Violet Orchestra

With Elaine staying behind to protect Violet, Petra was freed to help Birkins and Hodge.She is good at mid-range fighting, and she is also a woman. She doesn't seem to be too threatening until the moment she makes a move. She uses the concealment of hand crossbows and sleeve arrows to interfere behind Birkins and Hodge. Under the circumstances, Petra alone solved nearly half of the enemies.

But the opponent was obviously prepared, and the remaining half was not so easy to deal with. She soon became overwhelmed with difficulty, so she had to fight while retreating, and joined Birkins who was closer to her first.

"Are you okay?" Birkins asked, leaning back against her, raising his gun and firing.

"It's okay." Petra raised her hand to exchange arrows for the hand crossbow, and calmly raised her leg to kick over a killer who was rushing towards her. "This group seems to know how capable we are. If I don't come, you may deal with it." No."

Birkins nodded: "Violet and Elaine together?"

"Ah."

Another round of shooting ended, and they exchanged positions tacitly. Petra was responsible for attracting firepower, and Birkins seized this gap to start reloading.

In fact, they all have more direct fighting methods that can be used, but now the situation is special, of course it is how to make a big noise.Each of Petra's crossbow arrows is pierced in the enemy's vital parts. Even if the angle deviation fails to penetrate too deeply, she can make up for it in the first place, or send the arrow deeper through the hitting action. .She was tall and long-legged, she was almost as good as all the men present, and she was not inferior in fighting, so that in the end, the killers were more willing to go to Birkins than to lean in front of her, at least only A shot is better than being beaten half to death.

Their combination was so powerful that Hodge touched the battlefield like a ghost without anyone noticing it. It was not until his dagger was placed on the butler's neck that the killers who besieged Petra and Birkins were not aware of them. The leader has fallen into the hands of the opponent.

"Okay, obediently put down the little toys in your hands." Hodge held the dagger in one hand, and firmly controlled the butler in front of him. The other hand was not idle, and he reached into his pocket and took out the A scroll was raised up and waved to the killers, "Be careful that I will die with you with a shaking hand."

"Stop it, don't let him touch that scroll!" The butler looked panicked, but his body remained still at Hodge's words. The surviving killers looked at each other and put down their weapons hesitantly.

"It seems that this scroll is very powerful." Hodge nodded with satisfaction, stuffed the scroll into his pocket, then picked him up as a shield, and moved forward to join Petra and Birkins.

Because the butler was caught by them, the killers did not dare to continue the attack, but retreated a distance vigilantly, out of their attack range.After withdrawing from the dangerous distance, one of the guys who looked like the leader raised his hand and surrendered: "If you can, you let him go, we will leave now."

"It's not that simple." Hodge was amused by him, and he swiped the dagger twice on the butler's neck, "Your Mr. Brono's butler, how could we manage to catch such a precious life? Let him go back?"

Apparently they didn't expect that they had already seen through their identities. The masked butler panicked and blurted out, "How do you know?"

"You wander around the palace with Duke Brono every day. It's hard for us to remember what you look like." Hodge sighed, and tore off the scarf he used to cover his face. "Send someone who has seen you." With so many faces coming to hunt us down, should he be said to be stupid or too confident?"

He is quite satisfied with today's harvest, and he is happy when he thinks of the magic scroll in his pocket. He wanted to say a few more words, but Petra raised his hand and shot a killer who wanted to take the opportunity to attack him, interrupting his victory Speech: "Okay, don't waste time, we still have to bring him back to Rosalia and hand it over to His Majesty the King, then you can talk as long as you want."

After sitting in the carriage for a long time, Elaine began to feel uneasy. He took his sword in his hand, wanting to see the situation of Birkins and the others, but he was afraid that someone would take the opportunity to attack the carriage, so Violet left alone. I would be injured, so I had to endure it and sit outside the car to be vigilant.

He knew that he didn't like his uncle since he was a child, but he always thought it was because he didn't look like a Rosalian, and he spent most of his time with foreign teachers, never thinking in other directions.Violet's speculation about his uncle had already surprised him enough, but his uncle treated him well when they met, and even prepared a gift for him before departure, which made him relax his vigilance——

He took out the pair of wristbands his uncle gave him, and suddenly thought of a possibility.

"Who gave you the gift?" Violet asked behind him.

"...It's uncle."

