Chapter 65

On the carriage, I see Touya reading a book. "Finally learned how to read?" I asked in a teasing tone. "Yep just finished last night, strangely I can retain a lot more information then I could before." She said cryptically, but I know what she was talking about. "But enough about that, this is a book on null magic, I can use any null magic I know of." She finished, continuing to read.

"Well if you find any good ones, tell me and I'll try them." I said with a smile. We continue on our way to the capital, Touya found a null magic to steal Yae's bow. Touya was now getting told off by the girls, as me and Ruby just talk amongst ourselves. A few days passed, and we saw a load of other people, according to Touya, we were about half way there.

I was talking to Ruby, when I saw Touya look shocked. "What's up, something wrong?" I asked, looking around. "I smell blood, it's coming from ahead of us." She said jumping up on the seat next to Yae. I start to sniff and she's right I can smell blood. I grab my weapon from my storage space, and use the scope to look ahead. "There's a carriage getting attack by monsters, Ruby run ahead and I'll shoot from here." I said, while I started shooting at the lizard-men.

Ruby gets there in seconds, and starts killing them. As I'm watching, I see more coming out of shadows, I look around and see a man in a cloak, and shoot him right in the head. All the lizard-men disappeared when I killed that man. We reach the carriage and there is a little girl crying. "Is anyone hurt?" I ask looking between everyone there. Ruby points towards the open carriage. "A man got hit with an arrow." She said.

I look at the man and tell everyone to leave the carriage. Once empty, I start by using my Eyes of Truth, and seeing he has the head of an arrow lodged in his chest. "This is going to hurt, but it's better than dying." I say, as I condense a small ball of power of destruction, to destroy the arrow head. I managed to destroy it, and I start to heal him.

I leave the carriage, once the man is stable. "Is he going to be ok?" The little girl asked crying. "Yes he will. He lost a lot of blood, but he will be better with a bit of rest, so don't worry." I said patting her head. "Thank you for helping, I'm Sushie Urnea Ortlinde, it's a pleasure to meet you." She said trying to smile. She then entered the carriage. "Gramps, are you ok?" She asked with a trembling voice. "I'm ok now Young Miss, I thank you for saving us, my name is Leim, can I ask for yours?" The man called Leim asked.

After the introductions, we find out that Sushie was the duke's daughter, and we just stopped an assassination attempt. Since about half of their guards were killed, we offered to escort them to the capital. As we head out, we are asked to come to the dukes place. I looked at the rest of the party and just nodded. "So Sushie, why were you out and about?" I ask, trying to make conversation. "Just call me Sue, we are not in any official gathering, and I was visiting my grandmother's." She answered with a smile.

We arrive in the capital, me and Ruby jump out of the carriage. "We are going sightseeing, give me a call when your done." I say, running off with Ruby in tow. We reach the markets. "Why did we run away?" Ruby asked confused. "I just really don't want to get involved with royalty, Touya can deal with that without us." I say, pulling her along.