35 Assassin's
"Evelyn...! Get your act together!" Gil yelled. Waking up Evelyn from a stupor.
'You've got to be kidding me! After fighting those monsters and risking myself to get a tutor... you're telling me that I can't win?! Ha ha!' Evelyn laughs dryly in her head.
Evelyn was thinking too hard about the choices that she made.
Is it worth it? Or not?
Can she change anything?
She doesn't know but one thing is for sure. She won't back down without fighting!
Waking up from her daze, Evelyn tried to act innocently to let the man's guard down. Taking the advantage that she's a child and a frail lady in the eyes of others.
Taking a deep breath, she started to act childishly.
"Mister... Wh-why are you here. The party is over there." Evelyn then pointed out the direction of the front mansion, where the guest receives.
"Yo-you're not al-allowed here..." then Evelyn's eyes start to form a misty.
Her hands trembled upon seeing it and the man smiles evilly.
He thinks that the mission of getting the money will be as easy as killing chicks. A frail young miss who's reputation was at rock bottom and is now alone in the garden, no one will notice that she's gone.
'This will take just a minute.' The man clothed in black thought.
"Missy~ don't worry... This won't hurt. Just stay put and it'll be done in a minute. Isn't that great?" The man said while snickering.
'...won't hurt my ass! Gil! Does this man think I'm stupid?!'
"The way you act? Yes... You look stupid, child" Gil said sighing.
'I don't have a choice, I need him to lower his walls. That way I can sneak an attack and run away from here as fast as I can.' Evelyn stated. Then Evelyn acts again.
"Wh-what do you mean it won't hurt? Mister... I'm sc-scared..." Her eyes trickle down a teardrop.
And the man smiled widely.
'If I act this way... maybe I can get information. Evil people tend to speak their master's name for the sake of their pleasure.' She said to Gil, they were having a conversation to plan out an escape plan.
"Then be careful, if you need my help... Just tell me, but I can only give you a one spell! Your mana is too weak to handle it!' Gil answered.
'And that's your fault! tsk!'
***
After the assassin let down his guard with the excellent performance of Evelyn making herself sounds scared, she speedily and sneakily launches her attack.
The assassin was blasted with 'Fire blitz' and 'Wind Canyon'. But no one heard about the explosion, as fireworks were also launched at the same time.
Evelyn hardened her face to a scowl. Then she runs!
Evelyn's simultaneous use of her spell made the assassin cursed under his breath.
"This piece of sh*t!" The man clothed in black was stupified from the first attack and he burned his arm, he dodges the second attack.
He cursed again and he started to ran and chase his target.
"Damnit!"
Looking back, Evelyn saw the assassin whistle and another man clothed in black appeared.
Evelyn was scared. She can't handle one and now there's two!
'And no one even heard the noise that I made! The hell is wrong with this house?! There's no one patrolling, for freak's sake! This is a military General's House, where's the knights?!'
Evelyn silently panicked while she was pulling her turquoise dress up and was running full speed.
The assassins we're catching up and throw a dagger towards Evelyn.
-swish!
-thuk!
Evelyn jolt with the sudden pain in her back. A hot liquid flows down in her upper right shoulder.
She hissed at the pain, nonetheless, she still didn't stop her tracks to get inside the mansion.
'Gil! Give me the damn spell!'
"Are you sure?! But your hurt!" Gil asked, worrying about Evelyn's condition.
Evelyn ran as fast as she can from the man that was chasing her.
Sweat drops keep pouring from her chin, the turquoise dress that she loves was tattered from the flying sharp objects that came towards her.
'Then do you want me to get killed?! Just give me the gad damn spell!' Evelyn yelled angrily.
*Huff... *Huff...
'I need to get out from here... inside the mansion!'
'I can ask for help there...!'
She needs to run for her life. The assassins were too powerful that her spells earlier were easily deflected.
"Chant "gorwynt", Child. Hurry!" Gil said in a haste.
