The Scarlet Hawk and The Black Knights (Mina)✔️

47: Obstacles

Previously...

"I believe in you, Mi Na, Momo believed in you too, so why can't you believe in yourself?" Han Ri smiled and caressed the back of Mi Na's head. "Trust in your abilites, that's the key to happiness." she stated before disappearing into thin air. All the other ghosts joined as well, and it was now only Mi Na, the cultists and the villagers left. She looked at them who looked back at her with fright in their eyes, begging for mercy. Suddenly, Ha San teleported right beside her, surprising them all with the sorcerer's frightening arrival.

"You haven't killed them?" he chuckled in disbelief.

"I'm just about to do it until you interfered." Mi Na answered.

"Understandable, you may proceed now." Ha San cooed and folded his arms on his back, waiting for Mi Na to kill them all. The lady then walked to her sword and picked it up, looking at the shiny metal reflecting the person she had become. She stared at the sword for minutes, which earned Ha San's growing impatience. "Well? Are you going to kill them or not?" he asked annoyingly.

"Yes" Mi Na stated monotonously, and Ha San nodded with a proud smirk before he suddenly felt a sword in his chest, widening his eyes in surprise to see the Scarlet Hawk stabbing him with her sword. Blood spurted out of his mouth and to the ground, and the cultists and villagers stared in surprise.

"W-what....are you doing?" Ha San groaned, more blood leaking from his mouth as he coughed painfully. "You....traitor....."

"I'm.......taking alternatives." Mi Na smirked and pushed the sword deeper before she kicked Ha San to the wall. Just as he was about to use his magic on her, Mi Na stopped him from moving with her own magic and placed a curse on his neck. "Now, lord Mal Gu wouldn't be able to sense you anymore, or else you'll bring nothing but trouble to me." she growled.

"L-lord Mal Gu will be i-infuriated once he finds out about your....your treason, j-just you wait." Ha San growled and coughed out more blood.

"Oh I will wait." Mi Na chuckled and walked closer to the sorcerer, moving his chin up with her finger. "But I guess you yourself won't live long enough to wait." she smirked and teleported him back to the branch lair he resided in, completely removing any traces of her betrayal. She then looked at her bloody sword and decided not to clean it. "Leave, leave now and take another alternative path before the Black Knights get here." she instructed firmly.

"T-thank you so much! Thank you so much Lady Mi Na!" the cultists and the villagers bowed thankfully at her and immediately took a small tunnel as their escape route. Afterwards, one cultist approached Mi Na and handed her the shiny box.

"Here, we can't forever keep this safe, so please, don't let this fall into Mal Gu's hands." the cultist begged. The Scarlet Hawk looked at the box with the shiny object inside. "W-we found it buried inside the ground on a lonely land no one has ever gone to. If it falls into the wrong hands then....the fate of the world is doomed. Please, keep it safe, Lady Mae."

"I will, I promise." Mi Na assured the cultist. The cultists then smiled and immediately ran away to join the others. Mi Na looked at the box in her palm and cursed it with her magic, preventing it from ever being sensed by anyone. The Scarlet Hawk then disappeared it so that no one could see it, and she walked out of her cave with her bloody sword just in time to see the Black Knights meeting her.

"They're all dead, wretched traitors." Mi Na stated, showing them her bloody sword.

"Where's Ha San? I thought I saw him going here earlier." Ji Won hummed in curiosity. Mi Na took a deep breath and answered her sister with a lie.