3Kaiser's face threatened to split the sides with how long he had been grinning,
"This is fantastic!" He said, watching as the blonde on the screen fought off and endured the punishment he did, "To think he would be this special to frighten three of the S.U.C captains into retreat with only a single wound!" He stood, striding over to the liquor cabinet taking out and pouring some of his most expensive whiskey into a glass to sip on and savor, "He may have more potential than even the Nine Arts Dragon!" moving back to his desk with glass and bottle in hand, the head of the Black Forest Defense Society let out a firm laugh.
"This truly is an age of wonder! So many treasures appearing in the world like this, now how to get him to work with me, it would be such a shame to not have him standing beside my shadow warriors…"
Kaiser sighed, leaning back into his chair as he finished the last of his whiskey and his grin became more subdued. "Perhaps we can have it be at that time… yes that should work!"
Jaune stood in the training dojo of the Sunwoo Clan, the elder Jeon Jang-II standing across from him, the blonde wearing his hoodie and jeans while the elder wore a training uniform.
"You're lucky, I just got done training the new clan head for the day." Jeon said, grin on his face as he punched a fist into his open palm. "Let us begin, you seemed to hold your own well from the security videos we saw. But let's see how you do in a proper fight instead of an ambush."
"Alright, normally I fight with a sword and shield, I'm not the best in hand to hand." Jaune said as he took a basic stance that made the elder chuckle.
"Even better for me, I'm old, don't need to be pushing myself too hard!" With that, he moved in, leaping at Jaune with a fist raised to strike from his left, the blonde moved to block it only to feel a foot sweep his right leg out from under him, spinning on his left to get distance, he saw Jeon stop, eyebrow raised and glancing at him.
"Damn boy, Gyoo-Bum wasn't kidding, you're a tough one!" the older man reached down to rub one of his legs that struck Jaune's, the blonde grunted, holding position and waiting for Jeon to continue.
He didn't have to wait long as he dashed forward, trying to spin to Jaune's left after throwing a feint to his right, only for Jaune to grab his arm mid swing with his left hand, and his right taking hold of the man's uniform tope to hurl him aside, the blonde leaning back as he tossed the older man, whose foot swung toward his face as he was thrown, barely dodging the kick.
"Good! Nice reaction time, and to see you're doing this without any Ki to harden your body!"
"Thanks?"
"Now then!" Jeon, having recovered midair from Jaune's throw patted his chest. "Let's see how you hit, don't worry, I can take it!"
"You're sure about this?" Jaune asked, eyebrow arched at the request.
"Absolutely! Come now, give me all you got."
Not wanting to wait and waste time, Jaune jumped forward, arm cocked back and with a roar, hit the older man with all his might, Jeon let out a 'oomph', as he was lifted off the ground, sent through the wall of the training room, across the hallway outside, and through the walls of four other rooms, all the occupants raising an alarm as they saw one of their elders fly through the wooden walls like a missile.
Kim Seol-Jong stood still, head turned to the hole in the wall as a few of their clan members rushed into the dojo and had to be waved out before they attacked Jaune.
He still had his mouth open as it took Jeon eight minutes to walk back into the room, being helped by two clan members as he did so.
"Ok." He rasped, "You hit really hard, let's not do that again." He closed his eyes. "I've tested enough of your skills, let's see this healing of yours, you just broke all my ribs."
Jaune nodded, and Kim stood next to him, ready to observe and defend Jeon incase Jaune was going to attack again, "Alright, I'm sorry about that. Please hold him still." His hand pressed against Jeon's chest, and Kim let out a noise of awe as he saw the visible white and gold energy surround the blonde's hand and begin to swim across Jeon's chest, a minute later, the now healed Elder was waving the two holding him up away, gingerly patting his chest and letting out a whistle.
"Damn!" he said, rotating his torso and letting out a guffaw, "With power like that, you'll put the Ghost Hands Doctor to shame! If you ever get tired of those young pups at the Shinhyup clan, we'd love to have your talent under the roof of the Sunwoo clan!"
