"Nasty, you say?"

Jada smiled in wry amusement. "My master is even more so. Now talk!" Aina spilled the beans right then, since she had no stake in this anyway.

The next morning, Frank arrived with the artifacts at a village called Zurtborg.

He stood before a millstone that had not seen use for a while, straightening his clothes and putting down several suitcases while waiting quietly for Elizabeth's arrival.

He did not assume Aina's appearance simply because Aina did not want trouble with Elizabeth, which was why she used a go-between.

That spared Frank the need to disguise himself as a woman, as he assumed the appearance of Elizabeth's assistant.

However, while he was waiting, a man and a woman came bounding down the road, with the man smacking the woman repeatedly with a shovel as he chased her down.

Even though the woman was crying for help, the villagers in sight simply rubbernecked.

Frank smirked, but he knew he could not fault the villagers for being callous. They were refraining from meddling in another family's matter, not to mention that they might get caught in a misunderstanding and even get chased out of the village.

however, as he did not live here, and intervening was really no

not hesitate to stride up, stopping the man and snapping coolly, "Pick on someone your own size. Do you feel like a man, beating up

it to you?!

"In this day and age? What, is she your slave or

that, he sent the man flying with a

of blood, he glared

as Frank had predicted, he was no tough nut and fled

woman, only for her face

should not be that intimidating since he was

To each their own-they could

returned ten minutes later, with several other men who looked like him,

man was exceedingly pompous, believing in the strength of numbers that he would definitely beat Frank. "You brat! You like meddling, huh?! I'll make this

busy here, so

man furious, and he bellowed, "What's

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