○ • ○ That Scarlet Blood ○ • ○ II

IX

-Where do you want to go!? DAMNED!!- we hear a voice and on alert we see a red-haired girl leaning out the window... I recognize her as one of Mr. Agriche's youngest daughters, Charlotte Agriche: she's a psychopath.

-Let's move. And also quickly- I say taking Cassis' and the girl's arm by force and starting to run.
-Who is she and why are you so scared?- Cassis asks me still running -She is Charlotte Agriche, daughter of Lant Agriche, a psychopath, now she will tell everyone that we escaped. So save your breath! - I say running not only for my life, but also for that of Cassis and the girl who risked everything for us, and to whom I owe a lot, perhaps too much.

-I see the troops!- Cassis yells pointing to a point in front of us; where we see tents with numerous soldiers ready for a fight.
Meanwhile, behind us you can hear the sound of the horses following us.

-We are here! Attack the Agriche!!- he shouts to the soldiers, who immediately surround us, protecting us with shields, and surprise I notice that these soldiers are not from Podelian, but they are from Ferion.

They marched all the way here to help me, my brother will surely have reported my sudden disappearance.

-Lily... is that really you?- I turn around and see my brother looking at me with tears in his eyes, taking a few steps towards me.
He stops just a few steps away from me and stares at me with immense happiness.

I don't hesitate and hug him bursting into tears we stay like this for a while, until an arrow grazes my head by a few centimeters and then other arrows from the woods start raining on us, immediately we head towards the carriages and carts, all they are scared and above all shocked by the speed with which they have prepared everything to fight back.

I see familiar faces in the battle, there's my brother who picked up a sword and started to challenge the soldiers of Agriche.
I see Dion approaching me, beating anyone who gets in her way. My brother notices it and tells other soldiers to help me, while Dion was staring at me with two dark, angry and bloodthirsty eyes, he holds out his hand saying to me.

-Come with me and no one will die, I'll even leave the bastard of the Podelians alive, and your brother will be spared, the choice is yours or marry me and everyone will continue to live or a massacre will happen-.