You wanted to no more part in this political gambit! However, fate has other plan!

By the time you woke up, the rainstorm has passed. However, you found that Elijah is still lying on the floor and still sleeping. However, you paid no attention to him at the moment and just get up and go downstairs to eat some breakfasts in the kitchen.

As soon as you arrived at the dining table, you found that breakfasts have already been served as a buffet, which consisted of a lot of dishes related to oatmeal such as granola with yogurt and fruits such as berries, porridge and oatcakes, and dishes made from eggs such as scrambled eggs and boiled eggs.

"I guessed oatmeal, fruits and eggs are the major staples for the sedentary elite populations of this post-apocalyptic world. However, this is rather an exception against the general background of most inhabitants of the wastelands..." - You think as you looked at the dining table that has a buffet consisted of scrambled eggs, boiled eggs, granola with yogurt and berries, porridge and oatcakes.

Once you take a few pieces of the oatcakes for yourself and begin to eat, Brittany arrived at the table in her pajamas, which is just a simple sleeveless white shirt and short light blue pants, with her giant chameleon-like anole, scoop some of the scrambled eggs for herself, sit down right beside you and begin to eat from her dish with a fork and a spoon and begin to chat with you as her pet watched her eat with curiosity.

It was awkward. Really awkward! After all, Brittany is sitting beside you and eating and chatting with you as her lively usual self! And yet, you went behind her back and had a baby-making session with Princess Sapphire last night just after she confronted you about it! And now, you also learned that Richard Marley, the butler of the Williams family, has been working for the Hellhounds the whole time and if that was not enough, you also learned about the political gambit that is involved the Orange Kingdom, the Axeman-City and Port Williams from Princess Sapphire herself!

"... hey! Are you even listening?!" Brittany said as she's holding a spoon full of scrambled eggs.

"Huh? What?!" You said as you snapped back to reality.

"I asked that would you like to go out in town with me today, duh!" Brittany said in the obvious tone.

"With who?" You asked her back.

"Just the two of us, of course! Well, not exactly just the two of us because one of my family's coachman will be there to give us a ride and it is also highly possible to run into my friends such as Miyuki as well. But basically, yeah! Just the two of us!" Brittany said as she's beginning to blush a little before she takes another bite of her food.

"Is she... is she asking me out on a date?!" - You think as you are wondering what did she just said to you.

You needed more time to think about this. So you focused on eating your breakfast and observing the other people who are eating at the dining table as well. And that is when you realized something! The butler is nowhere to be found!

"Should I... should I tell them about their butler's betrayal?" - You think to yourself as you are eating your breakfast.

Soon, you finished your breakfast and by the time you did, you reached the conclusion of the question she just asked.

"If you really wanted to go out with me, then yes. I will go out with you." You said with a smile to cheer her up. And as soon as you said that, stars appeared in her eyes and she immediately finished her breakfast as soon as possible and run upstairs back to her room, passing the recently woke up Elijah, to pick the best outfit for this occasion before you even managed to take your first step on the stairs.

"What made that girl ran back to her room so fast?!" Elijah said as soon as he appeared at the edge of stairs from the upper floor.

"She asked me out and I said yes." You said as you are blushing a little while also rubbing the back of your head.

"What?!" Elijah asked and he immediately walked down here to confront you about it.

"What about our plan?! Need I remind you that the longer we stayed here, the deeper we shall possibly be entangled in their political gambit as their pawns?!" Elijah asked rhetorically as he's glaring at you with his only one functional eye.

"I know that! But-" You said but Elijah stopped you from saying anymore.

"You have feelings for her, aren't you?" Elijah as he raised the only eyebrow he has left. However, you remained silent because deep down, such a topic spiraled your mind into a complete turmoil!

"Do I like Brittany for real? I really do not know! Sure, it is not morally or legally wrong! She is 19 and I'm 42. But still, the age gap between us is large! But... ugh! This is so complicating!" - You think as you're feeling a little not emotionally good at the moment.

"Sorry for keeping you waiting!" Brittany said from upstairs and when you and Elijah turned to look at her, both you and the ghoul are quite stunned at her beauty!

Now, Brittany Williams is wearing the normal blue shirt with buttons that can make how much obvious how big her breasts are, long blue dress and a white mushroom brim hat with a blue feather on it! And she looked really good in it!

"You haven't changed your outfit yet?" Brittany asked as she's descending downstairs.

"Oh! Um! I was talking with Elijah to the point that I forgot it! So give me sometime, please!" You said and quickly run upstairs to get changed.

Sometime later, you come back in the new outfit that is a white shirt, black pants, leather brown coat and a flat cap and seeing that Brittany is still waiting for you while Elijah is sitting in one of the chairs at the dining table and eating a bowl of granola with yogurt and berries.