"Elder Jeon Jong-ll speaks rashly, but truly, this is near the level of…well, let's just say he's right, this is a nearly unprecedented level of ki healing!" Kim said, enthusiasm from Jeon worming into himself as well at the prospect of having such talent to boost the prestige and power of their clan.
"Last test, well, after that hit, I won't lie kid, I'm kinda looking forward to it, I'm going to hit you now!" Jeon suddenly struck the blonde, his fist charged with Ki smashing into Jaune's chest.
Kim had seen him smash a tree in half with a single hit, and even knock a steel door of its hinges without breaking a sweat. So when he saw not only did Jeon wince and shake his hand back and forth, that the blonde merely took a few steps back as he took the blow to his chest head on, patting his chest and groaning but seemingly unphased.
"Maybe Lee Gyoo-Bum was onto something about your superhuman body…" he whispered under his breath as Jeong loudly told jaune to fix his now broken hand. "Well, that satisfies our curiosity. We thank you for coming to us for this." He bowed formally. Jeon departing soon after to prepare for training the clan head again tomorrow, leaving Jaune and Kim alone.
"Follow me please." Kim said, walking out with Jaune close behind, "I must commend you for fighting so well alongside our clan yesterday, to do so well against three masters like that was impressive for one so young."
"Thank you, I wish I could have done more, but I guess I was too worn out, I'd only gotten two hours to sleep before they attacked the hotel."
"Wait, wait, you're saying you did all of that, everything I saw in the video, one the edge of exhaustion and with no rest?"
"Yeah?"
"…Impressive." Kim said, after a loud minute of silence passing between them before they resumed their walk and Jaune found himself in a rather plain room with a single table and set of comfortable chairs. "Elders Kwon Jae-Kyu, and Min Sa-Oak, I introduce Jaune Arc." Kim said, introducing Jaune to the men in turn sitting across from him, a heavyset older man with a nearly bald head sat near the Elder Kwon who stared Jaune with such intensity it made him shift uncomfortably in his chair as Kim bade for him to sit, while he went to stand near his fellow elders.
"I will not waste time with this young man, be aware if I think you are lying to me, if you answer any questions in ways we can't condone, you will not walk out of this room."
Jaune was silent, mouth going dry as the older shorter man speaking to him put such fear in him, it was like facing his first Grimm in the Emerald Forest all over again, but thankfully for Jaune, he was not the same man he was back then.
"Ok."
"Are you in any way trained by, or affiliated the immortal demon supreme or the Immortality Sect?" Jaune saw Kim move over to him and press a hand to Jaune's collar from behind, and was ready to activate his aura to fight his way out of the building.
"I don't know what any of that is."
Kwon stared him down, eyes narrowed before looking to Kim, who gave a curt nod and Kwon leaned back.
"So you mean to tell me, that you, a lone European murim, was able to master the healing and regenerative arts of the Immortality sect by chance?"
"I didn't really master anything, that's just my semblance, like I told Lee Gyoo-Bum, it was something I unlocked with my aura. " Jaune said, leaning back as Kwon rested his hands below his nose, squinting glare firmly in place. "We have our aura unlocked and are trained from childhood to be Huntsmen or Huntresses; I started my training only two years ago."
"That brings us to the other question, " Min spoke up, putting his hands from the chair arms to his knees to lean forward, "Lee Gyoo-Bum claimed you are able to fly, not just using foot techniques, but full on levitation and aerial flight."
"Yeah…" Jaune awkwardly rubbed the back of his head, Kim letting go of him as he sat up, and tensed, Noting the lightly stunned and amused sounds Kim and Min gave seeing him begin to float upward till there was two feet of empty air under his hovering feet. "I'm still trying to figure this out, so far I think it will work for me like normally walking, just have to think more about my movements," to prove this, jaune began to float forward, before spinning around, legs immobile as he did so to circle around Kim and back to the front of his chair to slowly lower down. "I don't know why I can do this now when I couldn't before. But I'm working to figure it out."
"Welp, that confirms it, Lee's right, you're an alien." Min Sa-Oak said with a light smile, but Jaune saw no such approval from the face of Elder Kwon who no longer glared, and now sat leaned back in his chair, an eyebrow raised by betraying no other emotion until he spoke.
