Chapter 1408: Elope 2 (2/2)

However, as of this moment, the homunculus felt that there was something wrong.

Even if his mind and body were weak, a homunculus was instilled with a certain amount of knowledge and still had little judgment about a situation around his surroundings.

Logically, based on the physical ability of the servant, they should be able to escape from the forest at this moment, however, they hadn't even seen the edge of the forest and the homunculus felt weird.

When the homunculus thought so, Astolfo suddenly stopped and immediately turned his head, showing a very cute smile to the homunculus.

”We got lost~~”

”....”

Looking at Astolfo's cute smile, the homunculus wasn't sure how to describe his feelings at this moment.

Fortunately, the homunculus understanding of his emotion was inadequate, otherwise, he would give a complaint or two to Astolfo.

Unfortunately, their elope might have ended sooner than they had expected.

The sound of footsteps was heard, a tall figure appeared in front of two of them, and blocked their way.

At this moment, the homunculus felt a strong existence that couldn't be compared to Astolfo.

”Ah...”

The homunculus let out noise from his mouth, feeling amazed then he was in a daze, but he wasn't sure how to describe his emotion since he was as black as a white paper.

On the other hand, Astolfo was startled and his eyes were wide open!

”Saber!”

The one who came to catch the two of them was Siegfried.

Looking at Astolfo who was holding the homunculus, Siegfried came forward calmly, approaching them.

instantly, the homunculus understood the man in front of him was coming to catch them.

Their elope incident had been discovered, even Astolfo, who didn't have a common sense also understood the current situation wasn't good.

After all, Siegfried's master, the fat man whose name was Gordes, was a Magus who created a homunculus and the one who developed a method to divert the Magic Power to a group of the homunculus.

When one of the homunculi had escaped, Gordes knew about it instantly, became furious, and ordered his servant to catch both Astolfo and the homunculus directly.

”Wait, Saber!”

Astolfo hugged the homunculus, backed away, and shouted to Siegfried, ”Let's go of this child! This child is innocent! He has never done anything wrong! If you want to punish someone, then punish me! I will come with you!”

However, Astolfo's words didn't slow down Siegfried's movement.

Siegfried was like a machine who executed the order of his master, and he didn't understand Astolfo's words since he was only doing what was ordered by his master.

As such, it made Astolfo furious.

”Can someone like you be called a hero?!”

Hero.

That one word made Siegfried stop, on his expressionless face, started to form confusion. As a hero, was it normal to understand the situation in front of him?

However, Siegfried didn't understand that the Dragon-Blooded Knight and the ”Dragon Slayer” who defeated the evil dragon Fafnir with the holy sword Balmung in hand, his gaze slowly turned toward the homunculus.

Even though the homunculus was very tired and couldn't walk anymore, Siegfried could see something in the homunculus's eyes that was seen by Astolfo before, and that was...

Hope.