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12. 𝙰 𝚌𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜, 𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚔 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚞𝚐𝚊𝚛.

Alright, there were around 20 of the soldiers now. Zyan was standing back there. It didn't look like he wanted to join in the fight.

Livia took notice of her surroundings. If she wanted to escape, she'd have to make a good run for it. Could she just jump up to the exit up there? Maybe?

"Alright. You all can come."

In the end, she decided to at least have some fun before going home. She wouldn't gain anything from this, but it'd be nice to run around and do some cuts.

"...Prepare to attack!"

One of the soldiers said before they all apparently rushed towards her with some kind of unspoken signal. It didn't catch her by surprise, however, since she wasn't actually even paying attention to them.

"HIYAH!"

One attempted to slash her with the long sword he held in his hands, but as soon as he swang the blade, he noticed an empty space in front of him, where Livia was just a second ago.

"Over here."

He immediately lifted his head to look above him, and the last sight he had was the woman's blade effortlessly making its way toward his neck.

Once she reached the ground, four soldiers surrounded her, each making an attack simultaneously. However, they all failed due to Livia simply leaping into the air again, doing a small flip, her back turned to them for a second while she stared into the ceiling of the large cave with a smile.

"That's...!"

One soldier realized her plan once he saw the faint glow coming out of the anemo vision on her hip. However, he couldn't even say something else once she touched the ground, as her legs now moved at a ridiculous speed, and sliced off the man's head from his body.

"This is quite a nice way to start the week, if I say so myself."

She mumbled, as she began using the sudden sprint boost to immediately behead all soldiers in a radius of five meters, as all the others took a step back out of fear.

Their eyes widened as they realized they had no chance from the start, as sweat began forming on their foreheads.

The woman stopped after finishing off the ones who were closer to her. She looked at her sword, as blood dripped from the pale metal in it. She turned back to face the rest, as a big and cheerful smile could be seen on her face.

"Ah... Aren't you all a bit scared? Why are you backing away...?"

She asked with an innocent and naive smile, as she took a single step forward, and held the sword in her right hand.

"Livia. This is enough. You have fallen into madness... What happened to you...!?"

As she was about to attack again, Zyan stepped forward, apparently done with seeing his soldiers die in vain, trying to stop this unstoppable force.

His eyebrows were quite low as he seemed very irritated. She couldn't exactly tell why, maybe he woke up in a bad position? Or maybe he didn't like breakfast or something.

"You... You don't even realize your wrongdoings...!"

He tried to reason with the woman, but failed once he noticed that she wouldn't listen to a word he says.

"Alright. Now that we're done with that, may I ask why did you kidnap those two kids?"

Livia now faced him with a serious expression, which caught Zyan off guard. However, he quickly caught his composure back, and glared at her.

"You do not need to care about that..."

It seems he was about to say something else, but then he realized the absence of both Mitra and Collei in the battlefield. He then turned his head to see the vine ladder Tighnari had made earlier.