"So it would seem, you've spoken no lies to us this day young man, so I will ask you one other, will you enter the service of the Sunwoo Clan once your time with the Shinhyup clan has come to an end?"
Kim and Min both looked between Jaune and Kwon who stared the other down, silence dominating the room for minutes before Jaune spoke first.
"What would that entail? I am still trying to figure out what this Murim thing is about."
"You'd be a retainer, learn our martial arts if you so choose, swear an allegiance to the clan and it's head." Kwon said simply, rising up to reach a hand over to Jaune as he sat. "That will be all for the day, thank you for your…unbelievable honesty this day. We must go, the affairs of the clan are more demanding than ever as of late. Do excuse us." Kwon tapped his foot to the floor, and the door opened to show Lee walking into the room.
"Gyoo-Bum will escort you back to your hotel room, good day!"
After Jaune had left, Kim and Min looked to their senior. Who rested, lightly tapping his index finger on the arm rest of his chair, "Well, I detected no deceit on his part," Kim said, "No Ki fluctuations, not even using his ki at all when I was monitoring him."
"We can rule out the Immortality sect at least, that's a load off, the last thing we need is for it to get out to the Martial Arts Alliance that we harbored one of them." Kwon Jae-Kyu said with a sigh, "I know Elder Jeon already wishes for this boy to join the Sunwoo Clan, what say you two?"
"I think he would be a great asset to boost our standing and influence as we are rebuilding from being enthralled to the Alliance." Kim said, clasping his hands together while Min merely nodded.
"My mind follows Elder Kim's words, rare it is to see such a prodigious warrior these days, let alone one with supernatural abilities like that."
Kwon Jae-kyu nodded as well, before standing and looking between his fellow elders. "Very well, as soon as the SUC is eradicated, we shall formally request for Jaune Arc to join the Sunwoo, maybe we can scoop up some of the other talented youngsters there that left or were pushed out by their foolish petty schools for taking a stance to defend the Murim world." he added, to the chuckle of the two elders beside him.
Jaune's ride back to the hotel was uneventful, no ambushes took place, and he even had a friendly conversation with Lee about the Sunwoo and Murim traditions. Trying to be discrete in fights would be a challenging thing for him given how openly Huntsmen and Huntresses needed to be, and his fighting style was a far cry from stealthy.
He was looking forward to trying more of the rum Lee had promised would be in his room, before leaving to attend to Sunwoo related matters, so when Jaune opened the door to his room and found a busty woman in a near see through white dress, golden blonde hair, with matching golden amber like eyes.
"There you are, I was beginning to wonder if you would come back today."
"Who are you?" he asked, hand reaching to the door behind his back again in case he needed to flee.
"My name is Ha-Ru, I've come to ask for your help with that healing power of yours. My employer will pay handsomely to heal his patient's Ki disease." The hand relaxed and went back to his side, as the woman remained seated, showing that she had already taken the liberty of putting the rum, plus two glasses on the small table she sat before in the kitchen area.
"I'm sorry, what are you talking about, how did you get in here?"
"Well, I started by walking into the hotel, and talked one of the staff to let me into the room under the guise of 'thanking you' for aiding the Sunwoo clan, can you believe they bought that?"
Jaune did his best to not stare as she laughed, causing her barely covered breasts to jiggle overtly before him, "We know you are a lone Murim, and are willing to compensate you generously." Jaune looked around the room, thinking it over before taking a seat across from the attractive woman.
"I see that has your attention. The girl is in Germany, it will be a few days journey, we will return you to Seol if you so wish."
Jaune nodded, and spoke again.
"Well, that's fine, I've got no issue or business here right now, what kind of health issues does this girl have?"
The woman smiled, and Jaune felt his face flush as she winked at him.
"It's a rare disease that forces her body to age slower than she should be and prevents her from using her Ki properly." Reaching into her dress, she pulled out a photo of a girl that looked easily to be little over ten.
"She's sixteen years old and has intense difficulty with mobility and speaking with her body being limited by the disease."
