[XEROLINE] ZERO DIMENSION Part 1
Chapter 11's

The troops from the Great Kingdom had arrived at Daisin City. They would rest for a while after traveling far from the border region between the two kingdoms. And also they were freed to do anything in the city by the Holy Queen.

Rosalia Ethelwish doesn't want the whole army to be unhappy. Although they won in this war for a while, but the death of their comrades that can not be forgotten. So in order to dispel the sadness, he decided to give orders that the troops be relieved of duty, including himself.

Now Rosalia Ethelwish and her friends are on their way to the mansion which is the residence of the Eduar Dawer Family. They want to make tax payments to the family that are often delayed.

The tax paid is a wealth tax owned by everyone who earns more than 1 gold coin every month. And Eduar Dawer's family income already exceeds the tax payment requirement. So they are obliged to pay or some of their property will be owned by the kingdom.

“Ah... I told you to leave it to the tax collectors. I don't want to deal with that bunch of rats.”

“I know that you don't want to come here, Recca. But I need your protection from behind. You should know that the Eduar family has a very large and powerful mercenary.”

“But...”.

“Come... Young Madam, I know how much you hate nobles, but this is also for the sake of the economy of our kingdom and the people of the kingdom as well.”

“Good. But why is that fool standing guard behind us?”

“Bofour is their business friend, but an enemy in a blanket. So if they see Bofour, then they won't show their real face.”

“But if you are the Holy Queen, where perhaps they will show their ugly face.”

“True, exactly. But I have come not as Holy Queen but a slave of you both.”

The two of them who heard these words were immediately shocked. Rosca Celestial immediately held Rosalia Ethelwish's head, and told her whether Rosalia Ethelwish was okay or not.

“What did you say? Is your brain not working? You're crazy!”

“I'm not crazy.”

“Then why does His Majesty speak like that in a relaxed manner?”

“See this!”

Rosalia Ethelwish shows them a slave contract document. They both wondered what he was doing.

“This document is the original document and also the name it uses is the name of my previous life.”

“Indeed, this document is original. But why did His Majesty go that far?”

“Iya, and also your appearance is still like..”.

Rosalia Ethelwish changed the appearance of a slave woman who looked bad in terms of her appearance and also the clothes used were also torn or dirty and perforated. Seeing the appearance of his friend, Recca Celestial cried.

“I didn't know you would do so far just to unpack their face.”

“Tenace.... This is only for a while.”

“Yang Mulia..”.

“Don't call me Your Majesty later. Call me a garbage slave how?”

“Understand, but my heart says no.”

“That's what I want from a real man.”

His face immediately blushed with the speech from Rosalia Ethelwish.

“Hai. Conscious fool!”

“Sorry...”.

They continued walking to the Eduar Dawes family residence. And when they reached the gate of the house, four guards came to them and wanted to know the reason they had come to the Eduar Dawes house.

“Goodday, Mrs Recca and Mr Helix.”

“Happy Day too.”

“What can we help you with?”

“We just want to see Mr. Eduar Dawes for something important to him.”

“Is it related to taxes?”

“Why do you guys know about it? You guys should only work as their guards, right.”

“To be right, Lady Recca. Previously many lackeys from the kingdom also came to ask this family to pay taxes, but everything came out empty-handed.”

“So the people from the palace definitely get a hard threat.”

The guards saw a slave being carried by the two of them. They asked what it meant to bring the boy.

“Then whose slave is this? Isn't the palace very strictly prohibits breeding even though there are still many that are domesticated.”

“This is something we want to try. So...”

“Oh, yes. Forgive us. We will immediately inform Mr. Eduar and also we invite you to enter into.”

The Guards let them into the residence, and no one knew that the slave was the Holy Queen. And one of the guards went into the mansion to call his superior.

“seems like they didn't know that you were you.”

“Show this form better.”

“Slave, what's the next plan? Is it sold or stay together?”

“I really like that attitude of yours. She was tempted by the appearance of a beautiful slave and also most of the servants around here are women with black marks coiled around the neck which means they are..”.

“Slave! But how do you know? You are always in the room.”

“That's thanks to him. If he doesn't give us information like this. I wouldn't look like this.”

“Oh.... So because of him. Rosa, if she comes again, tell her teacher she wants to add to the information.”

“Good. But now he's in the capital.”

They entered the room and saw that the head of the Dawer family, Eduas Dawer, was waiting for them by showing the expression of a dignified noble. But they know who Eduas Dawer really is.

