With tears non stop rolling down his face, Albert came out supporting a purple skinned barely breathing Scarlet.
"Scarlet!"
Seeing Scarlet in such a sight, Arthur started crying as he ran toward her, but before he could approach twenty feet of her he felt a sword on his neck.
Stumbling back from feeling a sword on his neck, Arthur almost fell to the ground as he stuttered out a response in horror, "W-w-what are you doing? Scarlet's poisoned and you're trying to kill me?"
As for the person that had drawn his sword, it was of course Jeffrey, how could he let such an opportunity slip by?
Everyone in the convoy knew he popped out of nowhere.
"Can't you see someone poisoned our young miss? Yet you want to get near her? What are your motives?" Jeffrey said in an accusatory tone still with his sword resting on Arthur's neck.
"Jeffrey, stop!"
"Jeffrey, what the hell do you think you are doing?"
"You dare harm big bro Arthur?"
"Jeffrey, put the sword down. The young miss's safety comes first."
"Don't harm big brother Arthur!" Ezekiel shouted.
"J-Jeffrey cough sto-oop" Scarlet weakly said, barely able to finish her words.
Jeffrey at this point knew he could get out of this situation and it was all thanks to Arthur.
If not for the fact it could ruin his opportunity he wanted to thank this idiot for jumping out at the right time.
"Jeffrey, lower your sword! Sir Arthur is bl-" Albert shouted in rage but was cut off by Jeffrey.
"What 'Sir Arthur'? Don't any of you realize this person was coincidentally found in Gaia Forest and now our young miss is poisoned? It was obviously him that poisoned our young miss. Who else among us would harm our young miss?" Jeffrey shouted venomously.
The soldiers that were watching anxiously instead felt that Jeffrey was right to draw his sword as some brave ones even shouted in his favor after hearing Jeffrey's accusation.
To them it made sense.
"Jeffrey is right we would never harm our young miss!"
"The Grand Duke and Royal Family have done so much for us!"
"It must be him!"
"Jeffrey is right also he was with our young miss most of the time."
Hearing the soldiers falling for the bait he laid out Jeffrey smiled internally before righteously proclaiming, "Young miss don't worry before I kill him, I'll make him spit out the antidote."
After saying that he once again raised his sword and was about to put it on Arthur's neck but was surrounded by the triplets and Leo.
"Are you trying to kill big bro Arthur so he can't cure young miss?"
"What do you mean, Jiang? I'm trying to help our young miss." Jeffrey said innocently.
"Help? Don't tell me that you have a bad memory? In Durank City, big bro Arthur showed us his aptitude for Holy Magic." Jiang said, raising his voice louder than it needed to be as if he wanted the whole world to know.
"W-what do you mean? Jiang, this isn't time for your silliness." Jeffrey rebutted. What the hell was Jiang talking about? Holy Magic? Since when did Arthur show he could use holy magic? But if he could use it…
"You lot stop with your bickering." Albert yelled before bowing towards Arthur, "Sir Arthur, I hope you can forgive us for Jeffrey's accusations. Please use your Holy Magic to cure our young miss!"
Arthur, who was being bowed to panicked as he hastily replied, "S-Sir Albert, it would be my honor to finally be able to help Young Miss Scarlet after she so graciously allowed me to ride in her carriage."
At this point Jeffrey would be an idiot if he couldn't tell that Arthur was in on framing him.
Knowing he would die anyway he decided to take Arthur's life, so at least he couldn't cure Scarlet.
As for escaping?
It was impossible.
Not because of the four kids encircling him, but the countless soldiers that would do anything to get merit by killing or worse capturing.
The only problem was that as soon as he tried to swing his sword at the weakling kids, he fell down and couldn't muster any strength.
Not even being able to speak.
All he could hear were shocked gasps from the soldiers who all clearly felt the killing intent he had radiated toward Quan, Ren, Jiang, and Leo before he fell.
At this point everyone once again became silent so they clearly heard when the word Cure was spoken.
Turning to the voice they all saw Arthur with a glowing white hand on their young miss's forehead before he withdrew it and their young miss who was previously purple skinned had returned to her normal white skin color.
Looking at Arthur who had saved their young miss and Jeffrey who was being tied up by the four kids.
After tying Jeffrey up with rope Jiang simply dragged him to Sir Thomas while the others followed.
After putting him in front of Sir Thomas, Jiang stepped to the side.
White Thomas checked his body for poison.
After doing so he detected traces of spilled poison on his body which he then showed to the watching soldiers.
"After everything that the Royal Family and the Grand Duke did for you, this is how you repay them?" Thomas yelled this time in real anger. Even if they framed him, Thomas knew that this bastard actually tried to poison his young miss. If not for Arthur they would have never known about the poisoned tea or who had poisoned their young miss. An innocent cafe would have taken the blame and all the staff would have been falsely executed. While this bastard would have continued prancing as a fake champion of justice.
However, Jeffrey didn't answer, not that he could even if he wished to.
He knew no matter what he said his life wouldn't be spared, poisoning the young miss was a crime punishable by death.
All he could do was accept it, as an assassin he knew one day he would meet his end prematurely.