Night falls.
Tonight in Langard, it is another cloudy and starless night.
"Oh, I'm finally done with my work. Seriously, why does the college have to do these research studies? It's delaying my ability to make money!"
Arthur pushed open the door of the orphanage while complaining.
"Alice, I'm back!"
No one from the orphanage responded.
“Alice!”
Arthur called out again.
"Alice?"
Arthur sensed something was wrong.
"Aunt Clea?"
Still no one answered.
At this moment, there was a noise behind a dilapidated door.
"Y-Is it...Brother Arthur?"
"It's me!"
"Great, it's Brother Arthur who's back!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a group of children rushed out from behind the dilapidated door and surrounded Arthur.
"Brother Arthur, we are so scared!"
"Brother Arthur, please go and save Sister Alice and Aunt Claire!"
"What?! What are you talking about? What happened to Alice!? What happened to Alice and Clea!?"
Arthur asked anxiously.
The children immediately focused their attention on a shorter child.
Being stared at by so many people, the child immediately lowered his head awkwardly.
Arthur quickly squatted down and touched his head.
"Xiao Jie, tell me what happened slowly."
After being comforted by Arthur, Xiaojie could no longer suppress the fear in his heart and hugged Arthur while crying.
"Brother Arthur! I'm so scared! I saw Sister Alice, Aunt Clea, and a strange cat-eared sister being kidnapped by a bunch of bad guys!"
Next, Arthur learned what had happened from Xiaojie's intermittent crying.
It turned out that the child was not well-behaved and ran out when Claire was away. Unexpectedly, he saw Alice and others being taken away by a group of people in black robes on a street. He was so scared that he ran back to the orphanage. After telling the other people in the orphanage what happened, the others also became scared.
This orphanage was plagued by bad things before the previous director died and Claire came. The older children left the orphanage as soon as they were able to survive on their own, but the younger children had no way to survive if they left and had to stay here. As a result, Arthur and Alice became the oldest children here in the end.
If Clea hadn't come, the oldest ones might not be Arthur and Alice now. How many of these children would be able to stand here...
"A-Brother Arthur, Sister Alice, and Aunt Claire will never come back. Are we going to go back to our old lives..."
Xiaojie said with sobs.
The other children's eyes were also filled with anxiety at this moment.
Arthur clenched his fists until they turned white, then slowly loosened them.
He patted the heads of these young children one by one, smiled and said, "No, I promise you, that kind of thing will never happen!"
"That's right, look!"
Arthur stood up and exposed his arms.
"I'm very strong now! Those who dared to kidnap Alice and Aunt Claire can be beaten away in just a few moves!"
“Really?!”
There was a flicker of hope in the eyes of the young children.
"Of course it's true! So... you all just stay in the orphanage and don't go anywhere, okay? I'll rescue them soon!"
"Um!"
"Brother Arthur, we will wait for you to come back obediently!"
"Brother Arthur, you must rescue Sister Alice and Aunt Claire!"
"I will..."
After settling the young children, Arthur walked out of the orphanage in silence.
He stopped at the door and looked out at the dark night ahead.
"Alice...wait for me..."
The next moment, he stepped into the night without hesitation.
... ...
In the lower city, a figure dressed in a black wizard robe, whose figure almost blended into the night, was moving quickly through the streets.
Soon, she came to a street in a slum area.
"Hmm? Traces of battle?"
Stopping, Hulim looked carefully at the traces here. There was still some blood and traces of fire magic on the ground.
"Such a strong aura of fire magic..."
Hulim frowned. It was this remaining trace of powerful magic that caught her attention.
Such a powerful force would not appear out of nowhere.
Suddenly, an object on the street with a different light level than other objects caught Hulim's attention.
Hulim walked over and picked it up.
“This is—!!!”
Hulim's eyes darkened.
In her hand was one of the two short knives that Miko usually used.
... ...
Bang--!
"Ugh!"
Another gang member flew backwards and hit the wooden wall, cracking it. He then fell to the ground and was unable to get up for a long time.
There are already a lot of people like him in this room.
"You still don't want to tell me?"
An unidentified person in a black wizard robe grabbed the bruised gang leader by the collar and asked calmly.
Seeing all his subordinates being knocked down, the gang leader knew that he had hit a wall.
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