Lilith left something else unsaid: Edward also needs to turn me back into a cat first. In human form, without using Beyonder abilities, she could never catch rats!
Isabella paused midstep. "Then we drum up business during the day and work at night?"
"Sure."
When the time came, they could secretly use magic and illegal abilities, keeping the others from seeing.
Just then, a well-dressed blond man approached. "You can catch rats?"
Isabella immediately stepped forward, shielding the others behind her, and eyed the blond man warily. "Yes."
The blond man turned to leave. "Come with me."
After a few steps, he realized the children had not followed. Looking back, he asked flatly, "Well?"
Isabella snorted. "Who are you to order us around? How do we know you aren't some bad guy who traffics people?"
The blond man ground his leather boot against the ground, making a scraping sound. "I am the secretary to Admiral Amyrius, the Governor of Bayam. If you don't believe me, you can ask the people around here."
The Governor?
A trace of startled suspicion appeared in Isabella's eyes. Why would someone so important ask children like us to catch rats?
Lü Er'an was rather helpless himself. It was not that he insisted on hiring children to catch rats, but... there simply was no one else in Bayam who specialized in it.
Last night, while Admiral Amyrius's mistress was resting in her bedroom, a rat had slipped under her covers and bitten a bloody wound into her thigh.
She had screamed so loudly in fright that the people at the Governor's Mansion had almost thought pirates were attacking again.
And so, early the next morning, the matter had fallen to his secretary, Lü Er'an.
Yet after searching all over Bayam, he had heard of no professional