When Steel heard that, he dropped to his knee and whispered, "I'm sorry. I am sorry for not achieving my goal of killing that woman for you." After whispering to himself, he dropped dead!
When this happened, the crowd who were rooting for Steel to win were very unhappy after seeing their friend die at the hands of Excalibur.
They stood up from their seats, grabbed their weapons from the floor, and went toward the arena. The crowd was booing and cursing at the archer.
"Stop it. Stop it!"
The town's leader's daughter said she was stressed that her future husband would be bruised and beaten by the place she loved. The angry crowd didn't hear her, and some didn't care what she said.
"Mother, please stop them!"
The elder looked at her daughter and said, "Why should I? He's a government dog and killed one of our business partners, so he deserves this punishment!"
"But, mom. He's my future husband!"
The mom didn't take that answer lightly. She grabbed her daughter's ear, pulling it. Dragging her kid, she said, "The one who gets to choose your husband is me, not you!"
"I wish I never had you!" She dragged her by the ear to the home to punish her.
'If the public finds out, I harmed a single civilian in this town. We are in big trouble.' They were coming closer to Excalibur with their weapons, ready to strike.
'My flow drained from my ultimate, so I can't make clones anymore. Is there any other option without hurting them?'
"Die, you piece of crap!" Town people simultaneously stabbed Excalibur.
"Yes, we-?!"
However, they never thought about Merlin coming from the sky and blocking the strikes in front of his dagger, and also, they never saw it coming because one of their own blocked the attack from the archer's back.
"You fool, why you betrayed us because of this man!" The husband of the town's chief said.
"At some point, I was going betray you, and today is the perfect time for it."
The husband said, "Kill... kill her with the rest. Don't think of her as your friendly neighbor who always smiled. Think of her as a rat starting from today!"
"Thank god, you two came in the neck of time. I didn't know without your help, sis and Merlin."
"Thank me later, Cal. Let's go." They ran.
This woman who blocked the attack to help Excalibur was one of his siblings, Harpe Clockwork, the youngest of the siblings. She specializes in the polearms. She has steampunk goggles on top of her short, messy brown hair. Her eyes pupils were red + marks, and finally, she had a steampunk backpack on her back to look cool. The polearm pointed out from the pack.
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"Why did you betray us, Harpe? Why?" A woman with her son blocked her from leaving.
"Sis, don't cause any harm to them. You should know we will have a major backlash if the public finds out!" She nodded and used her weapon on the ground to fling herself far from the woman and son.
"You have nowhere to go, you assholes!" Men pointed their pistols at Excalibur and Merlin and blocked them.
"That's right, don't mo-?!" Before he could pull the trigger, Harpe came from the air and slid under the man's legs. This move distracted the men, so the teacher and pupil ran past.
"Shitheads, get your acts together and capture them!" The husband yelled.
"You know what this reminds me of?" He stopped and continued, "It reminds me of when we played tag as kids."
She instantly replied, "Omg, you are correct- " Before she could say nostalgia, a gunbullet was about to kill her, but Merlin blocked the shot using his dagger.
"Pay attention to your surroundings, you two!"
She replied, " We are in a bit of a pickle." The whole town surrounded them.
"Hahahaa, there is nowhere to run now, is it?!" The husband said while going toward them.
"We can harm you, but you can damage us." He returned and said, "Leave the girl alone and kill the other two!"
"Yes, sir." They agreed.
"Girly, you heard him. Come with us, and we will let your friends alone." When she saw this man, she panicked and dropped to the ground, surprising Mariln and her brother.
"Harpe, what did this man do to you?" Merlin asked, and she couldn't answer because she was heavy breathing and panicking. Excalibur got his arrow ready to fire at the man.
"Don't, Cal, don't worry about me." He replied to her sister.
"How can I not worry about you when you panicked by seeing that man when you are always a strong girl?"
