Kaiser was once again in her fancy office within the guildhall. She had a lot of shit to go through, most of them being matters related to the city that they inhabited. After becoming a reliable pillar for the Dahlians, requests came flying in nonstop and it was wild, but Kaiser liked it. Her reputation as well as the guild’s just kept growing, giving them more influence over the city than before. One year ago, when they just started, there were a number of haters calling their guild ‘sexist’. Although it was kind of true, when you think about it really there were still some cases of women not being treated equally compared to men, and as a woman herself, Kaiser had experienced this one too many times, especially when she was just a nobody. She was a feminist at heart and wanted women to have more influence in the grand scheme of things. She did not care if her guild was viewed as a ‘sexist’ guild, because she wanted females to be superior to males anyway. When you really thought about it, Kaiser did not really make the guild as a sort of ‘give women more rights’ thing. She made it to prove that women are superior to males. So if people still called Daeva Eye a sexist guild, she would take it, and say ‘so what’, because the person who said it was probably a male.

It was a surprise when Xandra showed up in her guild once again. Kaiser looked up from her paperwork and gave her her usual crazy grin. Her guildmate then proceeded to talk about having good news and bad news, and then said that she would talk about the bad news first. Kaiser nodded with a shrug. She would have asked for the bad news first too if Xandra asked her which she would prefer to hear. Apparently the stupid dogs were once again annoying the Dahlians and the officials have requested for them to take them out. It was another chance for them to make easy money as well as show the city how reliable they were. Plus, Kaiser got to beat more lycans’ asses. She loved that. Whenever she got a chance to show them which was the superior race, she would do it. “Okay, let’s hear the good news,” she said after hearing the Enchantress talk about the bad news. Once she heard what it was, Kaiser let out a hearty laugh. “I hope you’re actually watching though so you learn something,” the vampire said, keeping away the paperwork that she was just working on. She liked to keep everything on her own. The one place that she did not allow the cleaners to get in was the guild office, and only she had the key to it, since there was a lot of sensitive information about the guild inside it. “Let’s go,” she said once she finished cleaning up. They would once again have to walk to the woods.

The travel to the infamous Aldenwald was fast as usual. On the way there, Kaiser and Xandra had their usual chat about things that girls like to talk about. Choosing to walk there instead of a faster mode of traveling gave them time to bond and get to know each other better. Even after a whole year of doing that, there were still a lot of things that they could talk about, because that was just what girls were like. They would never run out of things to talk about. “Girl, my nipples are really stiff, I think I’m going to be on my period real soon,” she said, and then laughed out really loud. It was a joke. She was a vampire and she did not get periods anymore, which was a plus really. She no longer suffered what came with having periods, and pms-ing, oh god. Glad that was a thing of the past now. After arriving at the woods once again, where the air was naturally tense and the whole ambience was just gloomy in general, Kaiser led her guildmate deeper. She knew that the wolves would show up, because those dogs were dumb and would probably be dying to get revenge on her for clearing out a whole pack on her last visit here.

It took a bit more time for them to actually meet the lycans this time, probably because they thought that having them deeper in the woods would be an advantage to them. About fifteen minutes after entering Aldenwald, the two Daeva’s would come to a clearing where a group of angry looking lycans decided to jump them. It was once again, like the previous time, a peaceful jumping, because they did not attack straight away after showing up. They really liked to talk. Maybe it gave them a confidence boost. This time they were surrounded by five lycans in total. They resembled the first group during the last request too, so they were all adult lycans if Kaiser understood their hierarchy well. So as she expected, one of them spoke up, and it was pretty funny.

“You the ones who killed my brothers? Did you think you would get away?”

Why was it funny? Well, it’s because Kaiser was the one who actually came back to them and she was not ‘getting away’ or anything from them. He really did not know how to make a sensible choice of words. Of course the vampire could not suppress her will to laugh. “Oh shit...we’re totally trying to get away from you, right Xandra?” she said, and as expected, this angered the dogs even more. “Any last words before you all turn into a pile of dog corpses?” she asked, looking directly at the one who spoke first. She could not help it. It was just in her nature to make fun of her enemies, unless they were more powerful than her, in which case she’d have to choose her words more carefully.

Kaiser was definitely not prepared to hear the response from the lycans: “We don’t have any last words, because we’re not planning on dying!” said the top dog of the group, while probably not realising that they just repeated the same tactic that their dead friends used to jump Kaiser and Xandra. Although she did not really blame them, since she probably left no witness to her murder of the previous pack. Still, their inability to come up with interesting tactics just upset her so much she wanted to leave. However for the sake of earning reputation among the Dahlians, she had to finish the job. This time though, Kaiser decided to leave one of them alive, so that they could spread the word about the two of them and their actions, and probably lay off on killing more Dahlians as well as coming up with the same tactics.

