"How long before the troops from the empire reach us?" Thomas asks Buster, who turns around to face him so he can give him a short answer. "About a day." Thomas' face shifts even more, somehow looking more serious than before, as he starts running all over his house.
I only last a couple more minutes under the heat coming from the fireplace as Buster and Thomas continue their conversation without me. I fall asleep rather quickly after warming my body up with the heat from those cozy flames. Oh gosh, it felt so good.
Hours go by, and since the clouds above us block most of the sunlight whenever I wake up, I notice how everything looks the same as when I went to sleep, except that now both Buster and Thomas are the ones passed out in the kitchen table while holding beer glasses I guess they passed out after drinking so much.
I can't exactly make out what is happening outside Thomas' house, but I can hear footsteps all around it while my ears carefully pick up a human voice from afar, and I pay close attention to detail. "We are looking for two wanted criminals: one giant Oni and a small girl with pale skin."
Oh shit, oh fuck I think while I try to shake Buster and Thomas up, but they're so blacked out they don't even seem bothered when I pinch them or even slap them around. Didn't Master Buster say that imperial troops wouldn't be here for an entire day!?
"Hey! What do you think you're doing!? Those blades aren't free! Leave them on the table, man!" My ears can pick up another loud conversation happening closer to us, which sounds to end badly for the guy complaining to the empire troops as I pick up the sound of a blade cutting flesh followed by the strong scent of fresh blood.
The smell of fresh blood almost drove me insane in the small amount of time I smelled it from afar. Since I hadn't eaten anything for two days, my thirst for blood was rising quite fast. Still, my will beats my desire as I force my appetite to calm down while barricading the door with a chair.
{Knock Knock}
A sudden knock on the door takes me by surprise, tripping me against a chair, followed by someone speaking at the door. "Open up the door! We are Imperial investigators, so you must open this door immediately!" The man keeps knocking on the door for a couple more seconds until I finally muster up the courage to open it.
"Oh? Hey there, miss. Sorry to wake you up, but have you seen a giant Oni or a small pale child recently?" What the fuck? Was this guy new, or did they not have good communication between people? Didn't this guy know who the hell I was? Wait!? Did he think I was a dwarf!? I better seize on that if that's the case!
"I don't recall seeing anyone like that. Are they lost or something?" The Imperial Knight simply looks at me one more time as I try to keep my cool while trying to appear as natural as possible, hiding away as much of my nervousness to myself, praying that neither Buster nor Thomas would even snore.
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"Not exactly; they're wanted criminals. Just be careful not to let them inside your house; those two are considered armed and dangerous and are on a murderous spree; if you ever see them, don't open your door." Geez, who the hell was writing my press releases!? I was on a murderous spree?! Since when was I such an evil creature!?
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"Alright, I will have that in mind, sir. Still, I doubt those two will survive in this deadly winter cold." The Knight looks at me for a hot second again while I try to hold my breath and prepare to stab the man with my pocket knife at any second if he chooses to fight me right then and there.
"Don't even mention it, alright? Good night then," The Knight says, to which I naturally respond with a "Good night to you too." The Knight turns out faster than me as he quickly pins me to the floor while staring me down again, this time followed by a couple of licks on the face.
"You're no dwarf! Ahaha Fucking bitch you almost had me. You'll make me extremely rich once I turn you in." The man stepped on my throat with so much force I couldn't even manage a scream while I slowly started to pass out since I couldn't breathe either. All I could do was throw my hands against the guy, but that hardly did anything.
In my desperate struggle to get away, I go for the most brutal and scummy move I could think of, which was to just bite the guy's hand with my sharp teeth, forcing him to let me go, to which he answered without even more violence as he yanks me across the street with his massive hands.
"Fuck that hurts," I say while the armed Knight quickly makes his way toward me so he can put his foot against my back, pressing my body against the ground. Yet at that moment, a distinct voice cuts through the scene as I look behind me, seeing how Thomas valiantly shows up holding a battle axe.
"Hey, Imperial scum! What do you guys think you're treating my guest like that?!" Thomas doesn't seem worried at all, and it all goes to show when the Knight calls for backup without even startling the little dwarf, who only smiles in the face of battle.
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"This will be good for my joints anyway! Frescoes unique style! Baltazar Bolts of fire!" Thomas screams while waving his hands in the air, summoning a strange magical circle before him that looks quite badass, and it shows once he releases his attack against the Knights that go after him.
The magical circle gleans a bright yellow color while shooting little sharp sticks at an incredible rate, causing many Knights to retreat. "I guess they were closer than expected! But do not worry; I got this!" Thomas once again shatters my expectations as he valiantly jumps toward me while shooting those yellow magical arrows at the angry Knights, taking so many of them down by himself.
"I am sorry. I tried to play it off, and neither of you guys would wake up."
"It's alright. You tried your best; that's all that matters." Thomas says while patting my head, and he places his left hand on my body so he can make me glow for a couple of seconds, after which I feel like nothing happened at all.
"What was that?" I asked him, taking him by surprise, as he probably assumed I already knew what he had done. " I healed you. Your regeneration is strong but requires a lot of blood, so I saved you the trouble." Thomas quickly lifts me up like I weigh nothing and runs inside the house again so he can shake Buster awake.
"Wha!? What!? NO! THOSE PRETTY LADIES! Where have they!? Oh, it's you, what happened?"