Reader Mage-Stubbing August 10! Chapter 189: 189-Quite The Character

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Greta’s favorite day of the week was Sunday. It was the calmest of the lot, characterized by silence and peace, and bearing the least possibility of an assasination occurring. After all, even assassins had families and would love a chance to spend their time with them. Basically, it was a day where her paranoia could take a back seat. Which was why she calmly sat outside in a park, with a smile on her face, dressed as loosely as possible, while breathing in the fresh air as several rays of the sun snuck onto her through the canopies of the trees surrounding the area. Then her moment of respite was broken by a sudden appearance. “Oh. You’re here,” she began. “Finally.” Kang Do-Won glanced at his wristwatch and frowned slightly. “Pardon me, but I’ll have to argue against your last choice of word. I’m five minutes earlier than intended.” Greta glanced at him and pushed down her sunglasses slightly. “Five minutes can quickly become a single minute under unnoted circumstances. Thirty minutes cannot. Which is why thirty minutes should be the benchmark for arriving at an appointed location. Hopefully you keep this at the back of your mind, maybe then your division would stop arriving late during Dungeon Breaks.” Do-Won’s brows twitched as a flash of annoyance crossed his face in the blink of an eye. Greta acted like she hadn’t noticed that and pushed her sunglasses back onto the bridge of her nose so her eyes were once again hidden. “Well, sit,” she said. “Or do you prefer to talk while standing?” Do-Won sighed and walked over. As he was about to sit down, however, Greta raised a finger and pointed to the far end of the bench. “There,” she said. “That’s your spot. Don’t get too close.” Do-Won paused, took a second to digest her words, and sat down where he had been instructed to. “Mr. Hyeonki told me that you were quite the character,” said Do-Won. “I assumed he was joking.” “Quite the character, huh?” Greta scoffed. “Well, then, did your guildmaster tell you anything about what this meeting is to involve?” “He did. Yes,” said Do-Won. “Great. Then let’s get down to business.” Great leaned back and spread her arms across the top rail. “Enlighten me on why the search you conducted on the club bore no fruit.” Do-Won inclined his head, visibly dazed by her question. “I have no idea what you want me to say to that—” “Please don’t stall,” said Greta with a bored tone layered with hints of a threat. “Tell me why you were unable to find anything incriminating in that club.” Do-Won frowned. He took a second, then sighed. “Because there was nothing to be found,” he said. “We searched the building from top to bottom and there was nothing illegal.” “You’re just repeating my words,” Greta argued. “All right then. Without missing a beat or eliminating a single scene, walk me through the entire process your team used in raiding the building. At the end, present to me the timeline and how many hours used, as well as the descriptions of every single staff you came across.” Do-Won’s brows pulled in very deeply. “What is the meaning of this?” he asked. “Am I under suspicion?” Greta clicked her tongue. “I wonder. Are you?” Do-Won’s eyes twitched, but he didn’t say anything more. He shifted uncomfortably on his seat, and after a few seconds of silence, he narrated the events of the day he had conducted the search on Club Spiral. How his team had surrounded the building and infiltrated it from all points; how they had scoured every room, every shelf, every bar, and scrutinized every alcohol present. And how at the end there had been nothing amiss for them to take into consideration. The place was just a normal club. “A normal club and yet Nikolai Volkov was last seen walking into it before he lost control and became a Berserker,” said Greta. “And it’s also the same place a professor walked into before he lost his life. I’d say it’s anything but a normal club. Don’t you think so?” “There could be other factors at play we aren’t considering,” he said. “Niko