How to read the story: Normal Text = Present, Italics = Past
After reaching the level cap with my friends, I walked into my storage room in Orbis's Cloud Park to clean out my room and have a garage sale-type of sale. The whole room was cluttered with treasure that I stole from numerous people 100 years ago. For a mind refresher, I decided to check around to see what I stole before I was frozen by the Black Mage. But before doing that, I assembled my cardboard boxes and stored my masking tapes in them.
In one corner, the Maple Lisa painting that I stole from the Orbis Art Museum lied upright. It has a thin coating of dust on it. The Art Museum is going crazy over it and they're paying a 2 billion bounty, so I guess I should return it back. I checked the carved mahogany wardrobe and I found some regal gowns and accessories that I took from the Queen of Ariant so I can give it to Aria, and the gowns and headpieces that Shinsoo gave me after Aria died (The dresses couldn't fit Cygnus at that time).
There was one thing that caught my eye. It was a magic mirror that I bought when I was a teenager. The mirror was a golden full length mirror that I adorned with tiny jewels that I obtained from robbing a jewelry store. A replica of Skaia was on the top part of the mirror (I made it from a common amethyst after I gave back the real Skaia to Cygnus when Hilla invaded Ereve). It may appear as a normal mirror to a common NPC, but a hero like me can interact with it and do many cool things with it, like teleporting. Well, I didn't steal by then, but after reading about an all female group of thieves in my history book, it motivated me to read more about them and copy their methods of thievery.
Sweet, sweet memories. I checked the closet again and removed the dresses and headpieces that were Aria's. I chucked them into one assembled cardboard box. I didn't want to deal with the guilt trip if Cygnus saw me selling them at the sale, so I sealed the box with tape and wrote "ARIA'S STUFF" on it. The next time I visit Ereve, I will deliver it and unpack it for her to prevent scaring the young empress into thinking that I planted a bomb in the package.
The dresses that remained in the wardrobe was a full violet ball gown with silk sleeves and a ruby trim, an asymmetrical short sleeved royal blue satin dress adorned with emeralds, and a red Victorian-style dress with petticoats underneath. Like I said last time, I took it from the Queen of Ariant but I forgot about it. That was a hundred years ago or so when I attempted to woo Empress Aria for Skaia, the jewel of Ereve.
I didn't know that there was a drawer below until I was curious and pulled it to see if it's a decoration or not. It wasn't a decoration, because when I pulled it, there was some ornate headgear and shoes. Those were the Queen's crowns and slippers that I also snatched in the process. I think I remember the full story of stealing them now….
I was on my airship preparing for a raid on the royal family of Ariant. The main spoils of war were the dresses and jewelry, so I can give them to Aria and coax her into giving her the Skaia. Wearing my normal clothes (the ones you see me wearing on the wanted posters) will get me arrested the moment I land, so I instructed my maid to make me some clothes a noble would wear. When she was finished, I equipped the clothes and teleported myself off the ship.
When I arrived in Ariant, the towns were bustling with people. Some operated shops to sell things such as tea, while the noobs, er I meant beggars were asking random people for spare change. The air filled with lovely music from sitars and drums. Performers entertained their audience by performing masterful tricks with their flutes and snakes. Shoving through the crowds, I managed to get to the entrance of the castle. Presenting a forged entry pass, I was granted entry.
The castle gardens were grand. There were some other guards on call, but I managed to sneak past. The loophole? They were walking in one single path, just like those castle guards in video games. The same went to the fine hallways. Tired, I pressed my hands against a wall. But after pressing my hands on the wall, a secret wall was activated and it took me to the king and queen's bedroom.
Like the castle, the bedroom was spacious. On the floor laid a White Fang fur rug and behind it was a four poster bed. The frame was made from the finest trees of Ellinia, the bed sheets were made from purple velvet, and the pillows were stuffed with Tino feathers. But my bedroom is fancier than that silly royalty's bedroom.
I walked over to the closet and opened it up. It was the Queen's walk–in closet. In the middle of the closet was a stool. I'm not a fashionista, but I'm going to assume that the Queen sat on it to put on her shoes. I looked at the walls. Everywhere I looked, there was clothing in different styles, from simple Arab garb to fine gowns that the princesses wore in fairytales. Below the dress rack was beautiful pairs of shoes for every occasion. One of the weirdest things I saw was a pair of sneakers, any member of royalty would not want to wear them!
I heard footsteps and the door to the bedroom opening. It sounded like a masculine voice, possibly the king's voice."Hello? Come show yourself, thief!" boomed the voice. Quickly, I pulled out 3 random dresses, 2 pairs of shoes, 5 crowns, a jewelry box, and I stuffed them in my bottomless bag. I also grabbed a few cosmetics in case I need to disguise myself as a woman for any future raids. But before teleporting to Orbis Park so I can store my spoils, I left a note taunting the Queen. Finally, I returned back to my air ship to change back into my normal clothes.
I looked at the dresses that were still in the closet and looked for a dress rack to hold them. After minutes of searching for one, I found an old metal dress rack and transferred the dresses from the closet to the rack. I bet the dresses can fetch up to 200 million when all the "trendy" henhoes see them. I just hope they don't start a riot over them. Well, I don't know what to do with the accessories, but I'll just leave them there for a little while.
Now I got the dresses sorted out, it looks like there are more things to organize.
