Chapter 22: Millavuenoghatthendillia Edelvoughahndi Mayoubhoughergoise and Sebastian (Friesha's note 19)
The old man in tuxedo heroically came in front of me and this damsel in distress, facing Felgard in a fighting stance, "Don't worry young miss, I will protect you no matter what, even if it costs me my very soul."
"Yes, yes, now hurry on with it Sebastian," was his Milady's response in quite a standard tone.
Felgard just looked at him with his stupid looking confused face.
"Hm, boy. If you value your youth then leave without looking back," the old man in a tuxedo spoke in a seriously deep voice.
"Oi, I don't know what's going on but," he too took out his wooden sword. "I'm a man who welcomes any challenge." He then flashed that annoying half smile of his in front of his opponent.
"Hooo, so you're a tough guy I see. Well then prepare yourself, for I, the head butler of the Mayoubhoughergoise Manor, shall defeat you," the old man in tuxedo then immediately dashed towards Felgard in which he too did the same.
They clashed at each other, seemingly shaking the ground beneath them. The old man in tuxedo gave an impressed look on Felgard's quick response, which he followed up with a fast kick. Felgard managed to dodge the attack and the two started exchanging blows. Standing there watching the fight, I too was impressed of how Felgard became stronger than before. His movements were less polished before unlike today where his movements are more precise and accurate as he dodge and attack the old man with his wooden sword.
"Hooo, impressive you're able to keep up"
"I'm just getting heated up!"
Felgard then took a quick step back and sprung to the enemy as he swayed his wooden sword in the blink of an eye. The old man in tuxedo, or Sebastian, barely managed to dodge backwards but did not expect Felgard to slash his sword twice more. Sebastian blocked the second slash, but in a hurry which gave him a huge opening. The third slash completely hit his torso and he was taken up in the air.
"Got you!" Felgard then jumped up to slash Sebastian down to the ground. This time Sebastian blocked the attack and kicked Felgard away while in the air, hitting him on his left waist and landed on the ground.
"Oi old man! how'd you do that? Kicking me while on the air! Thats cheating!" Felgard complained unreasonably.
"Hmmpph! There is no cheat on that boy," Sebastian then took another fighting stance. "It's pure skill!" He then quickly launched a kick on Felgard's on guard wooden sword and once again exchange blows with him.
While in the heat of battle, the little damsel in distress turned to me and spoke like nothing happened, "Now miss Fifirisha, shall we go somewhere? Or perhaps you would like to be invited inside our Manor?"
I was quite dazed as I only responded a, "Ah.. " to which she took as a 'yes' and dragged me by the arm away from the fight. All of a sudden, she stopped for a while.
"Oh oh! How come I forgot! Oh the stupidity!" she let go of my arm and went back. "Sebastiaaan, don't be late for tea time! This time it should be high mountain dusk tea and fruit tarts with clustermoon cakes, okay?!" Without waiting for her butler's response, she went back to me. "Now shall we go."
"Uhh, I thought you were lost?" I asked her in doubt.
She looked at me with a smile on her face before going back and asked, "Sebastiaaan?! Which way back to the manor?!
Her butler giving all his effort on the fight halted for a while and answered, "Northeast milady!" which got him hit by Felgard on the face.
"Okay, but if I get lost you're going back to sleeping with Mr. Croaky okaaay? Oh and take that boy to the dungeon okaaay?!" and as she went back to me reminded, "Don't forget tea tiiime!" She went back to me, grabbed me by the arm, and again, "Now shall we go?" went away from the fight. Before completely going away, I heard from a distance a, "Anything for you milad-guhuaaackhhhh!!"
The moment we got further away, "Uhmm, I'm sorry but I need to go." We both stopped as she looked at me with a worry on her face.
"Dear me, oh good heavens! Why should it be that you must leave? Your pursuer is being taken care of. There is no more need to be on guard, nor to be careful."
Thinking of a valid reason, I ended up with a "Truth be told, I am a wanderer and I uhhh, seek the pleasures of the unknown... stuff..."
"Oh, oh oh! How splendid! To seek out your purpose, to have found your calling! Ah! how marvelous!" again, she was swaying almost all the time and suddenly halted. "However, how I want you so badly in my manor, to enjoy the pleasures of luxury! To be my sister at heart! Oh oh! The conflict! The differences of desires! Oh, so excruciatingly painful."
Watching her became all the more reason to leave, but without my staff I cannot just use unstable teleportation magic. Then all of a sudden this happened.
"Ah, the pain in my head is being more aggressive than before. Oh, Sebastian, my pain killers please..." and she collapse on the ground as gentle (and as lady-like) as can be.
"Hey, what happened?" I knelt down to her gorgeously formed pose. "Hey, what happened! Are you alright?" I tried shaking her to wake her up, only took my actions in vain. She was passed out completely just from thinking such unimportant things. However, the fact that she could also be just hungry came to thought since it was still morning.
"Now what must I do?" I took a deep sigh and decided to carry her to her manor. "Northeast, huh?" I looked at that direction and saw people coming towards us. "Could they be with the old man in tuxedo?"
As they got closer, I noticed that they were men with weapons on their hands. "Hey, don't tell me they're bandits?" I wanted to hide but I can't just leave this damsel here. Going back to get her butler might take a while.
"Ahaha! There she is!" one of the bandits pointed to our direction.
"Indeed that's her, the Mayoubh-whatever's daughter," another spoke in response.
I was left to fend for her, but if I use unstable magic now, I could either endanger her life with too strong magic, or expose myself with too weak magic. That moment, I could only clench my fist and try to fight back as much as I could.
Then out of nowhere, the thought of leaving her be and run for myself came to my head. It felt like darkness itself was whispering in my ears. I thought to myself the benefits of leaving her be, "I'd be sure to run a way safely as they are only after her. Plus Felgard won't be able to disturb me anymore since he is being taken care of. In other words, its my perfect chance." I looked down on her unconscious body and thought, "I don't even know her so I won't feel anything."
All of a sudden her words flashed on my memory, "To be my sister at heart..." I began thinking to myself why she would want a stranger like me to be her sister. It annoyed me, it got me so irritated. I was so mad of thinking that I ended up going I front of her passed out body and faced the bandits with a very angry look in my eyes.
"Huh? Who's the other brat?" another bandit asked his fellows.
"Who knows, anyway the important one is that," the other answered and pointed on to her.
I stared at them intensely, "A total of seven bandits, huh..." As long as I use forward attacks, I could probably manage to do it right without harming the damsel behind me, but was merely an assumption. The probability of harming her was still huge. I could only wish for the good to happen.
"Go get her boys," the other one, which seemed to be the leader, commanded his fellow.
"Looks like we'll be having lots of meat for the entire week!" the one who came closer spoke as he took out his knife.
"That's as far as you can go filthy humans," I said in a loud intimidating voice. "You are not to come any further. Why not just leave so you won't be harmed?"
The bandits merely laughed at me, "You? harm us? Are you in over your head?" The others continued laughing.
I braced myself fully prepared to attack. Just then, they stopped laughing and faced behind me. I got curious and looked back as well and saw the old man in tuxedo with a passed out Felgard being carried on his right arm.
"You shameless filthy vicious disgusting loathsome vile disgraceful pieces of redsheep poop!" he spoke in an enraged voice. "I'll kill you all!!"
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