100 Chapter 100 Assassins And Cookies (2/2)
”There were twenty-seven a.s.sa.s.sins around town. I think there were three different groups. One caused a diversion in the east, near the barbarians, one attacked your father, and nine came to attack you. They were using some kind of repeating crossbow none of us had ever seen.
”You need better armor. I'm not sure what you did to that first arrow, but if you hadn't blocked that second one, and it had hit you in the chest, especially your heart…” Her heart got soft as tears collected in the corners of her eyes.
Joseph reached up and touched her cheek with his unhurt arm.
”Hey, we made it. We lived through one more attack. We'll keep getting stronger. Soon we'll be so powerful, no one can touch us. We won't have to fear them anymore. Also, everyone that's going with us, will have signed papers that will keep us safe from them attacking us.”
She nodded and wiped the unshed tears away. Joseph sighed.
”That was demonic magic. Some type of ridiculously fatal curse. I'm glad they chose to use it on me and not dad. Stella, do you think that when the demon wors.h.i.+pers attacked the world tree, they are still trying to finish us off so we can't stop them?”
”What do you mean, Master Joseph?” she asked confused.
”Well, when I was the first Joseph, I was riding to the few to warn them that my mother had been captured by demon wors.h.i.+pers who were forcing my father to do things for them. One of those things was to sneak pure demon blood into your forest in order to pour it on the world tree. I don't remember what else they were up to; I was just wondering if they might still be around trying to stop us from restoring the tree.”
”That's what you were doing in the forest?” she cried in horror.
”Of course, what did you think I was doing?”
”I thought you were trying to sneak into the forest, like all the other humans who wouldn't listen had done.”
”Oh! No wonder you killed me like you had!”
”I feel horrible! What if I was the reason all of this happened?!”
”Stella, you are not the person who killed the first Joseph. You are Stella. Just because you have Sylva's memories, does not make you Sylva.”
”That makes so much more sense why they were so sure cursing me was the right thing to do. The tree would have known it was my fault, and the only way for me to right my wrong was if I came back to right it in this lifetime…”
She looked up at Joseph, and he watched as she blinked several times.
”Are you sure there's no more cookies?” he asked.
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