Chapter 5:Fateful meeting? Pt 3

Sub name: What title can allow you to do?

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Lera was sitting on the bench close to the house, looking at the night sky. With a tired sigh, muttering, "This is tiring".

She was sitting alone, trying to clean her head from all the needless worries that were on her mind, but that is when she heard someone speaking in the distance.

"Oh man, the alcohol here is shit, but it hits hard as a rock," said a voice in the darkness.

Chuckle escaped from another man's mouth, staggering from left to right. He confirmed, "You are right as hell, brother."

Another voice that didn't speak before said something that made Lera scared "Have you heard those beggars speaking about the witch in this village?"

"Hahaha, man, stop joking. In such a place where you can get nothing but lice, a witch? Nice joke," spoke the man, laughing aloud.

"That is not the case, slowpoke!" he knocked his friend on the shoulder, continuing ", We, as proud members of noble houses and members of the much-respected organization such as Order of White Rose, need to check those gossip, and it is up to us to make a verdict."

The man said, stammering out from the amount of alcohol that he had consumed, "Yeah, you are right, brother! We need to be a professia *Hic* sorry for that. What I mean to say is that we need to be a professionals *hic*. As respected members of proud order, we need to investigate such a case before *hic* making a decision."

Lera, hearing their conversation, almost immediately understood what they were speaking about. She was trying to find the way out of this situation before they were to come near, but at the same time, she knew that going against noble whims was something dangerous. To add to that, there is nowhere they could go to hide from those men.

The only option she was left with was to prove to them that she wasn't a witch and let them be free. Quickly going back into the house, she had a scared expression with terrified eyes.

Her husband, that was relaxing on the bench, looked at her witnessing her condition. With worry in his voice, he inquired, "What happened, darling?"

Lera hissed at her husband and whispered, "Thhhhhh, don't be loud. There is a problem coming our way. Most important, now you go and hide the kids somewhere, and I will stay here."

Stend had a confused facial expression asking, "Lera, what the hell is happening?"

Lera looked at her husband with eyes that didn't accept any complaints or questions and said in a serious but silent voice, "I said! Go. and. hide. our. kids. NOW"

Stern was still confused but compelled to her commands. He went inside of the sleeping room and grabbed both kids by their collars, telling them to hide in their basement where they stored food.

Kids were confused and, like robots, went into the basement that had a little amount of space, considering the number of things that were stored there. They were pushed by their father, who stood on the top of the door pressing the kids inside of the small room.

*Auch* said August feeling how uncomfortable it was, and tried to move around.

While Elese got that something was going on and hissed at August, "Silence"

"Don't command what I need to do!" argued August, but instead of the argument, he received Elese hand that covered his mouth, not letting him speak.

Suddenly a loud sound of a door slamming was heard.

*Bang*

A loud voice reached the ears of the kids that were sitting in the basement. "So this is where the witch lives?"

Three drunken knights walked inside of the family hut, and they had blue noses and unclear eyes.

Without care for the property of the family, they walked inside the house, hitting the door open with their leg, walking inside the hut like kings of this place.

"This is quite a modest place for a witch," said another knight looking around.

Lera behaved calm, but inside, the panic was arising like a fire that starts from a small spark but has the potential to become something that could burn down the house or entire forest.

"Welcome, respected Sirs! Why did you come into our small house on this cold night?" said Lera, trying to behave calm and respectful.

One of the knights walked right in front of her, towering over her head, looking down at her. He said, "Really?" he gathered a mouth full of saliva and spit it right on her forehead. "What will you say now?"

Without getting angry, she wiped away his saliva from her face and said like nothing happened, "Sir, there is nothing wrong. What do you require from our humble family?"

Knight was drunk and impulsive, lacking control over his behaviour. To add to that, someone of low status was pissing him off made him even more furious "Stop ignoring this bitch", he slapped her across the face.

*Slap*

Her head turned to the side from the slap she had just received, with her eyes shut. Almost immediately, her cheek started to burn like a fire burn and turned light red, slowly changing colour to purple, showing how strong this slap actually was.

Forcing herself to stay calm, she looked right in the eyes of the knight and responded, holding her tears, "It is nothing, Sir."

"What a bitch", said a knight getting angrier at the woman in front of him. He looked back at his buddies and, with an ugly smile on his face, said, "I think we need to teach this bitch a lesson. What do you think, boys?"

One of the knights pointed his eyes at the floor, not answering the question of his friend, while another one replied with a chuckle, "I could use a hole to blow off some stress and stiffness."

Stend, who didn't dare to argue before that, felt how a wave of furious anger started to arise within him, he could withstand his wife being slapped or called bitch, since arguing would only make things worse, but right here they were talking in front of him that they will use his wife like a whore to satisfy their momentary needs and release their 'stress'.

Without noticing the change himself, Stend hands started to squeeze his fists, and he started to greet his teeth.

The knight ignoring the change the Stend had to himself, walked casually to Lera and grabbed her by the breast. With a nasty smile on his face, he licked his lips "Some juicy tits you have here bitch"

Lera started to shake, with her eyes shutting down, small tears forming on the side of her eyes. Just by a momentary glance, you could see that she was terrified of what was to come.

Stend, on the impulse that granted him braveness and boldness, dashed at the drunken knight, hitting him right on the face, making him stumble a few steps back, with shock on his face.

Lera that felt something happening, almost immediately snapped her eyes open and witnessed her husband having a face of the beast with his hand that just hit a knight shaking.

"Stend! What are you doing?" she shouted, expecting something bad is there to come.

Not paying attention to his wife, Stend looked at the knight with his bloodshot eyes and hissed, "Don't you dare to touch my wife, monsters!"

The knights were specially trained despite being spoiled brats most of the time, and they were given special training to fight and endure a lot of beatings. The punch that Stend delivered towards the knight was impressive indeed, but for a knight? It was nothing special.

Knight wiped away a small trail of blood that ran down his nose, showing a smirk showing that the punch Stend tried to harm him with didn't actually serve a purpose but only teased the person about taking bolder actions.

Wearing the same joyful smirk, he unleashed a sword and slashed his sword in Stend direction.

Having no real training in his entire life, Stend tried to protect himself with his hands, shielding his head with two of his arms. At the same time, the purpose of the man's slash wasn't something that he tried to kill with but to cause pain to the person.

Sword cut like butter through Stend fingers, cutting all five of them on one of his arms.

A second passed, and after two seconds, Stend didn't realize that at first, having adrenaline pumping through his veins and looked stunned at the knight's actions. But it didn't take him long before the blood started to splash out of the open injuries that were now a replacement for his fingers.

Blood started to splash in all directions, covering Stend in blood as his eyes enlarged to the size of the coin. With a terrified face, he screamed with all of his power, "Aghhhhh."

He dropped to his knees and tried to stop the blood covering it with his second hand.

Lera, that had witnessed such a brutal scene, started to scream, "Stend! No, no, no, what have you done, monsters?" she lost her temper and looked at the knights with eyes full of anger and terror.

Without thinking twice, she dashed at the knight that had a sword in his hands and started desperately punch him, but she was just a housewife that could do little to protect herself from a fully grown and trained man, so without effort knight once again slapped her across the face with much more force than before.

*Slap*

The force behind the slap sends her to the ground next to her husband, dropping her on her knees and hands.

"That what you get for your words and actions whore!" shouted the man pointing his sword at Lera, slowly sliding it between her breast, slowly cutting cloths in the middle, uncovering her flesh.

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