Felix ruffled his hair, which was unexpectedly disorganized, unlike his usual self.

When Felix tried to approach me, the man holding me dragged me back and took a step back.

Felix stopped walking.

“YOU…Who are you.? What are you doing?”

Felix looked at the person behind me and asked.

The person who answered the question was not the person who was asked.

A group of knights ran from the back of Felix and shouted.

“Stop it. Anguis!”

Only one name was shouted by the Knights, but that name alone explained everything.

I quickly looked at the sword that was pointed at my neck.

There were a lot of scratches, so it was hard to see clearly, but a pattern in one corner caught my eye.

Anguis, an evil snake that brutally eats the wings of an eagle wearing a crown, a symbol of the royal family, was the symbol of the rebellion made by knights supporting the second prince more than a year ago.

I heard that all the rebel forces have not been captured but….there seems to be one alive holding me as a hostage.

When I thought about it, my body trembled.

My eyes turned white and I was dizzy.

“Release the hostages and drop the sword!”

Will he really let me go?

Even if he escapes safely with us, he will probably kill us in order to destroy evidence.

Without any guilt. Since I am just a one time use for him.

I was just a perfect opponent to use as a hostage.

A young girl who doesn’t seem to rebel because she can’t run away properly and has a little baby to protect.

I am short and weak, so even if he didn’t have a sword, he can easily kill me, just by grabbing my neck with both hands.

I think I was just right person for being a hostage.

But for some reason I was angry.

Why?

I don’t know.

But I was the angry at the man, who tries to harm a small kid for his selfish reasons.

I was angry that the man was a knight, even though he didn’t have an ounce of chivalry spirit.

“Mamamuuuuu”

As soon as I heard the little boy’s voice, I came to my senses.

At that moment, I didn’t even know why, but I opened my mouth with a trembling voice.

“Let go of the child.”

“WHAT?”

“I’ll be the hostage, so let this child go. Have mercy on a baby who’s not even a year old?”

Angry at my behavior, the man pulled my arm hard.

As my body turned back, I saw red-blooded brown eyes.

SHUT UP YOUR MOUTH. BOTH THE BABY AND YOU WILL COME WITH ME.

“Were you really a Knight. You don’t have a single strand of chivalry? Even animals don’t do such a thing. You’re way worse than an animal.”

Why…?

Why am I getting angry whenever I think about the little boy getting hurt.

Maybe I was out of my mind.

If I had thought rationally, I wouldn’t have acted in a way that would provoke him.

Suddenly the pain in my arm disappeared.

The hand that held my arm, released me.

I tried to move during that time, but immediately, the man pulled me pulling my hair roughly.

“Argh!”

“Elena!”

The blade digging into my neck could be vividly felt.

The red colored blood started coming out from my neck.

Felix and the knights could be seen flinching at the sight.

“DON’T MOVE. DO YOU UNDERSTAND NOW. GET OUT OF MY WAY.”

The man took a step back.

Whenever Felix tried to come forward, the blade went a little deep into my neck.

I felt the pain surging.

But I didn’t mind the pain, I was only worried about the little boy in my hand.

The hand that was holding the little boy put strength in it on its own.

“Bapubuuuuuuu”

The little boy raised his head again and babbled at the man, which looked close to a scream.

I got scared.

I didn’t want the human beast to do anything to the baby.

“No, kid. Don’t. Don’t do that!”

I quickly tried to put the little boy’s head into my arms, but the kid didn’t listen.

“Bagagapubuuuuuuuuuuuuupuuuuuuuuuuuu!”

It was the very moment when the kid cried.

The man who kept walking backwards with me stumbled as if he had stepped on a stone.

I took the opportunity to kick him with my elbow.

The man let go of the hand that held my hair.

The blade that touched my neck gradually moved away.

Everything seemed so vivid that the moment felt slow.

Thugged the little boy hard and moved my legs.

My heart beat as it was going to explode.

Felix came running and stretched out his hand.

Just a little bit.

Just a little bit more.

If I run all the way to Felix’s place……I will be safe.!

It was the first time in my life that I thought that the arms of the snarky childhood friend would be safe.

As I was running towards Felix, my right leg got twisted and the pain sore up.

Unable to control my movement, my body started falling down.

The ground came closer and closer.

Before thinking about the pain I would experience when I fall, my mind kept thinking about the little boy in my hand.

I turned around in a hurry so that the little boy wouldn’t get hurt.

