Protecting Gardez

"I won't let you die too,"

"I won't let you die too,"

"I won't let you die too,"

Repeating those words constantly like a mantra, Khaleed had tears in eyes, losing his breaths when blood came out uncontrollably.

They pressed the cloth over the wound to stop the flow of blood.

Taking her back to the town in order to get proper things to tend to the deep wound.

"Why…?" May asked with her barely opened eyes.

The yearning to save her at all cost, they already came carrying the anguish of losing the hidden village, Bart and Owen, further agony was unendurable.

They reached a house nearby, out of the branches range. Khaleed put up a small barrier to protect May for the time being, sitting beside her.

"For the past fifteen years, since Tera became a mayor… I thought she became mature, that she developed her character from a brat…"