Martial Online.

Chapter 416 Christmas Eve

?After arriving back at Rothsmith Estate, Sebastian waited at the front door, and as soon as the car door opened, he knelt on the snowy ground and apologized.

After taking Anna and Jesse to the Christmas party, he left to do some grocery shopping for tomorrow's meal, but when he arrived back at Rothsmith Estate, he heard some horrible news.

Anna and Jesse had been taken hostage.

He felt partly responsible for their safety and felt like he was at fault for not being with them at the Christmas party.

After Jack stepped out of the car, he patted Sebastian's shoulder and said, "No need for that."

"I am sorry, master." Sebastian sighed, and he stood up with a heavy heart.

"Tell other servants not to show news anywhere on this house." Jack whispered in his ear. "I don't want Emma and Zach to know."

"Zach is a smart boy; he'll find it out." Sebastian replied.

"Nn, I know." Jack then grabbed Anna's hand and entered the mansion with her while snowflakes danced around them.

Jesse also walked out of the car, hiding his injured hand in his pocket, and followed them inside.

He headed straight back to his room, and there he took off his suit, revealing a deep bruise on his waist. There was also one broken finger on his right hand.

'So, there are more with this power.' Jesse sat down on his bed and looked at his headset that was resting on the bedside table.

'I guess I wasn't as special as I thought. This, Fenrir, whoever he is, must also have the same power as me.'

He lay down on the bed, staring at the ceiling, and wondered about the future.

'I know better than anyone about the dangers of this power. If there is an entire army of them, no one could stop them. I truly hope that this headset is difficult enough to make that only a handful have it.

'But the question remains: how in the hell did I receive one? I bought it randomly from a convenience store, of all places.'

He sat up, took the headset, and examined it to see if there were any names of the makers of this headset.

However, there wasn't anything—not even the usual logo of Martial Company or any indication of its origin.

'Still a mystery.' Jesse sighed, put the headset away, and laid back on the bed.

"Urgh, I hope my ribs didn't break." He held his hand on the big bruise on his waist and winced in pain.

'I can finally rest, at least.' Jesse thought, and then his eyelids started to turn heavy as exhaustion washed over him.

He slowly drifted into a deep sleep, and the long day finally came to an end.

…

The following day, in the Land of White.

"Boss!" A member of the Pale Eyes rushed inside the throne room and saw their leader's back facing him while he was cutting his messy, gray hair.

"What is it?" Fenrir asked and snapped his scissors shut, cutting off a lock of hair.

"This just came!" The mercenary tossed newspapers on the ground beside Fenrir.

"Hmm?" Fenrir put the scissors down, picked up the newspaper, and began to read the headline.

His eyes widened in surprise.

[Hostage Attempt in Nocklund Gone Wrong!]

He quickly flipped pages and read through the events that happened.

After he was done, a stone-cold expression appeared on his face.

"T-they used the poison capsule." The mercenary said with a trembling voice. "Meaning, they were defeated and would've been taken into custody if they hadn't taken their own lives.

"H-however, there was one person who was killed by someone else. T-that person was Dragon. Someone managed to defeat him!" Thɪs chapter is updatᴇd by N(o)vᴇl(ꜰ)ire.nᴇt

"What about the three billion?" Fenrir asked coldly.

"N-nothing has come to our bank account." The mercenary said in frustration. "The transfer never came through.

"I suppose they finished paying, but it would take about an hour to transfer all the way to here, and before it fully came through, they cancelled it after Dragon and others were found dead!"

"Whoo…" Fenrir took a deep breath, closing his eyes. "Whoo…"

"What shall we do now, boss?" The mercenary asked urgently. "How can we pay for the headsets now?"

"I am thinking." Fenrir uttered coldly, and his face twisted into a sinister smile. "I suppose there is one way. We'll have to overthrow the Land of White's royal family and seize their treasury.

"It's finally time for this country to become ours!"

…

The day of Christmas Eve.

Christmas decorations were hung across the hallways, and in the front lounge of the mansion, there was an enormous Christmas tree with twinkling lights and an array of beautifully wrapped presents underneath.