Then, Brittany asked one of her family's coachmen to give them a ride into the town, which he complied by bringing one of the carriage driven by two emu-like chickens before them and then give you and Brittany a ride to the town near the port.

Not long after your and your date left the manor, you and the third daughter of the Williams family soon arrived at the port and its marketplace. Once the carriage is parked by the sidewalk, you get down first and help Brittany down like a gentleman.

"Since I'm new here. How about you lead me?" You asked Brittany politely as you are looking at her.

"Oh! Of course! Follow me! I can show you a lot of good stuffs here at Port Williams!" Brittany said as she's taking your right hand and take you with her to the place she chooses to go to.

As you looked around you, you see many people go around on their daily businesses. The sellers at their stalls and the merchants at their shops are doing their best to entice customers to come and buy from them, the blacksmiths are forging the crafts ordered by their customers in their shops, the members of the Security Corps are patrolling the streets either by on their own feet or by riding on the backs of the emu-like chickens as if they are riding actual horses, some children are playing around while other children are doing jobs such as selling food or selling all sorts of junk (for example: scrap metal collected from nearby ruins) and you even see a barber given someone a haircut in his shop.

At the port, you see that the goods from Port Williams are being loaded into the armed trading vessels for the voyages to the Axeman City and other settlements that located on the riverbanks of the three rivers. But then, you see him. Richard Marley, the butler of the Williams family, get down from the back of his emu-like chicken and walk to one of the warehouses near the port, unlock its door with one of the keys and go inside. Knowing of his connection to the Hellhounds gang due to you were eavesdropping on last night, you let go of Brittany's hand and follow him.

Of course, Brittany noticed this and follow you in worry.

"Anton! What's wrong?" Brittany asked you with concern on her face, fearing that she might upset you or did something bad.

"I saw your butler entered that warehouse. Is he supposed to be there?" You asked Brittany as you turned to look at her.

"Not without my father's permission since he is the only who has the authority to issue the keys to the merchants who wanted to use his properties." Brittany replied back to you.

"And have you been seeing how did he view you ever since you returned?" You asked her back.

"Nope! I don't see anything wrong or suspicious about him at all." Brittany said since she really have no idea about this.

"I saw how he looked at you. It was of clear disdain like he had something against you." You said and that make Brittany's eyes go wide in shock at such an accusation against her family's butler.

"What?! That cannot be! He was the one who helped me getting out and even covered up for me when I was gone!" Brittany said in an attempt to defend her family's butler but that ended up confirming your suspicion toward him instead!

"Was he... intentionally delivered Brittany to those bastards?!" - You think as you reached the terrifying conclusion that the reason Brittany ultimately ended up getting **** is because of her family's butler intentionally delivered her to them!

Suddenly, the sounds of a gong being hit multiple times caught the attentions of you and definitely-not-your-date. So when you and Brittany go out to look what is going on at the streets, you and her found that a man on the top of one of the watchtowers is hitting a gong as some of the officers of the Security Corps are beginning to ask people to return to their homes immediately while most of them are heading for the nearest ramparts.

Then, three fireballs suddenly launched from outside of the walls and into the town, creating ashed craters but so far, no ones have been killed yet! However, this also caused mass panic among the civilians and the officers of the Security Corps soon lost the ability to perform crowd control!

"Mister Williams!" The leader of the Hellhounds gang said loudly from outside the walls of Port Williams by using the primitive speaking trumpet, which allowed the whole settlement to hear him.

"We know you are in there! And we have a proposal for you! If you do not handed Princess Sapphire of the Orange Kingdom for us to... talk with, our band and the bands that allied with us for this venture will have Port Williams razed to the ground, have everyone in there enslaved and looted all things valuable! But you do not needed to rush. Of course, we will give you time to decide. You have one day to decide on this. And if you refused, you can expected the full-scale **** from us tomorrow! Also, let see if your new allies from the Orange Kingdom can come and save you and your folks in time or not! If they can bypass the blockade formed by a gang of pirates, of course!" The leader of the Hellhounds gang said before putting the primitive speaking trumpet away.

After that, the members of the Hellhounds and the gangs of anarchists they allied with for this venture settle down outside of Port Williams and make camps. They are settling for the siege, intending to starve the people of Port Williams out. And as they are making camps, a fleet of pirate vessels also approached the town and form a blockade, preventing Port Williams' flotilla and the other visited vessels from leaving.

"Never thought I will see the day that these anarchists worked together again. After all, they rarely get along and disputes about spoils of wars always occurred in the end." Elijah said as he's approaching you and Brittany by riding on a back of an emu-like chicken, which he definitely taken from the stable of the Williams Manor.

"But how did the Hellhounds do this?! They have so plenty of enemies out there and many of them are just a bunch of gangs just like them!" Brittany said as she's having no clues how can they even worked together in the first place.