THIBV - Chapter 158

I sent the Black Knight out of the wagon.

I then poked my head out to open the window to see what was going on outside but was stopped by the coachman.

"You can't stick your head out. The enemy surrounded the wagon."

"How many enemies are there?"

"Ten, or twelve!"

At that moment, the coachman parried the flying arrow with his sword.

There was a warrior coachman, a trained soldier, and above all, a mighty black knight.

"Shouldn't we go out?"

Leticia was fearless.

If she was a rogue, Leticia's swordsmanship would be useful.

But what if they're assassins?

I pulled back the curtain slightly to see where the enemy was.

I saw three in the left window and four in the right window.

It seemed that he was trying to avoid the black knight and approached the carriage.

There was the sound of weapons clashing here and there.

Clang! Tong!

There seemed to be an archer.

I could see the smoke out the window.

"Shoot flaming arrows! I need to get out!"

Leticia cried out urgently.

"Arrows? Leticia, do you handle a bow by any chance?"

Leticia nodded at my question.

"I've learned. But I don't have a bow."

I had once seen Julian snatch his swords from the Black Knight.

'If you apply it.'

I pulled a pitch-black bow and arrow out of my shadow.

It was a small portion of the black knight outside.

'That is it.'

I handed Leticia my bow and arrows as nonchalantly as I had always thought I would.

"We need to get out of here first. Can you scatter the enemy with this?"

"I'll try."

Leticia put an arrow on her bow, and I swung open the carriage door.

Ping!

Ping!

Puck!

"Hyaah!"

Leticia fired two arrows in quick succession, one of which struck a nearby foe.

As the enemies dodged to avoid Leticia's arrows, the direction of the arrows was clear.

I looked back at Leticia in surprise, and Leticia rubbed the bottom of her nose proudly and took my hand.

"Let's go!"

Leticia took my hand and ran.

The Black Knight blocked us with a large shield, and the arrows aimed at the two of us bounced off.

Soldiers and coachmen followed, covering the scenes.

As I ran, I wondered whether or not to signal Julian.

Julian would rush in in the blink of an eye, annihilating his enemies.

But.

'Julian can't use his power anymore.'

I was afraid he would go berserk.

'I'm just slowing it down.'

My heart skipped a beat.

It was impossible to run like this and outrun the enemy.

The Black Knight is powerful, but once he takes on one enemy, he is unable to deal with the others.

I somehow felt that my enemies knew about it.

Only one or two of the Black Knights joined to deal with it, while the rest attacked me from either side.

On a few occasions, the coachman and the soldier did a good job of blocking it, and Leticia's arrows occasionally hit the enemy.

But it wasn't enough to keep going.

Even I, who had no combat experience, could tell.

'Julian.'

I bit my lip. I hesitated.

"Miss Bridget!"

Leticia nudged me and hid me behind a tree.

At that moment, an enemy arrow passed where my head had been, and it hit the ground.

The coachman lifted me to my feet.

"What's the situation?"

"More than half of them are ordinary people. I think three or four of them are trained."

"Can you fight back?"

"If only the Black Knight would take care of the trained ones..."

But to do that, I would have to control the Black Knight, and I didn't have the experience to do so.

Playing without looking back was the best I could do.

The coachman couldn't keep me up.

Everyone took up arms and faced the enemy.

I played in the middle, but my leaps weren't fast enough.

There was no one to protect over there, but this one had to protect me and Leticia.

Clang!

Tong!

The Black Knight parried an arrow aimed at me.

The Black Knight's gaze turned to the archer. In doing so, he didn't see any other enemies.

The enemy's sword slid through the crack and slashed at me.

I seemed to move slowly.

Not my movement, not the enemy's sword, not the voices of others.

Julian allowed me to take little escort with me, as I could call him at any time, and fly like a bird wherever she was.

I had a hand in a lot of secrets, and I didn't want to increase my escort so that unnecessary information would leak out.

I didn't want to go around with people and expose my whereabouts.

Still, I didn't go out of the palace so often because I trusted only Julian and the one black knight Julian had given me.

There was another corner of belief.

It was a guess I had made from the Black Knight's actions when I was banished to the palace of Cerus and fell into a state of depression.

I didn't know how it would affect the Shadow Curse, so I turned away...

It seemed that I had to get my hands on this secret.

'...'

My frightened expression changed.

"Miss Bridget!"

Leticia narrowly parried the enemy's sword, slicing my hair.

Leticia wielded a short dagger at her foe, but it didn't reach.

I looked calmly at it all.

At that moment, everyone, both enemy and child, gasped and held their breath.

An unknown pressure slammed down on me.

***

Julian, who was sitting in his office, looking at the papers, looked up.

'...?'

Something was missing from me.

Then his gaze turned to his shadow.

'Six.'

The six Black Knights have vanished.

Julian's confused eyes fluttered slightly.

It wasn't the sensation that he felt when Bridget starved and destroyed the shadow.

It didn't feel destroyed, it felt like it was literally out of place.

He wonders what's going on.

When he went to the house to discuss the matter, Bridget was out.

He didn't know what it was, but it felt cheap.

Julian needed to see where Bridget was and what she was doing.

He summoned the commander of the Praetorian Guard and gave him the order.

"We're going to do everything in our power to find Bridget right away."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

***

Bridget told Millea of her destination and left, so Julian's knight found Bridget in a short time.

Bridget was fine.

No one in the group was hurt.

The coachman was holding a hostage who was out of breath.

The Praetorian Knights were surprised that Bridget had been ambushed.

Some stayed to search the surrounding area, while others escorted Bridget to safety at the palace.

After ordering the knights to interrogate the hostages to find out who was behind it. Julian was left alone with Bridget.

"Where are you hurt?"

"No, I don't."

"That's it."

He nodded with a stern face.

Apparently, it would be better to torture the hostages themselves.

That would be the reward for the sinking of his heart.

Looking at Bridget's disheveled and soiled attire, the story of the Black Knight's disappearance didn't seem too important.

Just as he was about to go to the interrogation room, Bridget grabbed Julian's hand.

"Hey, Julian."

There was something to be said.

The Black Knight in her shadow has added six more, to seven.

Bridget speculated that it hadn't come from Julian but from Cami.

She pursed her lips as she looked up at him, and he turned back at her.

But what she wanted to say didn't come out.

"...Be careful."

She couldn't help but make Julian, who was worried that the curse would pass on to her when he saw her handling Cami.

'They might send me to a distant place.'

She knew he was ready for it.

"Don't get hurt."

Julian snorted at Bridget's words.

"Somebody gets hurt. To that little."

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