The air around them got thicker, and the guards were shocked as they saw the princess fight first. One of the bounty hunters came forward to fight. He sighs with a limitation to his tone, then he takes out his gun from the gun holster.
After some time of staring at Princess, he spoke up while putting his hand on his cowboy hat, "Well, I'm lucky to fight with Princess herself." He then pointed his gun toward the princess. The guards hold their weapons toward that bounty hunter in panic.
Princess Louise raised her to her left and whispered with a calm and commanding tone, "Put them down, it's ok. I want to fight myself too." Then those guards who take their weapons down are still uneasy.
Princess Louise stares at the bounty hunter and then lets out a gentle whisper, "Oy, what would you like, a sword or a gun?" She keeps staring into the bounty hunter's eyes. That bounty hunter looked confused, but then, with a playful tone, he whispered. "Which can tear me apart…"
Princess Louise didn't reply but nodded, then she raised her right hand and closed her eyes. Then, after a short time, petals of roses appear and start forming a sword. The petals first formed the hilt, which is completely made of petals of roses, and then those petals formed the blade of the sword.
Those rose petals turn into a sharp blade that feels like it can cut through stones. Then, after those petals explode a little beautifully, revealing the whole sword. The sword was beautifully made of rose petals from top to bottom.
She then opened her eyes and stared at the bounty hunters; with a gentle breeze, her voice carried toward his ears, "Now, we can start."
She bends a little as her royal dress's skirt starts touching the ground. She points the top of the blade toward the bounty hunter. And now she is ready to fight completely.
The guards and the bounty hunters were all shocked after seeing the sword, which was formed by petals. Then, with a panic, the bounty hunter who came forward to fight the princess whispered, "What a magnificent power it is. You are the scarlet witch of flowers. Aren't you?"
She didn't reply or even give a reaction, but instead she again closed her eyes and then again opened them, and her blue eyes' pupils now turned into a flower. A rose felt like it bloomed in her eyes.
The bounty hunter, in panic, fired his bullet at Princess Louise. And then those bullets were covered in fire mid-air. But as it reached near the princess, the flowers came out of nowhere and covered her to defend her from the fire bullet.
That bullet, at the time it touched the shield of petals, its fire turned into petals and became part of the petals' shield. And the bullet itself scattered into pieces like a dying flower, leaving its leaves.
All of the people were scared; even the guards were terrified after seeing it, remained silent, and watched what was happening and what would happen next.
Princess Louise starts moving toward the bounty hunter. That bounty hunter falls on the ground and, in fear, starts crawling backward. Like that, he reached out to his other bounty hunter companions.
Princess didn't stop for a moment but instead kept moving toward them. Then, after some steps, she reached out to the bounty hunters and whispered with a dangerous tone, "You know what I hate the most? Yeah, it's gambling. Moreover, if it's on the lives of living beings." She opened her left hand while it was near her waist.
Those bounty hunter groups are terrified and start firing at Princess Louise. Some of those bullets turned into different kinds of elemental powers, like fire, water, and some even turned into the conceptual powers, like some turned into falling pieces of stars or metal objects, like sharp knives.
But all of them stopped by that shield of petals, and some turned part of the shield, and some got scattered into pieces. She then moved her left arm toward them and whispered, "I was an idiot, forming 'Scarlet Bloom' for you, you thinking all will be strong."
The sword she was holding started scattering into the petals again and disappeared. Then she whispered with a death stare on them all, "You all don't even know about your powers. Well, time to end this."
She pointed her left hand toward them, and then suddenly, petals of spider lily flowers formed from her hand and touched the bodies of the bounty hunters. As these petals touched the bodies of bounty hunters, the petals disappeared as if they had been absorbed by the bodies.
And then she turned her left hand toward her left side and raised her fingers like she was commanding something to come out of the ground. Suddenly, as her fingers raised, four green plants started growing from the ground, and those green plants turned into grown spider lilies.
Then she turned her toward those flowers and then lowered it to her left side while standing still, and then the spider lilies' blooms started spinning. And then the petals of the flowers start falling on the ground.
And as the petals of spider lilies twisted and fell, the voices of bounty hunters rose. Those guards stared at the bounty hunters and saw as the flowers got twisted, those bounty hunter bodies twisted, and blood rotted from their bodies, and as those petals fell, the bounty hunters' body limbs twisted and vanished while turning into flowers.
And the only thing that remained on their body was blood. And just like that, those spider lilies' petals got twisted and plucked from bloom and fell, and the bodies of bounty hunters got twisted and disappeared too.
After a short time, the only thing that remained was blood on the ground. Not a single other trace remains of bounty hunters; even their clothes and hats disappear with them. Princess Louise then moved her hand toward where bounty hunters died and pushed her hand in the air.
Then, at that place, many roses grew up in no time. She then moved toward her horse and sat on it while whispering to her guards, "Let's go; our work here is done."
Those guards seemed to be terrified; then they nodded in respect and fear while sitting on their horses and were ready to go back to Velgravia. Princess Louise smiled and whispered with a cheerful tone, "Don't worry, I'll not let anyone lay a hand on my guards. You chose to guard me, but then that means I chose to guard you all, too. After all, are humans equal to each other?"
Then she pulled the bridle of the horse, and her horse, Starlace, started moving toward their destination. The guards feel relieved after hearing Princess Louise's words and start following her to reach their destination.
In the meantime, the realm of ???…
One of those bounty hunters sits on dark crimson-colored ground; it feels like the ground is made of blood. He confusedly stood up from his place and decided to go further to check this place out.
As he moved, his eyes only saw the endless ground and a crimson moon in a dark, endless sky. The crimson moon felt like it was fixed after it got scattered. He was terrified after seeing this place. Then suddenly his eyes fell on the ground he was walking on, and he found black roses, black spider lilies, and other flowers endlessly laid on the ground, but in black color.
He then stopped after seeing a black crimson-colored portal appear far from him. He feels uneasy around it, and his feet feel like they are frozen in one place. He kept staring at that black crimson portal, and his eyes were wide open as he saw a woman come out of that portal.
His eyes were stuck on her, and his soul felt like it had left his body because of fear. His inner monologue keeps repeating one thing again and again. "Run, or we are no more. But even if we run, we can't be saved."
His eyes saw a beautiful young woman who seemed to be in her early 20s, her long black hair flowing as she moved out of the portal. The pitch-black dress covered her whole body. She set foot on the ground with her bare feet; while she wasn't fully touching the ground, she was an inch above the ground.
She opens her eyes and stares at him with her dark crimson eyes; her eyes start glowing as she moves toward him. That one stare was enough to give him the chills down his spine; for that bounty hunter, it felt like the world had stopped, and there was nowhere to escape.
She didn't speak a word, nor did she stop for a moment; she kept moving toward him, and as she moved, the black-colored flowers on the ground started melting and becoming part of the ground, like they had lost their will to bloom again.
She stopped as she came close to him; between that bounty hunter and that black-dressed girl was only half a foot. She raised her right hand and put it on the bounty hunter's shoulder.
Then speak with a deep voice, which gives him a chill to his heart, "It's time…"
As she spoke this, that bounty hunter swallowed in her hand, and he disappeared. Then she closed her palm, and there was nothing in her hand. She whispered while turning back and staring at the crimson moon, "Now time for others."
Before she disappeared and faded into the air, she pushed her hand toward the crimson moon, and a black glowing light came out of her hand and went toward the crimson moon. And that black light becomes part of the crimson moon.
Afterward, she faded into the air, and that place felt silent, and there was not a single soul alive in that place.