As Mason confessed to Cassie and kissed her, Frank, the one who is commanding the guards got infuriated and said, "Damn!! Why Casanova!? Is my love for you unworthy!?"
Cassie replied, "I am sorry Frank, but I do not love a type of man who loves war and killings and the type who always get all things for himself, regardless of who they are and that's what makes you dangerous."
Frank denies it and said, "What makes you think I'm dangerous!? What do you know!? I only kill because that's what I'm made. Ever since my parents died in the hands of those greedy people, I, myself starting that day will shed blood and will continue until my satisfaction sates, but unfortunately humans did not have satisfactions, is there?"
Cassie replied, "It is unfortunate that your parents meet such a fate but the way you are now is like you are being turned into one of the greedy people that killed your parents, and someday you will repeat it to the other people the same moment you experienced."
After hearing this, Frank got downhearted and ordered the guards to kill Mason and capture Cassie, but Mason replied as he points his sword to him, "You can try..." and the guards unexpectedly became nervous when he stared at them.
Suddenly someone shouted, "What's all the ruckus here!?" as he approaches the gate and saw the guards are ganging up on someone and asked, "What's going on here?"
One of the guards replied, "They said they wanted to meet the king for some reason and Sir Frank stopped them until it came to this."
"I see. Then, where is Frank?", the man asked
The guard answered, "There sir", as he points Frank and the man approached him and said, "Well, well, well, what do we have here? Care to explain it to me, young man?"
As he turn his head and looked up, he was shocked that it was the captain asking and suddenly became nervous when he was asked yet he answered, "T-these people, they said they wanted to meet the king but I stopped them because they have no right to enter the city, let alone the palace and its king."
The man replied, "I see, then I will step up and fix this mess of yours" and commanded the guards, "Men! Stop these nonsense actions and get back to your stations or else I will arrange an execution for you all!"
And the guards immediately went back to their stations as they were afraid to face an execution. As he approaches Mason and Cassie, he immediately recognizes that young man's face and he was shocked to see that Mason resembles much from his father and started to ask, "Young man, if I'm not mistaken, your father is Leonard, right?"
Mason was surprised and asked, "Old man, how do you know my father's name?" as he holds his sword cautiously.
The man replied and asked, "Hey young man, is that the way you treat your elders? Answering their question with another question? If you're really the son of Leonard, then where is your twin sister?"
Mason was surprised that the old man knew that he had a twin sister and started thinking who he is, because not only his sister but he also knew his father's name so he became aware of this man and said, "Hey old man, how do you know about my family? Answer me first."
The old man replied, "Fine, fine. I will tell you the whole story of who Leonard is but first, let's not talk here so how about going to a place where we can eat while telling the whole story, what say you?"
Mason answered, "Fine by me, let's go then."
As the three entered the kingdom, many people were staring at Mason as if he had committed anything and Cassie noticed and asked him while walking, "Mason, aren't you quite famous? Did you done something to make people stare like that to you?"
Mason replied, "Well, that's because my sister and I were known as the direct descendant of the first witch hunters; Hansel and Gretel due to our skills and willpower to kill, torture and capture witches for a living. And during our journey, we were stumbled across a village that was raided by the witches and we didn't hesitate to save the town and slaughter the witches that were raiding the town until one of them escaped. After that, news spreads so fast and rumors too, that we are the direct descendant of Hansel and Gretel."
Cassie was astounded and amazed when Mason told her about this and became more curious on what kind of witches that they have killed so far but the old man interrupted and said, "Hey you love birds, we're here. Welcome to the finest yet cheapest restaurant in the kingdom, I hope you enjoy a good time here."
Mason replied, "Thanks for the recommendation old man."
As they enter the restaurant, the old man tells the story, "Once upon a time, there was a group of family of five; a mother, a father and the three brothers. Among the three brothers was Leonard, your dad and the other two is Michael and Gabriel; Michael is the oldest among the three bothers while Gabriel is the second and Leonard is the youngest.
They once lived in a kingdom called Camelot, one of the greatest kingdom of their time, its power is on par with the kingdom of Ieyasu in terms of military and economy. The two great nations are on friendly terms each other, in the past they were enemies until they come to realization that they have one common enemy, the witches; beings who manipulates, who destroys, who pillages and who curses the people became a threat to them, so they pressed in unification and made a united front to battle the witches but even the two united kingdoms can't defeat the witches, let alone managed to kill one.
So the two kingdoms decided to build a defense strategy and a weapon that can par the witches overwhelming power, that's where they created the Blood Knights; the Blood Knights are a group of knights with extraordinary strength, speed and most of all they are extremely immune to magic. In order to recruit a Blood Knight, each villager's age ranging from seven years old must undergo intense training in order to draw out their extraordinary talents depending on the holy treasures that will be compatible to them.
And your father was one of the villagers who became a Blood Knight who was chosen by the Holy Treasure Excalibur due to his willpower and along with him is his two older brothers; Michael became a Blood Knight because he was chosen by the Holy Treasure Morningstar due to his superhuman strength and agility while Gabriel was chosen by the Holy Treasure Muramasa Blade, the sword of the Samurai Muramasa who once put part of his soul and granted superhuman physical attributes on anyone who weilds it.
As the two kingdoms successfully created the Blood Knights, they march to the witch's lair that lies in the mysterious forest in the north and while they were on a journey, they stumbled across many creatures like Minotaurs, Cyclops, Trolls, Ogres, Werewolves, Vampires, Ghouls and Witches, reducing their numbers from 2000 to 300 men. The casualties were pretty heavy as every time they stumble across every monster in their path, until they reached the Witch's Lair with just 70 men remaining while the other 230 were either killed, lost, committed suicide or went back and the three brothers were perfectly safe.
Until they reach the outer gate of the lair, and before they enter it they devised a plan of infiltration. In order to execute the plan wisely, they split the groups into four; the first group were grouped of 20 men and they will be the ones who will enter the lair while the second group which is grouped of 23 men will draw out the attention of the creatures who are guarding the gate and will hold them off at all cost while the third one will assist in fending off the creatures along with the second group with only 20 men and lastly is the fourth group where your father is, will go back to the kingdom to report of this matter with only seven of them.
As they execute the plan, they immediately make a run to the forest for it is the quickest route towards back to the kingdom but it is not a safe one because in that forest there is a ghost town nearby and it is dwelt by demonic presence and rumors say that if you enter that town, you cannot leave unless you have something to offer a worth than a soul and if you didn't offer up something that is not worth your soul, you will be taken to hell both body and your soul.
Well, let's not stay away from the main story...
As they make a run, they accidentally got lost and suddenly came to a town that has been ghosted for a while and one of them felt the presence of something demonic. There, something just sprouted from the ground: The Excalibur of Arthur the Great. It is said that the sword was forged with only one purpose; to exterminate witches from the entire country. Your father was put to the test, a test to whether the sword will acknowledge him as its next owner and in order to pull the sword out, you must have a pure heart.
And fortunately, your old man had a pure heart and succeeded in pulling out the sword and the demons recognized Leonard as the next owner of the Excalibur, that's what made him well-known in other villages in the kingdom but the villagers were not the only one who got the news. As the news and rumors spreads, it reached in a witch's lair and gather all the other witches nearby to plot on killing Leonard..."
"What happened after that?", Mason asked.
The old man replied, "You will know once you seek out for answers. For now, all I can tell you is this." As Mason and Cassie looked at each other. "We are in the endgame now, and there will be an incoming bloodbath."
To be continued on the next story...