Thud

When I opened my eyes all I could see was the white sky filled with snow.

It wasn’t as painful as I thought it would be.

Thad prepared myself for falling on the hard ground, but the feeling in my back was not hard, rather soft.

“Elly!”

When I came to my senses and turned my head, I saw Felix.

His hands were wrapped around my back.

“Felix?”

Felix’s necklace shone with a blue light.

The rebel Knight started running away towards the other side.

“Go and catch that b*stard!”

The Security guard knights ran towards the man, with their eyes filled with anger.

Felix, who raised me, shook the sand off my shoulder and looked at me.

His eyes also felt as fierce as those of the Security guard knights.

Soon the Rebel Knight got caught.

The man who was alone without a hostage was at a disadvantage in numbers.

He seemed to resist wielding the sword, but soon got arrested by the knights.

Finally it’s over.

It happened for only a few minutes, but I felt like its been hours.

I didn’t have any strength left in my body.

My mind was in a mess.

The funny thing was, it wasn’t Felix who calmed me when I seemed to lose my mind.

“Mamamuuuuuuuuuu.

The little boy rubbed his cheek against my shoulder.

“Mamuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!

Later, he poured out tears with a runny nose.

The area around my shoulders got wet in an instant.

I’ve seen the little boy cry, a lot of times, but I’ve never seen him cry so sadly.

“It’s okay baby, you must have been scared, too.”

“It’s okay little boy. Everything is fine now.”

I raised my hand and patted the restless little boy on the back.

Fortunately, the little boy’s crying gradually decreased as if the comfort worked.

I kept patting the kid on the back and whispered to Felix, who grabbed my arm and stood next to me.

“Thank you.”

There was nothing I could have done.

If it weren’t for Felix, I’d be taken away by that man by now, or bled, and lost conscious.

I would have been so helpless if he wasn’t there.

Felix didn’t respond to my thanks.

He just looked down at my neck silently for a moment and reached out to the little boy.

“We need to go and treat you first. Give the Kid to me.”

The little boy looked at Felix’s hand and turned his head.

“Come here, kid!”

Felix took the little boy from me.

The little boy looked at me with moist eyes as if he was anxious, but didn’t reject Felix’s hands as he did before.

The little boy, who was looking at me for a while, buried his face on Felix’s shoulder.

“Let’s go to the dorm”.

Felix reached out to me this time. I had no energy to scuffle, so I gently held his hands.

His hands holding my hands were way colder than mine, which was trembling from the fear.

As soon as we returned to the accommodation, Felix sat on the bed and put the little boy on the floor, who quickly crawled to the bed, grabbed the bed, stood up, and looked up at me.

Seeing that the little boy who did not rush towards me, thought the little boy understood the atmosphere.

Well……It can’t be…

Maybe it was just my imagination.

Felix sat next to me without tidying up his dirty clothes and body

His cold fingertips, came close to me, touched my neck.

My shoulders twitched.

Felix came closer, and moved all the hair that was close to my neck.

Then, like a doctor, he put his face close to my neck as if he was trying to examine my wound in detail.

I’ve never been this close to him, not even when we were kids.

An unknown heat surged on my face.

Felix pressed my neck slightly.

Every time he did that, I felt a pricking pain that I didn’t felt until a while ago.

I didn’t realize it, maybe because of the situation I was in, until a while ago.

I didn’t feel the pain for longer.

I was concerned more about the Felix’s hand that had been staying on my neck.

I pretended to be calm and moved naturally to the side, but Felix came even closer, holding my arm his another hand.

“Fortunately, you didn’t get a deeper cut as I thought. Even if I use magic to cure your wounds, you may still feel some pain for today.”

When he spoke, his warm breath poured down towards my stinging wound.

I felt like I was going to lose my breath.

It seemed similar to when my mother blew her breath whenever I fell down and hurt my palm or knee when | was a kid.

It was really a very strange sensation.

Was it because I was tired from all the things that had happened today.?

Or was it because of the cold weather?

I never found the reason for this strange sensation.

Felix’s necklace once again shone blue.

At the same time, the tingling pain in my neck disappeared a little, when his finger touched the wound.

When the pain was almost disappeared, the blue light on the necklace also disappeared completely.

Felix swept over the injured area with his palm once again.

I think it was to make sure the wound was completely

cured.

His hands were still as cold as ice.

Perhaps that’s why.

“Ah…”

The moment he touched, my whole body trembled as if I was hit by a cold wind.