"So you were kicked out by the Thief Guild?" Aske asked with a smirk as he looked at her.
"Sigh, it wasn't intentional, you know." Mia sat on the railing of the stairs leading to the second floor, her two little legs swinging back and forth out of boredom.
"I was thinking, since the Golden Striped Leeches can be sold for money, isn't selling them sooner the same as selling them later? Why not pocket the money earlier? So I netted all the leeches in that reservoir, ground them into mush, and stuffed them all into jars. I was planning to sell them—cough, to hand them over to Mastero to sell."
"The moment I got back to the guild, I saw him standing at the door with an ashen face, asking me what was in the jars I was carrying. I told him the truth, that they contained Golden Striped Leech mush, and then he snatched a look and beat me up, saying that I'd committed a serious financial loss and the Thief Guild had expelled me."
