Flower of Steel

Daisy slowly aimed her crossbow toward the man. But as she aimed it at him, I saw a knight charging toward that man. If my memory was correct, that knight was the oldest one, who was nearing his retirement. I was on the verge of making a decision. There was a chance that the knight would get struck by the arrow. I shook my head toward Daisy, who turned towards me. I couldn’t try when there was a chance that we could kill our ally with our own hands. I just hoped that the knight would open a chance for us and proceeded to watch.

But the enemy was showing different levels of movement. It was a matter of time before the knight was killed. The only reason we were planning to attack them with the element of surprise was that we were hiding. If we were to be found, it was all going to fail. I was trying to analyze the situation when the knight got struck with a sword on his shoulder. Lumi tried to jump out at once, but Jianneen quickly held on to her to stop her.

“No. You said you’d keep your skills a secret. If you go out right now, you’ll never live a normal life.” Jianne whispered.

However, Lumi glanced at him with a look of disgust and shouted as she threw his hand off her shoulder, “Let me go! Fritz was stabbed!”

I absolutely understand her, but I almost swore at her for recklessly shouting. It may be a mistake, but Lumi just put us all in danger.

The man ignored the knight named Fritz, who was in pain and turned towards the bush where we were hiding. Now, he has found where we were hiding. When a man of such power noticed us, there was no need to hide anymore. As we got up, the man frowned as he looked at the twins.

“You’re that kid who fought me earlier.”

He was looking at Jianneen, who shook his head and corrected him. “No, you’re wrong. You fought with this ugly one, not me.” Jianne spoke sarcastically.

Lumi gritted her teeth and said, “Jianneen, I’ll have a word with you later.” After responding fiercely to her brother, Lumi turned back to the man and snapped, “Are you blind? How could you mistake me with that weak sauce? Are you an idiot?”

Those were obviously offensive words to use to pick a fight. It was probably to direct his attention away from the injured knight. It was reckless, but it seemed to have worked as the man frowned.

“You have a big mouth. You two look the same. No one could tell who’s who.”

Actually, I had to agree with him on that. However, the twins looked deeply insulted by the man’s words.

“Hey, monster. Since you decided to show yourself to the world anyway, make sure you kill him.”

Lumi nodded at Jianne’s words, “Yeah. I’m getting rid of him.” She glanced down briefly, then looked up with violent eyes that appeared unfamiliar. Then she roared, “You dare intrude on the house of Reclan and attack my knights? For what purpose have you done this?”

It was a sharp voice that even felt vicious, but the man grinned as he considered it was coming from a little girl. “Well, I was just ordered by my master to bring in a pretty girl with red eyes. Oh, you must be her! Oh, and I’m under strict orders to keep it a secret, so I had to kill everyone that saw us. You’ve seen us too. Too bad.”