Chapter 29

Naturally, on a train with a small number of passengers, a group of people in black stood out.

The clothes they were wearing looked like uniforms, but looked a little strange.

Initially, any uniform must contain insignia or symbols used to determine the status and rank of a person. However, there was not a single distinguishing sign on their clothes.

And that wasn't the only thing that was suspicious.

These people did not stay anywhere and just passed by through the cars, but Juliet still managed to notice something unusual.

When they passed by her, she saw medium-length swords hidden under the floors of fluttering black cloaks.

Juliet, accustomed to accompanying the Duke's knights in seven years, could not help but notice the swords.

In fact, it was forbidden to carry weapons on the train.

Maybe it's worth informing the conductor about it? But then there may be an even greater stir.

"..... I hope nothing serious happens."

Juliet looked in the direction where these people who were hiding their weapons went.

Nevertheless, the strangest thing happened a little later, when the train stopped at the next station. And again, a group of suspicious people entered the car.

Although she did not notice any weapon under them, even from afar they looked very unusual because of the large size of their physique.

"They're really huge!"

Juliet, who looked at them with her eyes wide open, suddenly met with a man older than the others and looked like the leader of this group.

It was a frightening man, almost two meters tall.

"It looks like he's even bigger than Sir Kane."

Juliet carelessly pretended to drink her tea, remembering Sir Kane, who was her companion, the Duke assigned to her.

However, this man seemed taller and larger than Sir Kane, who served as commander of the Duke's knights.

Looking at him, Juliet involuntarily came up with the idea that if a bear had become human, it would most likely have looked like this.

Unlike the previous bunch of people in black who got on the train, these guys don't seem to have hidden any weapons.

Although at first glance, they all looked so strong that they did not seem to need any weapons but their huge body.

Honestly, she intuitively felt that if there was a fight between people with weapons and these strong guys, the last side would prevail.

- .... I'm sure. Mr. Roy should be somewhere on this train.

- Find it as soon as possible and quietly.

Roy?

Juliet had no intention of overhearding the conversation of these suspicious people, but a fragment of the phrase still reached her ears.

They seemed to be looking for someone.

When the train started again, the suspicious group soon moved to another car.

Juliet thought anxiously that it would be nice to return to her compartment before she got into any trouble.

Those men dressed in black clothes with hidden swords also seemed to be excited about something.

Seeing these two suspicious groups of people, she instinctively realized that something had to happen.

..... But what about freshly baked buns?

Juliet felt a slight regret that she would not be able to enjoy delicious buns, but thought it would be better to return in the compartment. In addition, the cup of tea has long been empty.

But just before Juliet got up from her seat, Angie returned with a tray full of buns.

Juliet quietly fell into her place, deciding that she could return to her room after tea with buns.

Let's just eat them quickly and hurry to our compartment!

- I apologize for the long wait! Dear passengers, I will approach you all in turn.

The smell of freshly baked buns awakened the appetite of people in the cafeteria, and they excitedly waited for them to eat them.

People humbly waited for their turn, sitting in their seats, as if they were obedient children.

But it was at the moment when Angie came up with a tray to Juliet's nose that something unexpected happened.

- Arghaaaa!

A faint scream came from afar and the door of the carriage with a loud sound opened wide open.

- No one can move!

And what do you think happened?

Of course, armed men in black uniform broke into the cafetery car and, pulling out their swords, began to threaten passengers.

The only change in them was that they put black hoods on their heads to cover their faces.

- Ahhhhhhh!

Some passengers froze in horror in their seats, and the other part fell to the floor screaming.

The men quickly inspected the cafeteria and began to push and threaten people, holding strangely curved swords that looked like sabers.

Bams!

One of the people in black pushed Angie, and she, without holding the tray in her hand, dropped it on the floor along with lush buns...

- ...

Naturally, there was now complete chaos in the cafetery car, passengers shouted in panic, and people in black behaved aggressively and threatened everyone, and the only person who behaved quite calmly was Juliet, who sat quietly in her place.

Meanwhile, she looked down at a tray of buns lying on the floor, sitting with a small dessert plate in her hands.

