"Damn! Another one filled with decayed corpse." I said as I opened another grave which turned out to be also filled with a skeleton.
I was at the cemetery with Raven and Jacob, who too were digging out corpses to see if there were any gold hidden here or not. But even after searching for a long while, the only thing we gathered up were corpses.
Unfortunately for me, Alice didn't know how to do necromancy otherwise these skeletons and decayed corpses could come to use, but for now it was for naught.
'I wonder if somebody did business in skeletons.'
My mind wanders to unusual places again as I lie down over the ground. The search was long and fruitless. Seeing the two still working their asses, I stop them.
"Raven you can stop now and Jacob…" I thought for a moment as the sweat glistened down his skin, "You can keep going if you want."
"I'm the one who's handicapped! You should be worried about me more than him." Jacob angrily said joining Raven as they both sat down.
We took a bit of rest as the silence enveloped us, "So… you guys found nothing as well, huh."
Raven shook his head, "Not yet."
"If you're talking about finding a dead granny whose lower parts still haven't been decayed then, yeah I found something… I found something very strange."
I nod in understanding, "Should have known that would tinkle your dingle."
"Wh- What! That's not what I mean-" Jacob tried to reason but I didn't hear it.
I turned to Raven and smirked, "Say what Raven, why don't we both take a walk for... let's say a few minutes." I looked at Jacob's face, "You should be done by that time, right?"
"What the fuck do you mean!"
"As you say, sir." Raven smiled in understanding and we got up.
"Hey! Stop! This isn't a good joke!... This is my manhood we're talking about." He screamed as we actually walked away before removing ourselves from his view.
As we walked, I said to Raven, "Do you think he can hear us?"
"Good," My tone takes a different wave, "What do you think about Jacob?"
"In whatever you deem important."
Raven went quiet for a few seconds before answering, "That kid is a bit of a loudmouth and a lot disrespectful but… as a person, I suppose he is good on the inside."
Then he looked up in the sky as he remembered a scene, "I remember a few days ago, when I was walking through the house, I witnessed upon something. A young maid was standing on a cranky old stool and was dusting the walls. But the stool which was old, suddenly couldn't take her weight and broke."
"It was a long fall… and if it weren't for Jacob who stepped into save her, she might have gotten big injuries." Then he smiled discreetly, "Even as he felt the pain from his crippled leg from overusing his strength, he didn't show it to the girl. He also didn't take advantage of her kindness at that moment and just simply left."
"So as a person, I can say he is a bit reliable."
He said all that but I felt that he had something else to say that he kept quiet about, "And what is it that concerns you?"
He groaned a bit, "Even with his good qualities, I can clearly see that he, at one time, was a good person. But something happened that had changed him so drastically."
He then looked at me, "I'm won't pry but I would be cautious before trusting him with something truly dangerous."
I nod at him, soaking in his words and understanding the midst of it. It was as I thought, he didn't change much. It was just that he was angry at some people but couldn't take it out on anyone so it was damaging him. If that anger weren't to be released anytime soon, then it might consume him completely.
Something that might work in my favor or not.
As we talked, we rounded back to the place as Jacob leaned on a tombstone with a frown.
"You guys actually left me."
I looked around, a bit curious then back at him, "What happened? You didn't do your business yet?"
"What fucking business! I said I'm not into dead old ladies!" He screamed out loud as I put my pinkies in my earholes.
"Stop shouting. Are you trying to put us in crime of grave robbing?"
"…That's another matter." I said turning away, "So one last grave to look then."
Raven frowned, "But we searched all of them."
"Not that one though." I pointed towards the bald fuckers grave.
"But weren't we the ones who arranged it anyway?" Jacob said and he was right.
It was me who put him in that grave but there was something strange about it. I remembered it a while back at the walk, that this place had already been reserved for that baldy's grave.
Now why would someone, who was very rich and full of promiscuous life, prepare his grave?
It might be normal for others but this didn't feel normal to me.
So with that, we dug up the grave and kept on digging underneath before I felt something hard.
"There's something here." I say and all three of us work our ass off and finally the face of it was revealed.
It was a big steel box that had been neatly placed 12 feet underneath the ground.
"Shit!" Jacob cursed, "It's gonna take forever to take that thing out."
"But we found it and that's what matters." Raven said.
I pat the back of both of them, "How about this, when we get this out, I will give you both a percentage of what is hidden here?"
That immediately shone a glint over Jacob's eyes while Raven too felt a bit attracted.
"How much?" Jacob asked.
"I'll give each of you 1% percent."
"Man… you're quite cheap." Jacob said with a deadpan look.
"How about you do it for free then hah!"
"Can't you see I'm already digging!" Jacob said digging out the dirt like it was jacking off.