12 KNIGHTS
5.

Three people with the look of a rich man blocked Catherine's steps haughtily. They were Alea, Tiara, and Vivi who bullied Catherine very often.

"Hay Catherine, are you waiting for us" Alea started a conversation and the three of them started laughing wickedly. "I heard that knights will choose girls, do you know friends" Alea said back as she gleaned her hands across her chest and smiled sarcastically at Catherine.

"I know that, I'm pretty sure Alea will be the chosen one of the knights, you're a great person" Vivi smiled as she rolled her hair around her finger. "Aahs.. It was impossible how it could have happened" Alea replied timidly.

"You are great at everything, how can people beat you later, even the person in front of us does not dare to do anything when facing us" said Tiara in the laughter of the three of them.

Alea was the chairman of them, the strongest and had a high position in the Death Mountain academy, almost everyone respected him.

"You're right, why don't we have her fight Alea to prove how great Alea is" Vivi said as she glanced at Alea.

Alea who felt herself challenged also agreed to Vivi's suggestion. "Alright then, I'll start with a rushing river back there" Alea said as she gestured to her friends to take Catherine to the river behind the mountain.

Catherine who had heard only silence did not dare to do anything, but when she heard that she was going to be taken to the river, Catherine began to feel a little panic. He was afraid of the river behind the mountain. A past memory of how Catherine was almost killed in the back of the mountain river by a man with black smoke surrounded her, fortunately Daro's teacher came in time and saved her. From there Catherine began to study on the mountain of Death.

"Don't take me there, please don't torture me". Catherine asked with trembling hands. Alea who saw Catherine trembling was even more curious.

"Take her now, before the lesson starts" Alea said as she walked out of the classroom and towards the rushing river behind the mountain. Catherine wanted to rebel but was beaten by Vivi and Tiara so she could do nothing. The one who saw that was just silent looking did not dare to help, because they knew that the one who was bullying was Alea.

Arriving at the rushing river, Catherine seemed still traumatized by the place the shadow of the black-robed person was still seething in her mind. Tiara froze her daydreams by dousing water on Catherine's body until it was soaked.

"Why are you silent, have you learned over the years that you don't know how to fight?,.." Alea walking towards Catherine arrogantly in front of her was a steep rushing river, if Catherine took a few more steps back then she would fall.

Alea started to open Catherine's bag and dumped the contents onto the ground. In Catherine's bag there were only books and school tools.

"Is this all you got?.. Poor bastard" insulted Alea "I don't want to play around anymore, friends want us what is he?"

Tiara and Vivi were thinking. After a long time of thinking.

"Or we just throw him into the river, I want to see if he can save himself" Tiara said with an evil smile. "maybe" Alea replied with a face ready to pounce at any moment.

Catherine who was still sitting on the ground was shocked by what they said, despite the many wounds she had received, Catherine was still willing to accept it rather than end her life in this river. "Please don't do it, I'll do whatever you want, but don't kill me" Catherine said with a trembling body, in addition to fearing death, Catherine wanted before her death to be able to settle the grudge of her parents who had been murdered when she was a child. Catherine also began to realize she had to escape as soon as possible. If he was saved by teacher Daro but not anymore. He knew if Alea said that then it would be real, even though Alea was a woman but somehow she was very rude and had no conscience. Catherine from childhood had learned martial arts on the mountain of death but like there was a barrier blocking her power, she only mastered matter but did not know how to devote it.

Catherine wanted to escape but before Alea, Tiara, and Vivi touched Catherine, she had already fallen down from slipping on the slippery ground. "Baaa.......... Bumm.." After that there was no other sound.

Alea and her friends just left without any guilt.

Unwittingly the eleven knights who had wanted to walk" saw the mountain, instead watching Catherine who fell into a river that flowed very fast.

Naor, who knew Catherine, wanted to save her, but was arrested by Albert, who was also an Eastern knight.

"If you want to test that woman, then let her first" Albert explained as he looked at Naor's confused face.