Lea, The Story of the Magus of the Casiopea Continent
The Battle in the Dark Aisle

  I've just finished four songs over the next few hours - satisfying Adele's desire to make the atmosphere at LearoQ festive. I must admit. That night the bar room was quite roomy it was full of guests. Most were crews of foreign ships that just happened to be anchored in the Port of Scorpio City. While the rest were mostly drunkards of the City of Scropio, who were used to killing deserted with alcoholic beverages.

   I occasionally brushed off the naughty hands of the lonely men, as they tried to poke my waist. Even boldly I pushed a drunk who tried to slip his hand between my thighs.

"Please, your hands are drunk. I'm not a whore !" my maki. The security guard in LearoQ approached the drunk and took him out of the room. I was satisfied with the security forces at the bar, though small but securing permanent or freelancing workers like myself

   Although I was busy with singing, as usual I always paid attention to the visitors in LearoQ every night, when I filled out the show.

I saw a lot of young boys looking happy, dissolving in their fellow parties while repeatedly pouring wine. But my heart was unmoved and attracted to such a young group.

They were handsome and attractive in their youth, on average just ordinary officers on merchant ships who would obviously only look for love overnight, and then go sailing across the sea, and forget the love of one night. 

   I'm not interested in that type of young man. They will stick like glue, then seduce and bring innocent women to bed. And when you are two-bodied, quickly like the wind, such young people will disappear into their parents' homes, leaving you a mother at a young age. Then you will have no other choice, other than choosing a prostitution business as the best option for you to spend the rest of your time with that fatherless child.

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   From then on I noticed something was striking inside the bar smelling of alcohol and tobacco smoke.

The forty-year-old man always stole a glance, then looked at me fixedly. He didn't even look away for a second as long as I sang. I honestly have to say. I'm not the kind of picky guy who only wants to date young guys. I'm even willing to date a middle-aged man, as long as he's not the man's husband, who will probably take me away from this small town as a potential wife or maybe a wife.

    But the man's gaze, Shakir El-Bacchus' name, made me feel shudder. His eyes seemed to be able to strip me, and look deeply, deep into the depths of my heart.

   This Mr. Shakir El-Bacchus is a military officer of the rank of Captain of our Dorado Country. Shakir El-Bacchus himself served in the Scorpio City of the capital, with a mission to eradicate supernatural beings such as Vampires, Avianse and the other magic races - that's reality as I heard from many bird news.

   Long after I felt uneasy with Mr. Shakir's gaze, I saw the officer man of Virgo City, who was, who had been having a farewell party for his duty-free duty to watch over the magic creatures in our Scorpio City, and would return to our Dorado Negri capital of Dorado City.

I noted in my heart, Mr. Shakir El-Bacchus came with five of his friends who were also fellow military members.

   Shortly after I was done with my duties as a singer, Mr. Uwais Jardin gave me about ten pieces of copper coins as compensation for my work. To me, this is a pretty big sum for a poor girl like me. 

"Maybe tomorrow I will go to the Scorpio City trading center market and look around at my inner dagger.

It has been a long time since I harbored the desire to practice and understand fighting techniques. For me, by mastering combat techniques, I dream of becoming a Knight or a Knight.

"It was my dream, rather than falling into prostitution let alone begging" I said in my heart

   I saw the time clue in the city tower. The time is almost midnight (11 o'clock passing).

The night in Scorpio City, at this time was very dark, black as dark as black liquid ink. The moon is not visible, even the stars seem reluctant to appear show the trunk of his nose.

   I walked alone with Adele's high slop, and left a 'tok tok' sound' that reverberated in the deserted streets when the right of the shovel at my feet hit the city streets made of mountain boulders.

   I tried to ignore my gaze when I felt two fuzzy shadows flashing like ghosts, passing over the ridge of houses along the city road.

"Maybe I'm too sleepy" I whispered to myself, driving away the fear.

   Still confidently I stepped gracefully contrived, with the sound of a slop like the rhythm of a tambur war. Sayup-sayup I heard from the end of the dead end aisle, the sound of sharp gun collisions and loud clashes.

   I faintly saw one man wielding a sword, trying to fight against two men dressed in long, black robes, whose faces were disguised with veils. Although I was scared, I was reluctant to leave.

"Aw !" I involuntarily let out a small scream when I saw the man with the sword being struck by a dagger in the hand of one of the hooded figures.

Thump ! 

   The man in the sword fell while holding his bloody chest hit by the dagger slices of the hooded figure. My heart stopped beating as the hooded figure holding the dagger turned its face and looked at me.

   My body seemed to be hit by a high voltage electrical current, as that cold gaze stared into my eyes. The gaze from behind the dark-colored hood showed such a pale face, with beautiful eyes in green.

For some reason though at that time everything seemed very dark, yet I seemed to be able to see the face behind the black hood. That pale face was so handsome, that I guessed that it was a dracula.

   Dracula is a mythical tale among the Dorado people, which tells of a wealthy noble man, but a blood-drinking monster. It is said that the face of the lord dracula was as pale as paper, which I think is similar to the appearance of the figure behind the hood earlier.

"Run !"I screamed out loud while releasing Adele's slop which now feels like a burden.

"Dracula. I'm sure it's a dracula" I chuckled in fear.

   I almost cried out loud when Adele and two prostitute girls in LearoQ appeared from the opposite direction, carrying torches in hand. Catherine was among the three of them.

"What's going on?" adele asked worriedly when she saw me panicking.

   I was speechless, and just pointed towards the dark passage with an indistinct nervous voice. Then we huddled around with torches in our hands, and went to see what had happened in the hallway that frightened me.

   There was nothing in the hallway, even the remnants of blood from the sword figure had also disappeared. Catherine scoffed at me saying I was drunk.

"I suspect that you sipped too much wine during the show at LearoQ earlier" Catherine's voice sounded sneaky.

"I swear I saw a fight between three people here" I said in self-defense. Of course I don't want to be stamped as a thrill-seeking girl.

"Darling Lea, but we saw that nothing happened in this place. My advice is let's go home and stop spreading rumors that you've seen a dracula sighting in this hallway" Catherine walked right out of me and Adele, who was suddenly struck by fear and came running after the two of them.

"I hate that girl. He always cornered me with things that were not clear" I grumbled.

"Not to think about it. She was just jealous of your youthfulness and your beauty" Adele told me.

   I said Adele's words, and we entered our home after a short time apart from Catherine and her friend.

   That night I could not close my eyes. I heard someone whispering for help from outside my room.

Seriate.

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