"Where is she!?"
Hayes grumbled quietly as he looked around the hallway of the palace.
His steps were impatient as he kept checking every room he came across.
Reis, walking along with him, couldn't help but ask, "Is she even in the palace?"
"Where else would she go!?" Hayes snapped, glaring at him.
Reis shrugged off his glare as they took a sharp turn at the intersection—
Only to meet three soldiers.
"Halt!" One of them exclaimed, taking out his sword. "It's a restricted area—."
His words halted as Reis rushed forward.
A quick horizontal forehand bash to the first guy's head, continuing the motion into a spin, slammed into the other guy before he realized what was happening.
One of the guards unslung his crossbow and cranked the crow's foot back to cock it.
Runes lit up the crossbow.
The bow triggered at the motion, and Reis quick-stepped to his left.