The Land Of Thorns
End of the beginning of Part 1

Back to Edgar at the same time.

At this time Edgar was seen leaning himself on the wall plus he was now surrounded by a smog so thick with his breath so irregular, he really sweat.

“Come on, earlier I thought you had escaped. It turns out that you were once still trying to kill me!”

Edgar screamed and watched the surroundings that were not clearly visible due to the thick smoke.

In front of him he saw a knife drifting towards him, Edgar dodged quickly subdued himself and saw the knife stuck on the wall. Then Edgar walked quickly while ducking using the wall on his left side as a guide, his steps were so careful trying not to make a sound when he moved.

For a moment Edgar stopped his steps, he seemed to frown and look towards the surrounding puff of smoke. Suddenly emerging from the smoke of a knife back floated towards him, Edgar who was not ready to make his shoulder scratched by the knife.

“Damn it! As I expected. You really saw it so clearly from behind the smog!”

While saying that Edgar held onto his scratched shoulder withstanding the slight pain he felt.

As soon as Edgar stood up to run quickly and exert all his strength trying to get out of this thick smoky area, Edgar felt free to be careful if the assassin always looked at his position so clearly. While Edgar was running he was unaware that the knife was constantly floating towards him and stuck it on the wall.

He looked back, and saw the knife. Edgar again sped up his run and confidently jumped to the side, quickly pulling his sword slashing horizontally towards the thick smoke.

The assassin opened his eyes so wide when he saw Edgar's unexpected movements slashing, making a knife that was on the side of his finger which he now tightly grasped, he clasped the knife upside down so that the blade was below, he who was aware of it moved quickly to hold back the slash of Edgar's sword, but in a bad position.

It really happened in the blink of an eye, Edgar who realized that his sword was being held back by something immediately took his sword out of his grasp, and exerted his calm to throw a quality punch towards the stomach of the assassin, who was still in the middle of the sword, his movements were so fast that he did not have time to prepare until he finally got hit and fell on the floor withstanding the pain in his stomach.

Although faintly seeing it that fell apart like that made Edgar breathe with relief, Edgar casually walked up to take his sword that was lying on the floor not far from him, then Edgar approached the assassin who looked still in pain. Edgar pointed the sword at him.

“You are really troublesome. Does that punch feel good?”

Pouting Ledek Edgar saw him, Edgar again sheathed his sword and forced the assassin to stand up as he held both hands.

“It feels like, I really want to kill you because you have done crazy things before, plus you are really still so trying to target myself!”

While holding the man's hand Edgar pushed him, until they came out of the smoky area.

“At the moment I'm just holding back, because your group is troubling! If I kill you, I'm sure many of you will come after my head. I know that your group is like a family, it's so different from other underground organizations.”

Being behind him Edgar noticed, looking at him who was still silent only made Edgar sigh, thinking he would not return to answer. But when she was disappointed, she heard the woman say something.

His voice sounded so soft that Edgar was wide-eyed. Edgar was really surprised to hear that.

‘What's with that soft voice? That doesn't sound like a killer!’

Thinking Edgar who was momentarily silent, he frowned looking thoughtful, Edgar felt familiar hearing the voice. Edgar answered again.

“I think you still want to keep quiet. You curious about that? Too bad I won't tell you. I can only say that I know you like you know me.”

Hearing that instantly made the woman turn her head towards him, she quickly replied.

“So that's what you mean. I didn't expect someone to work for you in the desert Thieves organization.”

His tone sounded soft. Edgar realized that he was watching behind the closed face. Edgar smiled raising his eyebrows. Then the woman threw her face back to look ahead.

While outside of the smoky area Edgar repeatedly looked around, and saw the sky - the sky.

“Good that there are no other traps .. Listen! From seeing you who has prepared a trap from earlier makes me understand that you already know where I am here. Is your group conspiring with the bandits in this place?”

“Do you think like that? Don't equate our organization like those bandits, they're just mutt-dogs kept by nobles in your country!”

“Oh, interesting. So you're saying that you're not their pet, and if you say that I think you already know a lot of secrets in this kingdom?”

As Edgar said that, he heard the woman laughing and responding to him. Plus Edgar was like hearing the faint sound of footsteps of people running, Edgar looked back and forth looking for the source of the sound.

“I think that information is indeed true, you are not like someone who just woke up from your long sleep, I did not expect that eyeing your head would really be this difficult.”

The woman replied to Edgar, which made Edgar pay attention to her again.

“Rethink your situation ... If I break your hand, won't it get any easier? Maybe this way will really undo your intention to target me.”

The woman's restrained hand Edgar clutched so tightly that it made the woman spontaneously move to feel pain.

As Edgar did that, he heard more and more the sound of running footsteps that became clearer, the closer the sound came from behind the smoke behind him, Edgar looked back at the thick puff of smoke, and he pulled out his sword on standby.

It happened so quickly, Edgar who was on alert now could not respond because Edgar was just wide awake to see someone coming out of the smoke running so fast, from behind the smoke Edgar saw Silvi and Roderic running as hard as they could to hit him, making them all fall together on the floor.