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If Alicia had been stabbed, I don't know how I will be able to live.
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My body trembled in front of the vivid red blood.
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I looked up at Alicia in horror.
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It was ...... blue.
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I saw her deep, beautiful blue hair.
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Wheat skin and clear blue eyes. Her eyes were full of murder.
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I've never seen him like this.
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"...... Duke."
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I muttered in a voice that no one could hear.
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There is a man's knife in Duke's left hand.
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Or rather, through and through.
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Was the blood falling in front of me Duke's?
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Alicia looked at Duke with wide eyes.
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How did he just show up here out of the blue ...... with some kind of transference spell?
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Then what the hell have you been doing all this time?
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How can you not show up when the woman you love is about to die?
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Prince Charming is for stories only.
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I thought as I stared at Duke.
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...... what?
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The pain in my body is fading.
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Suddenly my body was covered in a shimmering blackness.
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A healing spell?
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I glanced back.
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"I'm so sorry I'm late."
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Deep purple eyes looked at me with concern.
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"Oh, you're ......."
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I heard a man's trembling voice.
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I looked at Alicia and Duke.
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The man backed away, his body trembling.
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Duke pulled out the sword on his left hip with his right hand, and without hesitation, plunged it into the man's heart.
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Duke looks at the man with icy cold eyes.
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I wanted to kill him myself.
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That was Alicia's first words.
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She said it with her mouth agape. Alicia seemed to be able to move now.
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Beside her, Duke looked at Alicia's wounds, wrinkling his brow.
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Slowly, a shimmering blue glow began to envelop Alicia.
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More so than Alicia,
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More brilliant than Henri's. Maybe it's because he's a prince.
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...... is beautiful, magic.
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At the same time Duke healed Alicia, he put up a wall around this hut.
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Alicia calls it a wall, but it's more like a ward. ......
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Why did they put up a wall anyway?
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"Why ...... a wall?"
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Alicia rolled her eyes and muttered something.
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She seemed to be saying exactly what I was thinking.
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"I don't want anyone from the outside getting in the way."
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Duke said in a terribly cold voice.
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Disturbed? ...... They're not my friends.
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I tried to sit up halfway, but I couldn't do it properly.
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Henri noticed immediately and helped me up by supporting me.
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Then he slowly opened his mouth.
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"Jill and Alicia suddenly disappeared from lunch break, and we all searched around the school for a while. But they were nowhere to be found, not a single clue.
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"How did you find this place?"
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Henri laughed at my words.
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"The night they disappeared, Duke got these three employers."
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""What?""
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My words and Alicia's overlapped.
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How could I have tracked down my employer that night?
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It's only been two days since we were kidnapped, and ...... sure is early.
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"Hey, your employer is still alive, right? I'll kill your employer myself."
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Alicia said in a serious tone.
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...... you want to kill your employer so badly?
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Alicia looked at Henri with one eyebrow raised in a searching manner.
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She could see Henri's face pull back a little.
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"What I saw was a dead employer," she said.
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I shivered all over.
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Alicia was blinding me, too.
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"She had already given me all the information."
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...... Well, the Duke is not the prince in the story.
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"The house of his employer is a nobleman, so it took him a long time to destroy the whole house."
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When I said this, Duke and Henri's eyes widened.
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"And then we sent the others here, but they're all incompetent. They even tried to kill Alicia."
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I said this in a tone that made fun of the guys outside the shack.
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"Maybe not. I'm sure it was His Majesty the King who sent them here. Isn't that right?"
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Alicia said this as if she had realized something. She looks happy.
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Henri nodded, a grim look on his face.
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"What do you mean?"
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"I'm just a pawn. So this was the perfect opportunity for me to learn about the power of the saints."
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I couldn't believe my ears when Alicia said that.
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How could the king do such a thing?
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"I'm not the one saving the world, Jill. I'm a saint. It doesn't matter how many clever ideas I come up with."
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Alicia has a look of satisfaction on her face.
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I'm sure ...... she's thinking to herself, "Now that's what I call a bad girl.
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"It is true that you destroyed the house, but it was His Majesty the King who sent the saint here.
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Henri said in a low, quiet voice.
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Duke's eyes are filled with a terrible murderous intent.
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I kept the question in my mind, "Just because he's the king, doesn't that mean he won't cross me?
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But he was too stupid to be the king.
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"Frankly, I don't care about that..."
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Alicia has a look on her face that says she really doesn't care.
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She doesn't look like she's acting.
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Alicia doesn't seem to care that she is a pawn.
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Rather, she seems to be very happy with her current position.
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Alicia takes a small breath and turns to Duke.
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"I only want to know one thing. ...... who was your employer?"
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