Who is the prey?

The hunt started. Everyone, started racing towards the inner portion of the forest. Anne did so too. The time went by but none of the mammals could quench her desire so she went more towards the inner section.

Birds chirping with the sound of arrows, a sweet woody aroma was lingering in the air, when suddenly she felt the presence of some people coming towards her . At first she thought that it would be any other nobles but her belief got crumpled down the moment an arrow pass through just a few centimeters from her ears. She flinched. ' 'Huh? ' As she turned around to see, she was astonished to see a group of armed knights targetting at her.

' W-what is going on? Why are they following me? ' She gave a quick glance at their weapons and started galloping at a faster rate. ' Sh#t . Their weapons are totally unmatchable against mine. I need to flee, if they get to learn that I have healing power I would be doomed. ' Her healing power was still a secret, revealing an important fact like that would be bring number of questions because none of the people from her father's lineage ever poccessed a shred of mana.

Arrows after arrows were thrown towards her but none of the arrows were thrown towards her vital organ. She realised that they were not after her life. Failing to flee she made her mind to fight them straightforward.

She turned her horse towards them. She pulled the dagger from her leg and took it in her mouth and started throwing the arrows towards them. Her precision was perfect due to the blessing she received earlier, but due to the hard armour that the knights were covered in, it was very difficult to defeat them and also she was outnumbered.

" Roar"

Her spine chilled. ' It's the sound of a tiger. I am sure. But why now out of all moments. '

The tiger leaped towards her a lightning speed

She was watching that tiger was approaching towards her but hands were busy in the battle with those knights. ' Is this how it's going to end. '

Even if she had healing power, she could not be revived once she gets eaten by that tiger alive. Just when the tiger was about touch her , a hand came dragging her towards the opposite direction from that tiger on a white horse.

" You sure have a tendency to fall into dangers. "

She looked towards that person, it was none other than the Caesar, himself.

" I am fine so move your hand. "

" Still trying to reject me. " He smirked at her. He narrowed his eyes at those knights and with a death glare he said, " Let's finish them off first. " A cold blood thirst aura started prevailing.

From his ring he pulled some poisoned arrows made of special material which can seep through any armour. The ring from which he pulled it, was a mana devoured dimensional ring. It could enclose thousands of kilos weight within it. It was gifted to him by his father for his excellent achievement in battleship.

Caesar was an excellent knight himself, so fighting with them was not a big matter for him. When he was fighting with them, Anne was sitting right at his back. She was feeling quite uneasy for sometime and then she heard a shrill sound. That sound made the back if her throat numb.

She tried to find the direction of that sound and just when she she was looking around, her eyes met with that tiger, it was like it wanted to portray something. She felt a unknown quench of thrust. She went down from the horse.

" What are you doing? Quickly come-up. You are unarmed, it's dangerous! "

None of his words went to her ears as she moved straight towards that tiger.

' Tch. What the hell has happened to her. I have to go...'

An arrow came and struck his right arm. A fierce battle started as Anne was not close to him. He had not a moment of leisure to go towards her.

" Anne come back. " , he screamed repeatedly.

Slowly deafeating the space between that tiger, she hugged him dearly. One of those knights were approaching towards her as he saw her unarmed.

He wanted to grab her by her shoulder and besiege her but the moment he tried to touch her that tiger bite him and tore his wrist apart.

" Aaaaa. " , he screamed in pain. Blood oozing out from his wrist and he became unconscious due to the sight of his own cut arm.

The battle was already over by then. Drenched in blood , Caesar gasped as he saw Anne fondling the tiger as it was her pet cat. ' This woman never fails to give me shock. '

" Let's go now. It's already late. " He gave her hands to her.

All the ladies were waiting for their man but none of them anticipated Caesar coming out from the forest fully drenched in blood. The smell was strong enough to churn someone's stomach.

"How horrifying. " Everyone started murmmuring among themselves just when their jaw dropped as they saw Anne coming out from the forest, riding a real tiger.

" That's my sister-in-law. " , said Caroline who was sitting on her chair surrounded by a heap of dead animals gifted by the Nobles.

Now that the time of announcing the winners came, the judge became bewildered as both Anne's and Caesar's contribution was praise worthy. Caesar hunted almost seventy percent of all the mammals ( pretty horrifying sight) while Anne brought a living tiger. As he could not make a decision, he declared it to be a tie.

But who would be the Queen of the hunt? - a question arosed in everyone's mind.

Well, both Caesar and Anne became the queen as they dedicated their hunt to each other.

" Told you, I would make you my queen. " , whispered Caesar at Anne's ear while taking the trophy.

" Says who? " , she said mockingly.

Both of them started laughingly but their laughter started soaring someone's eye, who was present in that crowd.

' Oneday, I would surely poccess you. Just wait and watch. '

That day Anne made many lady fans and also a number of men felt dazed by her bravery. And like this the Imperial festival came to an end.

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To be continued~