Honey : The Empire's Treasure

Taking a slight taste test of the nectar inside, Mano knew this was their Amara clan"s honey.

"Where did you find this?"

"Sir, we found it in the Lady"s cellar hidden behind some crates." The guard took Sienna"s backpack from his subordinates to show Mano the rest of the canisters inside.

"How many?" Mano didn"t bother to look himself, his eyes were busy staring at his daughter.

"Twenty in total, sir." The guard said after counting all the containers in the bag and the one in Mano"s hands.

"Only twenty?" Mano weight the canister in his hand.

This canister only weights at most five liters, if there are only twenty canisters in the bag we are still missing about four hundred liters worth of honey.

"Where is the rest, Sienna?" He could have his guards continue their search, but why waste time?

Sienna was confused, he has all the stolen honey in his hands.

"That"s is all of it, Dad."

"Sienna." Mano sent a little of his powers her way.

Rooted in the chair, Sienna had nowhere to run. The pressure her father was placed on her made her body ache. Sweat began to form along her forehead as she struggled to breathe.

Delju was stunned by the turn of events taking place. Though Mano had pushed her out of the room, she forced herself to stay just outside of the door.

When Mano had accused Sienna of stealing, she wanted to march back into there and tell him he has the wrong person. That this must be Jaelah"s scheme and he shouldn"t falsely accuse their daughter without proof. However, she wasn"t even given a chance as Mano had set up a barrier keeping anyone he wanted from intruding into the room.

Seeing him send out the guards to search the residence, Delju finally calmed down. Once Mano doesn"t find any stolen honey in their house, maybe she"ll be able to use this to make some requests as a way for him to make amends.

Pleased with her plan, Delju stood with the servants at the door waiting for the guards to come back from their search empty-handed.

Unfortunately for Lady Delju, she doesn"t know her daughter as well as she thinks she does.

Twenty minutes later, two guards enter the room with a backpack and a canister in their hands.

The next couple for moments afterward had Delju grabbing her chest.

"Dad...please...it"s all...t-there..." This is the first time Sienna has ever been put under her father"s powers.

Struggling to breathe, she implored Mano to stop.

"I...s-swear...Dad...Please!"

Mano watched as his daughter struggle against his aura control. When he knew her body couldn"t handle anymore, and tears were streaking down her face, Mano released her.

"Bring it." Holding out his arm to one of the guards, Mano retrieved his tablet. Opening the recording he saved of that night, Mano played it for Sienna to see.

She held the tablet in her shaking hands as she watched herself of the recording leading Mr. Orist"s group into the farm. It skips from there to show Mr. Orist and his people inside the orchards collecting more honey than they agreed upon.

The next parts in the recording showed them jumping over the farm wall with heavy bags on their backs before exiting out of the back gate where she met up with Mr. Orist to collect her share.

The video stopped there.

She looked up at her father to see emotionless eyes looking back at her.

"Where is the rest, Sienna?"

Sienna couldn"t believe she was taken advantage of by those lowly villagers; she has always prided herself on being smarter than everyone else, but here she was being made the biggest fool.

"...I don"t know..." Sienna muttered, not wanting to admit to her father that she was duped by own her hired people.

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"What do you mean you don"t know...?"

"I...I didn"t know they t-took that much..." Sienna began to cry again as she saw her father"s eyes take on a murderous look.

"Ahahah...you mean to tell me, that my daughter who was daring enough to steal from her family, got double-crossed!" Mano"s shout had some of his power behind it, that it created a force of its own, throwing everyone who was near off their feet.

Sienna, who was the closest, was thrown against the wall.

When Delju saw her daughter on the floor bleeding from her ears, she propelled herself into the room to stand over Sienna, begging Mano to stop.

"Mano...Mano...please, stop...you"ll kill her!" Delju got on her knees to cover Sienna with her body.

Mano looked down at the thieving mother and daughter, disgusted by their actions.

"You will write down everything you know about the people you hired before the end of the day." Mano pointed at the s.h.i.+vering Sienna.

"Guards! No one is to leave this residence...under any circ.u.mstances! If anyone disobeys my orders..." Looking at Lady Delju and Sienna in particular. "...arrest them. You may use force if you have to."

With that said, Mano left the mother and daughter on the floor.

Outside, the forty guards surrounded the whole residence.