The Knight Eldania S2
01: Eldania: The past

...Four years ago....

...Previous life....

...The dark night is much blueer than it is now....

Under the night sky, the darkness of the forest was no more terrifying than the presence of the sound of footsteps of people who kept running.

The sound of gunfire never escaped the presence of those who continued to try to chase someone in front far away.

If today was daytime, then it was already seen that a group of people consisting of dozens of these men were wearing black pants and suits. But what was carried in the hands of each of these people was none other than a gun.

Until finally, the sound of gunfire was heard again.

DORRR......!

Bullets that come out very quickly only hit one of the tree trunks that are used as shelter from people they are chasing.

As if it was a warning shot that the man targeted their hunt tonight to stop immediately.

"Allison!" Call this guy a little loud.

After coming out from the black shadow of the row of trees, the tall man with the body wrapped in this black coat, he continued walking forward and stopped right at a distance of less than twenty meters from the only person who was the reason for being inside this forest. Someone who is standing behind a tree far ahead.

While the owner of this name immediately drifted to the right side of the back and asked. "What's wrong?" with both hands ready with his own gun.

"After a long time of not receiving news from you, we finally met. Alinda.....there is one question that continues to bother me, what is your reason for leaving the organization? Do you know, I came in because of you, too, but why did you suddenly come out?" Ask this young man in his early twenties to a woman who was still standing guard behind a tree there.

The other ten men only kept silent giving the man who was higher than their status time to talk to the woman in question. But their hands never escaped from holding their weapons.

"You asked out of curiosity?" alinda asked with sweat already starting to flood her tired face.

What was the reason they included that one man came and chased after him?

What else if they weren't chasing a fugitive. And that's him himself....

Alindha.

So for Alinda today was a pretty unlucky day. Though today is the day where he was following outdoor training, but who would have thought that the row of people who were standing behind him were the ones who actually should be avoided.

Because they all come from one organization, the mafia.

And Alinda?

She is just a girl who just turned nineteen years old, she is following outdoor training because now she has just entered the government organization, the army military.

But who would have thought that in fact Alinda was the only person who had the darkest background among them all. Now, however, he was just a former mafia from an organization that used to move around at night.

But today he is having bad luck.

These people had now managed to find him after this one year managed to hide well. But as good as Alinda is at hiding and avoiding scrutiny from them as well as her former boss, she already knows that one day there will definitely be a moment where she will get caught too.

And that's today.

While the young man the owner of blonde hair with blue irises was only one of the few people that Alinda had saved from several cases that Alinda had handled himself. And this man is here now also because of orders from his boss.

"Of course."

Alinda saw the man's face was filled with curiosity, making him inevitably have to answer.

"I got out of there, just because I wanted to." replied Alinda briefly making the man pause for a moment. "Even if the boss orders you to drag me by force because you were the person closest to me, I will stick with my stance. Is there anything wrong with me suddenly coming out? So there's no need to say you came in because of me, like I told you to come in to be a mobster. Or was I the one who mistakenly thought, you suddenly came in to follow me for some other reason?"

" ................ " This man was silent for a moment before finally answering. "really. Actually I came in because I wanted to be with you because I like you. But it hasn't been a year that I've been working there, you're suddenly out" said the man quickly. A serious expression was shown from his handsome face.

[It's so blunt of him.] It made Alinda sigh for a moment, she tried to organize her thoughts and returned to answer. " ..................., Ernald, that's your right. A person has the right to like the person he likes. But your love for me feels like her. " Alinda turned towards Ernald again. "Boss likes me because I'm a person who can be put to very good use. And you, liking me is a form of attraction of a man who likes women, indeed the hell. Because all these feelings continue to assume that the man's goals are the same, benefits and utilizes.  Did my answer satisfy your curiosity?" 

There was nothing he never felt and saw. All the things that are related between men and women who like each other, Alinda knows it clearly.

To him, man is the complementary existence of a woman. But in this world, in an age like this the word 'Liking' is nothing more than a mere obsession.

That's the reality from this woman's point of view.

"Master." one call from one of the people around him immediately drew all the thoughts of the man whom Alinda called the lord and called Ernald.