"Alright. I've never used it to cure a disease…but I'm willing to try, miss Ha-Ru."
"Please, call me Ha-Ru." She leaned forward and Jaune tried his best to keep looking at her eyes, and not letting his line-of-sight dip down to her very exposed cleavage, "Jaune."
Her hand reached out to touch his and the red tint on his cheeks flared up as she gently squeezed it, "Perhaps one day I can test what other skills you have." She laughed heatedly as he stuttered and stammered a response.
"Calm yourself, I was merely teasing you. We'll be leaving on a flight tomorrow; I'll have a car to pick you up at 2 in the afternoon. We'll cover any luggage fees."
"Well, that's ok, I, all I have are the clothes I'm wearing…" Jaune said, the sudden realization hitting him that he'd been wearing the same clothes for two days in a row. Ha-Ru looked him, eyes gazing into his appraisingly before she smiled again "Well than let's get you some new clothes, come with me." She rose, the bottom her dress now that he no longer had the kitchen table to shield it from view, rose all the way to the mid of her thigh.
"I- I don't know what to say."
"Don't say anything honey, just follow me, I'll treat you right." She waved a finger and Jaune felt his feet moving, eyes looking up and down as he stared at her legs from behind. He felt like he was in a trance as he was walking down the hotel hallway, to the elevator and out to a waiting sleek looking black car soon speeding off to a nearby clothing store.
"You go to the Men's section and grab anything and everything that will fit you, I'll be getting you some luggage cases and meet you at the changing rooms, look for any of the employees if you need anything!"
He wandered around, having wandered into the men's section, and had to take a shopping cart to get all the clothes he wanted, directed to what he was told was European suit attire getting an assortment of button up shirts in black, and varying shades of, red, purple, white, and, blue. with matching jackets, socks, and underwear, as well as four new pairs of shoes.
He had been taken to a dressing room and had taken his pants off when the door opened, and he whirled around to see Ha-Ru walk in, smiling coyly at him.
"Oh my, well you are a treat for the eyes on top of everything else, you'll make a girl very happy one day, Mr. Arc…" Like a wolf cornering its prey, she strutted to him, pressing him against the wall as he backed up and putting a hand on his chest.
"Very happy indeed," she said, whispering into his ear before playfully biting his earlobe and relishing in him gasping.
"But," she added, stepping back, and leaving him leaning forward, "try these all on, be best to make sure they fit before we're on the way back, I have some luggage cases for you to pack them in."
"Wait," Jaune said at last, finally finding his voice which made her hum at him "How will I pay for these. I have no-"
"Oh they're already paid for, I put everything you grabbed on tab. My boss will pay for it, consider it a token of good will." With that, she turned around, and to Jaune's unspoken shameful joy, shook her hips with each step mesmerizing him till she closed the door behind her.
Half an hour later, the two had left, with Ha-Ru in the driver's seat as Jaune sat beside her. "Now, I have to say red and black looks good on you." Ha-Ru said as they drove back to his hotel, parking up front and an attendant helping them load all his luggage and clothing on a cart to push to his room.
"Thanks, feels a lot better to have something new to wear, after wearing the same thing for two days in a row…"
"I'm sure, anyway, I'll be here tomorrow, remember to check your phone, I'll text you when I'm on the way." She said back to him, after she had added her number to his phone as he changed into an all-black suit, before heading off, winking suggestively, and laughing to herself as she watched how he blushed.
He awoke early, with a few hours to spare, before having a hearty breakfast, before he knew it, Ha-Ru had texted him to meet her in half an hour and he went back up to his room, sending texts to Lee and Yoo that he was going to be leaving for some business, dismissing Lee's complaints and Yoo's far more lax acceptance.
Packing all the clothes he had in the two suitcases, including a duffle bag for his sword, shield and armor to load in her car after she arrived.
Lee was panicked, driving as fast as he could and dashed into the hotel the second, he arrived, making his way to the front desk, and slamming both hands down to get the receptionist's attention.
