[Kyrielle's POV]
Dad was day dreaming right after he said to head home....
"...Why did you stop? Dad?"
"Hmm...." It seems like he's thinking about something.
"Da~ddy, are you awake? Did you eat something weird in the morning?"
"I'm fine.... I was just deep in thought for a while."
"Hehe, is that so? You said to head back to home but somehow stopped mid way, so I was a bit worried... Let's head back then."
"Yeah, let's go home. "
Saying that, we started to walk out of the park heading towards where our home is..... It was then as I turn back to dad who was behind me, I saw a dark hooded figure behind him a out 3 meters away....
What the hell?! He's hiding a sword and winding up to swing at dad's head!
"Dad, duck down!"
"?!"
'Fwoosh!' The assassin swung his sword at,
dad. Dad ducked slash completely and right as he turns around....
'Slash!' "Argh?!"
He draws his longsword on his waist and in that drawing motion, he slashes the assassin's exposed stomach like a skilled swordsman.
"Dad!- Mmm?!" Suddenly, someone had grabbed my mouth and my body from behind.
"Mm!!!" I tried to scream but my voice was covered by the hand.
"Hurry up on the horse! That guy's coming!"
"R-right!"
The man lifted me up and jumped onto a horse that wasn't around just a while ago...
"Mmm!!!" Save me dad!
"Kyrielle!"
Dad had his sword on hand, and the assassin just now is lying on the floor, bleeding out from his leg and his chest. In just seconds, he was completely defeated by dad.....
"Hah!" The assasin in the front of the horse yelled out as he whips the horse. The horse immediately ran towards the streets.
Dad chased after mee, but he can't catch up, he's slowly losing us!
The horse ran from the park with dad chasing behind, and entered the street of the urban areas.... Dad can't catch up to us... I'll really be kidnapped by these people!
"We lost him! Ride into the market district, it's easier to hide in a crowd!"
"Right!"
....I must fight back!
"Mmm!!!" I tried to free myself from the grip of the assassin...
"Stop struggling, don't make me hit you!"
"Mm.... sobs..." Tears starts to form on my eyes as I struggled to free myself from them.... I'm afraid.... What is going to happen to me?....
No... I mustn't give up yet... I must fight back...
I can't break free from him physically and I can't chant for any other magic if my mouth is still held by him.... I must break free from his grip on my mouth somehow.
...I'll use Ember, and cast it inside my mouth as I bite him.
After that, I must stop the horse... I don't have anything that can hit the horse here without hurting myself, but I can use Earth Wall to trip the horse and make it drop.
Finally, at this speed I might die if I fall down the horse so I have to cushion my fall...
That's right, with Mud Puddle I'll make the entire street ahead into mud to make it safe.
I'm afraid... but I'll do this.... I must do this... I don't want to die! I don't know what these guys will do with a little girl like me!
"Mm... Sobs.... Mm..."
"Stop crying! It's annoyi-"
'Bite.' I struggled in his arm and managed to open my mouth. I bit down on his fingers with all my strength.
Ember.
"Hah! As if this will hurt me- Ouch!"
Sending burning pain to his finger, he subconsciously pulled his hand away. The fire also burns my mouth and it hurts... But I must do this to conceal my ability to cast magic.
My mouth was freed... And in a whisper, I chanted for two spells...
Upon this Armored Titan's command to kneel....
"Ouch! You little brat!"
'Thud!' The assassin hit my head with his fist, sending a sharp pain to my head.
Within the very lands lies an impenetrable wall...
My two spell is ready... I just have to execute them now.
(AN : Kyrielle chanted for two seperate spells and sort of 'loads' them up like a gun, ready to fire it out once she finish the entire chant when the magic crest shows up.)
"What's wrong?"
"She just bit my hand!"
"Don't hit her too hard! We can't use her as a hostage if she's dead-"
Once we cross the corner, we arrived at a straight road perfect to trip the horse on. This is the timing that I needed....
Mud Puddle.
A blue crest appears from my arm when the spell activates. I covered the entire street in the largest mud puddle, trapping various other people in the street as well.
"Hey... Something's not right! The street is-"
"Oi! She's a mage! She just casted a-"
Earth Wall.
A rock wall suddenly sprung up from the ground right in front of the horse at the height of it's leg....
"Eeehee!!!" The horse reacted and tried to turn course to avoid it, but it's already too late.
"Oh my god!-"
'Thump!' The horse's rams right into the wall, throwing all three of us off the horse.
'Thud!' (4x) I landed into the mud, which cushioned my fall and I wasn't hurt.
Immediately afterwards, I stood up and ran in the opposite direction....
"Ouch!... What the hell was that?!"
"Hey! Stop running you brat!" The rider chased after me as I ran..
"Wait! That girl is-"
He who sours the skies, drive away this one's enemy....
"Stop running!"
'Thud!' He kicked off the ground and jumped forward at me when he catches up... I immediately around, with my hand pointing at him.
"-she's a mage!" The second assassin yelled.
"?!"
"Combustion!"
'Bwuom!!!'
A large amount of flames sprung out of my arm, and engulfed the man who lunged at me. The force of the fire blew him backwards as I recoil away.
'Thud!' He drops to the ground with his entire body on fire.
"Eekk!" I... I burned someone....! I killed someone! What the hell did I just do?!
"Argh!!! Fire!!! Stop it!!!"
"Tsk!... Oh Water heed me, bring forth the beginning of the seven seas, Water ball!"
'Splash!' The second assassin fired out a water ball which splashes onto the burning man, putting out the fire.
"You little brat, I'll skin you alive!" The second assassin is a mage... This is bad.
