Bridget's Little Secret

Face off

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The sound of the demon's shoes...
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Is getting near your door.
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If you do not lock the door,
The demon will eat you whole'

A door banged so loud and the cold moisty air blow inside scaring the people inside.
The candles are all blown out and only the magic operated lamp gives enough light inside.

"Wha-"

"Princess?"

"What is happening?" Princess Aqua angrily stood up from her comfy chair, her face is now sticky due to the air carrying dews in it slamming to her face dead on.

"I don't know, princess. I am sure I lock the door properly." The maid tremble and kneel.

Seraphine is half kneeling in the wall while her two hands are raised up by a rope.
Her face are hurt and swollen.
She is groggy and unable to comprehend what is happening and her saliva is dripping through her open mouth.
It is understandable after the Princess injected and overdose her with hallucination drug.

"If you close it properly, why did it----"

Clip. Clop.
Tak.
A hand as white as a chalk appear in the door.

Scared.
They all gasps and move farther away from the door.

"Founnd you~~" Manchester smiles as he shows his face.

Aqua is the first to recognized him.
She swallows and point at his face.
"Fool, who do you think you are to enter in this room without persmission?"

Manchester's eyes wander as he spots the dying Seraphine.
"Good grip. You really want to kill her?"

Aqua trembles in anger as the man ignores her.
"I am asking who gave you the right to....
AHHHHH..ahhh.."
Aqua opens her mouth and throw up a mouthful full of blood.
Not only that, a part of flesh was vomited out.

The maids all got scared.

Aqua stare at that small flesh down with a shock and red eyes.

"Ah...ah.." she scratches her mouth as she try to make herself deny what that small flesh on the floor was.

While Manchester looks at Seraphine with a gloomy expression.
"Sadly, I want you to stay like this and unable to talk but Master orders to save you." He said and with a use of his mana, cut the rope and catches Seraphine's falling body.
He carry her in his shoulder like a sack of rice.

Aqua looks red eyed at Manchester and angrily point at him.

"Ahh! Ah, ah, ah!!" She shouted as the tears are mixed with the blood.

Manchester remembers his master's order and in a flick of his fingers turn Princess Aqua and the rest into a fool.

Walking out, Manchester suddenly grab Seraphine's body tighter as he lifts hee out of the palace.
The large mana slam at his former location making the whole place burnt.

The King is on top of Princess Aqua's palace as the white cape with golden embroidery flutters in the air.

"Who are you?" The King asks.

"My, my, this is not part of the plan." Manchester sighs.

The second Queen hurried to her daughter's room.
Shrieekkkkkkkkk....

"I will kill you!" The second Queen shouted as tears ruined her make up but she doesn't care.
After she saw her daughter like a crazy fool, she lost it.

The second Queen is a lightning attribute. Her two hands are now holding a green lightning sword.
She lifts to the air and strike at Manchester hundred of times but Manchester blocks it with ease.

Manchester is not afraid of the Queen.
So his attention is more focus on the quiet King up to the roof.

Manchester used a dark blue lightning and force the second Queen to fly away in a hundred kilometer.

On the other side, Kyle catches Bridget's falling body.

"What? Are you that hungry?"

Bridget is strongly releasing mana.
It is affecting her sense of weight and balance.

She shakes her head not to make Kyle worry.
"Master, I need to lay down. I need to rest for a while."
She said and close her eyes.

Kyle has no bed in the laboratory. He carry her to the table and put her there.
He went out and then put a pillow on her head and a blanket.

He wanted to scan her body using mana to know what is the problem but that is not allowed to do even in serious cases or even facing death. Because scanning someone's body using mana is the same as taking off someone's clothes and showing your bare body to them.

Kyle phase around her mulling what to do.
Then he hurried to the doctor's clinic to ask for opinion.
He didn't bring Bridget in case it brings more trouble.

Bridget is alright.
Just an excess mana loss is just messing her sense of balance.

'Manchester, what are you doing? Are you trying to run me dry?!'
She tried contacting the cause of this problem.

'Can't talk...later.'

Bridget frowns.
'What do you mean you can't talk?'

Meanwhile,

Manchester is starting to get tired.
It doesn't matter if Seraphine is on his shoulder.
But using borrowed mana is still more harder than using your own.

The King of Alphia is a great Magic User.
A strong fire user.

His attacks are heavy and powerful.

Right now, he is busy defending himself from the viscious attack of the king.
Using fire sword laced with molten fire magma to sliced him.
His barrier has cracked 5 times already.

Manchester clicked his tongue.
Jump back high in the air.

"Heavy hundred punches!" Manchester shouted as huge rock fist formed in the air to drop like punches toward Nicklaus.

Nicklaus breath in. And using his sword.
Sliced the rocks in the air with his fire soul.

Manchester runs away.
"That guy is scary~"

'Manchester! Answer me!'

'Master,'

'What is happening? How is Seraphine?'

'I am fine too, Master. I got Seraphine.'

'Good. Why did you use too much mana?'

'I face off with the King but I escape thankfully Master is like the well of mana~'

'Face off with WHO?????'

'It's fine. I lose hi-----uh-oh'

'What's uh-oh?'

Manchester looks at the fire sword on his neck as he put Seraphine in the bed.

"Who are you?"
The King said.