"Sir!?" the young Sunwoo member said, nervousness radiating from him, at the look on Lee Gyoo-Bum's face.
"Where is the blonde Murim from Europe, did he leave already?!"
"Y-yes sir! He left ten minutes ago in the company of a woman, we were told by her and the murim attending her that she was a gift to the European for his defense of the hotel from the S.U.C. this weekend!"
"Woman, what woman!? Get me the security tapes, now!"
A minute later, Lee had let out a shout of frustration recognizing the face of the Murim Ha-Ru, known more commonly as Thousand Faces for her ability to perform body manipulation to such a degree she was able to take on the appearance of other men and women.
A known lone murim, who had just absconded with a great potential asset to the Sunwoo clan to do who knows what with. Pulling his phone out and placing various calls to have Sunwoo agents try to beat Thousand Faces to the airport after seeing how Jaune was loading suitcases into the trunk of the car she drove him off in.
"Under no circumstance are you to allow her to leave with him, use force if necessary!"
Jaune marveled at the private jet he had boarded, watching as a hostess brought a tray of various snacks and drinks that he and Ha-Ru shared while the plane took off.
"So," he asked, finishing a snack cake as the woman who had helped him get a new wardrobe sipped on a glass of some kind of alcohol. "What's your boss like?"
"My boss? I couldn't imagine working for anyone else, he's a true visionary and rewards his loyal employees. I won't lie, he's extremely excited about having you work with us. That little stint of you healing that civilian got his attention rather well."
Jaune paused mid chew at the word choice of calling saving someone a stint, cast a sideways glance to Ha-Ru who leaned her head back to down the last of her drink, eyes closed as he looked her way before looking out the window of the jet as it flew through the skies.
"I've never been to Germany…" the huntsman said aloud, wiping his mouth and handing the tray of his food to the hostess who took it back to the rear of the plane.
"Strange, but not an issue, just follow my lead, you'll be fine, we'll have an interpreter tasked to make sure if I'm not near, you'll be able to ask anything and have anything you need for the short while you are there."
"How short are we talking?" Jaune asked in reply, "I have things I need to do in Seol, so I can't stay in Germany for too long."
"Ah, don't worry," Ha-Ru said, waving his concern aside, "It will be two, to three days tops before we fly you back. For now, though, I'd get some rest, it's a long flight!" To emphasize this, the woman stretched her arms back in a yawn, nodding to himself before he took an offered glass of a bubbling clear drink the hostess called champaign and let himself fall asleep as he watched the plane cross over land and sea.
Ha-Ru glanced over to the blonde man sleeping in the reclining chair, smile finding its way to her lips seeing the sleeping murim. It was almost too easy, bordering on suspiciously so, to find and convince him to come with her.
Part of her suspected there was something more to this going on but stayed her hand from taking any aggressive action. She recalled seeing the same video footage that Woon Jae-Gael sent to their master, she was in awe that such a young looking man was able to not only shrug off some of the strongest attacks from Kwon Young the Western White Star of the Four Supernovas, Yang Yong-Hyeon, Lee Ji-woo, and withstanding a full on vehicle smashing him into a stone pillar with no wounds to show for it.
Kaiser had mentioned something about a group called the Immortality Sect, but it was before her time, and she hadn't heard anything of them herself so said nothing to him and merely waited for the order to go after or bring him in willingly, he was awfully adorable to tease, something she took immense pleasure in, and was rather impressed by what she saw when she walked in on him in the changing room.
Big was a perfect way to describe him, from his broad and toned shoulders, chiseled abs, firm pecs and she bet he had a great ass to grab on to. She couldn't accurately guess his age, but pictured him to be in the eighteen to twenty year old range, normally a bit too young for her tastes, but thinking on seeing that outline in his underwear…
She'd make an exception to that rule, just one time.
It had been a relatively fast flight, their pilot having a faster jet, and private route that commercial lines never used, and thankfully the weather had been on their side, he had awoken three hours before the landed and was seemingly in awe of the architecture of the city of Erfurt after they had landed, it had gotten to the point she actively had to stop and tug him around before he stopped at the Erfurt Cathedral and just had his jaw drop, with some of the locals snorting and mockingly laughing at his bewildered face, they hurried along as she glared at them, letting some killing intent leak out, but pass over Jaune who whispered something about a beacon.
