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Yuu and Lucian take a sneak peak at one of the windows at the beer house to see what's going on.
Zack raised both of his hands, and he surrendered.
"Put your hands behind your head" Ezekiel ordered.
He put his hands behind his head.
The other knights immediately kick the back of his knees making him fall down to the ground.
Yuu wants to go inside and protect Zack but Lucian stops her.
"Don't! If they see you, you'll be arrested too" he whispers.
Yuu only clenches her fist as she tries to stop herself from bursting into the bar and making a commotion.
Ezekiel smirks, looking down to Zack that is now on the ground.
The knight pulled out a handcuff and put it in Zack's hand.
"Even if you arrest me, there's no point..." Zack mumbles as the knight shouts at him to stand up.
The knights dragged Zack out of the beer house.
The other people clench their fist and watch their light get taken away by Aetheral.
Ezekiel walks behind him, he looks around to see people looking at him with killing contemp.
He only smirks, realizing that they can't touch him.
Yuu and Lucian watch the scene unfold, they can't do anything either.
"Yuu..." Lucian called out for her but she didn't respond.
Why would the Warden let this thing happen?
Yuu stands up and immediately runs away from Lucian.
"H-hey!" Lucian follows her.
She's out of her mind now, jumping to roof after roof.
Avoiding the knights, they finally reached Warden's headquarters.
Lucian has to stop following her.
He stopped chasing after her when he saw where she was going.
He hid in the sidelines as he waited for her to come out.
"Where's the Warden!?" Yuu asked one of the Warden's men while grabbing by its collar.
"What do you want from him?" Cynthia asked.
"Zack got arrested by the knights!" She said angrily as she threw away the guard.
"What do you mean? Knights don't have any permit to arrest anyone here" Melrick appears.
"Well, they took him!" Yuu shouted.
"You—" when Melrick's about to reply to her, he gets cut off by Cynthia.
"Enough!" She gets between them.
"I'll ask my father about this..."
"Where is he?" Yuu asked darkly.
"He's probably somewhere, fixing your mess" Melrick said sarcastically.
Yuu replied "My mess—"
"Yes, your mess...you know the stones you took!" Melrick hiss against her.
"I said enough!" Cynthia pushes them to the side.
"I'll ask the Warden about it, so stay put..."
"So are you gonna expect us to stay here while the Barrel gets raided by knights!?" Melrick snarled.
Cynthia only ignores him and disappears into the distance.
"I'm getting out of here..." Yuu hissed as she tried to run away too but Melrick immediately caught her wrist.
"No, you're not... You're the reason why this is happening in the first place..." He barked.
"So you're the one supposed to stay put.." he points at her.
"You're going make more trouble...." He harshly speaks as he pushes her to the ground.
"Stay... Don't do anything stupid...got that?" He poke his bat to her head and fully push her aside.
Yuu's eyes darken, they were right.
It's all her fault this is happening...she just wants a perfect gift for the Warden.
As she was left alone in the ground, staring at the void.
Ignoring all the panicking men around her, she felt cold.
Suddenly someone grabbed her hand.
"Hey! Let's go! The knights are here!" Lucian's words snap her back to reality.
She tried to utter some words but Lucian grabbed her away and hid in the shadows.
Lucian grunts as he hides her behind him and puts his mask on her so the knights won't recognize her.
"Where's the Warden?" One of the knights said.
The Warden's guard only pulls out their guns and points it at them.
"So you gonna do this the hard way" the female officer said and Lucian immediately recognized her voice.
...
Lucian take Yuu out of the place.
She's still in daze, thinking about Melrick's words.
He only sighs, she's out of her mind right now, shocked by what just happened.
He carried her on his back and put a black cloth in order not to be noticed by knights.
They finally arrived at Lucian's tree house.
"Lucian?!" Sarah called out as she ran towards them.
He is still carrying Yuu behind him.
Sarah stopped on her tracks when she realized that Lucian was with somebody else.
The rest of the bandits pull their weapons out.
"Who is she?" Sarah asked.
Lucian gaze at them, his eyes almost giving up on holding his tears.
"She's..." He's about to answer Sarah when he feels Yuu's grip on him tightens.
Everyone flinches when she moves an inch.
Levi immediately recognized her hair.
The cloth that covers her drips down on the ground.
Lucian gently settled her down.
