"here, drink first"
Lorick gave a warm tea to her and sat beside her. Never been in his life, he saw Pan crying or showing this kind of depressing expression. But he knew for sure, this situation was caused by Zaghard.
"...thanks~ Lorick.."
"you don't have to act like that Pan... you know you can count on me right?"
"...just for this one day then.."
She folded her hand on the counter table and buried her face in it. It didn't take time before she started crying again.
"hiks...hiks.."
Lorick decided to just sit there and accompanied her. He looked around to see if Zaghard did something to her shop.. but nothing was destroyed or broken in it.
"so it must be his doing something cruel to Pan.." He mumbled
They stayed like that for more than five minutes. Pan stood and went to the back room to wash her face. She's back and sat beside Lorick.
"so, what's going on Pan? why that bastard came to this place?"
"...cause i told him.. about Yana and the others"
"huh? wait a minute Pan... told him? you have a connection with those soldiers?!"
"...."
He stood in front of her and grabbed her shoulder.
"oi... Pan...tell me..."
She was still silent. She didn't look to his eyes and kept looking to the floor.
"Pan....you know how they treated us here...why on earth you want to do something with them.."
"...you wouldn't understand"
"seriously?! of course i won't!! that's why I'm asking you right now!!"
"it hurts.. let it go.."
".... I'm sorry.."
Lorick took one step back back and stared at her.
"now I'm not really sure what i must think about you"
".... it's fine~"
She looked at him with a really cold eyes. That's not the Pan that he knew.
"i don't need anyone to understand or help either" Her voice was really deep and cold
".....i hope it's really worth.... whatever thing that you try to keep here.." He left the shop
-criing-
Pan just sat there and looked at the door.
"worth it?.... of course.. my pride, my life, my body... whatever is it, I'll gladly give it for that" She bit her lips
She wiped her tears and cleaned her shop while thinking about something.
"Yana... you're mean...no, it's my punishment because i deceived them..."
She kept cleaning her cooking tools to calm her mind.
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"hey you there! can you use healing skill?'
A soldier approached him and he looked tired. Yana only shaked his head and shrugged his shoulder.
"-sigh- i know it's not easy to capture that chief.. but sir Marleus really should hold back a little.. to keep him alive is really hard at this point"
"...should i call someone from the base?"
"nah, we will make it somehow. Everyone is facing some problems now.."
He was back to the place where Chanotte's captured and followed by Yana.
He could see so many scratches on the wall. They were definitely not caused by human's doing. The damages were showing a very sharp object that ravaged the wall. Several broken cell's door and the crushed floor also could be seen along the way.
"...this area shouldn't allow anyone to use their skill.. so this must be some kind of weapon or physical abilities.. and it's more dangerous than the Half-beast"
"you're here to help us move this man right?"
"yes, the others already have their dinner by now"
"those slackers..."
They arrived at the end of the corridor and Yana could see some soldiers were gathered there.
"how's the condition? could he make it?"
"yeah, somehow... the three of us used our [MOTHER'S TEARS II] simultaneously to keep him alive"
"whoa, good work there"
"no kidding. We totally need rest after this"
"of course. Let the rest to take care of this"
Yana came foward and stood in front of Chanotte. He was unconscious and so many bloods splattered around him. That amount of blood was showing how bad the damage that he received from his enemy.
"take him to the room near the commander's room"
"roger that"
Yana and the other soldiers pulled him and carried him slowly. When they reached the prison entrance, a soldier came at their direction.
"good work! you're just back from black feather forest right? to wipe out those wapeer?"
"yeah, if it's not for sir Chillyd, we already dead by now"
"whooa, glad i didn't come and chose to guard the fort"
"-sigh-, ...is that the chief of king's guard? what's happened?"
"..he tried to escape from his cell"
"cell? he's a criminal now?"
"yeah, he failed to annihilate that monster village in the south and our one hundred new recruit soldiers died there"
"for real?! i thought he was stronger than any our captains here!"
"well, looking at his condition right now.. I'm not really sure"
"that's make sense.. by the way, we also caught a monster along our way back. Now we will put it in the prison"
"that must be the monster that made a ruckus at the plaza! glad it get caught"
"yeah, sir Chillyd would have a good time with it"
"-glup- sir Chillyd is more cruel than sir Zaghard in terms of torture skills"
"it deserved that kind of punishment. It killed sir Arshon"
"WHAA?! really?!"
"quiet!! this information should be a secret for now"
"...gosh.. i hope sir Chillyd would give it the pain like in hell"
"yes, don't worry about that"
They continued their way to take Chanotte. Yana kept carrying him and tried to analyze the information that he got just now.
"good Shanti...i hope you can wait for a little longer"
-----( Chapter 90 "What do i expect?" )-----