Zack felled onto floor as he groaned in pain. Blood dripping down from his forehead, bright green eyes glared at the officer's steps.
Night felled upon Somerset, and the Sheriff's office was awfully quiet. Zack curled up into a ball, shaking from the low temperature of the atmosphere.
And then, the sound of clanked keys reached to Zack's ears. As he quickly sat up to breath in the lovely aroma of his deeply missed fried chicken. Zack eyes were laid on a shadow of a small figure.
"Hello~ little boy. Want to come out and play?" spoke a tensing voice.
Zack could recognize the voice immediately, even if the voice is in a different tone. Zack turned his gaze upwards as his eyes met with a deep dark red one.
Zack eyes grew wide as he gaze upon a woman in a dark green over coat, a striped green shirt, blue shorts along with black tights and attached with some brown boots. Her hair short and wild-looking, with colors similar to cherries down to the color of a cactus. Her left eye glowed through the darkness of the jail cell, while her right eye is covered by her hair.
"Who are you?" Zack asked with a cautious voice.
the woman then smile as she sweetly said. "The name is Mary, and I have a request for you... Zackary the beast,"
Zack knotted his brown while he grained his teeth. "What if I refused to listen to your request?"
Mary chuckled softly. "Then I hope you like getting executed the second time, because the Grand Order knights are after you. Their coming closer to Somerset as we speak,"
"The Grand Order?! But how? How could have they found me?!" Zack shouted in disbelief while he started to crew on his fingernails.
"Because I told them, it wasn't hard to convince either," Mary laughed with a grin on her face.
Zack glared at Mary with annoyance as he said. "You... ratted me out, so that I wouldn't refuse your request?!"
"Of course I did. I already knew you had a trust issue, so I made sure to create a sense where you have to relay on me. Clear, right?" Mary mocked.
Zack rolled up his fist into balls as force himself to bow his head and said. "Please... save me. I'll consider your request if you do,"
The sound of heard the jail cell door swung open, Zack lifted his head as he was greeted with a leg of a roast turkey. It wasn't chicken, but it was food none the less. Zack snatched the turkey out of Mary's hand and devoured it all in one setting.
"When you're finally ready, we should get going. The Grand Order will be rushing to get us at anytime now," Mary explained.
"Us? What do you mean us?" Zack asked, confused by what Mary said.
"My reason isn't the same as yours but the Grand Order is after me too," Mary said as she search through the sheriff's desk.
"So you're wanted as well?"
"No. The Grand Order wants me because I'm supposed to be missing,"
"Missing? Like you disappeared one day and never came back?"
"It's more complicated than that but I'll explain later, ready?"
Zack threw the turkey bone onto the floor while he whipped the grease off his face. "Ready,"
"Then let's get going," Mary said as she wrapped a red ribbon around both Zack's and her own wrist.
"What's this?" Zack asked as he gestured to the red ribbon.
"It's so we don't get separated. I don't want to end up with you running away from me," Mary replied as she walked outside with Zack upon the empty streets.
"Fair enough," Zack said as he obediently followed Mary outside of town and into the forest.
"As soon we reached the border line, the knights won't be able to catch us," Mary said as her and Zack ran through the trees.
"There's a border line out here? How? Isn't Somerset part of the Oriental Kingdom?" Zack said while he ran with Mary.
"It is, but right next to the Somerset town is the monster territory. It's suicide for knights from any country to dare enter any land belonging to the Demon Lord," Mary said.
"Won't we get killed by the monsters too?"
"Don't worry about it. Both my coat and this ribbon has been splashed with monster repellent, they won't go anywhere near us,"
"Is that so..."