"Iris, I''ve been meaning to ask?"


    "If I like you? Of course not, duh."


    Mya rolled her eyes. "Can you stop talking nonsense? that''s not what I''m trying to talk about, okay? Why does that guy love to appear out of nowhere and do surprising things?"


    "Who knows?" Iris shrugged her shoulders. "I don''t know him."


    "Come on, he is your viin." Mya frowned.


    "My viin? Oh yeah right, I wrote him." Iris said. "And also your character. But does anything follow the script anymore? So don''t ask any more stupid questions like that."


    "It''s not that I''m the first one who breaks that. You''re the one who freed him first which already goes out of the plot."


    "Huh?" Iris raised her left brow and confusion was written all over her face. "What are you saying?"


    "You''re the one who freed him from the dungeon."


    "No. I''m not." Iris said quickly with a deadpan expression.


    "Then who..." Before Mya could finish her words, multiple explosions resounded from the ongoing fight that was happening in front of them, causing their senses to pay more attention to everything happening around us so no one could be hurt.


    "How dare you hurt my father!" Can said. A fit of anger thrummed through his veins then he released more of his air sts to Kayden.


    Can unleashed a powerful whirlwind on Kayden, obliterating the area. Mya and the others just covered their heads to protect themselves. As the onught tension increased, Mya began to lose footing, causing Rein to rush ahead to cover her.


    " Are you okay?" Rein nced at Mya, his eyes were tight and worried.


    On the other hand, Kayden''s face remained unmoved as he swiftly blocked and evade every bit of Can''s attack. As if those strong attacks didn''t even matter to him.


    "All of you, listen to me. Let''s get out of here first," Mya said calmly yet the authority on her voice was dominant. "That''s the n and not to watch those guys fight."


    "I''m just going to say that."


    "But you didn''t," Mya said as she walked past Iris. "Let''s go, Rein."


    "I''ll lead the way." Rein said as he walked ahead. Mya simply moved her head as a response and followed Rein.


    Though the rain was still pouring hard, they didn''t care anymore. Mya had only one thing in mind and that was to get out of here as fast as possible before any of those guys finished their fight.


    She could certainly feel that whoever wins the match, she was certain that they could get more inflicted in a greater mess than they were already in.


    As they sprinted towards the alleys of the soaked and quiet city night of Aravan, Rein was the first one to notice when a dark shadow loomed over him.


    *Boogsh!*


    He immediately leaped up as the sharp shadow created a huge crater in the ce they were before. If he was a secondte noticing, both he and Dorris would surely be pulverized now.


    At the same time, Iris pushed Mya out of the shadow''s sharp ws.


    "Arghh!" Mya winced when she hit the hard concrete wall. Iris, on the other hand, managed to evade the shadow but with one step, she failed to maintain her bnce and slipped on the puddle of water.


    "Ouch!" She winced when her butt hit the hard drenched road.


    *Boogsh!* Both of them nced at the ce where there was now a huge dent on it.


    "Mdy!" Reinnded beside Mya.


    "I''m alright." Mya steadied herself once again, ''Why do I feel like there was an extra intended force with that push.'' she thought.


    "Lady Iris, are you alright?"


    "I''m fine," Iris said as she already stood up from her nasty fall. ''Is that my karma or what?''


    Rein became more alert when he felt an ominous presence in front of them. "Mdy, Lady Iris, please step back."


    {"My son did a sinful act."} That familiar low voice echoed through their ears. {"And so is my daughter. As their father, I need to be the one to teach them a lesson. I will never pass it that easily. They need to learn from their mistakes."}


    In front of them was no other than Charrio. But his appearance hadpletely changed now. Mya could feel several chills running in her nerves. The man... No, that couldn''t be called man anymore.


    Charrio was riding arge dark horse. His entire visage became ck wearing ck te armor. But that was not made Mya a bit frightened, it was the fact that his head was severed. He was holding his head towards in his right hand and a red soulless eyes bore unto them.


    ''A Duhan?'' Mya gripped her Trinity tightly.


    {"I would not make these things harder for anyone,"} Charrio spoke once again.


    "My Savior is truly a gentleman," Iris murmured beside Mya as she stared at Rein''s lean and chiseled back with dreamy eyes.


    Mya''s attention turned reverted to Iris.


    "You should have written more characters like him. And not those ml''s with attitude problems." Mya remarked, looking at her with a frown.


    {"Give my daughter back to me."}


    "Well, that would be too boring." Iris rolled her eyes. "Most readers want male leads who have problems then fall in love with the female lead. And they start changing and h h h."


    "h? h? h?"


    "It meant what it is, stupid."


    {"Give my daughter back to me so all of you could leave here alive."}


    "What does it mean, I don''t know since I''m stupid," Mya said with a grin. "Exin to me and don''t bezy."


    "Hah." Iris sneakered. "Is that a joke, because Rein wasughing so hard right now."


    ''These two...'' Rein flinched. "I know both of you are getting along well with each other..." his words were cut off straight away.


    "We''re not!"


    "Seahorse!!!"


    There was a moment of silence...


    "Seahorse?" Iris looked at Mya confused. "What''s with that?"


    "First as much as possible I''m trying to avoid cliche answers, and second, the horse!!!" All of the three of them looked to where Mya was pointing.


    {"I decided your punishments."} Charrio who was being ignored was now prancing towards them at a bulleted speed. {"All of you will die."}


    Without a moment of thought, Rein, Mya, and Iris started to turn around and run as fast as they could!


    With the huge horse Charrio rode, they would not be able to simply evade him since he was covering the entire narrow alley.


    "He''s angry!" Iris said.


    "Yeah. Pretty mad!" Mya nodded her head.


    "There''s a corner turn!" Mya pointed.


    "No, let''s not go there."


    "My author''s instinct for cliches is telling me it could be a dead end."


    "But at this rate, he would catch up to us." Mya retorted Iris'' words. "And could you fight him?"


    "No," Iris said with a frown. With Mya''s words, she remembered how she got trashed by her fight with Charrio. "But it would be a dead-end for sure."


    "No, it would not."


    A few momentster...


    {"There is nothing for all of you to run now,"} Charrio said as he inched closer to them.


    "See, what did I tell you?" Iris murmured to Mya. "It''s a dead end. Now we''re all dead as well."


    "Re-rein, Is that you?" All of them stopped when they heard a very familiar voice from Dorris''. Her voice was soft and weak maybe because of what happened to her when Charrio choked her.


    Even Charrio, who was just a meter away from them, halted.


    "Dorris, you''re awake!" Mya went to Dorris'' side right away to check her condition.. "Thank Goodness," a sound of relief crossed Mya''s voice as she touched Dorris'' hands.