While I was walking, Melonia scanned her environment and I stopped in my tracks, baring my gritted teeth and my broadened eyes. Oh, man. She's being cautious about her surroundings. I better hurry up and hide before she catches me. I really can't afford to be caught.

So I searched sideways and spotted a wall behind her. I turned to Melonia one more time before I hid behind the wall. Once Melonia turned around, she took a look around out of search for anyone following her.

Moving my eyes sideways, I curiously wanted to peek from the corridor, yet I didn't out of fear of getting caught. I instead waited for a while and Melonia turned around and continued on to her destination.

I swallowed my spit and I was brave enough to finally peek from the corridor and saw her continue to walk forward. Phew! That was a close one. I backed away from the wall and constantly followed after Melonia. Time to get goin'.

So while I followed her, I noticed she'd been going to different stores which made me sigh out of impatience, hiding from her whenever she checked her surroundings. I wondered why she would go to different stores.

As I recalled Melonia's necklace, I questioned myself what she would use her necklace for if she was hiding it: would it be used as some kind of royalty? Was it used for the organization? If it was used for the organization, what would she use it for?

After a little while, somebody called my name three times but I ignored that person to continue on following her. I felt somebody's hand touching and grabbing on my shoulder. "Mike, there you are. I was looking all over for you," a familiar voice said.

"Huh?!" I quickly turned around and saw Gideon panting with his hand on my shoulder. "Oh, Gideon. It's you."

I turned to Melonia and widened my eyes when I could no longer find her insight. I couldn't believe she was gone and it made me wonder where she could have possibly gone.

"Why would you go the other way? Shouldn't we go to thank the man for the pouch earlier?" Gideon questioned.

"Yes, but…I was going to see the woman that I rescued from yesterday. Now I couldn't find her."

Gideon looked for her with me before turning back to me. "Oh, I see. I'm sure we'll find her too once we thank the man for it."

I turned back to Gideon and nodded. "Right. Let's go."

Once Gideon and I left the area, Melonia peeked from the corridor and sighed out of relief the moment we left. "Ah, that was a close one," She whispered to herself as she turned to her destination and us back and forth. "I can't have people like that find out about my plans for tonight."

As soon as she stood up, she looked up at the castle, she gave it her determined, serious look on her face, nodding at it. She then returned to her destination and kept walking.

Gideon and I continued to run and look for a specific person, until we finally spotted a person walking through the crowd as well. I smiled at that person for a moment.

Looks like we found the one that we're looking for. I mean, Gideon did describe that person as 'somebody in the black cloak.'

Gideon pointed at that person and turned to me and that person back and forth. "Over there!"

I turned to Gideon and smiled, "Great! Let's get to that person already!"

Once we got to that person, Gideon shouted, "Hey, wait!"

Grabbing onto that person's cloak, that person stopped moving and turned around to see me and Gideon pant. The silver beard was only visible upon the sunlight, everything else was hidden, even the majority of the face. "Huh?"

Gideon and I stood up straight and looked him in the eye. "We would like to thank you for the money, sir. We truly appreciate that," I said.

"Ah, yes, we're humbly honored for that, sir," Gideon said.

The man smiled. "Oh, it was nothing." He noticed my stomach growling again. "Why don't you two get yourselves something to eat, before you starve to death."

"Oh, don't worry. We will!" I said as Gideon and I waved at the man. The man waved back at us.

After we left him to get something to eat, the man turned around and smirked while he snapped his fingers below him without anyone spotting it. The black dust swirled around his hand for a moment and then disappeared, continuously walking through the crowd.

"Oh, those fools don't know what hit them," the man whispered to himself, chuckling a bit.