“Welcome to my residence, Ladies and Masters of Heroes.”

“For a long time, we did not visit this residence. We only came for one thing.”

“Can you open the contents of the box? I want you to really pay for it.”

Eduas Dawer told his men to open the box coffin to show them the gold coins for tax payment.

“How is this enough, right?”

“True, this is enough. But Her Majesty the Holy Queen said that there was a fine for tax delay. So we'll count the numbers. If this only covers the late penalty, then we will have to confiscate some of your property until you can pay the tax.”

“I just heard that there is a fine.”

“This was a new rule a month ago. You should not have expelled our emissaries at that time. It's possible, he brought a message for you.”

“Pardon my behavior for earlier.”

Recca Celestial whispers to Rosalia Ethelwish to count the number of coins in the box. And to make sure that Rosalia Ethelwish is a lackey or a slave.

“This please count, garbage.”

“Ready, Young Madam.”

Eduas Dawer was curious about someone who was counting his coins. Therefore, he asked who that person was.

“I didn't know you had a slave. Isn't the kingdom strictly forbidding this?”

“I should like to ask you otherwise. Why did the servants' clothes use such a wide collar? Isn't that covering their neck?”

“It is the design of the clothes we made.”

“Or cover slave bracelet on their neck.”

“How do you know, Mrs Recca? There must have been someone dismantling it.”

“Nothing. We both saw a careless waitress showing her neck.”

“How about this? If I pay you three times the amount of tax, can you cover it?”

“I don't know what you're saying, but I'm not as greedy as you guys, the nobles.”

Eduas Dawer was visibly upset to hear these words, as he hid slavery in his residence. And if the kingdom finds out, then he will be put in prison and all his property will be confiscated.

“Money is Young, it looks like this is still not enough to cover the late fine.”

“Oh..”

“Cannot be. So how much should I pay to cover the fine?”

“Number is not so much. The fine will be calculated from 30 percent of the tax to be paid.”

“Wait, that's not reasonable. We nobles who have territory only get to take taxes from the people only 15 percent. This is a requirement, loh.”.

“Try your answer, Helix. Than you just shut up from earlier.”

The Recca Celestial could not answer the question, as it was not his forte and also at the time the rule was discussed he did not come.

“Mr Eduar, the officials have decided this regulation has been long since five months ago and only set for last month and this month. So you can't argue with it.”

“Iya, I know but this is unnatural.”

"No, this is a natural thing. The taxes we just took did not cost you too much, and you can still buy one female slave if you want. And so the fine should not be heavy for you who are people often hide your wealth.”

“How can a new kid like you say that?”

I know the ingenuity of Helix Liniar can be used and also the concern to solve all the problems that the Recca Celestial cannot take care of. And also to the Recca Celestial, he was very skilled at making someone angry and annoyed, and also did whatever he ordered.

Eduas Dawer did not think that he could be cornered by two people close to the Holy Queen. And he could not use his cunning, because from the beginning they had already taken into account his every move as well as his offense.

“Good. That's what you guys want. I will bring some more amount of money to pay the fine and also the tax.”

Eduas Dawer whispered to one of his men to bring some money to be able to pay fines and taxes. However, Rosalia Ethelwish feels a bad feeling that will happen by them.

“My men will bring the money. So can you wait for a while?”

“Can. We will also be here for a long time.”

“Ok. But can I ask you guys?”

“Iya.”

“Why don't you eat the prepared food?”

“We will not eat such dirty food.”

Rosalia Ethelwish mocked the food Eduas Dawer had prepared, because she knew it was poison to them. Eduas Dawer did not think that there was a slave who mocked the fancy food.

“Mrs Recca, can you order your slave?”

“Oh... What's the problem?”

“He has insulted all this food. We have painstakingly prepared for you.”

“Oh... But he said that your food is already mixed with toxins that can weaken mana. Is that true?”

“No, that's not true!”

“If that is true, then our messengers before and before were threatened because where in their bodies became very weak and could not defeat your threat.”

Goddamnit! How do they know that food has poison? Didn't I already tell them to eliminate the existence of such poison from the detection of which expansion? Or was it the slave who had a higher ability to know the existence of poison in food?

“Hahaha..

“Why are you laughing? After this, you will be prosecuted, Mr. Eduar.”

“Really? Isn't that the opposite?”

Suddenly a group of assassins came out from their hiding place. All this time the hired men were near them, and they were not aware of the existence of the hitmen.

“Damn it!”