The man stated, laughing, "Hahahah. You know what would happen if you harmed me, right so—"
*Breaks*
He dropped to the ground and said, "Sir, why did you?"
The elder of the town, the chief's husband, gives the hammer to a person beside him and later says, "Sorry, Harpe. I would do this much earlier if I knew what he did to you long ago."
Then he continued, "Everyone, this will happen if you sexually assault someone in my town! It doesn't matter who you are! If you sexually attack someone in my home, I torture you myself!"
"Now you understand, kill them all, even the girl! When I come back, I better see their corpses!" After saying that, he grabbed the hammer and dragged the man to a secure room.
Harpe was traumatized by seeing the man who sexually assaulted her when she was undercover. She couldn't get up on how terrified she was.
Merlin grabbed her hand and carried her on his back. "I will watch you back." She didn't speak for a while.
"Don't drop her!"
His teacher replied instantly, "You should know me by now, kid."
The archer was about to reply to Merlin, but a woman interrupted him, "Your sister was a daughter to me! Now she betrayed us! I won't forgive her for that!" The woman fired a bullet at Marlin.
He instantly blocks it with a dagger. At the same time, he was distracted, blocking the attack. The woman's son was about to stab Harpe, but Excalibur blocked the attack with his hands, making him bleed!
"Why- why did you block it by with your hands?"
The kid said, and the archer replied, "You shouldn't listen to these bad adults. You end up in jail for listening to them."
The kid runs away after hearing Excalibur, and the mother, seeing her son run away, dropsals, her weapons and raises her sand chasing after her son while yelling, "You idiot, come back and do not listen to a ranker."
The archer released a knife from his hand and instantly covered it with bandages. "Thank you for saving me, and Harpe is thankful to you, too, but she can't talk right now because of her trauma! Now, we should hurry up and escape."
The bowman nodded, and they ran to escape. It wasn't easy to leave the place when all the townspeople wanted to kill them, and they couldn't harm them. The only thing they could do was block and dodge.
For Merlin, trying to dodge the attacks was harder for him than for Excalibur because he was carrying his pupil's sister. Hence, the citizens took advantage of the situation by targeting the teacher.
Excalibur saw this and fired two arrows, his bleeding hand pained him, but he protected them by blocking the bullets with projectiles from King Aurter. The shots got squished from hitting them.
"How are we supposed to attack them when these motherfuckers can react faster than a bullet."
A man with mace came forward and said, "Hehe, do not worry. I will not let these fools go."
Then he smashed the weapon toward Merlin but blocked it with the daggers. The man saw this and said, "If you don't harm me, I will harm you and the girl on your back."
Another mace attack came at Merlin and was about to hit them if Excalibur didn't fire an arrow, hurting the man. The act shocked his teacher and the rest of the town.
"Excalibur, you know what happens now that you hurt these people!" Merlin said, but the archer instantly replied.
"Do not worry. We now have permission from Amber Amadede to injure them, but we can't kill them."
"But if the public finds out about this, we will be in trouble!"
"Oh, she said she would take all responsibility, and the public loves her so much that they forgot about her harming these guys a couple of days even though we are the ones."
After Excalibur's explanation, Merlin doesn't say anything, but the village leader returns from punishing her daughter and says, "Sigh, even now, Amadede family would not let us alone."
She stabs her wooden stick on the ground, "This is one of the reasons why we are dealing with the White Clan." When everyone in the town was about to attack the rankers, now they could get hurt.
Chief yelled, "Stop, you fools. Let them go." What she said made everyone in the town, including Excalibur, Merlin, and Harpe, even more shocked at what she said.
The one with mace, who got an injury from an arrow, spoke up, "Town chief, why are we letting these men go?"
She explained, "Now that they have permission from higher-ups to harm us, we be in trouble!"
He was about to object, but she yelled, "My words are absolute. No objections!" Hearing that, he and the whole town stopped pursuing them. And they escaped.
Her husband came and said, "Are you sure this is wise?"
To Be Continued.