23 Trouble at the Astala Estate (1/2)
Petting Shadow and almost falling asleep on the comfortable bed Alice can faintly hear shouts and sounds of swords clashing against each other. Sitting up quickly the only thing Alice could remember was Yumi talking about people targeting her family.
Quickly equipping her armor and taking out her scythe Alice dashes out of her room and through the hall ways to the sounds of the battle taking place. Exiting the hallway near the stairwell she sees Duke Astala his daughter, and some of the servants Yumi introduced her to fighting against hooded mercenaries.
Having flash backs as her heart starts racing Alice sees the scenes of battle that took place before she was killed. As if a switch flipped in Alice her gaze turns cold as she unconsciously lets out her 'Demonic Gaze' skill and grips her scythe so hard her knuckles turn white as her finger nails cut into her hands causing them to start bleeding. 'Alice are you okay whats going on with you i can only feel rage from your right now, ' Shadow says slowly backing away from her feeling danger.
Before he can take 2 steps back Alice uses 'Rift Warp' To appear between Duke Astala and his opponent taking them both by surprise. Not giving the hooded man a chance to react Alice quickly swings her scythe decapitating the man sending his head flying into the hands of one of the other mercenaries.
Putting a little more mana into her 'Demonic Gaze' causing the man to freeze unable to move Alice sinks into the shadows leaving everyone in the room to pause a moment to wonder where she went. Coming out of the shadows behind the mercenaries as they still looked around for her, giving the residence of the Estate time to react and land a few kills.
Ignoring her surroundings Alice raises her hand as five magic circles appear around her forming large Fireballs. ”You will all die for taking my family from me, i could have had a normal life if it was not for you devils, ” Alice said about to launch her magic attack only stopping because Yumi was holding onto her. Trying to break through her gaze Yumi decided to act rashly to bring Alice back to her senses kissing her.
Almost instantly Alice comes back around breaking free of her rage pushing Yumi away, ”What the hell was that now isn't the time to flirt kill these devils. ” She said as she dashed past Yumi leaving her feeling defeated and rejected before Yumi decided to take her anger out on the mercenaries.
After a seemingly endless battle against the invaders the battle was finally won, only resulting in the death of one of the house servants a butler who was a former D rank adventure, as well as all of the mercenaries.
”You really gave me a scare there Alice, if it wasn't for Yumi my home would be needing some serious repairs, but you have my thanks if not for you we may have lost and my daughter and I may have perished as well. ” Duke Astala said bowing slightly.
”I am sorry for losing control.. they brought up some very unpleasant memories and i lost control, ” Alice said feeling bad as she might have tried to kill everyone if she ended up killing all the hooded men and her rage had not died down.
”I am sorry for kissing you... I just panicked and didn't know how to snap you out of it... ” Yumi said blushing and feeling like she took things to far. ”It's okay, if it wasn't for me you wouldn't have had to go that far. Thank you for doing everything you could. ” Alice said trying to cheer her up a little.
”Yumi why don't the two of you go to bed while i attend to some things, I will leave some money out so you ladies can go shopping tomorrow and blow off some steam, ” her father said before taking his departed employee away with the other staff following. ”He is right lets go to bed and go have some fin tomorrow. ” Yumi said running to her room still feeling kind of down.
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After waking up and having breakfast with Yumi the two girls headed out to explore the kingdom with a large amount of money left by Duke Astala, whom also left a note with the money.
| I have left for each one gold worth of money to go spend and unwind a little bit please have fun and try to forget about last night if possible, I have informed all of the shops we control to give you whatever you two would like so be sure to visit those shops. -Daddy- |
”Your father sure is generous i wonder how long it would take to earn this much money on your own? ” Alice said feeling the weight of the money in her hands. ”Don't be silly Alice you cant just hold a bag full of money in plain sight for everyone to see, that is just asking for trouble. ” Yumi said taking Alice's bag of money and storing it quickly.
Following Yumi around to various shops and buying a lot of different clothes which seemed to cheer Yumi up a great deal. ”Do you mind if we head to the Mages guild? ” Alice asked feeling slightly exhausted from all the shopping, half of her inventory was already filled with clothing bags which is saying something since 4 bags can fit in one inventory space.
”We can stop by, there is still the auction hall i wanted to show you it starts in a few hours so we have some time to kill at the Guilds. ” Yumi said while leading the way humming.
'I wonder if i should sell the weapon ornament i got from the dungeon, i may be able to make enough to buy something good, ' Alice thought to herself as she walked still debating if she should equip it to her scythe.
Arriving at the Mages Guild she was very happy to see people entering through the door like normal. ”This reminds me, can you use magic Yumi? ” Alice asked as they entered the Guild.
”I have the Earth element although my magical abilities are lacking pretty greatly so the most i can do is make small earth shields, ” Yumi said slightly jealous of Alice's magical abilities.