Yuu stands up slowly as Levi looks at her.
He definitely recognized her, but he can't point out where he saw her.
Emerald clashes with onyx.
Sarah looks at her suspiciously.
"Do you know her?" Sarah asked Levi this time.
Silence is what he replied to her.
Yuu walked past them.
The others are still holding their weapons against her.
Lucian walked behind her as he tried to make everyone calm down.
"I think we should put the weapons down" he nervously chuckles.
Yuu didn't bother to look back to see them, she only went straight to the tree house.
Lucian immediately keeps up with her.
"Hmmm..." Levi thinks for a minute, still wondering about her.
"I'll ask you again, do you know her?" Sarah stomps her foot, she doesn't want people not answering to her when she asks something.
"I feel like I've known her but not..." Levi replied and looked away. Sarah raised her eyebrows, knowing he was hiding something from her.
Lucian called out to her but she didn't answer.
He grabs her wrist to make her stop walking away.
She flinched.
Immediately, the memory of Melrick grabbing her wrist flashes into her mind.
"No!" She screamed and pulled her wrist away.
Everyone below the tree house heard her scream.
"You okay there Lucian?!" Sarah called out and she was about to climb the tree.
"Y-yes..." Lucian was startled by Yuu's sudden scream.
"That's it, I'm going up there!" Sarah shouts as she starts to climb the stairs.
"What's going on here?" She stopped on her tracks when she saw Yuu curled up in the ball in the corner.
"What the heck are you doing, Lucian?!" She smacked his head.
"I-I'm just trying to calm her down..." defended Lucian.
Levi came upstairs to see what's going on, and saw the scene in front of him.
Embarrassed by her actions, Sarah immediately stops hitting Lucian and slowly approaches Yuu.
"Hey...you okay?" She gently asked, Yuu looked up and saw her.
But, she starts trembling again when she sees her sniper behind her, making Yuu remember Cynthia.
"You're making her more scared.." Levi said and he too approached her.
"You're in the Wanted poster aren't you?" He directly asked.
"H-hey!" Lucian calls out to him but he ignores it.
"I'm the one who knocked you out that time" he bluntly said.
Lucian sighs in frustration thinking Levi is just making the situation worse.
"M-momo..." Yuu muttered against her breath.
It's her doll, she accidentally left it behind.
Lucian 's eyes darken, of course she needs her doll.
"Don't worry, I'll get her for you" Lucian whispers as he caresses her hair.
"W-wait!" Before Sarah asked another question, Lucian immediately jumped down and got on his way.
Yuu's is not in her right mind right now.
She's probably blaming herself on what's happening in the Barrel Zone right now.
Lucian is getting scared too.
...
Back at Warden's headquarters.
Warden's carriage stopped when the horseman saw that the gate was destroyed.
He comes out of the carriage, looking around.
His men that panicked were now on the ground.
"What happened here?" The Warden asked.
"We just take a look at your place" The knights step forward, and a female voice answered.
"Ruby..."he said under his breath.
"It's Captain now... Long time no see, garbage boy" the female officer greeted back.
"I should have known it was you..." Warden walks closer to her as the other knights pull their guns and point at him.
"Sorry" she shrugged.
"It's just an order from the higher ups...you know you messed up..." She grins, making the Warden groan in frustration.
He knows this is gonna happen soon enough.
He should have tied Yuu somewhere so she won't cause any ruckus.
It was his side, but still, he didn't want to give her to them.
"I heard from the higher ups that someone in your 'family' stole the five gemstones from the carriage of a southern merchant..." She circles him.
"What gemstones?" He continued to play dumb.
"Don't be ignorant! You know what I'm saying..." She tossed him a wanted poster of Yuu.
"Who's this?" He is still playing dumb.
Ruby only gritted her teeth in anger.
"You know who it is! You know everyone here..." She hissed.
"Look... I'm too busy to know everyone here, you can continue your search, but I'm warning you..." he crumpled the wanted poster and pushed it to her making her step back a little.
"You mistreated my people once again, I won't hesitate to destroy the contract between me and your people..." He snarled as he pushed her away and continued to walk towards his headquarters.
His men follow him behind, and the knights still pointing their weapons at them.
She clenched her hand in the wanted poster and ripped it apart.
"Bullshit..." She muttered against her breath.