“That’s alright, let’s just...” she began but stopped, too disappointed to really think of anything to say to werewolves that were going to die anyway, and then gave Xandra a look, “You know the drill.” She was referring to the previous time they were here, when she asked Xandra to steer clear so that she did not get hurt by Kaiser’s magic. This was like the cue for the lycans to charge towards her all at once, though that was a great advantage to her which would be unbeknownst to them of course. Kaiser would begin to cast her spells by opening her palm as soon as she was sure that Xandra was out of the way. She released a wave of crash energy with herself being the center, over an area that is eight meters in diameter. Since they were all charging at her, the area coverage of this spell should be enough to deal damage to them and send them flying. However, she wanted to finish them off quickly, so just a split second after that first spell, she opened her palm once again, causing another tremor to hit an area of sixteen meters in diameter and effectively knocking out the entire group of lycans.

Completely occupied with the group of dogs that she was dealing with, Kaiser was totally unaware that another one of them had snuck up to Xandra while she was about twenty meters away from her guildmistress, probably to try and take her as hostage.

Once again, the vampire was able to handle the adult lycans that surrounded her. As they dropped like flies, one after another, onto the bloodied grass that carpeted the ground, she could feel the glory of having slain the werewolves just fuel her pride and superiority complex. However, it seemed that one little sneaky bastard had found the opportunity to sneak up her guildmate while she was busy with his buddies. Kaiser’s realisation of her inability to detect the wolf that was going for Xandra made her feel a little annoyed with herself, but when she noticed it and saw that her guildmate put down the sneaky mutt without needing much effort, a proud expression took over her features immediately. If you looked closely, you would probably notice the spark in her eyes as she grinned from ear to ear. “That was weirdly satisfying,” she mumbled to herself like a weirdo, thinking about her killing of the group of adult lycans, while she walked over to where Xandra was. The ex-knight suggested that they should leave this one alive, which was already what Kaiser was thinking of doing, so that he could spread the word about how fearful the ladies of Daeva Eye were. “Same wavelength, sis,” she said in response to what Xandra suggested. It was a mistake to not leave any witnesses the last time, but this time, the other lycans will know of their wrath.

Kaiser took a look at the lycan that Xandra had knocked out just to make sure that he would not be getting up anytime soon, but also making sure that he would wake up at some point later after they were gone. Once she was sure that he was alive and just unconscious, she nodded once as if to confirm with herself in her head. “Alright, guess that’s it for today.” The last time that they were here, it was not just one group of lycans, but two, although the first was a group of adults and the second were probably younger in age and probably had less experience than the adult group. However this time, no other lycans showed up even after a while since Kaiser wiped out the adults. She did not feel like lingering in the forest, which she told Xandra, and then led the way back out of the forest and back home. The vampire thought about how she had slain so many lycans on the way while she conversed with Xandra as usual. It seemed like the girls never ran out of things to talk about, even though Kaiser was usually a woman of few words. She discovered that she was naturally chatty when she was around her guildmates, but that was not something that happened with other people. She enjoyed it though, and the bond she had with her guildmates was something she would unknowingly treasure.

Once the two of them returned to the guild, Kaiser would have to go up to her office and take care of some paperwork. The thought made her grumble audibly. “The worst part about being the guildmistress has to be handling the paperwork,” she whined. Although she just said that, she did not really mean it. Being a guildmistress meant a lot of responsibility, but she was not doing it because she was asked to. She took the responsibility knowing full well the weight of holding that position. Even if sometimes she got a little tired from completing the tasks that came with it, the thought that she was doing it for a reason always pushed her to keep going. Kaiser was a woman with a strong drive. If she wanted something, she would do everything in her power to get it, and that had been her way of life ever since she became a sorceress in Fiore, ever since she started depending on herself. Kaiser took it upon herself to be the main source of information for the guild, like a human database, always collecting intel that was brought to her by the guild members, and always sharing it with her most trusted guild members, who were the title bearers of the guild as well as the founding members. And while having conversations with them, she would always give them new information that had been passed to her, so that they were well-informed about matters outside of Daeva Eye.

Upon reaching the guildhall, Kaiser would part ways with Xandra, waving and bidding her farewell. “I’ll make sure the money gets transferred today,” she told her, since the last time it took a bit of time for the Dahlian officials to make the transfer. She was not sure if Xandra was agitated by this the last time, but she knew she was, due to her level of patience being close to nonexistent. Apparently since it was their first time to tackle this request, they were making sure that they had actually cleared the pack of lycans and were waiting on the authorized person to give them the ‘ok’ to make the transfer. The only reason Kaiser was being this lenient with matters such as this was because of her dedication to making a name for her guild. If they had a good relationship with the Dahlian officials, that was a plus for the guild. Despite the fact that there was an extremely destructive daemon loli in the guild, and Kaiser herself having killed countless Fiorians in the past, there were still the others who balanced the alignment scale for them. It was also a plus that most of the guild members knew how to go about business, and cleaning up any mess that could lead to painting a bad image for Daeva Eye, a skill that she herself was quite experienced in. She would also teach this to the new members who were sort of leaning to the dark side.

Kaiser sat in her office, fishing for the files that she would continue working on, and then laid them out on her huge desk. Being a neat freak, she always kept her desk tidy. Once she had laid out everything in front of her, she reached for the lacrima communication device and made a call to the officials of Dahlia City. Three painfully long rings sounded, and then they picked up. Kaiser informed them that they had once again cleared out another pack of wolves, and requested for the payment to be made on the same day, to herself and Xandra. The last time, apparently they were not happy about them killing a whole pack of wolves, so lied about leaving a few this time.