Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 960

Chapter 960: Axe Lady

The operation had come together in the war room an hour before departure, and it had started with Nyx killing the obvious idea before anyone could pitch it.

"You’re not hiding them," she said. "I want that dead on the table first. There is no version of a disguise that survives contact."

She demonstrated with a mock-up anyway, because she’d already made it for fun: Calypso in a sun hat and enormous sunglasses, this being the only sun hat all day to survive contact with those horns, on account of being a drawing. The committee reviewed the image in silence.

"She is bright red with horns, bestie," Nyx said, presenting her own exhibit. "The hat makes it worse. The hat makes her look like a red woman in a disguise."

"I think I look mysterious," Calypso said.

"Motion denied," said Ms. Rook.

"Then we don’t hide," Kaiden said. "I’m not smuggling two monster queens through a service entrance like contraband."

"So the date is also bait," Nyx said, tapping through camera coverage of the east wing with visible professional joy. "A gorgeous, well-fed piece of bait that picked its own pond and stocked it with sharks first. I can work with this, Kai~"

She flicked the mock-up of the sun hat off her screen. "And besties, you will be the loudest thing in that building the second you walk in. Good. Loud is the plan. Subtle died in committee."

So they went the other way, and the other way was Eclipse’s own ground rules.

Kaiden was honest with the room about what the afternoon was for, and it was for two things at once: his monster girls got a real date in the open, and whoever had been circling this family got a clean look at the bait, with every chance to bite.

The venue got swept in advance, and plainclothes, less recognizable Eclipse members would rotate through the crowd on shifts.

The real firepower went invisible. Vespera announced without inflection that she had errands in the city today, unrelated errands, and nobody at the table believed her, and nobody was meant to. Scarlet volunteered the same fiction about the same mall.

The two most recognizable women in the country would spend the afternoon fully out of sight, and if anything worse than a pickpocket surfaced inside that building, the Shadow Monarch and the Flame Monarch would already be falling on it.

The last piece, Kaiden requested by name.

"Park," he said.

Yuna Park materialized at the war room door fast enough to raise questions about where she had been standing, back straight, dark eyes burning. She had watched every stream. She had waited her entire career for a sentence shaped like the one coming.

"I need you on close protection. I’m taking Calypso and Bastet to the mall this afternoon, and I want someone I trust watching over them the whole time." Kaiden held her stare, and there was warmth under it. "You’re the best shadow we’ve got, so I want it to be you."

Yuna Park inhaled, and it was audible.

"Nobody will touch them, guild leader," she vowed. "Nobody will touch anything. I will inspect everything they-"

"Normal amounts of inspection, Park."

"Understood," she said, understanding nothing, and was already gone.

The only real addition to the premise came from Aria, who had spent the morning picking walnut and had no intention of letting the afternoon happen without her fingerprints on it.

"One improvement," she said. "We own an entire guild of smiths. Runewoven could enchant every piece they bring back, and then I never have to hear the word durability again."

"Their forges are spoken for," Bastet said, and she sounded insufferably pleased about it. "Talia’s smiths are hammering wards into Master’s walls. I will not pull a single one of them off a defense rune to upholster me a chaise."

Aria’s mouth flattened at how pleased she sounded.

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