Roselia ran towards the fallen figure and slowed down as her vision became clearer, "Huh?"
As she got closer, she was confused, Amy and herself were expecting a demon that had suddenly come through the barrier, but it was a human. He was on the ground, unconscious, his hair was covering part of his face with some of his features still visible. Such features got Roselia staring... intensely.
"Ugh...h-help...m-me..." Roselia flinched from a voice and felt something pulling onto the hem of her dress.
She quickly snapped out of her thoughts and saw the stranger pulling on her dress, "Oh My God?!"
Roselia got down to both of her knees and grabbed hold of the man, "Hey! Wake up! Are you okay?!"
Roselia shook him lightly to try and get him to stay awake but she felt his temperature dropping drastically from the palm of her hands.
Though under the dim light, she was able to get a glimpse of his skin slowly turning pale, his lips turning purple, and his hands feeling freezingly cold.
"Please! Grab ahold of yourself! Stay with me!" Roselia shouted as she continued to lightly shake him.
As she got closer to the man, felt her nose sting, "A smell of blood?" she questioned.
A faint scent of blood can be smelt through her highly sensitive nose.
Roselia placed her hands on the man, "Please pardon my touch," she apologized as she tried to feel around for the source of his injuries.
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After a few seconds or so, she felt wetness on her hands and heard the man hiss softly. He was bleeding on his back, however, not only did she find where the blood came from but after feeling around for a bit, she felt another thing.
WINGS?!
"Ugh!"
"O-oh, I'm so sorry!" She quickly apologized after accidentally putting pressure on his injuries.
"A half-breed? No. A full-blooded? No." Roselia thought as she subconsciously stared at the man, unable to figure out his background.
Roselia snapped back to reality as she felt the man still shaking under her, "You're bleeding too much, I need to quickly bring you inside. Can you stand?"
"..."
No answer.
With him still shaking, without a second thought, Roselia tried to help him get up. She started to support the man from under his arm. As she tried to help the man to get up, he hissed loudly and fell back down on his knees.
"O-oh my, I-I'm so sorry!" Roselia lightly let go of him, "W-we need to quickly do something about that injury of yours! You're bleeding too much!"
Roselia searched around her to see what she can use to cover up his injuries. Unfortunately, they were in a garden, of course, there is not anything that can help him. Roselia then realized that she was wearing her shawl around her neck and quickly unwrapped it.
"This may not be a bandage but it should be large enough to cover up your injuries." Roselia brought her shawl close to the man to help him wrap up his injuries, however, he pushed her hands away.
"P-please...n-no...", he lightly voiced out, breathing heavily.
Roselia stopped for a second before replying, "B-but your injuries, we need to treat them quickly before it gets worse."
"N-no... it's too late...I already lost too much...blood..." He said sadly, voice trembling and with tears almost coming out of his eyes, still refusing Roselia's hand.
"NO! You still can live! If you had lost too much blood, how are you still able to survive until now!"
Roselia got up and brought her hands closer to the man once again. The man pushed away, but this time, with a bit too much force.
"Ah!"
He looked right in Roselia's direction after he realized what he has done, "P-please...you're a human and I'm a demon, aren't you supposed to kill-"
"DEMON OR NOT, WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW IS THAT YOU ARE BLEEDING!" Roselia shouted sternly at the man.
Her eyes widened and she covered her mouth quickly. She looked up, at the man, he was staring at her with no emotion whatsoever in his eyes.
Even Roselia, herself did not expect to shout at him.
"..."
The air was filled with an awkward silence between the two. Neither anyone spoke up nor talked to the other. It was just...dead silence.
Roselia then coughed and interrupted, "Ha...why can't you see that I'm trying to help? I don't care about your race, clan, or whatever status you are but please don't push away someone who is actually trying to help you and not trying to harm you." Roselia softly explains and with a gentler tone.
"..." No words came out from the man. Seconds later, Roselia continued to do what she doing, trying to help him.
