Chapter 33: Kill Him! (1/2)

Leah was on the streets, carefully looking for any place they could resupply.

While the believers of the God of Games were not indiscriminately hated, they still would not be warmly received. Moreover, Leah the former princess was a wanted criminal, and she would definitely catch some attention if she boldly walked into a tavern to buy food.

It was more convenient for her to get her supplies from shops run by neutral churches.

“Your Highness, we’re being followed,” one of her guards suddenly whispered.

Leah did not recklessly turn her head to alert their pursuers. It was not the first time she was being followed over the years, even gaining a certain amount of counter-tracking experience in return.

She pretended to be interested in some antique displayed on a roadside stall, looking interested and cheerful as she spoke to the guard who alerted her.

“Could we have been found by clerics? Could you see who it is?”

“I’m sorry, your highness.” The guard shook his head. “They are well hidden—it’s by luck that we actually found them.”

Anyone else looking from out of earshot would think that they were siblings: a younger sister wanting something from the stall while the brother protested.

“Well, there’s no helping it. Withdraw.”

Leah considered it for just a moment and immediately came to a decision. “Let’s meet up inside the woods in front of the city after shaking them off.”

Since their pursuers did not make a move immediately after finding them, it meant that they were afraid of exposing themselves in public.

That was a clear sign that their pursuers did not serve the banners of light and order, that they were not from the orthodox churches such as the Brilliant White Church who would have simply made a move. Then, after eliminating the possibility that they were slave traders as well, it meant that the cultists have caught up to them again!

The other guards made a hand sign that they were ready, and at Leah’s own response, all of them abruptly spread out and sneaked inside the alleys on both sides of the streets!

They moved very suddenly, and by deliberately covering Leah’s form, they blindsided the cultists who did not expect them to split up despite their dire lack of numbers.

Which alley was it, damn it?

***

After checking twice that they were free from their pursuers, Leah and her escort all arrived at the forest before the others.

That was when they realized that someone was already there.

“Uncle Carlo…” Tangled emotions arose in Leah as the man stood with his hand clasped behind his back in the woods. “Why are you here?”