Chapter 667 Punishment

Because of Jackson Shield's incident, my intention to teach them both a lesson was diverted.

After leaving the room and sitting on the sofa, Cagalli covered her mouth and chuckled, and asked me how the battle was going. I said helplessly, "It's okay. It's just two curtain rods that were broken. There's not much damage to the rest."

"Oh~curtain rod~" Cagalli seemed to be saying to herself: "That was something chosen by Sister Florence herself~"

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Florence glance at the two of us after hearing this, and then turn back to continue talking to the others.

I nodded slightly and said, "You must be punished if you break something, let alone if it belongs to your sister-in-law."

I glanced at Florence. Her droopy dog ​​ears were trembling slightly. She was probably listening to my final judgment on Billy and Jackson.

I cleared my throat and said, "Let's deduct the fine of five curtain rods from Billy and Jackson's weekly salary, give the fine to my sister-in-law as hard work fee, and then ask my sister-in-law to help buy two new curtain rods."

"Yeah." Cagalli nodded and said with satisfaction, "I think it will work."

"This, how can this be done?" Florence finally couldn't bear it anymore, faced the two of us, and said.

I waved my hand and said: "It is only natural to pay back debts. Because they damaged something specially selected by my sister-in-law because of their mischief, they have to compensate. The five curtain rods deducted this time are already considered light. Look. Do they dare to make nonsense again in the future? Hey, you two heard it!"

I raised my voice and said to Billy and Jackson who were peeking over.

The two of them were like eggplants beaten by frost. They wilted and said, "Yes."

"Isn't this good, Xiaoyi?" Florence hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Although I chose the curtain rods, it was the guild's money that was spent. Besides, it is only right that I contribute to the guild. I never thought about labor fees or anything like that.”

"Ah, I have made up my mind." I refused to listen to Florence's advice and still insisted on my own opinion.

"Cagalli, please give Xiaoyi some advice." Florence turned to Cagalli and said, "Everyone earns money on the line between life and death. It's not easy. You can't deduct it just because of such a trivial matter." That’s a lot of salary.”

Cagalli looked at me, then at Florence, with a perplexed look on her face, and while using her eyes to signal her to seek help from Phoenix and the others, she scratched the palm of my hand with her little finger.

I understood immediately that she was supporting my approach.

Soon, the Phoenix girls were also mobilized by Florence, and together with Cagalli, they made a request to me.

I pretended to cough twice, and pretended to be embarrassed for a while. Finally, I sighed and said, "Well, let's avoid the deduction of money."

I heard the low cheers from Billy and Jackson in the room.

"Nothing." I deliberately lengthened my tone, and the room suddenly became quiet again. I raised my index finger at the two people who were peeking at me.

Billy and Jackson walked out with their heads lowered, as if they admitted their mistake.

I said: "Although the money will not be deducted, after all, it is the curtain rod that my sister-in-law carefully selected. Please apologize."

Billy and Jackson apologized honestly, and Florence said generously: It's nothing, don't take it too seriously.

After returning to the room and closing the door, Cagalli praised: "You performed the play really well."

I shrugged: "Actually, it's not acting. I really wanted to punish them both. For a little reason, I made the room a mess and made a lot of scratches and cracks on the table on the wall. "

"Look at you, brother, it's not a big deal. I'm going to make you angry." Yura sat on the bed, moved his eyebrows and said, "The thing is broken, why don't you just replace it."

"What I'm angry about is not the breaking of things, but the impact," I said, "Lily, Lizzy and Remy are both children. What if they learn these bad habits from themselves in the future?"

Remi, who was sitting on my shoulder, grabbed my hair hard and said to me in a very unhappy tone: "Remi is not a child, Remi is already very big!"

Barbara, who was leaning on the armrest of the sofa, curled her lips and said, "Xiao Yi, you are just too serious. If only you were so serious about your promise to me and my aunt."

"Eh?" I said innocently, "Has there ever been a time when I didn't take your promises seriously?"

Barbara snorted softly and said, "What do you think?"

"Uh, no?" I asked tentatively.

"Hmph." Barbara looked arrogant and said angrily, "How come there isn't? You just forgot."

"Have you forgotten?" My eyelids were twitching wildly, but I couldn't remember which promise I had not kept.

Phoenix then leaned close to my ear and whispered: "Don't go into too dangerous places, it will make us worry."

"Yeah!" I suddenly realized: It turned out to be this.

But I looked at Phoenix with doubtful eyes. How did she know about the promise I made to Barbara and the landlady?

Phoenix smiled: "The washboard told me."

Barbara suddenly burst out in anger: "Girl with huge breasts, you called me a washboard again. Let me squeeze your breasts!"

With that said, she jumped up and rushed towards Phoenix.

The Phoenix slithered into my arms, but Barbara just threw herself on me. She was not discouraged and continued to attack the Phoenix on the other side of me. The Phoenix did not show any weakness and used my body as a cover. While pinching Barbara's face, she pulled and pulled.

Soon, Barbara's face was torn into a diamond shape, and Phoenix's face was also torn into a tapered shape with sharp edges on both sides.

The look between them made Remi, who was floating above us, giggle.

After we talked hard, Phoenix and Barbara finally gave up. One of them leaned on my left side, the other on my right side, and neither of them paid attention to the other.

Seeing this scene, I was really speechless and ashamed.

I thought the two of them would be at odds like this for a long time, but unexpectedly, they quickly resolved their differences because of the card game called by Cagalli.

However, this burying of the hatchet didn't last long, as Phoenix and Barbara quarreled again over the issue of playing cards.

Ignoring their noise, I lay alone on the sofa, recalling the murals I had seen on the demonized bat level.

People sitting on stone chairs being worshiped; human warriors as brave as swarms of ants; huge and incomparable humanoid monsters; murderous soldiers; people being worshiped who died at the hands of monsters; people whose whole body is emitting light. Stickman; seven unique stickman warriors.

These are the murals I saw in that space, but I have a feeling that the murals are not limited to these, there should be more that I haven’t seen. Maybe it's at other dungeon levels in Airei City, or maybe it's in dungeons in other towns.

These murals do not seem to exist simply as works of art. I think there must be some connection between them and they must be telling some unknown story.