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?"

is of the

and burden, he was still able to sprint at a speed beyond the human limit. In the meantime, Bella

cognizant of her awkwardness, or even his own. But it wasn't important. Her life and

to not kill those men?" She asked a

is extremely high key and will draw far too 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

releasing us without protection, since we cannot produce evidence of ill-intent on

truth, there was an even greater reason he had chosen not to

not prepared

life, he had never felt the urge to, asides from

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

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 the former

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 spent fifty-nine years in a world

Rui was able to reach the closest district fairly quickly. He even avoided routes

or hide your hair." Rui insisted. "That drastically lowers the chances of someone being able identify and remember

hair as tightly as she could before covering it with a cloth garment she had. "You need to get rid of that uniform

hour later they had checked into a cheap inn. Rui had long taken off his mask, wearing clothes that Bella had quickly bought from the closest inn, while covering his hair with a tied cloth like Bella had. His hair was too attention-drawing and distinct, not to mention