"LET ME GOO! LET ME GOOO, YOU BITCH!!" Tiara yelled, whipping her head to glare at the useless servants. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING JUST STANDING THERE!? HOLD HER BACK!! Kyaaaa!"
The servants looked at each other.
The woman was the daughter of a powerful merchant and thus could not be stopped by them. In general, nobles couldn’t be touched casually by mere servants.
If they did this—even if they didn’t do much but touch without permission— they could easily meet death.
So, despite the ensuing chaos, the nearby servants could only watch. "CESSI! CASSO! GET IN HERE!"
The siblings stared, but stood up. This was their mother after all. Most importantly, they still depended on her about a lot of things!
But who could blame them? They had never encountered such… brutishness before and didn’t quite know how to handle it.
Sure, they beat people up among the commoners for no particular reason, but in the noble circle, this was rarely seen.
Ilda was usually quite poised as well. Even when their mother and father were flirting right in front of her, she retained her calmness. Everyone was surprised by the sudden explosion.
The two of them took each side of Ilda, prepared to pull an arm each. However, Ilda was stronger than Tiara and definitely stronger than the two of them, the spoiled kids. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com
BANG!
Not only were the two pushed to the wall again and could only groan in pain, but Ilda also took out a few bits of hair from her rival’s head due to the movements.
Tiara gasped at the sight, and she couldn’t stand up immediately from the intense mix of dizziness and pain.
When she realized her son and daughter were also hurt, she screamed. "Children!" she yelled, but then she held her hair and felt an empty patch, and she quickly forgot to check on her children.
"NO! MY HAIRRRR!" she cried, glaring at the other woman. "How could you do this!!"
Ilda didn’t care about anything anymore. Her soft hands grabbed Tiara’s chin. "Then give me back my daughter!"
"It wasn’t me!!"
"I don’t believe you!" Ilda yelled back. "I swear—until I get her back, I’ll make your lives a living hell!"
"You—"
At this, Tiara finally snapped and tried to fight back, starting an all-out brawl between two noble ladies.
They wouldn’t normally do this under any circumstance, but it seemed like Cassandra’s ’death’ was a trigger to the decades-long bitterness in Ilda’s heart.
All this time, she endured because she had her daughter as her hope. Now that it was gone, she turned a little crazy.
Chaos reigned for a while, with guards and servants not knowing how to stop it.
This was not for the good of his heart but mostly due to practicality. If they traced Ferrol, then they’d study all of its recent connections. The biggest of these connections was Alterra and could be traced back after some search.
Not to mention, the lord there was Cassandra’s maternal cousin. They could suspect him immediately just because of this relationship.
In any case, they were heading back on foot until they either found a town with beast carts they could rent (or steal) or found a level 2 town with a Mercenary Hall to teleport to Ferrol with. Gill was the deputy leader and had the clearance to take in new members, which he could give to both Ghesso and Cassandra.
In the meantime, Gill refused to let go of Cassandra. Ghesso, on the other hand, was in charge of protecting them from the beasts. Town-level beasts were troublesome so, for the most, part, they mostly ran away from them.
Like Gaudi, Ghesso was one of the people who had held on for a long time before finally being captured as a slave. He was also a slave in a town where monsters were stronger so he was already level 24 at this time, making him a pretty decent guard.
Gill also helped out with his spear and elements—something that made the Novan look at him with even brighter admiration. Even in Towns, elementalists weren’t so common. Didn’t he say he was from a village?
Anyway, Ghesso took down the monsters bravely, clearing the road for the couple.
The travel lasted hours for a few days under the hot sun. It was by no means easy.
Despite all the hardships, Cassandra—even when she lost the home she grew up in—had never smiled so brightly.
She hugged Gill tightly, burying her face in the crook of his neck. "Thank you, Gill," she said. "For taking me home."
Cassandra—despite being on the run— had never felt so relieved her whole life.
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