The Martial Unity

"First, if the Hier family has branches in this town of Hajin as well as outskirt towns, why bother going to those towns instead of your Hajin branch?" He asked, unable to make sense of her decision.

"I was in my personal penthouse when I received the news, I had immediately fled the estate with as much of my immediate personal savings as I could." Bella explained. "I heard that roughly ten-fifteen minutes later the estate was that gangs of men had arrived at my personal home. There is no way they would not account for me going to the Hier Industries branches. Furthermore, with an ownership of decent number of shares of the company, they have some degree of authority and influence on its executive operations. Because of this, it would be easy for them to trap and capture me if I attempted to visit the Hajin branch."

Rui nodded, this made sense.

"Is that why you were only able to commission a single Martial Apprentice?"

Bella nodded. "I never had access to the immense amounts of wealth of Hier Industries, I'm only seventeen-years-old after all. My father was always strict because he believed that spoiling me with great personal wealth would prevent me from becoming a worthy successor. The wealth I used to commission a bodyguard from the Martial Union was all wealth of my earning." Bella sighed. "If I had much more time, I would have been able to reach the branch and consolidate my position while hiring multiple high-grade Martial Apprentices. But alas, it was mostly too late."

Rui understood why she appeared to be such a pauper despite being the daughter of a bigshot, the information provided by the mission bill as well as what Bella had told him had finally given him a fully understanding of the situation. "Alright, what branch are you aiming to head for?"

"The Laxus town branch." Bella replied. "It's a town where the Lowminer Industries haven't expanded to yet, mainly because the market doesn't conform to their established areas. Their power and influence should be considerably hampered. Using gangs haphazardly will not be taken well by the local mafia of Laxus."

is limited to within a thirty kilometers radius. I can't exceed that, meaning I can only protect you a part

but extremely low timeframe, or a mission with a high timeframe and low radius. Eventually I decided that three days and thirty kilometers was a good balance. Thirty kilometers

planning to take in order to escape Hajin?" Ordinarily, the bodyguard was supposed to make decisions regarding the safety of the client of protection. But in this case Rui digressed and left the decision in her

And hot.

sighing inwardly. ('These dumb

over the rest of their life span resulting in an exaggeratedly high libido. Thankfully, Rui's mind, by virtue of going through a second round of

a map. "I was considering routes that included

make more sense to stick to the least populated districts of Hajin

even halfway decent. Finding us in high population-density urban districts will be a nightmare. However, if our identities

the background masses, as long as we don't have to verify our identities

Bella nodded. "Exactly."

Hajin and reaching Laxus?" Rui asked. "There's no way you're going to make

of my father and mine, to smuggle me outside Hajin and