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"Because you vandalized someone else's road."

Tomat then provided an answer to Skadi's confusion.

"...Shouldn't this be blamed on you for suddenly letting go?"

Skadi still remembers the scene of her body, bound by gravity, freely piercing through the ground.

"That's why I'm running with you guys too!"

If these people were to run, even if they weren't at full speed, they would probably look like a gust of wind to outsiders. Tomat and the others escaped from the vicinity of the hotel and wandered aimlessly into the nearby streets.

Before the owner and municipal staff came to them about the frozen hotel and the collapsed road, the group quickly covered up their tracks with a refreshing blizzard that conveniently blocked people's view. Then, while the unsuspecting people thought it was another Originium Arts performance, they packed up their belongings and made a quick getaway.

We stopped here simply because we felt we were far enough away.

"It's only a matter of time before they come knocking on our door," Huang said.

The bags she was carrying actually contained Grani Bob's and her own belongings. During the escape, she had also given them, in a slurred manner, the message that "you should not go back to the hotel yet."

Hopefully, they both understand what Huang is saying.

“I registered my accommodation information using your operator ID card. They can easily find out about Rhodes Island with a little investigation.”

Huang continued, while returning Tomat's operator ID card to its rightful owner. Judging from his expression, the usually carefree Phil seemed to be very troubled by the consequences of this unexpected incident.

If they contacted Rhodes Island and then told the Doctor that they had frozen the hotel and damaged the road.

Forget about deducting wages; they might not even get any holidays in the future.

“But if we leave them there, things will get more complicated. They might just be detained there as terrorists, and if the doctor and the others come to ransom them, things will get even more chaotic.”

Tomat also stated that even if they stayed there, the local officials were unlikely to listen to them properly.

Originally, it was the doctor who contacted the mayor to sign the berthing permit, but this incident could potentially affect future collaborations between Rhodes Island and Siesta.

Skadi and Frostnova didn't express any thoughts, because the former didn't like to think about things like "consequences" in the first place, while the latter was still in a state of "relief but some disappointment" and had no intention of considering it.

"Hopefully they'll think it was just a show until we get back."

Tomat thought to himself, while Huang said he would go find Grani and the others first, hand over the luggage to them, and then leave.

She had assumed that Grani and the others were at the hotel and that Skadi should leave at this time—but she did not follow Huang.

Froststar should have expressed some dissatisfaction at this point regarding the continued presence of the Agorian, who was acting as a third wheel.

But she didn't react in any special way either. Only Tomat was using his communicator to browse through the various activity guides for Siesta that day.

Rather than worrying about the trouble he had already caused, he preferred to focus his attention on other activities.

While I'm at it, I'll also ask Bardock why he hit me yesterday.

A while after Huang left, Skadi suddenly looked in a certain direction, and then walked towards a nearby alley with noticeably lighter steps.

"come out!"

As Skadi leaped into the alley, another figure suddenly jumped out from within.

With a nimble movement, it instantly stepped onto a protrusion on the building wall and hung from it.

It was a silver-haired woman named Felin, who was carefully observing Frostnova and Tomat below, as well as Skadi slowly walking out of the alley.

"As expected of Skadi, the bounty hunter, she actually managed to detect my tracking..."

The man spoke calmly, while also openly admitting to everyone present that he had been following the woman.

"So she's not an operator from Rhodes Island? I thought she was just someone I didn't know."

"Don't act like she's the only one who noticed you were following her. Look at your own feet."

But those present didn't seem surprised at all.

Skadi, who took the initiative to expose her, goes without saying, but Tomat seemed to have sensed her presence from the very beginning.

When Froststar followed her words and looked at her feet planted on the wall, she suddenly felt a chill—her feet were frozen to the wall, and she couldn't break free for a moment.

"I thought you had some other scheme, chasing after that person alone when you saw him... It seems like we're your target?"

Skadi also explained in her own words why she didn't leave with Hoshiguma earlier.

She was simply confirming the other party's target.

The person being tracked has become aware of their whereabouts and is now even temporarily trapped.

This kind of thing seems quite humiliating for an assassin.

After all, this visitor was none other than the female assassin, Black, who had been searching everywhere for the missing Ceylon.

"Humph!"

Perhaps Frostnova didn't use overly powerful techniques, because when Black forcefully broke free of the restraints on her feet, the ice shattered, and she landed in front of the group, stepping on the ice shards.

She wasn't deliberately following them as suspects, because that would never end.

"I need a skilled person to help me, and the compensation will be substantial."

