After two gunshots, two guards fall to the ground with an exaggerated smile. Lloyd parks the carriage at the entrance of the mansion. There are two human-shaped stone sculptures at the door. They are two knights holding a sword and pointing to the sky.
As the door of the carriage opens, Finty walks down slowly. Many servants stand beside the red carpet, once Finty stands on it all of them bow to her.
"Welcome back, lady Finty." The servants say in unison.
The servants salute Finty with numb bodies and flat voices as if everyone were being manipulates by a person. Every movements are unnatural and weird, and their eyes seems to reveal fear.
Finty couldn't help but sigh.
"Walker, when are you going to get rid of the habit of manipulating others? Your manipulation skills are so bad... didn't you notice that this servant's arm is almost broken? Finty walked to the servant beside the door.
This servant bows but the arm is twisted at an unnatural angle, with a look of pain on his face. As Finty swings his arm over the servant, several invisible silks break instantly. The servant is no longer being controlled, and his arm returns to its normal angle. However, because the silk controlling him broke instantly, he immediately lost his center of gravity and fell forward.
Fortunately, Finty quickly grabs the collar behind the servant's back and prevents him from falling to the ground. When the servant stabilizes his body, he immediately thanks Finty, but the fear on his face remains unchanged.
Finty turns around, swings forward with a knife hand, and the silks that control them are broken. After the servants regain control, they thank Finty, and then some of them take the carriage to the stable, while others go to the gate, seemingly to dispose of the body there.
"Ahaha... Welcome back, Finty!" The voice of a young sounds behind Finty.
When Finty turns around, she sees a young boy open the door. The boy has pretty features on his face and black hair. His height seems like a child of nine years old and right now, he was looking at Finty with an embarrassed face.
He wore a black beret and a beige jacket with a white shirt underneath, black pants, and black shoes. This color paired with his young face gives him a unique temperament. The name of this boy is called Walker.
Walker talks first when Finty is going to speak.
"Eh? Where is your rimmed eyeglasses?" He asks with a confused tone.
Finty is stunned for a moment and suddenly realizes that she didn't wear her eyeglasses, but it doesn't matter too much seems she still can see clearly.
"Oh I forgot it on the carriage, I was sleeping."
"Here, I took it."
Finty and Lloyd say at the same time.
Lloyd is holding Finty's wooden trunk and the dark blue flower in his hand, and Finty's rimmed eyeglasses in the other hand. Lloyd reaches out and hands the glasses back to Finty.
"Hehe... your relationship looks good." Walker says a joke.
"Lloyd is a nice person, he can do many works, but he doesn't smile at everyone..." Finty slowly wipes the lenses.
"See? Lloyd you should try to smile, just like this... smile~" Walker does a warm smile.
After that Walker stares at Lloyd, expecting him to do the same. The next second, Lloyd forced out a smile due to pressure from his superiors. However, it was uglier than crying.
"...." Walker feels that Lloyd was doing it on purpose.
"Alright, let's get in and you better explain why you killed those guards." Finty says lightly while opening the door and leading them to go inside.
"Ah... you know our identities are very sensitive and cannot be known to others. Those humans hate aberrant for no good reason, pretty dumb." Walker walks beside Finty and complains.
"Humans are not dumb, they are quite smart." Finty refuses Walker's opinion.
"If they are smart then I won't find out those two guards were replying to the military and other noble families." Walker sneers.
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"I mean some of them are smart but some of them aren't. Did they successfully reply to military and noble families?" Finty changes her words.
"No, I have killed them, also I have warned other servants and given a little punishment to all of them."
"But there is one person that I can't control him, you should take care of him."
With that, Walker glances at Lloyd, and Finty does the same. Lloyd also notices they are glancing at him, he knows that he is the one that Walker can't control because Lloyd is Finty's housekeeper and bodyguard.
"As long as I won't get threatened to death then I won't betray you guys." Lloyd says coldly.
Just like this, they don't talk anymore but walk through the corridor and upstairs, then arrive at Finty's room. Finty asks Lloyd to briefly sort out the things in the wooden trunk and then starts chatting with Walker outside the room.
"But how do they try to contact military and noble families? I remember we knocked out all of them when transferred to here, they wouldn't know where is this place." Finty says thoughtfully.
"Look at this." Walker gives Finty a letter.
Finty takes the letter and opens it, quickly glancing at it but the more she reads it, the deeper her frown becomes. Eventually, after finishing reading it, her hand burst out a powerful mana instantly burned the letter to ashes.
