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The Warden came out from the carriage.
The guards immediately surrounded the carriage where the gemstone was at.
The smoke is so thick that they barely see anything.
When one of the bandits about to hit the Warden, the golden boy comes out for the rescue.
Bang!
Another loud noise, the guards immediately look at the place where the noise came from.
"You okay, father?" The golden boy asked.
Melrick, one of the Warden's guards.
A boy with gold eyes and blond hair.
People often mistake him for a noble, after all the nobles have blond hair too.
He used to be a slave sold by his parents to Zack.
Zack raised him as a shield for Warden's.
He grew up with Cynthia.
As Warden's shield, he was the strongest in close combat.
The Warden sighs "This is gonna be a problem soon... Protect the other carriage, I can handle this." He orders.
"Got ya!" Melrick ran through the smoke, finding the other carriage.
The other guards are already on the ground.
As Melrick ran, a joker card was tossed to him.
He stops in his tracks. "Huh? What the—"
Before he finished his sentence, the card blew up.
Boom!
Melrick's face was covered in red powder paint.
"Fucking hell!" He wipes the powder out of his eyes.
His grip on his bat tightens.
He looked around to see who tossed the card on him.
But the only thing he can see is the smoke surrounding him.
"What's up Golden boy" the bandit said.
Immediately, Melrick recognized the voice.
He scoffs.
"Long time no see, Lucian" Melrick pulled out a pebble in his back pocket that was dangling in his belt.
He tossed the pebble in the mid air and he hit it with his bat, almost hitting his target.
Lucian easily dodge the pebble.
"Stop moving!" Melrick launched forward and hit Lucian with his bat.
His eyes widened as his bat only passed through.
Lucian becomes smoke.
He growled in frustration and Lucian is no longer in his sight again.
"Ugh, got tricked again by your cheap tricks" Melrick looked around in the smoke.
Only Lucian's silhouette is the only thing he can see.
...
The Warden's guards are panicking as they get hit one by one.
The Warden looked around and saw some mysterious person knocking his guards one by one.
His patience is at its limits.
He hit the ground making it shake.
The punch is so loud and strong that the smoke immediately wipes away.
Warden looked around and saw his guards on the ground and bandits surrounding him.
"Are you sure about this?" He licks his lips and smirks.
...
Because of his punch, the smoke finally went away.
Melrick can finally see Lucian.
"You shouldn't make father mad, you know that" Melrick said as he turned his head to look at Lucian.
Smirking and his one eyebrow raised, Lucian knows this look, Melrick is looking down to him.
He growled in frustration.
Lucian is about to take another card from his pocket but Melrick immediately launches forward and about to hit Lucian with his bat.
Lucian panicked and stepped backward to dodge the bat, but he was too late.
The bat hit his face, making him fly away hitting the wall.
The cards fall down from his pocket.
The moment the cards hit the ground, it explodes.
Melrick immediately flies away from the scene.
One of the bandits used this opportunity to throw another smoke bomb, he succeeded.
Once again the place is covered in smoke bombs.
Warden gritted his teeth as his sight was limited again.
He ran toward the carriage to protect the gemstone, but he was late.
The stones are already nowhere to be found.
"Melrick! The stones!" He shouted, and Melrick immediately looked for it.
The thick smoke makes looking for the stones harder.
The Bandits signal each other to flee the scene.
One of the bandits takes Lucian's knocked up body and flees away.
Frustrated, the Warden once again punched the ground making the smoke go away.
The Bandits are now nowhere to be found and Melrick is in panic still looking for the gemstones.
They're gone...
...
Yuu was lying in her bed.
Under the Beer House, she was playing with her stuffed toys.
Her right hand is holding a worn-out bunny stuffed toy which she called Momo and the other hand is holding the horse wooden toy from the Warden.
"You're still young and weak, you can't do anything" the wooden horse said.
"But I just want to make you proud!" Momo said and she hit it with the wooden horse toy.
"Huhu..." The bunny stuffed toy cries.
Suddenly her room door creaked open.
It was Cynthia.
"Didn't I tell you not to do anything stupid?" Cynthia puts her sniper near her as she sits down on the couch.
"I didn't do anything" Yuu puts down the toys.
"Father..erm...the Warden's carriage was attacked" Cynthia glared at her.
Yuu groaned in frustration.
"Ugh, I didn't do that! Why would I attack my father's carriage?" She throws the horse toy to Cynthia.
Cynthia catches it effortlessly.
"Tell the truth"
"I'm telling the truth!" Yuu stands up as she yells at Cynthia.
"I got knocked out by some kind of bandits before I even do anything" she pouts as she sits down again.
Cynthia stands up and takes her sniper.
"Fine, I believe you...but in the future, refrain yourself from getting involved with the bandits, especially with that friend of yours, the Warden is furious..." She opened the door and stepped outside.
"I'm warning you, Yuu... don't do anything stupid" she said before closing the door.
Yuu only threw Momo on the door and tossed everything from her table.
"Stupid!? Stupid!?" She kicks and hits things until they're broken.
Now her room is a mess, again.
"I'm not stupid!" She stomps on the wooden horse toy on the ground making it break in two.
She looked at the shattered mirror in front of her.
Her hair is a mess, she has a habit of pulling it when she's stressed.
The bandages in her arm are almost worn out and need to be replaced.
She looked at her arm to see the tattoo of a Barrel and five petals flower.
"Father loves me, he wouldn't be angry at me, wouldn't he?" She asked herself in the shattered mirror.
"But Yuu, Cynthia already said that he was furious because he was attacked." The bunny stuffed toy in the ground said.
"But I didn't attack him, I was knocked out" she turned her head and looked at the bunny toy.
The bunny laughs. "Cynthia is already blaming you though."
"I didn't do anything wrong..." Yuu stepped forward to the door and picked up the stuffed toy.
"You did.." the stuffed toy replied.
"I didn't!" Yuu yells and throws the toy again in the shattered mirror.
"They always blame me for something I didn't do...even I said that I didn't!" Yuu takes her tool belt and wears it.
She picked up the stuffed toy again and hung it in her belt.
"I'll show them! It's not my fault..." She slams the door, leaving her room in a mess.