The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress

Chapter 241: Obey the bank’s will.

"It is a bad idea." Cosmos said.

Sigrid turned around and her eyes met his. She put on a pretentious smile and shrugged, "I have no idea what you mean."

"I am not going to play games with you Sigrid, you forget that I can tell what you are thinking all the time. I simply choose to give you privacy and stay out of your mind but that does not mean I am ignorant of what you are plotting."

Sigrid twisted her mouth around, feigning ignorance. She smacked her lips, making sharp sounds, playing the fool.

"Bad idea." Cosmos repeated.

"I wasn’t going to steal the sword." She said, a little too loudly and nothing about her response was believable to Cosmos’s ears.

"Says every thief that is caught with their hand in the cookie jar." Cosmos scoffed. "The sword is the property of the bank."

Sigrid waved a finger, objecting his opinion. "I beg to differ, the halo is the property of the bank but the sword, it is part of the story." She turned back to the sword, eyeing it vigor. "This is the sword that Emmah used to conquer Medoris. By right, it should belong to me."

"What right?" Cosmos asked.

She flung her hands in the air, in frustration. "I don’t know, the right of the villain. I am the bad guy, isn’t this what I am supposed to do? Who would you rather have the sword, me or Emmah or crazy Romilda over here that just tried to stab me for the shards by the way."

you whispered to her to prove that you have the upper

Sigrid kicked Romilda’s foot. "But she will wake up slightly off. Catatonic, if I should say. As far as everyone will be concerned, she went into shock when she saw the condition of the king and it will stay this way for the rest of her life. I

the sword. "Now hand it over."

her arms across her chest. A thought crossed her mind....a thought that birthed a question. Why couldn’t Cosmos pick up the shards

do it." She jutted her

and arms as well. His face was grim, he did not

and she took a step back gushing over the unexpected discovery. She rubbed her palms together, nodding slowly with a sly smile on her face. She had stumbled over something, she just didn’t know what it was or what the rules were but she intended

his arms across his chest and raised his eyebrows. "You don’t learn, do you? Whatever deal you are thinking of negotiating, forget it. The bank is not a place you negotiate with, they give you orders and you fulfill them or you are jerked back into a black hole that leads to death."

is negotiable as long as you

just get someone else to hand over the shards you know."

out, gesturing that he

had just started saying something when she blacked out and two seconds later, she found herself in the bank of fate, in the presence of the banking official with the frightening eyes. Cosmos had also tagged along and he had a constipated look on his face. He did not look to pleased to be pulled into the

her." The female

Cosmos answered. "They like to

Sigrid pitched in. "And nobody

the sword." The official

yourself." She answered

that pushed her back down. The power entered her body, breaking her bones