As soon as Tibaut woke up from his much-needed sleep he could tell something was off. Even though Elizabeth's training could be loud at times, it wouldn't explain the noise. It almost sounded like the march of a mob. He looked outside his window and quickly put his head down. There were about twenty people of various sizes outside.

"What the hell is going on!?" Tibaut said to himself.

He quickly got out of his bed and rushed through the mansion to find Elizabeth. As he was making his way down the stairs he ran into her. Before he could ask what was going she quickly grabbed him and dragged him back to his room.

("What the hell is the going on that even Elizabeth is running away?") He wondered as he braced his back against the door. As he was about to ask Elizabeth what was going on she hurriedly started to pull up one of the legs of his pants.

("???")

The mob outside, them hiding in Tibaut's room, her pulling up a leg of his pants, it was just too much for him to keep up with. His confusion grew greater as he noticed she had gauze in her hands. Within seconds she quickly wrapped his leg and proceeded to the next. Tibaut watched this, dumbfounded as to the reason. After finishing she got up and wiped her forehead as if wiping off sweat and proclaimed "Finished." with a satisfied look on her face.

"Uh, Elizabeth?"

"I'm glad I saw them before I opened the door. Who knows how suspicious Ezekiel would have gotten."

"Um, Elizabeth, what's going on?" He asked, seeming a little lost.

"Oh, they're probably just here to group up with me,"

"Who are they exactly?"

"Some members of the other guilds. Oh wait, I didn't show you the letter."

Tibaut looked more lost by this until Elizabeth decided to explain what she read in the letter that Ezekiel gave the day before.

Tibaut decided to do a few stretches after being told what this was about and decided to look for a change of clothes in his drawer.

While looking through the drawer he asked her

"So we're gonna be fighting those cult guys, right? For guys like them, I think I'll wear my Sunday best."

"You're not coming." She coldly responded.

"Huh?" What was she talking about? Ezekiel had said he was stronger than most adventurers here but was he just gassing Tibaut up?

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"Why not?" While Tibaut didn't particularly like the idea of throwing his life away, it didn't feel great to have Elizabeth think he wasn't strong enough to accompany her.

She then pointed down to his legs. He soon realised why she had wrapped his legs in gauze.

"We're still doing that?" He said, oddly disappointed.

"Yep," she then opened the door and made her way downstairs.

He decided to follow her and see what was going on downstairs.

By the way, there wasn't a single point during this that someone bothered to check if his legs were injured.

"Still, why are they always coming here?"

"I think they heard some odd rumours about me."

"What does that have to do with anything!?" He asked.

She ignored him and continued walking down the stairs. As soon as she reached the first floor and opened the door, Ezekiel was nearby waiting.

"Yo, Liz you ready?"

She pointed to her sword and responded.

"Yup, unfortunately, your sword isn't ready yet."

He put his hand to his forehead when he heard this.

"Ugh, really? Tsk, guess I have to go with my knife this time." He tapped the leather pouch on his leg to ensure he didn't accidentally leave it at home.

The others present soon noticed Elizabeth. Various murmurs could be heard coming from the 19 or so in Elizabeth's yard.

"Oh, it's Elizabeth." "I wish she was with our team." "Are you an idiot? She's probably gonna have to deal with the worst threat." "Yeah, someone like you would only slow her down."

While the conversations happening were mixed they all had a common theme of discussing her.

While Ezekiel and Elizabeth were talking, a short girl wearing a hoodie tried to walk through the front door.

"Oi, Lily, this isn't the time for one of your girl talks," Ezekiel said while holding the small girl's hood.

"Shut up you breakfast-eating bastard, I'm just seeing if she has anything interesting to borrow." She then desperately tried to pry his hands off her hoodie. While doing so she noticed Tibaut.

("Does she want something?") he wondered as she stared.

She stared at him for a few more seconds before opening her mouth.

"So you're the old woman's new plaything." She said while looking sympathetic. She soon continued

"And I've been wondering why I haven't heard her talk about going drinking as much. Is she trying to clean up her image?"

"Huh?"

"Oh don't worry. Keep doing what you're doing, it's honestly refreshing to see Vanessa like this."

Tibaut had no idea what this short girl was going on about so he just nodded and said "Is that so."

Ezekiel dragged her away.

"Stop flirting with him and come on already, we're gonna have to leave. Later Tibaut." He then walked away while the short girl punched at his side.

Elizabeth then waved to Tibaut and the group of over twenty soon disappeared into the forest.

"Huh, what do I do now?" He said as he looked up into the sky.

As the group progressed through the forest. They split up at various points. They would not all be fighting in the same place.

Before they had arrived at Elizabeth's mansion they were discussing the areas they would be raiding. Based on the piece of parchment Ezekiel and Mr. Bentley got there were 8 locations that were shown to have likely presence of cultists.

After some investigation, 3 of them were shown to have any activity. While these may not have all the cultists it would most likely contain the majority since the paper was relocation plans and also included the location of their original base which was completely empty.

"You ready to get rid of some trash Elizabeth?" Ezekiel asked Elizabeth as they ran through the forest.

"I suppose," She said with a smirk on his face.