Under The Veil of Night

Bodyguard?

The minds of the people inside the room were overturned when they heard the ridiculous request given to them. It was not impossible, but why should he ask them to become a bodyguard?

Patrick pulled the phone closer to his mouth. "If you’re spouting nonsense again, I don’t mind setting harsher training to make sure you won’t do anything weird."

"Senior Pat, I’m serious."

"That’s what you called serious?"

"Father, may I talk?" Kanae raised her hand to stop Patrick from lashing out again. She looked at the phone. "What do you mean by making us the bodyguards of the representative?"

"I mean as it is," Matt replied. He was rubbing his forehead in exasperation. He didn’t intend on making Patrick angry, but he didn’t have any other choice. "I’m sure that you’re wondering why there’s no news about people breaking out of the city forcefully."

They thought that the three people would surely try to attempt getting out of the city. Unfortunately, there were no trace of them at all, not even among those who tried to get out of this city illegally. Things seemed extremely peaceful, too peaceful in fact.

"Do you have any idea, Matt?"

"Like I say, there are two representatives to visit your city. If they give bad evaluation, the entire city is going to disappear from the surface of this planet. Their coming this time has already been planned since months ago, but there was no certain date until recently.

I believe that Ferdinand might try to attempt something when they come. If he tried to give a bad impression of this city, this place would be destroyed, but he could stay alive because he knew some connection. So far, there was no trace of him, but if the bad evaluation truly comes, he had to run away from the city."

"You’re right," Patrick murmured. "You want to give us a chance to fight against Ferdinand again, so you only want the strongest ones?"

"This is just a precaution. If he truly aims to destroy this city and erase the evidence of what he did, it’s not impossible. How about it? Do you want to take on this request?"

Patrick didn’t immediately answer. He looked towards Kevin, who seemed to be in deep contemplation. The young man stayed silent for a good amount of time before speaking up.

"Matt, do you think this city is afraid of waging a war against the country’s government?"

The tone that Kevin used was extremely cold that Matt could feel that his room temperature dropped several degrees just because of the voice. Matt rubbed his forehead lightly.

"I think no, but I’m sure that you’re not going to wage a war that could possibly harm thousands of innocent men, Ryukalin Clan Head Kevin."

"It seems you know me quite well," Kevin said in an indifferent tone. "Tell us what we will get if we agree to guard them well."

"You’ll get the safety of the city as we have promised. The country will not meddle in your business in the city at all and allow you to grow as you wish. We only make a move to eliminate those cities that have been corrupted very badly and threaten the other cities."

"Can you make the promise for that?"

"Pardon?"

"Make a written statement that the country’s government will not meddle with the things in this city again if we agree to become their bodyguard."

Matt frowned when he heard Kevin’s words. "I can’t give you a guarantee that they won’t be making a move if they don’t return back unscathed, Ryukalin Clan Head Kevin. They’re important officials in the country’s government, so they have to stay alive."

"I want this statement," Kevin replied stubbornly.

Patrick shook his head. "They’re not going to agree with this kind of condition, brat. It’s not like you can give them something that they’ll see as valuable things and this city is not that important. To make this city grow requires more funds rather than making it collapse."

How many problems in this city and how poor the conditions of the city were extremely clear for them. They had lived here since a long time ago, so it was something they were familiar with. People unable to leave house without feeling guarded, the dangerous street at night, and the incompetent people governing this city were only a few examples.

To make this city into a city that could match against the other cities were simply nothing but a far-fetched dream. There was no guarantee that they would be able to reach that because of the condition in this city.

"I can’t guarantee their safety," Kevin replied. "If Ferdinand really wants them died, there would be more than 1000 ways. I can only agree to be their bodyguard."

Matt frowned. "Fine, I’ll not ask you to perfectly protect them."

It was essentially very hard to protect someone completely, especially in a city like this. The best that Kevin could promise was him being a bodyguard and made sure that they could come into this city.

"How do they conduct their test?" Neo asked a different question.

"It’s up to them how they want to examine this city, but usually, they’re going to see the statistics of the city and the current condition."

Statistic?

Recalling the statistics of dead people last month, the people inside the room became pessimistic. There were thousands of people dying last month because of the battle. If they added the monsters that would even add much more than that.

With this number, could they possibly say that this was a safe city?

Very doubtful.

"You can make sure that they’re going to give good evaluation, right Matt?" Patrick’s tone turned murderous. If this city was going to be destroyed, numerous people’s lives would disappear.

Matt truly wished that he could smack his senior’s head right now. His position was not that high to the point that he could affect the decision of the higher ups too much. The only thing that he could do was try to influence bit by bit.

"As long as you can make one of them agree that this city is safe, I’ll make sure that they won’t touch the city again. This much, I can promise," Matt replied after a moment.

"One of them?" Kanae arched her eyebrows. "Then you should make a call to Brother Jason. He’s quite a good representative for this city if you want to see the good things."

"I already did and he agreed to help if you all too."

"Write the written statement that as long as one representative gives good evaluation and we become the bodyguard, they won’t meddle with this city again. In addition, we want to be given the freedom to develop the city as we wish."

Matt rubbed his forehead as he thought about explaining this to his higher ups. Silently, he prayed that he would be able to stay alive. No matter which side, he has always been getting sandwiches with their ridiculous demands.

"Fine, I’ll send it to your email after I talk with my higher up. You’ll have to sign them, the three of you to be exact because it’s three bodyguards."

"Got it."