Princess Altrelia
31: Alstrelia

DRAPON….DRAPON…...DRAPON…….

This woman kept trying to run away from the person who was chasing her.

“Hah! Huh! Huh!” every step he took continued to make his body almost fall because he really did not pay attention to the road so clearly. ‘Damn it! It turned out that the bald head was a knight in disguise. I'm too careless!’ This woman cursed her fate because in the end now she was being chased by an imperial knight.

The dense forest did not make his adrenaline shrink because of the dark. He will continue to run for the sake of being able to escape from the pursuit of the people behind him.

“Hah! Huh! Huh!” This woman is really already in her own mess. ‘I have to get away from their pursuit!’ thought this woman.

He continued on his escape and continued to enter the forest and find a safe place to hide.

KRAK…!

THE SRAK…!

The dry twigs and leaves continue to be trampled and will eventually leave a trail. But what to do other than run tirelessly.

To the point where the woman suddenly caught a glimpse of a crow. 

‘Why are there crows? Is this a sign for me that I'm going to die?’ Thought again. She still insisted in her desire to continue to run away, but at that very moment this woman heard the sound of a wind blowing from above her head.

When this woman looked up, the eyes of this woman instantly rounded wide and a shout instantly echoed within the forest.

“Arhh...!”

From a distance of a hundred meters, Elbert along with the bald man both heard a shout coming from the voice belonging to a woman.

“Scream it from there.” Elbert said, pointing towards his right side.

“Ayo.” This bald man follows the instructions of Elbert.

The two of them ran back, and continued to avoid the tree branch that was blocking their path by looking down.

“Arhh…! Pain!” his yell.

Right after that, Elbert along with the bald-headed man finally immediately found a brown-haired woman was tormented by something that hit his eyes.

“Arrhh…! I can't see! Water!” this woman's thrones in her suffering.

They were both immediately confused about what to do, because it looks like this woman wants water, but around them there is no water.

“Let's come, you'll get the water you want you will get.” this bald-headed man without a second thought just caught the woman, while trying to persuade her.

“No!” Shouts this woman won't go.

“Your eyes will be healed. But you have to come with us, come on!” this bald-headed man kept forcing her.

“I still don't want to!” shouted again.

Having found this woman so stubborn, inevitably this man hit the nape of this woman.

MOMMY..!

“K-you!”

“Wait!” Elbert who realized something, immediately ran after to approach the woman who had just been hit on the nape of her neck. “Sumpal his mouth soon!” Shouted Elbert to the bald man.

“What?!” ask in confusion.

“Toooooooo.” Said this woman while enduring the pain in her nape, then after that this woman immediately bit something that was in her mouth.

GRRTTS…..

“This?!” the bald head was immediately dumbfounded, seeing the woman who had been arrested, now unconscious with a foaming mouth, which means dead.

“ Elbert just felt futile, because he got nothing but to get a corpse. “He just ate a suicide pill.” Elbert said while lamenting the woman's death which was so sad as to prefer suicide.

But their surprise didn't just get there.

“Say, what exactly did the woman do until you chased her so far?” Ask Elbert.

“Itu-”

DHUARR……..

“...................!” Elbert instantly widened his eyes when he saw the loud explosion producing billowing smoke that instantly rose up into the sky. From where Elbert was standing, he still saw a puff of smoke from the big explosion. “NONA!” 

Only then did he realize was, Elbert left a woman there. Elbert immediately ran away leaving the two of them just like that, because now what was more important than the reason that Elbert asked the person earlier, was the existence of Altrelia.

'I shouldn't have left him. I should have just brought him home, hopefully he's okay. Nah! I hope that woman is okay, because her role right now is to replace the missing Miss Altrelia!' All of Elbert's thoughts were really only on the last time she remembered, she left him alone with that woman's face expression that looked flat.

DRAPON…...DRAPON…….DRAPS……..

Elbert who was the deputy commander of the main force of Duke Fisher's noble family directly used the strengthening magic on his pair of legs.

He immediately sped up his movements to get to his original destination that was ahead of him, the last place where Elbert left a woman similar to their Miss Altrelia there.

Staying 500 meters away, Elbert continues to maintain the speed of running, continue and continue. Although tired, but what she prioritized was rushing to meet the woman, Altrelia who was pithing was completely similar to her miss.

Because after this, if the person he was thinking about was fine, then he would pay more attention to it.

Because she was the miss of Mr. Alrescha's sister whom he had to take full care of.

Altrelian.

The color of his eyes were blue like the blue of the ocean. Clear, yet deep, that was Elbert's impression when he first saw the cold gaze of Altrelia.

“Kyaaa...!”

“Huhuhu...”.

