Chapter 11
The figure behind Chelsea had been following her closely, he was the head guard of the merchant, he was assigned to protect him, he was not his actual guard but his lord, a noble in the empire had some ties with the merchant.
And apparently the noble, his actual lord, had come to like some random village girl's skillfully designed dresses, even the wife of the noble he served was impressed.
The initial plan was to kidnap the girl and then brainwash her to be a slave, however the merchant came in and told them that he could convince the girl to be their puppet with just words, of course, he was trying to make some points in front of the lord.
'A willing slave is better than a forced slave.'
His lord agreed on condition that the merchant bring the girl back, his lord saw a potential business opportunity in the girl so he was willing to invest some resources which involved sending him here, he was one of the best among the guards in his lord's mansion.
He followed his lord's order and it was to protect the merchant throughout his journey. He had honestly thought that it would be an easy task, the village they were heading to didn't even have a normal proper hunter, and since it was quite isolated, very less people travelled there. It was a waste for him to come here.
They reached the village and the merchant met up with the girl, he was ready to act if the girl had refused but instead the girl readily and excitedly agreed making him believe the villagers wee really a dumb breed of humans.
He knew now almost everything was done and they were ready to depart but the fucking merchant delayed the journey, apparently he wanted to appease his sexual appetite.
He clearly understood the merchant's intentions, the merchant probably wanted to make the journey longer so that his lord would believe that the task involved some difficulties which the merchant solved with his excellent brainwashing skills.
Yet in reality, the fat fucker just couldn't keep his dick down,
So the journey was delayed by 2 days, the guard didn't mind that much, since everything was almost done, and the merchant was the in-charge so he had to listen to the fatty.
He would make sure to ask for some good amount of gold coins to keep his mouth shut later in the journey,
Thinking so, he had also relaxed, it was the night before the departure when the unthinkable happened.
He was in the middle of sleep when he got the urge to piss and left to do it in the forests, by the time he came back, he sensed strong stench of blood from the merchant's room and a figure jumping off the window of his room.
A short figure, just around the age the village girl he had seen the merchant talking to some days ago.
But she was not her, she had different hair color, and face. It was obvious she was someone else,
He didn't even know what was the reason the assailant had behind attacking that fat fuck.
But the fact that the client he was supposed to protect had died under his nose will lead to a lot of troubles.
His lord, the noble, will be very angry and might even execute him on return. He had to catch the culprit but first he had to know who was the true mastermind, he would follow the girl till she reaches her hideout or base and capture whoever is found.
He refused to believe that a random girl from boonies would kill an unknown merchant from the capital for no reason, it seemed to be a well-planned plot and he had to uncover it and catch all those involved.
This would help him ease his lord's anger to some degree at the least, saving him from execution.
He actually didn't care whether the merchant lived or died, but judging from how his subordinates were all knocked out meant that the figure had some good skills, so he didn't hold back either and used his full ability to stealthily follow her.
It seemed the girl hadn't noticed him even though he was following her all the way, that meant she was weaker than him and this led to confirm his doubts that there was really someone behind the girl assassin.
How could he know that Chelsea had sensed him miles ago and was just leading him to his death.
He smirked evilly and continued following the girl and soon they seemed to have reached a destination, it looked like some sort of camp or makeshift village, with some fire torches lighting the area around.
'Was there a village here?' He didn't know that there was a village here and neither had he heard anything about the bandits since he didn't even talk with the villagers.
His motives however remained unchanged, if he had to slaughter the whole village, then he will do so and present his lord with their corpses along with that girl.
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As Chelsea reached the bandit village, she instantly spotted two figure outside, taking a deep breath, she casually walked towards them, the two individuals were buffed and looked scary.
They spotted her instantly and raised their weapons before one of them saying,
"Raise your hood! Who are you and how did you find this place!" One of them asked with a very heavy accent.
She quietly raised a straw hood she was using along the way and the expressions of the two changed,
"You-! You are still alive? We thought you had died when we were unable to contact you for months. Where have you been?" The guy inquired,
Chelsea was still in the disguise of the girl she had killed long ago, she was from this group of bandits.
Chelsea had long investigated the presence of this bandit camp, but hadn't taken any actions yet.
She was simply not strong enough to eliminate the entire bandit camp on her own and Lily was still training, she couldn't let her sister have her hands dirty with blood. She will be the one taking care of such filthy work as the older sibling.
She discreetly looked back and saw the dark figure hiding in the bushes observing her interacting with the two men.
"Its a long story but hear me out for now, some strong people are chasing me right now, I had lost the way to the camp and had ended up lost in the forest, some things happened and now a strong guy is after me, he is currently coming straight here. I was lucky enough to find camp in the middle of night after so many months," Chelsea quickly made a story and narrated with emotion.
The two guys instantly believed, first she was a trusted figure in their camp and second she seemed really emotional upon finding their camp.
They believed that she must be in deep trouble and had finally found the camp to come back after so many months, she seemed very loyal in their eyes.
As for the guy who could be chasing their comrade? So what? They are the strongest bandits around the forest and no one dares to mess with them unless they have death wish. Even the empire has left them alone and they took pride in that not knowing that empire couldn't be bothered with lowlifes like them.
They will easily handle that guy even if he was slightly stronger, they had all the forces in the village and even their leader was here too.