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Chapter 10 - My Hero (Part 4)

Emilia: "Where…am i?"

She asks confused of her situation, looking around the room.

Henry: "Big sisss"

He says sobbingly, hugging her while she is laying on her bed.

Emilia: "Ouch, you dumbass get off me"

She shouts, hitting him to the face and pushing him away from her.

Emilia: "Can't you see that I'm hurt?"

She adds on to her sentence. She then turns her head to Jack and Lenny, while they sit at the table in her room.

Emilia: "So now you are here, we could have needed you"

She says, calling out Jack,

Jack: "Can't change it now, after-all you guys managed to beat him without my help."

He responds to her,

Emilia: "Yeah? But someone died"

She replies,

Jack: "From what I have heard, you kinda encouraged him to attack the obviously stronger enemy"

Emilia becomes speechless.

Shocked by the response she turns her head to Henry, who's starring to the ground frustrated.

Emilia then turns back to Jack,

Emilia: "I-I didn't ment to…"

The room gets quiet with everyone doing a frustrated face except Jack who then sighs

loudly,

Jack: "You can't change what happened, but you can make something out of it"

Lenny: "Yeah"

Emilia then raises her head, looking to Jack, smiling at him,

Emilia: "Yeah, thank you. But who are you two?"

She asks, curious of who the two guys are that Henry brought with him.

Jack: "Im-…"

He says before getting interrupted by Lenny,

Lenny: "Im Lenny and this is my big bro Jack"

He responds with a big smile.

Everyone gets quiet for a short time before bursting out in laughter, leaving Lenny confused.

Lenny: "What? Did I say something wrong?"

He asks,

Emilia: "No it's nothing"

She responds, still chuckling a little.

Emilia: "But what happened after the fight?"

She asks Henry,

Henry: "The police came, but I left as quick as possible, I had no choice"

He responds frustrated,

Emilia gets angry, grabbing Henry at his shirt,

Emilia: "What do you mean you had no choice, you left Danny back?"

Henry: "I-I didn't knew what to do…"

Jack interrupts them,

Jack: "It is not his fault. We have a bounty on us, that's why we are here in the first place"

Emilia looks confused at Jack,

Emilia: "What do you mean?"

Lenny: "It's true, we have bounties on us and Henry said that we should go to you because you could help us"

He replies,

Emilia: "Why do you have bounties in the first place?"

She asks confused,

Lenny chuckles nervously, before putting his hand into his pocket, pulling out the blue stone.

Lenny: "I took that from a fraud-trader because I thought I could sell it to earn some

money, but then we got attacked by a crazy mud guy"

He answers,

Emilia: "Wait, crazy mud guy? You mean Balte?"

Lenny: "Yeah I think that was his name, you know him?"

Emilia is surprised, Balte was a well-known mercenary, known for playing with his prey before killing them.

Hearing that they not only fought him but also survive, makes her question her thoughts about underestimating them.

Emilia: "And what happened to him?"

She asks,

Jack: "We got him good, but after that we haven't heard anything about him"

Emilia: "Wait you actually beat him?"

Lenny: "Yeah, Big bro and Henry beaten him up"

Emilia is again speechless, surprised by their feat, before laughing again.

Emilia: "Sorry, i don't know what is wrong with me today"

She replies chuckling, commenting on her sudden laughing outbreaks.

For a long time, Emilia was filled with hopelessness, wishing for her life to end before the next day, but now since Henry came, things have changed.

Not only did she smile after a long time, but she also laughed and felt joy again.

Emilia gained something after the fight against the Boss, a place to be and people that needs her, so she came to an conclusion in her mind, to never let them go and continuing her adventure with them.

This is the conclusion she came up with, confirming it by again smiling before bursting out in laughter.

Jack: "Whats so funny? Was he someone you know? Maybe your boyfriend?"

He asks curiously, questioning her sudden laughing outburst,

Emilia: "No no, it's nothing, I just thought about something"

She replies to him with a smile, grabbing Henry and holding him in a headlock.

Henry: "W-What? I didn't say anything big sis"

He says, struggling to get out of the headlock, while Emilia continues laughing.

Emilia: "Thank you Henry, you really are my hero"

She says to herself in her mind.

Back at the harbor, the trio, now adding Emilia to their squad, are heading to the boat they spend some time earlier on, thinking what to do next.

Emilia walks to Henry with a bucket, while he is sitting on one of the loungers.

Emilia: "Phone"

She says with a mean, monotone voice.

Henry doesn't question her, carefully laying his phone at the bottom of the bucket.

Emilia then walks to Lenny, staring at him while he is playing on his phone. He notices the dangerous vibe coming from her, quickly responding by also laying his phone to the bottom with care.

Then she goes to Jack.

Jack: "Don't have one"

He comments with his cool-guy tone, before she can even say something, continuing chillin on his lounger.

Henry: "What do you even want to do with them?"

He asks, but Emilia doesn't reply, taking the phones from the bucket and throwing them into the ocean.

Henry and Lenny gasps in shock,

Henry/Lenny: "NOOOO"

they scream in frustration at the same time,

Henry: "Why did you do that"

He asks, filled with sadness

Lenny: "Yeah you evil witch"

He adds on to Henrys sentence,

Emilia: "You have bounties on your head, means that they will track you down"

She replies to Henry, ignoring Lenny.

Lenny: "Makes sense but couldn't you just have warned us before?"

He asks, also filled with sadness.

Jack: "Now that we finished our job here, what do we do now Boss?"

He asks Henry sarcastically, not expecting Emilia to jump up in fright of hearing someone say "Boss".

Henry: "I actually planned to visit someone"

Jack: "Great, another one"

Lenny: "Who is it?"

They reply to Henry,

Henry: "A friend of mine who I promised to visit once I started my adventure"

Jack: "And where is that friend of yous?"

He asks with no expectations.