The Martial Unity

Bella shook herself out of her reverie and nodded seriously. Just then;

"Miss!" Her attendant called out.

"Puth, are you okay?" Bella asked, concerned, receiving a nod in return. Thankfully the men had merely had her open the door and snooped around looking for their target and left when they couldn't find her.

Bella glanced back at Rui. "We need to leave this district immediately. I'm heading south, towards the outskirts of the town before catching a cargo carriage towards the neighbouring town of Laxus. We need you to accompany and protect us within Hajin." She insisted.

Rui nodded. "We can talk later. Right now, we seriously need to go." he said, before turning to face Puth. "However, you are not under my protection and having more people will only slow us down."

Bella grimaced, slowly nodding before turning to her attendant. "Puth, I cannot have you accompany us any further. The journey will be too dangerous, return back home." Not giving her attendant any choice in the matter.

She turned back to Rui, before nodding. "Let's leave."

Rui nodded in return. "You're too slow, I'm going to need to carry you until we reach find a rickshaw or reach a place we can lay low."

"Eh?"

of

her in a princess-carry, before activating Balanced Direction, Parallel Walk and Helical Breathing. Despite the hindrance and burden, he was still able to sprint at a speed beyond the human limit. In the meantime, Bella awkwardly held onto him embarrassed as she tried not to

important. Her life and the mission was at stake,

not kill those men?" She asked a pertinent

much attention. Law enforcement officers will be all over the place and will be out looking for us and even the Martial Union might be involved, and not in a good way. Killing them will draw

before releasing us without protection, since we cannot produce evidence of ill-intent on my life and

even greater reason he

was not

a single person in his life, he had never felt the urge to, asides

them alive, he wasn't sure he would be able to kill them

sighed. ('This is a problem I'll need to fix. The Martial World is filled with death. There are those who kill, and there are those who will be killed. I need to fall into

forced to make that choice. He needed to condition and train a mindset that was willing to kill if needed. It's not that Rui was an extremely pacifist or kind person, but as a person who

another human, Rui was able to reach the closest district fairly quickly. He even avoided routes where they would inevitable be seen and would draw

or hide your hair." Rui insisted. "That drastically lowers the chances of someone

tightly as she could before covering it with a cloth garment she had. "You need to get rid of that uniform as well, that will draw attention

the closest inn, while covering his hair with a tied cloth like Bella had. His hair was too attention-drawing and distinct,