New law of Beast Taming
Chapter 62: 62: A nightly intruder [pt1]

"Someone gets Sakura and Eclipse for me as soon as possible. And, no one is allowed to come to my side of the building until I specify that they are allowed to, alright? Hurry up and tell this to all the servants."

As soon as Amane arrived at her building, she ordered the servants to carry out this order.

She knew she would not be questioned because most of the servants in her quarters were loyal to her. She had made sure of that when she had hired them after all.

Amane had decided to leave Moony with the poison drake for the time being while she planned for tonight and the next few nights.

"My lady. Both people you want to meet have arrived."

It did not even take fifteen minutes for the servants to carry out their order and arrange this meeting.

And then they secured the perimeters.

"You called us here in quite a rush. It is as I thought. Did something happen in the meeting with the elders? Do I need to start preparing the media team to combat the rumors that are going to arise?"

Sakura's tone might have been joking, but her eyes were serious. She had already thought of a million ways to pin the blame on the elders for any type of situation.

"Do not worry Sakura. No one will die for now. But we will need to plan out something for the time being. We need to keep an eye on the poison drake for the next few nights before we hand it over to our client."

Amane's words both calmed Sakura down and worried her. She did not know what Amane meant exactly.

But it seemed like Eclipse had caught the meaning of her words.

"So, they threatened you with the drake's safety. It will be a big blow to your reputation if something happened to the drake under your leadership. I assume that the elders also handed all the authority over to you?"

Frankly, Amane was not surprised to see Eclipse grasping what happened. She had gotten him to take special political classes since he will need to deal with the elders soon.

Maybe she should get Sakura enrolled under the same tutor.

"Yeah, that is what happened. They did not come out and threaten me, but the intention was clear in their eyes. So, we will need to be careful for the next couple of nights."

Sakura's eyes shined as soon as she heard that.

"Hey, so I have a plan. You see, my father might have been a useless beat tamer but what he did have was ways to secure beasts. Some have been stored in the ancestral hall. Shall I go and take them out?"

Sakura's offer was tempting.

Oftentimes, the technique used to keep beasts in also helped in keeping unwanted visitors out.

And it would be an even bigger slap to the elder's face if the thing stopping them was an ancient Tsurugi technique.

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"Sakura, go and bring out everything related to this topic. It is time we go out and beat the council at their own game."

These people were underestimating Amane too much and it was time they learned that Amane was not a weak damsel in disaster they could bully.

She was the disaster that would engulf them all.

.......

It happened in the middle of the night. Amane was busy sleeping when the alarm on her system decided to go off.

Someone had entered the place where their beasts were being kept and they had tried to open a locked door.

As soon as the alarm sounded, Amane was out of her bed and into the hallway. She had not even bothered to change from the T-shirt and shorts she had been wearing to bed.

Soon, she reached the warehouse and threw open the door. But no one was visible when she first looked around.

'Weird! Did I make some kind of mistake?'

Amane could not help but wonder as she went inside the storehouse. But the deeper she walked inside, the more certain she was that she was not alone. There was a weird smell in the air.

"Oi, there is no use hiding yourself. I can smell your stench so you better show yourself now."

Amane warned the intruder. But as expected, the person she called out to did not come out. She was being ignored by the intruder.

"How insulting. Do you seriously think that I will not be able to replace you if you hid yourself? How foolish you are."

Amane insulted the intruder before she condensed her energy and threw it toward the hidden assassin.

She made sure to miss the assassin by a few inches because this was a warning shot.

"I missed this time on purpose but I will not miss next time. You better show yourself now."

Amane warned but there was no answer again. The assassin seemed to have a plan regarding her.

Not that Amane cared much about it. She was ready to attack the assassin again when the weird smell she had been smelling all this time intensified. It took over the warehouse but Amane did not think much of it at first.

She saw a flash of black and wanted to chase after it. But a loud cry stopped her from chasing after that shadow.

Amane looked up sharply only to see her griffin crying out in pain. The weird smoke seemed to be influencing the griffin and now the winged beast was crying out.

It was also lashing out at anything and everything surrounding it. The situation was getting from bad to worse now.

'Eclipse, where are you? I trained you for this situation but when it came down to help me, you did not even make it in time.'

The Griffin was in too much pain so Amane needed to prioritize it.

Another cry sounded out from the other side of the warehouse but it soon quietened down. It seemed like Eclipse had decided to go toward that other side.

Amane had to stay with the Griffin until it calmed down. But she was sure that the intruder would have escaped far away by now. There was no point in chasing after it now.

"Yoko, are you alright? We heard the alarm but then the beasts started freaking out for no reason. Eclipse said that it was because of a weird smell."

Sakura was the first one to replace Amane. Sakura looked worried but Amane could tell that Sakura was clueless about what happened.

In the end, it did not seem like the intruder had been caught by them.

"It is nothing. You do not need to worry about the beasts. There was an intruder who decided to throw a smoke bomb which startled the beasts. But I think I lost the intruder because of this."

Sakura looked especially worried after Amane was done speaking. Knowing that there was an intruder inside their estate was a big deal.

"Wait, I will call the enforcers and they would catch the intruder-"

Sakura was about to make that call when Amane stopped her. She did not want news of this intruder going out of this warehouse.

"Do not make this call for now. We cannot let the outside world know we have an intruder in our midst. And we especially cannot let this news leak out to the council for now. We need to keep our heads down."

Amane's words were not what Sakura expected to hear. But she did understand where Amane was coming from.

The council would use this opportunity to point out flaws in Amane and it would also cause them to struggle for authority.

And since Sakura's fate was like with Amane for now, she will need to back down. But maybe she should start looking for sponsors in the council as well.

She was sure that Amane would not fall but Sakura should look out for herself just in case.

"Are you thinking weird thoughts, pet? Just know this, if you tried to betray me, then your end would not be pretty. So, think over your actions carefully and decide."

Sakura gulped her nervousness down.

Suddenly, the council was not looking as flattering as before. It would be better for Sakura not to think useless thoughts.

Of course, the council was not foolish and it managed to replace out what happened last night. They were surprised because they had not been the ones to make this move.

But it was not an opportunity they were going to miss. They quickly called a meeting to decide what to do next. And everyone agreed that Yoko Tsurugi needed to be taken care of.

The next night, they could carry out their plan. It could cause Yoko Tsurugi to feel complex emotions and she would become easier to break.

And it would be then that the council would sink their claws into the younger and control her as they desired. Yoko would be unable to resist them and their demands.