just a short moment to reach Mike's bedroom to wake him up.
There should be no problem for her to act by herself, but worse come to worst, Mike could wake up by the noise.
-What it is? I feel too tired to be morning already...-
-Master, there are 6 people outside the house, each one having guns, two of those are assault rifles, 2 ability users between those 6 persons - She quickly informed without delay.
-My mind is gonna explode, does that people know what time is it? Don't they sleep?-
He was cursing but got up quickly, it was mostly being dramatic, he really didn't care it was just 2 in the morning.
-I can call the police already, but is your decision, master-
-Somehow, I think somethings not right, they should not be able to enter the house, no?-
-Right, but still could cause trouble, and I think a group as big as that doesn't really know how to give up, one of them is the man from when you first arrived home-
-Fuck, well, at least is not something made by RichManufacturing like yesterday-
Mike's mind was quick to think despite the early time, his mind was only wishing for one thing.
Sleep.
-Let them be and call the police, wake me up when the police arrive, is there something to cover my ears? I don't want to wake up by the noise-
As easy as that, Mike fell asleep quickly, it was not easy for him to fall asleep after waking up, but still got to it quickly thanks to Claire's fierce in training.
So in the end, the android got her orders and left.
First, she got earplugs to not let Mike wake up by the noise, placed it on his ears, and left again after taking Mike's phone.
Then used Mike's phone to call the police and explained the situation to them.
She was somehow insecure about the situation,
That people had nothing to do with RichManufacturing? Probably. But just to be sure, she searched the number of other police stations nearby and called them too.
Outside, the situation was dead silent.
Instead of getting through the electric fence, (that was previously repaired by Claire) they decided to go through the door.
One of the ability users got to the garden door, and in a moment, with just a strong kick, the door was broken from the lock.
It was a freezing ability, that was a dangerous one to fight. An ability that allows users to emit cold from their bodies.
The other user, the female one did not show her ability, but it was clear she was stronger, looking at how the others followed her words.
It took them some minutes to get the garden door broken, from that, Claire estimated the approximate level of his ability.
Phase 3 at minimum, phase 4 at maximum.
It was uncommon for a normal person to hold that strength if it wasn't for the mercenary corps, but the man was not wearing any uniform.
And if the man was that strong, what about the woman? Level 4 to 5? But which ability?
She dared not to sleep and got her attention on the outside.
They tried to take down the house door, the garden door was sturdy, almost like an armored door, but the house door was really an armored one.
It would take them a good time dealing with that door.
Some tried to move around the house, but it had only one entrance and the windows were even more resistant than the doors.
It was already 2:30 in the morning, and the police still were not arriving.
She then understood it was probably the doing of the people outside, she could call again and insist, but decided not to do so.
She didn't want to call the police, only did so because Mike ordered her to.
But now, she would rather let the people outside struggle their brains.
The armored door was not really hard to deal with, using force or using one's brain.
But they for sure would give up with the second door, it was not just an armored door, it was an armored piece of the house made by the guild.
If they could break the door open, the guild members that were in the work of constructing those things would spit blood while looking at the scene.
Time passed by and the decided to break the door first, but the female ability user stopped them and started to use their brains.
The armored door was finally open, and the second door didn't look as strong as the other.
They used the same tricks, but none of them worked.
They had some problems in the group when their leader was losing patience, and one of the guys besides the leader, one with the assault rifle, proposed something.
-Let's use that thing, my lady. We saved it for the end, but we aren't getting in if we don't use it-
The man's words were very educated, different from the others in the group, if Mike listened, he would recognize the voice of the man.
The woman accepted and they got something from a bag, it was an explosive, plastic explosive, and a high explosive at that.
Were they planning to blow up the house? Lucky for Mike and Claire, those things can only scratch the house, at least if only one or two are being used, and judging from their luggage, they held no more than one.
-Unlucky master, the earplugs can't help you to stop that noise getting in your ears-
*BOOM*
The explosion happened a very few minutes later.
They of course awakened Mike; the android heard him cursing.
Some people are annoying, even when they are shocked by not achieving anything.
After the explosion, the police would arrive here for sure, no matter how much they tried.
-Leader, the door is still... we should give up, we can't kidnap that man... at least...-
-Shut UP! - screamed the woman.
-We are leaving - said the woman in lower voice after the scream.
She was mad but still shocked, someone having an armored house was not common, and they thought they could get something good by kidnapping him.
But in the end, they wasted more than expected and achieved nothing.
-Just who is rich enough to get that much security if not being from the government? - Said one of the guys outside who stayed behind, but soon left too.
But it was only the start, someone was aiming at Mike.
Now the android wanted to get out and question the man after beating him up.
Was she fast enough to kidnap the man before the others would realize something?