Chapter 278 (1/2)

“Sir Monique, you know who your partners are, right? When you notice a suspicious man, blow the whistle right away. See you in the evening.”

“Okay. See you later, Sir Freia.”

After introducing myself to the members of my unit, I started the mission with two apprentice knight partners, Sir Lake and Sir Spia.

How much time passed? I started to check anybody who seemed to have a similar build to Marquis Mirwa’s, or those who seemed suspicious. As I was so focused on the search, I became tired rapidly. As it happened, it was almost lunch time, so I looked around my partners, I saw a man suddenly flinching while walking toward us.

“Hey, there, can you come here for a second?”

“…”

“We are the knights of the 2nd Knights Division. I need to check something, so I hope you can cooperate.”

But as soon as the man heard it, he immediately turned around and started running away.

Startled by his running, I began to chase him, while instructing them urgently, “Sir Lake, let me and Sir Spia chase him, so if you feel it’s hard, blow the whistle right away. Got it?”

“Okay.”

“Good. Let’s go, Sir Spia. ”

Thanks to my strenuous efforts to develop my stamina, I could drastically shorten the distance between him and me when I ran fast.

‘Okay, I think I can catch up with him if I turn around that corner.”

But when I reached there, there were already several men standing, drawing their swords to attack him.

“Sir Lake!” The moment I urgently shouted, an arrow was flying through the air and hit the young man’s chest who was trying to take out a whistle.

I smelled the strong scent of blood gushing from his chest.

The whistle fell from Sir Lake’s hand and rolled on the stone ground. The silver whistle being dyed red through the blood that permeated into the ground.

At that moment, I quickly hid myself behind a street lamp, instinctively lowering my body, when I heard an arrow flying toward me. It passed by me by a hair’s breadth.

After pulling out a dagger, I stuck out my head to locate the archer. He was a bit closer to me now.

I sent hand signs to Sir Spia standing on the other side of the street lamp. With his face turned white, he drew a dagger. When I confirmed it and stuck out my body to the outside a bit, the archer immediately shot an arrow toward me.

I quickly hid myself, then threw the dagger at him.

“Ugh!”

Did I hit him?

When I heard the man’s little but clear moaning, I quickly pulled out the sword and looked at Sir Spia, who was at a loss about what to do.

As soon as he put his body back after taking a deep breath, another arrow was shot at him. Terrified, he got close to the wall.

When I looked back, I noticed the whistle submerged in a pool of blood. I hurriedly measured the distance to it with my eyes. It was about five steps. I bit my lip.

Why didn’t I have such luck here? My job would have been simpler even if I had killed the archer.

I moved back while taking a deep breath, then stepped back again.

I waited for a moment, but there was no incoming arrow.

‘He will shoot it the moment I pick up the whistle.’

I gnashed my teeth at his cunning actions, but I had no choice. At a glance, there were more than 20 enemies out there, so I had to pick the whistle and blow it to deal with them, which was the only way now.

I took a deep breath, then ran to the area where the whistle fell.

At that moment, multiple arrows were shot at me.

I bit my lip.

‘Hope the arrow won’t hit my vital spots.’

When I reached out for the whistle, lowering my body as much as possible, somebody blocked my vision and pushed me to the wall. Though I felt a sharp pain in the back, I strongly resisted, enduring the pain.

“I’m Seymour, Lady Monique. Rest assured. ”

I felt relieved at the familiar voice. I saw some familiar people behind the blonde knight who reassured me. I also noticed Sir June, Sir Lank, and Sir Spia whose face had turned white.

“Just listen as I don’t have time to explain. We are now under siege by the enemies. Fortunately, one of our colleagues managed to get out of here, so all we have to do is to hang in there until our reinforcement units arrive to help us out. Got it?”