A heartbreaking scream, a chest-stifling cry, made Elbert instantly find her heart pounding more and more, because of the worry she got when her mind was tucked away if Altrelia came along.

Until finally after running fast for less than three minutes, Elbert can get out of the forest.

WOSHH~

The cold night wind mixed with the national wind because of the blazing fire, making Elbert choked in shock. 

“............................!” Elbert was speechless when he saw the huge flames already igniting several houses. 

Tearing aside the thought of his shock at the huge fire, Elbert immediately dyed and looked for the whereabouts of the woman who made him in that agitation.

Altrelian.

Again the woman whose existence is always worrying it managed to make Elbert panic on his own. 

“Where?” Elbert muttered, his eyes constantly looking for the figure of the woman.

Elbert ran forward, and back to the right and left.

‘Where?!’ Elbert turned to the right, ‘Why don't I see him?’ his head turned to the left. Elbert continued to twist his body and instantly littered his gaze continuously, just times there in the crowd.

TAPS….TAP……

Elbert was about to go ahead again, though, heading to the group of people in front of it suddenly stopped his steps when his eyes accidentally saw a person sitting under a tree with his body leaning behind the tree itself.

Slowly Elbert walked over to him. When it was in front of him exactly, Elbert immediately relaxed his tense face earlier, because he finally managed to find it.

‘It turns out he is here.’ Inner Elbert when I know the woman he is looking for is sitting sweet in place. 

Elbert knelt down and tried to look at her face closer to make sure this Altrelia was okay.

‘He fell asleep?’ Elbert was astonished at once a little amazed when he saw this Altrelia who was sleeping fast.

“...............”

There was another feeling tucked away when he saw this Altrelia sleeping, the feeling of her true identity as a woman, making Elbert think that this woman was still beautiful even though she slept carelessly like that.

Elbert immediately closed his eyes to rearrange his heart. ‘What did I think of earlier?’ elbert's heart.

“..................?! You often look at me.”

“....................!” The voice belonging to Alstrelia that suddenly sounded made Elbert immediately open her eyes again.

“Why do you look surprised like that? As I said, I'm still here waiting for you. So what do you get after chasing her?” ask Alstrelia on wide display.

Elbert who heard the words of this woman was a little in disbelief, if his face did not look there was panic when in front there just happened a big explosion.

“The woman died from taking a suicide pill.” replied Elbert.

“So yes?” Altrelia turned her eyes away unconcerned with Elbert's reply, for what was more interesting was that there was a great blaze ahead devouring the houses until it was charred.

“.............................” Elbert stared at the still burning flames.

“The satisfaction is so full of sadness.” said Altrelia. ‘It was really like the incident that befell me to make me move and come to this world.’ Alstrelia.

Alstrelia just stared at him with memories, where the incident in front of her eyes was exactly the same as what happened to her.

At the beginning there was only silence mixed with peace, but all of it instantly turned into a terrifying atmosphere.

“Akh! Mama! Mama! Where's mom?!” Shouted a boy, calling his mother with so miserable sobs.

“When is the witch coming?! This fire is getting bigger and creeping into the building next to it!” Shouts of an army uniformed man to his overwhelmed coworkers who are helping the survivors, but in a dying condition.

All the busyness was in front of her eyes, but Altrelia?

He just looked at her in silence. There was no special feeling going on in his heart when he saw the panic that all of them were experiencing.

Elbert also could not help anything, as his current job was to keep this woman safe. 

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“Everything don't panic!” the man in the maid uniform told all the guests at the restaurant.

“Ah, how is this if there is another explosion?” this woman with her worries.

“What really happened? why is there such an incident? What does an imperial knight do anyway?” this young man protested, when he finally saw a group of knights running hurriedly towards the location.

At the time when the conditions on the lower floor were boisterous because panic had already appeared inside them, and rushed to get out of the restaurant, the two people on the second floor were also both in a panic that they were holding together.

“Alres, I'm afraid.” Arsela said while looking at the conditions out there that are very chaotic with people running to and fro looking for a safe place.

While Alrescha again still in his face that is not implied fear. He looked down at the people with his flat gaze, an expressionless face.

“They can handle this. Nothing will happen here, if it is me who will protect you.” Alrescha told Arsela.

Arsela immediately looked at the cold face of her fiance. Because hearing the words that sounded to make him safe, Arsela immediately hugged Alrescha tightly.

Alrescha who got a hug from Arsela who was holding back his fear, slowly he returned the hug.

Although his body was being with Arsela, unfortunately not with his mind that was drifting away.

He thought of someone who always made him worry, who else if not Alstrelia.

‘Is he home?’ alsrescha.