She grabbed his arm and tugged, grunting in annoyance as she didn't even make him budge, grabbing with both hands now, and planting her feet did nothing either as he just looked up at the towering stone church. Letting go of his arm as she saw a tear trail down his cheek and bit her lip.
"Jaune," she said, touching his face and turning his head with both hands, "We have to keep moving, we can sight see later, let's get you something to eat before we meet my employer and the patient."
He shook his head back and forth before nodding, letting out a deep breath he had been holding. "You're right, I'm sorry, this reminds me of my school I trained in before it was destroyed."
"Your school was destroyed?" She asked, filing the information down for later, while schools and clans fell often, if he was still this young, it had to be relatively recently which meant an easier circle to narrow in their search for information.
"Yeah, Beacon Academy, premier school for Huntsmen and Huntresses… it was attacked by Terrorists and destroyed with Grimm."
Ha-Ru let out a noise at that, not sure what to think but deciding to tell Kaiser it was best to not tell him about their affiliation to the S.U.C, putting that to the side, the master of disguise pushed forward, trying to get more information of his past out of him while he seemed to be in an emotionally vulnerable state.
"I'm sorry to hear that," she said, "Seeing your school be destroyed is never easy, it happens more often than it should for a murim."
"It-" He said, as they began to walk, him letting her lead him away from the cathedral, "We weren't Murims."
"What were you than, if you're not a murim, than you're a monster of a man~" She said, hand trailing around his waist to pull him close.
"We, well, where I was from, we were trained to be huntsmen, or huntresses, we were brought up to be warriors to defend people from the creatures of the Grimm."
The blonde woman was silent, letting him speak and doing her best to remember the words he let loose.
"What are the creatures of Grimm?" At that, he went silent, and she was worried she had broken his tirade until he answered her.
"Monsters, drawn to intense and negative emotion, imagine an ordinary animal like a wolf, or a bear, but make it enormous, with armor plating and an insatiable desire to hunt humans or Faunus."
She refrained from asking what a Faunus was and decided to circle back to the earlier topic.
"So how does one become a Huntress, or a Huntsmen like you say?"
"It's kind of like what Lee Gyoo-Bum told me about you Murim people, we enter a combat academy as a child and are trained in martial arts, weapons, firearms to train for defending caravans, settlements from Grimm, bandits and terrorists."
"You must've been quite the prodigy to be such an exemplary fighter than!"
He laughed at that, self-deprecating and humble.
"I only started training two years ago, I faked my transcripts and never studied as a kid like everyone else is supposed to, was kind of stupid in hindsight for how often I would have died…"
"That further proves my point, for someone who only learned to fight two years ago," She had to pause, walking in front of him to gently press a finger against his chest, about to mention something from the hotel fight, but stopped not wanting to give him reason to suspect she heard of that.
"You must have be able to do well enough as someone with no formal training to be kept there! You skills and ability are just part of you."
"Maybe." He said in reply, looking to the side as stood near a restaurant, "Can we get something to eat?" He asked, the smell of fresh food making him feel the hunger pains start to set in.
"Soon, my employer will be meeting us at a nearby dinner."
They walked to a small brick building with the name Zur Kirche above the door.
Ha-Ru ordered food in a language that, to Jaune, sounded rough. The server disappeared quickly, and she informed her fellow blonde that she ordered a local dish for both of them. Soon enough, the food arrived. It consisted of yellow, fluffy dumplings framed by unfamiliar greens and what was unmistakably mustard. Jaune mimicked Ha-Ru cutting into the dish with the edge of the fork, impaled the piece and took a bite. They tasted nice and fluffy.
Not a moment later, a tall man with spikey black hair, wearing a dark overcoat on top of a black suit, dark grey button up shirt and black pants came over to sit down between Jaune and Ha-Ru, black gloves settling on the table as he took his seat, grinning at them both.