"Seth nobility... Astor nobility... they are guarding at the forest where I live. As for the military, they hate aberrant, if they found that we are aberrant they will definitely use every resource that they can use to kill us..." Finty says in a low voice.
"I'm sure with one thing, they are the first who contact our guards, seems no matter how low-key we are we will still be noticed by others." Walker sighs.
"Fortunately, I have killed the guards before they send that letter, or else our identity is exposed already." Walker sighs and leans on the wall.
"Well then... I have to do my things faster." Finty says lightly.
"Oh, what are you going to do?" Walker asked.
"Make an ID card." Finty replies.
"ID card? Wait a second, who's ID card you going to make?" Walker says excitedly with confusion.
"I..." Finty's voice is cut off by Walker.
"Shh... wait! Let me guess! hmm... I've smelled something on you... it's... it's... human! But how? Do you go to other cities in these four years? I thought you just stayed in that forest." Walker asks.
Finty sighs and decides to tell him what happened in these four years. From the first time they meet to this morning. Just like this, Finty tells everything about Saze but doesn't include the Earth and the language problem, that's quite sensitive.
Walker was very shocked after hearing this. There was actually a child walking deep into the forest alone and he wasn't even eaten by other monsters but caught by Mon and brought him to a ruined mansion.
"B-But don't you think is suspicious? Maybe he was a pawn of a faction? just military or noble." Walker asks with worry.
This worry is unnecessary because the first time, Finty knows that Saze is not a person of any factions because of the language. Finty also knows that Saze's secret might be true because of the "Earth" legend and his language is real, she has learned some English from Saze.
"Don't worry, he's not." Finty replies shortly.
At this time, Lloyd finishes sorting the things and comes out of the room.
"Hey! Walker! Did you see the boy in the forest when you fetch up Finty?" Walker asks happily.
"Huh? Boy...? Oh yeah, that boy was... special, I mean in his face, at least I didn't see that kind of feature around these four empires, quite handsome and also gave me the feeling that he did not belong to this world, you know the transmigration novel? That boy was like transmigrated to this world from another world." Lloyd says a lot in one breath.
"Whoa! I the first time heard you say so many words at once! Finty! Can you bring him here? I wanna see him!" Walker shouts happily.
"I guess you will see him soon, after I get his ID card." Finty replies.
"Hooray!!!" Walker cheers happily.
The happy atmosphere washes away the worry about the three factions and the letter. After that Finty enters her room, there are more things and stuff than in the room where she lives in the forest. More design, decoration, and engraving on the wall.
Finty sits on the wooden chair and gazes at the night sky through the window.
"At this time... Saze might be sitting on the roof and watching to eye rune of night, or he just lie in the nest of spiders... Hmm.. I should give him a room after I go back." Finty murmurs, full of concern for Saze.
"Saze...?" Lloyd suddenly sounds scared Finty a bit.
"You know that you're not an assassin of the military now, right? it's okay to expose your footstep..." Finty turns her head and side glances at him.
"...How do you not notice me that I'm near you? Because of that boy? Hmm, so you actually stay with him for four years. I thought that he was the human pet that you bought from the slave market." Lloyd says lightly.
"I don't have a hobby of treating humans like dog pets, I'm not those inhumane noble." Finty holds her anger in her mind.
"Well then... sometimes I wonder, who the hell is the pervert that makes the human pet which treats slave like a dog..." Lloyd asks.
"You should asked your kind, Mr. Human~" Finty smiles and says in sarcasm.
"....." Lloyd was speechless.
"Seems Saze is really important to you... You got scared by me because you were thinking of him and you used a sarcastic tone to talk to me." Lloyd ssays after a moment with an unknown-meaning glance.
Seeing Lloyd's glance, Finty rose up and started twisting muscle as if preparing to fight. Lloyd gulps and chooses the best choice in this situation.
"Alright, I'll check if those servants dispose of the body well..." Lloyd was going to leave.
"It's ok, Walker will check it..." Finty says in a low voice.
Finty smiled warmly, but in Lloyd's eyes, he saw the reaper waving its hand as if welcoming him to hell. If Saze was here he would know what Lloyd was going to face because when Saze talks badmouthing about Finty, she also does that to him.
Bong!
"Ahh!!!" A loud scream from Lloyd sounded.
"Tsk tsk tsk, seems Saze was really important to her." Walker heard to scream from Lloyd upstairs.
He doesn't go to help him but takes a sip of red tea calmly and sit on the wide white sofa.