Evelyn shout the spell with everything she got.
"Gorwynt!"
The wind swirls around, with a blast of air, the surrounding bushes and trees were swaying violently.It was like a tornado.
The assassins we're taken aback and held to the nearby trees to not be swept away. The assassins knew that they were gaining attention with the prolonged fight and the chase like cat and mouse so, they changed their plan and throw a poisonous arrow for Evelyn and retreated.
"Child!!!!" Gil, yelled when he saw the glint of metal aiming his contractor.
But because Evelyn used her mana, her senses were clouded and... -swish!
Evelyn's arm was grazed with the sharp nose of the arrow.
It didn't matter to Evelyn as she saw that she was finally at the entrance that will lead inside the mansion.
Evelyn knew it was her chance.
With her dizzy state and pale face, the blood that was oozing out wasn't her priority. It was her safety.
Evelyn's condition grew worst when she reached the door.
***
Opening the back door, she saw her father, but because of her weak condition, she unconsciously called him the way she called her father in her past life. And in a small voice, she said...
"Papa..."
Evelyn was leaning in the wooden door, no one was near it, it's because only a few people can enter this place that leads to the back garden.
The Duke who has a keen sense heard her and turn to look at where the voice spoke. The back door.
"...help"
He saw Evelyn, standing unsteadily. He observes her for a few moments and it seems that it was only him that heard her.
His eyes squinted into a frown.
Her daughter who was fine a moment ago and is greeting the guest was now pale as a sheet and her body was covered with...
"Is that blood?"
The Duke was shocked, his cold eyes dilated and began to open wide, then he was stupified and stand stiff.
-thud...!
He saw Evelyn collapse on the hard cold floor.
***
The birthday banquet is still happily going on as the night grew further while the inside of the Duke's house was in a panic.
The only Lady that they were serving was held by the Duke in his arms, unconscious.
The head Butler was following the tail of his Grace while sweating buckets.
They were stunned when they saw yet again that their lady was held in someone's arm, blood was all over her turquoise dress, it was tattered and full of mud. Her heels that were designed by a famous shoe designer was nowhere to be found. She was barefoot!
It was so familiar like it happened a few days ago, and now it's happening again. The difference was the one holding is the cold-blooded Duke. Evelyn's Father.
There was graze all over her body but what made them focused was the dagger that was stuck in the lady's back.
The Duke who found Lady Evelyn collapsed on the hard floor, was looking murderously while walking towards Evelyn's room.
"Call the doctor immediately!"
The head butler was gone in a second. The Duke's murderous aura was poured out and everyone who saw a glimpsed of those eyes is either held their breath or fell down on their knees.
It was so vicious that the maids and knights scurrying away from the Duke's path.
"You!" Said the Duke to the knights who were stationed in Evelyn's room.
Their faces gloom and the two held their breath in panic.
"Call the damn knights who were stationed to patrol tonight this instant!"
"Ye-yes Duke."
The door swung open with force and the Duke laid down her daughter's unconscious body in the bed.
His eyes glowed with anger. Seeing her daughter in a weakened state was something she didn't saw until today.
It was just the head butler informing him about the situation and condition of her daughter. But witnessing it? This is the first.
It was shocking for him to hear her daughter called her "papa". It was what she called her when the Duchess was still alive.
While thinking the past he saw Evelyn gasped for air, the Duke hardened his face when Evelyn was wriggling with pain and her breath was uneven.
"Where's the sage healer, Jede!!!" the butler panic, he already called the Sage Healer and it would take half an hour to get to the Emsworth mansion.
"Find someone else! damnit! Don't you see my daughter is in pain!"
The butler ran and call for help. He sure knows that if he didn't go back with a person that could help their Lady. He will be the one lying on the bed.
The Duke who was left alone with Evelyn glared furiously into the nothingness. He uttered words with a conviction.
"How dare they touched my daughter! They'll pay for this!"
