Anyone would not suspect him as something else if he did not wear the fur made from the beast, similar to what they encountered almost every day. That's why one of them, when they noticed him, didn't hesitate to point their guns toward him.
Thankfully, Eliza was calm and wasn't startled by the sudden loud voice that echoed through her ears. As if that common sudden occurrence was typical for her.
"Who are you?" Eliza inquired.
Her voice wasn't friendly at all, and her gaze grew wary of the man that stood before her.
"Umm… I-I'm Clover."
Clover, who had not met other people for a span of a long month, couldn't help but stutter when he replied.
After hearing him stammer in his reply, Eliza didn't calm down in the slightest. This man seemed not what he appeared.
"N-No, what I meant is… What are you?"
She changed her question, which caused her teammates to give her a strange looked. What does she mean by that? This thought echoed through their minds.
"Huh?"
Clover tilted his head and couldn't help but be confused as to what she meant.
"I-I mean…"
"What is this all about?"
A hoarse and irritated voice interrupted their conversation. Everyone turned their head toward the source, and they noticed a tall and bulky man, resting his hammer on his shoulder, making way towards the sudden commotion.
The circle formation broke, and the man carcassing the corpse stopped as well. They all turned their head and their gaze landed on the man whose focus wasn't on them. His eyes didn't stop darting anywhere and only landed on Clover.
After seeing that the man who seems to be the leader of the group. Clover wanted to have a conversation with him privately since he felt uncomfortable having many gazes on him.
As he was about to take a step…
Bang!
A bullet crawled out from the muzzles of a pistol bolting towards him. The man's mind who held the gun turned blank.
"Wha-?" Eliza was startled after she heard the sound of a gun.
Her head was about to turn from the man who held the gun and her mind subconsciously tried to stop the man, but how could she? When it has already happened.
She immediately turned her head back to Clover. While her pupil was darting at the side to the utmost, she managed to catch a glimpse of Clover's face.
The latter's facial expression turned serious while he closed his eyes, and made a simple movement, and the bullet passes right through just before his chest.
'He dodged it?!'
She thought while her mind was muddled by the Clover's simple movement to dodge the bullet.
'How could he dodge the bullet at the point blank range?!'
Eliza was about to go crazy, and her mind constantly screamed about how Clover' dodged the bullet at the point blank range. Not only her that thought of that, and many of them turned blank while they tried to grasp what happened.
"Who did it?!" Vincent roared at the top of his lungs, while he land the hammer on the ground with a boom!
His eyes swiped among the group of people before they landed on the man fidgeting with a guilty expression on his face.
Sensing that their leader's eyes were set on him. He immediately dropped the guns, and raised both of his hands, while his eyes widen and he opened his mouth.
"I-It was not me! I-swear… I'm not!"
He couldn't even properly explain himself, as his back was drenched with sweat, causing the leaves that covered his private part to dampen. His mind was in full throttle on what to explain to prove his guilt.
"I-It wasn't really me… That's right! I heard someone whisper in my ears to shoot!... Yes, someone ordered me to do so!... Please believe me!"
He knelt while his face was covered with tears. His body was shivering in cold, as he tried to explain what happened.
But, no one pay any heed to his excuse and waited for someone to help him up. However…
Swoosh~
An arrow made with simple materials, bolted much faster than the bullet speed from the pistol, made its way to the head of a crying kneeling man.
The latter who had been distracted about making his way out didn't notice that he was about to face his impending death.
"Argh!"
Suddenly, a feminine voice groaned with pain. Her hand stretched in front of the kneeling man. The latter had long been awoken from the shout of his name from his comrade, and his face come into contact with a hand covering his vision.
"W-What?"
He immediately turned his head to the source of the hand covering his vision. He then noticed the unsightly expression of Eliza, as if she was dealing with pain.
It was then he noticed that Eliza's hand was penetrated by the arrow's shaft, which he didn't pay any heed to earlier, and expected it as the spike of her brass knuckles.
"What do you mean about this, Nicholas?!"
A soft and loud voice asked these questions at the same time. The roar belongs to Vincent who was confused by Nicholas's action. His anger got over his mind, and that caused him to explode leading him to shout at Nicholas.
Clover who watched this happen in the blink of an eye. Couldn't help but bewilder by the sudden event that happened in front of him. One thing leads to another.
At first, after sensing the danger, he immediately acted before that killed him and dodged the bullet which seemed to be not précised, and was only shot by the sudden impulse.
And then after that, someone suddenly acted to kill the man who shot at him. In addition, that man was the one who shot the eye of the black leopard with one bullet, which meant that he hold power within this group.
After he revealed his presence, not even dozens of minutes passed. Yet there was sudden turmoil happened within this group, causing them to turn their backs on each other.
He couldn't help but scream in his thoughts.
"I swear, I did not come for troubles!"