"....................., so yeah?" his pair of eyes at a glance turned into a muddle. While staring at the girl in front of him, Ernald gave a thin smile that was almost like there was no smile, as it instantly disappeared just like that.

" ...................." Making the two of them finally make eye contact for some very short time.

"I'm quite satisfied, being able to hear it directly from you. And it's a satisfaction to know your point of view about me" Ernald said.

Hiding his body back from behind a tree, it was at that moment when one of Ernald's hands was lifted that all his men returned to action.

"Catch him." Ernald's orders with eyes that seemed to continue to sink into the darkness, his cold face was the answer. Want not to continue the task that was delayed because of a conversation.

"................!" Hearing an order to arrest him, Alinda immediately ran forward. With his right hand pointed backwards, the tip of his index finger directly pressed down on the trigger.

DORR.....!

The forest that is usually in a position of silence, for tonight, there is a different.

The dense forest was finally filled with various sounds.

From the gunfire, the sound of footsteps, the heartbreaking screams, and the crows that were ready in place to welcome the arrival of their victims one by one fell only because of one girl.

As time passed they went deeper and deeper.

"You are all quite persistent as well." muttered Alinda. He kept running to avoid them all. Even though he realized that just running would not be possible to make him continue to survive, then there was no other choice so Alinda was forced to subvert one by one of them.

DORR.......

DORR.......

"Akh....!" Of the ten men who were chasing the girl, among them had been paralyzed by shooting between the legs and shoulders of the victim.

In the end, he still fouled both of his hands.

Alinda knew that, but because of the instinct of a human being who wanted to survive then the result was this.

Both of his hands continued to reflexively move to fight an enemy that would be quite threatening.

[Good, but they still have plenty.] Alinda thought. Even if he did not look back, he still knew that the number of people chasing him was still many. The longer if it continues like that then he himself will be cornered.

Therefore for a moment the intention is to stop and fight it one by one until it is complete.

But the Ernald.......

When Alinda looked up, she knew when the man was on the tree above her head.

".....................!" getting a danger, automatically his hands he direction to the top and a shot back occurs.

DORR......

But Ernald was able to avoid the bullets first, even though in the forest was a dark area. And the faster Ernald, immediately descended crashing towards him.

Alinda immediately walked backwards.

"........................., in the end you still easily hurt others." Suddenly Ernald raised his voice.

DEG...............

With a bitter smile Alinda replied. "I knew. It was forced as a self-defense reaction."

"Indeed." Ernald closed his eyes for a moment and replied. "But you misrepresented one thing. It was not an act done by force, but it was a habit that was ingrained. Your habits will not disappear easily Alinda, until." Ernald said with a pretty slippery ending. But the sentence still managed to reach the concerned ear. "Even if you hold back, your habit of hurting people will never disappear from you, because that's who you are." Ernald's sweat is back.

"................., if my habit cannot be eliminated, I just need to use that habit for something more obvious and useful." Alinda.

From the beginning he was determined to quit the dark organization because there was one real reason he had. It was because someone had managed to give her the light.

And if indeed his habit of wounding or killing could not be eliminated, he just needed to find the right reason for his actions.

Was his action based on an intention for good or for evil?

That's the only guide for Alinda right now.

".................." Ernald was honestly stunned by the reply spoken by Alinda. So in the end Ernald could not make this woman change her mind when this woman had a dark time. "I was wrong. I should have held out my hand to take you out, not follow you into a dark world and tell you to come back into this organization."

Ernald also had one mistake. From the beginning, he should have pulled this woman out of the dark world of the mafia organization, not into the organization and when he found out Alinda was out, Ernald told him to go back in.

"Life is full of selfishness. But Alinda, I can't go against the boss' orders. Come back while I'm still talking." Ernald bargained again as he extended his hand toward Alinda.

But without needing to think long, Alinda refused by pointing her gun in front of Ernald.

"My answer remains the same. Whatever way you're gonna do it, just do it, Ernald. No need to hide." Alinda.

" ..................." Ernald who has received a certainty of action and eye glare and from Alinda's answer, Ernald was inevitably in the end using a rough way.