"Enjoying the Knödel, Mr. Arc?" Kaiser intoned. "Or may I call you Jaune?"
"Jaune's fine." The Huntsman said between stuffing his mouth full of the delectable morsels.
"I want to thank you for meeting me with such a short notice, I'll be having you meet the princess soon, we are excited to have you put your miracle skills to work here."
He let out a laugh as Jaune simply swallowed the mouthful and instantly reached for more as Ha-Ru looked on in shock, only stopping from admonishing the blonde man as Kaiser sensed her intent and raised a hand to hold her at bay.
"Naturally you will be well compensated, I think ten million dollars will be more than sufficient for a young man such as yourself."
Jaune paused eating, he didn't know what the value you of a dollar was, but knew the word million was a hefty one to be so easily thrown at him.
"Absolutely, that's so much though…"
"Hahaha, you are more than worth it my boy," Kaiser clapped a hand on the table and took some of the Knödel for himself to enjoy. "I'll take you to meet her after we finish here, as soon as we're finished, I'll have you back to South Korea before you know it!"
Jaune merely nodded, eating the last of the food he had on his plate and stood, ready to work. He made it known and Kaiser let out a chuckle before rising alongside with Ha-Ru, who simply smiled at them both.
An hour drive found him up a winding mountain road to an old-fashioned castle, fitted with armed guards carrying short swords, spears, and firearms on the ramparts letting them through the gate.
"Welcome to my estate," The German said, striding with lengthy steps across the cobblestone ground "I have a room prepared for you, ah! Princess, how gracious of you to meet us!" Jaune turned to see a pair of girls, brunette and black haired both in frilly maid outfits escorting the girl he had only seen photographs of from Ha-Ru approaching, large dull brown eyes looking at him before turning to Kaiser.
"Is he the one you spoke of?" She asked, ignoring Jaune, and Ha-Ru to stand before the tall dark-haired man.
"Ja, princess, I think he is the one who can help fix your condition at last!" Kaiser replied, exuberant, as he knelt down to the smaller girl to look her in the eye as he spoke. "I have the utmost faith he is the answer to your prayers."
Jaune said nothing watching as the two discussed things before Kaiser stood up again, and Seonsol turned to leave back to the castle, while its owner came back to stand before him.
"Very well, I'll be getting back to work. Ha-Ru," He said, turning to leave Jaune with the shorter woman "Bring him to my Executive chiefs, I already love him, but let's see what they make of him."
Ha-Ru chuckled at that, taking Jaune by the hand and leading him to another section of the fortified home.
"That went well." She said before taking him through a reception area filled with a ragtag group of men and women in a mixture of casual wear and camouflage military clothing, their weapons a mixture of hand to hand and firearms.
They all turned to look at him and Ha-Ru as they entered, "Ignore, them, we're taking you to see their bosses."
Her words caused a consternation of scowls and hands reaching for weapons, but holding steady as she led him through the throng of people, until they reached a pair of ornate dark wooden double doors, with a dark skinned woman in leather pants, with a light jacket and white shirt holding a katana in its sheath barring them from entry.
"Out of the way girl, I am here to show the newest associate to the executive masters." Ha-Ru said with a sneer at the dark-skinned woman, who laid a hand on her sword's hilt and drew an inch from the scabbard before Jaune was in her face, hand clasping the pommel and smashing the sheath into the door behind her, burying it half way into the wood and trapping it in place before his other hand smashed down with a hammer blow, shattering both sheath and sword in it.
"Don't." he said, ripping the hilt from her grasp and shoulder checking the shocked woman, sending her sprawling into a pair of men to her left. Ha-Ru stared at him, eyes wide as no one had even seen him move from behind her before he stopped the sword from being drawn, she moved forward, opening the door that hadn't been damaged and tugging Jaune along, thankfully he followed her instead of making her embarrassingly pull on his sleeve to no effect again.
"Come now, Kaiser wants to have you meet the executive masters."
For those wondering why Jaune didn't answer the cellphone calls Lee would have been spamming, Ha-Ru turned it off, Jaune having only used a scroll, doesn't know it's off so he didn't notice.