Elaine's face sank, she stared at the metal wristband for a while, then suddenly drew her sword and split it in half.

Something rolled out of the beautifully carved grooves and fell to the road, still shining with subtle light.Violet got out of the car and picked it up, looked at it through the handkerchief, and suddenly said: "It turned out to be the Xiutruu crystal."

The Shutru crystal has the ability to sense danger, but this ability is obviously not what an ordinary crystal should have. The reason why it can sense danger is because of the parasitic creatures inside the crystal. They are born with a keen sense of approaching danger ability, and after being stimulated, it will emit light by itself, and at the same time produce special fluctuations that humans cannot detect, driving away potential threats.

It seems that Elaine's uncle is following them with the Xiutruu crystal - in addition to this gift for Elaine, Hodge has a bigger one on him, so he won't worry about losing them.

"It seems that your uncle has thought of a lot of ways. It should be because of this that you were frequently hunted down before you met us." He threw the crystal fragments on the side of the road, looked back at Elaine's expression, and put Hodge away. I also told him about the pocket watch, "Although it's not good to say this, I think that sometimes you should learn not to think of everyone's best."

Sitting on the driver's seat, Elaine hugged his waist in frustration, buried her face in front of him and sighed: "...I see."

"But kindness is a good thing." Knowing that he was sad, Violet couldn't bear to hit him too much, reached out and touched his head, and comforted him, "Look, if you looked at us a little bit worse then, say Maybe we won't know each other."

Obviously, he rejected Elaine's joining with completely opposite views before, Violet thought helplessly, this is simply a slap in the face.He didn't know how he said that, for Elaine to be happy, he seemed to have lost his self-knowledge of "not being a good person".

He coaxed Elaine for a while, and then let Petra and the others come back with the tightly bound housekeeper. He turned around as if nothing had happened: "Aren't you hurt?"

"No." Birkins briefly talked about what happened just now, then glanced at Elaine, and asked, "Is no one coming this way?"

"I told him everything." Violet patted him on the shoulder, "Thanks for the hard work, we have to go back to Rosalia and send this... Mr. what? Back to his master, rest Let’s go right away.”

Seeing the poet walking towards him, the steward opened his mouth wide to say something, but Hodge quickly stuffed a rag into his mouth, and said with satisfaction: "This guy has been refusing to speak, so let's save it before the king. "

Violet originally wanted to question him a few words first, but felt that this was not a bad idea, so she waved her hands and got into the car: "Then I will leave it to you, take care of him."

Hodge touched the scroll in his pocket with a smile, picked up the butler and put it beside him, consciously taking on the task of driving the car.There is a default rule among them. Except for things that are useless and can only be sold for money, whoever gets the loot belongs to him, so he didn't say anything about this scroll. Birkins and Petra, of course he Take it for yourself without hesitation.

On the black market, an ordinary water polo technique can sell for 800 gold coins. Those rich lunatics are no less enthusiastic about magic than Brienne who ran away to learn magic. He has already begun to figure out how much gold coins this scroll should cost. ——Although I can't understand the content, most of the spells that can be made into scrolls are not bad. They are good things that have a price but no market, and should be easily sold for a good price.

As for the original owner of the scroll...whatever he is, he probably won't live long anyway.

Violet and Petra discussed all the way in the carriage. They guessed that Elaine's uncle would find a way to get himself out of this assassination, imagined several possibilities, and felt that he had already thought of everything I thought of all my excuses and found a way to deal with them.But when they returned to Rosalia and took the steward to meet the king and queen, they were caught off guard.

"Oh, it's a good thing you came back safely." The queen trotted down from the steps with her skirts in her hands, and first grabbed Elaine to check, "I was worried, I just sent guards along the road to look for you, it's true that you were not injured. Very good."

"Mr. Brono has already told us what happened. It's a good thing that you returned safely." The king also followed, and Elaine's uncle followed closely behind him, with an apologetic expression on his face.

"I'm sorry that my butler has done something irreparable. After I found out about this, I immediately rushed to ask my brother to send someone to find you. I hope he didn't cause harm to you before it was too late." He held the poet's hand sincerely. , "If my only nephew and his friends get hurt because of my housekeeper, that's really the last thing I want to see—"

After saying this, he turned around to care about Elaine who was being dragged and questioned by the queen. Violet stood there expressionless, sure that she saw some undetectable pride in his eyes.