After the awkward moment happened, Ekiu explain that he was gone to the wrong room. His room were supposed to be the room beside the lady's room and he open the lady's door not on purpose.
"I see. But you better watch it next time." the lady look at him up and down.
She examining him and frowned.
"So, you're a magician I see? What tier?" She ask, seemingly just out of curiosity.
"Not that much.. I can say I am just a normal magician." He said being realistic.
"Not much eyy? I see. I bet I can put this misunderstanding asside. I'm Kana, a royal knight from Risidom. You?" She said as she being professional.
Ekiu make a little nod before introducing himself to Kana. Kana then excuse herself as she wanted to take some fresh air outside the inn. He just nod to Kana's word and he head off to his room and get the rest he needed.
As tomorrow morning sun hits, Ekiu going out for a stroll looking for the certain individual that was written in the letter. The commision detail should be in with the person. Then, after almost an hour passed, he finally found the person that matched the description in the letter. The person was...
"Huh? You again? What are you doing here?" Kana was sitting on a tree stump when she realized the guy from last night was looking at her for a while.
She was in the middle of sharpening her claymore. She shift her possition and put the claymore impaled in the ground.
"Are you the one who supposed to be my partner in this mission? Mister normal magician." she said as she crossed her arm.
"It seems so... Mind telling me the detail. Miss Kana?"
"Okay fine. I just hope you didn't drag me slow in this mission.
Ekiu just chuckle awkwardly and let Kana start her explanation regarding the mission. Kana stated that it was a mission of escorting a princess back to the kingdom of Risidom.
"So, Why did the princess from Risidom were here of all place? This is a designated area in Fallidom you know?"
Kana look down and seems to pondering regarding what Ekiu said. She seems to somewhat agree to what Ekiu was stated. It seems a bit doesn't make sense since Fallidom of all is known by it's most threat from magical beast and the disasters like earthquacks and rockslides.
She then scoffed and look at Ekiu, hiding behind her agreement.
"it's not our business." She said and then stand.
She take her claymore and put it on her back. The claymore seems heavy but she seems more stout and does't really bothered by the fact that the claymore was on her back.
"So, Kana. Where is the princess?" Ekiu ask while looking at the carriage that they gonna use for the escort mission.
"I don't know, She supposed to be here at any moment."
" I see. Let just wait. While we at it. Can you give me a hand?" Ekiu ask as he was kneeling beside the carriage wheel.
Kana walks up to him and inspecting what Ekiu was doing. He was fixing the carriage wheel that seems a bit worn out.
"Okay. I will." Kana helps him with the fixing.
Meanwhile, at Black Blade's place. He was riding his horse with Emerald on the back. They rode pretty fast through the grass field. Then, He heard a thud nearby the area. He goes to it and see a vulcan lying on the grass.
"that's the forth this morning." he exclaim.
The vulcan were falls dead due to Emerald shot them down with her exceptionally strong wind magic.
"Uh, Master. It seems like they know we're on their tail." Emerald said as she found D.M.A.(Dark Magician Assosiation) mark on the vulcan which mean the seer of the organisation using vulcans to watch them.
"But by how frequent these vulcan appear. it seems that we're drawing closer to them. Let's get moving."
The two hop on the horse and they keep following the trail of horse carriage wheel on the grass. they've been following this trail for a while now.
Back to Ekiu's location, it was like almost half an hour since He and Kana fixed the carriage but the princess still not showing up. They both feeling something were off.
"Let's go check her out. Do you know where she supposed to stay in this village?" Ekiu said, breaking the silence between them.
"yeah, I do. I will go with the check up. You stay here just to make sure no one sabotage the carriage, you hear me?" She said slightly commanding tone before leaving him there.
Ekiu just nodded and waiting for Kana's return. Kana go to the inn and she saw something wierd as she rushed into the inn just to find out that it was messy in there.
Without second thought, she run to the Princess room and the door was not closed. She enters the room just to find out that the princess is not there. She quickly ran down and return to Ekui to convey everything she saw and strategise on their next move.
"The princess were kidnapped?" Ekiu said as there is a genuine surprised expression in him.
"I already ask people who saw the incident. They said there is a group of magician wearing black robes broke in the inn and take the princess to the north."
Ekiu thinks for a moment before remembers one thing.
"They were heading to Brightstone. Black robes, they may be Dark magician from D.M.A."
"What are we waiting for? Let's go for them or we might lose our head." She hopped on a horse and quickly rodes on to the north.
Ekiu couldn't take his horse since it was at stable far from the point they were at. He then cast a spell and before Kana could think of him, he's already on the back of the horse.
"Hey! Since when you're here!" She said in shock but quickly calms down when he realised it was Ekiu.
"I forced to use teleport spell since you ride away without letting me react."
"Ak... you do have a point." She shrug and keep riding the horse, following the trail of 6 horses that's heading to north.
Not long after, Kana suddenly pull the leash to make the horse stop. Ekiu were shocked.
"What happened?"
"Get off the horse."Kana instructed and they both get off the horse.
As Kana's instict working on her uneasy feeling and she suddenly jumps to Ekiu's right and block a dark bolt with her claymore. Ekiu were caught off guard by that.
"What?! They're here"
"We better prepare for a fight. I don't have time to protect you. Look out for yourself."
6 Dark mage get down the tree and surround the two. They all armed in a dark magic staff. Ekiu start preparing spells in his hand.
"We must do it quick or we loose them." Kana said, getting into battle stance and her claymore glows blue.
"On it." he said, visibly nervous.
to be continue...