The Princess's Spectacular Abduction - Chapter 8
As Nina exclaimed in anticipation, Ravian was convinced that he must be the biggest asshole of them all.
A six-year-old brat he kidnapped with his own hands and got his own nose pierced by the very same brat. He was an utter fool among fools.
Kidnapping is not for just anyone
<Contract>
- Anubis and Nina Atreides pledge not to betray each other under any circumstances.
- The ransom will be precisely split in half.
- To ensure a successful transaction, Anubis will follow Nina Atreides’ instructions!
This crookedly written ‘contract’ with the content was met with a gasp, and they wondered how should the evil kidnappers react to suit the ideal and plausible kidnapper image prescribed by society?
‘What am I even looking at?’
The crowning glory of the contract was the signature line at the bottom.
It was the big stamp at the bottom of the signature line.
A seal, to be exact.
A seal that was stamped with ink on a seal ring that symbolized the Atreides imperial family.
There are three types of Imperial seal rings.
The seal on this contract belonged to the third.
“Is this for real?”
Keith, peering from the side, asked hesitantly.
Instead of answering, Ravian stiffly lowered the hand holding the contract.
He looked up to see Nina, sitting with both legs swinging, looking at them with twinkling eyes.
It seemed like she was expecting praise.
Ravian clenched his jaw and growled fiercely.
“Do you know that forgery of a seal is subject to a strict penalty without exception?”
“Well, you guys forge passports and ID cards all the time.”
“How can you… No, why is that even coming up here! How can a brat with not a drop of blood on their hands learn only the bad things…!”
It was a terrible thing for a criminal who had kidnapped his niece to say, but Ravian, as always, was not a man to take himself too seriously.
“Calm down, Boss. She’s a princess, so it could happen…”
“It could be this, it could be that! You f*cking bastard!”
“Watch your language in front of the baby!”
“Don’t you dare order me around!”
Nina watched the men snarl at each other for a moment, then sighed and spoke up.
“It’s not a forgery. I had it hidden under my skirt.”
“Ah tsk tsk…!”
Smoky, who was habitually lighting a cigarette, suddenly started jumping, but no one paid attention to that.
Ravian, grabbing Keith’s neck and throwing him aside, and crossed his arms once more calmly.
“So, what you’re saying is, you hid this ring seal… under your skirt?”
“Yeah.”
“Why? Did someone tell you that you’d be kidnapped by us?”
Ravian’s tone was playful, but there was an edge to it that anyone who knew him well would recognize.
The situation had gone beyond mere child’s play.
It wasn’t about whether the seal was real or fake.
The problem was that Nina had prepared it in the first place.
“What the hell,” he thought, “What kind of trick is Diana playing on me with her daughter?
If this was the Diana Ravian knew, it wasn’t impossible.
The problem was… If this suspicion were true, it meant that Anubis’s top secrets had leaked to the royal family and the Cherny Family by some means, indicating a state of emergency for the organization.
Yet, it seemed too sloppy and amateurish to be true.
‘She’s indeed a suspicious little one.’
But contrary to Ravian’s misconception, to Nina, the sealed contract was a perfectly reasonable and appropriate precaution.
With careful consideration, Nina came up with a contingency plan.
Just in case something went wrong— it was the last resort to protect Ravian and Anubis.
The reason she had secretly stashed the signet ring she saw in her dream was precisely for this purpose.
However, the atmosphere among the kidnappers, who seemed to be suspicious without really knowing, was quite unpleasant.
‘Well, if you just let it go, that’s a problem too.’
Then they’re just like the local idiots.
You can’t do anything with neighborhood idiots.
