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"Repede." I said, and then he barked.

"Yeah. This is the city where mages are." I said, gazing upon the darkness and the barrier that surrounded the cave that kept Modinor hidden.

It had been a few hours since I left Gyulda, and I already got here. Being alone was far more productive.

I lay my hand on Repede's head.

"Ready, boy? Hopefully there are no Imperial Knights here." I said, determined to ask the mages about the Sealing Blastia. If anyone knew, it would be them.

Sikono laughed as he sat on the ground putting together raw materials into small drones with fans using his power as he released them and they slowly spread over the area in search of Yuri.

He laughs as the drones bicker amongst each other for space as he sits down and examined the area to make sure there where no monsters.

"Repede..." I mumbled after we got far enough away from Estelle. Repede only glanced up at me, his eyes looking sad, his tail touching the ground.

Repede suddenly growled, but I was too deep in thought to hear anything else.

"Repede, I'm-" I pause, feeling unbearable pain in my shoulder. With wide, trembling eyes, I glance to my side and see a small dagger popping out of my right shoulder.

"I've finally got you, Yuri Lowell." a captain from the Imperial Knights said with a smirk. The Captain ripped the dagger out of my side, and I wobbled forward, but held my ground.

Repede growled again and then leapt up, fangs flaring out, and just as he was about to tackle the captian down, the captain easily, so easily just smacked Repede, making him whimper as he hit the ground and rolled into a wall.

"Re...pe...de..." I muttered, seeing Repede's body a little feet away from me, but it was blurred terribly. I turned slowly to look back at the Captain.

"D...Duke..." I mumbled angrily. I remembered him when I was a Knight. With my shoulder bleeding heavily, and the intesive pain, it was only natural I fell straight to the ground in a dead faint.

Duke started to laugh as he waved his hand for twenty other Knights to take me away.

"Lock her up in the prison cell here! Hurry! Before this monster regains consciousness!" he yelled with a smirk, and then he started to laugh sadistically.

Ten minutes later, I was locked in a prison cell, laying on the hay bed, sleeping, trying my best to heal, but all seemed at a lost for now. I couldn't release the seal.

"Hey, Yuri Lowell! Wake the hell up!" one of the guards yelled, banging his sword against the cages' bars.

My eyes slowly opened, glowing red for a second, but then returned back to normal.

"Captain Duke wants a word with you." the guard said, and then left. Duke walked in, with no one else, as I sat up, straining, and leaned against the wall. The bleeding still hadn't stopped. My vision was still hazy, and the pain hadn't disappeared. Damn, I was really in trouble.

"Hello, Yuri Lowell. How long has it been since we last saw each other?" he asked with a smirk.

I smiled as I said, "Judging by those wrinkles, probably a hundred years." I tried to laugh, but then something punched me right on the head, and I coughed blood in my mouth, glaring up at Duke with an evil look.

"I still won't forget those eyes, Yuri Lowell. You may seem like an ordinary girl who simply quit the Knights, but I know you had not only one reason to quit, but three reasons." he said, and my eyes go wide.

"How the hell do you know all of this?!" I yelled loudly, but that made me cough up more blood.

"I have intellegence that not even you know about. Did you really not know? You've been travelling with another Imperial Knight." he laughed, and my eyes went wide with confusion.

"Wh-what... what are you talking about?" I asked, trembling.

"That's right. What was his name, again? Aah... that's right." he said with such an evil, sadistic smile that made my heart skip a beat. "His name was Captain Sikono."

My eyes went as wide as anyone could possibly make them, my hands were trembling, and it felt like I couldn't even hear my heart beat anymore. But... this has always happened to me. Ever since I got the bounty on my head, ever since I was born. I was always wanted, and wanted dead. Even my closest friends... they just pretended all the good times we had together, just so they could trick me and turn me in to the Imperial Knights. That was why I could break out so many times. I was put in almost a hundred times by people I thought were my friends.

I put my trembling hand over my eyes, shading them, so all Duke could see was my mouth, that slowly turned from a frown, into a wide, sadistic smile. I threw my head back and laughed like I was insane.

"Ahahahaa! I really have gotten soft over the years! Haven't I?!" I yelled, still laughing while talking, still keeping my hand over my eyes.

"You'll stay in there until I figure out what to do with you." Duke said quickly, wanting to get out of there, and he left in a flash.

I stopped laughing, kept smiling, and leaned back against the wall, my vision still hazy, the pain still striking, but the only pain I felt right now was in my heart.

"So did i!" He yelled at the top of his lungs as the metal covered his body making a board as he floated on the small silver disk and caught sight of her holding cell his eyes full of scorn and hate as he reached his destination and smiled as he took grat pleasure in speaking to himself. "Gonna get you out Yuri."