Once they had filled up their belly, Nathan and Flora came out of the inn, heading straight to the mayor’s mansion.
However, both of them knew something was going to happen.
And it did. They hadn’t even walked for more than five minutes before a child suddenly bumped into them.
“Ouch!” The boy fell to the ground.
Nathan and Flora immediately turned their heads toward this boy. Nathan extended his hand as though he was about to hit him.
The boy instinctively flinched and put his arms up to block the hit, but he was surprised because the expected hit never came.
“Are you alright?” A gentle voice sounded from the side as the boy raised his head, finding Nathan extending his hand to help him while Flora was looking with a concerned face. Discover stories at My Virtual Library Empire
The boy panicked and hurriedly lowered his head. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry. Please don’t hit me.”
“We’re not going to hit you or anything.” Flora chuckled.
“Well, are you alright?” Nathan asked with a nonchalant expression.
“Y-Yes. I’m sorry.” The boy hurriedly rose from the ground and ran away.
“Ah!” Flora looked concerned, while Nathan simply wrapped his hand around her back. “Well, let’s go. We have another thing to do.”
Flora reluctantly agreed.
It looked like they were heading in the opposite direction, but little did the kid know, there was a crow following him from the sky.
…
“Ha… Ha…” The boy hid in the small alley while looking back. Knowing that the other party didn’t chase after him because Nathan didn’t realize he had stolen his purse. Hence, the boy continued onward until he reached their hideout.
Inside the small hut lived several other children.
“I’ve got it!” The boy proudly grinned while showing the pouch he managed to steal from Nathan.
“!!!” The leaders of the children seemed to be twins.
“Huh? The twin sister frowned while the twin brother cheered. “Good job. How much do you get?”
The boy opened the pouch for everyone to see. It was at this time their eyes lit up due to the shiny gold coins inside this pouch. “This… This is…”
Of course, not all of them were gold coins. Most of them were copper and silver coins, which made the pouch bulge like that, but the inside was still equal to 5 gold coins.
“We’re rich.”
“So much money.”
“Shiny, shiny!”
“Can we buy food with this?”
“Instead of food. We should use it to heal our big sister.”
The children were overjoyed. Only the big sister was furrowing her eyebrows. “No. Who did you steal it from? To have that much money…”
“Big sister. Please don’t reject us. You’ve been taking care of us this whole time, so we need to pay the priest to get you healed.”
“You idiot!” The big sister shouted in anger. “Do you not remember why I’m hurt in the first place?”
“Huh?” The children were confused.
“Big sister failed to steal from a noble…”
She gritted her teeth. “Someone that rich must be important. It’s no different from the pouch of that noble. There’s no way they let you steal without realizing it.”
The hut became silent, as no one knew what to say.
It was at this moment Nathan’s voice echoed inside the hut.
“That’s right. There’s no way for me not to realize what you’ve done.”
“!!!” The kids’ hearts skipped a beat as they turned their heads around, following the voice they had never heard before.
Obviously, the boy who stole from Nathan recognized him and immediately dropped to his butt. “You… You…”
It didn’t take too long for the big sister, who seemed to be the wisest, to react. She jumped off her straw bed and dragged her injured body toward Nathan.
Without them realizing it, Nathan had actually stood among them. No, even Flora was beside him.
“Sir… Sir…” The big sister gritted her teeth and banged her head on the ground. It was so hard that Nathan and Flora could feel that her head couldn’t handle such an impact. “He—”
Before she explained, Nathan intimidated them. “What to do with you guys? After all, you stole from someone you shouldn’t have touched, you know? Beside me is a duchess’ relative, Josephine, and I’m her bodyguard, Napoleon!”
‘Duchess’ daughter? Well, that’s not wrong, but how can he just use information he has just learned? Is he a con man? He is acting like the principal with half-baked information… And who the hell is Napoleon?’ Flora rolled her eyes, not knowing how to react.
The moment they heard the word ‘duchess’ coming out of Nathan’s mouth, their hearts sank. They would probably die after this.
However, Nathan and Flora couldn’t help but take a glance at the girl kneeling in front of them.
They actually found a trace of ena in her body. It seemed she hadn’t fully awakened, but she might have the potential to be a summoner.
Both Nathan and Flora knew what they were supposed to do. Whenever they found a summoner, they should have brought them back. Even if they weren’t going to be too strong, a summoner was still much stronger compared to normal people.
And only summoners could notice the ena, so it wouldn’t be weird for her to not realize what she actually possessed.
Still, her condition was awful. She had been beaten pretty badly. There were bruises all over her body. In fact, she noticed that her left leg was limp. Although it was only a flash, he recalled there was a scar on her left cheek and several teeth had been missing.
Looking at her current condition, it shouldn’t be that long since that happened. If not for her to have the potential of a summoner, she would have died.
“Nat… Napoleon…” Flora tapped Nathan’s shoulder as if implying that they should bring them back.
Nathan just glanced at her as if telling her he understood the situation, so she needed to trust him.
With a sly smile on his face, Nathan actually said, “It seems my lady is going to be graceful enough to spare you.
“However, doing bad things can’t go unpunished. How about this? In exchange for sparing your lives, why don’t you do something for us?
“If you do well, not only will I give you that pouch, but I will also fix this girl?”
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