Kaijin Fighter: So I Have to Make Monsters, So What? Chapter 120: Timing, timing, timing

[Milord? Did that maid seriously stand there for a full five minutes, just to wait until that song ended?]

[Yes, Nepherage. Yes she did.]

Zhen Liu and Draigo had basically run down the flight of stairs once they heard the music playing. Well, Draigo started running. Zhen Liu just ran to keep up. However, before they reached the bottom floor and rush through the connecting the door, they had to stop a couple steps above it.

Imdiately below them was the deadpan psychic maid, who was just standing there as still as a statue.

'At this point in pretty sure she is being mind controlled or sothing,' Zhen Liu observed.

Zhen Liu was tempted to just jump down there, knock her out, take the box and get the hell out of dodge, but he held himself and his kaijin back.

He didn't have much practice when it ca to stealth, and he didn't want to alert the Marquis about his and Draigo's presence.

'In retrospect, I should not have taken so long to intimidate this old bard,' Zhen Liu thought to himself when he side eyed Draigo.

Surprisingly, the aforentioned old bard didn't attempt to jump down there either. Whether Zhen Liu could contribute Draigo's caution to cowardice or foresight, he didn't know.

However, once the music had stopped playing and the maid had entered the adjacent room, Draigo was the first to move downward.

"Co on, let's go."

Like clockwork, Draigo and Zhen Liu moved into the space that the maid left behind, and pressed themselves against the door in order to listen in and see what was going on in the room next door.

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"Where is Corriandis?," the Marquis asked, a look of curiosity on his face. He wasn't upset that one of his staff mbers was absent, rely surprised.

"There were so...difficulties...,"Farisia began to explain, her voice indicating no emotion, "we had to...split up."

"Splitting up is normally no issue for you two, what happened this ti?"

"It happened...like this..."

Farisia proceeded to regale the Marquis with everything that had happened up to this point, leaving no details behind.

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Draigo and Zhen Liu were at just the right angle to see everything that was going on in the room, but the Marquis and his creepy maid wouldn't be able to see them. Zhen Liu could see from the corner of his eye how Draigo was eyeing the shamisen that the Marquis had laid to rest in

'Well this is going to take a while...good to know Zhen Hai and Matilda at least rescued soone before I did. But now I'm gonna have to fight the Marquis, great...'

Zhen Liu's brainmate suddenly piped up.

In his field of vision, two holographic cards appeared out of nowhere, each with a unique header and description.

Zhen Liu was about to dismiss the weird prompt, citing that there was no ti, until he heard how slow the deadpan maid was talking.

"After igniting...the tent...we..."

'Alright, we got ti. Lay it on .'

'Imdiately pass. What's option two?'