After Xin Huo screamed Lou jolted up. She had a sorry facial expression. Tears wanted to come out of her blue eyes, but she held them as to not wanting to show weakness.

Xin Huo couldn’t see her crying, so he looked at her with gentle eyes and said as calmly as he could, “Sorry, it wasn’t your fault Lou. I didn’t want to scare you”

Lou shook her head.

“No, it was my fault I didn’t think of staying with her” the tears feel down her cheeks.

Lilian didn’t want to see that. Lou crying face made her heart tighten and she flew like an arrow in her direction just to start hugging her. With that Lou calmed down a little, and at last, stopped crying.

The twins looked only at the floor, not wanting to see either. It was their fault too! But! She took the blame on herself!

“Okay, okay now. It was no one’s fault.” Owen stated the fact that it was actually no one’s fault but at the same time everyone shared the responsibility of what had happened.

The twins nodded but didn’t agree fully to it.

“So, what are we going to do now?” Lilian asked as she still hugged Lou.

A big silence … Then Lou saw a little boy making glances at her behind the corner. She freed herself from Lill’s embrace and come to him slowlyyyy.

The little boy flinched at first but saw that she come very slowly so she didn’t have any harmful meaning and come out from hiding.

“What are you doing here?” Lou asked with slight red eyes.

“Um, well, I-I-I saw a g-g-girl here b-b-before you come” stuttering answered that boy.

“And what happened?” Lilian asked standing behind Lou in a warm voice, so she wouldn’t scare him.

“T-t-two big men t-t-took her”

“Do you know where?” now Lou asked with the hopeful and warm smile.

“Um, I can g-guess w-where”

“And how do you know that” Xin Huo said arrogantly from behind the women.

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That scared the boy as he hid behind the corner. They could only see his head and his trembling hands.

“Brother! You scared him!” Lou barked at Xin Huo and he jumped up a little. That made the little boy giggle a little.

“Okay, okay. I’m sorry. Can you come out again and tell us what happened?” Xin Huo said and come near Lou just so that the boy could see that he didn’t want to do anything to him.

He come out and started speaking, “Well. It’s n-not hard for u-us that live here to r-r-recognize them. The two men are f-famous here. Um, they often kidnap and sell women to slavery.”

Hearing that Lou’s expression become blank. Soon after dark and then scary. She was boiling from hatred. That made the others shiver but soon she calmed down and asked.

“Can you lead us there?”

The boy nodded his head and the six of them followed him. It was only ten minutes run and they were before a big mansion. It was big but seemed empty.

“Thank you! What is your name?” Xinge asked as he wanted to find him later to thank him.

“Um, I-I’m Yaone” he said and averted his gaze from him.

“Okay! We will find you later to give you a reward!” Xinge winked at him and then added, “Actually, you can just wait for us at our inn.” Then waved when they entered the mansion.

The boy nodded again and soon was nowhere to be seen. As they entered Lou had a worried expression. After all, she didn’t know if Bell was really there!

As expected from outside, the mansion was really empty. They wandered for five minutes to find light in one window. They entered from the back door just to find that it was one corridor that led down.

Step after step. Some noise was heard. Step after step. The noise was now loud and clear.

Xin Huo was first and got his hand up gesturing to stop. Then they heard the conversation that at last fifteen people had.

“So, what are we going to do with this b*tch?”

“Can’t we torture her a little and then sell?” one of the men asked.

“No, it will be too easy for her to being just sold”

“Can we play with her a little”

A burst of big laughter followed that question. Like it was oblivious that they are going to do that.

Lou’s eyes become like spears wanting to kill these bastards. What do they think they are! She wanted to kill them there and now!

Lilian and the twins reacted the same as Lou. Only hatred and no mercy.

Then Xin Huo seeing Bell is in a cage. A small cage that was in the center of that small room and there was actually twenty men surrounding it. Laughing and having wicked smiles at each other.

Xin Huo couldn’t take it and took his weapon up. Pointed at the room so everyone would prepare and then they attacked.

Everyone waited for that and the men didn’t expect an ambush, so they weren’t prepared for that. Just like that in mere seconds half of them were dead.

“Who are you people!” shouted one of the men and soon after his throat was neatly sliced by Lou, not giving him a chance to even look at her she bounced to another man.

Owen and Lilian that was the last saw only their commander and Lou slaughtering everyone in the room. From twenty people Xin Huo killed seven of them and Lou nine, as she had more agility than him and was a little faster.

The twins killed the remaining ones and like that Owen and Lilian did nothing and was speechless. Not because they didn’t do anything but because Lou killed more than their commander did.

Lou seeing there were no more opponents looked at the cage. In there was Bell, unconscious. She sighed with relief and fainted on the spot.