Although she herself was one, it was certainly not easy to do it alone, and the search for Ceylon should be resolved as soon as possible.

As for why she was alone, to the point that she had to find new help...

The main reason is that her subordinates, who were sent to search the entire city, basically disappeared after reporting "suspicious individuals."

The few who responded are mostly in the hospital now, with injuries ranging from fractures to "mental distress from having their hair shaved off".

This clearly cannot be explained by coincidence; there must be some larger organization secretly taking action during Obsidian Festival.

When asked if they had made any other discoveries, they all gave the same answer:

"They got away, and we even got beaten up."

[Main Text] Siesta's Hottest Holiday: Chapter Thirty-Eight - First, Eliminate the Correct Option

Black currently has three orders.

One is an investigation order from the mayor himself, investigating the crimes committed against Siesta by a man whose ambitions are becoming increasingly undisguised.

But now seems like the wrong time.

Another order came from Kronin: don't let Miss Ceylon run around. This naive girl, raised in a sheltered environment and with a strong sense of justice, already harbors hatred for her father and wants to force the current mayor to step down by exposing his behavior, so don't let her leave.

But whether she was willing to carry out the order or not, Ceylon's disappearance already meant failure.

The last one came from that interrupted communication.

"Darkness! Help me!"

Even if the first two orders fail, she will absolutely carry out Miss Ceylon's plea for help, delivered in her normally gentle voice.

Therefore, they no longer care about being held accountable by the mayor, or about saving face or dignity.

This thing ceased to exist after she became an assassin.

The people who gave her, this feared and despised assassin, another life were the mayor who had shown her kindness and the willful yet gentle young lady.

She would never allow anyone to harm Ceylon.

Black, whose manpower had been drastically reduced for unknown reasons, realized the seriousness of the situation and began to make other plans.

Even at the risk of being found out by the mayor, she was determined to gather new manpower to search for Ceylon and find out where this mysterious group of people who had sent her men to the hospital came from.

It's not just to protect Ceylon, but also to protect Siesta.

Of course, she wouldn't explain the real reason to Kronen, who now controls the Siesta municipal government.

In addition, it is necessary to hire some more "professional" people.

She learned from her intelligence network that the legendary bounty hunter, Skadi, was also vacationing here.

Although Hei didn't have much affection for people in these professions, she could at least glean from the intelligence who had real skills and who could be of help.

Have you heard of this person?

"I don't remember."

"There are far too many people in the gray industry who give themselves a single-word name. Who would remember which one is which? Especially when it's such a common name like 'black'."

Hei explained his purpose, but had not yet clearly stated the specific details of the commission.

However, Tomat and the others were more suspicious of the person who had suddenly appeared and wanted to hire them than of what kind of work they were going to do.

"Whether you've heard of me or not doesn't matter! But this is urgent, I need your help..."

Hei stood before the group with a relaxed demeanor, having shed all hostility, and sought their help in a calm yet sincere tone in the quiet alley.

"What, can't find a target to kill? We're not assassins, we won't kill for you."

The fact that he said he was an assassin when he was talking to someone he was meeting for the first time makes people wonder if this is some kind of prank in Siesta.

However, after sensing that there were no spectators or filming crew nearby, Tomat asked the woman, whose words and actions seemed completely unrelated to an assassin, in a mocking tone.

"The ability to fly grants unparalleled mobility, the power of ice and snow Originium Arts is formidable, and the experience of a bounty hunter can help in finding targets more effectively... I need you to help me find someone, she is the mayor's daughter, and also..."

The fact that the man in black reached into his backpack was almost mistaken for someone pulling out a weapon from behind.

But she simply took out a wallet and unfolded it in front of the three of them.

Inside the wallet is a photo of the three of them.

Besides the black man, there was another familiar face – Herman, the mayor of Siesta City, whom the doctor had met before.

The third person was a pink-haired Liberian girl.

"...is also the most important person to me."

Hei understood that these three people had never been obligated to help her, but even with such a slim chance, out of affection for Ceylon, she was willing to appear humble and make requests of others.

Or, to put it another way, Ceylan's behavior of revealing to others that "this girl is his weakness" could put him in a different kind of danger.

The three looked at the photo, then at the black background.

They remained silent, exchanging glances and communicating solely through their eyes.

However, they haven't developed that tacit understanding yet, so the three of them just blink at each other.

"Alright, stop blinking. I'm just asking, if we help you with this, does that mean Siesta—at least your mayor's family—owes us a favor?"

Finally, Tomat broke the silence and asked Black.