- Hey, guys, let's calm down. Maybe you'll remove your swords and say what you need... - One of the passengers started talking.

However, his speech was instantly cut off by one of the people in black.

- Shut up!

Suddenly, one of the bandits took a hostage to take control of the remaining passengers. He decided that he would be able to pacify the others if he threatened the life of one of the passengers.

Then he screamed confidently, putting a knife to the hostage's throat.

- If you don't want to see me cut this thin neck, you'd better not move!

- ...

However, the bandit did not know that he had just made the biggest mistake in his life.

Unfortunately, the man chose Juliet as a hostage.

******

All the passengers sat quietly in their seats and pressed their heads to their knees, as the bandits wanted.

- AAA!!!!

And when a terrifying scream sounded in a suffocatingly tense atmosphere, the passengers closed their eyes, completely not seeing what was happening behind their backs.

People thought it was shouted by a poor woman taken hostage, who was killed because of a small uprising.

What a terrible punishment it is!

Frightened passengers were horrified and deeply mourned the identity of the murdered woman.

They very much hoped that the poor woman taken hostage would experience as little pain as possible before her death.

But the next moment, one of the hooded bandits appeared in their sight.

- Ahhh! Please save me.....!

The bandit ran a couple of meters in horror, and then fainted as if he had seen something terrible.

..... What happened?

The people in the car looked back and became even more confused.

What they saw were armed men in black uniform lying motionless on the floor.

And the only person standing right above them was a slender, beautiful woman who didn't look any threatening.

However, Juliet did not tell the passengers, shocked by the ones looking at her, what had happened.

- Ah...

Juliet sighed briefly and looked at the floor with regret at the place where the tray with buns lay.

Then she went to the door to the next car and, opening it, looked into the gap to check the situation outside.

As she expected, there was also a crowd, people with swords came into conflict with a group of unarmed people.

Juliet let five butterflies through the slit in the door.

- ..... What the hell?

- What is it.....? Ahhh!

She allowed hungry butterflies to fly on the train.

Butterflies fluttered over the bandits, causing them nightmares, and devoured their fears with pleasure.

The bandits were angry people who killed people without shame, so we can say that it was the best "dining room" for butterflies who gained strength eating their emotions.

She didn't know exactly how long it would take butterflies to fly around the whole train, but suggested that they probably won't be back soon.

After listening to the terrible screams for a while, Juliet calmly closed the door.

She decided that it was necessary to understand this situation, because something was unclean here. Juliet's intuition suggested that these people were not just train robbers.

There were two groups on the train that made a mess.

However, a group of attackers got on the train later than the first one, and they were looking for something.

- Be careful, save yourself!

- Mr. Roy! Where are you?!

Juliet guessed that the last group was looking for someone with a high position, and the black hooded people who took passengers hostage seemed to be also kidnappers who kidnapped this Roy.

"So it's thugs and kidnappers." Juliet thought calmly.

Although this had nothing to do with her, the fact that the train would not be able to get to the destination it needed properly was very important.

Juliet thought it would be better to return the kidnapped man to the attackers, thereby putting the train in order.

But how to do it?

After reflecting a little, Juliet suddenly remembered that there was a luggage compartment in the back of the cabin car.

In addition, before people in black hoods got on the train, they loaded something big into the luggage compartment.

So what the hell is going on here?

- Ugh...

The man in a black hood lying on the floor suddenly moved.

Juliet released another butterfly and set it on him again, mentally scolding him with the most unflattering words for the troubles she had caused, after which she opened the door and went to the luggage compartment.

Wzhuh.

The door to the luggage compartment opened without problems, but it turned out to be much darker inside than she thought, so at first she couldn't see anything.

While she was waiting for her eyes to get used to the dark, she couldn't see anything special but iron bars.

Wait, is that a cage?

Juliet opened her eyes wide in surprise.

The luggage compartment was almost completely empty, and in the middle of it there was a huge iron cage, which was supposed to be used to transport large wild animals.

There was a gnashing, as if a heavy iron chain had fallen.

Then something moved in the dark behind bars.

And the next moment, Juliet stared shocked at what was inside the cage.

Two golden eyes of a huge beast looked at her fiercely.

".... Is that a wolf?!"