Either way, Prince Lester didn’t follow William’s example.
He turned around the hut and heard commotion from the back.
Thud! Slash!
The sound of sothing heavy fell to the ground could be heard followed by the sound of sothing sharp cutting through the flesh.
Prince Lester felt bad and quickened his pace.
Upon reaching the back, he saw Aurora raised the small knife in her hand and stabbed the second bandit on his neck. Her short stature made her have to raise her hand higher, but it still reached the bandit’s neck accurately.
Slash!
Aurora pulled her knife and hand away as she stepped to the side.
Blood spurted out of the bandit’s neck and he fell down with a thud not far from where the other bandit had fallen.
The first bandit was directly killed by Aurora after she jumped down from the window. Her movents were swift and clean, leaving no room for error. Before the bandit could even react, he was stabbed in the neck and blood poured out like waterfall.
He couldn’t fight back in the slightest bit.
Once the second bandit fell, Aurora raised her head and saw Prince Lester standing with a sword in his hand. He stared in her direction, not saying anything.
"Are you alone?" Aurora asked, her body remained tense.
She knew that there were four people who were guarding this hut and if Prince Lester is here, there might be others who co along with him.
The other bandits could be dealt with.
"Knight William is here," Prince Lester recovered and replied. "Miss, please co with us."
Aurora nodded.
The blood stained her hand and knife, but Aurora didn’t care about this. Today, she had killed four people in total and no matter how uncomfortable her heart was, Aurora suppressed all of her feelings and walked forward.
"Miss?" William had already finished dealing with the second bandit in his side when he saw Aurora ca with Prince Lester beside her. His eyes landed on Aurora’s hand and his expression turned solemn. "Did you get hurt? There should be so dicine in the carriage. We should head back soon, Miss."
"It’s not my blood," Aurora replied and pointed at the hut. "Try to see if you can find any agreent or contract inside."
Agreent or contract?
William was confused but Prince Lester understood that these bandits must have been hired by soone else. But it was unlikely for those people to use a written agreent when hiring these bandits and so on.
It would be better to be an oral agreent so that they would not leave any evidences.
Of course, not everyone would agree with this thod.
After all, the oral agreent would make it impossible for them to ask for the reward once the mission was done. Without any evidence, would these people fulfill their words?
So people might take back their words.
So the written agreent was still necessary.
"Miss, wipe the blood," Prince Lester reminded.
Aurora glanced at the bodies of these bandits and then glanced at Prince Lester. "Search them out, the agreent might be on them."
Prince Lester nodded.
Seeing Prince Lester checked on the two bodies at the front, Aurora went to the back and searched out the body of the two bandits.
But these bandits didn’t really bring anything.
Their clothes were only coarse linen and their pocket only carried so bronze coins.
It worth nothing.
Aurora saw this and then shook her head.
She had the feeling that there was no point for her to check on the others either.
As she ca back, she saw Prince Lester also only showed a few bronze coins on his hand. There was no agreent or anything like that on these bandit’s bodies.
The copper coins on Aurora’s hand was slightly stained with blood and Aurora handed them all to Prince Lester.
"You can use them if you want to."
Prince Lester looked at the few pieces of copper coins in his hand and put it away. Copper coins were not very valuable for nobles. But for those who were commoner or at the bottom of the society, even a couple of copper coins ant a lot for them.
Soon, William ca out while carrying a box with him.
"The hut didn’t have anything valuable. I found this under the bed," William said.
The box was locked and Aurora looked at it for a mont before using her knife to pry the lock open. This kind of cheap lock was really easy to break.
Clack!
The lock was broken and Aurora opened the box. There was only one scroll inside along with a few silver and copper coins. This should be the bandit’s money.
Aurora thought about how the bandits let her inside the hut but they themselves stayed outside and shook her head. It seed that the bandit had never even considered the possibility of her running away and took their money away with them.
These bandits were really stupid.
Opening the scroll, Aurora read the content and her eyes turned cold. She folded the scroll back and then looked at William and Prince Lester in front of her. "We’ll go back now."
"Yes."
The two of them were paying attention to Aurora’s appearance.
In the beginning, the two of them thought that Aurora would be terrified or crying.
But they were wrong.
Very wrong.
They found Aurora was ready to make a way out by herself without even waiting for them. Perhaps, she didn’t even know that there would be soone who would search for her right away when she was kidnapped.
And even after seeing them and finding what she was looking for, Aurora remained calm and stable.
Hearing her order, all William and Prince Lester could do was to follow her order and returned to the broken carriage and the entourage who followed them.
Aurora took a step forward and held her hands together.
Her eyes were sharp and cold.
To think that this person dared to attack her like this.
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