"No.... Please stop...." I don't want to kill him.... I don't want to fight anymore!... I don't....
"Yah!" The assassin kicks off the ground, and ran directly at me.
Nature hides a bullet that shall pierce every living creature....
"!" He saw my mouth moving and stops in place ready to counter my spell. He draws out a sword that is sheathed to his waist...
"Rock Sling!"
'Fwuop!' The crest in front of my hand forms a rock, and fires off at the man with a snapping sound like a slingshot.
'Tink!' He blocked my rock bullet with his sword?!... his reflexes are insane!
"Useless!" The assassin said as he continued charging towards me, he is within 3 meters now....
He who sours the skies, drive away this one's enemy, Wind Gush!
Ember!
"Combustion!"
'Bwuom!!!' I blasted another Ember and blew winds right into it. A huge flame formed and it completely engulfed the assassin who was running at me full speed....
"Idiot!" The assassin was fine, and threw a kick at my stomach, which launched me backwards.
'Thud!'
"Argh!..."
"You were a fool to pull the same move twice.... "
Impossible... The fire didn't hurt him at all?...
"Hmpt, nothing more than a little girl, after all."
Ah, he had coated his body in water! That's why my fire spell didn't hurt him much!
"Cough! Cough!..." My stomach really hurts... I find it extremely hard to breathe after that kick....
"It's impossible to kidnap a mage, I'll have to kill you. I don't enjoy killing childrens, but farewell."
He said as he raises his sword overhead, ready swing it down at me....
I'm going to die... No...
"No... I don't want to die...!" I yelled out as I covered my face with my hands....
...
'Clank!'
A sound of metal colliding sounded. I opened my eyes and looked up, where I saw a figure with a face full of blood lust glaring at the assassin as he stopped the blade that was coming for me. It's dad.
"Tsk!"
'Fwoosh!'
Dad slashed at him, but the assassin dashed back and got out of range of his attack.
"....Unforgivable...." Dad muttered out.
"Hah?"
"You bastards are absolutely unforgivable! I'll make you regret trying to hurt Kyrielle!"
"....Hmpt!"
The assassin moved first. He dashed towards dad and swung his sword at Dad....
'Tink! Clank! Tank!' Their swords clashes, and sparks were seen each time they received each other's blows. I can't tell who's winning or what they are doing... I'm not experienced in sword fighting.
'Tink! Clink! Clank!' As their swords collides three more times, the assassin's blade was knocked off balance, exposing his body to attack. In response, the assassin jumped backwards to try and evade dad's attack...
"Hah!"
'Slash!' Dad dashed in as the assassin jumps back not intending to let him breathe, and slashes the assassin at his feet. It cut the assassin shallowly.
"Tsk!"
After being tagged at the leg, the assassin raised his guard to defend against dad's attacks...
'Tink! Tank! Clink!' The final hit of dad's sword was thrown away, the assassin points his sword at dad following the motion of his block, and stabbed his sword at dad.
"!"
'Clink!' Dad skillfully deflected his thrust to the sides, and launched another counter attack at the assassin. The assassin dashed backwards again, evading dad's slash.
'Fwoosh!'
"Hah... Hah... Hah..." The assassin is out of breath, while dad remained composed...
"Hah... Yah!!!"
The assassin dashed in once again and swung at him in a desperate attempt to force his attacks through dad's guard. With his sword ready, he swung a flurry of attacks....
'Clink!' (6x) Using the momentum he gets from being parried by dad, he directs his sword to swing again and again in a flurry of hits.... After dad deflected his final slash, he spun around and slashed at dad with a powerful attack.
'Clank!!!' The loud clash of their sword were heard across the street as dad tried to deflect that powerful attack.
With power like that, they both recoiled backwards when their blade clashes, landing them in the same posture as they steps backwards trying to rebalamce themselves. They both had their sword besides their face, pointing forward at each other.
"Hah!" The assassin followed up with a thrust aiming at dad's throat.... But this time, dad also thrusts his sword forward in the same motion.
'Clink!' 'Stab!'
"Urk?!...."
Dad caught his opponent's sword with the cross guard of his longsword, and in the same motion he stabs his sword into the assassin's throat.... In one move, he blocked the assassin's thrust and killed him.
"Grk!... Ggk..." A large amount of blood starts to leak out of the throat of the assassin as he whimpers, tying to breathe from his broken throat...
"Water Flow Passage.... That flurry makes your thrust extremely predictable, you were a fool to have used it on me."
"Grk..."
'Shing...' Dad pulls his sword out of the assassin... Blood pours out of the assassin's throat like it's a fountain of blood. All the blood spews onto me and dad, covering us in blood....
'Thud!...' The assassin's body drops into the floor.... A pool of blood forms on the ground.
He's... He's dead....
"Eek...!"
"Kyrielle, are you fine?"
"Dad you... Sobs... You killed him...."
"It was to.... protect you."
"He's dead.... Sobs.... He's dead... And I killed someone as well.... Sobs..."
"...I know."
"Sobs... I'm sorry!.... I'm sorry...."
"It's fine.... You are safe now...." Dad said as he walks up to me and hugged me tightly in his arms.
"Sobs.... I-I killed someone! I'm a killer!... I'm a killer.... Sobs...."
"It's all right.... It's all right...."
I tightly hugged him back and cried out from guilt.... I've killed someone for real... I feel terrible.... I feel terrified.... I feel angry for killing someone.... and I felt disgusted at myself for killing someone....
I don't know what I'm feeling!....
"Sob!... I-I'm confused!... sob!" I don't know what I must do or what I should've done... I'm... I'm confused....
(Chapter end)