"Who the hell are you?" exclaid Anita with a startled expression. Fortunately, no one could hear her due to Anna's ability.
"Calm down-"
"Calm down. You suddenly appear out of nowhere and ask to calm down? Answer ! Who are you and what do you want with ?" Anita asked with narrowed eyes as she stared at Anna.
"I'm here to rescue you, so calm down," Anna said with her eye twitching in irritation due to Anita's scream.
"Huh? Rescue ?"
"Yes, I'm here with your father," Anna disclosed.
"What? My dad is here? Where?" Anita asked with widened eyes, more in worry than elation.
"He is outside. Co with ; I will lead you to him," Anna said with a small smile.
The instant she heard that Anna was here to rescue her, the hope that had disappeared from Anita's eyes when she had given up on her life reappeared brighter than ever. However, it was just for a mont because due to her skeptical personality, there was no way she would believe what Anna said just like that. It might be a plan drafted by those assholes of kidnappers. She might not know what the goal was in all of this, but she would certainly find it out!
"My father can't afford your services," she said after she thought things through.
"No, he definitely can't," Anna agreed.
"So, there's no way that he could have sent you to rescue ," Anita stated with a cautious look on her face.
"I never said he was the one that sent here," Anna clarified.
"Huh? But you just said-"
"I said that I'm here to rescue you and that your father is waiting for us outside. I never said that he was the one who ordered to co save you."
"Then who sent you?"
"Alexander Eswald, my...master," Anna answered.
"Eswald, hmm, where did I hear this na?" Anita placed her finger on her chin as she thought.
"He is-"
"Ah, I now rember!" Anita exclaid, then added, "Eswald, that's the family na of the noble who promised my father that he would help him if he ever had a problem."
From the mont she could think, Anita had been hearing the story of the noble that had promised her father to help him should he have a problem. This story was one that Cedrix always used as an example to show his daughter that good deeds were never lost and encouraged her to help others.
Even though she always felt that her father's thought process was naive, she still listened to him. So, the na 'Eswald' rang a bell in her head the instant she heard it.
Anna nodded in confirmation, "Yes, my master is the son of the man who made the promise to your father."
Anita nodded in understanding.
"Now that you understand, let's go. We shouldn't waste ti here."
"How would we escape? There are guards— in fact, how did you enter in the first place?" Anita wondered.
"Later. For now, we should really go," Anna urged her.
Anita nodded, then imdiately shook her head, "Sorry, but I can't go alone and abandon my friend."
Anna raised a brow in surprise; she wasn't aware that Anita got kidnapped with a friend.
Anita, noticing the confusion in Anna's gaze, explained, "she's a nun I encountered here, and she's been great to since we t. I can't just escape and leave her."
Hearing her explanation, Anna fell silent, thinking about what she should do. In the end, she sighed and nodded, "alright, we'll take her with us. Where is she?"
"Umm... about that..." Anita scratched her head awkwardly.
"What is it?" Anna asked with furrowed brows.
"Well, a few days ago, she and her two acolytes were taken to that chamber," Anita pointed behind Anna.
Following the direction she was pointing to, Anna saw the room she was talking about, which was the sa room she had heard the scream coming from.
"Sorry, but we can't do anything for her," Anna said in a serious tone as she looked back at Anita.
"But—"
"No, I was willing to help your friend because you asked to help her, but I won't go out of my way to risk my life and my mission to help her," said with her usual cold expression.
"Then I won't co with you!" Anita stated.
Of course, she was just bluffing. Even though she had beco friends with Mina and liked the adorable nun, she wouldn't risk her freedom, or in the worst-case scenario, her life, just to save soone else. She wasn't that foolish. The problem was that Anna didn't know this.
For Anna, Anita was one of those people with a hero complex, soone willing to risk her life for others. Understanding that individuals with such traits were typically stubborn, Anna believed no amount of convincing would sway Anita. Thus, instead of wasting ti, Anna decided to take drastic asures.
Raising her hand, prepared to knock Anita unconscious, Anna suddenly froze. A split second later, she raised her head, staring into the boundless darkness visible in the mountain.
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Anna's gaze turned wary as she heard footsteps approaching from that direction. Retrieving her daggers, she tensely followed the approaching sounds.
Two n soon erged from the darkness.
One man had a taut body and was clad in a white tank top paired with long black pants. He sported a bald head and a serious expression, but the combination with his large eyes gave him a more comical appearance than a stern one.
The other man, however, had a lithe body, with fiery orange locks cascading down, and black eyes. Unlike the man walking next to him, who was dressed like a thug, this one was finely attired in luxurious orange and black garnts. His tunic carried a regal orange hue adorned with intricate black embroidery, complented by a pair of well-fitted trousers blending both colors seamlessly. In any case, he looked like a noble who wasn't supposed to be here.
As the two n approached, just a few ters from the captives who still looked downward despite hearing soone approaching, Anna noticed an unconscious woman's body on the bald man's shoulders. The woman had the sa fiery hair color as the finely dressed man.
'Isn't it-' Anna halted abruptly when the man with orange hair suddenly stopped walking and glanced in their direction with a frown on his face.
"Don't worry, he can't see us," Anna reassured Anita, who had tensed up when the man glanced in their direction.
Feeling that his friend had stopped, the bald man also halted and glanced at him. "What is it? Sothing wrong?"
"Huh? Ah, no, it's just that I feel like soone is staring at ."
Following his gaze, the bald man stared directly in Anna's direction.
Anita tensed up again under the bald man's stare, her heart beating wildly and beads of sweat forming on her forehead, but Anna remained calm. She knew they couldn't see her; after all, those two n were either at level 3 or 4, and there's no way they could see through her ability to hide herself.
As she expected, after several seconds of staring in their direction, the bald man shrugged and turned to his friend. "There's no one there; it's in your head."
"Yeah... it must be that," the man with orange hair nodded and then resud walking.
'Scary,' Anita thought as she released a breath she didn't know she was holding.
anwhile, Anna was observing the unconscious girl on the bald man's shoulder with furrowed brows, 'it's her, right?'
The n passed the rows of captives and walked to the door where the scream kept coming from. Just as the bald man was about to open the door, the noble man stopped again and looked back.
He swept his gaze all over the captives and then asked, "Wasn't there supposed to be a Virax?"
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