Ch 299: You’re Alive? Mirror Man, You Little…!

Bal, pushed into the office by Anda, finished the remaining wine in his wine cup and casually placed the cup on the table.

“Very relaxed?”

Selena looked up resentfully, her quill pen almost broken from her grip.

“Not really, I just happened to meet a new recruit who just became an adventurer.”

“You, deliberately messing up the commission, the Guild spent a lot of money on this.”

“Wait, isn’t the client already dead?”

“Who says it’s compensation for the client? That’s the fine paid to the Council Hall. After all, someone secretly did something and thought I wouldn’t find out. Hilarious.”

Bal walked to a cabinet, took out a box of biscuits from it, and placed it in front of Selena.

“Don’t be angry, eat some? Fei’er baked them herself, I wouldn’t even dare to eat them.”

“Make me a cup of tea, no milk, no sugar.”

“Okay, okay.”

Bal used magic to boil water and brewed two cups of black tea. He placed one beside Selena. Selena picked up the teacup, blew on it gently a few times before tasting the black tea.

“Sigh, such good tea leaves, brewing it for you is a waste.”

“Make do with it, don’t expect a big man like me to brew tea.”

“Fine.”

Selena picked up a biscuit and started eating. After taking another sip of tea, she looked at Bal.

“Tell me, why did you let Feodor go?”

“What are you talking about?”

“You know, don’t you?”

“Hahaha, how did you know?”

“Look at your report. You said you used a wooden stake to pierce Feodor’s chest, killing him on the spot, but there was no corpse when the Self-Defense Force went to put out the fire this morning. Combined with a series of previous files and evidence, I have reason to suspect that you didn’t kill him.”

“I did pierce his chest with a wooden stake.”

“Then why didn’t he die?”

“Because he’s a Mirror Person.”

“Mirror Person?”

“Yes, as the name suggests, his body organs are opposite to those of a normal person. That is to say, the heart that is normally on the right side of the chest is on the left side in his body.”

“Pfft…hahahahahaha.”

“What are you laughing at?”

“This is the first time I’ve heard of such a thing. By the way, how did you know?”

“Simple. Back then, Edmonton did intend to kill him, and knew he was a vampire, so he prepared a silver sword and stabbed Feodor in his right chest. Logically, a vampire should have died from that, but Feodor was still alive, so I guessed he was a Mirror Person. Yesterday, I deliberately stabbed him in his right chest, and as I thought, he is a Mirror Person.”

“Then why did you spare his life?”

Bal walked to the bed and looked out at the sky.

“He’s also a descendant of a hero. I don’t want the descendants of heroes to degenerate into an evil spirit who only thinks about revenge. I know what revenge will bring, and I don’t want him to be ruined by bad people. So I gave him a chance, a chance to start over.”

Bal took an iron box with a magic formation drawn on it from his magic bag, opened it, and inside was a still-beating heart.

“This is?!”

Selena was startled by the heart. Bal closed the iron box and put it back into the magic bag.

“What was that just now?”

“Feodor’s heart.”

“You took his heart?”

“Yes. Yesterday, after we left, we didn’t go far, but stayed on the rooftop to observe. We knew he wouldn’t die, we just wanted to know what he was planning.”

“Then what?”

“We saw him crawling weakly, all the way to the bell, he grabbed the bell and started to repent.”

“Just like that?”

“Later we went back. I asked if he wanted to start over with a new identity, live again, and he agreed. So Fei’er pulled out the wooden stake and healed him. Of course, this had a condition, which is to let him and Fei’er work together to perform a spell, and give us his heart as collateral. As long as he has a hint of malice, we can kill him at any time.”

“He can still live without a heart?”

“I told you, that’s the result of his Blood Magic and Fei’er’s Soul Magic working together. As long as he is still in Guangyue Town, and as long as Fei’er is not dead, the heart will continue to beat through a magical connection to keep him alive.”

“Wow, that sounds cool.”

“Later Fei’er erased his memory and implanted a fake one. Now he is Feodor Frank, a vampire exiled by the Demon Race.”

“Okay.”

Selena picked up the report that Bal had handed over and put it into the file box.

“What about the Guild’s losses? This is a commission you were responsible for.”

“Uh…”

Bal looked embarrassed. He wasn’t short of money, but he felt it wasn’t appropriate.

“Can we change the punishment?”

Selena’s lips curled up.

“Humph, I’ve been waiting for you to say that! In view of your contribution to the Guild’s income, your fine is cancelled, but your punishment cannot be cancelled. After discussion among the Guild staff, everyone decided that you will work overtime for a week.”

As soon as these words came out, Bal felt as if he had been struck by lightning.

“No!! My vacation!”

“Alright, get to work honestly. These documents are for you.”

“Then what are you doing?”

“Taking a vacation, of course! A week-long vacation!”

Watching Selena, who picked up the wine cup Bal brought, hop out, Bal collapsed onto the sofa.

“Don’t do this kind of thing, it’ll kill you!”

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A week and two days later, Bal finally got to rest.

“I’ll leave the work to you, Guildmaster Buck~”

Selena came to the office and saw Bal sleeping on the Guild’s sofa, so she decided to wake him up.

“Holy crap!”

As soon as he heard about work, Bal reacted like he had PTSD, sitting up abruptly. Seeing Selena covering her mouth and stifling laughter, Bal broke down.

“Wow, I can’t take it anymore, I’m going home! I don’t care, I’m going home!”

“Okay, okay, I’m just here to take over, you go home. You’ve worked hard these past few days.”

Selena placed Bal’s breakfast on the sofa, and behind her was someone Bal hadn’t seen in nine days.

“Dumb Dog, I’m here to pick you up…Whoa! What are you doing!?”

As soon as he saw Phia, Bal rushed over and hugged her tightly.

“Wuwuwu, Wife, I miss you so much.”

Phia sighed and stroked Bal’s head soothingly.

“Be good, eat your breakfast quickly. We’ll go home later. Philia has the day off, and she misses you too.”

“Okay! I’ll finish it right away!”

Bal hugged Phia and sat on the sofa, grabbing a sandwich and stuffing it into his mouth. Phia made him a cup of milk tea and placed it on the table.

“Eat slowly, be careful not to choke.”

“Mmm!”

Bal took a sip of milk tea, and his spirits were lifted.

After finishing, he handed over the work to Selena and immediately rushed home, after all, there was a lovely Little Dragon Girl waiting for him at home.

“Philia, Daddy’s home!”

Bal shouted as soon as he opened the door. Philia was still having breakfast. As soon as she saw Bal, she immediately stuffed the fried egg in her hand into her mouth, swallowed it, and then ran towards Bal.

“Daddy!”

Bal immediately picked up Philia, and kissed her face repeatedly before putting her back at the dining table.

“Philia, eat first, then we’ll go fishing.”

“Okay! Go fishing with Daddy!”

After Philia finished eating, Bal’s family of three, along with two fairy birds and a large griffon cub, took their fishing gear and went out for a wonderful family activity.