Jesse leaned against a railing on the second floor, watching the festivities below.

"Excuse me, young master." A cute, round-eyed servant walked over to him and showed him a tray of freshly baked cookies. "Madam Anna told me to bring you some."

"Oh, thank you." Jesse smiled and took a cookie from the tray.

As he munched on it, he couldn't help but notice that the servant was still staring at him with wide eyes.

Jesse quickly swallowed the cookie and asked. "Was there something else?"

"Uhm…" The servant looked conflicted and then lowered her head. "I-I don't think I should say it."

"Is something wrong?" Jesse asked and stopped leaning against the railing, taking a more serious stance.

"Uhm…" The servant raised her head, tears in her eyes. "Y-young master Zach had been very inappropriate towards me."

"How so?" Jesse raised an eyebrow.

"H-he keeps touching me in places…" She lowered her head, squirming uncontrollably.

"Oh…" Jesse's expression turned cold, and he then grabbed her by the arm tightly.

"Ahh!" She cried out and looked at him in shock. "W-what is the meaning of this?"

"Your tongue is venomous." Jesse said angrily. "You really think I would believe my brother would do something like that?"

"B-but he did." She cried out, her voice trembling with fear. "Y-

you are hurting me!"

"Brother?" At that moment, a voice came behind them.

Jesse looked over his shoulder and smiled. "Oh, the person we were just talking about."

"Hmm?" Zach wore a bright Christmas shirt, covered in colorful festive decorations.

He slowly approached them with a strange expression and asked. "What is this?"

The cute, round-eyed servant's face slightly changed color from red to white.

"This servant here said that you have sexually harassed her." Jesse said, grabbing her arm tight, and asked. "Is that true?"

"What?!" Zach cried out with wide eyes and looked at her in shock. "You said the same thing to me—that Jesse had been very inappropriate towards you!

"What the hell is the meaning of this?"

Jesse's expression turned to shock, and he looked at her with anger. "Is that so? Mind telling me your reason for doing this?"

"Ah, get off me or I-I'll report you!" She cried out, trying to break free from his hold, but was unsuccessful.

"Zach, bring Sebastian here." Jesse said, and Zach nodded and quickly went to fetch Sebastian.

"Hands off me!" The servant cried out and shouted. "This is ra—"

Jesse covered her mouth, silencing her. "Quiet down, witch."

The servant's eyes widened in fear and panic.

After a short while, Zach returned with Sebastian.

Sebastian had a confused expression. "Young master Jesse and Rosy, what is the meaning of this?"

"She is accusing both of us of sexual harassment." Jesse said. "First, she went to Zach."

"I told her that I did not believe her." Zach said with his arms crossed. "She then left while crying, and now she said the same thing to Jesse, that I was sexually harassing her."

"Oh…" Sebastian's expression turned cold, and he grabbed Rosy by her arm. "Let me take care of this, young master. This is not the first time something like this has happened."

"It has?" Jesse asked in surprise.

"Yes, there was one decade ago, accusing Jack of sexual assault." Sebastian said. "However, that was proven to be very false. She was doing it for money, hoping to squeeze the Rothsmith family dry."

"Huh." Jesse murmured, drawn in by the bizarre story.

After Sebastian left with the crying Rosy, who was still shouting and trying to break loose, Jesse looked at Zach and smiled.

"So, you didn't believe her."

"Of course, not." Zach shook his head. "I haven't seen you interact with servants much, and you are all day in Martial Online, so how could you?"

"Aha." Jesse chuckled awkwardly. "I guess I haven't been very sociable."

Zach chuckled. "You didn't believe her, why?"

"Come on!" Jesse laughed. "I believe in your character."

"I… appreciate it." Zach looked downstairs with a smile and said, "We'll start opening the presents shortly; are you coming?"

"Yeah." Jesse nodded and pulled out his phone.

There was a countdown happening on his phone, and there were forty minutes left till it reached the end.

That was the countdown to the new Martial Online update.