"Thank you...then I'll start wrapping your injuries." Roselia began to wrap his injuries after receiving his approval.
The man, on the other hand, just sat there, quietly. He slowly relaxed and let go of his hands from covering his own injuries.
"Um, sorry to ask but is it possible to hide your wings? It's okay not to hide it from me but I'm not sure whether the others would react the same way as I did..."
Before she could finish her sentence, the man softly stuttered, "I...d-don't...h-have...e-enough...m-mana..."
Roselia then nodded, "Okay, I understand. If that's the case then we'll have to go through the secret entrance to enter the manor."
The man, though injured, looked up at Roselia confused.
Roselia continued to slowly wrap his back injuries with her shawl with little to no pressure exerted onto his back. The man lightly hissed as her hands gently grazed his back.
"Ugh...Mhm..." The man tightly sealed his lips with his left hand, trying to hold back whatever sound that just came out.
"Done! Could you stand again? I'll support you."
Without saying anything, the man quietly stood up with the help of Roselia.
"It's okay, take your time, I went to call help already, they should be here soon." Roselia saw the man struggling and comforted him.
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After a few minutes of struggle, they did not move far from where the man had fainted, both Roselia and the man heard someone, "Lady Roselia! I brought Leo!"
"Amy we're here-" As Roselia waved her hands, she felt the man stop.
"It's okay, I asked them for help." She reassured him with a smile.
"My Lady! What's going on? I heard Amy banging my bedroom door earlier, desperately looking for help-" Leo asked worriedly while getting closer to Roselia.
Roselia interrupted, "Just nice Leo, quickly, pass me your outerwear!"
"W-what-"
Before Leo could even finish, Roselia quickly reached out her hands towards Leo, snatching his outerwear from his shoulder and placing it around the injured man's shoulder to cover half of his exposed top half.
As she was helping the man, both Amy and Leo looked at each other. "Lady Roselia...was that the demon- I mean- the person just now?"
"Yes, Amy-" While Roselia was trying to reply to Amy, she heard the sound of metals clinging.
From the corner of her eye, she saw Leo pull out his sword and aimed it at the man. Roselia continued to look at the injured man and block him from Leo.
Without turning to look at Leo, she could feel his killing intent behind her, "Stop it, Leo."
"S-s-sir L-Leo?!" Even Amy, though standing right behind Leo, covered her mouth and slowly backed away from him.
Leo held his sword tightly with his left hand while his other was holding onto the sword cover hung around his waist. He fiercely aimed the sword toward the man, "My lady, please step away from him!"
Roselia, on the other hand, sighed, "Leo, please put your sword away and stand down."
"Who are you?!-"
"Leo, I said, STAND DOWN!" Roselia turned around, facing Leo while her hands continue to support the man.
Leo came back to his senses seconds after Roselia shouted. He lowered his sword and dropped to one knee, head held down, "I'm sorry, My lady! I don't know what is going on with me!"
Roselia did not say anything and continued to look at Leo. She then turned around to look at the man that was shaking behind her and sighed, "Haa...I apologize once again, these are the people that I said to be coming to my aid."
"M-my Lady..." Leo said, still kneeling on the ground.
"We don't have time...how about this? You'll get on Leo's back so that we can easily get you into the manor." Roselia suggested.
"Young Miss-"
"W-what-"
Both Amy and Leo looked surprised at Roselia's suggestion.
"Quick, Leo, get up, we can talk later in my room. He was already bleeding when Amy and I found him and now he's losing more blood just by standing here." She ordered Leo.
"Yes, My Lady." Leo quickly got up and headed towards them.
Roselia nodded and whispered to the man, "It's okay, we'll get you treated once we've reached the manor."
With not a word coming out of the man's mouth, Roselia continued to support the man until he got on Leo's back. "It's fine now, you can rest a bit," she said calmly.
After the man got on Leo's back, they all started to head towards the manor, with both Roselia and Amy carefully supporting the injured man from behind Leo.
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